The first is to subscribe When he got up in the morning, when Zhang Chao was practicing his gun, Ma Zhou told him that tomorrow would be Xiao Nian.
Ma Zhou said that the small year is also called the sub-year, which is the winter solstice every year.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, the winter solstice was regarded as the beginning of the year, so there was a custom of greeting winter, and they believed that after the winter solstice, the days were getting longer and longer day by day, and the yang energy was rising, which was an auspicious day.
The Qin period took the winter solstice as the first year and called the small year.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the custom of worshipping winter and celebrating winter was still popular.
Every year when the winter solstice comes, there is a long holiday.
There were many holidays in the Tang Dynasty, especially for officials, who spent nearly half of the year on vacation.
In addition to the ten-day holiday, which is closed every 10 days, there are also various holidays.
Among them, the winter solstice, like New Year's Day, is to enjoy a seven-day long holiday.
In May and September of each month, there are half a month of field leave and clothing leave, four days of Qingming, three days of Mid-Autumn Festival, three days of summer solstice, three days of Laba and so on.
The seven-day Winter Solstice Festival is a very lively festival.
On this day, both the government and the people will put on new clothes, reunite with their families, and prepare a feast with wine to celebrate.
The imperial court also held a ceremony to worship the heavens, and the people would also worship their ancestors.
On this day, the whole court has a holiday, the army is on standby, the border is closed, business travel is closed, relatives and friends give each other food, and they have to visit each other.
Celebrating the New Year in winter is similar to the Spring Festival in later generations.
"Owner, let's have a few days off on the winter solstice" Ma Zhou also worked as a clerk, and he was quite familiar with various holidays and enjoyed them quite much.
"We pay today, and then tomorrow on the winter solstice, the workshop and each store will all take a day off, and let each store send out the notice of closure in advance, so that customers can tell each other."
"One day off only" "Well, just one day off."
Zhang Chao replied while stabbing the gun.
I have nothing to do with so many days off, whether I want to do business or make money.
"These six days are considered holiday overtime, and double wages are paid."
Zhang Chao is not such a black-hearted boss, he still pays overtime for overtime, or double.
"Forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty" Zhang Chao stabbed the fiftieth shot, and took a long breath to withdraw the silver gun.
He had now broken through thirty shots and slowly rose to the figure of fifty shots a morning.
After stabbing fifty shots, although it was very tiring, it was still able to withstand it.
This body is getting stronger and stronger now.
"The books are all right."
"That's right."
Zhang Chao took the towel from Qiu Yue's hand and wiped his face, "Okay, pay your salary." ” "Bolts, big cows, two cows, set the table up."
The weather is very good today, and the early morning sun shines on the courtyard and shines on the people, reducing the coldness of the morning breeze a little.
Everyone knew yesterday that they were going to pay wages today, and they didn't sleep for half a night when they were excited, and after starting work this morning, they also looked at Zhang Chao's yard from time to time, just waiting for the owner to shout to release grain.
The bolt was very energetic today, and he stood at the gate of Zhang Chao's small courtyard, like a general guarding the pass.
"Everyone is lined up, whoever is called will go into the yard to receive food, and those who are not called will wait outside."
"Prepare your own grain bags."
A group of people were all huddled outside, talking excitedly.
I've been working for more than a month, and I've been waiting for food distribution just to earn some money to supplement my family.
Not far away, there are also farmers who sold grain to the Zhang family last time, and they also received a notice to come over today to receive grain money.
In the courtyard, Zhang Chao and Ma Zhou sat behind a desk with an account book on the table.
Behind the table, the old cow, the big cow, the second cow, and the housekeeper brought out the silk and copper coins.
Zhang Chao took the account book given by Ma Zhou, looked through it, and then coughed.
"Don't make any noise, be quiet."
The bolt shouted, and immediately hundreds of people outside stopped talking.
Zhang Chao is very satisfied with this effect.
"Steward Zhang."
"Here."
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"You have been here in Zhang's house for more than a month, and today you are paid in September and October, and you are a stone of millet in January, and you have been working in Zhangjia for more than 40 days in September and October, less than two months.
