Chapter 50: Kidnapping

Jin Tong probably had also read books, and at the end he hung up the book bag, and Zhang Han almost laughed out loud when he heard it.

He coughed twice, suppressed his laughter, and leaned over to look at the yellow list, only then did Zhang Han realize that next to the yellow list, there was also a white list.

The yellow list is two cents of silver per mu, and it is six cents to fold the positive tax and service in the land, adding up to eight cents of silver, plus the autumn tax is more, which is just in line with Zhang Han's judgment of about two cents per mu and positive tax plus bad service.

There is more tax money on the white list, the previous errand has been folded, but it has been collected again, the post station straw bundle money, the river worker servant, the horseman errand service, the sedan chair man, the fire man, the doorman, a labor required by the government, forced labor, including the sedan sedan shift for the official office and private service, as well as the post station errand, as well as the county warehouse, the inspection department, the county school, etc., the best thing is that this Zhuangzi is under the rule of the real Tuwei, but Lijiazhuang is a citizen, but it should be paid a lot, just set up a name, and the miscellaneous fees of the ordinary county governance were changed to the collection of the guard.

The guards here in Datong are really different from the mainland, the officers of the inland guards can only manage their own military households, and they have no right to collect taxes and errands, at most they rob the military households to farm the land, force the military households to farm the land, and then do their own business, if they are border army generals, they can add the income from smuggling and eating empty amounts, Datong is equivalent to a thousand military and civilian households, and the commander has the power to manage the people and collect taxes, which is really much stronger than the inland command, and the oil and water are much bigger.

Someone suddenly shouted: "Why is it that the yellow list and the white list have been added with silver this year?" ”

When Li Xiangfu heard this, he looked over, and also frowned and said, "One point per mu on the yellow list?" Two more points on the white list? ”

Such an acre plus three cents of silver, the summer tax alone is more than a penny, not to mention the autumn tax?

For a while, the people were surging, most of the villagers were illiterate, and a few literate people looked carefully, and sure enough, the yellow and white lists increased.

Jin Tong was not flustered, and actually took the time to say a few words to Zhang Han, but his demeanor was very proud, although he was just a helper, but he had power in his hands, although Zhang Han was rich, but in his eyes he was just a fat sheep that could be slaughtered, and Jintong's psychological advantage was very obvious.

When everyone was almost in a hurry, Jin Tong said angrily: "What are you arguing about, it is the will of the Wanli Emperor to levy an extra cent of silver per acre of land, if you don't believe it, you can go to the Acropolis to see, you mud legs, do you know what to do with additional silver?" That Jiannu raised troops to invade my Liaodong border, killing and injuring many people, the Wanli Emperor was furious, and the heavenly soldiers had risen to go to the conquest, the soldiers and horses had not moved, and the grain and grass had to go first, and a little silver was levied to support the army's grain and grass. ”

With such a reprimand, sure enough, no one in the village dared to speak out anymore, and Jin Tong went proudly.

Zhang Han has seen the yellow list in the Acropolis, knowing that each mu is only three centimeters and five millimeters, he remembers that during the Chongzhen period, the grain per mu was levied ten yuan, and the silver was eight dollars per stone, but in fact, in addition to the northwest, the peasants only converted three or four dollars per stone, and later added one cent and four centimeters and nine silk per mu, and Chongzhen ten years later added one cent per mu.

After Jin Tong left, there was a gloomy cloud and mist all around, and three points per mu were levied, although the landlord and the owner of the landlord bear the part of the yellow list levy, but the white list still has to bear it themselves, according to the current grain price, each family has to spare nearly a stone of grain, and so if it is taken from everyone's belly, there are still many wild vegetables in this weather, and when the autumn tax is levied again, hunger is inevitable.

Zhang Han looked at Jiang Yi, this companion immediately understood, and immediately crossed his waist and said: "Everyone listens, we and Yusheng firm collect grain everywhere, and this half has also informed everyone, and now continue to collect grain, it is still five dollars of silver per stone of wheat, if you want to sell grain to pay taxes, you can sell it to us and Yusheng!" ”

Li Xiangfu also wanted to ask about this before, a stone of grain is two dollars, for the people may be two or three months of chewing grain, before and Yusheng said that he wanted to collect grain, and then stopped, everyone was very depressed, at this time said to collect again, Li Xiangfu couldn't help but pat heavily on the leg, shouted: "That's it!" ”

"Not yet." Zhang Han smiled, pulled Li Xiangfu and said, "There is still something down there, I have to bother the village." ”

"The owner's business is our business."

"Prepare a few empty rooms, as well as prepare some good tea and water, there will be many guests in the next two days."

"Huh?"

Zhang Han laughed.

