Chapter 1825

When more than 200 servants of the Xiao family joined the nationality of Qi with infinite joy, Xue Cheng, one of the largest coastal port cities in the west of Lu.

Sixteen Xiaojia merchant ships and warships, plus more than a dozen merchant ships of the Principality of ventra, which were towed or piloted by sailors, formed a fleet of medium-sized ships and swept into Xue port.

Before the fleet fully docked in the port, the whole Xuegang wharf caused a great sensation. The state of Lu is Qufu, and the Xiao family is also one of the most powerful gentry families in the country. However, Qufu is an inland city. Therefore, the Xiao family and other large families of Lu still focus on coastal port cities.

Xue Cheng is the most influential port city in the Xiao family's sphere of influence, focusing on the routes between Shandong and Rome.

A few days ago, the Xiao family's fleet just left the port and returned to the port in a few days. They also pulled out a dozen booty merchant ships?

Even some porters on the dock can see that this is a great victory for the Xiao family at sea, so many people working for the Xiao family began to cheer.

In particular, when a large number of ships were berthed and teams of Xiao family servants escorted many white prisoners of war from the Principality of ventra ashore, this sensational atmosphere was also set to a small limit.

A large number of people from all walks of life working for the Xiao family cheered and celebrated on the dock.

Before Xiao Jichen went to sea this time, when they returned from Rome last time, they had fought a war with the Principality of ventra on the way, and both sides lost a lot. The victory and return of the Xiao family this time is really easy to stimulate the hearts of the people.

Of course, in the cheers of the crowd, many figures who heard the news were full of tension and worry. War will always kill people. Even if the Xiao family wins... Many servants may die.

For the Xiao family of Nuo Da, those dead servants are just a number. They represent that their servants are missing one or a group, which can be apportioned to specific families. The meaning is very different.

The noisy atmosphere lasted for a while. Xiao Jichen took his elite servants to Xiao's house in Xuecheng, and then said to his attendant, "I will do what I say. This time, all the war dead and wounded will receive five times the pension, and you must do your best as soon as possible."

It is naturally a straightforward promise to take charge.

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An hour passed. In a civilian area of Xuecheng, the steward knocked on the door of a small courtyard with several servants, and then calmly said to the middle-aged man who opened the door, "Zhao Sheng, this time when we went to sea, our Xiao caravan encountered an ambush by pirates of the Principality of ventra, and your boy died in the war. However, the second young master Bodhisattva was kind-hearted and gave Zhao Shun five times his pension. I'm not happy to thank you."

Zhao Sheng is Zhao Shun's father.

When Zhao Shun was willing to sell himself as a slave, his mother was seriously ill and his brother was young. His father couldn't be busy alone. Finally, he signed the deed of sale and used the money to help his mother cure her illness. Later, many of the money he earned from running to the sea in the Xiao family was taken home to support his family.

Zhao Sheng, who had just opened the door, sat down on the ground and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Following a steward's servant, he suddenly became angry. As soon as he was about to scold, he was stopped by the steward and dropped a silver bag, "well, this sum of silver is enough for your Zhao family for several years. He died unjustly. When your two boys grow up and want to avenge his brother, I'm welcome to join the Xiao family fleet at any time."

Leaving this, the steward turned and left.

Zhao Shun is just one of the more than 200 servants killed in battle.

He doesn't have time to spend too much time in this house.

Until the steward and his servant disappeared, Zhao Sheng cried and grabbed the silver bag. He didn't know how to open the bag and count 20 liang of silver.

Zhao Sheng, a middle-aged man with white hair, cried even more. 20 liang of silver is indeed a great wealth, at least for a small family like him.

It doesn't make much sense to just look at the amount of silver without comparing prices.

The value of silver also depends on purchasing power and price level. In the state of Qi, one stone of rice is only two dollars of silver, and one or two can buy five stones, almost 500 kilograms. A person who eats one kilogram of rice a day can eat one or two silver for more than a year.

However, the state of Lu is not enough. The island area of the state of Lu is small, there are few plains on the island, and the land is not so fertile. The local staple food such as rice grain can barely support the local people. Most people still can't eat enough staple food. Here, they rely more on commerce, fishing and other food supplies.

The price of rice here is only one stone or two, about 100 kilograms, five times that of Qi.

20 liang of silver, 20 stone if you buy rice.

This is still five times the pension!

In other words, sailors, servants and servants who run to the sea die in battle under normal circumstances, that is, 42 pensions, burning and burying silver, worth 400 kilograms of rice.

At the moment, Zhao Shun, who is registering to join the state of Qi, can get ten mu of good farmland, three crops a year, and don't worry about sowing seeds. One crop per mu is two stones, 200 kilograms, and one mu of good farmland is about 600 kilograms of rice a year. What about ten acres??

The good son died and got five times the pension. Should Zhao Sheng cry? Of course he wanted to cry, but he knew better that in the scope of the state of Lu, only 5 liang of silver was burned and buried after the war. It is said that there are only 20 liang of silver burned and buried by the soldiers of the Shang and Tang Empire. As a small country, the state of Lu certainly can't compare with the Empire.

Although the officers and soldiers of the state of Lu burn and bury more silver than the Xiao family... The question is, will the pension be deducted by the upper officials after the real registered officers and soldiers of the state of Lu die? Those buckles are simply a normal state. No buckles is a miracle.

It's good to have two liang of silver burned and buried by officers and soldiers in the hands of their families.

Moreover, Zhao Shun has sold himself as a slave! Life is the Xiao family and death is the ghost of the Xiao family. Even if the Xiao family doesn't burn or bury silver after his death, the outside world can't say anything wrong.

What is a slave? The government won't take care of being killed by the master for no reason.

If Zhao Shun, Zhao Sheng's eldest son, was an officer and soldier of the state of Lu, it would be good for their family to take 2 liang of silver after death. Now, the Xiao family can not give this 20 liang of burning and burying silver, but they give it, but they haven't deducted it yet

Should he be grateful to the Xiao family??

Holding the silver in the silver bag, Zhao Sheng sat on the ground and cried, but he didn't know whether to hate or say something else.

He certainly didn't thank him. How could he thank his son for his death for the Xiao family? But I can't seem to hate it again. Compared with the government of the state of Lu, the Xiao family did well.

The cry became louder and louder. When a middle-aged woman and a 15-year-old boy ran out of the courtyard, it was Zhao Shun's mother and brother.

When the two knew the specific situation, they were equally sad and had an extremely disordered sense of powerlessness.

Yeah, just weak.