In the past, there were sometimes big battles, and it could be a few months at a time. Sometimes when I go to a farther place to do the service, the service period may only be half a month, and the result is that the same amount of time will be spent on the road.

The most feared thing is to delay the family's farming time.

Now, the money will be converted into the land, and the whole will be collected along with the local tax. If the government wants to serve, it is all recruited by issuing notices, and those who are willing to apply are paid according to their work, and even the time on the road is counted, and food and accommodation are also included.

The old blacksmith would sometimes go to work in the neighborhood to earn some wages.

"Now there are some nearby laborers, ordinary people can't grab it, first come and come, it should be full when it's late."

Fortunately, the old blacksmith was a blacksmith, so when the farm was not working, he could also take his sons around the market to make iron.

"Then how much money can you make in a day of market attendance?"

"I can't make a lot of money, so I can earn a few a few a day to subsidize my family."

"Do you have to pay taxes?"

"We are a wild market, we don't have to pay taxes, if we go to the city, we generally have to pay taxes when we go to the market, but there are not many, and we don't have much money." The old blacksmith said with a smile.

"That's not bad, after this, you can have some savings in a year, right?"

The old blacksmith told Luo Cheng that the past few years were turbulent, the life was hard, and he also had a famine and debts, but now in the past two years, the land has been divided, and life is slowly getting better.

"I want to thank the government in particular, I borrowed a lot of debts before, and the interest was very scary, and then the imperial court stipulated that it was to reduce rent and interest, prohibit usury, and the interest on past debts should not exceed twice the principal. As soon as this rule came out, it greatly reduced my burden, and I didn't know how high the ones I borrowed before, but now it's good, as long as the principal is repaid and the interest is doubled. ”

"Twice the interest rate is still very high."

"It's much better, I don't know how many times it has rolled before, I feel like I can't pay it off in my life, but now it's okay, it's only twice as much, and I don't have to pay it back, and the court even gave us a loan for green seedlings, interest-free. You see, I have finally paid off those debts now, and now although my family is still a broken grass house, I am debt-free and light. ”

The old blacksmith's eyes are full of hope, according to the days like this, the family will work hard for another three or five years, and they will be able to build a new yard.

"The county has allocated a homestead for our family, and I have a large family, so I have already thought about it, and then build a large courtyard with a three-in-one, and then a large vegetable garden behind the house, and each child in the family will have a house of his own."

At this time, the youngest son of the blacksmith who was fighting the knife said, "Dad, we still have to build a thatched house, and our family must have our own thatched house." ”

"Yes, build a thatched house, save the use of tigers in the room, and make it stinky."

Looking at the happiness of these two masters, Luo Cheng was also happy for them, although they worked hard, they were very optimistic and full of hope for the future.

"Master, do you think the two taxes are high now?"

The old blacksmith narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, "If you just say that the rent per mu is not low, but now the imperial court is apportioned into the mu and the labor is converted into the mu, so in total, the burden is actually lighter than before." ”

In the past, the old blacksmith had a family of eight and four in the family, but the total amount of land was twenty acres, so the family had to rent the landlord's land, rent the landlord's land, and half of the harvest had to be handed over to the landlord, and the rest was not much.

But when the imperial grain is paid, it is calculated according to Ding, no matter how much land your family actually has, it is two stones of land rent per Ding a year, as well as silk cloth, etc., and there are 20 days of free labor a year.

Not to mention, the grain of the community warehouse and the righteous warehouse also have to be paid.

From time to time, there will be some apportionment or something.

It's miserable.

The old man's family now has more than 100 acres of land, and he has to pay more than 10 stone of land a year, and he pays more grain than in the past, but there are hundreds of acres of land, and these lands do not need to pay half of the harvest to the landlord.

And this also includes the grain of the Shecang Yicang, and also includes the money for the folding.

The old blacksmith said that his family is now a lower household, and there is not much money in household taxes, and he hopes that in a few years, he can pay more household taxes, which means that his family will be richer by then.

"It's just that salt is expensive now." The blacksmith's youngest son interjected.

"It's a little expensive, my family has to spend a few stones of grain for a year to eat salt." The old blacksmith is also a little distressed, in fact, people everywhere now feel very deeply about the high price of salt, but Luo Cheng also knows that the high salt tax is actually a disguised Ding tax.

The imperial court has to collect tens of millions of salt taxes a year, which is the most important tax of the imperial court, and this tax cannot be reduced.

Fortunately, although the salt tax is high, it is still within the range of the people.

"The price of other things is quite stable now, but the price of salt has been high, I thought that the world was unified, and the price of salt should come down, but it didn't move at all, it was harder than the iron I struck." The old blacksmith sighed.

The emperor and Wei Zheng glanced at each other, and they could only smile helplessly.

At present, the financial revenue of the imperial court does not mainly rely on the land tax and household tax of the two taxes, but on the industrial and commercial tax, of which special taxes such as salt, tea, iron, wine, and horses occupy the lion's share.

The imperial court needed taxes, mainly to raise troops to fight wars.

With a forbidden army of nearly 300,000, this is a standing army, and it will cost no less than 20 million yuan a year. Although some officials said that the cost was too great, and suggested that the ban on the army be abolished and all the soldiers should be changed to government soldiers, saying that this would reduce military spending a lot, Luo Cheng still did not agree in the end.

Now is the time for Great Qin to forge ahead, if the forbidden army is cut, then it will turn from offensive to defensive and conservative.

The blacksmith father and son are more likely to say that they may often rush to the market to do business, and they also have some knowledge.

Luo Cheng chatted with them for a long time, from receiving land to debts, to income, to taxes, and to the reputation of the local government.

"I feel that my parents are not bad, and my biggest feeling is that they don't disturb the people so much, and those officials and officials are much better now, not as chaotic and domineering as before."

"So, now everything is fine except for the high price of salt?" Luo Cheng took the knife handed over by the blacksmith, it had just been built, and it felt good to start, although it was not very exquisite, and it was only a wooden handle, but it was still good.

"Ten cents." The old blacksmith quoted with a smile, Luo Cheng didn't bargain, so he handed over ten Kaiyuan Tongbao, and the old man took the money and looked at it one by one, and was very satisfied with the money, it was all new money.

"It can't be said that everything is good, even now, the imperial court vigorously immigrated to the frontier, you see that many people in the countryside in this place have migrated, and now there are immigrants in every village, and there are many fewer people than in the past."