Chapter 909 Forced helplessness

In the midsummer of July, Chuzhou ushered in the summer harvest of the new year in turmoil, but this harvest became the fuse of fierce confrontation.

The acre tax is an important part of the empire, although the empire also has a variety of commercial taxes, but the income of the commercial tax is far less than the acre tax, the nobles have the privilege of tax exemption, and the wealthy families with great power control the place, even the local officials are their families, and the tax collection is naturally less than more, can not collect a lot.

The empire's commercial tax mainly relies on transit tax, and even so, the wealthy families who do business will often smuggle and bypass the tax customs, such as the Tianhe water thieves, the Taihu Lake water thieves, etc., in addition to some of them are indeed water thieves, and a large part of them are actually the dark forces of these wealthy families.

Therefore, the collection of commercial tax has been in an unstable state, while the tax per mu is different, the tax per mu of the empire is directly levied according to the number of acres of land recorded, and a tax of about three to five silver coins is levied per mu, of course, this is a regular tax of the imperial court, and there are all kinds of miscellaneous taxes in the local area.

In the process of tax collection, it is carried out in the way of discounting the price into silver, which means that there is still a lot of room for manipulation, and every time the harvest is an adult, the grain merchants will unite with the government to suppress the price of grain, and then through some means, the grain will be sold at a high price into the army, or the locality, to earn the difference.

It is precisely because of the collusion between officials and businessmen that in some years, a large amount of land cannot make ends meet because of the payment of a large amount of taxes, and once the family has some illness, they cannot but sell the land to tide over the difficulties, which is also the reason for the rise of large landlords.

Since Leng Zhuo's reign, after the establishment of a new ruling order, the Chuzhou region promulgated a new tax law, leviing only a light 11th tax on the fields, and purchasing the surplus grain in the hands of the people at the market price by setting the minimum official price.

As early as in the fifth and fifth six years of the empire, Leng Zhuo in order to control the grain and grass in Chuzhou, not only vigorously attracted the local landlords, grain merchants, and even established the Golden Harvest Rice Company, which was able to grow in the grain war in Vermilion Bird City, and for this chaotic environment, food is the top priority, and the Golden Harvest Rice Bank did not disappear because of the completion of the stage mission.

From the beginning of 556 to now, the Golden Harvest Rice Bank has completed the layout of the counties and towns in the ten prefectures of Chuzhou, basically in the locality, there is a large scale of the Golden Harvest Rice Bank, and in Yangzhou, in the Jinfeng Mansion, Changbo Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion four mansions, there are also Golden Harvest Rice Shops opened.

The price of rice in Chuzhou has been stable because of the good recovery in the past two years, but this year, because of the demarcation between the Great Chu Kingdom and the empire, there have been many twists and turns in the local area.

According to the decree of the Great Chu Kingdom issued by Leng Zhuo, within the territory of the Great Chu Kingdom, and maintain the eleven tax per mu of land, and in its protected areas, the May 1st tax is paid, if according to the market price, it is probably equivalent to the fixed tax set by the empire, three to five silver per mu, and it is guaranteed that no miscellaneous taxes will be collected.

After the lesson of the previous while, those new officials in the local area can be regarded as having grown wise and restrained, okay, since we can't afford to provoke you as a great Chu people, then those who have not joined your Chu Kingdom will not be able to take care of it.

So with the beginning of the summer harvest, the collection of summer taxes began vigorously, and some county orders even took people down to collect them in person.

It's not that they have to observe the people's feelings, and they want to go to the fields to talk to the people, but they are forced to be unable to open the pot, a county government, officials, officials, officials, monthly servants, and recruited city guard soldiers, these are all asking for money.

But the problem is that when they took over, the treasury was empty, and there was money on the books, but they wanted to spend it to Ping An Bank, because according to the previous system, all the expenses of the local yamen in Chuzhou needed to be reviewed and confirmed before they could be withdrawn in Ping An Bank.

However, after Leng Zhuo established the Great Chu Kingdom, Ping An Bank was directly changed to the Royal Ping An Bank of the Great Chu Kingdom, don't look at it, only changed the name, but it is equivalent to the local officials Yu Lu is not managed by Ping An Bank, and as for the money in the local yamen before, it was directly transferred to the treasury of the Great Chu Kingdom in the name of protection fees, etc., and the local envoys still received high salaries in the local area as before.

And this has also led to the poverty of the local yamen, and the empire has not been able to poke its hand over, and even if it is stretched out, the empire will not be able to come up with the money, so Situ Xue has always let the local government raise its own funds, and it will be repaid by the empire in the future.

But since there have suddenly increased the number of bandits in the local area, these families don't steal all the money they have, and they don't have any money to run the yamen now, and in the end, Situ Xue had to transfer some money from Yangzhou to turn around, so he barely supported it for two months.

Supporting the summer harvest, Situ Xue can be regarded as relieved, the local income should be enough to run the local yamen, and the surplus money may be sent to her.

But at this moment, Situ Xue, who was angry because of Leng Zhuo, was far away in Yangzhou, because compared to Chuzhou, the situation in Yangzhou was obviously in their favor, so she focused on Yangzhou, and she only controlled Chuzhou remotely.

