The old man and the old woman looked up at Qin Li and Murong Bing, the old man stood up, pointed to the low stool he was sitting on and said, "Come on, come and eat!" It just so happens that the old man is full! ”

Then he told the woman to go to the kitchen and boil some more polenta. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although the woman looked very reluctant, she was also a little afraid of the old man, and went to the kitchen silently to get busy.

Qin Li and Murong Bing looked at each other and smiled, they were indeed hungry, so they simply sat down and chatted with the old man first.

Qin Li said, "Uncle, this year's harvest is good, right?" It's like you can eat corn porridge this winter. ”

"Well, it's nothing to be able to eat hot porridge in winter, and we can often eat white flour buns in our small lamp village for the first two years. Alas! It's been getting worse and worse these days! However, the old man is also very satisfied with being able to drink such gruel. It's a pity, it's a pity that this kind of gruel may not last long. The old man frowned tightly and sighed.

Qin Li has experienced so many villages, and in his opinion, this old man's life should be very good now. But the old man said that the first two years were better, which made Qin Li even more puzzled. I couldn't help asking, "Where did Uncle start with this?" Why is it better in the first two years, but maybe even worse in the future? ”

When Qin Li asked like this, the old man was stunned for a moment, as if he realized something, and couldn't help but look Qin Li up and down in detail, and then asked suspiciously, "Are you really relatives?" ”

"Is this still fake? We are from Yangzhou, we are here to visit relatives in Jiaohe County, relatives' homes are in the county seat, and the dry food we brought is finished, which bothers the uncle! Qin Li said in fluent Yangzhou dialect.

Murong Bing grew up in Di Dao and had a Shaanxi accent, but fortunately, she didn't speak, just pretended to be ignorant and looked at the old man.

The old man walked to the door of the house, looked out, and saw that there was no one around the house, so he closed the door tightly, sat down next to Qin Li and them again, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh again, and said, "You are from outside, this descendant, naturally you are not familiar with our Jiaohe County." Alas! The sky has changed, Jiaohe County has changed! Do you think we're going to have a good life?

Speaking of which, five years ago in Jiaohe County, our people's lives were still poor, and their families were surrounded by walls. It's nice to have a bite of wild vegetable porridge. Most people want to eat Guanyin soil to survive! But just five years ago, our county changed the county order, and the county order was called Hu Shining. Hu Shining Hu is really a good official, a clean official. He was in office for five years, and during those five years he was diligent and very concerned about the lives of our people.

Master Hu often came down to farm and spin yarn with our people, and studied ways to produce more grain with us. The most important thing is that in the past five years, Master Hu has collected very few taxes, thirty taxes. This has never been heard of in any dynasty or generation.

The old man also heard that this old man Hu withstood a lot of pressure from Hejian Mansion. Hmph, don't look at Master Hu is just a county magistrate, but he seems to be tougher than the prefect of Hejian. The prefect of Hejian had a very bad quarrel with our Master Hu over the matter of paying taxes, but our Master Hu was not afraid of him, let alone listened to him. Every year, thirty taxes are collected on the land, and nothing else is collected. ”

Speaking of the county order Hu Shining, the old man was obviously very excited, and he couldn't help but talk endlessly.

Although Qin Li is only a military official and has never acted for local political affairs, he has heard a little about the taxes of the people. There are many names such as field endowment and conscription, and there are countless of them. After these taxes were paid, most of them were not handed over to the imperial treasury, but remained in the local area, providing food and drink for local officials at all levels.

Because the management of the Ming Dynasty was very lax at this time, although a group of cabinet officials led by Yang Tinghe, the first assistant to the cabinet, worked actively and hard, after all, their energy was limited, and the management of the following states and counties was not so in place.

As a result, the following states and counties can set their own tax amounts, which is good, and it varies from place to place. If the people meet a clean official, it is good to say, if they really meet a corrupt official, then no matter how good the day is, they will be destroyed by the heavy taxes he stipulates.

"As far as Xiao Sheng knows, the current taxes of the imperial court are much higher than the thirty taxes, and this Hu County Order collects so much, so how can it make up for the rest of it?" Qin Li asked puzzled.

Of course, Qin Li had to pretend to be very vague when he asked, because if he showed that he was very proficient in taxation, it would undoubtedly arouse the old man's suspicion. In fact, for people like the old man in front of them, they should know very little about the internal situation of the county government.

"Huh! You don't understand this, the imperial court does collect a lot, but our Master Hu is a powerful man. There is a large river beach in the northeast of Jiaohe County, more than thousands of acres. The river beach has been abandoned for many years, and the grass is everywhere. In fact, it's not that we people don't want to open up wasteland and farm, but that place is really not a place to grow food. But Master Hu organized all the county officials and hired our people to reclaim that wasteland.

Hehe! Mr. Hu is really a capable person, Mr. Hu does not grow crops on that large sandy beach, he grows a spice called star anise. Unexpectedly, I really didn't expect that place to be a place for growing spices.

You think, what kind of income is the seasoning that grows and then sells it. Hehe! Jiaohe County has such a huge income, and with a capable person like Master Hu, where do we ordinary people have to pay taxes?

The so-called thirty tax one is just a saying, in fact, the county wants to send dozens of catties of grain to our people every year, and Master Hu calls that grain ...... Called......"

The old man said this with great interest, frowning and remembering. At this time, the mother-in-law came in with a pot of steaming polenta. She just heard this, and couldn't help but say, "Hmph, you old man, the older you get, the more confused you become, you dare to forget the things about Master Hu, that's sorry Master Hu."

The rice noodles and meat that Master Hu gave us were called red grains. ”

The mother-in-law couldn't help but be interested when she talked about Hu Shining's county order.

Boom! Dividends are dividends, and the name is really of great significance to the times. Hu Shining, this guy must be a capable person.

Qin Li thought hollowly, although he had read books for more than 20 years in later generations, he could not find Hu Shining's shadow in the depths of his memory. It is no wonder that there must be a difference between what is recorded in the history books and what is true history. Many of them are real in history and have made great reputations. However, due to the personal preferences of the historians, or the specific conditions of the society at that time, those people could not be recorded in the history books in detail.

"This Master Hu is so good, the uncle's life should be getting better and better, why is the uncle's life not as good as before in the past two years?" Qin Li simply broke the casserole and asked to the end. (To be continued.) )