Liu Jin raised his legs, but because of his obesity, even if he raised his legs, it was difficult.

He picked up the teacup and sipped the tea.

Liu Ji said again: "Dadfather, there is another thing... Now the county government has requested that all hidden households and hidden fields be paid publicly. Ouyang Shixue adopts the same whip method, and it is necessary to spread the stakes into the acres. Now... the gentry complains, just say that the Yang family, after all, the annual tax on his family is more than 900 taels. The Yang family is very resentful, and the others are almost the same..."

There is a lot of land in the Yang family.

According to the tax regulations and regulations carried out by Wang Shouren and others in the court, they wanted to set a precedent for a whip and a whip in Dingxing County.

The essence of this whip method is to merge taxes and labor service, merge land taxes and labor service with various names to collect labor service, and at the same time, part of the labor service burden is distributed to the land. In the past, labor service is changed to the distribution of labor service based on the number of labor service and the distribution of land grain; except for the government that needs to collect rice and wheat, all taxes will be paid for the tax service; farmers and households with various burdens can pay for labor service, and the labor service will be handled by the government; tax service is directly handled by local officials, and the original "people's collection and civilian relocation" system that used grain chiefs and village chiefs to handle tax service through the expropriation of tax service, and changed to the "official final" system.

The so-called whip is essentially simplifying the process and regaining the rights of the gentry.

In the past, the people's taxes were land taxes, and they also required a certain number of cap taxes. At the same time, corvee labor was also required. They had to pay a little tax and grain taxes. When the farming period was slack, you even needed to perform corve labor.

Because taxes are complex and cumbersome to implement, the government has no way to directly manage them.

Finally, the "people's reunion" is often adopted. In other words, the government does not care about how to collect it, but I need my share. Your village must deliver the corvee population and food needed by the government to the government on time, which is "local autonomy".

But this so-called "people" means to collect "people" in fact, it is equivalent to giving the power of collecting taxes to the gentry.

This is terrible. The most common place in the family is the gentry, and the one who helps the government collect taxes is still the gentry. Let’s guess who will receive the tax in the end?

But now it is different. Just use a whip, that is, unify all the taxes. Everyone only collects one tax and pays all the money. Because the tax system is simple, the tax collectors in the county government office should go to collect the tax collectors and throw the gentry aside.

In addition, the gentry had more land and naturally had more Dingkou, so the gentry's taxes were naturally paid more than ordinary people.

Liu Jin narrowed his eyes: "Who else is there except the Yang family?"

"I'm inquiring, but I heard that someone is trying his best to ask someone to sue the emperor."

Liu Jin sneered: "Cai Yu? They are worthy of it?"

Liu Ji smiled and said, "Ouyang Shixue is very bold. However, now he offended the gentry to death. My son has heard that there are many songs in the market, which are all implicitly ridiculed by Ouyang Shixue as a cruel official. The county magistrate and chief clerk also smelled anything wrong. They all said they were sick and ignored the matters in the county..."

Liu Jin smiled and said, "These are slippery."

Liu Ji also laughed: "What's more interesting... I heard that the pre-collected tax in the county this year is about to reach 110,000 taels. If this is slumped, it is equivalent to two families, just one tael of silver. Of course, those with silver are still those big families. Therefore, not only the gentry has to pay taxes, but the commercial tax is also changed from physical tax to bank tax..."

In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty collected commercial taxes, and used the method of 10 draws. For example, if your merchant transported ten cars of cloth and had one car, it would be included in the official warehouse.

But now, all of them are being discounted.

Liu Jin said in his heart that 110,000 taels are equivalent to all the food, physical goods, and labor service, and all the cash is now collected.

In the past, it was inconvenient to check in cash. After all, there was not much silver on the market, but now it is different. The silver on the market has been circulating too quickly recently.

"This Ouyang Shixue...now..."

"It's not your business. You just need to continue to inquire. Those who are secretly dissatisfied and want to collude with ministers in the court should pay special attention."

"Yes, yes." Liu Ji smiled and said, "Son must do his best. Dad, I haven't seen you for two days. I'm thinking very much, so I've been talking a little bit late. Dad, don't be angry."

Liu Jin rolled his eyes upwards.

He doesn't like people who rush to call people to be dads.

After all, colleagues are enemies.

"roll!"

……………………

County government office.

Ouyang Zhifu wrote on the desk.

The tax task is very heavy.

Recently, many people have come to cry and become poor.

Fortunately, Ouyang Zhi had already figured out the details of these gentry and merchants and exposed them without hesitation.

People like Ouyang Zhi are indeed very annoying to the entire Dingxing County.

