r18novel Chapter 509 Taxes paid
Chapter 509 Taxes paid
People are happy during the summer harvest, and they feel even happier when they look at the food at home.
There is a family in Quan Village, Changsha County, Taiping County, with a total of eight people and a total of 24 acres of land.
Thanks to composting technology, this summer’s grain harvest is higher than in previous years.
In previous years, even if there was abundant rain, few natural disasters, good farmland, and a diligent family, one acre of land could barely provide two stones and five buckets of food.
Nowadays, the family harvests a total of sixty shi of food, which is equivalent to the output of each acre of land reaching two stone and five dou. How can people not be happy?
I saw the parents of the family looking at the food in front of them and sighing:
"A lot of food!"
The eldest son was also quite emotional about this, "Yes, it turns out that we don't even have so much food at home. The Han army is here, we have fields, and we have food!!"
The parents couldn't help but sigh again after hearing this, "Yes, yes, now the Han army only needs us to pay half of the grain tax, and the rest is ours. We don't have to do corvee service. It's like gods descending to earth to save the suffering!!"
However, looking at so much food in front of him, the second son swallowed his saliva and whispered:
"Dad, brother, do we really have to pay half of the food?"
The parent was curious and glanced at the second son in confusion: "What, what do you think, second son?"
The second son said: "Dad, brother, I remember that when we pay for grain now, it is not that the police officers come to the village to collect it, but that we report it ourselves and go to the town to pay it ourselves. What do you think...??"
Although the second child didn't finish what he said, how could others not understand what he meant.
Isn't it just that the Han army did not go to the countryside to collect grain? No, they did not go to the house to collect grain, so did they want to hide some grain?
For example, if the family only received 25 shi, then they only need to hand over 35 shi of food, so that the family can leave [-] shi of food.
Although there is a difference of five shi between 35 shi and [-] shi of grain, when converted into jin, the difference is a full [-] jin of grain.
With so much food, the three of us in the family would eat every meal for a year.
"Bastard!"
In response, the parents immediately scolded their second son.
"You bastard, you actually want to evade taxes!!"
"If it were the case, that would be it. But the Han army gave us fields, gave us grain, exempted us from the loan debt owed by our family, and exempted us from the corvee. What else do you want to do?"
"Do you know that if you pay less food and his family pays less food, then the Han army will be short of food!"
"The Han army doesn't have enough food to eat, so what do they use to fight!!"
"If they are defeated and our place is occupied by Daqian or the White Lotus Sect, do you think such good days will continue?"
"Not to mention that your behavior is completely white-eyed. You are still not a human being!!"
As he said this, the parent seemed to be angry. He took off his straw sandals and beat his second son.
Beating and cursing at the same time.
"I'll beat you to death, you ignorant beast!!"
In fact, this parent did not originally have such a high level of ideological awareness. All of this was due to the propaganda and a series of policies of the Han Army.
For example, what the old man said is what is often said when offering wine in the village.
Comparing today’s days with those in the past, does it need to be said which one is better for human beings?
Besides, your family's land is countless, and everyone's land is also countless. If you pay less, do you really think that the Han army can't tell? ?
The Han army is very kind to everyone. Those who do this will be unable to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives and have their backs poked! !
Not to mention that the Han army had a lot of penalties for tax evasion, which doesn't mean you just have to pay the tax and that's it.
Therefore, with a series of measures, even if the Han army does not go to the countryside, it can still collect the grain and tax revenue very well.
This is not to say that the Han army is lazy, it is just that there is too much food, and the Han army cannot transport it by itself, and there are not enough manpower!
"I'll beat you to death, you ignorant beast!!"
At this time, the parent was still beating up his second son.
"Alas, dad, stop fighting. I am doing it for my brother. After all, I have been a bachelor for so many years. If our family has more food, then I can marry a wife!!"
"If my brother can get a wife, then I will be very close to getting a wife!"
"Dad, our family's incense is important and cannot be cut off!!"
The second child was still quibbling, but he really spoke what was in his father's heart.
It's just that his father knows it, but he still doesn't do it lightly.
After all, the second child is here to renew the incense, but this is to break the incense!
Seeing this, the eldest brother stepped forward to stop his father and said, "Father, don't hit the second brother anymore. He has good intentions!"
The parent looked at the eldest son in disbelief, "Boss, you..."
The second son couldn't help but feel happy when his elder brother spoke for him, "Thank you, brother!!"
However, the eldest son did not answer the second son's words at all and only comforted his father.
"Dad, it's not worth it for you to be so angry because of your second son, it's not worth it, leave it to me!!"
At this time, only a child's voice was heard.
"Brother, I found this stick for you!!"
The person who came was the youngest of their family, and he was walking over with a big wooden stick in his arms.
The eldest brother stepped forward and took the wooden stick and said to his father: "Dad, the second son's skin is so strong that you can't beat it with straw sandals, so you have to use this thing!!"
The second child looked at the wooden stick in the boss's hand, swallowed involuntarily, and slowly backed away.
"Brother, brother, calm down, calm down, this thing will kill someone!!"
The boss's face darkened at this, "If you beat someone to death, are you still a human being?"
After that, he raised the wooden stick and hit the dick!
"Mom!!"
When the second child saw this, he really just ran away.
At the same time, at a grain payment point in a town, after loading the grain, the staff quickly stopped the old man who was about to leave.
"Old man, please wait a moment!"
The old man turned around and said, "Master, what's wrong? What are your orders!!"
The staff waved their hands quickly: "I can't deserve to be called an old man, I can't deserve to be called an old man."
The staff member explained: "I want to say that you have paid too much tax, please take some of yours away!!"
When the old man heard this, he waved his hand, "Not too much, not too much. Our soldiers need to have enough to eat, not too much!"
The staff didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but finally returned the food.
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After the summer harvest, Lu Shu was reporting to Liu Wu on the current situation in Changsha County.
"This summer's harvest, after statistics, the total grain tax is 840 stone."
Liu Wu nodded and asked, "Can accidents happen during tax collection?"
Lu Shu couldn't laugh or cry: "Yes, many people take the initiative to pay more taxes. This is the first time I've seen it. The tax collection staff are almost exhausted from the tax refund!!"
Liu Wu also laughed when he heard this: "Good thing, good thing, this is a good thing!!"
Lu Shu couldn't help but nodded after hearing this: "Yes, this is a good thing! This proves that our Han army is loved by the people! The people's support is with us!!"