Ask for a monthly pass No matter how Wude's six years are not smooth, it will be over after all.
The twenty-third day of the lunar month, the year of the year.
Li Shimin is no longer good at driving the prime ministers to make cattle and horses for him every day, early in the morning, the morning court is held, and then the prime ministers discuss with Li Shimin in the political hall, and then they go back to the government.
The yamen confessed and gave an explanation, and began to take a half-day holiday in the afternoon.
Li Chao came back from the yamen, and the house was busy cleaning inside and out.
Twenty-three years old, this day is also a day of house cleaning.
In particular, you have to clean the kitchen well and pay homage to the god of the stove.
Because according to legend, the twenty-third day of the Lord of the Stove will go back to Heaven to perform to the Jade Emperor.
Of course, everyone has to behave well, so that the Lord of the Stove will say good things in front of the Jade Emperor of the Heavenly Court, and bless the family with peace and prosperity next year.
The Li family's house in Xiangyang is very large, with multiple depths inside and out, large courtyards and small courtyards, and heavy doors.
Fortunately, there are many servants and maidservants in the Li family, and such a big family doesn't have to do it yourself.
"I think let's pay everyone today, and then give you a reward for the New Year" Li Chao said to Cui Yingying, "Everyone has been busy and hard for a year, and it's time for the New Year, and everyone will have a happy New Year." ” "The account book has already been prepared at home, just waiting for you to come back and send money and rewards.
You are the head of the family, how can you do it if you are not there.
Cui Yingying said with a smile.
The woman in charge of the Li family has just been diagnosed and pregnant again.
This news made Cui Yingying very happy, but Li Chao was a little happy and surprised.
Generally speaking, a woman regains her fertility and can conceive about a month and a half after giving birth.
But normally, it is better for a woman to get pregnant after giving birth after an interval of about a year and a half.
If the interval is too short, it is not good for the fetus and is prone to miscarriage.
It's just that in this era, after all, there are no contraceptives, no safe condoms, and no contraceptive means.
And after a woman gives birth, she will not be abstinent all the time.
Three months later, Li Chao and Cui Yingying resumed intercourse, but he had been carefully calculating the safety period, but he didn't expect that it was still when the horse stumbled.
The last child was triplets, the child was only more than half a year old, and now she is pregnant again, Li Chao doesn't know whether she is happy or worried, but since the little life has come, it is only welcome.
I hired a doctor to check my body from time to time, and I asked an experienced servant woman to take care of me.
"Then notify everyone and pay the salary."
The servants of the Li family are also mainly slaves, some are tribals, and some are free and good citizens, and they are hired servants of the Li family.
Generally, those who work in the backyard of the inner mansion are basically indentured servants, and these people are completely from the Li family, so of course they are more at ease.
There are more people who do things outside, but there are more tribes and good people.
The Li family will take out a few exemption places every year to reward those slaves who are diligent and loyal to the Li family.
Of course, after most people are exempted, whether they are exempted as a part or a beloved, they will still not leave the Li family, but they will not change to employment to stay in the Li family.
The Li family is treated well, who wants to leave.
Being a slave of the Li family is actually equivalent to having a golden job, and if they leave the Li family, they are equivalent to being unemployed, or even having no place to live.
But even if they are slaves in the Li family, Li Chao will pay them.
There are every month, and there will be some bonuses during the New Year's Festival, and even they eat and use them basically from the Li family.
"This year's rewards for everyone, let's all pay them."
The Li family's grain was also sold to the imperial court, but in addition to keeping enough rations, the Li family also had a lot of official titles and orders, and they all had money to receive.
The imperial court also took good care of these officials and nobles, and had many privileges, and the grain quota was high, so they could not only receive the full amount of food stamps, but also use the money to buy more food stamps in exchange for grain.
Li Chao didn't need to buy grain from Guancang, he directly transported grain from the southeast to Xiangyang.
The imperial court now controls grain very strictly, but for those nobles and nobles, if they have the ability and channels to transport grain from non-disaster areas, the imperial court will allow them.
This is also a good thing for the imperial court.
The imperial court only restricted the flow of grain in the disaster area and prohibited the private trade of grain in the disaster area.
Transporting grain from other places, you can transport as much as you can, and the government will not intercept the card.
The Li family has been transporting grain from there, and although the cost of transporting grain is very high, now grain is not just a simple matter of how much money it is.
In addition to the Li family's own needs, these grains can also be given to their own tenants, workers, and fellows, as well as to those families who are good friends.
The imperial court doesn't care about these.
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In fact, this is a privilege.
Privileges are always inevitable, no matter what time it is.
No matter how famine there is in the world, those nobles and nobles in Xiangyang will not be hungry.
Their servants and tenants would not go hungry either.
"Rice, dried fish, cloth, and some more money."
Nowadays, even in Xiangyang, where the emperor is in line, grain has become hard currency, and there is grain in his hand, which is more useful than money.
If you have money, you may not be able to buy food, but if you have food, you can exchange it for money at any time.
There is also a black market in Xiangyang, which is a grain trading market, and the imperial court also knows about this place, but as long as it is not openly reselling, then for some private grain transactions of ordinary people, the amount is not large, and they are all turning a blind eye.
The Li family's recent salary has always been to distribute grain.
When the servants received the grain, they were often reluctant to eat it.
