Chapter Eighty-Six: Pay More Taxes This Year

The autumn wind blows off the leaves,.

Whoever planted late rice, every family was busy sharpening their knives, preparing to harvest the joy of autumn, and the old man was not idle, so he found a group of people to go to those ponds in the mountains to catch crabs, which was what Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan said in their letters, leaving a small part for the old man, and sending the rest to Shuiyunjian.

The old man was also waiting, the two thousand acres of land belonged to his family, and Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan used it, and there were eight crabs sent along with the letter, and each of the same usage was written in the letter, so that the old man felt warm in curiosity.

One by one, the crabs and shrimp were fished up, and the people of the Bi family let out a cheer from time to time, and the old man took his granddaughter Xin'er and Liu'er to stand aside and watch.

"Grandpa, is the big crab going to be eaten raw? I heard people say that it is good to eat raw. Xin'er licked her lips with her tongue there and asked, she hadn't eaten too many crabs.

Children's families generally do not give these easy to get sick things, in case of accidentally eating sick, maybe they will die, only last year she only ate a few times, or very small kind, skewered with fried, bite in the mouth rattle, just no meat.

The old man touched his granddaughter's head, "It stands to reason that it should be eaten raw or drunk, but Xiaobao and Juan Juan wrote a letter saying that they are not allowed to eat like that, if you want to eat, send Shui Yunjian, where you will make raw and drunk crabs, otherwise it is easy to eat problems, let's eat steamed crabs." ”

"The steamed ones should also be made by Shui Yunjian, and the ones made there are delicious." Xin'er believes in eating most now in the water and clouds, and her own chef doesn't eat it.

"Okay, okay, just eat the water and clouds, don't be afraid of eating bad stomachs, send the ones that were fished out first to the Yamen of Huayuan County by fast boat, and then send some to the water and clouds, let them do it first, and eat it when they go back."

The old man agreed dotingly, he was actually eating in the water and clouds, there was a recipe specially for him, seeing that there were nearly 1,000 catties that had been fished out, let people hurry up and send it to the Zhang and Wang families, let them taste it first, and then they would have to send some, according to the habits of the Zhang family, there are good things that will be distributed to the Zhuang and the officials, and more than 500 officials are less than enough.

In Huayuan County, Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan, and Li Xun are also waiting for the shrimp and crabs over there to be delivered, so they have a good meal.

The mountain road has been repaired, and the other roads in Huayuan County have to wait for a few months, and there are many roads to be repaired, and there is money in the account of the yamen, and the 80,000 yuan at the beginning, plus the various taxes collected later, let Zhang Zhong build the road to any place where there is a home, except for the kind of individual households living on the mountain, all other places will be repaired.

Not only the county has a place to repair, the surrounding area of Linxian also specially built a big road, hired directly from Linxian, but also discussed with Linxian, after the autumn harvest, Linxian manpower, Huayuan County out of tools and road repair materials, Linxian several main roads also to repair.

The people in the yamen of Linxian County secretly had fun one by one, and while agreeing, they said that Zhang Zhong was stupid, so much money, just for a convenient transportation, he even helped Linxian to repair roads, and left some for himself, and no one said anything, so he took it out stupidly to help others.

Of course, the people in the yamen of Linxian County are just jealous, especially the yamen, while talking about Zhang Zhong, the county commander of Huayuan County, who lacks heart, and envy the good life of the yamen in Huayuan County, one by one with a knife on his waist, riding a horse under his body, and wearing clothes that fit and are neat.

The yamen of Huayuan County actually hired a lot of people to wash the clothes of the officials every day, and the officials in other places only had one set of clothes, and the people of their own families washed them, and there were seven or eight sets of them in Huayuan, and they were divided into seasons.

To do things in the county, the officials in other places or pay for food by themselves, or bully a small shop, Huayuan County not only immediately brought food, drink and medicine, but also a kind of stamped small card, with numbers written on it, as long as you eat in a store in Huayuan County, you can settle with a small card, there is a specified amount, and then these stores will take the small card to the yamen to exchange money or tax deductions.

In this way, the officials of Huayuan County can persist in their usual training, no matter how hard they work, and with the good supply of food, they are all strong and strong, and when they are pulled out to compare with others, the officials in other places can't raise their heads.

In this contradiction of taking advantage of the situation and scolding Zhang Zhong for being stupid, Zhang Zhong sent the tax and rent discount that should be paid this year, which caused an uproar in the DPRK and China, and the people in the court and the central government knew that the original Wenxian Order had collected an extra year's rent, and they thought that Zhang Zhong would write an excerpt this year saying that it was reduced or reduced, but they did not expect it to be five times as much as usual.

The news soon spread to the surrounding counties, and the county commanders in these counties gritted their teeth one by one, Huayuan County sent so much, what should I do on my side? I also want to find an excuse to reduce it, keep more by myself, compare with Huayuan, dare to do this, don't think about continuing the county order next year, I can't do it.

At this time, Zhang Zhong did another stupid thing, discussed with the surrounding counties, rented their land to grow vegetables in winter, and some of the materials to be used also came from the yamen, the yamen first went to spend money to collect materials, and then sold them to the Zhang family at some price, which was done in his personal name.

