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Chapter 1 Du Niang

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    The world is changing and people's hearts are advancing and retreating. The working people of every era always shine with the most dazzling light of wisdom and bring their wisdom to the extreme.

    This is the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, I don¡¯t know what year it is.

    The river in front of you is not wide, and the current is not fast, but don't be deceived by the calm river surface. This river called "Zhu River" has a depth that swallows human lives. It is difficult to measure its depth with bamboo poles, so there are many ferries along the coast.  , built a house, arranged boatmen, and helped travelers cross the river to and from both sides.

    Yao Yun is a boatman, known as "Du Niang".

    Originally, Yao Yun was not a girl at all, because before time travel, he was a strong man with a height of eight feet and a waist of eight feet, or rather fat.  Unfortunately, twelve years ago, one day suddenly, Yao Yun followed the trend of time travel and suddenly traveled into his mother's womb and became a fertilized egg.

    Then she developed into a baby girl, and then she was born into a glorious Western Zhou Dynasty.  Her mother died of illness when she was one year old, and her father died two years ago. Now Yao Yun is alone, inheriting his father's job and a very useful baronetcy, standing on the shore every day waiting for travelers to show up.

    Of course, she won¡¯t be called Yao Yun anymore in this life, she will be called Yunyao, but her surname has not changed.  In the Zhou Dynasty, men were given surnames and women were given surnames. Yao was one of the eight major surnames in ancient times. It can be said that all nobles in the Central Plains had eight surnames.  Since Yunyao can inherit her father's title, her father is naturally a nobleman. His surname is Yao, Zhu's surname, Mingle, and his courtesy name is Zi'an. And if he continues to trace back to Yunyao's grandfather's generation, as an honorable  A native of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he also inherited the title of baron. It is very necessary to understand your own family. After all, titles come from the inheritance of blood. As a noble, it would be rude if you can't figure out how your ancestors started their business.

    However, this baronetcy really has nothing to do with Yunyao's grandfather. It was her father Zhu Le who saved the young master of Lu when he was young, so he got 15 miles of land on the north bank of Zhuhe River and established a fief. From then on, he took Zhuhe as his family name.  .

    The crowing of pheasants in the mountains sounded like an alarm clock on time every day. Yunyao woke up in a daze, put on linen clothes, stepped on straw sandals, fetched water from the pitcher to rinse her mouth, and used crushed wicker as a toothbrush to clean her mouth.  After the cool river water has been left to stand overnight, it has become clear, stimulating the mouth and making people more awake.

    Then pat your cheeks with wet palms to clean the corners of your eyes.  The swaying water reflects a white face that goes against common sense. Although the water is not still, the woman's face in the reflection is delicate and beautiful, which makes people feel the beauty of Xi Shi Huansha. Not only her beauty, but her temperament also shows her labor.  The strength and health of the people.  Her skin is naturally white and she doesn't get tanned. It's not that she doesn't like working.

    It¡¯s the coldest spring, the second month of the lunar calendar, and Yunyao has begun a new day as a Du Niang.

    First, there is a day of cleaning, to clean the house, because this is not only her home, but also her workplace and the ferry station.

    After the Western Zhou Dynasty, every ten miles and one house had to prepare food.  In other words, Yunyao is not only the Du Niang, but also the hotel proprietress.  In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were many rules, and there was basically no such thing as personal privacy. Everyone was just a screw under the Emperor Zhou, and there were strict rules for weddings and funerals.  When Yun Niang turns twenty, if she doesn't get married, someone will naturally punish her.

    It is a crime to not marry a man at thirty and a woman at twenty.

    So the work has to be done. If you fail to pass the inspection, the consequences will be serious.

    First check whether the thatch on the roof is neat and tidy. If it is not neat, you need to go to the person in charge to ask for thatch. In this era, everyone has their own position, and it is recommended to put public land first and private land first. Even when farming, you must plant public land first and then private land.  field.

    There are three rooms in the hut, one is where Yunyao lives, facing east and west, the room in the middle facing north and south is for distinguished guests, and the one facing east and west is for slaves.

    In an era when blood was respected and valued, people with status would not stay in the same room with people without status.

    Take the reed broom you made yourself and do a simple sweep. After all, there can¡¯t be any dust in a place that is cleaned every day.  After completing the simple cleaning, it is time to start cooking. Take out the millet from the private earthen pot, and then take out the wood from the private firewood pile to make a fire for cooking.

    Because it is a house, a place to receive guests, and a state agency, the state will prepare millet and firewood, but these are all kept by dedicated people, and there will be people to register at the end of every year, so public and private matters must be distinguished.

    The lodge is only the lowest-level inn, and only provides the simplest food to guests, only millet, so other ingredients except millet are Yunyao's personal property.  There were old bacon passed down to her by her father, and dried fish she caught and dried. Naturally, the staple food was millet, and there were no vegetables or fruits. Both of these were too luxurious.

    There may be someoneTo say that it is so underdeveloped, aren¡¯t all the wild fields full of wild vegetables?  Unfortunately, the Zhou Dynasty was an era of rapid development of agricultural civilization. There is no wild land here in Yunyao. There is only an undeveloped mountain. However, it is guarded by mountain guards and is public property. Anyone who dares to touch it is committing a crime.

    That¡¯s why the pheasants in the mountains crow so cheerfully. If it were a deserted land, it would have become a meal for savages long ago.

    I cut some dried fish, but it was bland and tasteless. Among all Yunyao's ingredients, the only salty one was the ancestral bacon, which was only eaten during major festivals. The boring diet was undoubtedly the biggest torture for Fatty in his previous life. Landlord  There is no food left at home.

    Fifteen miles seems like a lot, but in fact, with the productivity of these years, it can barely keep the fief of Baron Yunyao running and can barely keep his title.  Because fifteen miles of land is not just your own. According to the well field system of the Zhou Dynasty, all land is nominally owned by the Emperor of Zhou, and nobles at all levels only manage it on their behalf, and they all have to pay taxes.

    The baron's tax rate is three-quarters.  The Jingtian system divides fields into tic-tacs, that is, nine blocks.  In the middle is the public land, which is the tax paid to the nobles. Now Yunyao has twenty pieces of public land, and the tax rate is three-quarters. In other words, the harvest of the fifteen pieces of public land must be handed over to the king of Lu. If not  If he pays it, his title will be confiscated, and the grain from the remaining five public fields belongs to Yunyao himself.

    Someone may want to ask, isn¡¯t there eight private fields for one well field?  What about the food above?  Of course, it belongs to the farmers, that is, the savages. They can only cultivate the land. A family can eat eight pieces of private land for a year. It is difficult for them to have other sources of food, and they do heavy physical work. At the same time, basically the whole family has it.  With a family of five or six, on average, one person relies on more than one piece of private land a year.

    Yunyao can harvest five pieces of public land without doing anything. This is the difference between nobles and savages.  Moreover, the public fields are basically the upper-class fields, which produce more, while the private fields are the middle-lower fields, which produce less.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: ?????????????????????????????????????? did not know that the environment in the Western Zhou Dynasty is really not something ordinary people can change.  The hierarchy was so strict that the savages were tied to the land for their entire lives, and Zhou Li's division of labor was so deep that no one would listen to her nonsense.

    So for twelve years, even two years after his father passed away, Yunyao still followed the steps and did his job well.

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