The affairs of the new army did not cause much turmoil in the summer city, the military camp was training every day, and although the people in the city had finished harvesting the beans, the end of autumn was not idle, and the curiosity of the tired was always defeated by the sleepy sleeping demon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A total of 230,000 catties of 60,000 catties of soybean seeds were harvested, and the effect of planting one and harvesting four was achieved, which was quite good for agricultural production at this time, with a yield of seventy or eighty catties per mu, far exceeding Chen Jian's expectations.

40,000 catties of land directly under the jurisdiction of the city were harvested, plus the seeds that the various tribes needed to hand over and return, and the total amount of beans produced by the city was 90,000 catties.

The wild people outside the city also took advantage of these days to hurry up and collect all kinds of taxes that should be paid, and ten soldiers and a tax collector who could count roamed the villages outside the city every day.

Although the wildlings were glad that they had finally seen the harvest, they also hated the tax collectors in fur hats, secretly calling them furry and indicating that they were not human.

The tax collector knew his reputation in the wild village, and he was a little helpless but helpless.

According to Chen Jian's original regulations, these wild people had to pay more than just grain.

According to the number of people, before the beginning of the winter festival, each person needs to pay five birch poles and bird feathers, which are used to make feather arrows; Each village had to pay a certain amount of firewood, which required them to go upstream for three days to cut it down and put it down along the river for the public property of the city; You need to prepare some thatch for straining wine, a certain amount of animal skins...... The hats worn by these tax collectors were made of the skins of the animals they paid.

In addition to paying the taxes of these entities, it is also necessary to take advantage of the crisp autumn season to send some conscripts to the cities to repair the thatched roofs, dig up the mud in the trenches, clean the dung from the toilets, block some rivers that are about to recede, remove the good grass and hemp from the stinky hemp ponds, strengthen the walls of Yangguan, and pick large quantities of hazelnut acorns......

All of this is a manifestation of inequality, but it has to be done with the support of violence.

Gradually there are some ballads that are not love songs in the villages of the wild people, and they are widely spread.

Ji Yun, a fourteen-year-old child in the school, had just passed the assessment and became a tax collector for just over a month, and he had heard those wild people humming more than once.

The general meaning of the lyrics is: Ding Ding came to cut down the trees in winter, cut down the firewood and put it by the river, and the grass river made waves on the clear water, which was all sweat from cutting down trees. You wear a fur hat high and upturned, you don't bend down when you plant beans and harvest wheat, why do you move bags to the city? If you don't go up to the mountains to hunt, why can you eat a hog badger?

What made Ji Yun even more unacceptable was that when he went to the village of "Fish", several children were playing games there, and after drawing a frame, a child was limping and chasing the child running behind the frame, and the child who was curled up and jumping on his head was wearing the same straw hat as Ji Yun, and the children who were about to be caught would shout: "Run, the tax collector is here!" ”

The "catfish" who accompanied him to the village points next to him heard the children's shouts, his face turned a little green, and he scolded a few words to drive the children away.

Catfish were the first tribe to move from the east, and they were reluctant to accept the status and constraints of the wild people at first, but after Xia Cheng harvested the wheat, she could not resist the temptation of those wheat grains, agreed to Chen Jian's conditions, and moved to the lower reaches of the Grass River with the whole clan.

Although they were the first to leave the rule of the Meteorite Clan, they were the latest to settle in the lower reaches of the Grass River, and the best land had been occupied by other tribes, and they could only be in the most remote places. Because of her name, the whole tribe takes the fish as the surname, and this fish is in a broad sense, and the clansmen may not all call it Yu so-and-so, but may be a variety of different fish.

In the summer, Chengyi sent Tian officials to teach them to plant, and borrowed 1,000 catties of soybean seeds and 20,000 catties of wheat seeds from the private property of the four clans, she was still very grateful to Chen Jian, at least these loaned seeds only need to repay the same amount, and if the borrowed public property has to be borrowed ten to repay twelve.

Now that the beans have been harvested and the wheat has just begun to grow, the tribe may have to go to the city again to borrow grain this winter. Chen Jian only lent them seeds, but the food they ate had to be public, that is, they borrowed ten to repay twelve.

The catfish looked at the young Ji Yun, who had just grown fluff on his mouth, and said in his heart that this child might not know too much, maybe he would make a mistake. But when I thought about it, Yu Qian'er, who was about the same age as Ji Yun, sighed in my heart, she was not big, but she was not easy to fool.

led Ji Yun to the warehouse in the village, looked at dozens of poor bags of beans, and sighed: "That's all, you also watched it when you harvested." I collected a total of 4,600 catties, and returned you 1,000 catties of seeds, and 10 taxes were collected, and a total of 1,360 catties were paid. ”

Ji Yun sneered and laughed: "Patriarch Catfish, you miscalculated, you collected taxes first and then returned the seeds, so you have to pay back a total of 1,460 catties, and you have a hundred catties less." ”

Catfish smiled awkwardly, and said in his heart what are you learning in the school? How can such a young child be able to calculate so clearly? Thinking that there were still a few children in his clan in the school, staring at Ji Yun's tall fur hat, he thought enviously in his heart: "If only those children could pass any exam, then they could directly have the status of a countryman and have the qualifications to be officials. ”

It's a pity that she is already old, and she refused Chen Jian's invitation at the beginning, knowing that her village may not be able to get the identity of a Chinese person at the latest, and she is a little annoyed in her heart.

