A household official, accompanied by several attendants, entered the academy through an open side door.

Originally, he had a proud face, but when he saw Dongfang Pingtai and Lin Chengyin coming forward in person, he quickly withdrew his arrogant expression, and said respectfully while saluting the two: "Bai Mingming, the head of the Xiaguan Household Department, has come to preside over the delivery of the food of the Marquis of Feng'an County on the orders of the monarch and the Shangguan. ”

The Marquis of Feng'an County is an honorific title for Ye Yunyang, and it is a tradition of the Han Empire to take the fief as its name.

Dongfang Pingtai nodded and asked, "The household department is managed by Yan Yangqiu, the right prime minister, and his health is good?"

Bai Mingzhi replied: "The Prime Minister is not in good health, and he has not come to the household department to preside over things for a few days, and the officials at all levels have been trained by his old man, so even if he is not there, everyone will cooperate with each other very well, and there will be no chaos." ”

"That's good. Dongfang Pingtai Zhengse said: "Please follow me to the study, please." ”

"Lord Sacrificial Wine is polite, the lower official is flattered, please first. Bai Mingzhi is still very wise, he knows that his official position is small, and among the four people in front of him, even the youngest Ye Yunyang holds the title of marquis, of course he doesn't dare to walk in front, and insists on walking in the back.

A few minutes later, the five of them came to the office of Pinshuzhai Dongfang Pingtai.

After some greetings, Bai Zhizhi took out the file he carried with him and said: "The total number of acres of land in Feng'an County is 600,000 mu, including 150,000 mu of high-grade fertile land, 200,000 mu of medium-grade land, and 250,000 mu of low-grade inferior land......

"Wait, how many acres of land did you say there are in Feng'an County?" Lin Chengyin interrupted him.

Bai Zhizhi looked at the file and said, "Back to Lord Siye, it's 600,000 mu. ”

Lin Chengyin frowned, exchanged a look with Dongfang Pingtai, and asked, "Are you sure it's 600,000 mu?"

Bai Mingming read the file again, and said with certainty: "That's right, it is clearly written, it is 600,000." ”

Dongfang Pingtai waved his hand: "600,000 is 600,000, you continue to read." ”

Bai Zhizhi nodded, and then read down: "Among them, 100,000 mu of fertile land, 100,000 mu of middle field, and 50,000 mu of lower field belong to public land......

"What, the public land is also within the 600,000 acres just now?" Lin Chengyin interrupted him again.

Bai Zhizhi nodded: "That's right, that's what it says in the dossier, 100,000 mu of Shangtian and 50,000 Zhongtian belong to the monarch, 50,000 mu of Zhongtian and 50,000 mu of Xiatian belong to Futian, and they are all public land." ”

Dongfang Pingtai frowned, endured the anger in his heart and said, "Keep reading." ”

Bai Mingming felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and glanced at Dongfang Pingtai cautiously, and then continued: "Hou Ye Yunyang of Feng'an County can get 50,000 mu of fertile land, 100,000 mu of middle land and 200,000 mu of lower land The annual national tax, that is, one percent of the income from the field. ”

Dongfang Pingtai's brows twisted into a pimple: "Keep reading." ”

Bai Zhizhi whispered, "It's gone." ”

"Why is it gone?" The old man was furious: "The field tax is divided into three parts: the imperial tax, the national tax and the government tax, if the old man remembers correctly, each item is one percent, and the sum should be three percent! Why did Ye Yunyang only get one national tax, the imperial tax and the government tax?"

The so-called imperial tax refers to the tax handed over to the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the national tax is collected by the Dongping state, and the government tax is collected by the local government.

According to the regulations of the Han Empire, all land taxes of the fief should belong to the nobles.

Bai Mingzhi explained: "The emperor's will did not say that the imperial tax of Feng'an County would not be collected, so it had to be handed over every year, and this became the Marquis of Feng'an County could not get it; ”

Ye Yunyang didn't quite understand the Tao, and asked directly: "You just say how much money I can get a year!"

Bai Mingzhi said while calculating: "If the wind and rain are good, the annual income of one mu of fertile land is one tael of silver, and 50,000 mu is 50,000 taels; the harvest of Zhongtian per mu is half a tael of silver, and 100,000 mu is also 50,000 taels; the income of Xia Tian is two coins of silver, 200,000 mu is 40,000 taels, and 50,000 plus 50,000 plus 40,000 is 140,000 taels......

Ye Yunyang's eyes lit up: "It's a lot, 140,000 taels!"

Bai Mingming was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "It's not 140,000 taels, 140,000 is the total income, and you account for 10% of it, which is 14,000 taels." ”

"Huh?" Ye Yunyang's eyes widened, it was ten times less at once, and the agricultural tax revenue of the entire county was only more than 10,000 taels?

Dongfang Yixue added: "This is calculated according to a good year when the wind and rain are good, if there are droughts, floods, locust plagues and other disasters, food production will be reduced, and taxes will be collected according to the proportion, and it will also be affected." ”

He turned to look at the beauty and asked, "How much can I get?"

She replied, "If it's good, 10,000 taels, or 7,800 taels, if you encounter a catastrophe with no harvest, not only will you not be able to collect the field tax, but you will have to take the money out to help the people." ”

His eyes widened: "Upside down the money?"

The beauty nodded: "Yes." ”

He was furious: "What kind of reward is this, it's obviously a deal with both profits and losses!"

