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In July, the summer harvest was completed, and all the villagers' homes were stocked with grain.

July is also the month of paying various taxes, and all villagers who can't pay taxes can use grain to offset their taxes.

In the past five days, Xiao Qiulan has deeply understood what it means to pay taxes and miscellaneous taxes, what it means to be incompetent, and what it means to make a living for the people.

The taxes of the Tiansheng Dynasty can be described as varied, and I heard that more than half of the tax items were increased after the Yonghuang ascended the throne, and he had no way to govern the country and spent extravagantly, and the treasury was empty.

In the town market, no matter where it is, no matter what is sold, every basket and every basket or cloth bag must be charged a price of two cents, twice a day.

For fixed stalls, taxes are charged depending on the size of the stalls, and the smallest one has to charge at least 200 yuan per month.

The tax on opening a shop is even heavier, and a most ordinary grocery store, regardless of whether it has a business or not, has to pay two taxes every month.

One tael of silver for the treasury tax, one tael of silver for the local tax, and for those with large shops and prosperous business, the tax must be doubled.

Like Zhiqiang's shop, you have to pay a heavy tax of four taels of silver every month, and you have to pay a market management fee of 200 yuan, if the business is not good, you can't open it at all.

In addition, every person in every household, as long as they are alive and not dead, must pay a strange poll tax.

The poll tax is 200 yuan per person per year, which is a lot of money, and it is nothing for the wealthy people in the city.

But for the poor villagers who work in the fields every day, life is already difficult, and the poll tax is tantamount to making matters worse.

Families who are very poor simply can't afford to live.

In addition to the poll tax, there are also pig's head, cow's head, and horse's head tax, collectively known as the livestock tax.

Livestock tax and poll tax are a little different, the poll tax is to be paid every year, the livestock tax is 100 cents per head, you can pay it once, generally speaking, you don't have to pay it when you grow up, and you don't have to pay it for pigs, calves and horses.

Fortunately, chicken heads, duck heads, dog heads, these relatively small animals, do not have to pay taxes for the time being, otherwise, the villagers will simply not be able to live.

For the villagers, the heaviest tax is the paddy field tax.

In ancient times, scientific cultivation was not popularized, and the most primitive way was used for seed selection and top dressing.

At that time, the yield per mu of rice was only three or four hundred catties, and the yield per mu of the best fertile land would not exceed five hundred catties.

Two crops a year, adding up to only seven or eight hundred catties, but per mu of paddy field, two hundred catties of millet must be handed over to the imperial court every year as a paddy field tax.

If it is a rented paddy field, it will be paid per mu

With 200 catties of grain rent, the villagers who have worked hard for a year are only a little more than one-third.

In the event of drought and floods, the imperial court's paddy field tax was collected correctly, and the landlord's land rent was also paid correctly.

The tax is so heavy that most of the villagers can't pay it off at once, and they all have the intention of delaying it if they can.

At this time, the thug-like men raised in the town yamen had something to do.

They work in groups of five or six to form a collection team and, with the assistance of the village chief, go door-to-door to collect taxes.

At the very least, they will not leave until they hand over two-thirds of the money, otherwise they will see chickens and chickens, ducks and ducks, and even pigs will be carried away to offset the taxes.

The remaining one-third must not be delayed until the Chinese New Year, and some of them really can't take it out, so they can only smash the pot and sell iron, or even sell their sons and daughters.

Because the Tiansheng Dynasty has a law, those who cannot pay taxes will be imprisoned and sent to work as coolies.