Few officials of the Tang Dynasty originally counted on how much money they could have now, what glory and wealth they would enjoy, and most of the thieves had this heart to fight for the melting of wealth in the future.

Basically, they are mentally prepared, knowing that it is impossible to enjoy much good glory and wealth in the early stage, but even so, after defeating Zhu Zhihai's Guizhou Provincial Army and sending three detachments to the north, west, and south, in order to highlight the royal style of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, it is also to effectively solve the current problem of the Tang Dynasty officials, especially the middle and low-level officials, who are difficult to support their families, so this money is still executed and then issued.

This still makes Mei Pingdong more pleased, although he gets more than 900 taels of silver a year, and 1,000 taels of silver is not enough, which is nothing compared with the Ming Dynasty's casual three-year county order can make tens of thousands of taels of silver, but it can be regarded as a real improvement in the living standards of the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

But this account clearly said that he had more than 80 taels of silver every month, but only more than 60 taels of silver in hand, which made Mei Pingdong a little puzzled, in the absence of a large amount of silver inflow, these more than 10 taels of silver is quite a lot, this year the Ming Dynasty Shangshu adults, a year is more than 100 taels of silver, this is for no reason less than 10 taels of silver they don't want to!

At first, Mei Pingdong couldn't figure it out like everyone else, but then he gradually thought about it, isn't this the drift in the Ming Dynasty, and the top gave a hundred taels of silver down, and it was normal to drift three or five percent.

Although I figured it out like this, I lost so much money for no reason, if I didn't have heartache, it was impossible, and I was willing to fart!

If it's financially difficult, if you don't send it, you won't send it, and the big guy didn't say anything, I think that during the Huangzhushan period, they didn't take a dime, but they still worked.

When it came to the time of taking Zhengtai County, he Mei Pingdong only had so much money of three or four taels of silver every month to subsidize his family, but he continued to do it.

Why is the scale of the Tang Dynasty getting bigger and bigger, and on the surface, the big guys are getting higher and higher, but why do you like to engage in these twists and turns.

Naturally, they didn't know that the individual income tax was proposed by Li Xuan, and it was only limited to the officials' salaries, and the amount of tax deducted was actually carefully calculated, because the original tax for officials at the county order level was only sixty-four taels of silver, but Li Xuan was stunned to raise it to more than eighty taels of silver, and then there was a tax deduction.

His purpose is naturally not to deduct the income of officials, but to establish the concept of paying individual income tax, and to pave the way for the promotion of it to the whole society in the later period, perhaps decades later.

That's why there is such a policy of taking off your pants and farting!

At this time, Mei Pingdong was distressed about his deducted money, and on the other hand, he was looking at these gentry and businessmen with sad faces in front of him.

Seeing that their faces were so ugly, Mei Pingdong's mood was inexplicably better, Lao Tzu was going to be deducted taxes, you actually wanted to evade taxes, and you also found Lao Tzu's yamen to come up, look at Lao Tzu, no, how can the official manipulate you later.

Immediately, he coughed lightly, and then said: "You are all the pillars of my Huaiyuan County, why did you all come to the county office today!" ”

As soon as Mei Pingdong spoke, many landlords and businessmen below him were you look at me, I look at you, and then an old man who seemed to be sixty or seventy years old and couldn't stand up straightened stepped forward two steps forward and said: "Lord Qiyu, the grass people and others have grievances!" ”

Hearing the title of Master Mei, Mei Pingdong was secretly refreshed again, today is not the first time they have come to him, it seems that they have looked for him a few times before, and at the beginning they were all very big, and they didn't take him, the county order of Huaiyuan County, the Tang Dynasty, in their eyes at all, and they didn't even want to say a word about adults.

But after Mei Pingdong refused their requests to see them continuously, these people finally lowered their shelves, and their attitude became more and more low, and at this time, Mei Pingdong met with these people.

At this time, Mei Pingdong touched the beard on his chin that was only a little long, and then said: "If there is a case, you can go to the county patrol police bureau to report the case, if there is an official in my Datang who is corrupt and perverts the law, you can also go to the county inspectorate, but why is it to find this official?" ”

Hearing what Mei Pingdong said, the low old man Jian Kang scolded secretly in his heart, do you think we haven't looked for it, we have found it, but it is useless.

"Hui Yu Lord, it is the matter of agricultural tax and commercial tax, Wang Shi came to Huaiyuan County, according to reason, donating military funds is the villain's, not to mention three or five thousand taels of silver, even if it is tens of thousands of taels of silver, the villains can grit their teeth and support the past, but this year will collect thousands of taels of silver, this is really, it is really unsustainable!

