Chapter 253
People feel refreshed when they are happy.
The head of the family Li Xiaojin was named Kaiguozi, or was actually named a hundred households. The Li's house in Shengyefang was happy. Zhao Wan, who was promoted to the title of Lantian County, was happy and announced that each person in the mansion would reward each month with a monthly monthly money as a bonus.
The housekeeper Lao Qian also had to order to buy a pig and two sheep to slaughter it, and celebrate it with meat with extra meals.
Everyone in the mansion was very happy.
The summer harvest just passed, and although the drought was a lot of losses, Mr. Qian looked at the more than 1,000 acres of land added to the account and his eyes were so excited that he shone.
The Baron was promoted to Viscount and added 300 acres of Yongye Field, and the fifth-rank official Yongye Field also increased to 500 acres.
Eight hundred acres of Yongye Field, five hundred acres of official positions, and one thousand acres of land rewarded by the emperor, and then the previous 1,200 acres of land from the Li family. Now, in the account book of Qian Manager, the Li family's land has a total of 3,500 acres.
The Li family’s fields are spread all over Lanxi, Lantian, Tongzhou and other places.
In addition, Li Xiao also had 600 acres of land that could collect rent, and 100 households had real fiefs.
The little money and food lost due to the severe drought is really worth mentioning compared to this. Not to mention, the Li family still has several money trees, and there are continuous inputs.
Wine shops, medicinal wine shops, medical clinics, hotels, and newly put into production perfumes, soaps, soap shops, and noodle workshops. If the Li family makes money by selling chili, cucumber, and watermelon this year, the speed of making money is no longer as good as that of some places for a century.
Compared with the current situation where medicinal wine has good reputation and sales, the new workshops such as perfume, soap and noodles have relatively low output, so they simply follow the high-end market route, with low output, but high profits.
"The winery may have temporarily suspended work for a while recently." Li Xiao told Manager Qian. Although the Tang Dynasty did not engage in a monopoly system for wine, it would restrict winemaking in the event of disasters and famines. This year, the south of Shannan of Guanzhong has severe drought and severe grain production has been reduced, so the court has issued an order to ban private brewing.
People are prohibited from brewing wine during the disaster year, and only some workshops in the court are allowed to brew wine.
Although the Li family’s winery is a steamed winery and buys wine lees to steam wine, it is prohibited by the people to make wine, so wine lees are naturally greatly reduced. As the grain prices in the official shop rise, they are also rising steads. When there is a shortage of food and food, wine lees are also edible grains.
"Stop work?" Mr. Qian felt a toothache. Now the business in the Medicine Wine Floor is so good. If the Steam Wine Floor stops work, the loss will be too great. Now the Li family's medicinal wine has formed a one-stop industrial chain, including Steam Wine Floor, Raw Pharmacy Shop, Medicine Wine Floor, and even the Steam Wine Floor extends the perfume Floor.
This is the largest and most profitable industry in the Li family now. If the production is stopped, it will be a huge loss.
"There is no way to stop work. Pay the workers in the workshop to pay the wages and pay another month of wages as a bonus. Explain the situation to everyone. When the situation improves, our workshop will resume production. We will ask everyone to come back and continue to work."
Mr. Qian was frowning and sighing.
Once the steaming wine shop is stopped, the hot medicinal wine business will be stopped, and the perfume workshop will also be stopped, and the medicinal materials business of raw medicine shops will be affected.
"Butler Qian, how much money and silk are there in the family's account now?" Li Xiao asked.
Mr. Qian knew the family's financial situation well and quickly said, "There is a lot of money and silk in the account, and there are still some in various workshops and shops. If you take out all the money, you will probably have more than three million yuan."
More than three million yuan is 3,000 guan. In other words, this is a considerable amount of money, of course for ordinary people. For those high-ranking officials and wealthy families, it is nothing. Changsun Wuji gave Li Xiao's house to at least be worth five million yuan.
"Three million is a little small, but that's fine. You can coordinate with the workshops and collect the money these days. I'm useful."
When Mr. Qian heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "I wonder what the use of Alang needs so much money?"
“Buy land.”
When Lao Qian heard this, he couldn't help but be excited. It's good to buy land, so you won't lose money if you buy land, especially in the current disaster year, many people have failed to get a bad harvest or even lost money. At this time, they can only sell land at a low price to help their lives. At this time, it is definitely a good time to buy land. Not to mention the cheap price, there is still a chance to buy good land.
Although the Tang Dynasty used the equal-field system as the basis of the land, the equal-field system did not allow the land to be sold. If the system was based on the system, the middle-aged man and the Ding man were given 100 mu of land, of which 80 mu were divided into trough land and 20 mu of permanent land.
The old man, who is disabled, has 40 acres of land, and his widows and concubines have 30 acres of land. If these people are the heads of households, each of them will receive 20 acres of land, and 30 acres of land.
Miscellaneous households receive land like the people. Industrial and commercial households receive land for half of the people. Taoist priests and monks give land for thirty acres of land, nuns and women give land for 20 acres. In addition, ordinary women, tribes, and slaves do not receive land.
The land is not allowed to be traded if it is divided. If the land is returned after death, the land will be collected by the government after death. However, the land of Yongye is seta and can be traded.
Generally speaking, people will not sell land, which is the foundation of life. But when there is a disaster and hunger, there is no way to survive.
For example, in places like Guanzhong where there are narrow and crowded areas, as long as the people are willing to move to Kuan Townships with many lands, such as border areas, the imperial court will allow the people to sell their land freely, which is also encouraged to immigrate to the border and enrich the border areas.
But if it weren't for the desperate situation, who would be willing to leave his hometown?
The land in Guanzhong is expensive, even a dozen or even acres per acre, and the cheapest ones are hundreds of dollars per acre. The fertile land on the Guanzhong plain is the land that noble officials are rushing to buy, but it is generally very rare.
"It's good to buy land, but the opportunity is rare. You can buy more land." Qian Manager said.
But he didn't know that Li Xiao was planning to buy land in Baekje, otherwise he would probably not be so happy.
Baekje, that is a foreign country and overseas place. No matter how cheap the land is, Lao Qian will definitely not want to buy it.
Zhao Wan, the newly enfeoffed Lantian County Jun, also supports buying land. She believes that Li Xiao is now well-developed, so she must first buy back the land that was occupied by someone to buy when the Li family was in trouble.
"Wan Niang, those lands are now someone else's property, and they also bought them with money. With land deeds in hand, this matter is not easy to deal with. If you want to blame, you can only blame the Zhang family back then. It has nothing to do with them." Li Xiao said, holding his increasingly plump wife.
Chapter completed!