Situ Xue also understands the importance of the people's hearts, so she also adopts the same tax rate as the tax set by the Great Chu Kingdom, so there can't be any problems, but Situ Xue still takes it for granted, she is a princess on top, where do you know the hard work of geographical farmers.

The common people can live with this money, if they say what empire they had before, what the Great Chu Kingdom was still very far away for them, but at the beginning of the summer harvest, the people of the empire and the people of the Great Chu Kingdom had a direct comparison.

In fact, the local government has restored the rule of the empire, so the tax will naturally be collected according to the empire, although there is Situ Xue's pardon, but as the so-called policy and countermeasures.

These local county orders have long held their breath, even if they didn't want to go back to their previous land, they still suffered a lot of idleness, and then someone stole their family funds, how tight they are to take advantage of their current lives, they have to get some money to make up for it.

These people naturally have a difference in the implementation of Situ Xue's orders, the imperial tax system, levied according to three to five silver per mu, okay, then discounted into grain, now the price of grain in Chuzhou is generally low, this is also because of the recovery of grain production in the past two years, Chuzhou, as a large granary, naturally has excess grain, and Leng Zhuo has not mobilized large-scale troops in the past two years, and the granaries are full of all places.

Today's grain prices can reach one silver and fifty copper per stone, and according to the tax of up to five silver, it is equivalent to three and three stones per mu of land, and although the land in Chuzhou is fertile, one acre of land can only produce seven or eight stones, which is equivalent to four to fifty percent of the grain extracted from one acre of land at once.

The people of Dachu are according to the two draws of ten per mu, because the Dachu clearly stipulates that the tax per mu of land is paid with grain, not at a discount, and the collection in the local area is received by the local Golden Ear Rice Shop in a unified manner, which is equivalent to exempting the cost of going back and forth, and the cost of collecting grain in this way is not very large, because the Golden Ear Rice Bank has the largest transport fleet and fleet in Chuzhou, and it is a part of logistics in wartime.

One village, two situations, the people of Great Chu pay two percent, and the people of the empire pay four to fifty percent, which is twice as much at once, but anyone who is not stupid understands the gap, not to mention one silver five, which is the official lowest price of the Great Chu Kingdom, and it is not the market price, but if you inquire a little, you also know that the price of grain this summer has risen because of local turmoil, although it is not the price of two silver, but it is not much worse.

This conflict broke out directly, and this time there is no need for someone to spread it, the news has spread all over the place like the wind, you must know that the people of Chuzhou have had a good life in the past two years, plus the tax exemption in the first year, and the tax in the second year and a half tax, the tax collected is meager, which is more than when they are tenants, and they have to take sixty percent of the rent I don't know how many times happy.

Originally, they didn't notice that this year would be different from previous years, but as soon as the first tax was collected, this calculation found that when the people of the empire had to pay a lot of taxes, and when the people of Chu also raised some taxes compared with previous years, they could still accept it.

And because of the different levels of taxes, conflicts naturally broke out, and those people who did not have the protection of Da Chu were naturally unlucky, and at this time the common people knew that they thought it didn't matter, how important the troublesome step procedure was.

It is related to their own interests, and the common people are concerned, and those people who have not yet joined the Great Chu have blocked the envoys who have explained to them every day how good and how good the Chu Kingdom is, and they have asked to join the Great Chu Kingdom, but this makes these patrol envoys who have worn out their mouths and are almost dumb to speak all smile bitterly.

If they knew it was so, why did they bother so hard.

Throughout July, the population of the Great Chu Kingdom, which had not been growing much, suddenly showed explosive growth, and it was a geometric leap, and the patrol envoys and the officials under them who had nothing to do in the local area were suddenly busy.

And the change in Chuzhou was half a month late before it reached Situ Xue's ears, and when Situ Xue knew what was happening in Chuzhou, he immediately dropped several porcelain bottles, scolded those guys who were blind, and vented his life.

"Your Highness, Leng Zhuo has been operating in Chuzhou for several years, and has already established effective rule, it is difficult for us to win in Chuzhou, so don't expect too much to make achievements over there, as long as we can drag Leng Zhuo's retreat, we will run Yangzhou well, it will be a huge victory!" Nalan Kui persuaded.

Situ Xue vented, and also regained her composure, and said: "I'm just angry, forget it, Chuzhou should support it as much as possible, Leng Zhuo's foundation on Yangzhou's side is weak, and Leng Zhuo has always disliked local forces, we are here, the odds are greater, by the way, how about the contact with Taicang!"

"There's no news yet, those landlords in Taicang are too grouped, and they can't splash water at all!"

"These landlords in Taicang Mansion must be taken, the soldiers in their hands are our main force against Leng Zhuo, we are led by the nose step by step in Chuzhou, the main reason is that we have no soldiers and horses in our hands!"

"Maybe Your Highness should visit it in person, although these landowners were not eye-catching in the past, but their foundation is very deep in Taicang, and the entire Taicang Mansion is a big granary, can get the support here, we don't say nine out of ten in Yangzhou, but also have at least six or seven percent chance of winning. ”

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