The county patrol police station and the inspectorate have gone to look for it, but it is useless! ”

Although the patrol police station in Datang said that it was responsible for arresting and cracking cases, as soon as they heard that they were going to sue the people of the tax inspection team, they immediately shook their heads and said that this matter is not under our control, you should go to the relevant yamen.

They ran to the county inspectorate, who was said to be an inspector, and then the bastards were also ghosts, saying that the tax inspection team was not under their control.

In the end, they ran to the county tax officer's yamen, and as soon as they entered, before they could say anything about the tax inspection team, they asked: "When will you pay the agricultural tax and commercial tax that your family owes?" ”

If you were willing to pay your taxes, there would be so much trouble there!

At that time, when Huaiyuan County was broken, the gentry and merchants in the city could not escape, and many of them were blocked in the city.

And by the time these gentry in their city could leave, they would already come to the door with the list!

Want to run away?

Yes, pay the tax first!

If you don't pay, then you won't leave, and live or die, then the people in the tax inspection team will not be as simple as a commotion, but then it will become a raid.

Some people are afraid that these thieves of the Tang Dynasty will kill innocents indiscriminately, and they want to defect to the bright and free Ming Dynasty, and soon they paid the silver and then took the family out of the city.

But some people who were not worried about their family business and did not believe that the Tang Dynasty would ignore the voices of their gentry and landlords, so they had the courage to stay.

The Tang Dynasty naturally did not ignore them, but still attached great importance to them, otherwise it would not have cleared out the list in just a few days, and then began to collect taxes according to the list.

Some people who are less timid and more open-minded, who want to give up some money to save their lives, will also pay it.

After all, there is a shortage of soldiers, and there is a large army coming here, and this army can't hide from it no matter what, it's just a matter of how much.

But there are some bold, or simply reluctant but have been dragging it out and not giving, the county tax bureau is naturally not polite, the tax inspection team comes to the door twice in three days, either directly to harass them, or to seal up their shops, take in their shopkeepers, guys and the like.

And Mei Pingdong also knows that it is only the most rudimentary means now, if they continue not to pay, the people on the side of the tax inspection team should make an example of the monkeys, and will choose one or two to directly raid the house.

And that's just the seizure of family property!

If that doesn't deter them, then it's time to kill!

will choose a landlord or businessman with the worst attitude to directly raid the family and exterminate the family!

Often after such a set of efforts, most of these landlords and merchants will appear in two extremes, one extreme is to pay taxes obediently immediately, and the remaining one is to pick up knives and guns, shouting that Lao Tzu just don't scream, you have the ability to bite me.

Most of the merchants and small landlords who paid taxes had no foundation, and most of the people who resisted taxes were big landlords.

There is nothing to say about this kind of thing, just ask the thief battalion or the regular army to go out, and as soon as the army comes out, it will all be wiped out!

Mei Pingdong, who knows all this, even sympathizes with them, how difficult it is to make money, except for a very small number of nouveau riche families, most of the big landlords have been planning for many years, step by step from the poor people who have broken their families to buy land at a low price, and then let them be tenants for themselves!

How many years of hard work, are they easy?

It's not easy!

Speaking of landlords, we have to talk about land annexation, and the land annexation of each dynasty is a cruel history of blood and tears!

For example, in fact, many landlords purchased land by normal means, because the ancient peasants' ability to resist risks was too poor, and it was easy to sell the land if there was a little natural or man-made disaster.

But sympathy is sympathy, he has absolutely no idea of supporting them, how many fields you have are not official, but you can pay as much tax as you have as many fields, and you can't do it for a dime!

The officials pay all the taxes, and you don't want to pay them?

Besides, if you don't pay taxes, you don't advance the army to eat and fight the war, the question is where do you get the money of these officials?

Our Tang Dynasty treats hundreds of officials well, and this is not low, and you can't rely on so much mud to spend so much!

Therefore, big landlords and big businessmen must pay taxes, which is the unified perception within the Tang Dynasty.

This kind of tax, in fact, in the eyes of many people, especially in the eyes of Mei Pingdong, is more like a kind of revenge, who made them support the pseudo-Ming before, and when they saw our Tang Dynasty, they all said that it was the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Now it's okay, it's in the hands of our Tang Dynasty, if you don't scrape a few layers of skin, you can't stand the long-standing bandit tradition of our Tang Dynasty!

Immediately, Mei Pingdong showed a smile and said with a kind face: "This tax matter, you are looking for this official, and this official can't help you, you should go to the relevant yamen!" ”

In his heart, he secretly said: It's useless to find anyone, even if it is directly folded to Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, it will sink into the sea!

At this time, there was a person who was not long-eyed, but he asked: "Dare to ask your lordship, I don't know what this is about the yamen?" ”

Mei Pingdong immediately snorted coldly: "Hmph, send off!" ”

Damn, you ask me, who do I ask?