But I read that you are diligent and loyal, I will count you for two months this time, and it will be regarded as a reward for your serious work, come, come and press a handprint, and take back two stone millets. ” "Xie Dongjia, thank you San Lang."
Steward Zhang was happy when he heard that he had calculated an extra twenty days' wages for himself.
"You deserve it."
Zhang Chao smiled, "Do you want food or money" Steward Zhang bent down and said, "Take the silk." ” The housekeeper's family eats and lives in the Zhang family, so he doesn't need food, anyway, now that the price of food is cheap, he chooses to take silk.
Two stones of grain were converted into one thousand four, and seven horses were exchanged for silk.
One silk horse is enough to make several clothes, and these seven silk horses are actually quite a lot.
Silk is a silk fabric, and it has to be planted to raise silkworms and weave.
The people of the Tang Dynasty planted mulberry trees, not the dense and low mulberry orchards of later generations.
The government's requirements for the peasants are that each household shall not have less than 50 mulberry trees, and the land shall be granted equal land, and the land shall be divided into fields to grow grain, which is also called open field, while the Yongye field shall be planted with mulberry hemp, and jujube trees and elm trees shall also be planted.
And 50 mulberry trees need 8 acres of land, 10 acres of land, and five tree plantings.
The silkworm of a merit is not suitable for the age, although it cannot do its work, the merit cannot be a silk.
Cost-effective, two acres of silkworms, silkworms produce silkworms.
Seven horses of silk, farmers need 14 acres of mulberry fields to raise silkworms for a year to weave so much silk, more than 80 mulberry trees are needed to raise silkworms.
Steward Zhang's two-month salary is worth the income of an ordinary peasant woman raising silkworms and weaving silk for a year.
A silk horse is four zhang long, one foot eight wide, and weighs twelve taels, although it is not as good as silk, and the silk is more plain, but it is still very valuable.
Seven horses of silk, straight 1,400 yuan.
Pressing the handprint on the account book, the veterinarian Lao Niu handed the seven horses of silk to the housekeeper, as a contract slave of the Zhang family, he could still receive so much money for so many months, which is really enviable.
"I also received the wages of my wife and children."
The butler laughed.
Zhang Chao said, "This can't work, they have to come to collect it in person, as for whether to hand it over to you or keep it yourself after taking it back, then it's not something I can interfere with." ” After the housekeeper, all the people who worked in the Zhang family received the money in order.
Many people directly choose to take money instead of grain, and there is still some food at home, but what farmers in the countryside lack most is cash.
After paying the endowment and rent, and some apportionment, you can still make a living if you save some food for the grain you grow in your own fields.
The clothes worn by the family are mainly the linen woven cloth they grow, and the silk woven by mulberry is handed over to the imperial court, and sometimes they have to be handed over to the silk to buy labor and be exempted from hard labor.
But there are always times when the family needs money, such as buying salt, repairing farm tools, etc.
Usually, everyone relies on raising pigs and chickens and ducks to exchange cash.
Now that the Zhang family is working, they can earn a lot of cash.
"In September and October, I worked for a total of forty days, and every day I ate another two liters of grain, and I had a total of eight buckets for forty days.
There is no leave and no absenteeism, and the owner will give you a full attendance bonus and a performance award.
A total of one stone and a bucket of corn, do you want money or silk," Zhang Chao asked a woman in front of the table.
The woman had clearly made up her mind.
"A stone of grain for silk, a bucket of grain for money."
Zhang Chao smiled, one stone of grain for silk is three and a half horses, "One stone and one bucket of grain for seven hundred and seventy Wen, I think you might as well exchange three horses of silk for six hundred Wen, and then one hundred and seventy Wen, how about it?"
"It's fine."
The little daughter-in-law nodded happily.
I was idle in winter, I came to Zhang's house to do more than a month of work, and now I can have more than 700 yuan for the forty days of work done in the first two months, not to mention that I have eaten three meals a day in Zhang's house every day for these two months.
"Big bull, take three silks, two oxen, and count one hundred and seventy dollars."
Zhang Chao said to the Niu brothers behind.
"Okay."
