In order to facilitate the people to pay taxes in the Ming Dynasty, they can pay in kind, such as grain, silk fabrics, etc., but the people need to pay taxes to send grain money to the government, which is time-consuming and laborious, and the grain has to be transported again It is extremely labor-intensive, so the imperial court changed to silver and copper coins in order to consider many aspects.

However, there may be losses when melting and forging broken silver, so the government uses this name to collect excess silver taels, and these extra taxes are called fire consumption.

And this seems to be a good policy, but when the people sell grain, it is the grain production season, and the grain is the lowest price at this time, which is already a loss as usual.

And the loss of the government, in fact, whether there is a loss, how much, only the government itself knows, this is just an excuse to overcharge, this trick can be said to have been passed down for hundreds of years, and it has been prosperous for a long time.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, was a peasant, so the standard he required of all officials was to serve the people, and all those who wanted to be officials and make a fortune were all peeled and filled, so the salaries of officials were very low.

Later, I saw that the officials' lives were indeed very hard, and then the emperor was very kind, and he regarded the drenching as the welfare of the officials, which was not to cut the people, because the Ming Dynasty's tax was the lowest, one out of thirty! At that time, the politics were relatively clear, and the people had a better life, so it didn't matter if they had more contacts.

But as soon as some things are opened, they completely change their taste, when the people pay the grain, the government is packed with Hu, and the people put the grain into the Hu, and then weigh it, and calculate their share of the grain.

The grain piles should be packed in the shape of pointed piles, and some of them will go beyond the wall, and just when the people breathed a sigh of relief for the delivery of the public grain, something unexpected happened.

The official kicked Hu violently with lightning speed! At this time, some of the grains beyond the wall will fall to the ground, and the people will hurriedly pick them up, and the officials will shout loudly: Don't pick it up, it's a loss! Hey, what about you, pick it up!

This is the kicking of the tip, and the part kicked out is the so-called loss in grain transportation, and this part becomes the legitimate income of officials. As for the common people, they can only go home and send food again.

The most critical thing about this trick is to kick this action, whether the officials eat fragrant and spicy food, or eat bran and swallow vegetables depends on the kung fu of this foot, all the officials are practicing against a thick tree, kicking down the whole tree with one foot and shaking slightly, and the leaves are all falling, which is qualified!

Many ministers of the Ming Dynasty, such as Zhang Juzheng, lived by this hand before his career!

This thing looks very interesting in the history books, the officials usually compare with each other whose skills are better, even the officials have to look at it if they are good at footwork, but for the common people, it is blood and tears.

"What! In addition to paying rent, Huangzhuang also needs to pay food and serve servitude? Yang Su's eyes flashed with a cold glint when he heard this.

The gentry class does not pay grain or taxes, but the emperor's imperial village actually needs to pay grain! It's ridiculous!

"Chengen, I remember that the imperial court's tax is one in thirty, and the Liao salary is an average of nine cents of silver per mu of land, right?" Yang Su turned his head to Wang Chengen and confirmed!

"Yes, Childe!" Wang Chengen wiped the sweat from his forehead, he already had a premonition that if this matter was not handled well today, the emperor was afraid that he would go on a killing spree again, and the blood in the palace in the past had not yet dissipated.

"Old man, the emperor stipulates that the agricultural tax is only thirty draws one, and the Liao salary is only 'nine cents' of silver per mu, according to the grain price at this time, it is only a few catties of grain, even if the two add up, it is only thirty catties of grain, you also said before that the year is not good, one mu of land can produce more than one stone and nearly two stones, and the proportion is negligible, right?" Wang Chengen asked Old Man Chen again, he was also a little empty, the eunuchs below were too ugly, and he was to blame for being the head.

"It's impossible for adults, the taxes that villains pay to the government every time are more than one stone! We are Huangzhuang, and the adults in the government still collect less, and the three acres of land in the villages next to us have to pay at least two stones of grain a year! Old man Chen stretched out two fingers and trembled with excitement.

"Haha, yes! All right! Three acres of land can only harvest six stones of grain in a year, three stones for rent, one stone for taxes, and two stones left! Two stones! All right!! Yang Su patted his leg and smiled.

"Childe, the old slave is going to take down that brute!" Wang Chengen's face was full of shame, he was also from a poor family, where did he not know what this meant, two stones of grain were not enough for one person to eat, let alone maintain the livelihood of two people for a year.

"My lord, that's a father-in-law sent by the palace!" Old man Chen was shocked when he saw that Wang Chengen was going to get him.

"The old man is fine, we are also from the palace, I didn't know before, but now I have to call the shots for you!" Yang Su grabbed Old Man Chen and told him not to worry.

"From the palace!" Old man Chen kept chattering in his mouth, but his tears couldn't stop flowing, sobbing, "Why don't you come early!" Why don't you come early! If I had come earlier, I wouldn't have sold my second sister! Oh my granddaughter! ”

"Old man, what's hidden here?" Yang Su asked in surprise.

"I'm sorry for my granddaughter! That year, all the valuable things were robbed by Jiannu, and the crops in the field were burned, and there was still some grain left at home, but they asked me to pay the rent of ten acres of land!

Later, I dug wild vegetables and chopped firewood to sell in the capital, and the family could barely live, but the next year they only planted three acres of land for me, and then I was not allowed to even chop firewood and dig wild vegetables, saying that the wild vegetables in the field and the firewood on the mountain were all emperors, and we were not allowed to go, otherwise we would be sent to the official, I was really forced to have no choice, I was really forced to have no choice! Old man Chen recalled the past and trembled with pain.

Yang Suleng sat on the stool for a long time before hissing and asked, "Are they like this to everyone?" ”

"Yes, nobleman, who has a baby of this age, they all do this, forcing us to resist them as rent! Now San'er is also ten years old, and they want me to sell San'er this year, I won't die, I sold so many babies, and none of them have ever come back, they must all die outside, so I'd rather die with San'er! Old man Chen cried.

Yang Su's face flashed with a burst of murderous intent, in the past in the Song Dynasty, when he met corrupt officials and corrupt officials, he never showed mercy, and he was deeply tabooed by the emperor, and the officials hated him, but he never regretted it.

As a modern person, he has never taken the emperor seriously, if he didn't owe Zhao Kuangyin a favor, he would have overthrown the Song Dynasty long ago.

Now the group of eunuchs under his rule is even more hateful than the landlords he has seen before, those landlords are just colluding with officials, taking advantage of the catastrophe, instead of providing disaster relief, but raising the price of grain, forcing the people to sell their sons and daughters first, then annex their land, and finally make them their slaves.

And this group of eunuchs is using the name of the emperor to create man-made disasters, which should be cut by a thousand cuts!

Yang Su could guess with his eyes closed, this will definitely not be a special case, but the practice of all Huangzhuang, behind this matter is not just as simple as deception, but has formed a blood-stained industrial chain, in the name of the emperor, openly forcing the people to sell their ten-year-old children, in order to make huge profits!