Shen stepped forward and stuffed the two roast chickens in his hand into Zheng Tong's hands and said, "Take it!" ”

The two of them ran out with the roast chicken, suddenly stopped, looked at them gratefully and bowed, "Thank you." The words fell, turned around, and ran away in the blink of an eye, and there was no one.

"Mother, I don't think we can keep the rest of the meat." Tao Qini suddenly spoke.

"What do you mean?" Tao Liuyi looked at her with big eyes and asked puzzledly.

They sat down by the campfire again and continued to roast the pheasant in their hands.

"They're coming, will the others be far away?" Tao Qini looked at him and chuckled.

"What then?" Tao Liuyi frowned and said, suddenly smiled and said, "I'm not afraid that we will hunt again." The eagerness in his eyes overflowed, "Just try my skills." ”

"Your three-legged cat's kung fu, don't do it, wait for a year and a half!" Tao Qini looked at him and said unceremoniously.

"Ahh It takes that long. Tao Liuyi was like a frosted eggplant, and it wilted all of a sudden.

"And now that there are no reeds, it's not so easy to hunt." Tao Qini frowned and looked at them and said.

"Uh......" Tao Liuyi hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I believe that it is getting better and better." ”

Tao Qini looked at the optimistic boy, compared to the twilight of the previous days, these days are much more lively, and she has the appearance that she should have at this age, full of vitality.

"How did this prosperous place come to this?" Tao Fifteen looked at Yao Changsheng with puzzled eyes and said, "In your words, this is a granary!" Shouldn't it be well protected? ”

"It is precisely because it is a granary, a place where soldiers must fight, and years of military disasters have caused the fields to be barren and uncultivated." Tao Qini looked at the ruins with compassion and said.

"The army of Yan Ting sent troops to exterminate the righteous army, and every time they passed by here, they were restless." Yao Changsheng looked at them and said angrily.

"Why?" Tao Liuyi looked at them puzzled and said.

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first." Tao Qini looked at him with glassy eyes and said.

"Then there is no grain and grass in the imperial court?" Tao Liuyi scratched his head and said humbly.

"If there is grain and grass, it will not be so scourge, even if there is good land, how can people farm with peace of mind." Tao Qini took a deep breath and looked at him and said helplessly.

"Alas! Our wish is very simple, we have land to plant, food to eat, and clothes to wear, but now we ......" Tao fifteen shook his head again and again, helpless.

"So what's the difference between this and banditry?" Tao Liuyi couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

"Bandits in official uniforms." Tao Qini looked at them and said in a word.

"What is the reason? Is this Tokyo? Tao fifteen looked at them with puzzled eyes and asked, "What kind of prosperity is the "Qingming Riverside Map" that Mr. Yao said. ”

"Ten thousand taxes, ten thousand taxes, ten thousand taxes!" Tao Qini closed her eyes and squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth.

"Wrong, wrong, hooray, hooray, hooray." Tao Fifteen looked at her and hurriedly corrected.

"Dad, it's a tax for taxes." Tao Qini looked at them with deep eyes, her thin lips lightly opened sarcastically.

"You kid! But do you really dare to say anything? Tao Fifteen looked at her in horror and said, "You should also give me a little restraint, and be careful that the wall has ears." ”

"Humph! The emperor can't control us. Tao Qini rolled her eyes and snorted coldly, "If you continue to do this, you don't know if you can sit firmly on this dragon chair." ”

Tao Qini looked at him with sparkling eyes, there was progress, and she didn't move to let her kneel and apologize for her sin with death!

"The more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes." Tao Shifu stood up and said, "You shut up Lao Tzu, don't talk nonsense." ”

"I know, if I don't say it, I won't say it," Tao Qini said aggrievedly with a flat mouth.

This girl really doesn't have the slightest reverence for the emperor, this can't be done! Maybe it's a small place that I don't know! In their eyes, the landlord is already heaven.

But Tao Fifteen is right, this girl is too open-mouthed, this disaster comes out of her mouth, but she has to lose her head.

"Alright, don't count Nell." Shen stepped forward to make a round of talks, and then asked, "Why don't you explain to us what's going on with this tax?" ”

"Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger." Tao Qini looked at them, raised her eyebrows, and said lightly.

"Don't drop my book bag for me, say something I can understand." Shen slapped Tao Qini on the back and said.

"I'll tell you! I looked through the money and grain account books in the Hanlin Academy, which was thirty or forty years ago, and I saw that the Yanting increased the rent every year, for example, one mu of land could produce two loads of grain, and various taxes could receive more than three loads, so that the peasants became poorer and poorer the more they planted, and the more industrious they became, the more hopeless they became. I didn't want to farm for a long time. Yao Changsheng looked at them and said unhurriedly.

"We have a deep understanding that after planting the land for so many years, we eat grass roots and tree bark, and we still owe the landlord decades of rent!" Tao Fifteen said with concern.

"Tsk...... Daddy! That's what your grandson owes when he was born! Tao Qini's eyes fluttered, and she quipped with a smile.

"Who's to say it isn't? Isn't it natural to repay rent in arrears? Tao fifteen bit his lip and looked at her and said, "As long as you don't die, you have to pay it back all the time." ”

"Dad, you don't have to pay it back, the landlord ran away." Tao Liuyi grabbed Tao Fifteen's arm and shook it excitedly.

Tao Qini fell down when she heard this, where do I mean this, the history of the past month is in vain, and this ideological awakening is not overnight.

You can't wake up a numb person.

"Daddy! You're going to join the rebels, what kind of rent do you have to pay! Tao Qini kindly reminded him.

"yes!" Tao fifteen scratched his head and smiled stupidly, "I forgot about this stubble." ”

Tao Qini looked at Yao Changsheng and said, "Listen to what you mean, this should be a common phenomenon." ”

"Hmmm! In the year when I became a Jinshi, in the Central Plains, the taxes of the imperial court were received fifty years later, and they were all received from the grandchildren of the peasants. Yao Changsheng looked at them and sighed.

"Look! I'm not wrong! That's 10,000 taxes. Tao Qini looked at them and snorted softly.

"Are there so many names?" Tao Liuyi scratched his brain.

"It's not that exaggerated, but there are a lot of them, such as Ding tax, land tax, head cutting tax, autumn tax, winter tax, labor tax, instrument tax, five poultry tax...... Roughly calculated, there are about 30 kinds. Yao Changsheng thought about it carefully and said, "Not counting the four seasons and three festivals a year, as well as the birthdays of the emperor, empress, queen mother, and concubines, at that time, there will be additional taxes." ”

"This is the imperial court, the local is even more cleverly named, when I traveled, the county lord of a county, and the imperial court related to the past, the emperor rewarded a bird, every day with the bird to travel, as long as the people see, they have to pay, the name of the emperor is vast."

The more birds are peacocks, which means the birds of the guide, and the more the guide is the hundred.