After ordering the silk and money, Zhang Chao asked the woman to go to the table next to her to carefully count and measure.
These farmers and peasant women are very realistic, and they have to order it a few more times in person after taking the money, but they don't believe the Zhang family, but they are used to it.
They even had to count it several times, over and over again.
"Next, Ke Dog" A man in his thirties crowded into the table and rubbed his palms.
Zhang Chao looked at the account book and frowned, "Brother Dog, you have borrowed from the account several times in the past two months, and you still owe two buckets of grain in the account." ” "San Lang, the family is still waiting for the rice to go to the pot, so you can borrow a few buckets of grain."
"Brother dog, what do you say is going on with you, people do things like you, and they can all receive seven or eight hundred yuan when they are paid, and everyone is smiling, but what about you, you still owe the account.
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You don't want to think about why" Zhang Chao is also a little helpless about this Ke dog, both sympathetic and contemptible.
A man in his thirties, who had transported grain to the Liao army in his early years, was later injured when the Goguryeo people attacked the grain team in Liaodong, and his life was injured.
After coming back, his temperament changed greatly, he loved to toss his wife, and often beat him, and his wife finally couldn't stand it and ran back to her parents' house, and his brother-in-law came to teach him a lesson and forced him to leave.
Without his wife, this dog has no constraints, he is lazy to eat, and he is good at drinking, and his life at home is not as good as a day.
Zhang Chao opened a workshop and asked the villagers to do things, he came over to ask for something to do, and Zhang Chao finally let him come.
But this person does things, he asks for leave at every turn, and sometimes he doesn't ask for leave and doesn't come directly.
For more than a month, leave and absenteeism accounted for nearly half of the time.
He also had to borrow money and grain several times, and now he is paid, and when he calculates, he doesn't have a penny, and he still owes two buckets of grain in the account.
What is this called?
"Brother dog, as the saying goes, you can't help the poor, if you really need it, of course we will help.
But every time you borrow money and food, what do you do to buy wine and drink?
All the food at home was sold by you, and you bought wine and drank it all. ” Ke Dog has not been said once or twice, anyway, it is a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.
"San Lang, give me my boy's money and food."
Ke Gouzi's wife divorced him and remarried, but the children couldn't be taken away.
He has five children, two sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom are in their teens.
Now the Zhang family is an apprentice, originally they were not old enough, but Zhang Chao took into account their father, and finally made an exception to take two eleven-year-old and ten-year-old boys and girls into the apprenticeship.
The remaining three children of Ke Gouzi's family, who are only seven or eight years old, have actually been eating in the canteen, and Zhang Chao knows that Ke Gouzi's family has run out of food for a long time.
Zhang Chao snorted when he saw his bear-like appearance, "Don't even think about using their wages to buy wine and drink, I will help them keep the money earned by a few children, and find a husband for them to marry a daughter-in-law in the future, and help raise a few younger brothers and sisters."
Ke Gouzi, if you are still a person, quit drinking, and do things here honestly in the future, as long as you are down-to-earth and willing to work, the salary will not be disadvantaged to you, and you can save some money to live a prosperous life.
If you continue to mess around like this, I can't afford to provide you with this big Buddha here. ” A farmer works hard to make some food, and it is his duty to support his family, but Ke Gouzi exchanges all his food for wine and drinks.
No matter how bad the wine is, it is also very expensive for a farmer, and what is the use of such a man after drinking wine and beating his children to sleep.
Ke Gouzi saw that Zhang Chao was angry, and smiled wryly, a little unwilling and a little afraid, and finally had to step back to the side.
"Next."
Zhang Chao didn't bother to pay attention to him, anyway, his five children were actually equivalent to Zhang Chao helping to raise them, and he was not afraid of starvation.
As for Ke Gouzi, he is willing to come to do things, and he will have food and wages for one day.
If he doesn't come, he deserves to starve to death. is still the same sentence, saving the emergency is not helping the poor, especially a lazy person like Ke Gouzi, poor people have hateful places, this kind of person is not worthy of sympathy, Zhang Chao saw through him, it is enough to say it once or twice, if he is obsessed, then no one can save him.
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