Everyone ate a clean meal, and they all thought it was good. Although there is no fish and meat, the people are not without suffering.

Especially Cui Xiuning, I felt that this coarse tea and light rice was particularly sweet, and she was tearful when she ate it.

After Li Luo finished eating, Li Yuan took the initiative to serve him and Cui Xiuning tea very obediently.

Seeing that Li Luo and the others were quite satisfied with what they were eating, Da Cui also breathed a sigh of relief, and said very knowingly: "Official, that is, this year, thanks to God's blessings, the wind and rain are smooth, and the grass people can perfunctory tonight's food, if you change last year, there is no surplus food in the cold house." ”

Li Luo smiled secretly, this is crying and crying poor.

What's wrong? Do you think that you will be kind and give some food?

That doesn't work.

It's not that Li Luo is stingy. But... He has a better way.

"Why, you two brothers, you are not old, you are not young, and you have no wives and concubines to support, why are you short of food?" Li Luo put on a questioning tone, "Is it because of leisure and hard work?" Or not doing your job? ”

Big and small Cui's face turned green when he heard this.

This is really a Tartar dog officer!

Why do you say that the people are short of food? This should be asked of your Tartar master, not me, etc.! What else do you say about being idle and disgusting, not doing a good job, we only plant ten acres of land, but we have to pay a grain tax of 12 bills, how can we not lack food!

What is the difference between this dog official's nonsense and "why not eat minced meat"?

Dog officer, you should go to the village to see the rice jars of other villagers, how many of them are almost empty? It's not yet winter, and there are still more than two months before the New Year, and it's already like this! This winter, people are going to starve to death. Someone must have fled the exiles again.

Cui Sisan could only reply with a forced smile: "It's not that we are lazy, but that most of the annual harvest has to deal with the tax and grain difference, and there is a shortage of rations." ”

"Is that so?" Li Luo pretended to be surprised and said, "Now the imperial court has a clear decree, an acre of land is only a few liters of tax, and the tax per person is not much. ”

Da Cui smiled bitterly: "It's obviously six guan banknotes, but in fact, you have to pay twelve guan." This extra six runs is the shortage of rations. ”

Li Luo knows all these ways.

Ten acres of land, but the income of 20 yuan, falls to the mouths of the people less than half, how can it be enough to eat?

Why do you have to pay so much? Because there are still a lot of messy and exorbitant taxes, which are not handed over to the imperial court, but are withheld by officials at all levels.

Why?

Because the officials of the Yuan Dynasty were too low. Later generations showed that the official salary of the dynasty was very low, and the Ming Dynasty was led crooked by the Yuan Dynasty.

The danger of too low an official salary is that officials at all levels can blatantly loot the people with the acquiescence of the imperial court, and the imperial court has nothing to say but to let it go.

Originally, the Yuan Dynasty did not have a salary, and the officials relied entirely on taxes to intercept and eat meat directly on the people. Later, Kublai Khan listened to Ahma's advice and appointed the officials.

But how low?

The prime minister of Zhongshu Province, who has the highest official salary, is only one hundred and twenty yuan, and it is not copper money, but paper money, and it is only worth dozens of taels of silver when it is not inflationary. What do you say is enough? Prime Minister, this is not enough to feed the slaves in the family, is it?

Not to mention local officials.

What to do?

Joke. Have the power in hand or are you afraid of running out of money? Isn't it enough to blackmail the people under a false pretense? So, in the end, the big and small officials didn't care about the formal salary. Compared to the looted money, it's not a bit of a fart.

The Yuan Dynasty not only had extremely low official salaries, but also extremely low military salaries. But the combat power is very strong. Why? The same thing. The Mongol soldiers and the Tanma Red Army, whose main income is the spoils of war, still retain the atmosphere of the tribal army, where they fight, where they grab, and grab enough to eat for a few years, so they don't care about the military salary.

So, since the military salaries and salaries, which are the main expenses of the imperial court, are not high, how did the huge taxes of the Yuan Dynasty be spent? Why did the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty keep shouting about lack of money, constantly printing and printing banknotes to plunder the people's wealth, and then inflation?

It's ridiculous to say. The bulk of the financial expenditure of the Yuan Dynasty turned out to be a reward.

Reward nobles, reward tantric monks.

Kublai Khan's annual money for rewarding the emperor and nobles accounted for nearly half of the treasury. The reward for the monks is another one-third. It's unbelievable to say it.

