The county magistrate came to raise donations, which was expected by Zhao Min, and it didn't make her feel strange, but what surprised her was: this county magistrate was really straight to the point, and he praised himself for being beautiful as soon as he met just now, which seemed a little different from Cong, and now the door has not yet entered, the tea has not been drunk, and he opened his mouth to ask for silver, which is really direct enough.

Zhao Min also prepared a lot of polite words that he hadn't said yet.

"It's rare for the county order to come here, and the tea hasn't been served yet, so let's chat while drinking tea." Zhao Min said with a smile.

Lonely men and widows, chatting in front of the public and in full view, seemed a little embarrassed, and it didn't seem solemn enough, Zhao Min decided to do his best to be a landlord and give people a handle, or should also respond to his father's words, and receive the county magistrate well.

Hearing Zhao Min's invitation, 6 Haoshan said with a wry smile: "Now the tax task is heavy, and the people are so pressed by these taxes that they can't even lift their heads, and they are so worried that they can't think about food and tea, and the sooner they can raise money and food, the people will be liberated one day sooner, the Zhao family is a well-known rich family in Jiang County, and I hope that the Zhao patriarch will hold a benevolent heart and take the lead in being an example." ”

"Lord Prefectural, please come here." Zhao Min did not answer positively, but smiled and invited 6 Haoshan to enter the door, it turned out that unconsciously, the group had walked to the center of Zhaojia Village, the mansion of Zhao Yuqing, the patriarch of the Zhao family.

In order to show the importance of the county order, although Zhao Min said that he was the main family, but when he was accompanied by 6 Haoshan, he was half a body behind to show respect for him, looking at the vigorous figure of 6 Haoshan, Zhao Min thought in his heart: This county order, although he is young, is old-fashioned, and he was called Zhao Lichang at the beginning, so he can see it if he doesn't see it, because he is the respect of a county, but when he asks for money and food, he changes his name to Zhao Patriarch, don't look at it, only one name has been changed, but the meaning has been very different.

The suspicion of bullying the small with the big was avoided.

When Zhao Min was thinking about it, 6 Haoshan was a visit to the environment on the surface, but in fact, he was also a little depressed in his heart, the main man was not there, and he pushed a weak woman out, as if he was not interested in doing charity, so that he was not good at teaching, and it would be more difficult to do his work in the future.

Choosing the Zhao family to start, 6 Haoshan is also after careful consideration, one is to have a thick family background, the second is to have a good face, and the third is that they are outsiders and have no foundation, 'even if they suffer a little loss, they will also admit it, 6 Haoshan has thought of a lot of methods, but I didn't expect people to punch themselves into the air, which is unspeakably uncomfortable.

Depressed, Zhao Yuqing avoided it, even if it was useless.

"Lord Prefectural, this is a new Baihao Silver Needle, how about you taste it?" After the maid made tea for the two, Zhao Min softly invited 6 Haoshan to taste it.

Baihao silver needle is produced in Jianyang, Shuiji and other places in Fujian, because the color is white as silver, slender as a needle and gets the name, when brewing, full of floating tea milk, the silver needle stands upright, staggered up and down, looks very beautiful, the brown yellow bright and clear, drink fragrant and sweet, is the top grade in the tea, do not drink just to see is a very wonderful feeling.

6 Haoshan is also the first time to taste this kind of tea, seeing the tea leaves standing upright like pine needles, I feel very interesting, I can't help but say, "Baihao silver needles? This name is good, not only appropriate, but also very elegant, and this is the first time this official has drunk this kind of tea. ”

"This kind of tea making method is complicated, and the kneading time is also long, and it takes a very familiar tea worker to make such a high-grade Baihao silver needle" Zhao Min said with some pride: "Looking at Jiangyou, it is estimated that there is no second one that can bring out such a high-grade Baihao silver needle." ”

Jiangyou is located in the range of the ancient tea horse road, there is a lot of tea, but the Central Plains is in a dominant position in the tea for those ethnic minorities, the poor are good, the good ones are the best, those excellent teas, but fall into the hands of those court officials, rich businessmen and rich people, this kind of superb white silver needle, less than 100 catties a year, ordinary people can not buy it even if they have silver. ”

"Such a good tea, I don't know how much it is worth?"

"About ten taels of silver a bag."

"A bag of 100 pounds?"

Zhao Min smiled, shook his head and said, "No, a pack is two taels." ”

6 Haoshan said in surprise: "The price of a pack of two taels is ten taels, so isn't the price of one catty fifty taels?" ”

"Yes" Zhao Min hesitated for a moment and said quickly.

"Tea is good tea, but when I think that this tax can't be paid, I don't know how many people will go bankrupt, sell their children and daughters, why can't the official drink it" 6 Haoshan shook his head, with a depressed expression.

Zhao Min was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect that this 6 county order, a few words cleverly pulled the topic back to the fundraising, making herself seem to have a sense of guilt, fortunately, she was extremely smart, and quickly said: "The county magistrate is kind-hearted, and having a parent like an adult is really a blessing for Jiangyou." ”

"It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and it is difficult for a good official to suffer from no money and food. 6 Haoshan said with some bitterness.

Zhao Min was not touched by the feelings of 6 Haoshan worrying about the country and the people, and the colorful above, but said lightly: "The county order is actually loved, others say how prominent and rich our Zhao family is, in fact, they are all rumors, and they are not afraid of the jokes of the county order, our Zhao family is a little silver, but most of them are used when building villages and buying fields, and now it is the surface scenery, secretly sad, and it has long been strong and dry, and the people of Jiangyou have been affected by disasters in recent years, and our Zhao family is not spared, but I am afraid that the heart is strong and the rest is insufficient." ”

"It's not comfortable," 6 Haoshan said with some emotion: "The famous Zhao family is in such a situation, let alone ordinary people. ”

"My lord, I wonder how much silver is needed for this levy?" Zhao Min asked with some curiosity.

6 Haoshan hesitated for a moment, and said: "Add Liao, a total of two silver." ”

"Twenty thousand taels? That's a lot. Zhao Min said in surprise: "A county can have 10,000 taels, and the court and the emperor don't have to worry so much." ”

"We have a lot of oil fields in the river, but there are very few fields that can be exempted from field tax, and the imperial court sends a salary of one or two cents per mu, which alone is a huge hole, plus a year's tax at a time, and the people are burdened with more catties, and it is bitter."

6 Haoshan said this, the mood is also a little complicated, relatively speaking, the Ming agriculture is very good, in the Hongwu period, in the pragmatic Zhu Chongba comrade strong encouragement, agriculture has been greatly developed, there are historical data can be checked, the registered field has more than 1.8 million hectares, evenly distributed to more than 1,400 counties in each country, each county also has 1.2 million acres of land, that is, no matter how light the tax is, so many fields, the Ming Dynasty's finances are not far behind, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty's finances can be said to be a mess.

When the Ming Dynasty rarely had financial health, most of the time it was to tear down the east window to make up the west window, Zhang Ju was a bull, when he was in power, the treasury had an unprecedented balance of several million taels, but after the gold was in chaos, the silver was tossed all of a sudden, to the Chongzhen period, the annual income of the treasury was between three million and four million taels, but the war in Liaodong alone, the annual expenditure was as high as about three million, that is to say, the country's income was almost all filled in the bottomless pit, but the Ming Dynasty was so big, it was impossible to spend all the silver in Liaodong, so, The imperial court shrank back from everything, the frontier soldiers were in arrears, and all kinds of expenses were shrinking, and there was really no way to levy additional salaries.

For example, the Liaoyu salary is levied on one mu and two cents, a county has nearly 1.3 million mu, and the cultivated land has decreased at the end of the Ming Dynasty, so if it is calculated based on one million mu in a county and one cent per cent, a county alone has 100,000 taels of Liaoning, and more than 1,000 counties in the country, to say the least, there are hundreds of millions of taels, but in fact, the Liaoyu salary is distributed about 6.7 million taels, and the actual income is only more than 5 million taels.

The reason is very simple, those scholars and royal families occupy a large area and do not have to pay taxes, and they pass on the labor to the common people, and they collect less on the surface, but there are too many exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, fire consumption, grain consumption, etc., these are all put on the heads of the common people, and they collect more, but in fact they pay less to the national treasury, the treasury is empty, and they are constantly levied, can the lives of the common people not be difficult?

That is, the industrious and hidden quality of the Chinese nation can endure this kind of life, but it is also this quality that the Chinese nation can always stand in the east of the world.

6 Haoshan's words from the heart, sincerely for the people of Jiangyou, even Zhao Min was a little moved when she heard it, she rolled her eyes, and asked with a smile: "Helping people for good, our Zhao family has always been unwilling to be a queen, and we contribute to the fathers and villagers of Jiangyou, I don't know how much the adults donate as the parents and officials of Jiangyou County?" ”

"This official will donate a year's salary." 6 Haoshan said without hesitation.

"Well, that little woman represents her father and donates ten times as much as the adult." Zhao Min immediately said that to her, these few hundred taels were just a small meaning.

6 Haoshan's annual income is about forty taels, ten times is four hundred taels, four hundred taels for ordinary people, this is an astronomical amount, but for Jiangyou's wealth, it is just a drop in the bucket, 6 Haoshan is naturally not satisfied.

"This official position is a low-salary book, and it is still a clean breeze on weekdays, and it can't be compared with the Zhao clan, but it makes the girl laugh, the official is powerless, so he can only throw bricks and lead the jade, Miss Zhao has a strong heart, and I have to ask you to do more."

"Oh, how much does the county magistrate say is appropriate for our Zhao clan to donate?"

"Of course, the more the merrier, the less the less."

It's not restrained, I donated four hundred taels just now, obviously dissatisfied, it's really better than singing, but Zhao Min has already had a countermeasure, and said with a smile: "The county commander is really doing his best for the people of Jiangyou, the little woman admires, although our Zhao family has a bit of a family background, but it is not a strong wind, for the sake of the adult's sincerity, it is not impossible to make an extra effort, however, the little woman has a small condition." ”

6 Haoshan immediately said: "What are the conditions, Miss Zhao only comes by pipe." ”

"The adult is from a Jinshi, presumably he is a tall and intelligent person, as long as the adult can answer me a few questions, the little woman is to take out her own money, and she must do more kindness." 6 Haoshan fluted for a moment, is this a prize quiz? ps: During the worship of the mountain, every day over the mountains and mountains, now no one raises cattle, the road is occupied by weeds, to open the way forward, tired, more considerate, thank you!

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