"Uncle Guan and Aunt Guan, don't worry about the silver, I, Li Shi, am not the Li Si of the past. From now on, I will take care of my family's affairs. ”

was silent all the way, Second Sister Guan also seemed to have done something bad, and she didn't dare to look at Li Shi, Li Shi only touched her little head, and her heart was sour. When he returned to Guan's house and saw Guan Fengsheng, the middle-aged man's stocky face was full of joy, surprise, shame, and helplessness.

When Li Shi said such words in a firm tone, Guan Fengsheng and Guan Tian were relatively silent.

"The second sister is really going to be sent away, am I still worthy of being a man?"

Carefully choosing the words, not wanting to sting Guan Tian's family, these words not only made Guan Fengsheng's face appear with relief, but Guan Tian's eyes, who were originally looking at Li Shi with hatred, were also red.

"Since I was a child, I have loved my second sister the most, and I would rather I suffer than suffer from my second sister."

Li Shi said pityingly, the little girl hugged Li Shi's arm tightly, buried her little head in his waist, and didn't dare to speak, for fear that she would cry when she opened her mouth.

"It's just that I still don't quite understand how much imperial food my family has to carry to drag my uncles to such a point."

Li Xi asked very sincerely.

"The real item is one or two or six dollars, and Ding silver is three or two or eight dollars, this is last year's [1]."

Guan Tian's family seemed to be very familiar with this number, and while reading it, he found a list, Guan Fengsheng finished the grain for him, and the list was naturally at his house.

"Five, two, four?"

Li Xian frowned, took the list with a palm length and three fingers wide, and raised his head to make him sweat, "Nahu License" [2]! This license is too far from the meaning of the word 300 years later.

Pulling the ethereal mind back, Li Xi stared at the small words on the list.

"Yingde County Zhengtang Li is collecting money and grain, and now according to Huangzhai Du Batu Li chased the money and grain of Kangxi for 50 years"

"The main item is five taels or four dollars

March 18, 50th year of Kangxi said"

"The county is fifty-four

No.

The small list is stamped with two big seals, one is half of the big seal of the Manchu and Han Shuangwenzhi County, the other is the "grain receipt", and there are two handlers who have signed the payment: Yang Xia, the secretary and the Li Pai Lai Yipin.

Looking at the fifty-year period of Kangxi, Li Xian faintly thought of something, but he couldn't catch it for a while. Then my thoughts were twisted by this tax rate, let's calculate that my annual income is thirty taels, this tax amount is really terrifying. However, five taels or four coins and silver will not make a fuss to the point of selling a daughter, right?

It's really stupid, Li Xi wants to pat himself on the head, but this is just a positive tax.

Sure enough, then Guan Tian found another list, which was not as formal as the "household license", but there was still a receipt stamp under the list.

"Even-level silver, four taels and two coins."

Li Xian had a vague impression of this title, which was the same as the surname of "Junzhiyin", which had disappeared in Guangdong, and was aimed at the burden of the conscription, but the object was different. The silver mainly refers to the support money of the servants, the grooms, and the postmen, and the Ming Dynasty was directly sent by the people to do these jobs, and then a whip law was merged into a regular tax.

And this "flat silver" is aimed at the office expenses of officials and yamen. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, according to the plan of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Da**, every piece of paper and every pen in the county yamen was directly provided by the county households. But this [***] level of conception was quickly shattered by reality, and it has evolved to the present, and it has gradually become a "fee" below the regular tax and above the miscellaneous faction. The funny thing is that in the original whip law, this part of the errand money has been merged into the regular tax, and it has been levied again.

Li Shi had some impressions of this part of the stuff before, but now that he has personally touched it, he was so angry that his nose almost crooked.

The mood was at a high point, and Guan Tian took a few more notes, which was very informal, there were no chapters, all handwritten white notes.

"Fire consumption...... Two, two, eight, eight cents, eight cents......"

Calculated as a three-percent fire consumption, this county official is not too greedy.

"Lian Yongyin, three points and four cents ......"

Wait, Lian Yong, isn't this a group exercise? Will this be 1712 or 1812?

"There are often thieves in the entire Shaozhou Mansion, and there are many shanty people and miners, and the county has also set up group exercises [3]."

Guan Fengsheng explained, his tone full of helplessness.

What about the paralyzed, the servants who pay for the support of the servants to catch fast? What about the 600,000 green battalion soldiers who are being fed by regular taxes?

Li Xian really wanted to scold, but he didn't notice that he was looking at this matter with the thinking of later generations of taxpayers.

Other leg strength, cabinet fees, scale fees, lock fees, these miscellaneous pies are just a few, which is not bad, and they are all receipts.

"Not counting the filial piety to the rows, counters, and bookstores, those are not in order."

Guan Tian's family does not let go of a copper, and the inner row is also the chief, because it is also a round every ten years, and whoever comes forward to help the government urge grain is the inner row. The counter and the clerk's office are the errand servants from the county.

Li Xi took a breath, the total number was calculated, he Li Xi was going to be robbed of sixteen or seven taels of silver by the officials and officials! This is too outrageous, right, and let people live?

