Farewell to the elders of Jiating, Zhang Yue drove to the manor that Baoshengzhi gave him.

Then, he was shocked.

I remember that more than a month ago, this place was still just a ruin of weeds and ruins.

But now, in front of Zhang Yue, there is a huge manor that is taking shape.

Although it has not reached the exaggeration of "Dong Yusenro, with a courtyard adjacent to it, surrounded by walls, and towering buildings." It is not far from that.

The entire manor is planned in an orderly manner, with barns, beast stables, houses and main buildings lined up one after another.

Zhang Yue had no doubt that it would not take long before this place would become a professional aristocratic manor.

Just like the few Liehou Manors he had seen when he was in Chang'an, it formed a small independent world with self-sufficiency in the area.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yue pondered, confused.

He remembered that when he left last time, he only ordered the Tian Li brothers to level the land of the manor, and did not let them do such a big move.

Moreover, Zhang Yue felt that they could not handle such professional manor construction.

"Is it that Yuan Chang brought someone to help?" Zhang Yue asked, this was possible.

However, if the teacher is not here, the disciples will make their own decisions?

This is not in line with the behavior of the Han people.

Thinking of this, he waved his hand and asked someone to drive towards the entrance of the manor.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Zhang Yue saw several men dressed in warriors standing at the door of the manor.

When they saw a car coming, they immediately stood up, greeted him, bowed and asked, "Where is the master of the emperor? Here, the Shizhong is the manor of Zhanggong, the New Feng Order!"

Zhang Yue lifted the curtain of the car, looked at them, frowned, and asked, "Who are you waiting for? Why are you at my doorstep?"

When the people heard this, they immediately knew and hurriedly said, "Is this Shizhong Gong?"

"The villain is the servant of the king of True Wu. He was ordered by the mistress to serve the Shizhong Gong..." As he said that, he bowed his head heavily, looking a little trembling.

"Xin Wu Jun?" Zhang Yue thought about it carefully before he realized, who is this person?

The daughter of Princess Wei and General Wuli Luan Da are also considered royal relatives.

However, among the royal relatives, they are a little transparent.

In the information Zhang Yue knew, this Xinwu Jun married Liang Qi's nominee Ren Dangqian when he grew up.

Around the year before yesterday, Ren Dangqian did a fool in the fourth year of Taishi.

This greedy idiot started to buy and sell forcibly in his own country. He forced several bad horses to a big businessman, asking each for 150,000 yuan!

So he hit the gun of the Tingwei!

According to the Han law, the marquis who "over 500 cents" are serious crimes.

So Ren Dangqian suffered a tragedy, and was deposed as a marquis by the court lieutenant and deposed as a commoner... He really threw away his father General Ren Pohu's face.

Back then, General Ren Pohu stepped on the corpses of countless enemies and became a marquis from a commoner.

It was also because of this that Zhang Yue heard about this Xinwujun.

But that's all. I don't know any other situations. I only know that this Xinwu Jun has always been low-key in Chang'an City.

It is said that she will only go to the palace during festivals.

At other times, I usually live in a manor outside Chang'an City to raise flowers and plants.

When did this Xinwujun come to Nanling quietly, and it seems that he has a good relationship with his sister-in-law?

Zhang Yue looked confused, but his face was silent and drove straight into the manor from the door.

Many facilities in this manor are now perfected.

The channel has also been renovated, and Zhang Yue can even see that two water trucks were installed on a high slope near the river, slowly sucking water and injecting it into the ditches.

This kind of water truck that Zhang Yue used to rescue the prince was now popularized in the manor of the noble Lehou in Chang'an.

Only those who need people and top aristocrats who need technology have the capital to have the financial resources and technical ability to set up water trucks.

Looking forward, Zhang Yue even saw a man carrying various tools on the flat land of the manor, turning over the soil and weeding the spring plowing next year.

Moreover, there were quite a lot of people. After counting roughly, Zhang Yue found that there were at least thirty people.

Judging from their clothes, the coarse cloth and brown clothes should be slaves.

