In summer, Andong is extremely beautiful and rich, with flowers blooming all over the mountains and fruits.
The gurgling river rushes to the sea, and countless fresh fish rush into it.
People on both sides of the strait are busy fishing, and the walls of every house are covered with caught fish.
Sima Qian rode a war horse, walked on the country road, looked at the scenery along the way, and sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but praise: "When I was in Chang'an, I once heard that Andong has a wide range of resources and abundant products, and some people make a song and say: Beat the robe and scoop the fish, and the pheasant flies into the rice pot Now it seems that it is worthy of its name."
What the virtuous brother said was that "a noble child who was four or five years older than Sima Qian rode a horse and said to Sima Qian with a smile: "If it weren't for the beautiful scenery of this Anton, how could I stay here for several years?"
"Tonight, the foolish brother has prepared a little wine for the virtuous brother in the mansion to catch the wind and wash the dust."
"Thank you, brother," Sima Qian hurriedly thanked him.
"Hey" the young nobleman smiled and said, "You and I are friends in the world, you don't have to be so polite" Sima Qian also smiled when he heard it.
This person's surname is He Mingrong, and he is the son-in-law of the Qihou family.
Qi Hou is one of the only remaining more than 20 founding princes of the Han Dynasty, and its ancestor Qi Hou He Fang is a famous general under the command of Emperor Gao, who once led the army to break off at the time of the Battle of Pengcheng, and made great contributions to the safe retreat of Emperor Gao, and even beheaded a general of Xiang Yu.
It is because Emperor Gao once praised and said: Zihe Fang stayed in Pengcheng, and held Guidong to hit the feather, and he was eager to avoid it It was this crucial move by He Fang that allowed the Han army, which had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Pengcheng, to safely retreat to Xingyang, rebuild a new defensive line, and have the opportunity to organize the army again.
Otherwise, once Pengcheng is defeated, the Han army is likely to be defeated.
You know, it is even more difficult to retreat in an orderly manner in defeat than to defeat the enemy.
If you are not careful, you will be scattered, and you will perish.
Xiang Yuhai's next battle is a typical example.
However, today, the Qi Hou family has long lost its momentum.
In the ranking of liehous, it has even been ranked in the bottom three for 30 consecutive years.
However, the other two families that were once at the bottom have now turned over.
The juice Fang Hou family is now hugging the thigh of the Son of Heaven, last year the juice Fang Festival waited for the death of Yong Shichen, and his deathbed bequeathed his heirs and said: The Son of Heaven, the saint also, you wait for three times a day, every ten years a pilgrimage, do not slacken His son Yongwei did all the same.
Even more than his dad asked for Yongwei in his bedroom, let people make a statue of the gods, called: Emperor Han Tian, its appearance is similar to the Son of Heaven, he gets up every morning, must sincerely kneel in front of the statue, mouth: Xinchenwei worship the Emperor of Heaven, please Your Majesty's grace.
During the meal, all the Yong family members, regardless of age or age, had to kowtow in the direction of Weiyang Palace first, and said: "The ministers thank Your Majesty Longen, and Your Majesty is Shengdeze by the world" before eating.
It is said that even for such things as papapai and even concubines, Yongwei has to go to the statue of the emperor to pray and divinate first, and the hexagram is unlucky Licking to this point, the status of the Ju Fanghou family continued to rise.
When Yong Shichen was alive, the Ju Fanghou family was the biggest joke in the Han family liehou group, and it was the record holder for the highest weight in the history of the Han Empire.
And now, Yongwei has been granted the right to participate in politics in the court, listen to the court and the king's recital, and so on.
The lower limit and the point of kneeling and licking, even the people of Fan City, who were once known as one of the four King Kongs of the Son of Heaven, can't stand it.
This Wuyang Hou once sneered in private: "Yongjun Hou probably wants to be a national teacher, and his brain is going to be broken."
Then, Wuyang Hou was invited to tea by the Son of Heaven Then, Wuyang Hou also learned Yongwei's method at home The princes' eyes fell to the ground, and they all sighed, the sycophants really can't look forward to it And another family that is also at the bottom, the Song Zihou family, is now needless to say.
The contemporary Song Zihou has already been appointed as the governor of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and if everything goes well, then eight years later, he is likely to return to the dynasty and take up the post of Jiuqing.
In the past, the three bottoms, now only the Qi Hou family, whose status is still embarrassing.
However, the old He family obviously didn't think so.
