Yong: "You want to be beautiful!" While several people were talking happily, a man with a good style and texture, but with several patches, paced over, and one took up almost a third of his wide and long sleeves, "How can there be such a cheap thing in the world!" ”

This patched "gentleman" is called Mr. by everyone. The ancestor of that gentleman was originally a large family with considerable property, but in his generation, because of a dispute with someone over taxes, he was framed by a rich and powerful person and fell into a lawsuit, and became a penniless "man in clothes" In the early years, when the family was rich, he also got the reputation of a "prison student", and later although he was dismissed because of the lawsuit, everyone knew that he was wronged, so he still called him "Mr."

That gentleman is a good person, and he is uneven, and he has a little prestige in the local area, and everyone listened to him and asked him to talk about a few words about the "summer tax of the Great Song Dynasty".

"Since ancient times, how can anyone not pay the imperial grain?" Mr. Nada also read the notice seven or eight times, and he understood the matter of apportioning the land into the mu, similar to the whip that Mr. Zhang made back then, but a whip only integrated miscellaneous taxes, and it was not the concept of paying taxes according to the amount of land.

Although Mr. Nada is poor, he has read a lot of miscellaneous books, and soon figured out that the biggest advantage of this spread into acres is that it can make the population clear, since Ding Yin is the number of acres in the field, then there is no need for each family to hide their true population.

The total number of household registrations in the Ming Dynasty has been decreasing since Yongle This is a very abnormal thing, because since Yongle, the Ming Dynasty is generally considered "stable", and it can be called "peaceful and prosperous" according to low standards. As a result, the population of this peaceful and prosperous era did not increase, but decreased in large numbers, and it was obvious that a large number of fugitives and black households appeared.

There are also many "black households" who do not have household registration in Qiongzhou Prefecture and those who have fled from the mainland. The purpose of the Australians coming to this is to further find out how many people there are in Qiongzhou.

Linked to the large-scale "inventory population" in Lingao, Mr. Na suddenly felt that he had understood the scheming of Australians.

"This is not the summer tax of the Great Song Dynasty at all," the gentleman was full of sourness, and he was showing off as soon as he opened his mouth. First of all, the tax system of the Song Dynasty in various historical classics is ripped off to demonstrate that "the Great Song Dynasty did not divide the land into the mu". Seeing the impatient expression of the dry mud around him, he couldn't help but sigh secretly: "Play the piano to the cow!" ”

So he pulled the words back: "...... In short, this is not the system of the Great Song Dynasty, but the ...... The Australians have come up with new tricks on their own! ”

A young man asked: "Sir, is he a pattern of the Great Song Dynasty or a pattern of Australia, and our countrymen can't figure it out, so they say that the payment method of this summer tax is according to what the notice says, more fields are more to pay, less fields are rare, less than 20 acres are not paid?" ”

"That's exactly what the proclamation says." The gentleman shook a broken fan, "But since the day there was a court, it has been a matter of course for the people to pay food and errands, so can it be said that there is no such thing?" If you say that you have less land, you can pay less, and if you don't pay it, I think it's just talking. He was originally very dissatisfied with the government, and even dissatisfied with all the officials, in his opinion, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Song Dynasty or the Australia of Rausch, all of them were a raccoon dog. If you don't exploit the common people, how can you let the officials be dressed and fed, and their husbands and wives be honored?

The old man spoke: "That sir! I've heard that Australians always keep their word, and they admit it as long as they say it......"

The gentleman snorted, "Since ancient times, there has been no reliable way to speak as an official. Let's just say that Wang Taizun in the past, when he was in the palace to learn Linpan, 'Tianli people's hearts, said that it was his turn to fall into chaos, and he couldn't destroy people, not to mention making a lot of money in one go, but also changing his ways to get women. What the emperor said, they can all be disobeyed."

The old man looked around in fear, and quickly exclaimed, "That sir! That sir! ”

"It doesn't matter!" The gentleman didn't care: "The Australians won't have time to clean up my poor sour!" They have to take money out of the pockets of the big families, so that the small people have suffered a disaster, where will they get money and food? ”

Mr. Na's insight, the local big families also have a similar awareness. Spread into acres, progressive system, no matter how you look at it, Australians are ready to "eat big". The big families of each family were nervous, and after some tandem, the strong backlash that Liu Xiang had expected did not appear. On the contrary, a group of specially dressed and tattered large households came to the county office to "petition", crying and crying one by one about how many crops they had lost this year, and they really couldn't pay the summer tax. Liu Xiang smiled and snorted haha, pulling around, just to tighten his teeth and not let go.

