The Tang Dynasty, including other dynasties, was under the imperial power of the county, and the Li Tang regime could only manage the county level, and then it mainly relied on the villagers and clans themselves to manage.

There are fangzheng in the city, and there are neighbor chiefs in the countryside, Bao Chang, the village is positive, and there are elders in Lizheng, Wuli is a township, and the township is managed by the elderly.

The so-called elder refers to the old and virtuous, and at the same time has a status of the squire, or the patriarch, usually on behalf of the court to manage some daily work, such as tax collection, organization and servitude.

Moreover, the elders are better than the township chiefs of later generations, in addition to managing daily affairs, they can also judge life and death, such as which woman does not abide by women's morals, and arresting Shentang is a matter of these elders.

Zheng Nan is an old man, he can be regarded as a man in the countryside on weekdays, not angry but mighty, and now when he sees this Erniu, who was obviously a farmer before, he actually talked to himself with such an attitude, he was not afraid of himself at all, and there was a faint sense of superiority of city people looking at hillbillies in it, Zheng Nan was still happy on the surface, but the anger in his heart was accumulating little by little.

However, he came to Luoyang with the trust of hundreds of thousands of villagers to ask the king of Lanling to go to Nanzhao, and he can be regarded as a person with a city government and a heart, so naturally he can't lose his dignity and harmony for this little thing, but he doesn't want to suppress this kind of unhappiness and surprise.

However, surprise is surprise, Zheng Nan also found the loophole in Erniu's words, and he asked slightly proudly: "No, when the farming is not working, organize the construction of roads, plant trees, and repair the embankment of the river." Repair of aqueducts. These are all conscriptions of the villagers. The imperial court doesn't have to pay money, it's good to be able to manage a meal, why do you still have to pay wages when you get to Dugi Province? What is the rationale for this? ”

Erniu showed an expression that I know a lot, you are all dirt buns, smiled proudly, and opened his mouth unhurriedly under the gaze of everyone: "Old lady, you don't know this." That's how it used to be, yes! But since last fall, we have changed our Dugi Province and no longer collect rent! ”

Zheng Nan was more and more shocked, the method of collecting taxes in rent is a national policy, rent is to allocate a certain amount of land to each male when he becomes an adult, and then he pays a certain amount of grain to the state every year; That is, all men from the non-tax-exempt class must hand over the number of silk cloths prescribed by the state every year; Yong means that every man from the non-tax-exempt class is required to serve the state for twenty days a year free of charge, without pay.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the present, although the tax laws are different, Ding Nan has not changed every year to serve the imperial court for free. If you want them to do something, you have to pay them. Has the way of the world changed?

Zheng Nan almost shuddered and asked, "If you don't collect rent, how can you collect taxes?" ”

"Collect money or food." Erniu said proudly: "Now all the taxes we have here are made of money, and there is no mouth tax (poll tax, that is, adjustment), the tax is collected in this way, and the farmer cultivates the land according to the land or output." That is, to ask the owner of the land how much tax he collects per mu of land, and then according to the output, twenty taxes and one tax, it is okay to give money, or to give grain, and also to ask the owner of the land to collect, and the tenant only needs to pay 30% of the rent to the landlord.

In addition, farmers and tenants who own their own land do not have to pay other taxes, and the government wants to pay them for their work. ”

"Then what about your workers, how do you collect them, and how much tax do you have to pay every year?"

"My family only needs to pay 83 yuan in taxes every month, which is exactly the same for a year." Erniu said happily.

Twenty people were stunned, and Liang Xiaoshan was even more envious in his heart. These two cows are living too comfortably, making so much money in a month, as long as they pay eighty-three taxes, they can save four less meals of braised pork!

In Xinfeng County, belonging to Jingzhao Mansion, close to Chang'an, in addition to farming, his wife can also set up a small stall on the side of the road to sell the mash or something, subsidize the family, and cut half a catty of pork to eat during the New Year's Festival.

