Looking at the enthusiastic crowd, Shen Xunwei looked quite sorry and said: "Brother Ruzhen, it seems that you are a step ahead, everyone originally wanted to raise funds from you to repair the school, but they didn't expect to be taken under your account today."

Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, Brother Ruzhen, no matter what, this academy can't be abandoned. ”

Looking at the blooming stamens on the branches next to him, Yang Lin nodded and said, "What Brother Shen said is also what I think." I assure you that even in these troubled times, I will not blink an eye when spending money on the academy. ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded.

Shen Xunwei chose to enter politics, and when he left, he got a pamphlet from the errand officer, and everyone who chose to enter politics had such a pamphlet, which mainly explained the important tasks of the new policy, or explained the consequences if he did not do so.

Under the oil lamp, Shen Xunwei took a cursory look and felt shocked, he couldn't imagine that there was so much oil and water in this market?

Packed his bags, went to the governor's yamen to report, and then came to Xinjin County in the south with the troops, Tong Sheng, who was in his thirties in the county, did not have much literature and ink, and when he heard that Shen Xunwei had arrived, he was immediately invited to the second hall.

Talking about the new policy, Wang Zhixian was full of praise and repeatedly refuted all kinds of slanders against adults in the world.

In the past, the imperial court levied three salaries, and the local governments apportioned them layer by layer, and four or five dollars of silver were paid for one acre of land, and it was not cost-effective for the common people to farm the land, even if in a rich place like the CD Plain, everyone fled the famine.

Although there are people who take care of the readers, Xiucai exempts one load of grain and one person Ding, and lifts people to reduce three loads of grain and one person Ding, in addition to this, everyone pays the same grain, each mu is only one liter of rice, and each ding is only one dollar and two cents.

Adults practice benevolent governance, but some readers make rumors and insist that adults are tyrannical, what is the reason?

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As the saying goes, seeing is believing and hearing is false, Shen Xunwei didn't believe it at first, but it suddenly dawned on her a few days later.

In the county seat a month ago, I followed a government official to the street every day to be on duty, and all kinds of things I saw were shocking.

First of all, according to the household registration book of the county, the county shops, shops are checked, different from the past kind of books, the household has a general table, divided into categories to record the store information.

Walking into a grain store on this day, although the owner of the grain store complained bitterly, he claimed that the business is not good now, and he gets up early every day to touch the dark, just trying to have food and clothing.

In the past, the government never collected taxes, but now it has to register and pay taxes, which is really not a good business.

Seeing that the other party complained repeatedly, he even seemed quite dissatisfied with the tolerance, and shouted: "Shopkeeper, you are really bitter."

Hong Wuye set the standard of three and nine rules, you say, do you have two thousand taels of silver a year to sell things in your store? ”

Shen Xunwei rubbed his eyes, thinking that it was Lao Liu who said, how could such an inconspicuous shop exceed two thousand taels of silver a year?

The brothers were more kind-hearted, and only reported each other's annual income of 1,000 taels of silver, which was a lot less.

What is surprising is that the shopkeeper does not dare to distinguish, and keeps saying that the business is not good now, unlike in the past peaceful years, if you pay twenty taels of silver every year in the peaceful years, there is nothing?

Lao Wang smiled, shook his head and said: "Shopkeeper, you, your net worth is not unknown to everyone, although you rarely paid taxes in the past, but you bribed officials, how could you have lost these twenty taels of silver?" ”

Speaking of this, the fat shopkeeper is energetic, in the past, he had to pay twenty or thirty taels of money every year, not including the New Year's holidays and the expenses spent when the new official took office.

Lao Wang heard it and laughed, now there is no need to hand over the money, now you only need to pay taxes, it is bright and bright, it is good for everyone.

The shopkeeper didn't say anything, and Shen Xunwei asked about the money, it turned out that it was the legal income of the government in the past, and the officials in the city could collect thirty or fifty taels of money every year, and if it was about other income, it would be more.

Shen Xunwei was dumbfounded, she couldn't imagine that such a grain store would have such a large income in a year?

The government collects commercial taxes, but I can't imagine that there is a discount below, and it is clear that the income of 2,000 taels a year is only 1,000 taels, so the tax is reduced by half.

Shen Xunwei was pondering, but then he was stopped by Lao Wang's words, compared to the uncle in the bazaar, the uncle on the dock, that is called a small witch.

When they came to the wharf, one after another awning boats docked, two or three servants collected taxes at the wharf, those who did not pay the customs levies needed to pay the customs levies, and those who had already paid did not need to pay them repeatedly.

Each ship docked, the boat boss jumped ashore to put down the ingots, and then reported what was being shipped and how much was it worth?

The officers do a simple check, check some of the values that do not match, and then pay the tax according to the major items.

However, discerning people found that the amount of these ship bosses was often underreported, and the errand officers did not dig too deeply, so they tore up the tickets and paid the fees.

Looking at the more than 30 ships moored in the port, Shen Xunwei was dumbfounded when he heard Lao Wang talk about the past anecdotes.

In the past, the wharf belonged to Uncle He in the city, and all those who docked at the shore were as little as three or five cents, and as much as two or three dollars of silver, especially in the market season, when the ships full of calluses sailed by, and each ship collected five or six dollars of silver.

Because he is in charge of the largest wharf in the city, Uncle He's family has a lot of money, thousands of acres of fertile land, and the amount of money paid to the yamen every year is enough to 200 taels.

…….

If he was still quite confused at first, whether it was in the city or in the countryside, Shen Xunwei found that what the pamphlet said was true.

After sighing, he remembered that the imperial court had levied three salaries in the past, and the government had apportioned them layer by layer, as Yang Lin said, these people's fat and people's ointment should have been uniformly controlled by the government, but they were greedy for ink by these gentry and officials.

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The displaced people gradually settled down, as the head of the township, Shen Xunwei was initially surprised, a township has settled more than 100 displaced people, some of the displaced people have money and are unwilling to borrow grain from the government, and some have no food to borrow grain to settle down.

In the past few months, Shen Xunwei has been running around the resettlement sites of displaced people, initially worried that these displaced people will cause chaos, but after half a month of getting along, he found that most of them are honest farmers.

Most of the people ate very poorly, and most of them boiled the borrowed grain into rice porridge and drank it, and ate it together with the wild vegetables collected in the mountains.

In the past, everyone also had a warm home and land, but the government levied and apportioned layers of money, and each mu of land was levied to three or five yuan of silver, plus the grain harvest in the field failed, so it was not cost-effective to farm the land.

Although the rest of the place is very chaotic, the local place is stable, which was unimaginable in the past.

In addition, there is a special distrust of the government.

I asked vigorously, is the future principal and interest of the grain loaned as much as written on the transportation artery?

Is the field rich in the field, a mu of rice and a bucket of rice?

What is more concerned is whether the government levies non-local labor? bluntly said that if the pillars of the family were conscripted into labor, then the family would be scattered.

Shen Xunwei explained to everyone at first, but every time they met, everyone would ask more often, and it wasn't until they heard that they were classmates and friends with the governor that everyone believed it.

After a few months of grassroots struggle, Shen Xunwei has become more and more understanding of the new policy, and he also feels that the people are no longer in awe of him, but believe in everything he says and does.