Zhang Yue even saw that the Tian He brothers were wearing strong clothes and walking in the land. I wonder if they were supervising the worker or what they were doing?

This made Zhang Yue's eyelids twitch.

There is no doubt that everything in this manor in front of us is evolving towards a standard aristocratic manor in the context of the Western Han Dynasty.

Without interference, in a few years, everything in this manor will become a plantation that can be self-sustained within a certain range and can be self-sustained.

The powerful families of the Eastern Han Dynasty were formed on the basis of such a manor.

"Li Miao!" Zhang Yue saw a familiar figure, walking about a hundred steps ahead of him, immediately stopped the carriage and shouted at him.

"Master!" Li Miao seemed to him and immediately ran to Zhang Yue, saying, "Li Miao didn't know that the lord had returned and had not yet met him. I hope the lord would forgive him..."

Like in the past, the son of this tenant farmer is still simple and honest.

"What's going on? What about sister-in-law and Rou Niang?" Zhang Yue asked with a frown.

"Reported to the lord, the mistress and the young mistress, he went to Xinwujun's manor at the invitation of Xinwujun to observe the silkworm raising and silk weaving workshop..." Li Miao smiled and said, "As for the changes in the manor, it was the mistress who asked Xinwujun to help plan..."

Zhang Yue nodded after hearing this, and then pointed at the people who were working in the field and asked, "What's going on with those people?"

"Report to the lord, these people are all pitiful people. The mistress is merciful, so she allows them to rent land in the manor..." Li Miao replied respectfully.

"Isn't it a servant?" Zhang Yue didn't believe it very much.

"Report to the lord... they want to be their slaves..." Li Miao replied: "However, the mistress said that the lord serves the emperor and his eldest grandson in the court. Fame is more important than anything else. You cannot be greedy for small profits, and you cannot ruin your reputation because of small profits. Therefore, they all refused. It was just that they had no choice but to live in a life of hunger and cold, so they were allowed to rent 60% of the land in the manor... "

After listening to it, Zhang Yue suddenly felt a little moved.

But then I felt a little painful.

60% rent?!

How many people did Zhou Papi’s rent rent in later textbooks?

It seems that there are only so many!

Before I knew it, I actually became the evil feudal landlord?

Fortunately, it is a blessing to not become a slave owner.

After patting his chest slightly, Zhang Yue immediately thought of something and asked: "Are these people fleeing refugees?"

There have always been few refugees in Guanzhong, but the Kanto region is different.

Every year, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of refugees from Kanto flow into Guanzhong to make a living.

These poor people eventually became the on-the-trade meals of big landlords and nobles like Zhang Yue.

The economic scale of Guanzhong's plantation has been expanding and expanding in recent years.

Some large estates even have various tourists, thousands of voyages and slaves, which is almost a small society.

Just listened to Li Miao and said, "Report to the lord, they are not refugees, but... slaves..."

"Um?"

"Lord, more than a month ago, the Imperial Academy advocated that the gentry and nobles release slaves, and many people responded..." Li Miao said: "Thousands of slaves are released in Guanzhong..."

"However... after these slaves were released, many people sold themselves again..."

"It's a pity that most of these released slaves are old or physically disabled, sick... even if they want to sell themselves again, no one wants them... many people starve and freeze to death..."

Zhang Yue listened and fell silent.

The facts proved to him again that abolitionists cannot rely solely on their mouths.

Just like this abolition movement, under the strong public pressure, many nobles and landlords released their slaves.

but……

The Chinese are worthy of being the smartest person on this earth.

Especially the Chinese aristocrats and landlords and gentry.

A slave has an original sin, right?

OK! Brother frees me, you can’t scold me anymore, right?

So, all the slaves who had been squeezed were released.

Let them fend for themselves.

This is much better than spending money to support them.

But these released people fell into a more tragic fate than being a slave.

When they were slaves, at least there was a master family. The master family was concerned about their reputation and did not dare to throw them away casually.
To be continued...