When the prefect, the county government and the Shenming Pavilion and other places have posted that the tax will only be collected after the republican Tongbao, the most ordinary people still do not react much, they did not think of the economic principles in this for the first time, and the political significance of the Ming people to pay taxes with anti-thief coins is also not understood, but when it comes to the specific arithmetic, it is found that it will be too much of a loss here.

Even the most ignorant laborer, the Chongzhen Tongbao in his hand began to dive wildly, it was already a coin mixed with a large amount of lead and iron, and now even the government that issued this kind of coin does not want it to collect taxes, what a.

The first to stand up were the scholars from the countryside who heard the news.

They didn't dare to offend the noble prefect, but it was inevitable to start talking in teahouses and other places, backward I Daming can't even collect taxes, naturally can't do "I Daqing" such advanced hanging "don't talk about state affairs" brand, for a time Nantong is very lively, in fact, all classes are not satisfied with this year, although high-level landlords can take the opportunity to absorb land, buy maids, but in the end there are more things to pay, at least have to be careful to deal with those troubled times grass king, It's best to find a way to find a way to collect weapons to protect yourself, and even send an undercover agent to find out what is going on inside those mud legs.

After hard work and hard work, the landlord's family has no surplus food, but it is true.

The situation in Jiangbei is different from that in Jiangnan, although it is controlled by Nanjing, but the autonomy of specific administration is not low, after all, today it is reported that there are thieves who want to get reinforcements, and tomorrow it is reported that Mrs. Xing's troops appeared on the outskirts of the city for field training, and asked for some assistance to send this aunt and grandmother.

The high cost of management will inevitably bring about a part of the decentralization, decentralization will inevitably bring about expansion, in Nantong, the flower world north of the Yellow River, just to reform the tax system, it is already a bloody storm.

If it was in the past, if such a big change was made, the prefect would only be peaceful if he was killed a few times, but after simple communication, as long as the landlord was not stupid, he found that this was a perfect opportunity to plunder.

If the proletariat wants to unite, it has to break through the restrictions of geography, language, race, etc., while the landlords and the Confucian class are naturally and easily united.

Where do ordinary people understand the principles of economics? They don't have to carefully read the various black-hearted plans of those profiteers and gentry, how the money shop plunders the last dollar of ordinary peasants, and there will be no scum left, and selling children and daughters may not be able to satisfy the greedy appetite of these gentry, but these poorest scholars, on the contrary, do not need to read numbers after reading dead books to the point of being brain-dead, and a political incorrectness is enough to knock anyone to the ground, unless that person has the support of the bureaucracy of the whole of Nantong.

In fact, it's very simple, no matter how they calculate it, for Nanjing, as long as they still want to receive the tax burden they paid, they have to pinch their noses and agree, disagree? It's easy to say, we also have a Nantong crying poor group under our hands, so that those temporary workers in Nantong wear tattered cotton jackets and go to Nanjing to make a salary, hmph, who doesn't know that the poor are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal are afraid of dying? Although Lao Tzu can't afford to provoke those who don't want to die, it's not easy to bully you rich people?

Of course, there are so many twists and turns, but only these poor scholars can let out their last wail.

The butcher shop owner Zheng Tumeizizi's chopping of meat, the changes brought by the TOEFL elders, although thousands of miles away, still made his butcher shop business very good, of course, he can't understand such days.

The one who really started wrong was the people who kept coming to buy meat from the morning.

The traveling doctor who walked the streets and alleys with rattles to see people, carried a basket to sell pears on the street, and even the laborers who carried the work for people also came to sell meat, he reluctantly recalled what kind of yellow calendar it was today, and found that it was an ordinary day, not the birthday of the God of Wealth, nor the day of the local land, why so many people came to buy meat.

Although the two daughters have passed the peaceful life, the grain price in Jiangnan has ushered in a moment of good quality and low price, in the end, the living standard has risen rapidly without having to transport millions of stone of grain from the north, and even the price of meat is decreasing.

Later generations are accurate to the terrible modern breeding industry, which can maintain the ratio of meat to grain between 1 to 7 to 1 to 6, but this era does not pay attention to this, there is a boy at home, and he goes to grass when he is idle, of course, there is no way to talk about efficiency.