The clans and nobles, as well as the tantric monks, occupy a lot of land and slaves, and they are already very rich, and the emperor has to reward them in large quantities year after year, robbing the poor and helping the rich, what a heartfelt thing! Could it be that the emperor is stupid?

Of course not.

Because this is the Mongolian tradition: the tradition of distributing the spoils of war and rewarding the spoils of war. The important duty of the Great Khan is to share the benefits and share the blessings.

You see, in the eyes of the Mongol Great Khan and the nobility, the treasury was not a tax, but a spoils of war.

So, the root is still in culture.

Thinking of this, Li Luo's contempt for the Yuan Dynasty went further. Of course, he also knew Xiao Cui's thoughts, but he pretended to continue to stimulate: "This official sees that your family has a lot of books, and you must be addicted to reading, so that you missed the agricultural mulberry and failed to produce a bad harvest, so you are embarrassed." ”

What the?

It's not about eating in a bowl... Radish, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother? Feelings: We can't eat enough because we don't do our jobs properly when we study? What kind of bastard mind is this?

When Cui heard this, he couldn't wait to kick this bullshit official to death.

Da Cui tried to suppress the anger in his heart, arched his hand with a gloomy expression, and replied with a needle hidden in his face: "Good instructors know that the grass people have been cultivating and reading heirlooms, although they like to read, but they are only idle in the farming. In the fields, there is no slackness. As for why they still can't eat enough, the grass people are just a common people, so it is unknown. ”

Li Luo couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

Da Cui held back his anger and asked, "I don't know why the big officials are laughing?" ”

Mother's, cultivating and reading heirlooms, is a Chinese virtue, what's ridiculous?

Even Cui Xiuning couldn't help but give Li Luo a roll of his eyes without a trace. This size Cui is very likely to be my ancestor, is it for you to rub wantonly? What is the attitude that your son-in-law of the Cui family should have?

Li Luo stopped laughing and said, "What's the use of reading? Is it difficult to become an official in the imperial examination? This official tells you that the imperial court will never reopen the imperial examination for at least ten or twenty years. ”

When Cui heard Li Luo's words, he had no doubts, and he was depressed.

"The villain reads just to be sensible, to know honor and disgrace, and to understand the rise and fall. As for being an official in the imperial examination, how can the villain be virtuous, and dare to do such extravagant hopes. Da Cui still said neither softly nor hard.

"Reasonable, knowing honor and disgrace, understanding rise and fall, what a big ambition." Li Luo smiled and said, "Then I don't know what Xian Kunzhong knows best?" ”

Da Cui said lightly: "The villain doesn't know any big truths, and he likes to read miscellaneous books on weekdays." It is only involved in agriculture, law, war, and arithmetic.

Xiao Cui said: "The villain only understands geography, water conservancy, and arithmetic. ”

Li Luo nodded and said, "I see." Then this is a practical talent, why don't you apply for staff clerks at the county office? ”

Da Cui smiled bitterly: "Although the grass people know some practical paths, they have no way. How to use the county government officials and county orders? ”

He had actually reacted at this point. This official may recruit himself. If that's the case, it's a way out.

Therefore, he was ready to accept Li Luo's "test".

It seems that most of this official's previous "bastard words" were to test his brother.

Big and small Cui couldn't help but gain and lose.

But what he didn't know was that he had actually passed Li Luo's test.

Big and small Cui is very likely to be Cui Xiuning's ancestors, how can Li Luo let them go alone and let them suffer here? Of course it's to be brought back.

Li Luo is so wealthy that he is not afraid of raising two idlers at all.

Of course, if the two of them are really talented, then it is the best, just in the pocket. With Cui Xiuning here, the loyalty of the two is also more guaranteed.

After some temptation, not to mention the specific talents, at least the brothers' mental cultivation and thinking expression made him satisfied.

These two people, at least have some talents, and they are definitely not straw bales.

It can be used, and it is unknown if there will be surprises in the future.

Li Luo now has a lot of talents with the posture of a military general, but there is no literary talent. Haidong's Lin Biju is not a real henchman.

People like the Cui brothers happen to be the government helpers that he and Cui Xiuning lack.

"Since the county government doesn't need you, then be a private curtain for this official. This official is Ninghai Prefecture Daru Huachi, you can recruit your brother, twenty yuan a month, how about it? Li Luo finally made it clear.

What the?

Ninghai Prefecture Daru Huachi?

Twenty dollars a month?

When Cui heard Li Luo's words, he was stunned.

ps: I ask my friends to support the author, there are not enough tickets to eat today! Tears run~~(>_

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