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At that time, Li Rupei had already finished washing.

I slept well this night, the conditions of the Yuelai Inn are really good, there are courtyards before and after the inn, Li Rupei lives in an upper room, close to the inside, very quiet, will not be disturbed in any way, when I just entered the inn, the shopkeeper and the guys thought that Xie Yuxin in a brocade robe was the boss, but they quickly saw from the words and deeds of everyone that Li Rupei in cloth was the real boss, so when arranging the room, he did not wait for Yan Fu to emphasize that the best room was arranged to Li Rupei, This also made Li Rupei very emotional, after a thousand years, many people judge people by their appearance, who dresses well, who shows Xiàn's domineering, they think who is the boss, but they don't know that the ancients are a lot more powerful, and people distinguish their identities from the temperament table.

Shanyin County belongs to the middle county, and the population and cultivated land are more than those of Wuling County, and the market in the county seat is also more lively.

After breakfast at the inn, the group began to wander the streets.

The twelve people were divided into two groups, Qian Shiqu, Huang Biao, Yan Fu, Xie Yuxin and Qin Erhei followed Li Rupei, and the rest secretly protected, Li Rupei spoke official dialect, that is, the words of Chang'an, if he spoke on the street, he would definitely be considered a foreigner, even if it was Qian Shiqu and others, the accents of the speeches were different, but Xie Yuxin and Qin Erhei had no problem opening their mouths, both of them were locals.

Before leaving the inn, Xie Yuxin had already changed into coarse cloth clothes, and he also felt that he was wearing a brocade robe, which was a little inappropriate and too conspicuous.

The street is very lively, just after the fifteenth day of the first month, many people are still immersed in the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, and the spring ploughing is about to begin, many peasant households have come to the county to buy and sell daily necessities, including the materials needed for spring ploughing.

Li Rupei is concerned about the prices of rice, corn, flour and salt, which are related to the lives of ordinary people.

The situation inquired about is not optimistic, especially the price of rice and corn, which is surprisingly high, rice is the most expensive, 200 yuan per bucket, corn is 180 yuan per bucket, salt is divided into upper, middle and lower grades, high-grade refined salt is 2,600 wen per catty, medium fine salt is 1,600 wen per catty, and low-grade coarse salt is 960 wen per catty.

This is already a sky-high price, you must know that during the Zhenguan period, Shannan Dao Doumi was only four pennies.

As for salt, farmers can rarely afford to buy a catty, basically buy salt, salt made of coarse salt, one tael each, according to the Tang Dynasty unit of measurement, one catty is equal to sixteen taels, so one salt is sixty yuan.

Salt and iron belong to the monopoly of the imperial court, no individual is allowed to operate, salt business belongs to the profiteering industry, the imperial court gets a lot of income from it, as for iron, the imperial court is from the production of weapons, the Tang Dynasty regulations are very clear, the people privately own and make armor weapons, are crimes, to be severely punished.

Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao, back then, were selling private salt, in fact, making coarse salt, almost no cost, the salt grains naturally dried in the salt pan, after mashing and drying screening, became coarse salt, the real calculation of the cost, the cost of coarse salt per catty is only 50 yuan.

Li Rupei didn't have a smile on his face, the price of grain and salt is so high, how can the common people survive, no wonder farmers in many places can't afford to eat salt, and it is not easy to eat coarse salt bibimbap.

After the Spring Festival, it is the period of green and yellow, and it lasts for a long time, from March to July, the life of the peasant households belongs to the most difficult, this situation should continue until the autumn harvest, the Tang Dynasty, there is no hybrid rice, the grain yield per mu is only a little more than a stone, equivalent to more than 300 catties, this also requires that the wind and rain are smooth, the land annexation at the end of the Tang Dynasty became a disaster, the common people have few arable land, are leased gentry and rich households land for cultivation, the lease cost is as high as sixty to seventy percent of the grain output, so calculated, The remaining grain per mu of land is less than 100 catties, and the peasant households have worked hard to cultivate dozens of acres of arable land, and the harvested grain is far from enough to eat.

The people regard food as their heaven, and they cannot solve the problem of eating for the common people, and such a court and government cannot be maintained, and the kind people will become extremely vicious because of the problem of not being able to eat.

Li Rupei sighed secretly, and he didn't know why the imperial court didn't pay attention to these obvious problems, and why officials at all levels turned a blind eye.

Wails and cries were heard ahead, and some people gathered around.

Li Rupei frowned, walked over quickly, and Qian Shiqu and the others beside him quickly followed.

The place where the wailing and weeping were heard was the location of the bazaar.