Their family belongs to the kind of personality that is small and rich, since that year, after seeing the tragic situation of the princes and ministers in Chang'an, Qi Hou Hechang at that time was determined not to interfere in politics again.
Since then, the children of the He family in the past generations have either been busy cultivating immortals and refining pills, or playing with flowers and plants at home, raising all kinds of strange beasts.
The previous generation of Qi Qinghou He Hu suddenly found that history books were more interesting, so he began to have intimate contacts with Sima's family.
The two families got closer, and when Sima Qian was just born, the two families planned to marry It was only later that the new monarch ascended the throne, and when today's son expressed some special attention and care for the Sima family, Wuyang Hou, Chiquan Hou, and Zhongshui Hou came to the door with gifts and said: Wenjun Qilin'er, I am willing to marry Qin and Jin The Sima family was embarrassed.
On the one hand, as historians, they should be strictly neutral and should not be too close to these apolitical families.
Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will cause gossip and be questioned.
On the other hand, Sima's small arms and legs, none of these people can afford to offend.
So, it can only be dragged on.
However, if Sima Qian was to choose, he actually preferred He Rong's sister, that is, the sister who had to marry him.
But the problem is that he can't do this kind of thing at all.
It can only be hoped that the Son of Heaven will be able to give marriage in the future He Rong obviously also liked Sima Qian's brother-in-law, and he led Sima Qian through the countryside and countryside to the Qi Hou Mansion here.
Qi Hou 1,400 households, resettlement of the grace order, can obtain 2,800 households of land.
Each household has 100 acres of land, and the entire feudal country is 280,000 acres.
Of course, as a prince with little status and power, most of the feudal lands that Qi Hou allocated were actually mountains and swamps.
The actual arable area is no more than 50,000 mu at most.
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Thirty percent of the 50,000 acres of land were used as feudal mansions and dwellings.
The rest of the land has not been fully developed.
Based on Sima Qian's observations, the results of his observations are at most about 30,000 acres of land.
To be reasonable, even if the yield of these lands reaches four stones per mu, the output of one year will be at most 120,000 stones, and after deducting expenses and other consumption, I am afraid that the balance is not much.
But this Qi Hou Hou Mansion is built in a grand atmosphere and full of artistic sense.
At the entrance of the house, there are even two stone carvings of fierce dogs with teeth and claws used to ward off evil spirits.
This fierce dog is the pet of Jiro, the most widely believed in the Andong area, called the Roaring Dog, which is said to be born with a miracle and can devour the sun and the moon.
However, Sima Qian knew that in the Gukou Erlang belief in Shu County, there was no roaring dog.
The reason why there are roaring dogs in Andong should be the credit of the Tuohao people, the Wuheng people, and the Koreans, Zhenban and other ethnic groups.
Because, as far as Sima Qian knew, these tribes and kingdoms had the custom of raising fierce dogs for a long time in the past.
In particular, the Hao people and Wuheng people, the fierce dogs they raised, are now very popular in Chang'an.
And just these two stone carvings, Sima Qian estimated, at least dozens of stonemasons, and it took several months of work to carve them, and they were worth at least tens of thousands of dollars As for the gate of the Hou Mansion, it is even more atmospheric.
The use of very expensive yellow rosewood, this kind of pear wood, in Chang'an value is very high, a zhang long, three feet wide yellow rosewood can be called tens of thousands But here, this high-priced pear wood has been made into the gate of the Qihou Mansion.
The wood used for this door alone is probably worth hundreds of thousands After entering the Hou Mansion, there is a cave.
In the entire Hou Mansion, there are pavilions, pavilions, rockery pools, and a large number of slaves inside and outside the corridor.
Sima Qian looked at it and sighed: "Brother, no wonder he doesn't want to go back to Chang'an, this Hou Mansion, I'm afraid it's even more luxurious than Chang'an's Jiuqing Mansion."
In Chang'an City, I am afraid that even the mansion of Marquis Zhang Wu may not have such a large space and so many slaves.
He Rong laughed twice and said, "The Burrow is not enough to mention."
Sima Qian was puzzled in his heart.
Where did this He Rong get so much wealth and funds Sima Qian remembers very well that three years ago, when He Rong left Chang'an and came to Andong to open up, he only brought dozens of retainers and slaves and no more than 300,000 yuan.
In just three years, it has become like this Even He Rong seemed to see Sima Qian's doubts, and explained with a smile: "Don't dare to hide it from my virtuous brother, I can have today, thanks to cotton and soybeans."
