"There are less than 100,000 people in Shanhai County now, and many big families followed the county guard to Giant Whale Island in the early years."

"Over the years, because of banditry and harvests, more and more people have gone out, and a large amount of land and houses have been abandoned throughout the county, and some houses have become uninhabitable and dilapidated houses."

Wang Lanling listened to the introduction of Shanhai County by several people around him along the way, and got a general understanding of this place.

But when you enter, you find that this place is far more dilapidated and desolate than you imagined.

He had now entered the city, and on both sides of the official road were four- or five-story cement buildings, but unlike the cleanliness of Heishui County, there was a lot of dust and gravel on the roads here.

The ground is cracked, there is basically not much business in the nearby high-rise buildings, many houses are empty, and there are huge cracks in the walls of some high-rise buildings.

More tall windows have begun to grow grass on them.

There is no shortage of arable land here, and the 10,000 square kilometers of land is unimaginably rich in habitable area and arable land.

The problem is that there are more abundant places than here, and such a thing as arable land is very indifferent to most places in the empire, everyone has enough in their hands and enough to squander.

If 10,000 square kilometers are distributed to 100,000 people, each person will also have 15 acres of land.

The land is not a problem, the problem is that it is not safe and cannot be developed, and it is not that others cannot survive, so it is natural to choose a better site.

It is a place dominated by pioneers and vassals, and there is no such reluctance to leave the hinterland.

The county office is an office building, like a small school in the old days.

Dongsheng said: "In the past, the county government was a good place, and the office was said to be very large and luxurious, but because someone under him once made trouble and blew up the building, the county government moved to Giant Whale Island. ”

Pioneers are not without trouble, and the anger in the heart can burn everything if anyone who has been deceived cannot return home for generations.

Now everyone gradually accepted some things, and with the death of the old man, they gradually forgot the original promise.

But it was different back then, there were really people who didn't want to die with these dog officials, which also caused the transfer of the county government, and the senior officials and the Jiang family went to a safer place to stay.

Wang Lanling said helplessly: "Then clean up, stay down, take your time, everything will be fine." ”

Lin Zunian saw that Wang Lanling really wanted to live here, so he quickly said: "My lord, there is a luxurious manor on the mountainside, called Xianshui Palace, where the facilities are well preserved, and adults can go there to rest." ”

Wang Lanling shook his head, "Since I am new to my post, I will fulfill the responsibilities of the local official before everything is settled, and I will rest here today, Hu Zhong will lead someone to clean up this place, and I will go to visit the governor in the future." ”

Shanhai Zhiyuan, director of the tax department, said: "My lord, I asked people to send rice, grain, firewood, rice, oil and salt. ”

Wang Lanling looked at Shanhai Zhiyuan, many people in Shanhai County have the surname Shanhai, just like Linxian Wang County and Cao County.

"The main thing of the tax department is to collect taxes, you go and write a notice, exempt from all taxes this year, whether it is a poll tax or a field tax, you don't have to pay it, you can come to me a few days before the New Year to get it back."

The new official took office with three fires, and Wang Lanling did not toss these people, but gave these 100,000 people a beneficial benefit.

Shanhai Zhiyuan and the people around him were all shocked, and Shanhai Zhiyuan quickly said anxiously: "My lord, the finances in this county are not rich, and the food is good to say, this money is really ......."

He was really anxious, so anxious that he was about to cry.

Wang Lanling quickly reassured: "Don't worry, I will borrow some food from the county guard, and there is no need to worry about money, I will find a way." Relax, with me, there will only be more and more money and food in the county. ”

Shanhai Zhiyuan was relieved when he heard that he didn't want him to find a way, and quickly said: "My lord, this money is not a small amount, the county has collected 1,500 yuan this year, and it has been handed over to the county government after the autumn harvest, and now the remaining money is less than two hundred." ”

Wang Lanling was stunned, he originally thought that it should be tens of thousands of yuan, and he was already mentally prepared to pay for his reputation, but he never expected that it would only be a thousand yuan?

"Three thousand? 100,000 people are 1,000 taxes, why is it so small? ”

Wang Lanling really doesn't know, even in the official school, there is no such statement, at most he can't collect a dime.

Either it is not collected, or it is tens of thousands of finances, like wealthier places, and the annual tax revenue is millions of dollars.

1,000 pieces...... What about sending Hanako?

Shanhai Zhiyuan quickly said: "It's not a thousand, it's fifteen hundred." ”

Wang Lanling is lazy to care about these, although his annual salary is only 1,000 yuan, he is still a place of 100,000 people, and the tax revenue is only ten times the annual salary of the county order, which is really ......

Seems normal, right?

Wang Lanling thought about it for a while, 100,000 people is about the size of a town, if a town mayor has an annual salary of 200,000 yuan, then the town's tax revenue of 2 million is not so unusual, right?

Considering that there are no big enterprises here, only farmers who farm the land, and this kind of people are taxed according to one household, 100,000 people is more than 10,000 households.

It is normal to use grain to offset the poll tax, or not to pay the tax.

To put it another way, in this kind of frontier area that was abandoned by the imperial court, it was still possible to collect taxes from most people, and this kind of enforcement alone would completely blow up most modern countries.

Even in modern times, in fact, most people at the bottom have no concept of paying taxes.

Wang Lanling suddenly felt that the imperial system was actually very advanced, more advanced than many systems he knew, and it was extremely in line with the management requirements of this era.

And he seems to be integrating something that is not in line with the times and is not as perfect as the current system into this normally functioning feudal empire with the situation of private goods......

Shanhai Zhiyuan saw that Wang Lanling frowned and didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something suspicious, so he thought that Wang Lanling was worried about money.

Because Wang Lanling issued a declaration about the king of the city wall, Shanhai Zhiyuan and others originally expected Wang Lanling to be in charge of county government affairs, but now they naturally have no opinions, and they are all willing to help.

"Don't worry, adults, everyone in the county is now the same enemy! We are all willing to pay money and people to defend Shanhai County under your command! So far, we have scraped together a huge sum of 800 yuan! ”

Wang Lanling's brows furrowed even more......

Did I travel back in time to twenty years ago? What's going on with this price level?