In addition to military training, the most important thing is to collect field taxes, which are often levied in spring and rice in the spring in the south. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, the local government mainly collected grain, and the grain was transported to the yamen site by the head of each li.

Since becoming a local official at the end of last year, Yang Xuan, in addition to eliminating the white servants who caused trouble to the locality, has established a township office to directly collect commercial taxes, that is, to re-clear the land and clear the household registration, and collect the land taxes according to the amount stipulated by the imperial court, instead of the amount apportioned in the past.

The production of dry land is very small, in previous years, the tax per mu of dry land was levied to about 1 yuan, and now it is only 2 cents after the apportionment of three salaries, less than 2 percent in the past, starting from spring ploughing, the squires and people of the county are waiting and watching, and everyone is afraid that the government will regret it.

This is not a seedling just planted, the adults and old people in the village are looking at the entrance of the village one by one, intentionally or unintentionally, in previous years, the first officials beat gongs and drums to the villages to urge everyone to pay the field tax, overdue payment, the chief with the county officials, the officials, the local white servants dozens of people rushed to the village to force everyone to pay the field tax, a little slow to tie up the five flowers tied up to the county jail, in order to avoid the persecution of the officials, many families overnight packed up the soft money and grain to escape the famine.

This year is different from previous years, since the Qingzhang, the number of fields per household is far more than in previous years, although the county magistrate has repeatedly claimed that after the Qingzhang dry land is 2 cents of silver, paddy fields are 6 cents of silver, but the official word is two mouths, how to collect it in the end, who knows?

If the government still collects money and grain as in previous years, the family has no choice but to flee again.

On this day, Zhang Dahei was working in the field, and suddenly heard a shout from the side of the road, and saw several descendants of the village from a distance noisily rushing home, Dahei's heart tightened, and he hurriedly got up from the paddy field, and asked from a distance: "Fourth, you are rushing to the market today, yes, there is news of the levy of the field?"

looked at Zhang Dahei, and the four children replied loudly: "Yes, I went to the village next to me to catch the market today, and the township office was full of news about the expropriation of land taxes, so I hurriedly bought things and came back." ”

Zhang Dahei's heart tightened, his voice was a little hoarse, and he asked timidly: "Fourth, how can I collect this?" ”

Feeling his heart pounding and suppressing his heartbeat, Zhang Dahei said anxiously: "Four babies, you are really a person, brother is not worried, tell me quickly, how to collect Tianfu this year?" ”

Looking at Zhang Dahei, who was anxious, several young juniors looked at each other and smiled and said, "Brother Dahei, why don't you trust people like this?" Of course, our county master has a spittle and a nail.

The township office has posted the paperwork, 2 cents of silver per mu of dry land, and the day after tomorrow will start to collect it on the spot, and then take the household registration book and take the accumulated tax stamps to the township office to pay. ”

Can't believe his ears, Zhang Dahei asked eagerly: "You say, you said it's 2 cents of silver and an acre of dry land?" This, this, this...."

Several young juniors burst out laughing, and when they heard themselves say this, Zhang Dahei also felt amused and laughed out loud.

In a moment, two cents and an acre of dry land quickly spread to all corners of the mountain village, and everyone rushed over from the ground, surrounded the four babies and a few other young descendants, and asked one by one, this kind of thing must be clarified, this kind of thing can't be joked casually.

Before the imperial court levied the three salaries, one acre of dry land was given no more than 1 cent of silver, but after heavy apportionment, many places had already received 3 cents and 4 cents of silver.

Some old people shook their heads again and again, and many adults couldn't believe it, now that the government is in urgent need of money and food for the local rioters, how can they be so lightly paid?

Everyone expressed their thoughts, and it was not until the afternoon of the next day, when the chief came back from the township office, that everyone believed that the dryland field was given 2 cents of silver per mu, and everyone needed to take their household registration book and rush to the township office with broken silver to pay.

Even so, everyone will still be skeptical, this day to the door of the market to catch the market, early in the morning the road and the road are full of people, everyone one by one carrying a basket, carrying a burden, hanging a blanket in front, large and small to the market.

