Chapter 170: Corrupt Officials
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Seven flowers spread out their palms.
In the palm of the hand is a smooth bamboo hairpin, the fragrance of the bamboo is very smellable, it seems to be newly made.
She picked up the bamboo hairpin, and there was still the warm residual heat left by Shen Nan on it.
The hairpin head is carved with several plum blossoms, which is lifelike.
Seven flowers were counted at random, and there were seven plum blossoms in total.
Shen Nan said that this hairpin was carved by his own hands, and it seems that he is not telling a lie, whether these seven plum blossoms just imply his name.
He pursed his lips and smiled softly, this kid really has a heart.
She turned the hairpin over again and saw that there were a few small characters carved on the back.
It's a pity that it's that kind of seal, and she doesn't know which words it is.
I've known Shen Nan for so long, I really don't know that he has this unique skill.
"Ah, what a beautiful hairpin." Liuju jumped over with a smile, snatched the seven bamboo hairpins in his hands, and couldn't help but shout when he saw those few realistic plum blossoms.
Qiduo smiled, "Beautiful." ”
"Mmmm, it's really beautiful, Shen Nan gave it to you." Liuju looked at Qiduo with that bad look.
"yes." Qiduo glared at her, then snatched the hairpin, then put it away, and said, "Okay, second sister, let's go find Uncle Shen quickly, don't delay the business." ”
She originally asked Shen Nan to take her into the academy to find Shen Huairen, but who expected this kid to drop the hairpin and run away, and he didn't have time to say anything.
I had to go to Uncle Chen and tell him the main purpose of the trip.
Soon, the doors of the academy opened. A carriage pulled out of it.
Seven recognized. This is exactly the Shen family's carriage. It was Uncle He who drove the car.
Shen Huairen lifted the curtain of the carriage and told Qiduo to take the carriage and go faster.
Qiduo asked Tan Dejin to drive the ox cart to the academy, and then everyone got into the carriage together and drove towards the county seat.
When he arrived at the county office, the ancient county order heard that it was Shen Huairen who was visiting, so he didn't dare to slack off and dressed neatly. opened the main door and welcomed Shen Huairen in.
After some polite hustle, Shen Huairen explained his intentions.
The barren mountain is already barren and barren, I heard that some people are willing to buy it, and of course the ancient county order is willing to sell it, which is also a political achievement.
If someone else comes to buy it, the ancient county order may have to be embarrassed, raise the price, ask for some benefits, etc., but Shen Huairen is here. He didn't dare to make such a name.
The ancient county order immediately asked the master to get the book and check how many acres of the barren mountain Qiduo wanted to buy.
"Your Excellency. The barren mountains in Luhuapo are 560 acres, and each mu is worth nine dollars and five cents of silver. After the master checked it, he immediately reported to the ancient county order.
Nine coins and five cents of silver, that is, nine hundred and fifty wen per mu, is indeed much cheaper than ordinary fertile land.
Qiduo secretly calculated in his heart that it would probably cost more than five hundred taels of silver.
Gu County Ling immediately said respectfully to Shen Huairen, "Lord Shen, I don't know how much I'm going to buy?" ”
Shen Huairen looked at Qiduo and asked, "Seven girls, what do you think?" ”
Qiduo looked at Tan Dejin and asked in a low voice, "Dad, what do you see?" ”
"It's up to you to do everything." Tan Dekin gave her a dose of reassurance.
Qiduo nodded, and then looked at Shen Huairen and Gu County Ling with a smile on his face, "Uncle, Lord Gu, I don't know how to pay the taxes of the barren mountain?" ”
This is actually a question of the ancient county order.
Gu County Ling glanced at Shen Huairen, and then said a little hesitantly, "This ...... That's the case, the barren mountain was originally taxed about the same as the fertile land, but with Lord Shen coming forward, the tax would be halved. ”
Qiduo didn't believe him.
