Seeing his own father angry, Gu Yanzhang frowned and said, "Dad, can you please stop getting angry at me?"

"What's the big deal? Isn't it just a bowl of meat?..."

"Dad, why don't you think about it? The things I gave to the Yu family over the years have long been taken back from them?"

Gu Yu'an was stunned for a moment, and soon stopped talking. However, he said unwillingly, "But you are really generous this time!"

"Such a lot of meat, if you spend money to buy it, you have to spend a hundred and seventy or eighty coins!"

In the ancient times when the economy was underdeveloped, it was particularly difficult for adult men to find a job.

The reason why there are sayings like dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and mice's sons can dig holes is because many trades in ancient times were passed down from father to son, son to grandson, and from generation to generation.

A tofu seller will always be a tofu seller. A

small trader will always be a small trader.

A farmer at home...if nothing unexpected happens, their ancestors have been farmers for generations.

Unless the dynasty is weak and hundreds of millions of farmers rise up, only a very small number of them will have the possibility of becoming part of the rulers.

Because of the solidification of the class structure, it is really difficult for the uneducated people at the bottom to make a lot of money. Therefore

, in the eyes of Gu Yu'an, who has suffered a lot, a hundred and seventy or eighty cents is really too much.

In his opinion, an adult man carrying a bag at the dock for a day would only make six or eight cents. Even if the boss is kind, they can only earn about ten cents a day.

If an adult man works very hard for a day and can only earn six cents, then if they want to eat five slices of pork with preserved vegetables, they have to work without food or drink for about a month.

Because the price of meat is too high and fat is too expensive, many farmers who are not well-fed and clothed sigh at the sight of meat.

They can only taste the flavor of meat when they worship their ancestors on the first day of the New Year.

...

Because it is not easy to eat meat, when Gu Yanzhang sent the bowl of greasy pork with preserved vegetables to the five brothers of the Yu family, many people from the Yu family came to watch.

It was like a big festival. It

was as lively as the New Year.

"Oh my god, this is meat? This is meat, right?! Wow, the Gu family is such a good family! So authentic."

"Yes, yes, the five brothers of Dazhuan seem to have been lucky in recent years! Since the Gu family came five or six years ago, the five brothers have built a new house, and bought a cow last year. The family has been adding children and making money every year, and they eat better than the rest of us..."

...

The five brothers of the Yu family in the crowd were happy but also a little worried when they heard the sour words of the villagers.

Because they were visited by the clan leader and some relatives before.

Those people asked them to ask if this cousin of the Gu family had any other good ways to make money with them.

The five brothers of the Yu family could not help but feel worried when they thought about the tasks they had to shoulder.

"Brother, you are here? Hahahaha..., you said you would come, so what did you bring? This, this is the expensive pork with preserved vegetables sold in the largest restaurant in the county, right?...Brother, this is really too expensive. If you come again next time, don't bring such expensive things..."

Yu Laowu, the youngest of the five brothers of the Yu family, said this, but the proud expression on his face had already been clearly revealed.

The villagers are now looking at their family with such envy, how can he not be happy?

He feels that he is really very proud now.

...

Gu Yanzhang was warmly entertained by the five brothers of the Yu family.

After eating meat and drinking wine, he stated his purpose, "Brothers, I came here this time to tell you something in advance. The fields you rented from us will not be available for rent this September. Around October 1st, the government will send someone to take over. While there is still time, you should make plans early."

Yu Laowu, the youngest, impetuous and a little arrogant, slammed the table in anger, "How can there be such bullying in the world?!"

"Back then, it was still a swamp. If we hadn't worked so hard, how could it be like this now?"

Hearing this, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but change his face.

What he said was... It's not like he was going to confiscate their things.

What's more, the fertile land originally belonged to the government. Back then, it was Captain Huang who did a good deed and helped his mother-in-law, so he was able to rent half of the land.

The lease term was clearly written as five years.

Compared with fertile land in other places, the rent was really much cheaper. It was less than 50% of the rent of other big landlords.

This was a conscience price given by the government!

As for him, he increased the rent by less than 10% on the original basis because the five brothers of the Yu family were his mother's family.

Thanks to these five years, the five brothers of the Yu family were able to live in such a large, bright and decent house with six rooms. Only last year, he was able to buy a good big blue ox, marry his sons, and support his family...

When he thought about how much he had helped them, but they didn't care about his difficulties at all, Gu Yanzhang sighed and said, "My brothers, although you are not my brothers, I have always treated you as my brothers over the years."

"You should know how cheap and how much the rent for renting that official land is..."

When the five Yu brothers heard this, they were speechless.

In recent years, they have always wanted to buy a few more acres of land.

But those fields are really too expensive!

Three acres of paddy fields connected together cost more than twenty taels of silver.

More than twenty taels of silver... for them, that was really a sky-high price!

The five Yu brothers thought that when they were old and unable to move, their family might not be able to come up with the money.

So, they later thought about renting a house.

However, after they looked at all the fields within a hundred miles and asked around, they later discovered that the rent for these fertile fields seemed to be quite high.

To rent land from a landlord, they had to pay 30% of the rent to the government. They also had to pay 30% or 40% to the landlord.

The remaining 40% or 30% was only enough to feed their family.

What's more, the government would sometimes increase grain taxes.

Once this happened, those who rented other people's fields to make a living were pushed to the brink of starvation. When

they thought about the number of men in their family, it seemed that there were more and more. They all wanted to have sons, and when their sons grew up, they had to have many sons.

When these descendants cried and shouted about marrying a wife, the five Yu brothers felt that they had a lot of pressure on their shoulders .