Some of the servants even worked as servants in the Li family with their whole family, and they ate and lived in the Li family, and they couldn't eat the food when they were paid, so they exchanged the grain for copper coins and silk, and even gold and silver coins, gold and silver jewelry, and so on.
At this time, such a deal is always very cost-effective.
Some of the servants had their families outside, and they were reluctant to eat the grain, so they took the rice and wheat to the black market to exchange it for relief food, and one bucket could be exchanged for several buckets.
In this way, when you take it home, you can eat more.
Li Chao took Cui Yingying's hand and entered the hall, and there was floor heating in the hall, which was very warm.
The two sat down, and Li Chao said to Cui Yingying, "I have already informed our stewards in Shuofang, Longyou, Jiangxi, Lingnan, Jiangdong, Annan and other places to let them grow more grain next year." ” "No more sugarcane, no cattle and horses" "Let's get more food first, we can survive this year, but next year the disaster will be more serious, and the real consideration will have to be next year."
Next year's disaster is inevitable, but it will still be mainly concentrated in the northern Central Plains, and other places will be less affected.
The imperial court has carried through this year, and if it is dealt with properly next year, then even if the disaster is serious, it will not necessarily be more terrible than this year.
After all, there are many fewer people in the Central Plains, and they are still slowly moving out.
Once the winter is over, grain transportation can also resume.
"Next year, we have to move people to various places, move people out first, and then move back after this disaster year."
In fact, Li Chao feels that this disaster is not entirely a bad thing.
First of all, this catastrophe forced those powerful landlords to release many slaves and hermits in their families.
The imperial court has added more than 10 million people.
Second, a large number of people have been forced to move out, and some will return.
But some people moved out, and the court gave them land and land, and they didn't come back.
Although the Central Plains has fertile land and vast plains, it is also extremely densely populated, and it is a narrow township with many people and little land, just like the Guanzhong Plain.
This year, the imperial court first moved the imperial court out, and then continued to move people around, so that those surrounding undeveloped lands can also speed up the development after having a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains.
Shannandong, Shannanxi, Jiangnanxi, Qianzhong, Jiannan, Lingnan, Shuofang, Longyou, etc., the immigrants of the Central Plains in the past can not only develop the local area, but even change the local Hanyi population structure, so that the Central Plains Dynasty can assimilate and stabilize the surrounding uncivilized areas.
Moreover, taking advantage of this opportunity, many emerging wealthy and upstart families such as the Li family also took the opportunity to recruit a lot of tenant employees, and their factories and mines also got many industrial workers.
Their sugar cane plantations, their shipyards, their iron mines, their coal mines, etc., also had workers.
After a huge disaster, the number of people registered in the official household registration of the Tang Dynasty rose from 15 million to more than 30 million.
Of course, this has to be said to be the loss of the horse, and I don't know if it is a blessing.
The shipyard, the shipyard that the prince never forgets, has also quietly started construction in Xiangyang, and by next year, the first batch of new sailing ships will be able to sail.
And Li Chao and the prince's Nanhai Commercial Bank also officially began to offer shares.
Nowadays, many nobles and nobles have invested money in shares, and the matter led by the prince and Li Xiang, how can it be wrong to participate in a share As for what this Nanyang Commercial House does, there are not many people who really pay attention.
Many aristocrats have invested a lot of money with the Li family, and every time they pay dividends, they have already had an understanding, follow Li Xiangye to invest money, don't have to do anything, just wait for the dividends to make some money.
"Xiangye, madam, the people are already lining up outside, do you want to start distributing salary rewards?"
the housekeeper came to report.
Li Chao nodded, picked up the roster in front of him, and opened it.
"Well, let's call the name, come in one by one to get the money and food, sign and draw the pledge."
"Zhao Siniang" Li Chao looked at the roster and read out the first name on it.
Zhao Siniang, the chief manager of the inner courtyard of the Li Mansion, the goddaughter of Qi Niang, has a special status in the Li family. is not only the housekeeper of the inner house, but also half the master.
Zhao Siniang came in with her skirt and saluted Li Chao.
This woman has now stopped returning to the Zhao family, and has concentrated on staying in the Li Mansion, and she no longer has the slightest idea about Li Chao.
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Li Chao handed a salary list to Siniang, as the chief manager of the inner courtyard, Siniang's salary is very high, and the reward is even richer.
Siniang took it with a smile, then picked up the pen and wrote her beautiful name on the signature book.
Seeing her turn around and leave the hall with the list, and go to the other side to get money and food, Li Chao was still a little stunned.
"What do you want," Cui Yingying asked her husband with a smile on the side.
"I'm thinking, Siniang is in our house, and she is also a family.
I can't watch her be single all the time, I think there is a suitable person, see if I can introduce her again. ” "This matter depends on Siniang's own intentions, I have persuaded her several times, and she said that she would stay in the house and not go out."
"I've got to try again, I can't bear to see her alone."
"Or you just take her."
Cui Yingying said with a smile that she had said this several times a few years ago, but she was actually not very happy when she said that at that time.
But now, saying it again, for some reason, she meant it.
Zhao Siniang stayed in the house for a few years, and Cui Yingying also had a relationship with her, and the two were like sisters.
She also likes Zhao Siniang very much, with her as a helper, the house is very good.
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