After eating early and late, Liu Yong began to take the militia through the streets and alleys, informing them from door to door.

Although his voice was dry, he felt full of energy. Last time, he took the town's militia members to Luoyang, in fact, they were helping to transport artillery and food, in the words of his militiamen, they didn't drink any soup at all. When they followed the officers and soldiers of the heavy artillery battalion to Luoyang, Luoyang had already been taken.

After entering the city, he was just helping to confiscate the property of the rebels, and after a few busy days, he got the order to disband, and returned with his teammates.

But as soon as he returned, the county informed him to go to the meeting. As a result, as soon as he arrived in the county, the magistrate Xiao Mimi informed him that he had been appointed as the mayor of Mingao Town.

It took him a long time before he finally figured out what was going on.

It turned out that when he went to Luoyang, the governor had already ordered the establishment of townships and towns in the counties of the two provinces. The town market in the county is called the town, and the suburban villages below are called the township. Minggao Town is a market town with a population of nearly 10,000, which belongs to Yiyang and borders Ruzhou.

Hence the designation as a town.

Mingao was originally a town, so it didn't change much. The main change is that the imperial court has set up officials in the townships, and perhaps they can only be regarded as officials.

In short, the imperial court divided each county into a number of townships, with Fanghepu under the town and Lihe Village at the countryside.

In every township, a township office or town office must be built.

This office is similar to the inspection department in the past. However, in the past, the inspection department was only set up in some places of Guanjin, but now it is necessary to set up one in every township and town.

In each township office, there will be a township chief or town head, and they will all have the official position of Jiupin. They are even the county's dispatched agencies, township-level leaders.

As a Jiupin Sesame Official, there are still a lot of tasks.

It turns out that they also have the responsibility of patrol inspection, anti-bandit, thief-catching, and smuggling. Even the case has to be decided. The above stipulates that in the future, as long as the civil litigation cases in the township are not criminal cases, they are not murder and arson. If there are cases of fighting, grabbing land, stealing, etc., they will all be tried by them, the township and town heads.

If the parties bypass them and go directly to the county, then it is not a big case. The person concerned will be fined with a cane and the case will be remanded to them for trial.

Only important cases will be transferred to the county after their preliminary investigation.

He understands this, and in the past he said that the imperial power was not lower than the county.

During the Ming Dynasty, according to the imperial court system, county officials could not go to the countryside, and there were only two or three officials in a county, so there were many affairs of county officials. Matters in the countryside. It is more to give autonomy to the local clans.

Even the trial of cases is the same, there are special old people, and there are dozens of old people of all kinds in a township. They used their fame and prestige to preside over local affairs.

It was only later that the old man's system was completely controlled by the squires and landlords.

Now the imperial court wants to establish township offices and dispatch officials, but this is to break the practice of not going to the countryside in the past.

As the newly appointed mayor of Jiupin Town, Liu Yong is also in charge of twenty or thirty miles of land nearby. There are tens of thousands of people under his jurisdiction, and Minggao Town is also in addition to the town outside the town of Yiyang County. It's the second largest town in the county.

As the mayor of the town, he has an exclusive yamen.

In the past, it was a large family's house, because of its participation in the rebellion, it was raided, this house is not small, and the house of Sanjin was hung with the sign of Mingao Town Office. He moved in.

is also a party official, and he also has a number of subordinates.

There is one militia captain, one police station chief, and two clerks. These four are formally organized, and the militia captain and the police station chief, as well as the two clerks, are considered to be the bureaucracy.

Each of them has a team under them. The militia captain is in charge of the militia, and these militiamen take turns on duty, and they are paid for their duties, but they are not in peacetime. Under the head of the police station, there is a team of policemen, these people are equivalent to the archers of the past inspection department, there are 12, they are employees, responsible for public security patrols, smuggling and theft, fire fighting, etc.

There are five cities in Beijing, and the provinces have now set up police departments, each prefecture has set up police stations, each county has a police station, and when it comes to the township, it is a police station.

Their current positions are also like the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division of the Beijing Division, responsible for local security.

Therefore, this police station chief can be regarded as the first general under him. Liu Yong's police station chief is also a veteran, but he did not serve as a soldier in the Chu army, but served as a soldier in the Ming Dynasty official army in the past. The twelve policemen under him have also eaten food in the past.

The towns and shops and the villages on the side, and the villages in each square and shop are also elected by each of them to be highly respectable people, as local representatives, and the head of the village is also the microphone of the town office, and what new policies and orders of the imperial court will also be conveyed through them.

In addition, under Puhe Village, there is also a Baojia. Ten households are one first, and one hundred households are guaranteed. Each household is numbered and strictly controlled in the village.

Therefore, if you add these chiefs, village chiefs, and chiefs, Liu Yong, the mayor of the town, is still very majestic.

It has been a few days since he took office, and now the county has sent someone over to ask Liu Yong to complete the change of deeds in the whole town. Liu Yong worked hard to inform early in the morning, and yesterday, he notified the heads of the shops, the mayors, and the village heads, and asked them to inform the chiefs of the armor to inform everyone of the news.

In the morning, however, he personally informed the towns again.

"Everyone, listen to it, the court has an order, and everyone has a land and house contract, and they all go to the town office to replace the new deed. Including the original uncontracted wasteland, self-built houses, etc., all have to be renewed for deeds, if the time limit has not been renewed, regardless of the land and houses, all have no income officials, listen to it. ”

Early in the morning, Mingao Town has already been lively, visiting relatives and friends, entering the city to catch the market, passing by business travelers, etc., there are people everywhere.