Lin Chengyin smiled bitterly and said, "You're right, in a sense, it's indeed a sale. ”

Dongfang Pingtai slapped the table and asked Bai Mingming: "The old man will ask you one last time, where did these data come from, are you sure it is the real data of Feng'an County?"

Bai Zhizhi hurriedly raised his hand and made an oath: "It's true! This is the official of the household hall after the monarch personally gave instructions, and the humble position is just a messenger, how dare he deceive from it?"

Ye Yunyang also felt that something was wrong, and said: "In my impression, Feng'an County is very large, with a population of hundreds of thousands, how can it support so many people with only 600,000 mu of land? My family is not a rich family in Dahuaishu Village, but it also has 20 acres of fertile land and 10 acres of woodland...... By the way, does the food only count the fields and not the woodlands and water?"

Lin Chengyin said: "Of course, this data is not right! When I first heard the figure of 600,000 mu, I thought it was the number after removing the public land, although it was also small but barely acceptable, but I didn't expect that it still contains 250,000 mu of public land, Oriental sacrificial wine, can our public land in Dongping Kingdom account for such a large proportion?"

Dongfang Pingtai shook his head: "I don't know the specific ratio, but my impression should not be so high." Hmph, this data has been tampered with, and the other party Ken is really painstaking. ”

He knew that it must be the monarch who was the obstruction, although he had expected this for a long time, but he didn't expect the monarch to be so ruthless, it was simply mad.

A dignified county marquis given by the emperor of the empire, with an annual income of only more than 10,000 taels of silver, can make people laugh out of their big teeth when they say it.

Bai Zhizhi noticed the unkind gaze of the four people, and hurriedly expressed his attitude: "Everyone, the lower official is really just responsible for passing on the word, such a big matter, a small official like me is not qualified to participate." ”

It seemed that he was not lying, Ye Yunyang turned to ask Dongfang Pingtai: "What should I do?"

The old man smiled bitterly and said, "Since people have settled the accounts so clearly, they must have come prepared, even if you bring the lawsuit to the emperor, they will come up with a bunch of arguments." ”

Dongfang Yixue said angrily: "Then let them bully, it's too much." ”

"Otherwise, how can we go to the monarch to theorize?" The old man shook his head and said: "People dare to do this, it means that they have made full preparations, maybe they are preparing for us to make trouble, it's useless." ”

Ye Yunyang smiled: "Sure enough, it's a good calculation, the emperor calculates the monarch, the monarch calculates me, they don't suffer anyone, treat me as a fool, this county marquis is not appropriate." ”

Lin Chengyin hurriedly persuaded: "Don't talk nonsense, Emperor Chrysostom Yuyan, you have already received the holy decree, and it would be disrespectful to say such things again, if you resign from the government is to slap the emperor in the face, there must be no good fruit to eat." ”

He smiled bitterly: "In this way, the Marquis of Feng'an County should be appropriate, and I should be inappropriate?"

The three of them nodded in unison: "That's right." ”

Ye Yunyang began to scold his mother in his heart, Lao Tzu recruited whoever provoked him, and took out the new witchcraft he had worked so hard to master and contribute it to everyone, but in the end he ended up like this.

Bai Mingming said cautiously: "Everyone, you have all seen the world, since you have thought of everything, shouldn't you sign this delivery letter?"

"Sign!" Ye Yunyang grabbed the brush on the bookcase on the side, wrote down his name, and said with a sneer: "Those who think I am easy to bully, one day I want you to repay the debt a hundred times and a thousand times." ”

Bai Mingzhi knew the rules of officialdom very well, so he pretended not to hear anything, put away the documents and said with a smile: "The delivery matter is completed, and the imperial court will send someone to help you take care of the fief as soon as possible, so you can be the marquis properly." It's not early, and there is a lot of trouble from the lower officials, and I hope that you will say goodbye. ”

"Well, you go. Dongfang Pingtai snorted.

Bai Mingzhi was as amnesty as he was, and ran away.

Lin Chengyin said angrily: "It's really too much, millions of acres of land were secretly cut down in half, and then deliberately increased the number of public fields, Chen Mingda, as the king of a country, is so small." ”

Dongfang Pingtai sighed and said: "I also think it's incredible, although the monarch is not a master, but he is also a sensible person, for the sake of a little profit in front of him, he actually did such a stupid thing, which is chilling." ”

Ye Yunyang looked at it the most, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, no matter what, there is an extra income of tens of thousands of taels every year, people have to respectfully call me Master Hou, I am very satisfied." ”

A few minutes later, he and Dongfang Yixue left the study.

The beautiful woman still had an angry expression on her face, and what she was thinking about was how to help Ye Yun get out of this evil breath.

Walking out of the scope of the letter of appointment, seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and said, "Teach sister, there is something that has to be solved, you have to help me." ”

"Okay, whatever you say, I'll do my best. The beauty readily agreed.

He smiled mysteriously: "That guy who is hiding in the shadows and eyeing me, although he has been more honest recently, and he has only made a few small actions that cannot be put on the stage, but who dares to guarantee that he is not planning a bigger conspiracy, so it is better to solve him first." ”

Dongfang Yixue Bingxue was smart, and immediately guessed who he was talking about, and asked in a low voice: "What are you going to do, Sun Shiyuan is a cautious person, and I am afraid that ordinary means will not be able to deal with him." ”

"Mountain people have their own tricks. He said confidently: "That guy will definitely jump into the trap I prepared for him, and end up in a doom, I heard that his old fox grandfather is going to have a birthday, how can I not prepare a big gift!"

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