When Lu Wei came to Lu Ren's home in the middle of the village, it was already in the afternoon, many uncles and brothers of the same family saw him here, they looked at him with some strange eyes, but none of them greeted him, which was completely different from the situation when he first entered the village yesterday.

Thinking of the performance of these people last night, once they learned that they had been removed from office, and the practice of their heads to send back gifts this morning, Lu Wei did not feel more sneer.The Lu clan in this village is really excellent, no wonder that in a Wenchang land like Suzhou, there has been a talent who can take the test for sergeants for decades.

However, he did not go to entanglement with these guys, face their onlookers, and did not have any reaction, but walked into the courtyard door half-covered Lu Ren home.

In the end, Lu Renjia is now the highest position in the entire Lujiagou village, not only the yard covers a wide area, but also divided into two courtyards, looking at it and other houses in the village are very different.Of course, this is only compared with those in the same village, in the eyes of Lu Wei, this house is still shabby and simple, and it is not worth mentioning.

Xinbu walked into the yard, facing the door is a big house filled with a guest house, at this time Lu Renhu and his son Lu Feng are sitting up and down, a cup of tea, seems to be talking about what.When someone came in, the two father and son's head stopped, and the land tangle was slightly frowned.

Their father and son are now in a very high position in the village, and ordinary villagers always greet each other when they come in, and the practice of entering the hall like this makes him very unhappy.However, after seeing that it was Lu Wei, he did not have an episode, but he did not get up to meet him, and still sat there without moving: "It was the little seven who came."“Have you come to get the account?”

Lu Wei entered the door, first rushed to sit at the top, did not move the sound of Lu Ren's next fist is a courtesy, then casually found a position to sit down: "Yes, I also have a little thing to discuss with the uncle."

Lu Ren's eyebrows frowned slightly, both because of Lu's behavior and because of his words.

In recent years, his position in the village is getting higher and higher, ordinary villagers see his face are trembling, even standing some helpless, not to mention dare to sit down at will.But this Lu Wei fell well, actually did not wait for himself to politely sit down directly, which makes him uncomfortable.

And the latter words are more impolite, saying that there is something to discuss with themselves, this is not directly omitted from his peers, and his uncle's equal?Is it true that he is still an official, and now he is all dismissed, and he dares to do so, and is truly unscrupulous!

Lu Zhen did not hear anything at the beginning, and when he saw his father change his face, he vaguely guessed what, his face was also changed, low ground, and he snorted quite discontent: "Little seven, what are difficult things for you to do, you can discuss with me as a fourth brother, as long as you can help, I will not refuse."

"It's a big deal, and I'm going to talk to my uncle about it's more secure."Lu Wei and can not see the black face of the land, smile back a word.Then he took a large spindle of silver from his sleeve and put it on the table: "Before the fourth brother mentioned the repair of my ancestral house, I felt that I really should thank my uncle and other villagers, this is the money to repair the house."

Looking at the silver with a dazzling light in the sun, Lu Ren's father and son's eyes were somewhat flowered.To be honest, although they spoke in the village, they were very helpful, but in fact, the days passed.I have never seen such a big deal in my life.

At the end of the time, Lu Renfu's face piled up a smile: "Little seven you are also, what do you do so?"We should help each other, we talk about what money is not money?"That said, but his hand had reached over and took the silver straight away.

This is to do a set of behavior, it is really let Lu Wei look at the head more than, do not know how to describe this is good.However, he did not show the thoughts in his heart, but smiled: "Of course, uncle is out of good intentions, but the fourth brother had a sentence before it made perfect sense, this brother also had to calculate the account."Since it costs a lot to repair the house, I can't let my uncle's house break the cost of this night."

"You're still seven, you know, and your brother admires it."He was pleased to see this, and at the same time he was relieved.

When his family wanted to repair the house for the Lu Wei family, it was planned to settle the brother of the family who had already been an official, in order to eliminate those estrangements from the past.But who knows that this time Lu Wei came back and brought such news that he was dismissed, which made Lu Ren feel panicked when he returned home.