While taking Sima Qian to the Hou Mansion, he introduced: "Brother Xian knows that this feudal country of Brother Yu is a land of mountains and salt, and there is not much land to cultivate, so Brother Yu had to find something else, and it happened that Tang Yi was invited by Prince Chen, so Brother Yu planted some cotton and soybeans, and made a little money."
"Cotton soybean" Sima Qian fell into deep thought.
He knows that in the past three years, cotton cloth and quilts have been one of the best-selling luxury goods in the Chang'an market.
Middle-class homes and well-off homes, competing to buy.
Sima Qian also once followed the trend and bought a few pieces of cotton cloth and made a set of clothes, which was indeed very warm after wearing them.
It's just that the price is too expensive, twice as expensive as ordinary silk, second only to Shu brocade, even Sima Qian can't afford it.
However, Sima Qian once heard the Son of Heaven mention that the price of this cotton cloth will continue to decline in the future, and may eventually be lower than silk As for the soybeans Sima Qian scratched his head, the price of soybeans has always been low, and it has always been regarded as feed.
In the Chang'an market, a stone of soybeans is only 45 yuan This is because soybeans can be used to make tofu over the years, and the price has risen.
He Rong said with a smile: "This cotton, you can sell it to Shaofu when you grow it, and after soybeans are squeezed for oil, the soybean oil can be sold to merchants, and the bean dregs are sold to the servants than corn and wheat, and it is more cost-effective for the foolish brother to plant cotton and soybeans every year, and he can get one million when he is one year old, and three or five million at most."
As he spoke, he laughed: "It's just a little money, far less than others."
Sima Qian asked: "Dare to ask my brother, now there are cotton fields and bean fields."
"There are about 40,000 or 50,000 acres of cotton land," He Rong replied with a smile: "As for the bean fields, there should be more, because even salt brine land can be planted, so there are 60,000 acres." "100,000 acres" Sima Qian was startled when he heard this, and he asked: "Why did my brother come to take care of so many people?"
This is the crux of the problem, the Andong area, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a shortage of manpower, so it may be easier to grow cotton and soybeans than corn, but even if a husband can take care of hundreds of acres, these 100,000 acres will require at least hundreds of families to be able to take care of them.
And according to Sima Qian's view, the entire Qihou feudal country is now at most 500 households With such a small number of people, I am afraid that they can barely cultivate those corn fields He Rong smiled mysteriously, and brought Sima Qian into his living room, and a Yidi man in green clothes immediately stepped forward, knelt down and bowed: "Master, the banquet is ready, can I ask if you will serve the food now?"
He Rong stepped forward with a smile, helped the man up, and said: "How many times have I told you, you are no longer Yidi, but a subject of my Han family, a minister of my family, don't call me master in the future, you should call me lord like others."
"Come, let me introduce to you, this is my world friend, when Sima Gongzi, the son of Taishi Gong, in the future, in this family, Sima Gongzi's words are my words, do you understand?"
"Nuo" The other party bowed to Sima Qian: "Yidi savages worship Gongzi" "Here it is again" He Rong hurriedly said to him: "You are now a subject of my Han family, and your household registration has been approved, and your surname is He Mingzhong now."
He Zhong still looked submissive and groveling.
This made Sima Qian look at it confused, and he couldn't figure out what the situation was He Rong had no choice but to take Sima Qian's hand and explained: "Fang Jin's Anton is the world of the miscellaneous family, and all the Ming princes of the miscellaneous family advocate the abolition of slavery, thinking that all people are equal, and it is a bad habit to take people as slaves."
"By the initiative of the miscellaneous family, today Anton is a poor and remote place, and there are no slaves in the sea."
There are no slaves Where did the subordinates and servants of this huge Hou Mansion come from?
Sima Qian was even more incomprehensible.
He Rong also sighed, he knew that Anton's current situation was difficult to explain to outsiders for a while.
Not to mention an outsider, it took him a lot of time to understand the twists and turns back then.
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So, he took Sima Qian's hand and said: "I know that the virtuous brother has some doubts in his heart, but it is difficult for the foolish brother to explain these things to the virtuous brother for a while, it is better for the foolish brother to take the virtuous brother to the cotton field and the bean field tomorrow to have a look, and the virtuous brother can know the truth and the truth."
Sima Qian nodded when he heard this, and felt that it was right, the so-called hearing is better than seeing it, and listening to others is far from being clearer than his own personal experience and observation. t1706231537: