Han Yizheng was about to lead people to the Gubeikou Pass, when he suddenly saw Li Xiancheng hurrying over, and said with a smile on his face: "County Jun, this county has been short of chief officials for half a year, and a lot of things have been gathered, especially this year's taxes, as well as the city wall repair funds ordered by the county jun yesterday, all of which need to be stamped with the official seal by the county jun and personally sit in the yaya before it can be implemented." Can the matter www.biquge.info of going to Gubeikou be postponed for one or two years? ”

Han Yi shook his head and said: "The border counties are different from the inland counties, and military defense is the first priority, followed by people's livelihood and production. This goes to Gubeikou, only a hundred miles away, come and go for a maximum of four or five days, and then inspect the beacon towers on the Great Wall inside and outside the Guan, it will not be more than ten days. This year's tax payment has been delayed for half a year anyway, and it doesn't hurt to wait a few more days. ”

Li Xiancheng said hesitantly: "County Jun, it won't be a matter of ten days to delay any longer. It will take at least a month to collect the regular tax grain, and it will take a long time to collect the various taxes. If it drags on any longer, it will probably be autumn, and then the city wall will need to be repaired, the tax grain will need to be transported, and the winter wheat will have to be cultivated and sown, but I am afraid that there will not be enough labor. ”

Han Yi was stunned for a moment, and said impatiently: "Okay, okay, you first issue a notice in your name to inform all the people in the county, and say that the tax will be officially collected from ten days later." Let them prepare within these ten days, and then they will not need to prepare, just transport grain and money to the county to pay it. However, the money for the repair of the walls needs to be collected immediately, and it will be repaired as soon as I return. ”

"Yes, yes, what the county gentleman said is very true, and I will do it." Li Xiancheng replied repeatedly.

Han Yi then hit the horse and carried Mi'er all the way to the northeast. As soon as he left the city gate for more than ten miles, Han Yi suddenly stopped his horse and asked Le Peng, the official who followed him, and said, "Zicai, what are the annual taxes of a county?" What are the taxes that need to be paid in the county? ”

Le Peng, who was on call at the time, opened his mouth and replied, "Qiyu County Jun, usually the annual tax of a county is mainly a positive tax, that is, the three taxes of grain tax, poll tax, and labor tax set by the court. In the case of Qianping County, 300,000 mu of land can harvest 450,000 stone of winter wheat in an ordinary year, and the tax is 45,000 stone. The poll tax is seventy dollars a month for children, 100 dollars for women and the elderly, and 150 dollars for young and strong. Last year, the county collected a total of 3 million yuan in poll tax. These two taxes are to be paid in full to the county. The labor tax is 300 yuan per household per month, which is 16,560,000 yuan a year. This money only needs to be paid to the county, and all the rest can be kept in the county for public use. ”

Han Yi patted his head and said, "I led the troops to fight for a long time, and I almost forgot all these things. It seems that there are still some mountains and forests, fishing waters, mineral deposits, and bazaar taxes! ”

Lepeng replied: "Yes, the county lord said yes, but it is the tax collected by the county itself, and it has nothing to do with the county." Last year, Qianping County collected 4.3 million yuan in taxes for mountains and forests, 3 million yuan for fishery, 1.2 million yuan for mineral deposits, and 1.2 million yuan for bazaars. ”

Han Yi sighed: "It turns out that no matter these things, I don't know that a small county in the middle and lower grades has so many taxes, and the total amount is as much as 40 million yuan." The annual grain output is 450,000 stones, which is only 90 million yuan based on 200 yuan. Even if you do some work during the slack time, you still have to pay as much as 40% of the tax in a year. If you encounter some ruthless officials, you will have to pay as much as 60% of the year's harvest. No wonder last year's Yellow Turban Thieves Rebellion spread across the country, and it was not without cause! Since I am the magistrate of Qianping County, I should work for the benefit of the people of a county, and some taxes should be exempted. ”

Le Peng praised: "The county gentleman is benevolent and righteous, and the little officials admire it, but in order to manage and run a county, some taxes have to be collected." ”

Han Yiqi said: "What are the expenses in the county? You say come and hear it. ”

Le Peng said: "There are 300 officials in the county, and the monthly money of each person is calculated according to 1,000 yuan, which is 3.6 million yuan a year. It costs 1 million yuan to usher in the reception fee, 1 million yuan for office miscellaneous expenses, and 1 million yuan for persuading farmers to study. There are more than 200 county soldiers, and each person needs 1,200 yuan per month, and 3 million yuan a year. Fifty war horses, 300 mules and horses, 2.5 million threads per year, 1 million dollars for new weapons and food, and 500,000 yuan for other miscellaneous expenses. It is also necessary to keep 5 million dollars for emergency use, and the total amount is as high as more than 18 million. Even if you don't charge more than half a penny in taxes, it's good to keep two or three million dollars in the county every year. ”

Han Yi nodded, it seems that collecting forty percent of the people's taxes every year is the most common thing, and it has to be collected, otherwise the county affairs will not be able to be carried out. Han Yi turned his head and glanced at Qianping City, and shouted, "Le Peng, you quickly go back to the city and see how much each household needs to pay for the tax for repairing the city wall set by Li County Cheng?" Come back quickly and report to me that I know, but don't be too sure. Lu Ping, Qiu Gong, the two of you calculate how much it will cost to repair the city wall. ”

Le Peng was ordered to beat the horse away, and Han Yiwang nodded again and again when he saw his running back. If he can know the amount of various taxes last year, he must have gone to the county library to check it after the banquet was over. He is having fun with women, but he is buried in bamboo slips, only from this point of view, Le Peng is a person who does things, and he can reuse one or two in the future.

