However, Gao Pragmatic sighed a little too early, because after Zhang Jin introduced the manor itself, he began to introduce the attached land of this villa - there are not many farmlands around here, and even if there is, it is mainly mountainous, serious and good farmland. Less than a hundred acres.
but!
When Zhang Jin took out the map and showed it to Gao Pangshi, he almost blinded Mr. Gao: There are almost hundreds of hectares of mountains and forests around this villa, all of which belong to Cherry Spring Villa!
Hundreds of hectares! In ancient times, one hectare of land was equivalent to fifty acres, and hundreds of hectares were equivalent to more than three million square meters, or thirty square kilometers!
Gao pragmatic opened his mouth and felt a little confused: I... suddenly became a big landowner? Although there are not many fields, mountains are also land. People in the Ming Dynasty did not know how to use mountains, but I can!
He suddenly became a little excited. He stared at the map and studied it carefully. After a while, his eyes became brighter and brighter - the Mentougou Coal Mine that will shine in the future is very likely to be partially located in his own mountain forest!
Part of it doesn’t matter, but part of it is enough! If that doesn't work, it will be over in the future if we also buy the nearby mountainous land. What is valuable these days is the good farmland, and the poor mountainous land that cannot grow food is not worth much.
This is about to be posted!
Gao Pangshi secretly made up his mind: Although according to the plan, when he becomes rich in the future, he will definitely promote the reform of the salt industry. By then, the Zhang family's salt industry income may be greatly reduced, but for today's uncle, As a gift, I will also guide the Zhang family to a better way. It must not only benefit the country, but also ensure that the Zhang family's power does not decline. Well, repaying kindness is a virtue...
Because Gao Jingshi got such a huge benefit from the Zhang family, he immediately pulled the Zhang family from the "salt merchants who harmed the country" to the side of the "national capitalists worthy of guidance and rescue." He really chose the right name and was quite pragmatic.
Gao Pingshi's heart was beating wildly, but he still tried his best to calm down and asked, "Have General Liu and the others settled down?"
Zhang Jin sometimes felt that he could not keep up with the speed of the young master's thinking. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment before replying: "It is arranged in the VIP room on the second floor. I guess they are all tired and should be resting at this time. "
Gao pragmatic nodded, his joy could hardly be suppressed, and immediately ordered: "Very good, very good, you can leave the map and arrange the residence of the guards first, and then bring Tingqin Shangyue, Gao Mo and Gao Xiaozhuang asked them to come to my study, and I will go to the study to wait for them to give them orders."
Zhang Jin hesitated after hearing this.
"What?" Gao pragmatically asked, "But is there anything else that must be said now?"
Zhang Jin smiled slightly bitterly: "The introduction just now was actually just a brief introduction. Originally, I was supposed to introduce to Mr. Biao the stewards of the upper, middle and lower courtyards, as well as the money and silk income and expenditure accounts of the other courtyard."
"The upper, middle and lower courtyards?" Gao pragmatic asked in return. He suddenly came to his senses and looked at the third floor of the other courtyard that now belonged to him. He asked, "My uncle from the other courtyard gave it to me. I can take it again." What’s your name?”
Zhang Jin said: "That's natural. The master has asked me to bring the land deed and other things, and I am planning to hand them over to you when I introduce the income and expenditure accounts of the other courtyard."
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "Don't worry about that. I'll change the name of this courtyard first... From now on, this courtyard will be called 'Sanshen Garden'. The upper, middle and lower courtyards you mentioned just now are respectively It was renamed as 'Shen Si Yuan', 'Shen Yan Yuan' and 'Shen Xing Yuan'."
Zhang Jin's eyes lit up and he quickly praised: "This is a good name. It is more elegant than Cherry Orchard. Mr. Xie Ge didn't know why he chose such a tacky name as Cherry Orchard."
