With a tense face and a sigh of relief, Li walked back to the village with a bucket full of river fish in one hand.

The fish in the bucket is not honest, the tail of the fish jumps and jumps, the splash has a fishy smell, and the ground is full of deep and shallow traces.

According to Lizheng's words, in order to keep enough food for the people in the village, the fish in the long river at the entrance of the village cannot be caught again for three months.

If anyone violates the rules, they will be directly pressed by Li Zheng and sent to the government.

The person in the village is Li Zheng, and the big guy listens to Li Zheng's words tightly, and his skin is so tight that he doesn't dare to commit crimes during the fishing moratorium.

However, before entering the fishing moratorium, the river fish that grow in the river still need to be fished.

In particular, the big fish grow faster and need more food, and if left unchecked, the small fry in the river will enter the belly of the big fish, and their winter rations will not be guaranteed.

Every year from January to May and June, all the men, women and children of the village will be gathered by Li Zheng to start fishing for river fish in the water.

Among them, the fish caught in the river had to be converted into silver according to the price of the time, of which four layers were taxed, three of the four layers were handed over to the county government as miscellaneous taxes in Shangwa Village, and the remaining one was paid to the village as a source of money for repairing some public goods in the village.

The remaining six layers are the harvest at the disposal of the people of their village.

Of course, most of the time, the villagers are paying money, after all, the tax is paid to the silver money instead of the river fish, before the river fish is not sold, the tax needs to be paid, otherwise it is to sell fish without a license, and it is okay to be arrested directly into prison when you encounter the government officials.

As for the fish caught from the river, Li Zheng will distribute the fish to each household according to the amount of labor produced by each household in the village when fishing.

As for whether these allocated river fish entered the stomachs of the villagers themselves or were sold for food, it was a matter of personal choice, and Li Zhengze would not interfere much.

Of course, in addition to the large-scale fishing organized by Lizheng, the villagers themselves can also fish on their own, but in terms of time, it needs to be delayed according to the village.

The main issue involved here is the price of fish.

In ancient times, the means of food production were very simple, and most people only relied on steaming to make a living, and the fish food with a certain earthy smell and the taste was not easy to cover, and the big guys did not catch a cold.

So this led to the low edible value of fish in ancient times.

Unless the family has nothing to eat and is too poor, they would rather buy the large grains of salt to marinate the fish into salted fish, or dry it to make dried fish, rather than choose to cook it and eat it.

Based on this, their village only pays three layers of miscellaneous taxes to the county seat every year.

Of course, there is a little story to be told about why only three layers of miscellaneous taxes are paid.

The main reason, of course, is that these fish are basically not bought, and they belong to the type of tasteless food and discarded pity, and the officials in the city do not like it very much.

Just imagine, when you go to the yamen every day to work, you have to face several truckloads of stinky dead fish, straight and straight at the gate of the county yamen indiscriminately attacked, who can stand it.

However, due to the law, the miscellaneous taxes under the rule of the imperial court could not be collected, so the newly appointed county magistrate behaved very smartly and directly played a slippery head, which was the case, then the fish was converted into silver.

Yes, the fish was discounted into silver, and it was also made by the newly appointed county magistrate in the past two years, and they handed it over in Wow Village before, and it was a real river fish.

The meaning of the new county order is very obvious, that is, you don't have to pull stinky dead fish to me every year, just give money.

After hearing the news, the village is directly fried, originally these fish can't be sold at any price, but the miscellaneous taxes can't be paid, and it's helpless to pull fish to the county government every year, but now you don't want fish to ask for money, so what should I do!

You can't do this authentically!

Li Zheng didn't even think about it, so he just quit.

Gathered a few respected old people in the village and the high-level personnel of the entire Shangwa Village, and went to the town to talk to the county magistrate, the central idea is that you are our parent official, you can't care about our life or death, you don't want these fish, then what should we do, we don't have money.

Of course, the final result naturally cannot be changed, and whoever makes the entire county seat is the largest county magistrate.

Fish can only be converted into silver money to pay miscellaneous taxes, but because the fish is not valuable, the value is naturally not too high, so the original miscellaneous taxes paid have been reduced from five layers to three layers.

