After sending off the official errand, the village chief could no longer sit still.

I first went to the old patriarch's house and talked about the government's grain tax.

After the old patriarch heard this, he was almost so angry that he turned his back on it.

"These moths and rats, this is what they want our lives"

The crutches hit the ground hard, and the old patriarch was so anxious that he jumped all over the house, this official just couldn't see that they were good, and finally life was going to be better, and they had to pay taxes.

"Ask clearly, is it really the emperor's order?"

He was anxious and angry, and some didn't quite believe it.

Didn't you say that the emperor has become better? How could he give such an order when he became a son who loved the people like a son?

"That's what the official said"

"Not only that, but the tax on people has also grown"

The old patriarch was surprised: "How much has it grown?" ”

The village chief gestured his fingers, and the old patriarch asked incredulously, "How much?" ”

"Half a penny," the village chief smiled bitterly.

There are more than a dozen people in a family, which is a few taels of silver.

In previous years, it would take at least a year or two to earn it back.

Although life is better now, it will take half a year to save so much silver, and if this news is revealed, the people in the village are afraid that they will not go crazy.

There are many people who don't have the money at home.

"It's over"

The old patriarch sat down dejectedly, and the imperial court suddenly increased taxes, afraid that something big would happen.

He lived longer, and his wrinkled face was stained with a little memory, and the more he remembered, the more ugly his face became.

"Let everyone prepare silver and food, don't annoy the government," his expression was very solemn.

The corners of the village chief's mouth twitched, and he said in distress visible to the naked eye: "So much food and silver, really give it?" ”

"Give" the old patriarch categorically, and the cloudy old eyes are full of wisdom at the moment.

The village chief moved his mouth, and he also knew that the government wanted to collect grain, but there was no way, especially this time when the amount of grain and silver was specified, even if he wanted to hide some grain.

"By the way, Miss Xia has 300 acres of land there, and when she pays the grain tax, it belongs to their family the most, you tell her in person."

The good days in the village are thanks to her, and it is impossible not to say hello.

After the village chief finished talking with the old patriarch, he went to Xia's house.

Bai Xia is getting older and older, the two maids are also girls, and the village chief is not easy to come to the door, but the things to be said are very important, and the village chief can't say it outside the door, so he has to find Yu Dahai and tell him about the grain tax, so that they can prepare earlier.

The village was still immersed in the joy of the autumn harvest, but this joy did not last long, and it was blown up by the news brought by the village chief.

This year's harvest is 20 percent more than last year's, but the extra 20 percent cannot support the grain tax that the government has to collect.

As soon as the government's order came out, the people in the village were like mourners, and they couldn't talk when they went to work every day.

The Bai Xia family has a big business and a lot of taxes.

The grain tax alone is 60,000 catties, which is 600 taels when it is counted as silver taels.

Yu Dahai reported to Bai Xia that the commercial tax on the cloth village and the grain shop had also risen, and more and more people had come to work in the cloth mill recently, and they all wanted to weave more cloth for silver, so as to pay the tax.

"Increase the sales of grain, and everyone will definitely rush to grab grain at this time"

There is a sense of tension in the whole of Xuzhou.

Bai Xia had just returned a few days ago when he received such news.

If the people have no bread in their hands, there will be chaos.

The government wantonly collects grain, and the obvious Xuzhou is going to be in chaos, maybe it is really as Li Xiuyuan said, Xuzhou Assassin Shi plans to take Jizhou as a name to take refuge in King Liang.

However, Bai Xia is more inclined to Xuzhou Thorn History, and has his own ambitions.

Once he really takes Jizhou, I'm afraid that he won't be willing to be a vassal of King Liang.

Time flies.

A few days ago, the government came to inform the tax collection standard for this year, and today they brought their household work to the door, and went door to door to collect taxes.

Seeing the government pull it away, there was nothing they could do.

The most spectacular is still on the side of Baixia.

Although she did not change her residence in the past three years, she expanded a lot and built a warehouse.

There are 60,000 catties of grain, and the government has come to pull it several times.

Perhaps seeing the grain pulled out by Bai Xia, the villagers of Dou'er Village didn't even feel so much pain in their hearts, but looked at Bai Xia's face.

Probably this is the psychology that as long as someone is worse than me, I am not so miserable!

The government comes and goes fast.

You don't need to weigh the grain, you can directly load the basket, and the basket has drawn a line, and a basket is a hundred catties, which is very fast.

I went to Douer Village, and then to other villages.

Dou'er Village has become rich in recent years, although everyone is in pain, but as long as they live back to the kind of life they had before, they can still live.

Other villages were not so lucky.

Cries, curses.

Even if he was far away, Bai Xia always felt that there was a terrible roar of the people in his ears.

"Where did they receive it?" Bai Xia asked.

As early as the beginning of the government's grain collection, Bai Xia sent someone to keep an eye on it, and Yu Dahai was fully responsible.

"The villages under the jurisdiction of Qingyang County will be able to harvest in two days"

"Have you found out where they sent the food?"

"Look at the direction, it should be Xuzhou Guancang"

"Almost"

Bai Xia nodded, a full 60,000 catties of grain, plus the grain collected from the surrounding villages, Qingyang County has at least hundreds of thousands of catties of grain.

Of course, these grains can't be cheapened by the government in vain.

On the day when all the villages and towns in Qingyang County were recovered, a major event occurred in Xuzhou.

The official warehouse was stolen.

The door was locked intact and no one was caught, but the food inside was missing.

When Xu Tingshi got the news, he was arranging the next plan, and when he heard the words, he couldn't care about the next arrangement, so he hurried to the official warehouse and saw that the granary was clean and clean, and he couldn't find even a grain of grain.

"Check, give this official a mission" He didn't faint, and he gritted his teeth in anger.

The officials sprang into action and began to find out who had stolen the grain.

However, who has the ability to steal millions of catties of food without knowing it?

The official errand rummaged through Xuzhou City, but still found nothing.

And Bai Xia, the initiator, has already returned to Dou'er Village.

Xuzhou is in chaos.

The chaos is fast.

A large amount of official grain was stolen, which made the whole of Xuzhou into a rumor.

Yu Dahai hurried.

"Miss, no, the government has issued a compulsory conscription order, ordering at least two people from the family to serve"

He ran with sweat on his forehead, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.

At the beginning, Ganzhou was in such a mess, and it also collected high grain taxes, and if it couldn't pay the grain, it would be paid by people.

Now the government doesn't have any face at all, and goes directly to the village to arrest people.

Needless to say, they know that they are going to go to war.

These civilians are untrained, and if they are sent to the battlefield, they will die.

Bai Xia had long thought of such a day.

"Ask the village chief to come"

"By the way, bring the old patriarch with you."

Now the official who caught Zhuangding has only gone to a few other villages, and Bai Xia can't manage other villages, but she must keep Dou'er Village.

She's been here for a long time, and maybe now is the chance.

Her eyes drooped slightly, and her expression was cold.