Ji Yun didn't know what the catfish was thinking, so he waved his hand and asked the soldiers who followed behind to lift the rod scale, and the two of them carried the weight of the beans. The catfish's eyes hurriedly stared at the stars on the scales, for fear of being wrong, and kept shouting: "The scale is lower, not so high." ”

"Don't worry, I won't charge you a little more. Apart from these, what about something else? What about birch arrow shafts? There are 110 people in your village, except for children under the age of five, and you need to pay 550 birch arrow shafts, two bags of thatch, 500 firewood with a bowl mouth four steps thick, and 500 bird feathers. ”

The catfish pulled Ji Yun and said bitterly: "Everything else is easy to say, but the birch pole is not enough, and you require that the texture must be vertical, but this is a little difficult." ”

"What words? The texture is not vertical to make feather arrows will break, you can't be the number of them, right? At the beginning, the rules were set, and they had to be handed over before the Lidong Festival, and if you don't pay them, you know the consequences. ”

"Yes, of course I do. It's just that can you grace it for a few days? ”

"If the rules are set, if you pay one day late, you will be fined ten more sticks, and if you can't pay it all before the winter solstice, you will be fined grain directly, and you can't borrow grain from the city."

"I know all this, but where are so many arrows used?"

"You're not an official, how do you know these things? In more than a dozen villages, less than 10,000 arrows can be handed over in a year, and there is not much left after removing some bends. The barracks consume 100 or 10 troops a day, and at the end of the year, if there is no war, it is four or five thousand. ”

"Didn't the barracks all shoot at the target?"

Ji Yun was just about to explain that there are arrows that can't be found in the projectile every day, but thinking that this news can't be said casually, he closed his mouth and shook his head: "In the future, in the war, each person who can shoot arrows needs to bring thirty arrows to the battlefield, is ten thousand arrows a lot?" You also know that in addition to bird feathers and arrow shafts, feather arrows also need fish maw glue, and the council originally discussed that you also have to pay the swim bladder, if it weren't for Ji Xia's opposition, you would have had some more things. ”

"Yes, Ji Xia is very good, I am looking forward to this winter's council and let Ji Xia continue to be the leader of the city, I don't know what others will say."

"That's it, by the way, you have to hurry up, Ji Xia has an order, tomorrow another batch of conscription will be levied, and your tribe will send out six men and three women."

"Why is it being recruited again? Our tribe's houses have not been repaired, and the winter is so cold, can't we sleep in a leaky house for the winter? Besides, haven't the houses in the city been repaired? Won't you be reclaiming land again? ”

"No, Ji Xia said that he wanted to repair the nitrate field, I don't know what it is, anyway, I will send someone tomorrow. This time the cultivation of the nitrate field is an additional levy, and it takes up your time to reclaim the land, so each person has eight catties of grain a day, and it will take about a month. ”

The catfish stretched out his fingers and counted for a long time, Ji Yun smiled: "Don't count, it's a total of 2,000 catties of grain, and if you throw nine people to eat for a month, you can still have more than 1,000 catties left, which is not less than the beans you paid." ”

"Then why bother?"

"The rules can't be changed. Don't look at the fifteen taxes in the city, but our Ji clan alone has paid tens of thousands of catties of grain this year, how much have you paid? This year, I'm going to have to post a lot of miles, and tomorrow you can talk to the children, don't treat me like a bad guy all day long......"

The two of them counted the various taxes that needed to be paid while talking, in addition to the birch arrow shafts, there were also many unqualified feathers, and Ji Yun picked them all out, meticulously.

Before the second batch of bird feathers was delivered, the catfish himself ran over and quietly took out the mutilated feathers that had been mixed in, and was a little embarrassed to take out the good falcon feathers that had been hidden from his house and were ready to be handed in next year.

Tossed until noon, a carriage came from Xia Cheng, the carriage was loaded with a large amount of goods, the coachman jumped down and found Ji Yun, and whispered a few words in his ear, the catfish stretched his neck to know what the two people said, but he didn't hear clearly.

Ji Yun straightened the fur hat on his head, walked to the pottery drum at the entrance of the village and beat the big drum, so that all the people of the fish village would gather.

"Tomorrow is the Lidong Festival, Ji Xia has given you a lot of good things, have a good holiday. Rules are rules, people are people, that's different. The last time the Meteorite tribe was recruited, although your tribe did not follow the expedition, they also sent people to guard the city, which Ji Xia remembered. If you do well in the future, you can naturally go to live in the city, whether you do well or not, Ji Xia has a rod and scale in his heart. ”

Just as he was about to talk about what the city had given to these savages, Ji Yun looked at the various goods on the car, turned around and asked the coachman beside him in a little stunned, and whispered to the white square soaked in water in a clay pot on the car and asked, "What is that?" (To be continued.) )