Not long after, Lu Ping and Qiu Gong said: "Master, the city wall of Qianping County is 1,200 steps, and it will cost 15 million to build a new city, but if it is repaired, it only needs 1 million yuan." ”

Han Yi nodded and said, "If it's just a million dollars, there is no need to pay taxes." Lu Ping, you go back and ask Li Xiancheng not to collect taxes specifically. If last year's treasury was insufficient, I could temporarily advance 100 gold and pay it back after I had collected the other taxes. ”

Lu Ping also said goodbye and left, thinking that his 9,000 gold was a lot of money in a small border county, and he didn't want to just pay taxes for more than two years. In this way, it is necessary to save a little money in doing things.

Han Yi led the people to continue to move forward, and when they camped in the evening, they saw Lu Ping and Le Peng riding horses in a hurry. Without waiting for Han Yi to inquire, Lu Ping shouted from afar, and shouted: "Master, it's not good, that guy surnamed Li is so greedy that he wants to collect a thousand yuan of repair money from each household, and it is in the name of the master." and ordered the whole county to pay the full amount within seven days, otherwise they would be imprisoned and fined ten times. ”

After hearing this, Han Yi's brows furrowed. When I first came to this county, my prestige was not established, and I wanted the old man in Li County to collect the repair money. I don't want him to be so bold and greedy, but he has four times more than his own budget, and it is still in his own name. As a result, just one day after he arrived in the county, in the eyes of the people of Liping, he became a greedy and ruthless cool official. When the money is collected, this reputation will settle on him, and it will be difficult to clear it in the future. This person is so harmful, it can be described as extremely treacherous.

Le Peng interjected and said: "County Jun, when I was in the city, the little official asked several old people in the city. They said that the repair money began to be collected in the fourth year of Guanghe. 1,000 yuan per household every year, lightning can't move, and it's almost a positive tax, but I don't see the repair really started. Last year, when the former county magistrate left office, on the 15th day of the lunar month, the people of the county had to pay a repair fee. In other words, this year's repair money was all collected last year. ”

Han Yi was furious when he heard this, and whipped on the boulder, a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he was not here last year. This year, they came by themselves, and they dared to act so indiscriminately, and they wanted to splash sewage on themselves, which is really a big dog's guts.

Han Yi immediately prepared to return and clean up the group of corrupt officials. But suddenly it occurred to me that officialdom is not comparable to that in the military, and everything needs evidence. If there is no evidence, Li Xiancheng is an official appointed by the imperial court, and he is only half a level lower than himself, and he is also an official of three hundred stones, so he can easily deal with him.

Heaven wants to destroy people, but it must first make them mad, and the greedy will not have evidence to be found. Anyway, there was no official seal of the county magistrate of Liping on that notice, and I couldn't rely on myself for a while. You can make Na Li Xiancheng proud for a while, and then look for trouble for him after he comes back from the Gubeikou Pass.

Han Yi immediately shouted: "Lu Ping, Le Peng, you two will each lead ten people, and go back to the city to spy on the lawlessness of Li Xiancheng and the six main officials and twenty-four auxiliary officials in the county." Tian Palm, Che Jing, Zhou Ge, Yin Li, Chu Hu, the five of you led hundreds of people to wait for news ten miles outside the city. When the evidence of Lu Ping and Le Peng is conclusive, they can lead the troops back to the city in advance, arrest all these 31 people and put them in prison, and deal with them together when I return. ”

Several people were ordered to lead people back, but they bluffed the thief Cao Yanzhao on the side so that his legs were weak and he fell directly to the ground. Yan Zhao kowtowed again and again: "County gentleman, county gentleman, the villain is willing not to be a thief, go back to the township to farm, and ask the county gentleman to forgive the villain this time." ”

In a county, except for Li County, who was appointed by the court and could not be easily dealt with by Han Yi, the other county officials were all promoted from the local hometown of the Haoshi, and the county magistrate had the power to say a word. Although you can't kill people, you can still be dismissed.

Yan Zhao thought that Han Yi wanted to make room for the guests under his command, and wanted to completely support the major affairs of a county, so he pretended to make trouble with the matter of Li County, and cleaned up together with the major officials and auxiliary officials, and hurriedly begged for mercy to resign and give way.

Although Han Yi didn't know what he was thinking, he also expected that it would be the death of a rabbit and a fox tragedy. So he said coldly: "If you are not guilty, you are still a thief and a thief, and you can be generous in front of me." If you are guilty, even if you have relatives and friends in the county and the court, I will never let you go. At this time, I don't know whether you are guilty or not, you can continue your previous mission and lead me to Gubeikou. Cheng Qi, you have to wait for Yan Thief Cao these days, and don't let him whisper to others and reveal my arrangement. ”

Cheng Qi replied loudly: "It's the master." After that, his eyes were as fierce as copper bells, staring at Yan Zhao deadly. Yan Zhao was horrified like a quail, cowardly.