Just a few days ago, the collection work had begun. The tax collectors wrote the taxes they needed to pay in a post and sent them to various government offices to prepare the money. After a few days, they would come to the door again. Some families were honest and dared not act rashly, but some were very unpleasant and messy.

Ouyang Zhi sent someone to escort a prison student. Because of his tax resistance, he directly ordered someone to beat him twenty boards. The prison student named Yan was immediately beaten and his skin was blooming.

But this ruthlessness made the gentry honest for the time being, but the county sergeants were frightened. They consciously followed the county lord one way to the dark, and sooner or later something big happened.

They were not willing to be the target of public criticism, nor did they dare to offend the bachelor's enrollment appointed by the court, so they had to get sick, very sick.

So much so that the only upright official in the entire county government office is Ouyang Zhi.

Ouyang Zhi was too lazy to pay attention to them. Since that was the case, he would take the lead alone.

He needs to manage litigation, manage taxes, manage county schools' repairs, and manage... These countless things, but countless, you will never imagine.

Ouyang Zhi now only slept for two and a half hours a day, staring at every link.

As for why we should do this? This kind of thinking is something that Wang Shouren and others like to do. Ouyang Zhi doesn't want this. He only knows to do what his mentor has assigned to do well.

He got up and was about to patrol a river bank in the county, but found that his boots were worn out, so he lowered his head and wanted to check the boots. At this time, a breathless civil servant came: "County Zun, County Zun, Zhenguo Mansion, I have another official document."

When Ouyang Zhi heard this, he did not hesitate anymore. He hurriedly took the official document and opened it to take a look.

Obviously, this is the handwriting of the mentor.

Borrowing...building roads...

call……

Ouyang Zhi sat back on his original position: "Enjoy the hall, summon all officials, and local gentry... I have something to declare."

"yes."

Not many people came.

Most people are sick.

Anyway, no official came, but all the officials from the sixth house came. After rectification, these officials became honest and no one dared to deceive Ouyang Zhi.

As for the gentry, only a few people came, and there were a few local juren, others, such as some major families in the county, such as the Liu family, the Yang family... and the Jiang family, none of them were found.

Ouyang Zhi held the official document in his hand and ignored it too much, but said seriously: "The official collects taxes. In theory, it is expected that the eleventh three thousand five hundred and twenty-two taels of silver will be collected. Before the end of the year, even a copper coin is indispensable. Half of them will need to be handed over to the state treasury, and the remaining 56,000 grain will be used to hire labor, build roads and bridges, repair river embankments, etc."

Everyone just kept silent.

Ouyang Zhi said: "The so-called taking from the people and using them for the people... is the foundation of taxation. You must have complained about your official, thinking that your official only knows how to take but not use them. Now Dingxing County is a demonstration county... The current cash collected should be used by itself. The official decided to open a road in this county and go directly to the new city of the capital... Now, although Dingxing County has an official road, it has been muddy and difficult to walk. In this way, how can we provide convenience to the people?"

"Build road..." A juren couldn't help but stand up and salute: "County Master, what road is built? I think it's enough for the official road."

Ouyang Zhi was silent for a moment: "It is the most fashionable concrete asphalt road."

"..." Everyone looked at each other.

Those here are some knowledgeable people, and they have heard of this asphalt road...

"If you don't know the county magistrate, how much does it cost to build this road?"

Ouyang Zhi had no expression on his face.

No sound was made either.

This made many people feel excited. What they fear most was that this county magistrate looked so cunning, which was so terrible.

Ouyang Zhifang said: "It has been converted and needs 220,000 taels of silver to be tattooed."

All of a sudden, the county government almost exploded.

Two hundred and twenty thousand taels, this is an astronomical number.

Ouyang Zhi continued: "This road is built on the original official road, so that there is no need to recruit land or road planning. Xishan Jianye Association has appointed craftsmen. In addition to Xishan Jianye’s craftsmen, the labor required can also be hired in the county... This road is only more than 70 miles, 220,000 taels, which is enough."

But the yamen was boiling.

Someone said: "Is this little tax in the county enough? County Master... this... this..."

Ouyang Zhi said: "Of course it is not enough. In addition to paying the treasury silver, the county also needs to keep some silver for emergencies. The ones that can be used are only 30,000 to 40,000 taels a year, but it is enough..." He raised the official document in his hand: "Xishan Money House has promised the county to borrow 200,000 taels from him for road construction. The county will borrow for ten years and repay 30,000 taels a year. After ten years, it can be paid off..."

Lending...

Minfei Gua...you use this toss...

Many gentry almost fainted.

Some people's face was even more ashen.
Chapter completed!