The tax on barren mountains cannot be the same as on fertile land.
Shen Huairen's face sank, and he said sternly to the Gu County Order, "Lord Gu, I finally understand why there are these barren mountains and wastelands, and you people are all from them. Two years ago, the imperial court issued an order to exempt and exempt those who reclaim barren mountains, forests, barren fields and wastelands for five years. After the ground is ripe, the payment is made.
Lord Gu, is there such a thing? Don't you think that if I am not in office, I will not know these regulations of the imperial court? Kindness! ”
What, tax-free for five years?
That's great!
Seven ecstasy, this is a lot of silver.
Gu County's face suddenly turned to ashes, he was so frightened that he got up, knelt down in front of Shen Huairen, and shouted, "The lower official should die, the lower official is also confused for a while, and he wants to collect more taxes for the imperial court, but he won't dare next time, and he asked Lord Shen to be kind and spare the lower official this time." ”
He was thinking that Shen Huairen would have gone home a long time ago, although he often contacted his staff, but Shen Huairen would definitely not care about such a trivial matter as a barren mountain.
That's why he dared to deceive people.
The imperial court stipulated tax exemption, but the ancient county decree said that taxes would be collected, so after these taxes came up, he naturally filled his own purse.
Just because barren mountains have to pay the same tax as fertile land, even if it is cheap, ordinary people still dare not buy it.
They are worried that they will not be able to grow crops in the wasteland, and they will have to dump grain to hand over the crops.
If it can be tax-free for five years, the average family with a little more economic prosperity will be willing to buy some and grow it back.
"Hmph, get up!" Shen Huairen waved his hand very sadly.
There are these officials below, how can they really serve the imperial court, how can they do things for the people, and how can they develop the Daimyo Dynasty.
Gu Xian Ling stood up with trembling calves and didn't dare to sit down again.
Since it can be tax-free for five years, Qiduo was willing to buy all the barren mountains back then.
The price of barren mountains is dead and cannot be cheap.
The ancient county order instructed the master to prepare the documents, sign the sales contract first, and then go to Luhuapo in the afternoon to measure the area on the spot, if it is less, return the silver or make up other land to the Qiduo family. If there are too many, Qiduo is willing to make up the silver.
The contract is divided into two kinds: white deed and red deed, after the deed is established, verified by the government and taxed, the government handles the procedures for transferring the property and passing the tax, and then stamps the official seal of the government on the white deed, and the red seal becomes the official deed, also known as the red deed.
Generally, when buying and selling land between private individuals, in order to save some deed tax money, they do not go through the government, and this kind of private order is called white deed or draft deed.
Qiduo is now buying official land, of course, it has to be stamped, so they need to pay an additional dozen taels of deed tax.
This silver. Seven flowers are willing to come out. It doesn't matter if you buy official land or private land. After being verified by the government, this is reassuring.
The owner's name on this title deed is Qiduo, which was written by Tan Dejin voluntarily.
Shen Huairen was surprised again, and then smiled, this Boss Tan is really a favorite child.
Qiduo signed with the ancient county order, and Shen Huairen, as an intermediary, also signed.
Then the master stamped the official seal of the official mansion.
The red stamp looks very joyful. The lifeless title deeds came alive.
The contract was signed, and Qiduo gave the silver ticket to the master, plus the deed tax for a total of five hundred and fifty taels.
Qiduo looked at the title deed, smiled, and carefully folded it neatly, and then put it in the sleeve cage and put it away.
Aha, five hundred acres, this was an unimaginable amount in the previous life, but now it is a landlord's wife. Although it is only 500 acres of bare barren mountains, I am confident that they will be turned into an oasis. It will become a fruitful estate in the future.
Seven flowers are full of confidence.
Suddenly, she thought of the Tian Deed in Old Man Tan's hand, and wondered if Lu Dao could also be exempt.
So, Qiduo took the opportunity to ask Gu County Ling this question.
