Chapter 370： won't complain

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Mrs. Li obediently stretched out her arm to check the doctor's pulse. The doctor stroked his beard to check the pulse carefully. He quickly retracted his hand, smiled and congratulated: "Congratulations to the old lady, the eldest lady has a happy pulse. It has been almost two months."

Zhu Lan paused and said with a smile: "The family has added another population. It's a good thing, Liu Ya will give the doctor happy money."

Zhulan now puts some bits and pieces of silver in the box. After half a year, she trusts Liu Ya more, and now Liu Ya can touch silver money, which was not allowed before.

The doctor got a tael of happy money, and another tael of money for a doctor's visit, and said that pregnant women need to be careful, butler Ding sent the doctor away.

Li Shi waited for the doctor to leave, and then calmed down, "It turns out that I'm really pregnant."

Zhulan saw that Li's condition was not very good. The pressure on Li was indeed quite high. Although Li and Wu Chun's daughter-in-law Wu were both loud peasant women, Wu Chun was a general proclaimed by the emperor, and she was also a peasant woman. The second-in-command of the garrison, even if someone despised the Wu family, no one dared to say it face to face.

It is different for the Li family. The boss has no official status and is not famous. After all, Li's confidence is given by the boss. Don't look at Li's carelessness, she will also be anxious. In addition, Zhao and Dong want to Come, the anxiety will be more serious.

Zhu Lan said to Mrs. Li as kindly as possible: "You have a twin now, tell the kitchen what you want to eat, tell your mother what you want to buy, and your mother will find it for you."

Saying that, Zhulan motioned Liu Ya to bring the money box, and Zhulan opened the money box and took out two five taels of ingots and handed them to Mrs. Li.

"You take these 12 taels of silver. There are many shops on the street now, and there are shops opened by foreign merchants. You can buy what you like."

Zhulan felt that by giving Li's money, Li's mood would be much better. She had not given Li's money for half a year, but Li was stunned that she didn't spend it.

Li's holding two ingots, "Mother, can I really spend it?"

"Of course!"

Li Shi burst into tears and cried again, "Mother, you are so kind to me."

Zhu Lan was silent, and Li's mood fluctuated a bit. Hey, the good Hanhan is a stressed out crying baby, "Okay, it's getting late, you all go back to rest!"

Boss Zhou is in the joy of becoming a father again, and he has another child, "Don't cry, let's go back to rest."

Li avoided Boss Zhou's hand, "I hold the silver myself, take your hand away."

Boss Zhou, "..."

He just wanted to support his daughter-in-law.

Zhulan was happy, but she was still thinking about money at this time, and it seemed that her anxiety was not too serious.

After half an hour, Zhou Shuren came back, and Zhulan asked, "What did you eat at the yamen at night?"

Zhou Shuren washed his face, "Mr. Chen's preparations are not bad. Their Jiangnan cook is really good at cooking."

Zhulan has also eaten the food of Chen's family. It is indeed exquisite and delicious. Among the officials in Lizhou City, the richest person is Chen. Lord Chen is not a local tyrant, but a real tyrant. There are many books in the family. Precious orphan books can be worth tens of thousands of taels. Not counting the books accumulated by these generations, let’s just say that there are many Zhuangzi in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhulan always thought that there was only one tea garden. Unexpectedly, Mr. Chen’s family had two tea gardens.

Including the shop and the house, the Chen family is really rich.

Having said that, Mr. He's family also has money, but Mr. He is a wife who has money and relies on the old husband.

Zhulan said faintly: "The emperor specified that he hoped that they would donate money from their own pockets, but you came to stabilize the situation and did not count them."

Zhou Shuren changed his clothes: "Why do I think the emperor wants to raid the house?"

Zhulan, "...you're right."

Zhou Shuren stretched his waist, "The autumn harvest is about to begin. Today, the tax collection has been arranged, so I can relax for a day or two."

"I thought you would write a statement to apply for tax exemption this year, but I didn't expect you to apply for 10% of the tax."

Zhou Shuren said: "It's not good to waive it directly. If you waived this year's, you hope to continue to waive it next year. This year only 10%, and next year's half of it will not be reluctant, but once you waive it directly, you will receive another 10% Halfway through, then there will be complaints."

Zhulan sighed that this is the human heart, and changed her words: "This year, the ponds were dug, and the fields were irrigated with enough water. It's another year of good weather, and this year is a year of good harvests."

When the seeds were divided, one-third of each household was sweet potatoes, one-third was potatoes, and the remaining one-third was corn and half of soybeans.

Even if you pay 10% of the tax this year, even if you don't have enough to eat, at least you won't be hungry.

Zhou Shuren not only went out of the city, but also went to several nearby counties. This year is indeed a bumper harvest. He also went to see the fat pigs raised, because he can get the coarse grains to feed the pigs in the yamen, and the pigs grow well, too, Every seven days, special yamen servants go from house to house, and the people do not dare to embezzle the food for feeding the pigs.

He doesn't even have to look for businessmen, there are businessmen who come to his door. The popularity of sausages is always short of pork.

Zhulan and Zhou Shuren lay down, and Zhulan remembered before she fell asleep. She forgot to tell Zhou Shuren that he had a grandson or a granddaughter. Forget it, let’s talk about it tomorrow.

On the second day, Zhou Shuren heard the news and said he knew, and then it was gone. In Zhou Shuren's heart, there was one more grandson, one more teacher, one more bride price, more granddaughters, um, more dowry!

The days passed quickly, and the autumn harvest was over in a blink of an eye. The Zhulan family did not grow potatoes or sweet potatoes, but instead grew corn, wheat and rice. The land in Lizhou City is really not as fertile as the northeast, and the yield of grain is really low. .

If Lizhou City does not develop other industries, even if there is no war, Lizhou City is the bottom of all Zhili Prefectures.

The food of Zhulan's family was not sold, it was put into the granary after drying.

Zhou Shuren's tax has also been collected 10% of the grain is really not much, but Zhou Shuren stipulates that 10% of the grain is one-third of sweet potatoes, one-third of potatoes, and the remaining one-third is Corn or other, not all sweet potatoes or potatoes are not allowed.

The main reason is that sweet potatoes and potatoes cannot be stored in the granary, and they do not have to germinate in the previous year.

Zhu Lan looked at Zhou Shuren and frowned, "Isn't all the food tax collected? What are you worried about?"

Zhou Shuren said quietly: "Taxes are collected, but most of them are sweet potatoes and potatoes. I want to send someone to learn how to make vermicelli with money, and then come back and teach some businessmen who want to do vermicelli business. Of course, free learning is a prerequisite. It’s the potatoes and sweet potatoes that trade grain for the granary.”

Zhulan likes hot and sour noodles as well as potato noodles. Why didn't she think about buying some noodles to eat, "You don't think about it, why are you still worried?"

Zhou Shuren smiled, "I'm worried about who will take the money to study, this person is not easy to choose."

After thinking about it, Zhulan really couldn't choose, she patted Zhou Shuren on the shoulder, "I can't help you with this, think about it for yourself!"