Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Li Wangyou’s words stunned Old Village Head. He had never considered such things.

It turned out to be in service, but what everyone fears most is the task of transporting food. I didn’t talk about traveling back and forth for 20 days, and the food might not be enough.

If there is a heavy rain and so on on the road, they cannot arrive on time, and people eat horses and chew, and they will have to pay for the extra food they eat.

According to the speed of four rounds of carriage, plus the few people, the two hundred stone grains will eat up to a few dozen stones on the road. How to deal with the remaining one hundred stone grains? Old Village Head is also a little uncertain.

“Perhaps the extra grain should belong to us?” Old Village Head estimated that it was replied. After all, it only needs to pay 800 shi grains to Yinzhou for storage, and the government does not care about the rest. There is more or less food.

“It’s so good. When we arrive in Yinzhou, we can sell the extra food for money to subsidize everyone’s hardships during the past few days.” Li Wangyou said with a smile.

When everyone in Dingzhou Village heard this, they couldn’t help but eyes shined. Li Family small master This is justified, this hundred-odd stone grain is worth a lot of money.

If you sell in Yinzhou, each of the 70 of them will get a few pennies.

It’s not that Li Wangyou didn’t think about transporting more than one hundred stones of grain back to the village. After all, he is facing a locust plague immediately. No matter how good the copper is, it is not as good as the grain.

However, the grain of more than one hundred stones is, after all, the official grain for levy and corvee transportation. If it is directly transported back to the village, it is afraid of trouble, so it is called that’s all.

Everyone will look eagerly at Old Village Head. After all, this matter still needs Village Head nodded. Old Village Head thought about it for a while, and then he obeyed public opinion, and nodded agreed.

The enthusiasm of these people is even higher. Whenever they think that they can make a few coppers in this spring, everyone feels like a pie in the sky.

Li Wangyou said again: “Everyone, although we are the only people involved in the conscription this time, the young and old in the village have contributed their efforts. The money for selling food should also be shared. Every household. I suggest that the small households take the same amount of money for selling food, and the remaining villages are divided equally. I dont know if its possible?”

“This is natural, without the help of the villages. These 30+ Carriages cannot be built. I support the opinion of the small master!”

“I also agree.”

“Just do what the small master says, fair and reasonable , We have no opinion.”

In this regard, Old Village Head also nodded in agreement, and the matter was settled in this way.

After taking a rest for one hour, everyone set their cars on the road again and headed towards Yinzhou.

Before sunset, the food convoy of Dingzhou Village had already ran out of 300 li road in one go, nearly half of the trip.

Old Village Head pointed to the inn ahead and greeted: “We will stay in that inn tonight and drive Carriage over.”

Everyone agreed and drove the convoy To the post station not far away.

The post they were going to stay at was a third-class post. As soon as the convoy arrived at the gate of the post, a postman ran out.

“Are you doing and so on?”

“We are from Chang’an City and we are sending official food to Yinzhou. This is our proof.” Old Village Head quickly jumped off the Carriage and passed the voucher to the postman for review.

Serving corvee and transporting official food, it is necessary to spend the night in the post, which is also to ensure the safety of the official food.

The postman checked the receipt and put them into the post.

The Great Tang Station is divided into six classes. The first-class post has 20 postmen, the second-class post has 15 postmen, and the number below the third class is decreasing, and the sixth-class post has two to three postmen.

The station also owns fields. According to the records of “Cefu Yuangui”, the upper-class in Tang Dynasty holds 2,400 mu of fields, and the lower-class has 720 mu of fields.

These post fields are used to grow alfalfa to solve the feed problem of cattle and horses. Other harvests are also used as the daily expenses of the post.

The station covers a large area, about dozens of acres. More than twenty rooms are used for the accommodation of officials. The barn alone can easily accommodate hundreds of cattle and horses.

After Li Wangyou and his team drove into the post, the postman assigned them a parking area, and everyone began to get busy.

Unload all the horses from the Carriage and lead them to the barn to feed the forage. The other is to prepare a fire to cook and solve their eating problems.

The station will provide horse feed for free, but these people need to prepare their own meals for meals, and the station will not provide it. Even the small households who were serving in the military service would not even provide rooms for lodging in the post, so they could only sleep in the yard of the post.

Its okay if it doesnt rain. If it rains, everyone can only squeeze into the barn to make do with the night.

Fortunately, the weather is clear today, but it will rain.

Everyone took off the bedding they had brought from the Carriage, laid them out in the yard, lit a campfire to warm them, and prepared to sleep and rest. After running around on the road for a day, even if it was to catch Carriage, everyone was exhausted.

I was about to go to bed, but when I heard someone calling the door outside the post, the postman mumbled and opened the door.

It is a man with a look of vicissitudes. The scholar, dressed in shabby clothes, brought an old donkey to the inn to stay.

“Can I have a voucher for my step?” the postman asked.

This voucher naturally refers to the voucher for staying in the station. Great Tang has four kinds of voucher: one is a silver medal, which is issued uniformly by the province under the door, and the five-character “Silver Medal” is written; ; Three are coupons; the fourth is a pass.

The latter two are all paper certificates, and the receipt in the hands of Old Village Head is the voucher. With these vouchers, it is possible to pass unimpeded through post roads and gates across the country.

The man took out a copy of Chuan Fu and passed it over. Chuan Fu is a common Fu letter.

The postman checked and put him in, but he was not at all with a good face: “I lead the donkey to the barn, and like them, I find a place by myself. Go to sleep.”

He pointed to Li Wangyou entire group and said, obviously that meant that the man was also sleeping on the ground.

Niu Wu teased said with a smile: “It seems that he is also a down-and-out scholar, with no officials and no jobs. The post does not care about board and lodging.”

Li Wangyou nodded, Great Tangs post Although there is a voucher to enter the post and rest, it only provides board and lodging for “civil servants”. Obviously, this young scholar was not official, so the postman had such an attitude.

After the man thanked the postman, he led the old donkey to the barn, and then leaned on Zhu’zi by the barn to sleep in his clothes.

Li Wangyou saw that he had no luggage, let alone prepare any bedding. This early spring and March, the weather is still relatively cold, just to spend the night like this, I am afraid that some sins have been suffered.

He felt relieved for a while, and said: “Master, come and sleep here.”

Li Wangyou motioned to Niu Wu to help the young scholar get another bed The bedding came over, and the beauty boss was afraid that he could not sleep well when he went out, so he asked Pei Lan to help Li Wangyou prepare an extra bedding.

The scholar was very surprised. Some were sorry. It took a long time before stammering came over and said to Li Wangyou: “Someone from Qinghe County, Ma Zhou, with the word Binwang. I dont know how the small master is. Name?”

Ma Zhou?

Li Wangyou thinks this name is very familiar. After thinking about it in his mind, he suddenly raised his head and said in surprise: “You are Ma Zhou?”