However, plant technology is not in a hurry for the time being, and the most important thing now is the autumn harvest and taxes.

Now that the autumn harvest has arrived, the issue of taxation, which has been stranded for several months, must also be put on the agenda, and what taxes should be set, how much and how to collect each type of tax must be discussed, and a charter must be come up.

Because of this incident, the little officials between the two counties have almost broken their legs recently, because they have to count how many grain fields there are in the two counties, what the harvest is per mu, and they have to compare it with the harvest year and the disaster year, which is a huge work.

The dragon king was not idle, he would sometimes talk to some old farmers, ask how the harvest was, and what was the expectation of taxation in his heart? After all, he also has to understand, and only when he understands can he have the right to speak.

It was the middle of September in this flash, and An Huai and Quan Gang had almost counted the approximate data, and on this day, Quan Gang found the Dragon King and reported the situation.

"This year, the two counties have a total of 200,000 mu of corn fields and 50,000 mu of wheat fields, and the average harvest per mu of corn fields is 200 catties and 100 catties of wheat."

The reason why they are all neat and tidy is because the excess is not counted, for example, the corn field is actually more than 210,000 acres of land, and the harvest is more than the average of 200 catties, but the dragon king thinks that if it is a disaster year, this situation will have to be smoothed out, so it is not counted.

Benefiting the people is not just words, but real actions.

In other words, today's corn harvest in the two counties is about 40 million catties? Five million catties of wheat? ”

With the popularization of books, the Dragon King also changed some counting units, such as the more commonly used units of measurement during the Han Dynasty, such as buckets and stones, all of which were replaced by catties and kilograms.

"Yes, just more, no less."

The dragon king calculated in his heart again, now there are more than 20,000 people in the two counties, each person consumes two catties of grain per day, and the grain consumed by 20,000 people a year is almost 15 million catties, but the harvest is 45 million catties, that is, if you plant a year's grain, you can eat it for three years.

This is already quite good, this is also because of the ancient land is vast and sparsely populated, unlike modern times, rural people can divide two or three acres of land is too much, in the two counties, now the people who farm the land, each household at least thirty or forty acres of land, if the number of households with a large population, can reach fifty or sixty acres of land.

"Have you discussed how to collect taxes?" The Dragon King asked.

"According to what you mean by the Dragon King, it's just a tentative collection of two taxes, right?"

"Well, one is the grain tax, the other is the commercial tax, and the others don't have to worry about it yet."

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were too many taxes, so many people's scalps were numb, but the Dragon King didn't want to make it so complicated, and what kind of 'people tax', 'manuscript tax', those were all things that the people in power scavenged for money, and the Dragon King naturally disdained it, he wanted to be simpler.

At present, there are two kinds of taxes, grain tax and commercial tax, one paid by peasants and the other paid by merchants. To each his own, it is clear.

"According to the statistics of Brother An Huai and me, I think that it is more appropriate to pay ten taxes and one for grain tax, and five taxes for business tax, I don't know what the Dragon King wants?"

"Ten taxes on grain? Business five tax one? ”

"Yes."

"Does commercial tax mean net profit or gross profit?"

"Maori."

"What do you all think is appropriate?"

"Yes, we all think it is more appropriate, and we have asked many families, and everyone says that the Dragon King is merciful."

On the surface, the ten taxes are heavier than the thirty taxes before the Han Dynasty, but in fact it is certainly not the case, or the same sentence, the Han Dynasty has too many taxes, and from time to time it will levy forced labor, that is, let the peasants build roads and bridges or something, coupled with the exploitation of some landlord classes in the Han Dynasty, to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ordinary people can hardly survive.

Now these ten taxes are the simplest, for example, a family planting 20 acres of land, the yield per mu is 200 catties, and 4,000 catties of grain can be harvested, but only 400 catties need to be handed over, and the rest are their own.

"Okay, since you all think it's appropriate, then notify it and tell everyone that this is a preliminary tax rate, if someone disagrees, ask why they don't agree, and then see if the situation is rectified." The dragon king nodded, according to his recent inspection, this tax rate is indeed okay, and it is said that the wealth is hidden from the people, and everyone must get rich first.

"Whoa." Quan Gang breathed a sigh of relief, but it can be regarded as a given tax, so that it is much easier.

..............

The issue of taxation is not only important to the dragon king, everyone in the two counties is concerned about this, but most people are optimistic about it, because that is the dragon king, the dragon king has always been benevolent, and he will definitely not embarrass the people on the issue of taxation.

When the clerk posted the paperwork and saw that the grain tax was ten taxes and one was five taxes, everyone began to be in an uproar, because compared with the thirty taxes and one that continued in the Han Dynasty, it was obviously high.

The little official explained, emphasizing that there are two kinds of taxes now, those who farm the land will pay grain tax, and the businessmen will pay business tax, as for the others, everyone secretly calculated, all of them smiled, because after such a calculation, every household has to have thousands of catties of grain this year, compared with previous years, planting a year, the surplus grain is only a few hundred catties, and this year's surplus grain is more than ten times...

The merchants are concerned about the business tax, and the business tax of five taxes and one is similar to that of the Han Dynasty, but in addition to paying taxes, the former merchants also have to pay filial piety to the officials every year, but they do not use it under the rule of the Dragon King, so they must have earned it, and as for the business tax to be heavier than the grain tax, everyone will not have any opinion on this.

As soon as the tax rate came out, everyone in the two counties was happy, and for the first time, they felt that they could pay the tax so happily, and when they finished paying the tax, they would look at the full food left in the house, and they would chant a few words of the Dragon King's kindness.

The dragon king inspected for a few days, and also asked many people, and found that these people were indeed satisfied with the current tax rate in their hearts, and the people were satisfied, and the dragon king was also satisfied.

With taxes, it naturally has to be used, first of all, the dragon king takes into account the Fenglu of the manager.

Managers like Quan Gang and An Huai, the Dragon King believes in the idea of high salaries and incorruptibility, and the Dragon King is ready to set the Fenglu of these people very high, but at the same time, the requirements for them are also extremely harsh.

As we all know, in the Ming Dynasty, the problem of official corruption was quite serious, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't stop it even by peeling the skin and filling the grass.

The dragon king's idea is like this, he leads by example, and also let An Huai and Quan Gang put down the shelf, and when the people get used to it, the awe of the officials will be greatly reduced, and when the people's wisdom awakens, relying on the people's supervision, plus some measures, it must be able to greatly reduce the situation in this regard, if it doesn't work in the end, then try it with creation, and see if there is a way to completely eliminate the problem of corruption.