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "You have misunderstood this. Mr. Xie Ge had already achieved success and fame at that time. You can choose the name of a mere villa at will. But I am different. I am a little boy with a low bun and no fame, so I will name it." The words "Think carefully, speak carefully, and act carefully" here are used to remind ourselves day and night, as a spur. In fact, they are taken from the meaning of Confucius' "I will examine myself three times a day."
Zhang Jin thought to himself: Doesn't it mean that if you become famous, you don't need to "examine yourself three times a day"?
But Zhang Jin naturally did not dare to talk about the old minister, so he could only laugh and said: "Young master Biao is right, but I still think this name is very good."
Gao Pingshi was pretending to be serious and didn't want to talk about this kind of thing. He smiled and changed the topic back: "You just said you wanted to introduce me to the income and expenditure... It's not that the total of this courtyard is only about a hundred acres. Although I don’t do farming, I can’t supply such a large manor with just a hundred acres of land. Tell me, how much money do I need to put in every year?”
Zhang Jin smiled and said: "As a kid, I knew that Master Biao would have this misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding?" Gao Pragmatic said in surprise: "Why, can this hundred acres of land really provide such a large manor?"
"Naturally, one hundred acres of land cannot be supplied." Zhang Jin explained with a smile: "But Master Ciao, the term "hundred acres of land" is just a record in the field register. In fact, under the name of this 'Sanshen Garden', just in terms of fields, there are The upper field is 437 acres, the middle field is 782 acres, and the lower field is 966 acres.”
Gao Pragmatic was stunned for a moment.
He calculated in his mind that there are about 300 hectares of land in Sanshenyuan's name, which is 15,000 acres. The upper, middle and lower types of fields here are about 2,200 acres... Hey, it seems that this ratio is not right. Very exaggerated?
"But why is there only a hundred acres of land in the field register?" Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but ask.
Zhang Jin smiled awkwardly and hesitated: "Well...well, when the master bought this place, the price was based on the actual number of fields, but you may also know, Mr. Biao, that our fields in Ming Dynasty...this, Many of them are not registered.”
Gao Pingshi suddenly understood: Isn't this damn Yin Tian?
Gao Pragmatic actually knew a little bit about Hidden Field, but because he was young, no one told him about it in detail, so he wasn't particularly familiar with it.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty had a yellow registration system, which uniformly registered and created a list of the population, land and resources in various places as a voucher for paying taxes. However, after the local tyrants and landlords colluded with officials, many officials began to falsify the information. One of the simpler methods was to use inferior paper to make yellow books, which caused the yellow books to disappear for no reason due to damage to the paper during the preservation process.
The Yellow Book belongs to the original file. This field is no longer on your original file. Naturally, the actual owner of this field no longer has to pay taxes for this land. Do you still need to explain this?
In fact, this land had a rather mysterious origin earlier - Wang Zhi, the great eunuch during the Chenghua period, got it! Who was Wang Zhi? His power at that time was probably only a little less than that of Jiu Qian Sui later. With his ability, he took the land and did some tricks. The original 2,200 acres of land were settled, but only 100 acres were left on the yellow list... Is it strange?
You must know that there are more ways to falsify the Yellow Register. In addition, some officials simply falsified the registration at the beginning of the Yellow Register, registering the wealthy landlords as poor people and the poor as landlords. As a result, the tax responsibilities fell on the poor, resulting in A large number of poor people fled.
After the poor people fled, the officials were not afraid. They copied last year's yellow book exactly as it was before and sent it to make up the numbers. As a result, after decades, the contents were exactly the same, and there were even weird things like the whole county's population being centenarians.
The reason why those officials dared to do this may be mainly because after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, no emperor seriously verified the authenticity of the contents of the yellow book, nor sent people to seriously investigate the actual situation of the population, fields, and resources in various places, so they gave it to unscrupulous officials and landlords. Exploited a loophole.
In fact, there are many ways to exploit loopholes, but Gao pragmatism just doesn't know them.
But now an embarrassing thing happened: Gao Pragmatic had a plan to re-measure the land in the future, but he never expected that he would now have more than two thousand acres of hidden land under his name!