Now those county orders were happy, Zhang Zhong rented a thousand acres of land at once, only rented for a few months, and gave fifty yuan for one acre of land, and if you want to make that kind of vegetable on so much land, this material will have to be thousands of yuan, even if you add two percent of the price, you can get a thousand yuan of income.

This is a county of 1,000 acres, and then you have to hire local people to help cultivate, a few months down, the hired people earn more money than a year of farming, when scolding Zhang Zhong for being stupid, several county orders also breathed a sigh of relief, and also wrote an excerpt, mentioning the highest amount of money and grain handed over in the county this year, twice as much as in previous years.

I wanted to keep some by myself, but none of the county orders dared to stay more because of Zhang Zhong's excerpts, and it was not worth it to stay less, so they were all mentally tortured and almost had a problem.

scolded Zhang Zhong, hated him, and liked him.

Not only that, Zhang Zhong also asked the Zhang family to open the game store in several counties first, and also used the map of several counties, and assigned some work to make villains to the poor people in several counties, and ordered a large number of handicrafts in several counties, and all the poultry and livestock in the county were collected, and chickens and piglets were sent at very cheap prices.

It is precisely because of this that the money earned by the surrounding counties is enough for them to double the money and grain handed over this year, double the rent, and the people's lives are good enough.

40,000 yuan, how much land and population can be bought? In this way, Zhang Zhong used it to take care of the neighboring counties.

Every day, things from other counties were pulled by car, Zhang Zhong arranged for people to build more than a dozen large warehouses, put things into them, poultry and livestock, directly slaughtered and frozen, and for a time the restaurants in Huayuan County began to buy all kinds of blood tofu, and the officials also went home all day long.

There is also a road to Linxian on this side of Yaowang Mountain, and when Zhang Xiaobao and the three of them were waiting for crabs and training people, a small team of five cars came from that side.

"Xiaobao, tell me, what do you want to do? For the first time, I have seen people doing good deeds like your family, and so much money is cheapened for others. ”

Li Xun's eyes moved with the five cars, and he touched Zhang Xiaobao next to him and asked.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, "I don't know, maybe my father feels that he is leaving, and he wants to send more benefits to the people here, and the life of the people is not easy, so I can help if I can." ”

Li Xun thought about it for a while, and felt that there was no other reason except for the reason Zhang Xiaobao said, so he glanced at the trainer and said: "I don't know when the crabs and shrimp will be able to come, I have to use the eight crabs you gave me." ”

"It should be soon, Grandpa Bi will definitely send the fish he caught earlier to this side, don't be in a hurry, I will cook a few more dishes for you then." Zhang Xiaobao was also slandered by Li Xun's questioning.

Li Xun's eyes stared over there, and when a convoy appeared over there, Li Xun happily said to Zhang Xiaobao, "It's coming, it's coming." ”

"Isn't that right?" Zhang Xiaobao squinted his eyes, feeling that it didn't look like the old man's team for people to deliver things.

"Isn't it? It's something I sent to you, twenty carts, I don't usually see it here, I have someone transport it from somewhere else, it should be twenty-two to twenty-three carts, but all the way here, the outermost one can't be eaten, so you can only throw it away, this thing is good, I'm preparing to let other places plant it, and then there will be vegetables to eat in winter. ”

Li Xun waved over there.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were curious, the convoy gradually approached, and when they stopped in front of them, the covered curtain was lifted, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were stunned for a moment at the same time, and then they became happy.

Li Xun walked over and took one, "Haven't you seen it?" Bai Xiang, planted in Hebei Province, it is inconvenient to transport it, and there has been no one to transport it, this year's output is large, and I hope to be able to plant some in more places, and there are other places before, and the colors are different.

I know you always have to get something you haven't seen before, so I brought it to you, the taste of white woad is better than other woad dishes, send these, enough for your family to eat in winter. ”

"Bai Xiang? Cabbage? No, why did it come out at this time? It should be a little later. Zhang Xiaobao touched the cabbage with his hand, he didn't expect to be able to eat cabbage, this thing has a large yield and can be stored for a long time.

"So that's it? Ye Liuwang is frugal, and the dishes on the plate are just called woong? No wonder I can't find it, it's okay now, make a pig-killing dish to eat. Wang Juan also reacted, she checked a lot of things, and wanted to find all kinds of useful and familiar ones to use, but she didn't expect that the materials needed for the sauerkraut that she had been wanting to eat in winter were by her side.

"yes, that's it? Will you eat it? Stir-fry or stew tofu to eat. Li Xun nodded beside him, and said, "Naturally, it's this season, otherwise when will you wait?" ”

"Loser, you can plant some other vegetables first, and then plant this, this thing is cold-hardy, and it wastes the opportunity to plant something else, is there a seed? Get me more, and whatever new stuff is coming from elsewhere, get it all, stir-fried and stewed tofu, and I'll tell you how to eat it. ”

As Zhang Xiaobao spoke, he took out his hand into the cabbage core, took out a handful when he came out, handed half of it to Wang Juan, and the two of them ate it raw.