Luoyang recovered, there were no more thieves in Henan, and there was no rebellion, and Minggao City, which was close to Luoyang, was more and more lively in the past.

Under the tree over there, a group of people were around, all watching the pig killing.

When everyone saw Liu Yong coming, they nodded hurriedly, "The mayor is here, cut a few catties and go back to eat in a while." ”

Liu Yong walked over and said with a smile, "Killing pigs early in the morning, what's the joy?" ”

A middle-aged man walked over and replied, "Didn't I hear that the imperial court will levy a slaughter tax in the future, and this pig has been raised for more than a year." Thinking that he would have to pay taxes for killing in the future, he killed him now. ”

"The slaughter tax is not much, and killing a pig is only about a pound of meat, can you kill such a big fat pig and can't pay a pound of pork?" Liu Yong asked.

"Mayor Mayor, but I've heard that this slaughter tax is quite a lot."

". Isn't it better than you that I'm the mayor of the town, don't listen to the wind and rain of others, some people want the world to be in chaos. Don't worry, it's the Han Dynasty now, and the emperor will only take everyone to live a good life. ”

Someone laughed next to him, "Just you are a king, listening to the wind is the rain." You believe what people say, kill the pig early in the morning, this hot day. Look at how you sell it, if you don't sell it out, it won't stink when you sell it, then it's not a loss of a little slaughter tax money, hahaha. ”

Killing pigs in the countryside, unless there is a banquet, otherwise on such a hot day, you have to ask each family in advance, and there are enough people to book. before you dare to kill. Otherwise, the pigs will not be sold. That's going to be really bad.

The man was a little annoyed, "Mayor of the town, you can help me sell a little, there are dozens of people in your town office, I heard that there are people from the county today, and they must also ask for meat." ”

"That's fine. I will send twenty catties over, remember not too much, I have to ask for hind leg meat, don't give me bones. ”

"It's only twenty pounds, how can it be enough, cut more."

"You don't have to pay us to eat meat. The fire in the canteen of the town hall was fired, which was also our own food money. If you don't know if you can't sell it out today, I'll buy two or three catties at most. ”

"Okay, it's just twenty catties, if it's more, I'll give the mayor another piece of meat."

Liu Yong hurriedly shook his hand, "Don't, don't, I can't take your things indiscriminately, eat a piece of meat from you today, and I will have to be masturbated tomorrow." ”

Everyone laughed together, since Liu Yong became the mayor of the town, everyone also pooled money and gave a gift together, but in the end they all retired intact. Everyone originally thought it was less, but later learned that Liu Yong, who had followed the emperor to fight the world, resolutely refused to accept gifts.

One of them said, "Mayor Town, I heard that there is also a tax on the exchange of deeds, right?" ”

"It depends on how many farms you have." Liu Yong pointed to the fine pork belly and asked the butcher to cut it for him.

"What do you mean? What's so important here? Doesn't the rich have to pay? ”

Liu Yong watched with satisfaction as the butcher cut off the pork belly waist with a layer of fat and a layer of lean meat, and said with a sneer, "No one in the Han Dynasty dares to say that they can be exempt from tax, but this deed tax, you are also blindly worried." I don't know you yet, there are three broken houses at home, and there is not a single acre of land. You don't have a deed, do you? If you go back to the office as soon as possible to make up the contract, don't worry about the deed tax. ”

"How?"

"Don't worry, this deed tax is levied according to the value of your field, a set of houses under half an acre of each household, and a field property below 100 acres, are free to exchange the deed, and you only need to pay the handling fee, and only one cent of silver dollars is charged for a contract."

"What about a house and more than a hundred acres of land?"

"If the house is more than half an acre and there is more than one set, then the deed tax shall be levied at 8% of the price of the house, of which 6% is the national tax and 2% is the additional land tax. The same is true for land property, for the part exceeding 100 mu, the deed tax is levied at 8% of the land price. The handling fee is calculated separately, anyway, everyone has to change the new deed, otherwise the court will not recognize it. After changing the new deed, you can manage it for a lifetime, unless you want to buy and sell, and the transaction has to be calculated separately. Every time a sale is made, it is registered and stamped by the Yamen, and the deed tax is levied at 8% of the price of the sale each time. ”

"What about the pawnshop?"

One person couldn't help but ask, but it was a young man who worked as a pawn in a pawnshop.

According to the imperial court, all contracts must be taxed, so isn't the pawnshop of the pawnshop also having to pay deed tax.

"Well, the pawnshop pawn ticket belongs to the pawn deed tax, which is half lower than the general deed tax, and is levied at four percent of the number of transactions each time, of which three percent is the national tax and one percent is the additional land tax."

Everyone understands that this deed tax has no impact on them.

Change a new deed, pay a penny or two for the procedure, and it's nothing.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The middle-aged man, the owner of the pig, took the opportunity to start asking everyone to cut the meat.

"Such a good thing, everyone is not allowed to cut two catties of meat and go home, and be happy with his wife and children. Come on, come on, come and cut two catties. ”

"Then cut me a catty, I haven't eaten meat for a long time. Okay, let's settle the account on credit first. ”

"Okay, remember first, you won't lose mine, cut more, one pound is enough."

When the man heard that he could owe the debt, he was also ruthless and asked him to cut an extra catty.

Liu Yong saw that many people began to cut meat, so he smiled and asked the middle-aged man to send his meat to the town office for a while, and then continued to notify the deed exchange from door to door. (To be continued.) )

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