"Our lives are saved by a guard. Without a guard, we would have been starved to death and become a refugee road. If there is such a day, it is not just you, even if you give me your life, I will be willing."
Say that finish directly to his wife, whose eyes are red because of these words, and she will cry when she watches, "You are a woman’s family, and you will cry when you know what … The guard saved our family and let the boss pay him as a soldier, which is highly of us."
"It’s also right to be a guard at the key moment."
"Well, don’t cry … the horse put the silver away for the boss …"
"When we meet the right person, let’s give the boss a good marriage with this money, so that the boss can give us a big fat grandson … so that when the boss fights with the guard, there will be no more worries …"
Chapter four hundred and twelve A bumper harvest
Hearing that my parents are going to marry their daughter-in-law, Zhang Tiezhu’s face turned red and he quickly shook his head and refused.
"Mom and dad, this silver is for you at ordinary times. If I really want to find a daughter-in-law in the future, I can earn enough silver again …"
"Now the court is attacking our Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces and wants to take back the fields and cattle and sheep that the guard just gave us. Of course, the guard won’t do it. The guard said that if the court loyalists dare to come to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, we will destroy them."
"When fighting with those losers in the imperial court, I can just make some meritorious military service. According to the rules of the Tiger and Leopard Army, I will be rewarded with silver and will continue to be promoted to my official position. Even a few hundred taels of silver will be easy for me."
"Son, I’ll get the silver back, though."
Seeing the boss’s face smiling confidently, Zhang Tiezhu’s face also smiled like a flower, as if the battlefield man were himself. He said with a face of heroism, "It’s really worthy that I am a carpenter with backbone …"
"Think that year our family also suffered a lot of anger from loyalists. Your grandfather was killed by loyalists."
"It seems to me that loyalists don’t have a good thing to look at and want to come and rob us when we have a good life. It’s just a bunch of animals, not as good as bandits. When you get to the battlefield, you must cut off more officers and men’s heads and avenge your dead grandfather."
Zhang Tiezhu nodded and answered, "Dad, you can rest assured that if loyalists dare to come, we will dare to kill them all, even if they die. We can’t go back to that kind of hunger."
With that, Zhang Tiezhu once again turned his attention to five hundred taels of silver.
Said to the parents with a grateful face, "Mom and Dad, I, Tiger and Leopard Army, can eat meat every day. I know there is no shortage of food in our family, but it is still very difficult to eat a bite of meat. You see, my brother and sister are now in a long body, so you can accept this money and buy more meat to eat …"
"Children, tigers and leopards are soldiers, and there is no way to honor your parents at ordinary times. They can give you more silver, and you will accept it if you talk about it."
When I heard that, Zhang Tiezhu shook his head again and answered, "We won’t know about the silver anyway. It’s all your life. Since you insist, I’ll help you take in a future wife and build a house at home. Don’t worry, we won’t be short of silver after the autumn harvest …"
"I promise to let my brothers and sisters eat meat every few days when the autumn grain comes to you."
With that, a heartfelt smile came to a carpenter’s face.
Hearing this, Zhang Tiezhu, a soldier, also showed a look of interest.
With a full face of expectation, I asked, "Dad … Mom … you are quick to tell me how much food we can collect this year, and you are almost happy from ear to ear."
Carpenter Zhang shook his head and replied, "I don’t know exactly how much. After all, it’s the first time for our family to grow wheat, but I have already asked our neighbor’s family to dig a deep well for us because of the commander in chief, and the governor’s office has let us fertilize a lot. This year’s output is better than in previous years. It is absolutely no problem to collect two loads of wheat on one acre of land."
"But how much can be collected will not be known until the autumn harvest is over."
"It’s just that you’re back. Since the day, our family has been harvesting wheat and trying to collect all the wheat in the granary in ten days."
The next day, the family of six people came to their farmland to start harvesting wheat.