The ancient county order asked for the specific address, and then asked the master to check it again.
After checking it, I learned that Mr. Tan's field used to be good land, and although it is now abandoned, its nature is still good land, so it is not within the scope of tax exemption.
Qiduo was a little disappointed, thinking that if they could be tax-free, Old Man Tan and they would be able to pay five years less tax and save dozens of stone rice.
If it weren't for Uncle Shen accompanying us today, we would have been deceived by the ancient county order, maybe the tax would have been paid according to the good land, so calculated, 560 acres, a year is more than 100 stone rice, five years down, to save nearly 1,000 taels of silver.
Even if it is paid in half, it will be five or six hundred taels of silver.
Abominable corrupt officials!
Qiduo hated and scolded in his heart.
After the matter was done, it was time for lunch, and Tan Dejin took the initiative to invite Shen Huairen and Gu Xianling to dinner.
But Shen Huairen refused, saying that it was not easy for them to earn some money, and they could save it.
But Tan Dejin and Qiduo insisted, and they had to measure the area in the afternoon, so Shen Huairen had no choice but to agree.
However, instead of going to the Spring Breeze Proud Building, Qiduo was worried that Tan Dejin would run into Mrs. Xu and them, so a few people went to Yuekelai.
Qiduo is more happy that he did not meet Wang Honglei in the county yamen today.
Thinking of Wang Honglei, she immediately remembered his house.
Qiduo's eyes rolled slightly, stood up and gave Gu County Ling a cup of hot tea, and said with a smile, "Lord Gu, you are really a good person, you would even lend your house to your subordinates to live in." ”
Tan Dejin looked at Qiduo and knew who she was talking about.
Qiduo blinked slightly, signaling Daddy not to miss a word.
Gu County Ling blinked his eyes a few times, and then shook his head, "No, this official has only been in Tonglin County for a few years, and he hasn't purchased a property here." Besides, the place where I live in the yamen is very spacious, and I don't need to buy a house anymore.
By the way, Seventh Girl, who are you listening to when you say this? ”
In front of Shen Huairen, he must explain this matter clearly.
Otherwise, let Shen Huairen suspect that he bought many properties in Tonglin County, and he couldn't live in them, and he gave them to his subordinates to live in.
Qiduo had long suspected that Wang Honglei was telling lies, and of course, the words of the corrupt official of the ancient county order could not be fully believed.
But more or less he can get some words out of Gu Xianling's mouth.
"Ah, no, I heard that many people in our village are spreading like this, saying that the house where Wang Zhutou lives now is temporarily borrowed by you." Qiduo pouted slightly, and replied very innocently.
Shen Huairen's brows furrowed slightly.
He knew the relationship between Wang Honglei and Qiduo, but he didn't know why she wanted to ask Gu County Ling about it.
But if you don't understand it, it won't expose the real relationship between Qiduo and Wang Honglei.
Guxian Lingzhi Dao Qiduo's family lives in Tanjiazhuang, and he also knows that Wang Honglei's Yue's family is there, but he doesn't know her relationship with Wang Honglei.
His eyes sank slightly.
Wang Honglei, you bastard, how can you talk so nonsense outside and ruin my reputation, look at how Lao Tzu will clean you up when he turns around.
In his heart, he greeted Wang Honglei's ancestors for eight generations.
"Lord Shen, Seventh Girl, don't listen to those rumors outside. You should also know that the father-in-law of the boy of Honglei is a god, and he is very famous in this ten miles and eight towns, and his father-in-law has made a lot of money.
His father-in-law bought two houses in the county, the smaller one was given to Wang Honglei and his wife to live in, and the larger one seemed to let Wang Honglei and them help rent it.
The fact is that maybe his parents-in-law don't want to be too conspicuous in your village, so they deliberately say this to make everyone mistakenly think that they have no money. The ancient county order explained. (To be continued......)
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