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In the evening, the banquet in Ma Chao's house was almost dispersed, everyone had the intention of returning with all their hearts, the yellow and white lists in the city were lively, and from time to time there were bursts of gongs, and the noisy people were upset, Jiang Dalin was complaining, and said to everyone: "Is this a disaster?" The Dongdong people made trouble, and there were people from Liaodong who went to beat him, but what did we do here in Datong? Where did the millions of silver in the imperial court go every year? How can you fight a small Dongyu and send more? ”

Zhang Yanhong is a showman, there are some goods in his belly, and he said with a smile at the moment: "I remember that during the Jiajing period, Wang Gao and Wang Wutang made trouble successively, cut the edges, burned and looted, especially that Wang Gao, for a wide range of disasters, and later Li Chengliang was the marshal who suppressed them, and used soldiers for more than ten or twenty years before and after. ”

Ma Chaoren pursed his lips and said, "Brother, I forgot that there are also two Tartars, Taining and Jianhan, and they have been causing trouble...... What kind of person is this day, who is really the Lord who still boils oil in the stone...... Fortunately, we don't have a mine here, and it is not a rich land in Jiangnan, otherwise the mining envoy and the tax envoy will arrive one after another, and that will be peeling and deboning. ”

Everyone nodded, and when it came to the mining envoys and tax envoys, there was no one in the world who did not hate them.

One has always been industry and commerce outside the system, there has never been a formal search for industry and commerce at the court and government level, enjoy low taxes, since it is not acceptable to pay taxes, Wanli is a precedent, the second is to mine tax envoys are eunuchs to act, good and bad, about ten taels of silver, reported to Wanli only one tael, Wanli years of industrial and commercial taxes collected in the millions, in fact, only about half less than into Wanli's private treasury, the bottom is a large number of eunuchs and officials to divide up, the gentry also have a share, bitter or ordinary middle and lower class businessmen, Later generations always said that it was the gentry who instigated the drive and beat the eunuchs, but they didn't know that if there was no public indignation, it would be almost impossible to beat the emperor's slaves and the green-skinned scoundrels they raised.

At this time, a small guy came in, but what he was holding in his hand was a big red post, Ma Chaoren saw it and beckoned to send it over, and when he opened it, he looked at it, and the look on his face was really indescribable.

"It's really weird." Ma Chaoren smiled and said to everyone: "The proprietor of Yusheng is called Zhang Han, and he sent a post, saying that he invited me to his village to talk, which is really fun." ”

These days, the most energetic people who besiege and Yusheng branch every day are not the people who command the envoys, that is, Ma Chaoren and the family members of everyone present and the hired green skins, the besieged people do not come to the door to discuss, or simply close the branch, but Baba sends a post and invites people to talk to their land, in Ma Chaoren's opinion, this is naturally a very ridiculous thing.

After laughing, Ma Chaoren threw the post to the ground and sneered: "This kid really thinks he is the chief soldier and is ready for the army." ”

At this time, another family member hurriedly ran over and whispered a few words in Ma Chaoren's ear, and before he finished speaking, Ma Chaoren's face changed greatly and he collapsed on the chair.

Before dark, Yang Qiu and others rushed over with more than a dozen people.

There are men and women, most of them are underage teenagers and girls, and there are also two bewitching women, walking on the ridge with one foot high and one foot low, crying and crying while walking, obviously the little feet can't walk, Yang Qiu and others have to shout and scold on the side.

Zhang Han looked at it, and when Yang Qiu was closer, he scolded with a smile: "You are really hateful, what are you doing to bring this bewitching woman?" ”

"Hehe, back to the proprietor, there are two families with no old and no young, only pet concubines, we have no choice but to tie up their favorite concubines, and I guess we are also in a hurry."

Zhang Han nodded slightly and said with a smile: "You didn't encounter any trouble, did you?" ”

"How then?" Yang Qiu said proudly: "Although we haven't done kidnapping and blackmailing people for many days, this thing is our strong point, and I don't know how many times we have done it before." ”

Liang Xing smiled: "I can do less, you did more back then." ”

Zhang Han sighed: "You two goods, why didn't you become bandits?" ”

"We thought about it, but my father and mother were still there, so we had to endure it." Yang Qiu said quite seriously: "We almost went to Daliang Mountain to fall into the grass, but although it is more fun to be a bandit, we just need to be careful of the officers and soldiers, which is more dangerous than doing it." ”

Liang Xing said disdainfully: "When did the officers and soldiers seriously suppress the bandits, and they were all fed with silver, and you should have confiscated the money from Lai Tongxin?" ”

"It's far away." Zhang Han stopped the business discussion between the two henchmen, and pointed to the people in front of him: "Yang Qiu take them there, Lao Li has already prepared hot food and a house over there, don't scare them, treat me with good food and drink." ”

"The proprietor." Liang Xing said with a hippie smile: "Those two women are very beautiful, you look at the thin waist, the chest is also bulging, and the face is also thoughtful, you just got them tonight, anyway, they themselves will not say, even if you say it, do the grain merchants dare to settle accounts with you?" ”

Zhang Han listened to it and felt a little itchy in his heart, it was not for nothing that the two women in front of him could be favored concubines, it was really seven or eight points of color, and they were left to learn some modern makeup techniques in the later generations, I am afraid that there are nine points, a proper goddess level.

After all, he still shook his head, this thing has to be done, and his reputation is not very good.

At the moment, he said righteously: "Nonsense, how can this proprietor be such a person." ”

Liang Xing and Yang Qiu looked at each other and smiled.