In this way, the external situation is constantly changing, and the Yun clan in Yunhua County is under the control of all rapid development, and in the blink of an eye, the new year is coming.

The New Year is coming, and the people in Yunhua County are happy to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

Although this year is a disaster year, but the impact of natural disasters on Yunhua County is not too big, coupled with the people's efforts to reclaim new land, most of the people this year's harvest is a few points more than last year, which is a very good thing, which means that their lives are guaranteed in the coming year, at least the cold and hunger are far away from them, and it is also thanks to the fact that they are now on the land of Yunhua County, if it is on the land outside Yunhua County, it is another situation.

The agricultural tax (land tax) of the Dali Empire is not high, one of ten taxes, that is, according to the grain output of the farmland, it is good to charge one-tenth of it, and the Yun family collects agricultural tax from the farmers according to this tax rate, and finally calculates the agricultural tax, half of it is handed over to Zezhou, Zezhou itself keeps a part, and the rest is handed over to the state.

After the common people (mainly referring to the peasants) pay the agricultural tax, the remaining grain is enough for the family to eat for the next year, and there is still a surplus, they take out the surplus grain in exchange for more or less money, store it, and use the money when needed, obviously, a day to use money during the New Year.

New Year, only once a year, everyone hopes that they can have a good year, indicating that next year will be better, before the New Year, the people who have some money in their hands, have taken out a part of the money they have finally accumulated, and began to buy New Year's goods, mainly food and clothes.

A hearty Chinese New Year's Eve meal is a must, fish is a food that will inevitably appear, in Yunhua County, fish is the most common dish, in order to relieve food pressure, Yun's catch a large number of marine fish from the offshore sea and sell it to the people at a very low price, in Yunhua County, people who have not eaten fish are very rare.

In addition to fish, the common people will also buy some meat, mainly mutton, chicken, duck, beef is very little, pork is not even more, when the meat is bought home, the children are staring at the meat without blinking, they rarely eat meat throughout the year, even if they do, I am afraid the portion will be very small, and the New Year, obviously can eat more meat.

There are meat dishes, vegetarian dishes are available at home, radishes buried in the ground are dug up, there are developed sauerkraut, and even some qualified people will join forces to make tofu.

If the people have more money in their hands, they will buy some candy back, and the children like the taste of sugar the most, sweet, pay attention to some of the mixed questions that are ignored by the children.

The ingredients for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner are almost ready, and the people will use the money to go to the cloth shop to pull a few feet of cloth and make new clothes and shoes for their families.

Changing into new clothes and eating a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve meal, all ordinary people who have lived in Yunhua County for more than two years can reach this point.

As for the people who only came to Yunhua County this year, with the assistance of the Yun family, they got rid of hunger and cold, and it was impossible to eat a good meal or change into new clothes, but they were not disappointed, as long as they worked hard for two years, everything would be fine, and they could send their children to the school to read and write, which was unimaginable in their opinion.

When they came to Yunhua County, they knew that Yunhua County was good, and when they stayed in Yunhua County for more than a year, they would even feel that their previous days were living on dogs, Yunhua County was completely a fantastic and beautiful world, no hunger, no cold, and no one oppressed and exploited them.

In addition, in Yingzhou overseas, the people on it are also welcoming the arrival of the New Year, and through the fleet, Yun's will send a large number of New Year's goods to Yingzhou, so that these people who are far away from the land of China can also have a New Year.

The people in Yunhua County welcomed the arrival of the New Year happily, but the people outside Yunhua County were bitter.

This year's natural disasters have greatly reduced the harvest of the common people, and in some places even the harvest has not been reduced, but the tax revenue of the government has not been reduced, and even the tax revenue in some places has been increased.

Different from the taxes in Yunhua County, the Yun clan only collects agricultural taxes for the common people, or ten taxes and one, but in areas outside Yunhua County, some officials not only collect agricultural taxes, but also add other taxes privately, and even the agricultural taxes that must be collected are not the ten taxes and one stipulated by the Dali Empire, many areas are five taxes and one, and some areas can even reach three taxes and one or even two taxes and one, and then counting other taxes, most of the people's harvest this year must be handed over, and even areas with serious grain production reductions, The common people will not be able to pay all the taxes collected this year.

The common people don't want to pay taxes, but the knives of the officials and officials have been put on their necks, and if they don't pay taxes, they will die, and if they pay taxes, they will die without food for a few days, just the difference between early death and late death.

Some ordinary people who had no food to eat gathered in the direction of the city, but there were also some ordinary people who could still hold on, looking at the little food left in their homes, how could they still think about the New Year.

What do people who are starving do?

It was like a madness, like a locust, sweeping towards a populated place, eating everything that could be eaten, even a human being.

With the passage of time, I don't know how many times the hungry people stormed the city, but in front of the strong and towering walls, the hungry people could not rush into the city at all, and in the same way, the people in the city were easily afraid to leave the city, and once they were surrounded by the outcasts, they were likely to become the things of the outcasts.

The people outside the city are not having a good time, and some of the people at the bottom of the city are not having a good time, the price of food is getting higher and higher day by day, and the people at the bottom can still maintain their lives in the city, but with the high price of food, they can no longer afford to buy food to eat, and some of the people at the bottom can only be reduced to beggars begging on the street, fortunately they have always been in the city, not outside the city, many people are starving to death outside the city every day, and the starving people have become other people's things, that kind of scene is miserable.

The people inside the city couldn't see or care, and it was like two completely different worlds inside and outside the walls.

It has not been a few days since the Chinese New Year, and some medium-sized families in the city feel that they are about to be unable to hold on, and the current grain price is already dozens of times that of the same period last year, and this day cannot be lived.

Whether it is past or not, time is passing, the New Year will still come, the miserable life will continue, maybe starving to death and freezing to death is the future of those poor people.