In fact, no matter how much tax is paid, the basis for payment is actually the land, which is the fish scale book in the hands of the county's household houses and money and grain masters, which Liu Yuanshan is no longer worried about. www.biquge.info In any case, he doesn't have any land in his name, so he doesn't have to pay taxes.

Of course, this refers to the agricultural tax, and as for the Liao salary and training salary added by the imperial court, it is calculated according to the capitation.

But things were far beyond Liu Yuanshan's expectations, because at the time when the snow was flying, the group of soapy officials actually ran to his door and began to knock on the door, and shouted viciously: "Open the door quickly, will you freeze to death outside the door?" ”

When Sister-in-law Fan heard that she was an official, she immediately panicked, opened the door and invited those soapy officials to come in, and at the same time asked Liu Da to run over and call Liu Yuanshan.

In fact, Liu Yuanshan had already heard it, he was fearless, put on a cotton coat, and followed Liu Da from the backyard to the front yard, looking at three or five stout men looking at their houses there, he didn't dare to lack courtesy, and arched his hand: "I don't know what the officials do?" ”

He has no land in his name, and he is now collecting autumn taxes, so he is not worried about collecting taxes.

"You little baby is such nonsense, what else can we do when we get to your house?" One of them seemed to be the leader, looked at Liu Yuanshan with a look of contempt, and said, "Call your family over, we have serious things to do." ”

"No need, I'm in charge of our family, you can just tell me anything." Liu Yuanshan stretched out his hand and pointed to the wing room on the west side, and said, "It's very cold outside, let's go to the house to rest and drink a cup of hot tea." He turned around and shouted to Sister-in-law Fan, "Sister-in-law, make tea for a few officials." ”

Extended a few soaphorn officials into the west wing of the front yard, and after a while, Sister-in-law Fan came in with a pot of hot tea, poured a bowl for each of the little officials, and the person at the head smiled and said, "It's still a little exquisite." ”

Liu Yuanshan was neither humble nor arrogant, and arched his hand and said: "A few officials, please say something if you have something." ”

"Huh!" Seeing Liu Yuanshan's respect, the soapy little official also put down his attitude a little, and said with a smile: "You are a child for the first time, you really have some appearance, we ran all the way to your mountain naturally not just for a cup of hot tea, before the New Year this year, the autumn fu will be sent to Xiangyang Mansion, your family has ten acres of fertile land, it is time to pay taxes." ”

"What?" Hearing the words of the little official, Liu Yuanshan was simply stunned.

"Collect taxes, you know?" The little official thought that Liu Yuanshan didn't understand, so he repeated it again, and then said earnestly: "There is no way to escape this, and the taxes of the imperial court must be collected." ”

"But we don't have any land!" Liu Yuanshan spread his hands and said.

This little official said that his family has ten acres of fertile land, and he is also drunk, if you give me ten acres of fertile land, I will pay you double the tax, okay?

"You don't have land?" The little official looked like he had been tricked, pointed to the house and the subordinates, and said: "Your house is not bad, and there are subordinates to call, big brother, I don't care how many acres of land you have at home, if it is ten acres on the list, I will collect ten acres of money, whether you have a thousand acres, ten thousand acres." Don't be embarrassed by me! ”

In the opinion of this soapy little official, Liu Yuanshan has this value, and he can call the existence of his subordinates, and he has at least hundreds of acres of land at home, otherwise where would he dare to call his subordinates.

But many powerful families have the ability to buy all kinds of channels to make the land shown in the fish scale book much less than the actual land at home. In the eyes of the soapy officials, Liu Yuanshan is this kind of person.

"We really don't have any land at home, not half an acre! The whole village can testify to me. Liu Yuanshan said truthfully: "The kid just split up this autumn, this house was built less than ten days ago, and the old house didn't give me half an acre of land when the family was divided, how can I have ten acres of fertile land?" He half-jokingly said to the leader: "Please give me ten acres of fertile land, and I am willing to pay twenty acres of taxes!" ”

The head of the team was suddenly laughed at by Liu Yuanshan, took out a piece of tissue paper from his arms, looked at him carefully and asked, "Is the family called Liu Yuanshan?" ”

"I am!" Liu Yuanshan nodded.

"See for yourself!" The head of the team handed him the paper, and Liu Yuanshan then took a look, only to see a rectangular map drawn in the middle of the paper, marked with southeast, northwest, but different from modern maps is left, east, right and west. In addition to the map, it also clearly states where the land is to the east, where it is to the west, where it is to the south, and where it is to the north; The land belongs to which village and what household, how many acres there are, and the details are extremely detailed. At first glance, it is not a fish scale book, but it is also something copied from the fish scale book.

"This ......" Liu Yuanshan was speechless, and said to the head of the team with a simple expression: "This eldest brother, our family does not have land, and when we split up, we were out of the house, and everyone in and outside the village knows it." ”

"Impossible!" The head of the team took back the paper and said, "Besides, I have traveled from south to north, and I have seen a lot of things, and you are not the only one who has no land to pay taxes, even if there is no land, as long as you enter my fish scale book, you will have to pay taxes." ”

Nima! And there is this truth?

No, it seems unreasonable.

"Why is that?" Liu Yuanshan was also drunk. It's not that he doesn't want to pay taxes, but to be reasonable in everything, the last thing he wants to do is to be wronged.

Do the people in the government still have this kind of bullying method?

"Brother, don't talk to me!" The head of the team put the tea bowl in his hand heavily on the table and said, "I checked, your household name is the fish scale book that you just entered." You know, we have this fish scale book that has not moved for a hundred years, and the government will not change it privately. Take 10,000 steps back, even if you add someone privately, we have to know who you are, what is your surname, and who is not? ”

Saying this, Liu Yuanshan understood.

He has taxes in his name, and someone must have reported it, otherwise the government would not have added him to it.

"Official, your fish scale book, show me again!"

"Good!" The team leader handed the paper over again.

Liu Yuanshan's gaze fell on this fish scale book, but this time his focus was different, and he focused on those directions: west of Chigou and east of Gaogang, the land is forty steps wide, one hundred steps long, and ten acres.

Yes, there is this land, but this land is clearly the land of the old house, how can it run to his own name?

It's greasy!

Liu Yuanshan judged it for the first time, and then asked the team leader: "Official, I want to ask Liu Xiaozhong's family, what changes have been made to the land on the fish scale book this year?" ”

"I don't know what's changed." But the head of the team was quite face-saving, and took out Liu Xiaozhong's fish scale book and handed it to Liu Yuanshan to see.

When he saw that the Liu family's old mansion only had a tax of twenty acres of land, he understood everything.

It's the uncle again, in order to pay less taxes, he even added his name to the fish scale book.

At the same time, he instantly thought that this was the infamous "production and grain storage" in the history of the Ming Dynasty! ”