"If I'm not here, everything will be sent to Zhao Lingyun."

Hearing this, the herald's face immediately showed a look of wanting to say something, as if he had something to say but didn't dare to say.

After his face was cloudy and uncertain, he remembered that Wang Zhi never punished his subordinates on weekdays, and even if he didn't intend to anger him, he didn't have to worry about the safety of his life, the herald was a little bolder, and said boldly: "General, if such a military matter is handed over to Principal Zhao to deal with, I'm afraid it will increase in criticism!" ”

The heralds around Wang Zhi mainly come from two aspects, one is the literate soldiers in the army, and the other is the documents that have undergone simple military training, and now this herald is through the military training documents. Their minds were full of feudal thoughts, and they thought that they would be able to ascend to the sky in one step by becoming Wang Zhi's attendant, but after actually working, they found that the so-called herald was just an errand job, but their status in Daying City had indeed risen, after all, they were Wang Zhi's sidekicks in the eyes of outsiders.

So they have been happy to do errands, no one complained, just hoping to get the moon near the water, and one day be appreciated by Wang Zhi, so as to ascend to the sky in one step.

Now he dares to "admonish", in addition to the traditional literati's subconscious resistance to harem politics - Zhao Lingyun is Wang Zhi's harem in the eyes of outsiders, and he does not want to show a hand in front of Wang Zhi.

However, Wang Zhi just looked at him coldly: "As a herald, do a good job of running errands, whatever I say is what I say, it's not your turn to interject." ”

was looked at by Wang Zhi with cold eyes, and the herald immediately felt as if he was in the cold winter wax moon, cold and piercing, and after three shivers, he hurriedly begged for mercy: "The subordinates know their mistakes, and their subordinates know their mistakes...... The subordinates sent the fold to Principal Zhao. ”

"Where to go, I'll take a look first."

As he spoke, Wang Zhi walked behind the desk by himself. Ignoring the frightened herald, he picked up a letter-formatted "recital" and looked at it.

At the beginning is an address, which is to indicate where the work report was written, and the content is very simple. That is, the potatoes and other crops grown in the village he manages are about to be harvested, and he asks how to collect the rent.

Seeing this work report, Wang Zhicai remembered that the team sent out and the potato seeds planted for those tenants were also about to be harvested, and how to collect the rent was a big problem.

First of all, the rent should not be too high. Otherwise, it is no different from the feudal landlords who exploit the toiling masses, and secondly, the rent cannot be too low, and grain, as an important material, must be concentrated in their own hands. It is too unrealistic to want to buy it, and without the need to pay rent with silver, no peasant household will sell grain in such a year, so they can only do their own work in collecting rent.

In Yanchang County, not everyone grows potatoes, most of them grow some potatoes that Wang Zhi forced to arrange. Then plant some traditional crops such as sorghum and wheat, and the farmers who rely on the field to eat do not dare to press the rations of the next six months on a thing that they have seen for the first time, after all, not everyone is a traverser, and they believe in the high yield of potatoes from the bottom of their hearts.

Because the potatoes were forced by Wang Zhi to be planted by the farmers, they would not pay too much attention to it, and most of their energy was spent on their own sorghum and wheat, so the yield of the potatoes planted by these farmers should not be too high, so the rent should not be too heavy, otherwise it would reduce their enthusiasm for potatoes, so they pondered for a long time. Wang Zhicai decided to set a tax rate -- 70 percent for potatoes and 50 percent for other crops.

This tax rate, at first glance, is more Huang Shiren than Zhou Papi, but it is not. In this era, the landlords and tenants were divided in a variety of ways, some according to the proportion of the harvest, some fixed a certain amount, and other ways, such as the land that can grow two crops in one season, one season to the landlord and one season to the tenants. There are also various kinds of production in the land, which belong to the landlord and the peasant household.

But no matter what way it is, the land rent is roughly fifty-five cents, and there are also high and low levels, but there are evil people and good people, very few, not the mainstream.

In addition, there are two kinds of tenants, one is completely landless and lives on rented land, and the other is those who have their own land but do not have enough land and need to rent land for farming.

Although the former is completely dependent on the landlord and basically has no ability to resist disasters and personal property, they do not need to pay taxes and conscription of the imperial court except for the landlord's rent, but because they have no personal property at all, and the production tools and even the mountainous land for collecting firewood also have to be rented from the landlord, the actual rent to be paid is far more than 50%.

The latter has their own land, owns property, and has a stronger ability to resist disasters than landless tenants, but they have to bear all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the imperial court, as for the regular taxes stipulated in the text, it is not worth mentioning at all, in addition, like landless tenants, some tools and firewood in the mountains and even irrigation water sources have to be rented and bought from the landlords, and the situation may not be as good as that of landless tenants, unless it is a middle peasant or rich peasant with more land, but with the implementation of a whip law, the imperial court only collects silver as a tax, in addition to all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes and extra fire consumption silver, Homesteaders are also exploited when selling grain, and even the most savvy homesteaders can only go bankrupt by simply farming.

In short, although the land rent of this era was generally 50 percent, the rent that the peasants had to pay was much higher than 50 percent, and as high as 7 or 80 percent, when other tangible and intangible exploitations were added. And Wang Zhi here, fifty percent of the rent includes land rent, the use of livestock and farm tools, and the use of water conservancy, and there is no need to pay money for firewood and hunting in the nearby mountains, and if you pay fifty percent of the rent, you don't have to pay other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and you don't have to serve forced labor, and you don't even collect money when collecting rent, just pay grain.

As for the seventy percent rent of potatoes, it is a special matter, even if they do not manage potatoes carefully, potatoes can be harvested for 500 catties, and the yield of three achievements is 150 catties, and now the yield of one mu of wheat is almost this amount.

This is just the land rent of ordinary peasant households, and as for the production team, the basic rations are left, and the rest is all handed over. The way to pay the rent is to let each place collect the rent first, and then arrange for the local manpower to be sent to Daying City, and the people who transport the grain are in charge of the food on the road, and each person is given 20 catties of potatoes as a salary for lost work, and they all promise that they will not let the peasant households work in vain without conscription.

After thinking about the tax rate and the process of tax collection, Wang Zhi picked up the next work report and read it, which also said about the matter of land rent, but mentioned that some parents in the village wanted to see their children studying in school, and there were still people in the village who spread rumors, and the people's hearts were a little unstable.

In order to speed up the process of educational development, Wang Zhi forcibly arrested all children under the age of 14 in Yanchang County to attend classes, and did not let them contact their families during this period, which was not good for parents and children, which was a problem.

So Wang Zhi added another sentence after the correction of the previous note: give priority to people with children studying in Daying City to transport grain, and arrange for them to see their children by the way.

After the correction, Wang Zhi picked up a work report again, which also talked about rent collection, and while putting it aside, he read some work reports one after another, most of which were about rent collection, but there were also a few articles, which talked about the problem and attracted Wang Zhi's attention. (To be continued.) )