I thought that the common people were already doing well, but when I arrived in Togi Province, I found that compared with the farmers and workers here, it was too far behind.

I have to work in the field almost every day, and every year I have to pay two stones and five buckets of corn, two zhang and five feet of silk, four taels of cotton or three zhang of cloth, and four catties of hemp, and I have to serve 20 days of labor for the government every year, which is the hardest and most tiring work, and I don't care about food.

But this Erniu can eat such delicious braised pork every day, sometimes he can drink alcohol, and he has more than three times a month to save money, and he doesn't have to serve servitude. This day is simply more comfortable and happy than the gentry class on his side!

Unbalanced, too unbalanced in the heart! Liang Xiaoshan was almost crazy with envy and jealousy.

Zheng Nan said in disbelief: "So little? Your family earns so much money every month, and you only receive eighty-three wen, how do you calculate it? ”

Erniu blinked and said, "Old lady, I didn't lie to you, that's really all." I'll do the math for you, if we don't have land in Dugi Province, we don't have to pay rent, and we only pay taxes according to the income of each household.

If a household has a monthly income of less than five yuan and a population of less than eight people, it does not need to pay a penny tax; If it is higher than five times, the excess income will be taxed at the rate of thirty taxes;

if it is higher than 10 times, the excess part shall be charged at 20 taxes; if it is higher than 20 cents, the excess part shall be charged at the rate of 10 taxes; If it is higher than forty, the tax is different, but I don't know. ”

Zheng Nan asked again: "Do the clans and local gentry pay taxes?" ”

"Deliver!"

Zheng Nan's worldview was once again subverted, and the aristocratic family and the scholar class did not have to pay taxes, nor did they have to perform labor and military service. Why did it change again when you got to Togi? Isn't this the enemy of the world's corporals, how dare the king of Lanling?

(For example, Du Fu belonged to the scholar class, and did not have to pay taxes or serve in the military.) In his poem, he wrote that "he is always free from rent and taxes, and his name is not subordinate to the war", but in the original history, his youngest son starved to death. ）

"How to pay, do you know?" Zheng Nan asked almost tremblingly.

"These people are a different set of tax laws, but every scholar and child of the family has a free zone of 20 yuan per month, and if they exceed 20 yuan, they will have to pay taxes, but they can pay much less than us ordinary people, but they are very willing to pay."

"How so?" Zheng Nan is like listening to the book of heaven, he used to have the privilege of not having to pay taxes, but now he has to pay taxes, and he is very willing to pay, how is it possible?

Erniu looked like a good teacher: "Why not? King Lanling and King Jianning can say that the more taxes they pay, the more glorious they will be, and sometimes good things will happen in the future, and they will also give priority to these big tax payers, and they will not take them to do business if they do not pay taxes.

Moreover, the hundred that pay the most taxes will also engrave monuments to commemorate them, how glorious, and the three that pay the most taxes can also name a street, a building, or a bridge after them.

Think about it, this is a great good deed for eternity, now there is a street in Luoyang City called Duxing Street, which is named after Du Xing, the patriarch of the Du clan in Henan (the name is not found blindly, but the Du family is a big surname in Luoyang, Jingzhao, Xiangyang, Henan Du is a family, Du Fu is from Gongxian County, Henan but belongs to the Du family of Xiangyang).

Old lady, do you think, after a few hundred years, Mr. Duchenne passed away, and this street is still called Duchen Street, which can't be bought by any amount of money, can he not be happy? ”

Zheng Nan understood that the scholars and the elite class of the family were actually privileged in Dugi Province, but the wealthy families with property still had to pay taxes, but the king of Lanling used business care and the honor of naming streets, buildings, and bridges to guide these wealthy families to take the initiative to pay taxes.

It's really a good means, the name of a street makes so many people like a fool, and this Lanling King doesn't know what kind of exquisite heart he has to come up with such an idea? (To be continued.) )