After four months, all sixty new granaries in each of the three counties have been built.
Finally, Kankan solved the problem of grain storage before the new grain arrived.
At the same time, the collection of grain taxes in various provinces has also begun to proceed in full swing.
Nanli County - Huhe County.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Early in the morning, bursts of gongs and drums suddenly sounded in various towns in the county.
Accompanied by the sudden gong-like shouts from the county government officials.
"The spring tax collection in the spring of the 24th year has begun. Every household should prepare the tax grains as soon as possible. From tomorrow, the Yamen will go to various towns and villages to collect grains. Don't miss it!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
These government officials walked and beat gongs and drums to inform the countryside about tomorrow's grain collection day.
At the head of Fengshou Village, there happened to be Lao Li Tou and Xiao Nannan, their grandfather and grandson.
It was early in the morning, but the little girl was awakened by the shouts of these government servants before she got up. When she walked out of the room and came to the yard, she saw that her grandfather had woken up long ago and was slowly exercising with a set of movements.
This is a health-preserving skill that my grandfather learned from an old Taoist priest. It is said that physical exercise can prolong life.
Old Li Tou, who was boxing, suddenly saw his precious granddaughter getting up, with a smile on her face, stopped what she was doing, came to the little girl's side, rubbed the little girl's little head, and asked with a smile:
"Why are you up now? It's still early, do you want to sleep a little longer?"
The little girl shook her head: "I can't sleep. It's so noisy outside. What happened to grandpa?"
Old Li Tou replied nonchalantly: "It's nothing, it's just that the spring tax is about to begin.
We had a one-year tax holiday before, but now that time has passed, we have to start paying taxes.
So the Yamen sent people down to publicize it, lest some people forget to prepare. "
"Pay taxes?!"
The little girl's face suddenly turned pale?
She recalled that when she was in Guan Nei, her parents and grandfather would look sad every year when it was time to pay taxes.
There are also scenes of those vicious government officials bursting into the house and searching for all valuable things, saying that they were used for tax deductions.
Seeing the little girl's changed expression, Lao Litou naturally knew what she was thinking. He sighed and gently stroked his granddaughter's little head to comfort him: "Okay, okay, don't be afraid, daughter, our family can afford it." Tax, grandpa will tell you secretly, grandpa brothers are very powerful. Those poisonous people can only produce two hundred kilograms per acre of land, but the land cultivated by grandpa can produce three hundred kilograms per acre!
Because our family has to pay 50% tax to the Yamen for three years to make up for the debt, it is 90% tax.
In other words, we only need to pay two hundred and seventy kilograms of grain for one acre of land.
Our family has 20 acres of land. As long as we pay the tax of 5,400 jins, our family will still have 600 jins of grain left! "
"Six hundred pounds?"
When the little girl heard this, she counted on her fingers.
"One to one equals one, one to two equals two. The little girl can eat three pancakes a day, ninety pancakes a month, and a year..."
I don't think I can go on thinking about it, little girl.
He raised his head and looked at Lao Litou with a helpless expression.
This immediately made Lao Litou laugh.
Since their Huhe County was one of the first counties developed in Nanli County to be brought under the control of Yunzhou County, when Yunzhou County passed the plan to spread school education in various counties, Huhe County became one of the first counties to have schools.
The little girl is nine years old this year. After the school began to recruit students, Old Li Tou immediately sent the little girl to the school.
It's just that the little girl has a short learning time, and now she can only add and subtract within ten.
I can only recognize my own name and a few simple commonly used words.
So once the quantity goes up, the little girl doesn't even understand how many pancakes she can eat with the remaining 600 kilograms.
After laughing for a while, the laughing little girl became angry with embarrassment. She puffed up her face angrily and glared at Old Li Tou with her hands on her waist. Old Li Tou then gradually stopped smiling and said: "Hahaha, okay. Okay, little girl is not angry, grandpa is not smiling, hahaha..."
Little girl: "..."
"Hmph! Bad grandpa!"
Old Li Tou couldn't help it. His granddaughter was so cute.
It took him a while to calm down before he finally calmed down.
He explained to the little girl: "Nanny, you don't have to worry about it. If you eat 600 kilograms of bread, you won't be able to finish it in a year."
One pound of flour can make six pancakes. If all the more than 3,600 jins were replaced with flour, it would be more than 3,600 pancakes, enough to bury our little girl! "
"Thirty-six hundred pancakes!"
When the little girl heard this, she was confused. Although she still didn't understand the concept of 3,600 noodles, she knew it meant a lot.
The image of a large meal of bread falling from the sky and then burying her appeared in her mind.
I couldn't help but burst out laughing.
so good! Endless pancakes!
You don’t have to worry about going hungry anymore.
It would be nice if... my parents were here...
Suddenly thinking of her parents, the originally happy little girl fell silent, and her whole face was filled with sadness.
Lao Li discovered it right away. He thought about the present day and then the past days.
He also thought of his son and daughter-in-law, and hugged the little girl into his arms. The grandfather and grandson were silent for a long time.
The past is gone, now we look to the future.
After the yamen servants played gongs and drums, all the Song people in Huer County remembered that it was time to pay taxes.
Compared with the past when tax payment day came in the customs, everyone was panicked, but now everyone seemed much calmer when they suddenly heard that they had to pay tax.
Because under the command of King Yun, everyone knows that there are no other exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and each family has a lot of land, and the more people there are, the more.
In addition, this place has three crops a year, and even if they pay 90% of the tax, there will still be enough food left for them to survive the whole year safely.
So no one panicked at all.
Moreover, for those who are poisonous, one acre of land can only yield about 200 kilograms.
But for the people of the Song Dynasty who had served the land for most of their lives, they knew very well how to cultivate the land intensively and increase the yield of the land.
The output value per mu of most Song people is much higher than that of poisonous people.
A high yield per mu means they pay more taxes, but they also have more food left over, so everyone is still very active.
Knowing that the yamen would go to the countryside to collect grain tomorrow, every household hurriedly began to prepare.
This was their first meal since arriving here, and everyone was a little panicked.
Because although King Yun's order is that no exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are required, the people who often come into contact with them are small government officials, and most of the local exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are added by the county masters in various places themselves.
Therefore, they were a little uneasy, wondering if the county magistrate of the sudden county was also such a person, and some simple rules when paying taxes also made them have some thoughts in their minds, so they couldn't help but prepare more when preparing the food tax. Some, for fear that there won’t be enough when the time comes.
Amid such speculation, time quickly came to the next morning.
Early in the morning, the yamen servants who came down from the yamen to collect grain began to shout with gongs and drums at the entrance of the village.
Soon the whole village knew the news, and each family hurriedly arrived at the entrance of the village carrying the grain taxes they needed to pay.
In the blink of an eye, a long queue formed at the entrance of the village.
There were people everywhere carrying, carrying, or pushing carts to hand over grain.
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(End of chapter)
