Chapter 19 19 Hidden Field

Wei Guangde saw that his friends were eager to try bird hunting, and he didn't want to refuse them. He just said a few perfunctory words and separated from the children and went home.

Wei Guangde entered the front door of his house, but he didn't see his father and elder brother in the front yard. In the past, there were people in the front hall at this time.

But he didn't think too much, so he went straight to the backyard. When he entered the door, he saw several maids and old women standing near the gate of the yard, and he felt strange.

Usually, at most one of these people would sweep the yard, and the others were busy with their own things, either wiping the tables and chairs in the house, or cleaning up the sundries. Why are they all standing here at the gate of the yard today?

"Aunt Li, why are you all standing here, not going into the house to serve?"

"Second Young Master, you're out of school."

Aunt Li was the old woman who served his mother. She usually stayed in the house, and it was rare to see her standing outside.

"The master, the mistress and the young master are talking in the main room. They won't let us go in without being called."

"Oh, so that's it."

Wei Guangde understood what was going on, but he didn't take it seriously.

Thinking of what he overheard two nights ago, he wondered if Father Wei finally couldn't resist the temptation in his heart, so he called an expanded meeting of family members and called his eldest brother in for advice.

Although in this era, parents' orders are the heaven, but what Father Wei is hesitating about now is a big deal, so it seems normal to let his eldest brother know the inside story.

Wei Guangde didn't want to eavesdrop on what was said in the main room, so he walked directly through the yard to his own house. When he passed the door of the main room, he glanced inside inadvertently, and instantly four pairs of eyes met.

At this moment, Wei Guangde's parents were sitting on the armchair in the main hall, and his brother was sitting on the chair on the left below. At this time, he didn't say anything, so they all saw Wei Guangde passing by the door.

Just as Wei Guangde was about to walk through the door, Wei Wu said, "It's time to go home. Put down your schoolbag and come here."

You have to go there by yourself?

Wei Guangde thought to himself, and immediately agreed. He quickly returned to his room, took down the study and put it on the desk, turned around and went out to the main room.

After Wei Guangde came in, he sat opposite his brother, on the chair on the right. Now he also sat properly like his elder brother.

"Wencai, tell the waiter about the matter."

Wei Meng spoke at this time.

The elder brother Wei Wencai agreed and told Wei Guangde about what happened today in detail. As Wei Wencai told the story, Wei Guangde gradually opened his mouth.

At this time, Wei Guangde really wanted to shout "Fuck", and then continue to curse that dog Taoist priest. He was really not a human being. He dared to rob his family. Fortunately, I just respected my teacher and greeted that shameless guy respectfully.

After Wei Wencai finished explaining the situation, Wei Mengcai asked, "Xiaoer, what do you think about this?"

Although Wei Guangde is only eleven years old now, he is also stuck between the levels of children and teenagers. When Wei Meng's father died, he was not as old as Wei Guangde, but he had already started to support a family. After all, he was the only male left in the family at that time.

So, at this time, Wei Meng also regarded Wei Guangde as his own situation at that time, and felt that he should be sensible, so he asked Wei Wencai to tell Wei Guangde about the matter and wanted to hear his opinion.

"Dad, is there any room for change in this matter? Uncle's side"

Wei Guangde was thinking about it when he heard his brother's words, but after all, he still had little experience, and the matter was a bit difficult to handle. Although he still had a half-understanding of many places, he still asked if there was any room for solution.

Father Wei shook his head and sighed, "Since they dared to come to our house, they must know all that. This means there is nothing we can do to them."

"Is the land they are talking about the military farm in our fort? The military farm in our fort is registered with the Five Military Commandery. Do they dare to take it?"

Wei Guangde only knew about his uncle's family, his mother's eldest brother, and his aunt was the second in command of Jiujiang Guard.

Wei Guangde had no memory of other relationships.

I guess that's it. After all, he was just a hundred households, and the level was there.

Even if you want to make friends with dignitaries, you are just like that. You can't make friends just because you want to.

After Wei Guangde asked this question, Wei's father did not answer, but the eldest brother Wei Wencai said: "The land behind the mountain is the wasteland that our ancestors reclaimed before."

"Isn't it for farming?"

"No."

"Who is that dog Taoist priest? Why did he threaten us to sell the land to him? He only gave five taels of silver."

Wei Guangde still couldn't figure it out. If it wasn't the land of the Hundred Households Office, it must be his own land. Why should he sell it to a Taoist priest, unless he was just a lobbyist standing in the front and the buyer was someone else.

In addition, when the eldest brother introduced the situation just now, he also mentioned the price offered by the Taoist priest, five taels per mu of land.

Although Wei Guangde didn't know how much silver the land price was now, but from what the eldest brother said, the price was a bit low, otherwise he wouldn't be so gnashing his teeth.

These properties will all be his in the future, although Wei Meng is still the head of the family now.

If the land is sold now, and it is sold at a low price, it is actually his money that is lost.

Although Wei Guangde is only eleven years old, he is actually more than twenty years old. Naturally, he can think of a lot, but he still has to say this.

"The people behind him are very powerful, and we can't afford to offend them."

At this time, Wei Lao said, "In fact, that piece of land was a wasteland before. Your grandfather's generation began to ask the military households to help reclaim it."

Wei Lao began to slowly tell the origin of the land, which naturally aroused Wei Guangde's curiosity.

Wei Guangde was very curious about what happened to the land before and why it was threatened. Now that he heard Wei Lao's story, he slowly understood what happened.

The root of everything is that the land was a wasteland before, and his ancestors asked the military households of the hundred households to reclaim it. It can be imagined that what the ancestors did at the time was undoubtedly to use these laborers to reclaim the land for free.

Of course, these are not the main points. The main point is that after the land was reclaimed, it was not reported.

That is to say, this piece of land has always been occupied and used by the Wei family, but there is no title deed, it is a "hidden land", the government does not know about it, and naturally no land tax is required.

Dad Wei does not know what this kind of land is like in the Ming Dynasty.

But in Jiangxi, there are still many similar lands.

Not many does not mean that there is nothing to worry about. According to the nature of the government, once it is exposed, the land tax will definitely be collected, and it may be confiscated and used as official land.