Chapter 76 Little Fiancee
Before leaving Beijing, the eldest grandson of the Crown Princess called Qin Lang into the palace.
In the main hall of Li, after paying a visit to the Crown Princess, Lizhi, the Princess of Changle, hid behind the Crown Princess and was a bit shy and refused to go forward.
"My child, didn't you shout every day to see Brother Sanlang, but now that Sanlang is here, you are still hiding." The eldest grandson couldn't help laughing seeing his daughter's shy look.
"Brother Sanlang, are you going to Youzhou from Beijing? I heard that Youzhou is very far away." Li Zhi leaned on her mother's back, showing half of her face and asked Qin Lang.
"Well, Youzhou is thousands of miles away from Chang'an. Even the fastest horse would take five days and five nights to get there. Under normal circumstances, it would take ten days and a half months."
"I heard that Youzhou is close to the Great Wall, you have to be careful of the Turks."
"Thank you Princess for your concern."
Lizhi stepped forward with some displeasure, "I, Aye, Auntie, has already received a gift from your big matchmaker, General Cheng Cheng, and I have also passed the birth date and changed the Geng post, and now the marriage certificate is also issued." Now, we are engaged fiancée now."
Qin Lang heard a cute four-year-old girl tell him that the two were fiancée, and suddenly felt it was very funny, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.
"Brother Sanlang, wait for me for ten years. After ten years, I will grow up and marry into the Qin family."
Qin Lang couldn't help laughing, and almost laughed out loud, this voice is childish, this one is serious.
"Brother Sanlang, you have to promise me, wait for me."
"OK."
"Then you swear!" Lizhi's big eyes flickered ineffectively.
Qin Lang felt that he couldn't resist, so he could only raise his hands and swear, "I swear, when you grow up, I will ride a white horse to marry you."
"Really?" Li Zhi was delighted.
Qin Lang stretched out his right hand and bent his little finger, "Let's pull the hook."
"Retractor?"
"Well, the pull hook is raised for a hundred years and must not be changed!"
Qin Lang hooked Lizhi's little thumb with his little finger, and then turned it up with his thumb, making a print with Lizhi's thumb.
The hands, one big and one small, were firmly locked.
"Why is the hook hanging?" Li Zhi was puzzled.
"Two thumbs up and printed together, it means that the promise will never be broken."
"Okay, the pull hook must not be changed for a hundred years." Li Zhi happily pressed her thumb tightly on Qin Lang's.
Princess Princess Changsun looked at the two of them, the elder and the younger, and smiled happily.
Originally, when she heard that the crown prince promised beauty to Qin Lang, she objected at first, because the difference between the two is more than ten years old. But later Li Shimin said that Qin Lang was actually only twelve years older than Li Zhi, and that Qin Lang would only be twenty-six when he got married ten years later, and that he would even get married earlier, as long as he waited another eight years.
After careful persuasion from her husband, the princess finally did not object so much.
But now seeing how good Li Zhi and Qin Lang are, she feels that maybe these two are really a couple.
"Sanlang, you take this."
The princess brought two boxes, opened them, and there was a stack of deeds inside.
"This is?"
"The land deeds in the box on the left are gifts from Cheng Yaojin for your family. Except for the pair of wild geese, I put the rest here."
"The box on the right contains Zhenfeng Shiyi and Yongyetian, 3,000 households of Zhenfeng and 8,000 mu of Yongyetian that the crown prince just gave to Lizhi. I will hand them over to you now."
Qin Lang looked at the two boxes and was a little stunned, not quite understanding what the princess meant.
"Ma'am, this is it?"
"Originally, Lizhi would not get the real seal until after marriage, but His Royal Highness loved this child and made an exception to give all the real seals despite the minister's objection. Although I also advised him, His Highness refused to listen. Now that the real seals have already been bestowed , That's all. Keli is still young, and I can't take care of these things myself, so I simply leave these things to you to take care of."