Township Chief Gao Yunlin took two officials to stand at the entrance of the field to collect the merchant endowment, and every farmer who passed by would ask with a smile on his face: "Township Chief Gao, today, will you collect the field today?"

Township Chief Gao, is this field 2 cents of silver per acre? ”

Gao Yunlin was sweating profusely, replied with a smile, and explained to everyone on the other hand, asking everyone to pay the money and food in front of the township office after the gathering.

Everyone was happy one by one, everyone was like a festival, many people were hoarse, and they expressed their gratitude in a row, and the dryland field was given 2 cents of silver per mu, which was worth only four or five catties of wheat, which, this is too low.

Despite this, many people are still worried that the government will change their fortunes, and those who have money can't care about selling things, so they rush to the township office immediately after entering, and about a small flag soldier outside to maintain order, and four or five tables are set up in front of the township office, and several scribes and officials in the county are sitting behind the desks and preparing to collect the land tax.

Regardless of the scorching sun, everyone lined up according to the requirements of the soldiers, and stood in the middle of the line anxiously one by one, waiting for the payment of field dues.

There were more than 20 people in front of him, and he waited for half an hour before it was Zhang Dahei's turn, and he trembled and handed the household registration book and a stack of tax stamps to the front officials respectfully.

The official counted the amount of tax stamps, the scribe took a sip of water from the teapot, and then found Zhang Dahei's information in the account book, and after checking it with the household registration book, he said while planning to plate: "Zhang Dahei in Zhangjiagou, 20 acres of dry land, the account book is correct, and you need to pay 4 yuan of land tax."

Zhang Dahei has 2 silver tax stamps, which are converted into 1 cent of silver, and after deducting the tax stamps, he needs to pay 3 coins and 9 cents of silver, Zhang Dahei, is there a problem? ”

Although he had only studied in a private school for a year, he had already calculated the amount of money to be paid several times in his heart, Zhang Dahei nodded again and again, and trembled and escaped from the blanket with a few broken silvers and handed them to the account room next to him.

The tent looked at it briefly and said with a smile: "Zhang Dahei, your broken silver is eight percent off, that is, one tael of silver is only worth eight dollars of silver, is there a problem?"

Although he was quite dissatisfied in his heart, when he sold things and exchanged them with merchants, he calculated them according to the nine-fold value, but the government officials have always been black-hearted, and this year's treasurer is much better than in previous years, and in previous years, this kind of broken silver was at most sevenfold off.

Zhang Dahei felt his face twitch, and nodded weakly in agreement.

The corner of the treasurer's mouth showed a sly smile, then put the broken silver on the scale, looked at Zhang Dahei and said: "Zhang Dahei, these three pieces of broken silver weigh five cents and three cents, according to the eight conversion, you should pay 4 cents, 8 cents, 7 cents and 5 millimeters, and 3 cents 2 centimeters and 5 millimeters more." ”

Zhang Dahei's big face twitched, when he came, he obviously weighed five cents and five cents, and today the treasurer ate two cents of his own silver.

Although he was quite dissatisfied in his heart, this treasurer was much stronger than in previous years, and in previous years, he ate four or five points.

Nodding helplessly, the treasurer cut a little bit from these pieces of broken silver and gave it to Zhang Dahei, and then said that the scale was a little more prosperous, and it was counted as 4 coins, 8 cents, 7 cents and 5 millimeters.

Seeing that the scribe stamped a seal on the household registration book and pressed a handprint on the account book, although the official government officials were treacherous, they finally completed the payment of the field tax. Although the number of acres of dry land today is 3.4 mu more than in previous years, fortunately, the amount of land endowment this year is less than in previous years.

Zhang Dahei breathed a long sigh of relief, turned his head and looked at the back, the queue was still very long, there were hundreds of people in line, if you added those who didn't have time to queue, it would be even more.

Yang Xuan mingled in the middle of the crowd, although everyone praised the current light and meager endowment, and many people praised themselves, but they also had a deep understanding of the officials' efforts in the process of collecting money and money, and the villagers' criticisms.