The thing that ancient emperors feared most was that someone would rebel. Dancing and gathering a large number of people in the place is the most likely to be provoked, from Qin Shi Huang to build the Great Wall, Cheng Sheng and Wu Guang to unveil the pole, basically a group of strong men gathered together, and then someone bewitched, began to rebel.

The lesson of the end of the Sui Dynasty is still in front of us, and Li Shimin has also experienced such a thing, so he is particularly concerned about this large number of mines and river repairs, and Li Dongsheng They were shocked just now because of this, because the number of people they saw far exceeded the number of people who had filed this quarry in the county.

Glancing at Wang San, he shook his head covertly. Li Dongsheng said with a smile, "Just take a look, look at the chaos inside, if it is collapsed by a stone, it will be a loss." Ha ha. ”

"That is, even where a group of men work, I think they all use hammers and drills, and it is also hard. Steward Wang, did you prepare some mung bean soup for them to quench their thirst when they were working outdoors on such a hot day? Gao Jian also cared about the lives of the workers, "With such a large workshop, this little money will not be reluctant." ”

"Lord Gao laughed, you see, where are our buckets placed, and who is thirsty to drink by himself. This is not the hottest time to work, and when the hottest time they all find a shady place to sleep. ”

"It's good to be able to do this, Steward Wang is still capable, and he thinks about everything thoughtfully." Li Dongsheng praised it, and said casually, "I asked you who the owner of this workshop is just now, but you haven't said it yet." ”

Wang Hu wanted to speak and stopped, struggled and said to Li Dongsheng, "Our owner has several cooperation, and there are two of them that I know, one surnamed Cui and the other surnamed Kong." ”

"Holes? Is that the hole? Li Dongsheng, who originally thought that it was a few families, was also shocked when he heard this surname, no wonder he was so arrogant, it turned out that the Kong family was brought in.

"That's the hole!" Wang Hu nodded, and said affirmatively, "They come to check the accounts once a year, and they usually don't come." ”

This great god suddenly appeared, disrupting Li Dongsheng's previous thoughts. This Confucian family is the descendants of Confucius, after the Han Dynasty, that is, after the sage, all dynasties have given supreme honor to their families, and sacrificed Confucius with food and tax taxes. Song Renzong Zhao Zhen sealed Confucius's 46th grandson Confucius Zongzong was willing to be the "Yan Shenggong" and passed it to the Republic of China.

Such a behemoth can't be easily offended, and it will be a taboo for people all over the world. After returning to the county office, Li Dongsheng asked Wang San, "What do you mean by shaking your head at me in the quarry?" ”

"There are too many idlers inside, although the clothes are different, but the skin color can be seen at a glance, they are all monitoring those coolies, it should be afraid that they will talk nonsense." Wang San recalled, "The person on the watchtower has been making signals, and there is also a person on the watchtower who has taken bows and arrows, and I am afraid that the adults will take risks and stop it." ”

"There is a problem with this quarry, and when I proposed to go in and have a look, Wang Hu's expression was very difficult. After agreeing, the watchtower you said also moved, and finally moved out of Kong's house to scare me, what did they want to hide? ”

Li Dongsheng thought for a long time and didn't have a clue, so he called Gao Jian over, "Lord Gao, how much tax does such a big quarry pay a year?" With such a large quarry, it wouldn't be so poor in the county government, right? ”

"My lord, this quarry is not taxed." Gao Jian rode the horse for a day, where was the back pain, and gently hammered his waist with his hands.

"Why?" Such a large workshop doesn't pay taxes, is there still Tianli, and there is still Wang Fa? Looking at the sparse stone on the square at the entrance of the workshop, you can know that the quarried stone has been sold almost, and such a good enterprise with booming production and sales does not pay taxes?

Gao Jian smiled bitterly and said, "Because of the family, I heard that this quarry was mined in the former Sui, because the stone material is good, it has always been in short supply, and during the war, they colluded with the county order to buy this mountain." Later, I don't know who suggested it in the court, and the family still has the right to tax exemption for doing business, so the county can't receive a penny now. ”

"It's really unreasonable, such a big family doesn't collect taxes, but has to collect taxes from those hard-working farmers, really" Li Dongsheng didn't know what to say.

"My lord, it's good to get used to it." Gao Jian comforted him and said, "It's not just our county, it's like this all over the world, there's no way, think you're unlucky." ”

After sending Gao Jian away, Li Dongsheng called the head of the household and asked him to seriously report the tax situation of the entire Ye County, such as how much is the total amount, how much is the gap, and how many industries are there? There are few in that industry, and so on, and the owners of each household are covered in sweat, and many nouns have never been heard.

After a while, I found all the previous case files and looked through them. I want to see what I can find in the case file. The days passed quickly, and soon it was time for the autumn harvest. Li Dongsheng lived a very comfortable time during this time, sleeping until he woke up naturally every day, and then looked at the official documents, there was nothing to do in this small county, and his life was very comfortable.

I took the time to write to Little Lori, and I could also receive their letters, and I missed them between the lines. After the thoughts, it is urging, the rhetoric is intense, Li Dongsheng lamented that the life of the writer is too miserable, you must know that this is not typing on the computer in later generations, but writing with a brush. Li Dongsheng also wanted to invent a quill pen, but later found that the writing was not as fast as the brush. After all, Xiaokai's own writing is proficient, this Journey to the West has hundreds of thousands of words, fortunately, he has an excellent memory, that is, he writes directly, otherwise I don't know how many years it will take.

The county, the county lieutenant and the owners of the houses all went down to be busy with the autumn harvest, which was also the first major event in feudal society, and eighty percent of the taxes came up at the time of the autumn harvest, and a large part of the assessment of officials was also in this aspect. Li Dongsheng has never planted land in his two lives, he doesn't know how much the specific harvest is, and he has heard of what kind of big and small buckets, what kind of grain harvest officials have to step forward to collect some hard work or something, these things are how many years of accumulated problems, when you first arrived, you didn't say that you would solve all the problems at once, you haven't paid people for a few months, and you are not allowed to make some extra money? As long as you get things done, at least spend a few months in peace, and stand firm first.

It's a pity that the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop, and there are always various accidents in life. On this day, Li Dongsheng was writing hard in the room, and when he was writing, Gao Jian hurriedly walked over, "My lord, something happened." The officials went down to collect grain and were blocked in the countryside, and the peasants surrounded them, and they had to be ordered by the county to solve it. ”