The words of Princess Changsun are really surprising.
Not only did they all return, but they also gave Qin Lang all the authentic seals that Chang Le had just obtained.
"This is not a compensation marriage. Your Highness said that Lizhi's dowry will be purchased after two years. It's still early, and it's in time. These are just Lizhi's real seals. They were originally taken after she got married. Now I just leave it to you to help." She takes care of it, anyway, it will be yours sooner or later."
Qin Lang thought for a while, then shook his head and refused.
"Crown Princess, since this gift has been sent to the East Palace, there is no reason to take it out again. As for the real seal of the Princess, the Crown Princess should take care of it."
"Sanlang, now your family's Pingli has also been sent to the East Palace. When you come back from Hebei, the official engagement ceremony will be held, so we are already a family now. You have already separated from the Duke of Qi's mansion. I heard that You still don’t need anything when you leave the house, which is great. But you also have to start buying some property, and plan for the future. We will give you the gift from your father and the real seal of Changle, This is also a blessing from our two families to your two future families."
"You also have to start learning how to manage money and manage the house. It's better for you to manage these yourself."
Changsun insisted.
After leaving the East Palace, Qin Lang still took the two boxes with him. The boxes were not heavy, and there were only some land deeds and certificates of deposit in them. The Qin family's gold, silver, money, silk, utensils, utensils and other gifts were stored elsewhere. Just go get it.
But the contents of these two small boxes are really precious. Qin Qiong’s treasure is almost half the property of Qi Guogong’s mansion in Qinrenfang, and the real seal of Changle is also a real seal of three thousand households plus eight thousand mu. Yongyetian.
"Duke Yi, please come with our house."
A servant in the East Palace led Qin Lang to Taifu Temple to hand over.
After some formalities, Qin Lang was surprised to find that the three thousand households that Li Shimin gave to his daughter were all rich and wealthy households with a large number of people. Seal, enough to give 12,000 Dingkou.
This means that Changle can receive a rent of 12,000 class dings every year. The annual rent of a ding is two stones, two feet of silk, and three taels of cotton. The princess can monopolize two thirds, and the other third is handed over to the court.
Princess’s closed households are basically concentrated in Guannei, Henan, Hedong, Hebei, Shannan, Huainan and other places, all of which are rich and prosperous.
"Yi Guogong, this is the decree of His Royal Highness, to re-grant you Yongye Tian in Shandong and other places in the Guannei, 4,000 acres for the Duke, and 3,000 acres for the Shangzhu Kingdom. According to the new regulations, those who have both official and honor, According to the highest award, 4,000 mu should be awarded. According to the crown prince's order, all of them will be awarded, 1,000 mu in the Guan, 1,000 mu in the east, 1,000 mu in Henan, and 1,000 mu in Huainan. In addition, an additional 1,000 mu will be awarded in Hebei. Last time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rewarded Duke Yi with a total of 80 hectares of 3,000 mu of land at the foot of the former abandoned Prince's Manor in Zhongnan Mountain."
At the beginning of the founding of the country, Emperor Li Yuan had always been generous in rewarding his courtiers. In order to win the hearts of the people, various honorary titles should not be handed down like money.
Even if it is Yongyetian, there is a copy of the official lord.
But now that the world is united, the situation has changed. The land must be distributed equally to the common people and occupied by the royal family and the government. Therefore, the available land is becoming less and less. Therefore, Li Shimin followed the advice of his courtiers. According to the highest portion, it may not even be possible to fully grant the full amount.
Now for Qin Lang, the son-in-law, Li Shimin is very generous. Not only will he give the full 4,000 mu of Yongye Tian, the highest state prince, but he will also give an extra 1,000 mu, and he will choose those rich lands. In addition to the previous 3,000 mu, the actual acquisition is 8,000 mu. This is equivalent to giving him the two shares of Yi Guogong and Shangzhu Kingdom, and even the official Yongyetian.