However, even if there is a lot of meat, some inferior people, that is, they can only taste it during the New Year, and it seems that now, no day, they all come to buy meat to eat.

Before noon, the big fat pig that Zheng Tu killed last night had already been sold, and some of the remaining water and pig faces Zheng Tu planned to drink by himself, and the days were getting more and more moisturized, and even he was thinking about whether to take a concubine or something.

I cleaned up the chopping board of the butcher's shop, and every day I don't know how many wild dogs come to lick the blood in order to taste the smell of meat, but the effect is just like that.

The box containing the money was held in his hand, and the bang sounded, Zheng Tu was walking, but found that his mother-in-law was running over in a hurry, at this time, she should have fed the new pig at home, this is Zheng Tu's trick, before killing the pig to gain weight quickly, as for the fattened pig will have any adverse effects when eating, I rely on, we are not even afraid of living, and we are afraid that it will not be possible to eat pork?

"The master, it's a bad thing, everyone on the street is saying that this copper is worthless, even the official master said no, the next door used copper to exchange the silver from the nine imperial capitals from me, and just left, after a while, there are still people to change it."

"Stupid pig!" Zheng Tu slapped his daughter-in-law directly, although he didn't understand what was going on, but it was okay to slap him directly.

He has killed pigs and scolded the street all his life, where do you know this, look at it again, those poor ghosts who came to buy meat today, all of them are poor ghosts who have never eaten meat, and they can't even tell the difference between fat and thin and ribs.

And those guys, as if they were in a funeral rush, bought and ran, now come and see......

The money collected by Zheng Tu today is full of poor quality Chongzhen Tongbao, and half of the copper in it is already a conscience!

He suddenly felt bad, and quickly ran to a money shop in the city, where several gold and silver shops were gathered, ticket numbers, etc.

At this time, the crowd here is surging, all desperately squeezing forward, if it is the imperial capital, it has already aroused the anger of the patrol, my whip is already hungry and thirsty, dare not line up and squeeze randomly, are you not afraid of being whipped.

But this is a non-elder-ruled area, where the light of "civilization" has not yet spread.

Zheng Tu, as a butcher, compared with others, is murderous, eats meat every day, absorbs protein sufficiently, so he has a lot of strength, and quickly squeezes into the crowd.

"Three hundred coppers for a silver dollar, why don't you grab it?"

"All profiteers!"

"It's darker over there for those Shanxi people!"

Zheng Tu's psychology beat the drum, in the former Ming Dynasty, the official price was one or two silver exchanged for 1,200 copper coins, this price code is a number obtained from a long-term game, but in the last days, a high-ranking official almost does not pay taxes in his life, and the money he needs to pay taxes may be the salt he eats and needs to pay so many pennies, or the money to buy a book is finally used by the bookseller to pay the money, and in other aspects, it may not be as much as the state responsibility borne by his own tenants.

Under such a "Matthew effect", the common people were exploited and could not survive, but the gentry lived the most nourishing.

It seems that Ai Juren, who tortured Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng was still injured, and when he was in a hurry, he turned his face and destroyed the Ai ......family.

However, this is the south of the Yangtze River, a place where the family is very powerful, and the emperor spent decades here slowly slaughtering through various white gloves, but in the Qianlong era, a large number of salt merchants showed the deep-rooted power of the gentry here, of course, those people were already full slaves, this is another story.

But now, even because of the silver shortage, there are places where it will soar to 1,500 pieces for one or two silver, but those are a few places, and people are also willing to do it.

The silver dollar from the north is really easy to use, and there is no need to exchange it for a name, and it is directly marked for a penny of silver.

But it's not to the point where 300 Wen is exchanged for one!

The boss with the goatee smiled gloomily, if there was no pig-killing knife, how could he dare to set up a dragon gate array?

Zheng Tu went home in a huff, he would not be willing to waste his hard-earned money like this, if he changed it like this, he would have done it for nothing for at least a few days, but he didn't understand why so many people suddenly wanted to change money, and the owner of the money shop gold and silver shop had such a tough attitude.

However, when I went home, I soon had an answer.

"Zheng Tu, you let me find it easy, where did I hide!"

The lieutenant of Benli and a few young men were waiting with a tiger's eye, and when he saw Zheng Tu, he didn't talk nonsense, and immediately asked.