Everyone was disappointed and went to consult Hai Shuzu, Hai Shuzu himself was not under much pressure, he gave all the land to the Heaven and Earth Society, and even the taxes were all under the care of the Heaven and Earth Society, and he didn't care much about paying taxes. But forced by everyone's hope, I had to go out again. Lao Hai! Liu Xiang said affectionately, "I know your intention!" Then he said, "Sit on a sturdy chair, don't be so restrained!" ”

"Where the etiquette is, don't dare to be presumptuous." Hai Shuzu moved his body slightly, indicating that he respected Shangguan's order, and still sat very strictly. To tell the truth, he doesn't like the "old X" and "little X" of the "chiefs", although he knows that this is a kind of title to show affection, but he is not used to it.

"You came, it's just that the rich man wants you to come to me to cry poor and reduce taxes, right?"

"The chief is right." Hai Shuzu nodded, "Students are also entrusted by others. He felt that such an answer was a bit inappropriate, and quickly added: "Although there are many fields in the families of the big families, not all of them have rich wealth, and they have been affected by storms and floods, and life is not easy, so please pay attention to the chief." ”

Liu Xiang nodded: "Of course, but I am afraid that most of the family's wealth." Moreover, although life is not easy, it has not yet reached the point where you can't eat enough and want to sell your sons and daughters and wives. He stood up and paced a few steps, "The common people can't get by."

Hai Shuzu said, "Yes." What the chief said is true. However, from ancient times to the present, the owners and scholars are the foundation of the imperial court, and the chief is asked to be a little decent. He paused and thought for a moment, "Please think again." Hai Shuzu hesitated, and then said: "Now that the overall situation of the leaders has been decided, it is still necessary to take 'stability as the best policy, and the gentleman's back must not be taken to heart"

Liu Xiang thought to himself that the superiority of this group of big families was really strong. If it weren't for the fact that Qiongshan is a poor place and not a prosperous place for literature, I'm afraid the rebound would be very violent. But the latter sentence is obviously that Hai Shuzu has already regarded himself as a member of the "New Dynasty" to be so frank.

After Liu Xiang heard what he said, he said, "Lao Hai, since you trust us so much, I also make it clearer." What we need now is food. The people didn't have much of this food in the first place, but now that they have suffered another disaster, they definitely can't get it, don't you say? If you want to find food, only the big families have it. ”

Hai Shuzu nodded.

"If I wanted to make it simpler and do it effortlessly. Invite all the big households, and then each big family will take a few hundred or thousands of stones out, and whoever refuses to take it out will be pulled out and beheaded, can you get food? ”

Hai Shuzu smiled bitterly: "This is a thief's act, not a gentleman's doing. The chiefs are all ...... with great ambitions."

Liu Xiang said: "Even if you are right, this is too banditry. I still have something here that isn't a bandit. He gestured to the pile of books on the table. This is the list and amount of tax arrears in Qiongshan County over the years. He smiled, "I didn't expect that the people who owe the most taxes are not the common people, but the foundation of some imperial courts." ”

Hai Shuzu's face turned red, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"I'll just use this account book to speak, and ask this group of big tax arrears to pay off the taxes owed and the interest over the years, even the emperor of the Ming Dynasty can't say that I did something wrong, right? Do you think they should pay? ”

"Pay." Hai Shuzu didn't expect Chief Liu to have this hand. It is not surprising that the non-payment of taxes by the gentry and the gentry is common in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. There are even owners in the Gangnam area who have been in arrears for decades. The imperial court never expected to be able to collect all these tax arrears.

Hai Shuzu didn't get anything when he went back, and Liu Xiang refused to give in to the summer tax Although the big families scolded him to the blood, but the knife handle was hard to say, not to mention that the law and order war and the time of clearing the acres of land had already given them enough lessons. Know that it's best not to try against the Australians......

With the arrival of the tax trainers trained by Chen Ce, the first batch of tax notices began to be distributed by special personnel.

There are two types of notices, the first is a poster, which is widely posted in the markets and villages of the city. With the head of the household as the unit, the amount of land actually owned by each household, how much is equivalent to the "standard mu", which grade it belongs to, how much should be paid, how much is the reduction or exemption, and what are the conditions for the reduction and exemption, all of which are listed on this so-called "publicity" in the notice. If there is any objection, you can go to the tax bureau to appeal.

The second type is called the "Situation Household" notice. It was delivered to the door by hand. The target is a large household that occupies more than 500 acres of land. Since they are rich people and large tax payers, they enjoy special notices. Content items are the same as posters. However, each notice must be stamped and stamped by the recipient.

Liu Xiang stipulates that if it cannot be delivered after more than 45 days because no one has signed for it, it will be deemed that the household is not a "situation household", and all the registered land will be confiscated.

Under this strong regulation, the delivery rate of the notice of the situation household was 100% in less than half a month.