At the end of the summer harvest, everyone is preparing for the summer tax, and Zhao Hanzhang finally ushered in the harvest - collecting taxes!

As the county magistrate of Xiping County, Zhao Hanzhang struggled on the front line, and she personally went to the countryside to inspect the tax collection.

With her, the amount of tax and grain in Xiping County this year is very standard, and the people are as happy as if they are celebrating the New Year.

She not only looked at the collection of summer taxes, but also the summer sowing to ensure the autumn harvest.

After a winter, we already know that beans can also make a lot of delicious food, and everyone has more expectations and feelings for planting soybeans, plus the county government now collects soybeans at a fixed price, and the price is slightly higher than in the past.

So the beans that have been sprinkled with seeds and are not taken care of have been taken care of, weeding, catching insects, although they are still green bean seedlings, but they look better than in previous years, and the germination rate is not low.

One of the benefits of intensive farming is that the number of acres per capita decreases, yields increase, and more people can be fed with the same number of acres.

Xiping County is collecting taxes, and Shangcai County is naturally the same.

Zhao Hanzhang went to Shangcai after collecting all the summer taxes in Xiping County.

Coincidentally, the official document urging the counties to pay the grain tax has also arrived, because there is a war, so this year's summer tax has risen a little.

The Chai County Order was still having a headache about the taxes to be paid this year, and as soon as Zhao Hanzhang came, he immediately divided the summer tax collected into three.

One is handed over, one is left for the county government to spend, and one is to be returned to her.

"Pay you back?" Che County Ling was so surprised.

"Yes, at the beginning of the year, Shangcai County and Xiping County borrowed so much grain and copper money, can't they pay it back?" She said: "Although the two counties are now brothers, it is precisely because they are brothers that they have to settle accounts." ”

Chai County Order: "...... But in this way, the taxes handed over to the imperial court are far from sufficient, and they are not enough in the first place......"

Zhao Hanzhang said: "Don't worry, I will ask Ji Yuan to write an excerpt, and you can copy it and send it to the Assassin's Mansion when you go back, so that you will understand us." ”

Che Xian Ling frowned, a little worried, "Sanniang, how to account for the one-third of the grain tax you took away?" ”

Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "Don't worry, Ji Yuan will do a good job, don't say that there is no time to send someone down to investigate now, even if we come, we can deal with the past." ”

Chai County Ling was still very scared, he withheld as much as two-thirds of the tax for the first time, you know, in previous years, he just secretly withheld some, and it was only a little.

In order to reassure his letter, Zhao Hanzhang said that her Xiping County withheld more taxes.

She said: "After years of military rebellion and natural disasters, we have to save something in the county office, otherwise if there is an accident in the future, who can save us?" ”

The order of Chai County was still hesitating, Zhao Hanzhang said: "These things are taken from the people and used by the people, the county monarch is the parent official of Shangcai County, shouldn't he work for the people under his rule?" ”

Che County Ling thought thoughtfully.

In the end, Ji Yuan still ghostwrote two excerpts for them, yes, one excerpt is written, and two excerpts are also written.

Anyway, it's all complaints, and I have experience in writing the second letter, and the speed is faster.

So Zhao Hanzhang handed over his fold to him to write, and then she copied it.

The reply letters from Xiping County and Shangcai County were sent to Chen County slowly.

There is a war going on not far from Chen County, so a large number of displaced people have poured into Chen County.

There was no way, although they fought mostly in the wilderness, the king of the East China Sea wanted to kill Gou Xi and rob Yanzhou; And Gou Xi wanted to kill the king of the East China Sea, and wanted to go to Luoyang to pick up the emperor, so he inevitably attacked the city.

In the war, it is not only the soldiers on the battlefield who face death, but also the people who are conquered and conquered.

Especially when the summer harvest coincided, as soon as they fought, they destroyed a large number of farmlands, and many of the wheat that had not yet had time to be harvested were wasted; Moreover, when the soldiers are short of food, they will directly grab the wheat with knives.

Wherever the fighting hits, a large number of refugees are created in an instant.

They had to pack their bags and flee home, both to escape the war and to escape the summer tax.

Yuzhou is in Yanzhou, also on the edge of Luoyang, so most refugees choose to come to Yuzhou to settle down.

He Tingshi couldn't close the city gate and refuse the refugees to enter, so he could only disperse the refugees who poured in as much as possible and let them go to the counties.

At the same time, Chen County needed a lot of property and food to collect so many displaced people, plus the expropriation task given to him by the imperial court, He Tingshi directly transferred it to the lower counties, and the county guard or Taishou was transferred to the lower counties.

Therefore, the tasks distributed to Shangcai County and Xiping County are heavy, especially Shangcai County.

It is not only a large county, but many counties in Runan County suffered military disasters last year, and it is the only one who is fine, so the task assigned to him is the heaviest.

The Chai County Order also knew this, so he was very afraid of refusing the above summer tax request, and he was also secretly leaving so much summer grain.

But he copied the excerpts written by Ji Yuan, and the more he copied it, the more he felt that Ji Yuan was reasonable, it was also very difficult for them to go to Cai County last year, and several people froze to death and starved to death this winter.

If it weren't for Zhao Hanzhang's help at the beginning of spring, how could he have formed a brotherly alliance with Xiping County, how could he have collected so much summer tax?

At that time, he begged for help from the Assassin Mansion every once in a while, thinking that he could allocate some money and food to let the people survive until March.

At that time, there are a lot of wild vegetables in the wild, so you won't be hungry even if you eat wild vegetables, right?

But the assassin Shifu did not reply to the letter for a long time, and finally replied to the letter once, which also said that the treasury was empty, so he asked him to find a way to solve it on the spot.

Zhao Hanzhang and Ji Yuan were right, he had to leave something for the county government, and if there was such a thing in the future, if the assassin did not save him, he would not have no way out.

Zhao Hanzhang is also copying the fold, she can dismantle it quickly, check it after copying, and after making sure that there are no typos, she will throw it aside and hand it over to someone to send to Chen County.

The next day, she took someone to watch the grain go into storage.

Most of the grain in Xiping County went to the grain depot, and the rest was sent to the barracks.

She finally didn't have to buy food to feed her soldiers.

She now has a lot of soldiers, only more than 1,000 people on the surface, but her troops scattered in various settlements are also soldiers, they also farm on weekdays, but they are more trained, so the food output is not self-sufficient.

What's more, she has to take in more refugees and open up more wasteland, so she urgently needs food.

And the one-third of the grain tax picked from Shangcai, Zhao Hanzhang did not bring it back to Xiping, but stayed in Shangcai.

She said to Ji Yuan: "This is taken from Shangcai County, so let's use it in Shangcai County." ”

Ji Yuan was very satisfied with this, "The girl loves a lot." ”

Zhao Hanzhang also thought so, so he smiled smugly.

(End of chapter)

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