Zheng Tu immediately said carefully: "If you go back to your lordship, I just got off work and I want to honor you." ”

He knew that the other party was not good, so he was ruthless, and hurriedly sent the water pig face in his hand forward, and said, "This is a little meaning." ”

"Less of this!"

"You also know that the tax increase this time is not much, but you have to set an example."

Zheng Tu panicked in his heart and said, "What tax?" ”

"Pretend to be confused with me, it's not a matter of exchanging silver dollars, your family's business is not small, but it can't be missing!"

One of the policies of the Ming Dynasty was that small merchants and vendors in the city, if you have a turnover of less than 40 taels in a year, you don't have to pay taxes.

But there are too many loopholes in this, except for some guys who are indeed poor ghosts, with a turnover of less than 40 taels a year, indicating that the profit earned may be a few taels, and naturally no one is squeezed, and there is another kind, that is, like the Ximen officials, although there are many shops that make a lot of money, but when he does the accounts, he flattens all the accounts, and he can actually make a loss, which is really powerful.

That is to say, the one who really pays the tax, the poor ghost has no money, and the big businessman buys the tax collector, on one side is a silver ticket Lori, and on the other side is a butcher's knife, asking you if you want your family to be ruined or to spend a difference.

In the end, it was Zheng Tu who had to pay taxes.

Zheng Tu knew something, and said with a tiger face: "What, if you pay taxes, you have to give silver dollars, and Daming's money is not money." ”

"This is the order from above, do you dare not to listen, you are obedient and execute."

"Yes, it must be paid before the end of this month, and if you can't pay it, you can only pay a fine! Haha, your old sow here still looks good. ”

The chief there didn't let go of the water in Zheng Tu's hand, but Zheng Tu had no intention of eating at this time.

There is still half a month to pay taxes, and at this time, the government suddenly came to such a time, and only collected silver dollars, but he did business on weekdays, and not all of them were Chongzhen Tongbao.

Thinking that the money collected today would be depreciated by at least half, Zheng Tu sat there, constantly yelling, and looking at his daughter-in-law unpleasantly, and began to beat and scold.

There was almost no good life in the city, and the next day, Zheng Tu didn't have the heart to kill pigs early in the morning, so he hurried to the shop of the Shanxi people to have a look.

Some people have been waiting for a long time, after all, there is no TV to watch here, and everyone goes to bed early at night.

Three hundred and thirty dollars for one silver dollar.

After just one night, it has already risen by 10%.

Zheng Tu blushed, even if he didn't know how to settle the account, he knew that if he exchanged the taxes required by the government according to this amount, half of his small family business would be gone.

Zhang Juzheng's whip law, stipulating that taxes should only be collected once a year, and silver was collected at the same time, which in fact gave the people a way to live.

But now, the political situation has given people an opportunity to do their own thing.

Zheng Tu went home with a frustrated mood, he never wanted to suffer this loss, went home, riveted his strength, slaughtered the pig on the spot, and it was still fresh, so he took it to the bazaar, this time the whole family went into battle to sell, of course, hung up the signboard, and only collected the silver dollars......

But where are the silver dollars in the whole city?

As a city on the canal channel that is deeply affected by the imperial capital, if it is usual, Zheng Tu makes this kind of joke, seeing that he has a strong ability to kill pigs, and the pig breed is good, and he will play with him, after all, silver dollars are not rare here, and businessmen generally like this kind of currency that is easy to carry, clear accounting, high universal rate and retains value.

But who knew before, in fact, there were already people who probably knew that as early as how many days before, the large and small gold and silver shops in Nantong began to consciously purchase in exchange for silver dollars, and the price was still 1,500 for 10 before.

Now that this sudden attack has blinded the whole city, naturally no one is willing to play games with Zheng Tu.

In fact, many people took out Chongzhen Tongbao and asked to use the money of this "root red miaozheng" Ming Dynasty to shop, and the price was negotiable.

Zheng Tu suffered for a long time, and if he didn't sell it, it would stink, so in desperation, he began to open.

Nantong is a big city, in fact, the place is not small, the whole city is blind when the wind is moved, and it is only half a day, and all the fat pigs of hundreds of catties are reimbursed.

(End of chapter)