Wrong...... All miscellaneous factions are based on positive taxes. And Li Shi alone has to bear a positive tax of nearly five taels a year. The statistics of "Dingkou" during the Kangxi period were more than 20 million, and this "Dingkou" was a tax unit, not a real population, but Li Xian was really one person to one at the moment. Based on his burden, the Qing Dynasty will have to collect 150 million taels of silver a year in taxes!

It's ridiculous.

"Fourth brother, your family is still a ...... in the county"

As soon as Guan Fengsheng said, Li Xian desperately suppressed his urge to roar, and the two words that were pressed in his heart before were churning and rebelling......

It turned out that his Li Shi family was on the first book, and there were still more than 30 acres of paddy fields, six people in the family, and five in Chengding! His parents are still alive, and his three older brothers who died early have all become Ding! The fields that have been sold a long time ago are still in the book of Figure A!

"We are all in this situation, on the first book, my Guan family also has twenty acres of paddy fields. Over the years, I have looked for the government many times, but the government has said that the first book of the picture will be changed, and it will be recognized by the long-term household, and we will not count it ourselves. ”

Guan Fengsheng sighed.

"Fourth brother, why do you want to help you? Not only thinking of your father, even if your family is lost, we will share your family's imperial grain. ”

Li stomped around the room irritably, and although it was still early spring, he felt hot all over.

"Who are the captains?"

In the final analysis, it is still the conclusion that the vulgar can no longer be vulgar, the officials and gentry colluded and oppressed them, the grass people.

"There are several long households in Li, but Li Pai has always been doing it with Lai Yipin, and Lai Yipin is ...... behind it"

Guan Fengsheng gritted his teeth, and Li Shi also read in a low voice.

"Zhong Shangshang!"

Ahh

Blue bricks and white walls, green tiles and red columns, in a patchwork of mansions, a middle-aged fat man sneezed with his fat flesh.

"The serial ticket has been sent? No one is making a fuss, right? ”

He walked leisurely in the pavilion, followed by a lean man, nodding his head flatteringly.

"Big brother, don't worry, do those mud-legged people dare to make trouble."

The fat man hummed dissatisfied, and turned to stare at the thin man.

"Don't talk nonsense! Seeing that the spring harvest was about to begin, Master Li stared at the pillars of our county, and his eyes were very thief [4]. Although I still have Lord Bai above, after all, what I do is not visible, and Lord Bai is not easy to find out with Master Li. In case something goes wrong in this spring harvest, Master Li blames me, pasting money is a trivial matter, and he treats it as a raw flower pen, and makes some articles on his torn paper, but it will be troublesome. ”

The fat man lowered his head, and the tip of his nose reached the thin man's forehead.

"Steady! I want to be sure! In the whole of Guangdong, the old men of the prefecture and county are in a mess, and after surviving this year, he Li Zhushou and Li parents should not be able to stay in Yingde. ”

The thin man had a faint layer of sweat on his forehead, his face was a little stiff, and he smiled.

"County Master Li, I also pay attention to it from time to time, he really doesn't belong to his mind recently, as long as the money and food are enough, presumably he won't care much."

The fat man sighed, as if he was relieved, and turned around and walked, while still explaining in his mouth.

"I heard that you are using my name to find someone to do with Mrs. Liu? You give me a good look, don't do anything, or I'll pick your skin!" ”

The thin man whispered to the fat man's back that he didn't dare, until the back disappeared, and his face returned to a cruel expression.

"Dead fat, the fatter you are, the more timid you are......"

muttered in a low voice, and walked towards the courtyard, and after a while, in a small living room, I met with another fat woman, who was Mrs. Liu. The two muttered for a while, and Mrs. Liu left with a bright face, and the thin man was in the hall, his face becoming more and more gloomy.

"Li Si? That nerd? Was he smashed out of phlegm by a stone, and he dared to go against me Lai Yipin? ”

He drank a cup of tea in one gulp, slammed it on the table, and with a snap, the teacup cracked.

"I Lai Yipin is a vicious dog, if I don't tear your flesh and blood into a blur, I won't be surnamed Lai! Hum! ”

[1: Qing Chengming system, the field in the Zhengfu, that is, the silver is not high, and the composition is not complicated. The national average is about four cents of silver per acre. The complicated thing is Ding Yin, and it is mainly this part that the local people are squeezing the grass people, and the tax reform of the Ming and Qing dynasties is actually going back and forth between these two. 】

[2: After the Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, there was a measure of "self-sealing and cabinet-casting", allowing grass people to pay taxes in the county seat by themselves, and then they could get tax payment certificates. The name of the certificate is different in different places, and there are "household license", "license" or "ticket". However, the self-styled cabinet is not only resisted by the squires in the row, but also because of the inconvenient transportation, the cost of paying taxes for the grass people may exceed the taxes themselves, so there are policies and countermeasures, and many places are still collected by the officials. 】

[3: In the Qing Dynasty, there were regimental exercises, but before the White Lotus Rebellion, they were all directly managed by the government, and there were general exercises, chiefs, or regimental generals, etc., and the specific conditions of each place were different, and the funds were taken from the localities. Kangxi also mentioned that there was a general manager who led Lian Yong into the mountains to suppress bandits, but was suppressed by bandits. 】

[4: The county official urges the department, and generally does not go to the grass people, but they all press the squire. The county officials and the squires are both cooperative and antagonistic, and the so-called collusion between the gentry is not so simple. 】