Well, although the ending is not perfect, this is also the maximum that Li Zheng and a few people can do, and the villagers can only accept it when they hear about it.

What else can I do?

You know, the imperial court builds palaces every year, and criminals are scarce, do you want to try it?

The matter stopped here, and the tax of the entire Shangwa Village was also set, so that only three layers of the county government miscellaneous tax need to be handed over every year, and all the fish in the river at the entrance of the village can be hunted casually.

This news is neither good nor bad for the villagers.

The geographical location of Shangwa Village is good, surrounded by mountains and rivers, although it cannot be rich and expensive, but it will not be hungry to eat.

The villagers were really not interested in the fish in the big river at the village gate.

But life, isn't it just to be obedient, let you do whatever you want, how can there be so many emotions!

Even if the miscellaneous taxes are reduced by two layers, and the fish in the river are caught casually, this kind of news is just a small stone thrown at the peaceful life of Shangwa Village, and it is just a simple shaking of two layers of ripples, and then the original calm is restored.

In the whole Shangwa Village, the life of the villagers has not changed much, it is still sunrise and sunset, and the biological clock is very regular.

No, it's the day of the annual fishing and selling fish, and Li Zheng has already paid the miscellaneous taxes in the village this year, after all, they are all small money, and the county order doesn't want to worry about it, for fear that the other party will be stimulated by himself and go crazy, and pull the dead fish to the gate of the county government.

As soon as I thought of that picture, the county order was terrible!

The psychological shadow brought to him by that bad old man is too serious to provoke!

In this way, when everyone tacitly turned a blind eye to each other, the remaining river fish in the big river became the target of the village gate.

As long as you talk to Lizheng, the villagers of Shangwa Village can pull a cartload of fish back and sell it for money.

The weather is hot right now, and the fish stinks after only half a day out of the water, so if you want to catch fish and sell it for money, you have to get up early.

In particular, they went up to the mountain road dozens of miles away from Changle County.

Driving the ox cart, back and forth, is almost a day's work.

All the money earned here is strength money, there is no work in the field at the moment, and the villagers have the mentality that they are idle and idle, even if they earn less from selling fish, everyone will still do it.

Li is like this, she is forty-eight this year, at this age, in Shangwa Village, she can already be regarded as an old man.

Thirty-two years ago, she was married by her father to Zhao Fuxiang of Shangwa Village, and the two had a total of five sons and two daughters.

At present, except for the youngest two twin sons who have not yet married, the rest of the daughters have already started a family.

Li thought as he walked, when she and the old man worked hard for two years, the two younger ones became relatives, and the old couple would be able to enjoy life happily.

Today, the men in the family were not at home, and they all went to Changle Town, dozens of miles away, to sell fish, and it was the turn of the Li family to take the three daughters-in-law of the family out to fish.

Along the way, Li met many big girls and little daughters-in-law who were rushing to the river with wooden basins or backpacks.

It's all from the same village, the big guys have lived together day and night for decades, and they can't be more familiar, and when they meet, the Li family also greets them one by one with a smile,

"Second aunt, my second uncle hasn't come out yet?"

"Bad, I got up early in the morning and went to the town to sell fish."

"Hey, the second child, you are really capable, this is the first trip, where is the second child of your family?"

"Go sell fish."

“……”

Zhao Fuxiang is the second in line, there is a brother and three brothers, and the entire Shangwa Village is the majority of the same clan, everyone shouts like this, and they have simply shouted for so many years, and the Li family is also used to it.

"Hey, I got up early and took my children to the market, maybe they can meet them again."

"Who said no, you are busy first, come back and talk."

After a few simple greetings, Li followed and hurried forward.

She is very popular in the village, and everyone loves to talk to her, and by the time she got home, a shallow layer of sweat had already appeared on her forehead.

Simply pulling up his sleeves and wiping his head, Li sighed in his heart, and carried the bucket into the fenced yard of the house, which was fenced with wheat straw mixed with wattles.

When I looked up, I saw a few children who had stayed at home playing wildly in the yard.

Li put down the bucket, wiped his face, wiped all the sweat that had been shed before, and then yelled with a tiger face, "What are you doing?" Don't make trouble, hurry back to the house and stay with me. ”

At present, the house is in a mess now, and there are dried fish drying everywhere.

