Chapter 1078 It's going to snow

  Zhao Hu was proud and self-satisfied, Zhao Shen rode his horse back, and said to the two people in the car: "Grandfather, Seventh Uncle, I'm afraid it will snow tonight, do we really have to sleep outside tonight?"

  Zhao Song looked at Zhao Hu lightly.

When someone said it was going to snow, Zhao Hu would not believe it even if that person was the fifth elder brother he admired a little, but if there was a second person who said it would snow without any communication, then even if the other person was the nephew he hated , Zhao Hu also had to believe it.

  So he thought about it seriously, "There are all the things in the other courtyard. It is no problem to keep out the cold. It is not a problem to live for ten days and a half months, but if the snow is heavy, it will be difficult to go back to the city the day after tomorrow?"

   Zhao Song asked someone to stop, and walked out of the carriage holding the hand of the long follower. Zhao Shen quickly dismounted and helped him down.

  Zhao Song stood on the side of the road and looked at the gray-black sky, then closed his eyes to feel the speed of the wind, and said slowly after a long while: "Don't worry, it won't snow much this time."

   After finishing speaking, he didn't want to get in the car anymore, so he walked slowly forward while supporting Zhao Shen's hand.

  Zhao Hu was sitting on the shaft of the chariot, let the coachman drive the horse, caught up and said, "Fifth brother, you are still sick, why don't you get in the chariot?"

  Zhao Song waved his hand at him.

Zhao Hu shrank his neck, feeling cold, so he glanced at the servant, and immediately someone brought a fox fur and put it on him. After closing the clothes, he sat on the shaft of the car and slowly followed Zhao Song. Preached to Zhao Shen, "Shen'er, why didn't you persuade your grandfather? In such a cold day, what should I do if I get sick? You are not as careful as Zheng'er. Although he is younger than you, he is better at reading than you." more, and he is kinder than you..."

  Zhao Shen automatically filtered out his words, and only asked Zhao Song, "Is grandfather still able to walk?"

  Zhao Song: "I'm just sick, not dying."

  Zhao Shen grinned and said, "Then let's go. Before going out, I made a calculation. During this trip, grandfather will have an adventure, and his heart disease will be cured."

  When Zhao Song heard this, he couldn't help but glared at him, "Don't let your father know that you are playing with the tortoise shell again, and be careful that he breaks your hand."

  This pair of father and son is an extreme. Zhao Ming is a son who keeps a respectful distance without talking about strange powers and gods, while Zhao Shen plunges in and takes the initiative to find ghosts and gods.

   It gave Zhao Song a headache.

  Thinking of this, Zhao Song felt depressed again. He felt that he must have committed a crime in his previous life, otherwise how could he have such a pair of children and grandchildren, and even meet a nephew like Zhao Hanzhang.

   It is simply uncomfortable anywhere.

Zhao Song was immersed in his own thoughts, so he didn't feel the passage of time. Fortunately, the place where he got off the bus was not far from Zhao Hu's Zhuangzi. After walking through this section, he would go downhill. Zhao Hu's other courtyard was built halfway up the mountain , the field facing him is all his, and it is connected into a big village.

   There are ditches in the Zhuangzi, and the huge Zhuangzi only grows about 20 mu of wheat. It’s not because he doesn’t want to grow more, but because he can’t recruit people.

  He was able to plant these 20 acres, but he still used a high-paying day laborer.

  For such a big village, he recruited very few tenants, and in the end he bought the servants at a high price.

  Zhao Hu's heart aches every time he calculates the cost.

The conditions for the refugees to settle in the yamen are too generous. Not only are the land distributed free of charge, but the yamen will also organize servants to help them build houses and provide food relief. endure hunger.

But whenever the children in the school were free, they would go to the place where the refugees were registered in the yamen to chatter and settle accounts for them, saying that the imperial court exempted them from half the tax and distributed them seeds and agricultural tools. can have food...

   Not to mention a group of foolish people, even Zhao Hu couldn't help but feel moved.

  So, he couldn’t recruit tenant farmers. Even though he had reduced the land rent to 40% and allowed them to borrow grain in advance for the winter, he still couldn’t recruit many;

   It is even harder to recruit long-term workers, and even the cost of buying slaves has increased a lot.

  It is clear that the troubled times have just ended, and it is when a large number of people are in exile. It is said that people are very cheap at this time, at least not much more expensive than a chicken. As a result, now the price of buying one person can buy two cows.

  In order to grow the land, Zhao Hu had to spend a lot of money to **** part-time workers from the yamen, and bought a few more who could not farm the land to support himself, but those who were good at managing people managed them, so that Zhuangzi was maintained.

   To be honest, Zhao Hu regretted it a bit. He should have listened to Zhao Hanzhang and not bought this piece of land.

  Alas, it's a pity that he thought Zhao Hanzhang was jealous of him at the time, after all, he was the one who could buy a hectare of land in the suburbs of Beijing to make a farm.

   Connected into one piece!

  Near the water!

  Wang Yan was not as capable as him before!

   Zhao Hu feels proud just thinking about it. This is what he has laid down for future generations.

   As a result, most of the country is now deserted, but Zhao Hanzhang also promulgated a broken regulation, a piece of land has been deserted for three consecutive years, and she will take it back to the country.

  Zhao Hu was sentimental about his big Zhuangzi, when he heard the noise suddenly, he was furious immediately, "I treat them too favorably, this rule is learned so sloppily, how dare you act presumptuously in front of us!"

  If you were Xiping's servant, who would dare to make noise in front of them?

  The good scenery and the peaceful atmosphere were destroyed by them!

  Zhao Shen glanced at him and said, "Seventh Uncle, there are guests here."

  Zhao Hu looked intently, only to find that there were many people at the gate of Zhuangzi. Behind them were more than a dozen carts and three ox carts, but behind them were nearly a hundred people in ragged clothes, who looked like they had come from exile.

  Zhao Hu was taken aback, shrank back into the car door, and eagerly waved to Zhao Song, "Refugees, fifth brother, come up quickly, I'll run first."

  Refugees, if there is no army by their side, in Zhao Hu's case, they will be equated with bandits.

  They only brought about twenty guards, they must not be able to beat these people.

  They look hungry and cold, seeing how rich they are, how can they hold back?

  Zhao Hu would never risk his life.

   Zhao Song didn't move, but waved at him, "What are you afraid of, this is Luoyang."

   Isn’t Luoyang scary?

   People are hungry, no matter where they are, they will **** them even in hell, starvation is more terrifying than death.

  Of course, Zhao Hu himself has never been hungry, but he has taken in so many refugees, and he has often heard them talk about this matter.

  People are so hungry that they even want to cut themselves off and eat them, let alone them?

  Zhao Shen said: "Seventh Uncle, don't be afraid, as long as you donate food, they will definitely not rob you."

   "You fart, can you still control them?"

  Zhao Shen grinned at him: "I can't control it, but isn't there a general?"

   "They came to Luoyang after untold hardships. Seeing the city in front of them, do you think they would want to die here? They came to seek refuge with the general."

   "That's right," Zhao Song said, "If you rob it, your village would have been robbed long ago, why would you argue with your servant at the door? Let's go."

  Zhao Hu was unwilling, but he could only go forward slowly.

Good night

  

  

  (end of this chapter)