Qin Lang gave seals twice before and after, and the number of seals has already reached 600 households. This time, each household was given three dings, and a total of 600 households were given 1,800 dings. After that, Qin Lang could enjoy 1,800 dings every year. Ding's two-thirds of the rent transfer, although it is still far from the 12,000 Ding of Changle Princess, but it is considered a generous treatment among the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty.
"Mr. Yi, you have a total of 20,000 mu of land in your hands, mainly in the Guannei, Henan, Hebei, East, South, and Huainan areas. Congratulations to Yi, but our family also needs to remind Shengyi that this land is in your hands. Finally, this year the imperial court can temporarily ignore it, but starting next spring, these lands can no longer be abandoned and must be cultivated, otherwise the imperial court will punish them if they find that they are abandoned. If they are abandoned for three consecutive years, then these lands will be taken back .”
What the official said made Qin Lang a little surprised.
"It can't be abandoned and everything has to be cultivated? But how can I have so many people?"
The green-robed official smiled and said, "There is no need for Duke Yi to panic. Your Highness has already considered this issue for you. Although your lands are scattered in many places, the closure of the households of Duke Yi and the princess is not necessary. They are all concentrated in one place, but they are scattered everywhere, so Duke Yi can hand over your land to your seal households for farming, and then collect the rent. In this way, Duke Yi’s land will not go to waste , someone is farming, and Yi Guogong’s closed households can also rent more fields and have more income.”
"Hasn't the common people equalized the land to each household? Everyone has equalized the land, so you still need to share my land to cultivate it? Can you plant it?" Qin Lang asked. After all, it is clearly written in the imperial court's land equalization order that each person equals one hundred Mu, 20 mu of hereditary Yongye farmland, and 80 mu of mouth-sharing farmland that needs to be recovered after death.
One fen is worth a hundred acres of land.
"hehe."
The official smiled, "Duke Yi doesn't know. Although the court ordered the equalization of the land, say one hundred acres, but the specifics depend on the local population and the actual conditions of the land. Naturally, the average of 100 mu of land can reach 100 mu, and this 100 mu is the upper limit. However, in the narrow land where there are many people and little land in the Central Plains, it is basically difficult to achieve this small amount of land. Therefore, the majority of the common people still need to rent out some land owned by landlords and officials, or the government’s work land, public land, etc.”
It turns out that the so-called average land granting one hundred acres of land is only an ideal state, or the upper limit of land granting. However, in the densely populated Central Plains, this is difficult to achieve. The land in a village is limited. The private land in the hands, which can be used to equalize the land, is the official land and public land in the hands of the government. The more people there are, the less the average distribution will be.
After the war, many villages in the Central Plains were destroyed, and the population was greatly reduced, which gave the court the space to equalize the land. Otherwise, a piece of land has one owner, how can there be land to be equalized?
Now, even after the war, the comings and goings are almost the same. There are fewer and fewer unowned lands, and some are in those frontier lands.
He suddenly held two mu of land in his hand, eight thousand mu was managed on behalf of Changle, and his own eight thousand mu was taken out by Qin Qiong as a gift and the four thousand mu was also handed over to him by the princess. A big landlord in the Tang Dynasty.
Fortunately, there are 13,800 seals, otherwise these lands really don't know how to cultivate and manage them.
If all 20,000 mu are rented out, and if the standard mu is raised to six buckets according to the official land tenancy standard, then there will be a land rent income of 12,000 shi millet in that year. If you add 13,800 seals, two-thirds of the land rent is about 9,000 Shi millet, and there are more than 2,000 horses of silk...
Damn it!
Qin Lang was taken aback by the calculation. He only closed the household rent and reconciled the Yongye land rent. After one year, it would be more than 21,000 stone grains and more than 2,000 bolts of silk. Li Shimin gave him a cash cow.
This is marrying Bai Fumei, becoming a CEO, and reaching the pinnacle of life from then on!
(end of this chapter)