Su Linglong rode the horse first, and Ye Tian and the others drove behind. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as they entered the village, they saw a group of villagers holding sticks and farm tools, shouting and cursing around a dozen big men. There were also women and children in the arena who knelt on the ground, hugging a man with a blue nose and swollen eyes, and unknown life and death wailing and crying bitterly.

After Su Linglong finished asking someone, Ye Tian and Gu Liuli got out of the carriage to meet them, with confusion in their eyes.

"What's the situation?"

"This village is entrusted to the Fei Hung Society, and those are the people who come to collect taxes from the Fei Hung Society. ”

Another manifestation of the equality between the Wumeng and the imperial court is that the members of the Wumeng have the power to collect taxes from the people. And these people only need to pay money, food and materials to the sect gangs they are attached to, and they no longer need to pay various taxes to the government according to the tax items stipulated by the imperial court.

Of course, taxes are an important source of income for the imperial court, and there are still many restrictions on this.

First of all, the objects that are allowed to be attached are limited to villages and villages. Second, the dependency must be voluntary by the people, and the village chief and others must sign a document and submit it to the county or town under their jurisdiction as evidence. Moreover, in places that take refuge in the martial arts forces, daily security will also be divided into the past, which is equivalent to the responsibility of those forces.

In addition, the amount of taxes collected by the power shall not be higher than the sum of all taxes of the imperial court. At the same time, these forces with vassals also have to pay a separate amount of silver to the imperial court based on the number of people, calculated according to a certain rate.

In this case, although the income of the imperial court has decreased, the pressure on the government brought by the scattered villages has also decreased, and correspondingly, the imperial court's investment in officials and guards has also decreased, which is not very difficult to accept.

The strength of the Changsheng Sect in Qingjiang belongs to the bottom group, but the tax rate set by Liu Zhengfeng is only half of that of the imperial court, and this alone has attracted two villages with a total of dozens of households to depend. If it weren't for the fact that the Wumeng itself had additional restrictions on the number of subjects of different sects, I am afraid there would be more.

Ye Tian is familiar with ancient books, and has a rough understanding of the taxation of the Chinese dynasties on the earth, but the time and space are different, and he is not an expert in finance and taxation, so he is not sure whether it is good or bad.

However, generally speaking, the money and food handed over by the vassal people to the sheltered forces are less than those handed over to the imperial court, so why are the two sides in front of them in a state of tension?

He asked, "What kind of Feihong Club is this, raising the tax amount privately?"

Su Linglong shook her head: "This place used to be under the control of the Lianyun faction, but a few months ago, the Lianyun faction moved out, and the Feihong Society set up another branch here, and recently took over the village, and now they are here to collect winter taxes." However, the villagers had already handed it over to the Lianyun faction, but the Feihong Society didn't care about it, so there was a conflict between the two sides. ”

In this era, taxes are usually counted at the end of the year, and then paid upwards layer by layer. However, the Lianyun faction was extremely low-key in preparing to move out, and found an excuse to collect taxes and fees in advance. Fei Hong will take over, and it stands to reason that he still needs to pay part of the annual taxes to the imperial court, and similarly, he also needs to take out a part and hand it over to the Jinping Wumeng.

When it comes to right and wrong, the villagers are naturally right. But Fei Hong will act according to the rules, saying that they are not considerate of the villagers, that they lack grace, and that they have done something wrong, which is obviously inappropriate.

Gu Liuli frowned, she felt sympathy for the villagers, but this matter was quite special, and she didn't know how to deal with it. It's just that someone has been injured in the field, so she can't keep it deadlocked, she said: "Anyway, let's see the person's injuries first." ”

A few crop handles, or ordinary soldiers, are not considered warriors, and the first glimpse of the door is. For those who have just entered the product, no matter how low their martial arts are, it is also compared to those who are on a higher level.

If compared with people who are not in the grade, a nine-grade martial artist can deal with the fierce and ruthless people who are often fierce and ruthless, not to mention ordinary people.

Surrounded by a group of people now, Fei Hong will have more than a dozen men fearless, but he did not make any more moves, nor did he prevent others from approaching the injured.

The three of them squeezed in, and Su Linglong stepped forward to check the condition of the injured, and after a while, she withdrew her hand with a strange expression.

She comforted the woman, and the woman thanked her again and again, summoned two acquaintances, and together carried the man away.

When the villagers saw Ye Tian's three warrior costumes, they intervened in the matter again, and they all spoke out, begging them to uphold justice.

If you listen to it, it will be dark, Su Linglong is looking for the villagers to understand the matter just now, Ye Tian can't confirm whether there is any deception, and he clenched his fists towards the people of the Feihong Society, asking what the truth is.

Unless the cultivation has reached a certain level and is higher than the other party, or if you have learned something that can perceive and spy on the cultivation, or if you have a broad vision and extremely accurate eyesight, you can only guess the strength of others from their appearance and demeanor.

The people who came to collect taxes from Feihong were not among the three, and the bearded man led by him affirmed the words of the villagers, but he was clearly wary of Ye Tianyi, a man and two women.

"Little brother, this is an internal matter of my Feihong Society, please don't interfere. ”

Ye Tian said with a smile: "This big brother, the New Year is approaching, I don't think it is easy for the villagers, why not make it convenient, and it can be regarded as earning a good reputation for Feihong." ”

Before the bearded man could speak, a person next to him shouted: "It's easy to say, who are we going to go for the money we should hand over?"

Someone from the villagers shouted: "Of course, it's looking for the Lianyun faction." ”

"Where?

"Whoever asks for money will look for it. ”

"Now you say that, why didn't you say it when you came to the door to attach ourselves to our Feihong Society?" the man said sarcastically: "The Lianyun faction has moved out, you are afraid that the government will re-collect taxes, and you are afraid that the New Year is approaching, and bandits are rampant, begging us to accept it." How can it be so reasonable to want us to pay this money at this time?

It turned out that the Lianyun faction had collected the villagers' money and grain and left, and after Feihong would take over, he would need to hand over a part of the total annual tax amount here. At the moment, what Feihong will collect from the villagers is only the amount in winter.

Fei Hong was probably worried that it would not be so easy, so he thought about coming over in advance, where did he expect that he would be besieged.

The villagers' actions are indeed inappropriate, but both parties are injured parties, and it is clear where to say.

Ye Tian asked the bearded man: "I don't know how much tax your association will have to pay for this village?"

"There are forty or fifty households here, and there are no less than seventy or eighty taels. But the winter tax we want them to pay is less than sixty taels, and the gap will be filled by the church. ”

If this is the case, not only can it not be said that Feihong will lack bearing, but also have to praise them, after all, no one's money is blown by the wind. Not to mention the fact that they will have to provide protection to the villagers for the rest of the year.

A villager shouted: "You are talking about the amount of money yourself, and when we were attached, you didn't mention anything about the tax money, and it was obviously premeditated." ”

A man even said: "Sixty taels of silver, distributed to each household, is more than one tael, what is the difference between grabbing money?

Ye Tian felt a big headache, he thought that someone was bullying the people, so he wanted to speak up. Who knows that it is a troublesome matter for the public to say that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law is reasonable. And depending on the situation, the villagers insisted on using the three of them as lifebuoys.

Do you still have to pay for it yourself to settle the contradictions between the two sides? Money is a small matter, but the question is how can there be such a truth in the world?

The bearded man heard the words of the villagers, but his face changed, he looked at the three of them, looked around again, hugged his fists at the three of them, and said in a muffled voice: "Don't pass it over." ”

After that, he directly led his companions and left in a crowd, leaving Ye Tian and them confused.