The children in the family are too young for anyone to watch, and if they accidentally knock over the dried fish when the time comes, it will not be a waste of their adult time.

Li roared, and did not forget to pick up the broom on the side to drive away the mosquitoes attracted by the fishy smell of dried fish.

When the children in the family saw him carrying a broom, the terrible images in their memories immediately surfaced.

are all naughty children, tricksters who go to the house every day to uncover the tiles and fish in the water, who has not been chased and beaten by the adults in the family.

It was precisely because of this that when the children of the family saw him coming with a broom, they thought that they had come to teach them a lesson.

The "whoop" voice suddenly dispersed.

When Li saw this picture, he rolled his eyes directly.

She didn't care, but poured out all the fish in the bucket at hand, and when the water was dry, she picked them up and threw them aside in the sun to dry.

The rest of her eyes glanced around, and there was still a person sitting there at the door of the lower room of her house.

Li stopped what he was doing and looked up, and saw the second girl in the second room, with a mouthful of white teeth shining in the sun, smiling at her like a flower.

Lee, "......"

Li Shi said angrily, "You little girl, what are you watching there?" Got the bag on your head? ”

As soon as Li opened her mouth, the little girl in her mouth, that is, Zhao Yu, hurriedly got up and walked over.

At the same time, he didn't forget to muttered in his mouth to answer her milk's words just now, "Okay, okay, milk, do our fish have to be used to dry fish?" ”

After speaking, she also looked at the fish eyes with a little pity, and they looked at the fish that were dead and blind.

Harm, why do you want to dry this stinky and unpalatable dried fish every day.

Isn't it enough that the whole yard is made up of dried fish? If it goes on like this, Zhao Yu will suspect that he is a dried fish.

Li squatted on the ground, lowered his head and continued to be busy with the work in his hands, "If you don't dry the fish, do you want to cook and eat?" ”

The fishy smell of these fish is clear and heavy, but on the whole, they are all tasteful, and they are very disgusting to eat, and no one in their family wants to eat them.

Thinking of this, Li Shi raised his head and glanced at Zhao Yu who walked to her side, "No, didn't you just drink a bowl of fish soup before, and you cried louder than a pig's lamb, what's the matter, you don't have a long memory now, and you're hungry again?" ”

Zhao Yu, "......"

Zhao Yu didn't react, she was scolded by her milk, and the whole person was stupid.

What? No, you wait!

How did I become a pig!

Wrong! Why am I crying?

Not right either! Drinking fish soup?

Finally thinking of the problem, Zhao Yu scratched his head and fell directly into deep thought.

Of course, this is just how she feels about herself.

At present, Zhao Yu's action and demeanor, in Li's opinion, are stupid again.

Suddenly exhaled angrily, Li restrained the urge to scold, the second family is unreliable, this day, even a child can't look at it, look, just say that the problem is very big when you knock on the head, and the big heart is not taken seriously.

Everyone is stupid now, what will happen when they grow up and get married in the future?

Zhao Yu, "......"

Not yet aware of the fact that she was stupid in her eyes, she was trying to recall her previous memories.

"Okay, okay, leave one for you, hurry back to the house and lie down, don't stand here and bother me."

Li Shi waved her hand anxiously, pulled out a fish that looked angry from the dried fish drying on the side and put it into the bucket with a bang, and then, she held the bucket in one hand and Zhao Yu's neck collar in the other, and stuffed the bucket into the shade under the eaves.

When he was done, Li turned around and went out and continued to dry the fish.

The three daughters-in-law by the river at the entrance of the village are still busy fishing, and she can't go late.

When Zhao Yu finished recalling and came back to his senses, there were no people in front of him except for the dried fish in the courtyard.

Zhao Yu, "......"

"Bang-click"

Hearing the sound, Zhao Yu lowered his head.

I saw a bucket beside her, and in the bucket, there was a big fish that kept slapping the edge of the bucket.

Wow! Zhao Yu was stunned!

This fish, I'm afraid it's not a special mutant species, and its desire to survive is too strong, so it's still alive.