Seeing the lively people have formed a big circle, Yan Fu walked in the front, squeezing open a passage with his body, Li Rupei and others followed in, and the scouts who followed behind also quickly squeezed in, surrounded by Li Rupei and others, always paying attention to the surrounding movements, such a lively place is also the most dangerous place, all kinds of unforeseen things may happen.

Two peasant figures, one old and one young, knelt in front of four men in black round-necked robes, and a young woman stood behind, and the wailing came from the old man's mouth, and the crying came from the woman's mouth, and as for the kneeling young man, his face was full of anger, the corners of his mouth were bloodshot, and a large area around his eyes was blue and purple.

Beside the three of them, there was some firewood, which seemed to have been picked up and sold in the city, and several bundles of firewood had been scattered and scattered on the ground.

The people around me who watched the excitement were a little far away, as if they were afraid of being implicated.

Seeing that Li Rupei's expression was not good, Qian Shiqu hurriedly spoke in his ear.

"Li Lang, this is the government is collecting taxes, farmers to the county market transactions, must pay taxes, that is, commercial taxes, the county government does not have a special person responsible for collecting the city's commercial taxes, are temporarily transferred to the government to be responsible, these temporary collection of commercial taxes, can be used to subsidize the lack of county government expenses, for example, the monthly salary of the government officials, can also be used for other expenses of the county government, this is the case everywhere in Shannan West Road, farmers will not take the initiative to pay taxes to the government, a certain look at this situation, I am afraid that it is a problem when collecting commercial taxes, The peasant households had no money in their hands, and the officials were forced to ask for money, and there was a conflict, which was also a matter of no choice. ”

Qian Shiqu's words made Li Rupei speechless, and there was no place to vent his anger, seeing the scene in front of him, he thought that after a thousand years, those urban management who rectified the order may also have conflicts with the vendors, and such a situation will also occur.

Since ancient times, it is not easy to be an official, of course, except for faint officials and mediocre officials, it is said that this commercial tax, the government at all levels is not easy to collect, many businessmen and ordinary people are mobile, a shot for a place, the government wants to collect the commercial tax, can only be in the market and other places to collect, in this process, often prone to contradictions and problems, if you do not ask about the indiscriminate, see the people suffer, reprimand and punish the officials, the work of the government can not be carried out.

This kind of situation in front of you may be that the official wants to make an example of others, so that the rest of the people who do not want to pay the commercial tax are afraid.

"Sir, do you know how much this business tax is?"

"The situation in Shannan West Road that I know is one out of ten, and as for the situation in Shanyin County, it is not very clear."

Li Rupei shook his head, the commercial tax stipulated by the Tang Dynasty is one in thirty, which is actually not suitable, the commercial tax is too low, the imperial court and the government basically do not get any income from the commercial and trade transactions, and the ten draws are more appropriate, and the premise is that the government is for the exhibition of commerce and trade, and the conditions are good enough.

It is a pity that the main tax task of all dynasties has been pressed on the peasants, and the taxes on the land are very heavy, and as for the commercial tax, few people pay attention to it, which is probably the main reason why the peasants have rebelled in all dynasties.

A servant scolded and waved a stick at the young man kneeling on the ground, and the old man kneeling next to him kept pleading and even kowtowing, and even when the stick was about to fall, he threw himself on the young man's body, as for the woman standing on the side, she was at a loss, and there seemed to be nothing she could do except cry.

This scene did not last long, and at last the staff's stick fell, striking the old and the young on the head.

In an instant, blood poured out of the heads of the old and the young, and the weeping woman knelt down and pleaded.

The surrounding people who were watching the bustle appeared to discuss.

A servant with an angry face looked at the people around him and spoke.

"What kind of noise, the government does things, and those who dare to stop it will be arrested and questioned."

The sticks continued to fall on the heads and bodies of the old and the young, and they were about to die.

No matter what kind of problems are encountered in the process of collecting commercial taxes, such a scene should not occur, these officials are ruthless in the face of the defenseless and powerless peasants, regardless of the lives of others, what kind of thoughts the people around them see.

Just as Li Rupei was about to speak, a crisp voice came out from the crowd.

"Stop, the government is doing things, why are you beating the people, even if the people do something bad, you have to be patient and persuasive, do you have such a way?"

As soon as the words fell, two young men stood out from the crowd, the young man in front of him was flushed, and the young man in the back was pale.

Li Rupei's eyes were a little flowery, these two young people looked too handsome, and their voices were not right.

Observe it for a while, but he quickly laughed dumbly, these two people are girls, although they say that they have their breasts tied, but look at the necks very clearly, they have no Adam's apple, typical women dressed as men.