After yesterday's discussion, there was a move to the land to ask for an account this morning.He was still worried that Lu Wei would deny it, but now he actually came to the door so quickly to repay the money, and took out more than 13 silver, how can this make Lu not happy?

"Since it is a little seven of your hearts, uncle I will take it."Lu Renjiao did not say no more, after taking the silver, he said: "But this big ingot silver may be more than thirteen two, and my family can't find scattered silver for a while..."

"The ones who are extra, let the little nephew honor you."He laughed, a great deal.

“How does that mean?”With his mouth said, Lu Renzhi had put the silver into his sleeve, but he laughed.

Lu Wei only failed to do it, and continued: "In addition to coming to settle the account, my nephew came to have two other things to discuss with your uncle today."

“You said it.”The so-called short hand, since the receipt of such a large ingot of silver, naturally is to express a good will.

"This first, is that the little nephew intends to move to Suzhou city in two days, in recent years has been in Beijing and other places, always feel that living in the village is not very suitable, but also hope that the uncle can be approved."Lu Yi laughed a little.

“There is no problem with nature.In fact, your fourth brother and several other brothers have also rented a house in Suzhou for various reasons, and if you don't dislike it, you can live with them."Lu Ren returned to a wave of footsteps.

He thanked each other, but refused the other’s arrangement.At the same time, there was a strange light in his eyes: "As for this second thing, it may be a little difficult to do, and I hope that my uncle can help his nephew to be a master."

“If I can do it, I will help you.”Lu Ren did not care.

"It is so that the little nephew has been away from the village for almost five years, during which time the renters in the fields in my name have not been handed over to me.If I count it well, my village should have no less than a hundred acres of land hanging under the name of the little nephew, according to the land rents now set by the government, there are more than ten or twenty-two land rents available every year.For the sake of everyone's share of the same family, the little nephew will eat a loss, only the people's fifty-two silver rents, and in the future, at this price to rent, I don't know what uncle thinks?"Lu Wei said this sentence lightly, but the father and son in front of Lu Ren heard that the face had completely changed!

They completely forgot that Lu Wei returned to the village and brought such a large income to their families, and ridiculously, he was still worried about the house repair.

The Lu family is not rich, since the death of his father Lu Rendong, the situation at home has become more and more tight, and even many times rely on the Chu family as a family to help live.

However, this situation has been reversed after the Lu Wei test.Because there are many convenient benefits to the people who have entered the ruling class in the government, such as exempting themselves from the servitude of several men in their homes, and more crucially, the fields under the name of the people are not taxed!

This is the great welfare of the court in order to encourage the people to study hard.However, as soon as the policy came out, it was quickly exploited by the people below.Can't people's land be taxed?The people moved the land under their own name to the names of those who raised them, so that the original landowners could be tax-free as long as they paid a rent far lower than the official tax to the people, and the people who also got a benefit, and the real loss was only the official government.This is the famous donation of the Ming Dynasty, and often once a candidate has been recruited, his family and friends will come to the door with gifts and ask him to take his own land.

Because of this, as long as it is won, even if there is no further progress on the road to the Ministry, the days will be quite rich.Therefore, only poor talents have never heard of poor people.

However, the drawbacks of this approach are also quite serious, so that the government has collected countless taxes, and has also concentrated the land in the hands of a small number of privileged people.In fact, the serious land merger phenomenon in the middle and late Ming is also an important reason.

The people of Lujiagou also got a lot of benefits from it because of Lu Wei's middle and middlemen.But because of selfishness, they completely ignored this point, never think that it is Lu Wei to help everyone.

Now, Lu Wei picked out the words, and Lu Ren's father and son suddenly did not know how to speak.Because in truth, they do owe so much rent to the villagers, etc., which can be found in the county's houses.Especially the Lu Ren family, through their own position in the family, the benefits of their family are the greatest, otherwise there will be no big family business.

And now, Lu Wei directly to the door to account, they know that the benefits of the previous is to pay the price, that dozens of silver is not a small number.

And what makes them feel a headache is that they have spoken before, and their brothers still have to calculate the account, can they still change their words now?