In the ancient world, it was impossible to say that there was no darkness.

There is even a lot of darkness, in any corner, everywhere, there is darkness.

It is not like modern society, where there is a powerful media and convenient communication that can take care of every place as much as possible.

In the ancient world, even at the feet of the Son of Heaven, all kinds of darkness existed.

Because after all, the power of the government is limited, and it cannot take care of everything.

What's more, many official governments themselves are also deceitful and deceitful.

This tax, Qin Ming has always felt that the people of Chu State are not under much pressure.

Because in his understanding, the taxes of the people of Chu were collected according to twenty-one.

That is to say, the income of this family in the past year, whether it is money or food, is to hand over one-twentieth of it.

This is the regulation of the household tax, but I didn't expect that in this village dozens of miles away from the imperial capital, it is very different from the regulations of the household department.

According to the household, you have to pay four-tenths of the tax, that is, the annual income of the family, pay four-tenths.

For example, if this family's six stone grain is worth six taels of silver, then according to the household, his family's income this year is six taels of silver, and he pays four-tenths, which is two taels and four hundred wen.

And according to the head calculation, three people, six stone of grain, must be handed over three stone, that is, worth three taels of silver.

So obviously, their family pays taxes per household and can save 600 yuan.

Don't underestimate 600 Wen, you can buy dozens of catties of rice.

"Big brother, that's how you collect taxes here?" Qin Ming asked the middle-aged man.

Dahan nodded: "Yes, we little people don't understand these either." ”

Qin Ming took a deep breath, thinking that collecting taxes like this would make some people really not want to live.

In addition, he thought for a moment and said, "Your family only has three acres of land? ”

"Well, three acres can barely keep our family alive, but if we want to spend some money on weekdays, we still need to go to the rich gentry's house to work." Dahan nodded.

Originally, Qin Ming thought that this was the end, but who knew that Dahan said again: "I don't often go to the rich gentry's house to work, I'm afraid that I can't do it even if I have an acre of land, and I give priority to the rich gentry." ”

Qin Ming was stunned: "What do you mean?" Field...... Not your own? ”

Dahan said: "Most of them are not our own, they belong to the rich gentry in the village. ”

Qin Ming shook his head: "Why do you want to sell the field to the rich gentry!" ”

"Young man, you don't know, at the beginning, the government said that it would increase taxes, saying that we ordinary people have land and may not be able to afford taxes, so we were encouraged to sell.

Where do we understand, so we sell it cheaply, so the land is given to the rich gentry. At first, everyone didn't decide anything, but later they learned that these rich gentry didn't pay much in taxes.

But there is no way, the land is gone, we have to eat and drink, we can only go to the rich gentry to rent, but we have to pay for rent, and if we don't have money, we will work for them, and if we do more, we will pay a little extra wages. ”

After Dahan finished speaking, he just smiled honestly, but he didn't know that they had suffered a big loss in this matter.

The government encouraged them to sell their land to the rich gentry?

is also this honest peasant letter, in Qin Ming's view, this is the capitalists colluding with the government to collect the wool of these people and squeeze them.

So hearing this, Qin Ming was furious.

At this time, the little girl had almost eaten the plum cabbage pancakes, leaving the last small bite, and seemed to be a little reluctant to eat.

Qin Ming was in a better mood, reached out and hugged the little girl from the arms of the big man, and said:

"Big brother will make you baked cakes tomorrow, eat as much as you want."

The little girl's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she looked at Qin Ming expectantly and said, "Really? ”

Qin Ming nodded with a smile and touched Nannan's head.

This night, Qin Ming slept in this family's house, and at night, Nan Nan asked Qin Ming if he really knew how to make baked cakes.

Qin Ming also liked this little girl very much, so he told her how to make plum dried vegetable baked cakes.

Nan Nan was very happy just listening to it, and later Qin Ming told her a story and coaxed her to sleep.

Looking at the little girl's innocent face, Qin Ming thought to himself, there are many such children, and they shouldn't live under such difficult conditions.

Therefore, it is urgent to govern the country and bow your head and enrich the people!

After a night!

The next day, after Qin Ming woke up, the little girl ran over and asked him to have breakfast.

Rural people, it's good to have steamed buns to eat in the morning, and Qin Ming didn't dislike it.

After eating, the big man took the woman and the child and prepared to pay the tax.

Qin Ming also followed to see it.

The tax revenue of Chu is normally collected once a year, that is, in the spring.

In a village like this, it is generally managed by the local county government in six of the six rooms in the third class.

If it is said that the household department of the imperial court is in charge of the world's household registration taxation and other issues, then the household houses of the county government are in charge of the household registration tax of a county.

The head of the house would send the officials of the house to collect taxes in various places below the county.

And today, there are two small officials in this village, and they are waiting at Li Yuanwai's house at the entrance of the village, waiting for the whole village to pay taxes.

This is a fat difference, you can eat, drink and get red envelopes, so the little official has also become arrogant.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, Qin Ming looked at the small house in front of him, not to mention, it really has the grandeur of those TV series outsiders.

At this moment, there are hundreds of people outside the house, all of whom are ordinary people who have come to pay taxes.

Although the faces of each one are not very good-looking, they also have some habitual meanings.

At the gate of the house, two small officials sat majestically, and beside them, an old man dressed in typical foreign clothes, smiled, as if he was paying taxes for him.

There were also some housekeepers around, holding sticks, like thugs.

Qin Ming thought to himself, where the hell does this look like he's here to collect taxes, and what about collecting protection money?

The villagers went to the throne one after another to pay taxes, and during this period, there were also some situations, such as who had a little less tax and forced them to make up for it, and said that who paid not enough food, and so on.

In fact, everyone knows that it was the two officials who deliberately made it difficult, and they naturally took it into their pockets by themselves.

Soon, it was the turn of the Han family and their family, Qin Ming followed behind them, the Han stepped forward, took out two or four hundred Wen, handed it over with some pain, and reported their family of three for the little official to register.

One of the fat officials looked at the silver in his hand and said, "Less! ”

Hearing this, the big man was stunned for a moment and said, "Official, my family's annual income is about six taels of silver, and I hand over four-tenths, which is two or four hundred wen?" Was it the same last year? ”

"Your family of three, An Rentou, should also be three stone rice, worth three taels of silver, this doesn't matter to you, but isn't there another person in your family? Four people, the rice should be four stones, why, can you evade taxes by household? The little official said lightly with disdain.

Hearing this, Dahan hurriedly said: "Official, you misunderstood, this little brother is not from my family, he is temporarily living in my house." ”

The little official snorted: "If you live in your house, it is your family, and you have to pay taxes, hurry up, less nonsense, and take another six hundred Wen, and make up three or two whole numbers!" ”

On the side, Qin Ming sneered, this kind of money to find fault, it must be these two to fill their pockets.

So, he pulled the big man away, stepped forward, and said to the little official, "Six hundred wen, then am I too worthless?" ”

The little official sneered: "Yo? Or a tael of silver? ”

Qin Ming frowned: "One or two silver? Look down on me? ”

As he spoke, Qin Ming took out a silver ticket worth 10,000 taels of silver from his body and placed it on the table.

(End of chapter)