Looking at the expressions of the villagers below, Wang Er suppressed his excitement. Yes, how could there be no longevity tablet for His Highness in their village.
If there really was such a person, he would have been kicked out by the villagers long ago because he did not deserve to live in this village. Such a person has no heart! Without His Highness, how could the people in their village be where they are today?
Although His Highness may not know their village at all, or even heard of it, who among them has not received favors from His Highness? Without His Highness, at least seven or eight people in their village would have died long ago.
Including Wang Er, how can he have such a good job today? Become a member of the Public Security Army of the Tang Dynasty Public Security Department? Defend the country, defend the hometown?
Although Wang Er is a little older, he has already decided that when his son reaches the age to join the army, he must let his son join the army!
Being a soldier now is different from before. Being a soldier now is an honor! Although you will still encounter dangers as a soldier, it is worth it for your Highness! If his eldest son died in the battle, he would let his second son go! If his second son dies in battle, he will go there himself!
If he also died in battle, he believed that his wife and daughter would be able to draw their swords when facing the enemy!
Besides, there is no enemy in the world who can let them do this!
After retracting his thoughts, Wang Er collected his emotions and said loudly: "Everyone! The latest agricultural tax policy is here! It was His Highness who suggested that Your Majesty reform the agricultural tax policy of the Tang Dynasty today! Or to be precise, it is To reform the existing agricultural tax system, His Highness thinks for the sake of our people and allows us to live a good life, but you don’t know what His Highness has done!”
Wang Er's words attracted everyone's attention. After all, agricultural tax was closely related to them. When they heard Wang Er's emotion, everyone began to listen carefully.
"First of all! The tentative time limit for this agricultural tax reform is five years!"
"That is to say, within five years, this policy will not change! What is the specific policy? The proportion of agricultural tax payment has not changed, but His Highness used his own money to subsidize the imperial treasury, and then the imperial treasury will control all of our The people received agricultural tax subsidies!”
"What is agricultural tax subsidy? It means that we still need to negotiate and pay agricultural tax to Tang Chuliang according to the originally established proportion. But, please note, the agricultural tax we pay is not free! Tang Chuliang will pay 100 cents per stone for wheat. , 80 Wen per stone for corn, and 110 Wen per stone for rice."
"In other words, we are equivalent to selling food to the court! Not only do we not have to pay for food, we can also get money!" Wang Er said the entire policy in an excited tone!
All the villagers below were stunned when they heard this. They all looked at Wang Er in disbelief, thinking that they had heard wrongly.
"Wang Er, are you right?" the village chief said tremblingly. He is an old man, he is already sixty-seven this year, and he looks like he is eighty-seven.
"Of course, village chief, this is the latest agricultural tax policy! We only need to transport the grain to Tang Chuliang in proportion, and Tang Chuliang will issue agricultural tax subsidies according to the grain we pay! This is a subsidy given by His Highness to all the people in the world. ! And the period of this subsidy is five years at a time!" Wang Er said loudly.
"Wang Er, is it true?"
"Really or not? His Highness didn't lie to us, did he? Bah, I said something wrong. Of course His Highness would not lie to us. Isn't it the officials in the county who lied to us? If the taxes are gone, what can we do? Got the money?!”
The entire grain drying field was boiling, and everyone was discussing this matter with excitement. They took the trouble to ask Wang Er, for fear that they had heard the matter wrongly, for fear that it was a dream.
"Quiet!" It wasn't until the village chief knocked the stone mill with his wooden crutch and shouted that everyone gradually became quiet.
"Your Highness, you are truly a saint! How can we be so virtuous as to allow His Highness to take such good care of us! We, the common people, are just some untouchables, so how can we be so valued by Your Highness?" The village elder burst into tears and knelt down in the direction of Chang'an City. .
Everyone in the entire village knelt down, and their hearts were filled with excitement. Yes, how could they be so virtuous? They had never done anything for His Highness, but His Highness always let them go. Take it to heart!
With His Highness like him, what if they die for His Highness? ! Enough, enough!
Under the leadership of the village chief, everyone knelt down three times and kowtowed nine times before the village chief stood up with support from Wang Ershou, who had also kowtowed to His Highness.
After helping the village chief up, Wang Ercai laughed loudly and said: "Village Chief, and fellow villagers, although I know everyone is very excited, I still have to say something, old village chief, what you just said was wrong. , it must be changed.”
"His Majesty said that although the Tang Dynasty is the Tang Dynasty of the Li family, the Tang Dynasty is the Tang Dynasty of the people of the Tang Dynasty! His Highness said that the common people in the world are not untouchables, and no one is an untouchable! His Highness has gone through many hardships to cancel the non-registered households. Everyone in the Tang Dynasty, we are all citizens of the Tang Dynasty, we are all the same!"
"So we can't use the word untouchable. His Highness doesn't like to hear it. Moreover, His Highness has told all the nobles in Chang'an City that he will not allow any noble to use the word untouchable to call the people of the Tang Dynasty. If he knows Once, he will make that noble become worse than the common people of the Tang Dynasty."
"His Highness said, whoever wants to treat common people as untouchables, then Your Highness will make them untouchables!"
"So, His Highness doesn't like this word. We have to change it. We can't call ourselves this in the future." Wang Er said seriously.
"Yes, Wang Er, you are right. Your Highness doesn't like it, so we all have to change. Everyone remembers that in the future we cannot call ourselves untouchables. We are the people of the Tang Dynasty! We are the common people of the Tang Dynasty! We must stand up in the future. Chest, live an upright life! Your Highness thinks so highly of us, our waists will straighten in the future, Your Highness’s words are the backbone of the people of the Tang Dynasty!" the old village chief said loudly.
"Yes!" Everyone said loudly.
"Wang Er, did His Highness say that? Is there any regulation on the amount of grain we sell?" the village chief asked.
"No, as long as you pay the minimum tax amount to Tang Reserve Grain, even if you pay more, Tang Reserve Grain will be subsidized according to the actual amount. However, His Highness said that everyone's excess grain can be sold at the market price. The market price One stone of grain will be slightly higher than Tang's grain storage." Wang Er shook his head.
"Everyone has heard it. Every household, everyone keeps the grain rations in your hands and grows grain. The rest of the grain is sold to Tang Grain Storage Trading Company. What is Tang Grain Storage Trading Company? The Tang Dynasty State-owned Trading Company is the reserve grain store. ! It’s used to help us in times of disaster! Anyone who sells it privately to a grain merchant will bring shame on our village!” the village chief said loudly.
