Because he is already a half-grown child, Dazhu has already paid several taxes with Daddy Han, and he is very clear about this, but the problem is that the cold and early snow who are blind can hear it.

She probably knows what the rent adjustment is, no matter how she was also a liberal arts student who had taken the history exam, the rent of the Tang Dynasty was a knowledge point with a high rate of grasping questions, and she still remembered it after more than ten years, so she had some concepts about what this rent, adjustment, and labor was, the problem was that she didn't know how much the yield per mu in ancient times was, and she didn't know the price geometry of the Dachang Dynasty.

Listening to the little sister ask about something that everyone knows, Erzhu couldn't help but be curious, "Little sister, doesn't your master have to pay taxes and serve as laborers?" ”

Otherwise, my little sister is ten years old, how can she seem to know none of this.

Before Han Chuxue could come up with an excuse, the eldest girl had already helped her out of the siege, "Little brother, monks don't have to pay taxes and serve labor. ”

"But are Taoist priests also considered family members?"

"This ......" As a pure peasant baby, the eldest girl really doesn't know whether the monk and the Taoist priest are a family.

"It must be counted, they are all outsiders." Han Chuxue nodded solemnly, whether it counts or not, she can only mix it up like this now, otherwise how will she explain her unpopular business.

It may be that she said too surely, but the three of Dazhu really believed it, and the two pillars immediately showed an expression that was like this.

"It's no wonder that little sister, you don't understand this, I heard people say that the family is not taxed or levied, last year the Ashi family at the head of the village couldn't pay taxes, and his second brother went to become a monk."

In the blink of an eye in the cold and early snow, there are still such tax evaders?

It's also oh, I used to see when I was studying, some dynasties believed in Buddhism, and monks were not taxed, but as a result, many people who couldn't pay taxes simply escaped into the empty door, just like the second brother of Ashi, which also triggered the famous "Three Martial Arts and One Sect" Buddha extermination movement in history.

Of course, whether such a thing will happen in the Dachang Dynasty, Han Chuxue is not interested in it, but it can be seen from this point that the taxes of the Dachang Dynasty are not light.

"How much grain can we produce on this acre of land, and if we hand over eight liters, there will be no left?"

Although she has never farmed, or even knows how to farm at all, it is common sense that one acre of land will not yield so little.

The three brothers and sisters of the Han family looked at her a little speechlessly, which made Han Chuxue instantly feel so ignorant, and her face turned a little red.

Seeing that she was embarrassed, the eldest girl explained to her in detail with sisterly love, and Dazhu and Erzhu were responsible for supplementing.

It turns out that this household tax is not heavy according to the yield of about two stones per mu, because according to the weights and measures of the Dachang Dynasty, one stone is equal to ten buckets, and one bucket is equal to ten liters, that is to say, one mu of land can have more than 200 liters, so eight liters of mu tax is almost thirty taxes and one, and it stands to reason that it must be able to afford it.

And why the Han family was overwhelmed by the taxes they could afford, we have to talk about the household registration system of the Dachang Dynasty first.

According to the household registration system of the Dachang Dynasty, a man (16 to 60 years old) and a woman (the same as a man) are a household, and each household can get 50 acres of open field, that is, a field for growing grain, and 10 acres of land for mulberry and hemp.

Speaking of which, I don't know if the officials have understood, but Han Chuxue has come to his senses.

The problem lies in the words per mu per household, the field rent of the Dachang Dynasty is not collected according to the field, but by the household, that is to say, it is actually a poll tax, no matter how much land you actually have, as long as it is a registered household, you have to pay tax according to this standard.

This can explain why the Han family is so easy to separate, it is not that Han Xiu is enlightened, but that it is impossible for those in power to let a large family of several generations live in the same house as one household, otherwise how much less tax will be collected, so the decree clearly stipulates that if there are more than two men and women in the family, the household tax will be doubled, and there is this mountain pressing, who dares not to divide the family.

Such a poll tax is indispensable, if each household can really get so much land, it is absolutely affordable to pay the tax, but the problem is that it is impossible for ordinary farmers to share so much farmland, land annexation is strict, this is almost every dynasty and every generation in the history books will appear words, and the Dachang Dynasty, an agricultural feudal country, is no exception.

Although the court decree did not allow land to be bought and sold privately, except for the encouragement of cultivated wasteland, in practice, I will not explain what it is, anyway, anyone who has studied history will understand it.

Therefore, the household registration is real, but the land that should be allocated to each household is virtual, like the Han family only got five acres of dry land, because the soil quality is not good, the yield per mu is less than two stones, but they have to pay 50 acres of land rent, in addition to the cloth tune, and the service tax, this family still needs food and clothing.

After Han Chuxue wrenched his fingers and calculated, he had the urge to run home and applaud his father and mother, so that this family could still live until now, it was really not easy.

After figuring out the reason for her own poverty, Han Chuxue was a little bigger, and the result was not a personal problem of someone in power, but a problem of the times, she remembered that ancient China also collected taxes like this for a long time, and it was not until the two tax laws of the Tang Dynasty that the transition to land tax began, but it was not until the Qing Dynasty's apportionment into the mu that the transition was truly completed, ending the poll tax of the pit father.

According to this situation, the Dachang Dynasty is in the stage of collecting poll tax, if you want to change the tax system, you can't find a certain official tyrant, you have to find the one sitting on the dragon chair, and that's the one, if you really want to move, I'm afraid it's not easy, after all, changing the poll tax to the land tax, which touches the vital interests of the powerful landlords, the difficulty of this, look at how much time it took in ancient China to complete the transition.

She just wants to help her family get rid of poverty and become rich, but she doesn't have the heart to be a reformer, or even change the dynasty, so forget about the arduous work of changing the tax system, she still starts from the actual situation of her own family, and cures her headache.

"Brother, sister, whose land does our village belong to?"

When she came back, she saw the cultivated farmland all the way, if it was not occupied by one or several local tyrants, the Han family would not have only been allocated five acres of dry land, and the fifty acres of land stipulated by the court could not be determined without a purpose, normally speaking, even if there were not so many in the hands of each household, it would not be too far apart, otherwise the farmers would not be able to pay taxes, and the official would not have a good life, and the one on the dragon chair would not be able to sit still.