As day goes by, more and more wheat is harvested …
After a series of harvesting, threshing and drying, bag after bag of wheat was successively put into the granary by carpenter Zhang.
When the last bag of grain was carried into the granary, a carpenter’s face was tense and worried, and the horse disappeared completely. At the same time, a smile of heartfelt satisfaction came to a carpenter’s weather-beaten face.
Because the total income of 40 acres of wheat fields in our country has unexpectedly reached an amazing burden, which is more than what we expected.
Faced with this result, not only Zhang Carpenter’s family laughed …
Excited, my father kissed me and expressed his excitement. He slept in a granary full of bedding and food for a night.
After the family recovered from the excitement, the Tiger and Leopard Army learned a lot. Zhang Tiezhu Ma asked one of his most heartfelt questions: "Dad can’t carry more than ten loads of food in the granary … I don’t know what you are going to do with this food?"
In the face of this question, Zhang carpenter and his horse recovered their composure and answered the boss.
"Pay five buckets of grain per mu in the first three years of land distribution according to the original agreement."
"Two buckets of grain in the middle is the grain tax, and the remaining three buckets of grain are given to us by the Governor’s Office, and the price of rations is returned to the Governor’s Office for almost one year."
"There are 20 tons of grain in these grains, which is the governor’s house. Nothing can be done."
"The Governor’s Office is so kind to us. With a good harvest, we must never owe the Governor’s Office food tax."
After nodding his head to his father’s answer, Zhang Tiezhu continued to ask, "Except for the 20-ton grain tax, we have 60 tons of grain left … I don’t know what your parents are going to do with this leftover grain."
At this time, Carpenter Zhang was responding to a phrase that he often heard:’ Don’t panic when you have food in your hand’ …
Facing the boss’s question, a carpenter smiled and answered unhurriedly …
"I’ll take you to a total of seven people’s rations and leave thirty loads …"
"I’m going to keep fifteen loads of grain in case of possible disasters in 2008."
"In this case, 60 loads of grain will go to 45 loads and the remaining 23 loads of grain. I decided to respond to the call of the Governor’s Office and sell it to the Governor’s Office. I owe the Governor’s Office 62 taels of silver for the six sheep I bought that year."
"Keep the silver left over from selling grain as our family’s expenses for one year."
"When the grain is collected in, we will give you a second brother’s silver and give you a second brother to marry a wife in …"
In the face of his father’s face, he smiled with satisfaction. Zhang Tiezhu shook his head directly and denied, "Mom and Dad say a word in heart, I don’t agree with you to do this …"
Carpenter Zhang suddenly thought that now the boss is no longer the original one who doesn’t know anything, but an officer at the bottom of the Tiger and Leopard Army, who knows much more about things than himself.
In this case, the boss’s thoughts and opinions may be better than his own.
Thought of here, carpenter Zhang asked directly without hesitation
"Iron column you see more. What do you think? If you speak well, I will listen to you … "
Zhang Tiezhu didn’t hesitate to speak his mind directly …
"Sixty loads of grain, except for thirty loads of rations, are sold to the Governor’s Office by the Ministry of Grain. According to the current price of four taels of silver and one load of grain, thirty loads of grain can sell more than 150 grains and silver."
"With this money, we can get 120 yuan to buy a plow cow in the Governor’s Office, leaving 520 yuan for our family’s annual expenses to make our family life better."
It’s a pain in Zhang Carpenter’s heart to raise cattle.
When I distributed cattle and sheep, I thought the cows were too expensive and didn’t want them.
However, those villagers who asked for the help of plowing cattle only distributed the land to the governor’s office in half the time, and the farming was completed. Because the spring ploughing was not over yet, every family of these villagers benefited from this time to open up four or five acres of land privately.
Although these lands are subject to grain tax, there are still seven loads of grain after four or five acres of land are added up after grain tax is removed.
According to this harvest, at most, in two years, these villagers can get a farm cow for nothing without paying his price.
And it is such a good thing that I was ignored and gave up …