Jinan City!

The Chuang army has been wandering outside the city of Jinan for several days, and a large number of small villages and towns have fallen into the hands of the Chuang army.

However, Jinan City has never "opened the door and surrendered".

The children's rhyme of "King Chuang is here and he doesn't pay for food" is sung by fewer and fewer people in Jinan City. Now when someone sings a sentence occasionally, the person next to him will show him an idiot expression: "You even believe this?" The thief is obviously a liar! ”

The person who sang the children's rhyme would blush and retort angrily: "King Chuang is not a liar, he really won't pay food." ”

The people next to him all laughed: "People like you, you are still helping people make money after being sold." ”

After laughing, a group of people began to reason with that person, and told that person the reason sent by Gaojia Village to that person.

The man listened with a dark face, and at first he didn't believe it, but after listening for a while, he finally settled the account in his heart......

After all, no matter how stupid a person is, he knows that officials have to pay salaries, and where does this salary come from? Taxes, of course! If there is no tax, there will be no official errand, and if there is no official errand, who will take care of the criminals? If no one cares about criminals, the world will not be in chaos?

Repair bridges and roads, build embankments and control rivers, which one does not cost money?

If the money is not managed by taxes, who will take care of it?

As soon as I figured out this question, I felt a kind of anger that my IQ was insulted, and it only took a moment to turn from pink to black.

The man said angrily, "The thief deceived me! ”

The person next to him laughed: "You just called him King Chuang." ”

"Fuck, a thief, a thief. actually deceived Lao Tzu, is Lao Tzu so easy to deceive? Fuck me! ”

Similar dialogues are happening everywhere in Jinan, and not only in Jinan City, but also in Shandong, a little bit of the size of the big cities, there are such ideas being transmitted, only those villages where the news is inconvenient to enter, the common people are still blinded.

When all the common people no longer believed in "not paying for food", a new voice began to circulate among the common people.

"So we're going to be taxed forever? Will you have to live a hard life forever? ”

"Alas! A lifetime of hard work, right? ”

"The court collects heavy taxes from us, and King Chuang coaxes and deceives us and just wants to pull us to be cannon fodder, anyway, we are all fish and meat on the board."

The common people were saddened......

It's in such an atmosphere......

Jinan City, Caishikou.

Liu Maopao straightened the scribe shirt on his body, cleaned himself up, looked like a very learned kind of bull pen character, picked up an iron shouting microphone, and stood on a temporary wooden platform in the center of the vegetable market.

"Ahem! Listen to me. ”

Liu Maopao shouted, which immediately attracted a large group of ordinary people to watch.

In these years, scholars are still very respected among the people, as long as they put on their scribe shirts, find a place to stop, and give a loud speech, there will be ordinary people around to listen immediately.

Liu Maopao: "In recent days, the matter of whether to pay for food or not has become the most discussed thing after dinner. I have some superficial views that I want to tell you......"

"Tax, that must be paid, I believe that after the discussion in recent days, everyone should have understood."

"However, how to pay the tax and who will pay it is a question worth figuring out."

When the people heard this, they couldn't help muttering: What else is there to figure out here, isn't it just us! Can't the officials still pay taxes?

Liu Maopao: "You can't let the poor pay taxes to support the rich, such a system is unreasonable. ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd of onlookers immediately applauded.

Liu Maopao: "Later Sheng suggested that the imperial court should be reformed, so that the rich would pay taxes and the poor would be exempt from taxes. ”

Ordinary people: "Well said. ”

Gaojiacun arranged the "praise" in the crowd immediately jumped out: "This gentleman, you are reasonable, but the villain is stupid, and he doesn't know how to divide this rich man and poor man?" Who is classified as poor? Who is classified as rich? If you don't understand this, then what you just said is just empty words. ”

Liu Maopao stretched out his hand and pointed at the "Praise", and said loudly: "This brother asked a good question!" What is poor and what is rich is really a question that must be figured out. Late born to throw bricks and lead the jade......"

"Our Daming is a country dominated by agriculture." Liu Maopao: "Therefore, there is a most simple division in the late life, which is to tax according to the amount of land and property. If there is much land, he will be taxed more. Where there is little land, less tax is collected. If there is no land, then of course there will be no tax, what do you think of this discussion? ”

"Praise" coaxed: "Isn't this how you collect it now?" By the acres! ”

"No, no, no, that's not the case right now." Liu Maopao stretched out his hand and pointed to a luxurious mansion in the distance: "That family owns a lot of land, but his family has not paid taxes. ”

The common people looked in the direction of his finger and were embarrassed.

The luxurious mansion is the home of a famous local squire, and three of the squire's family are officials in the court, and they are the most powerful and powerful families in the city of Jinan.

"The ...... of the Rulers"

"How can an official collect taxes from an official?"

"yes, yes, thank God they don't come to collect our taxes, and you still want to collect his taxes?"

Liu Maopao's hand pointed again, pointing to the direction of the most luxurious, domineering, and most bullish mansion in Jinan City: "There is also this family, there are a lot of fields, almost half of Jinan City, and he has not paid taxes." ”

The common people looked at it again, and immediately gasped for Jinan crisp pot, that house, isn't it the mansion of King Zhu Youshu?

That's the king!

The emperor's relatives actually said that they wanted to collect his taxes?

It's no wonder he doesn't send someone to kill you.

The common people began to panic, and they felt as if they were listening to a speech by an anti-thief.

Liu Maopao said loudly: "As long as these people who have not paid taxes pay their taxes, the country's taxes can increase a lot at once, so that we can reduce the amount of taxes collected per mu of land, and we can also support the country's expenses." The taxes paid by the poor people have become less. In short, it is to make the rich pay less taxes by increasing taxes on the poor. ”

Ordinary people: "Wow! What you're saying is dangerous. ”

Liu Maopao smiled: "Don't be afraid, I'm a showman, I'm talking about this now, it's called 'Needle Times', it's okay to discuss it!" Let's talk. ”

No one dared to talk to him at all, and the people coaxed him and fled.

Liu Maopao was snubbed, but he was not angry, and he happily prepared to step down.

In the crowd next to him, Li Yan, the military advisor who broke into the king, came out and grabbed Liu Maopao's arm.