"A rich family does not need to buy good land, there are thousands of millets in books; there are no tall buildings in living, there are golden houses in books; there are no bad matchmakers in marriage, there are beautiful women in books; there are no regrets that no one follows you when you go out, there are many carriages and horses in books; a man wants to fulfill his life's ambition, and read the Five Classics diligently to the window..."

On the afternoon of the 26th day of the first lunar month of the second year of the Song Dynasty, when it was almost time to dinner, in Baibo Town, Luoyang, the sound of reciting the "Lixue Pian" in the Wujiayimen Branch, where the clans lived, the sound of reciting the "Lixue Pian" by Emperor Zhenzong once again rang out.

The area covers a large area, but the houses are very dilapidated. There are ten long wooden tables in the Dazhaifang family's dining hall, and around them, surrounded by scholars from the Wu family wearing Confucian uniforms and preparing for dinner. They are big and small, old and young, as long as they don't have high school, they don't plan to give up the imperial examination career. No matter how old they are, the Dazhaifang family has their place and two meals a day.

Of course it’s two meals! This luxurious life of three meals a day is not something that the Bai Bowu family, the group of hard-students, can enjoy.

Although there are only two meals a day, their food is still very good. The white noodles cooked cakes can be filled, and there will be a cooked cake with lard fried chicken breasts that can supplement protein. This is an authentic Kaifeng dish, and it is also a "Jinshi dish"! Wu Zhongyi, the head of the Bai Bowu family, ate this every day when he was the 561st Jinshi in high school.

Therefore, this "Kaifeng Famous Dish" has a sense of sacredness at the Baibo Wu family in Luoyang, which has become the driving force to inspire Wu students to study hard.

As long as you have a high school Jinshi, you can eat pancakes and chicken with three meals a day! Maybe you can also add a fried egg...

Well, such a Jinshi must be a clean official! Anyway, the two dirty officials, Wu Haowen and Wu Haogu, will not be so poor.

In the future, the clean officials of the Song Dynasty had already finished reading the Lixue chapter and turned their attention to Wu Chengju, who was inspecting the hall with his hands behind his back.

Wu Chengju is from the Cheng generation of the Baibowu family. He is Wu Chengchang's cousin and Wu Chengzhi's cousin. Before Wu Chengchang gave up his son, he was the chief manager of the Baibowu family. He is the second-ranked figure in the family after Wu Zhongyi and the successor of the patriarch.

Wu Chengju, who is nearly fifty years old, looks inconspicuous, medium-sized, black and thin. He has a loyal and honest appearance, a little kind-hearted and always has a gentle smile on his face. For young people in the Wu family, he is a good teacher and elder. For the famous scholars and scholars in Luoyang City, he is undoubtedly a pure stream. For the parents and officials of Luoyang County, he is certainly a person who cannot offend him.

The Baibo Wu family is now a member of two generals! How dare the local officials in Luoyang offend Wu Chengji?

However, in Baibo Town, Luoyang County, there are also nearby Longmen Town and Pengpo Town who rented the Wu family's land and borrowed the Wu family's micro loan, they all called him Wu Papi behind their backs!

Although he looks kind and looks like a charitable man, he is definitely worthy of the title of "Wu Pai Pi" in exploiting tenants and taking advantage of the tricks of robbing tenants, and is much more cruel than his predecessor Wu Chengchang!

The reason for this is that Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen brothers have committed evil deeds. Before they rose, the Wu family of Baibo Yimen was a big mansion that was in a family and would soon be unable to survive. Not to mention taking advantage of tricks, their own fields were cut out one by one.

However, as soon as the Erwu brothers rose, the Baibowu family immediately turned over. First, Wu Haoguzha took away a small half of the Wu family's children to Haizhou to open a semicolon. In this way, the number of people who needed to eat big pot meals at Baibowu family decreased, but the land increased a lot due to the "donation" of the Erwu brothers and Wu Chengzhi.

With fewer people and more land, life will naturally be better. However, Wu Chengju and several Cheng generations who were in charge of housework with him were all afraid of poverty. Once they turned over, they didn't think about other things, so they thought about how to make a fortune.

But they didn't have a single official position, but they were just leaders of the Yi Sect, and at most they had a backer in the officialdom. Therefore, they did not have too many ways to make money, and they were not very good at doing business, so they could only work as a martial artist in their hometown to exploit poor lower-middle peasants.

Their methods of exploiting poor and lower-middle peasants are actually very traditional. There are only a few. The first is to rent out land and collect rent. Bai Bowu's family has become more developed now. Of course, there is less land cultivated by the family's men and women, and there is more land that can be used for rent. Almost 70,000 acres of land are rented out.

Of course, it’s nothing to rent a land. Now it’s still more than 900 years before the era of Doudizhu!

However, by renting out the land, Wu Chengju would not have received the nickname "Wu Pai Pi". His methods also colluded with clerks and transferred the two taxes. Now the Baibo Wu family is an official household and the Yimen under the imperial seal. Of course, there are certain tax exemptions, but it is impossible for more than 100,000 acres of land to be exempted from taxes. Otherwise, how can the local area in Luoyang be explained? Most of the land here belongs to official households, so how can it be possible that no tax is paid?

Therefore, it is a relatively popular practice to transfer the Spring and Autumn Festival taxes to poor and lower-middle peasants. Wu Chengju is even more a master in this field. He fostered "killers" as the head of the big academy and arranged for the Wu family to be the county officials and township clerks, and concealed part of the land in the Wu family's Yimen, or used the means of "property reduction and tax deposit" to purchase land, so that the Wu family owns a large amount of tax-free land.

By the way, the so-called agent is the agent. The Northern Song Dynasty court allowed officials and households to use agents to manage the land and farming business. If there are illegal things such as tax evasion, the responsibility is also the person who is responsible. Otherwise, how should high-ranking officials resist taxes? Local clerks dare not go to the two governments to ask the priests for money, right? So the matter is carried by the agent. When it cannot be found, everyone is a good official who abides by the law. When it is found, it is a negligence of the person who is responsible for the person. The officials of the Song Dynasty will definitely not shelter them. They must beat the person who is responsible for the matter!

The big armor head means the baojia head. Of course, the responsibility of assisting clerks to collect taxes and measure land is taken by powerful and wealthy families, so it goes without saying whoever sits on his butt.

Of course, the poor and lower-middle peasants are not stupid and will not easily agree to the "suicide" "property tax reduction and deposit". This requires supporting means, that is, colluding with tyrant business clerks, manipulating grain prices, forcing poor and lower-middle peasants to undertake excessive remote service showdowns, and at the same time issue routine loans.

As long as the poor and lower-middle peasants borrowed the Wu family's usury, they would basically be destined to be stripped of their bones. They were forced to sell their land and could not be taxed according to their property. In the end, they lost all their money and became tenants of the Wu family, and continued to be stripped of their skin and exploited by Wu...

"Eat quickly," Wu Chengju smiled gently, "After eating, review your homework. This year, we will take the exam for the test. Why do our Baibowu family have to give a few more Jinshi? "

"I understand, the chief executive!"

The talented men of the Wu family responded in unison, and then quickly started to move. Wu Pai Pi was not a thing outside, but no one was dissatisfied with the Wu family's mansion. The wealth he had extracted from poor and lower-middle peasants, in addition to purchasing land and expanding the Wu family's industry, was used to educate the children of the clan.

The Wu family’s Dazhaifang Branch School is one of the best private schools in Luoyang County. There are also men invited from Yichuan Academy in the private schools! Now, Guan and Luo Zhixue have replaced Jing Gong’s new school and become a sage that can confront Wu Haogu’s empirical school.

After arranging the children of the clan to have a meal, Wu Bapi did not eat chicken cakes, but went out of the Dachen Hall to the welcome hall of Dazhufang.

Today he has many customers to meet! There is a good Ai Shi and two grain merchants in Baibo Town, all of whom are here to discuss big deals.

The wheat harvest is about to be harvested. Thank you for your blessing, there will be another good harvest around Luoyang this year. Because there was not much rain or snow last winter, the wheat in the fields is not growing well now, so you can harvest about two or three buckets less!

It is better to collect two or three bulls less. Receiving three or five bulls more is not good for the landlords, because the landlords use fixed land rent and physical land rent. Those who collect too much are from tenants. Moreover, if they collect too much grain, they will cause a decline in grain prices, which is harmful and unhealthy to the landlords.

Of course, it is not enough to collect too much. If the harvest is too bad, it will be difficult to collect the land rent and interest. If farmers really can't pay it, there is nothing to do if Wu pai? It's even more serious, it will cause trouble for the "big eaters". That is, groups of hungry people rushed to the Wu family's mansion to eat for free.

So the best situation is to charge two or three bulls less... It is not difficult to collect rent, and the government will not exempt Luoyang's summer tax. The summer tax is to collect silk (silk can also be used as money, and the places where silk is not produced can be discounted). At that time, the grain will be sold for money.

And this is another opportunity! In the past two years, because the situation in the northwest is stable and the wheat from the border river comes in a steady stream, the grain prices in Baibo in Luoyang fluctuate greatly, usually in spring, summer is cheaper, and will rise in autumn and winter.

This year, I happened to use the Northern Grain to suppress the grain prices in Luoyang. I took advantage of the poor farmers who wanted to raise money to pay interest and pay summer taxes to buy a batch of grain, and then put some usury out...

While Wu Papi was making up for his wishful thinking, he had already arrived at the Welcoming Hall. Suddenly, he found that there were guests in the Welcoming Hall. He was a man with a figure and a bit dusty figure. There were two grown-up bodyguards outside the door. It seemed that the person who came had an identity.

"I dare to ask this guy..."

As soon as he spoke, the man turned around and looked familiar. After thinking about it, he remembered that the person who came was Wu Chengchang! He hurriedly stepped forward and held Wu Chengchang's hand, "Seventh Brother, why are you here? Bai Bo? It's been a lot... I heard that you have made a fortune in Haizhou. Is there anything wrong with this?"

Wu Chengchang laughed: "It's not worth mentioning to make a fortune, it's just tens of thousands of dollars, and it's all taken care of by our Shuai Shuai. However, after being taken care of by Xuan Shuai, we have to do things for Xuan Shuai. This time we are going back to Luoyang to do things for Xuan Shuai."

"Doing things for Xuan Shuai?" Wu Bapi looked at Wu Chengchang, "Brother Qi, are you an official?"
Chapter completed!