Zhao Huan's voice is very gentle, but it has a special magic that can make people calm down and listen to him.

Just like that person said - as the emperor, even if you speak with the smallest voice, it will be as deafening as the roar of the nine gods, making people want to worship.

Xiao De is like this now. After hearing Zhao Huan ask him and others if they had been wronged, Xiao De's eyes turned red unconsciously, like a child who had been greatly wronged.

"I feel aggrieved. No! No! I don't feel aggrieved!"

Xiao De was so excited that he was a little incoherent. After forcing himself to calm down, he learned how to salute like the scholars he had seen before, and then said: "Qizou Guanjia, I am either aggrieved or a little aggrieved in my heart."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao De wanted to slap himself in the mouth - it was obviously not the case, it was obvious that he was not wronged, he just felt a little wronged in his heart, but when he asked himself to say it, why couldn't he be like that?

What does it mean?

Zhao Huan's mood improved inexplicably.

"Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry."

Zhao Huan smiled and said: "We have plenty of time today. I will listen to you slowly today. If you are unhappy or need my help to solve anything, you can tell me slowly."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Huan called Wu Xin casually and said, "Go and ask someone to prepare some food and bring some drinks."

"We are not here to eat!"

When he saw Zhao Huan sending someone to prepare food, Xiao De immediately became anxious and forgot all the half-hearted etiquette he had learned from the scholars. He hurriedly raised the tray in his hand and shouted: "We have come to see the official for something."

Son!"

Zhao Huan smiled and nodded, and said, "Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry."

"Um!"

Nodding vigorously, Xiao De took another deep breath and said: "We come to the official family because we want to pay taxes like other people in the Song Dynasty. Don't think about three years of full exemption and five years of tax reduction.

Half or something like that!”

When Xiao De said this, Zhao Huan was immediately confused.

There are more than a thousand counties in more than ten places in the Song Dynasty. Every one of them is trying to take advantage of the imperial court? How come it is the other way around in Xijin Prefecture? If you have an advantage, you don't want to take advantage of it?

Also, there is indeed a rule of three exemptions and five deductions, but when this rule was originally set, it was for preferential treatment for people who wanted to reclaim unclaimed land. How come Jinfu has also started to implement three exemptions and five deductions?

Just when Zhao Huan was confused, Xiao De said aggrievedly: "We analyzed that Magistrate Ding of Jin Prefecture said that it was the grace given by the officials, and the land allocated to us was regarded as ownerless land.

According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, taxes are fully exempted for three years and halved for five years."

What a god-less land!

There is no wasteland in the actual sense in Xijin Prefecture. Instead, it is land that has been cultivated by the Liao people. However, after it was captured by the Jin Kingdom, these Liao people's land became the Jin people's.

After leaving Jingguan, these lands began to be distributed again.

Obviously, Ding Hong of Zhijin Prefecture played a word game on this matter - the Jin people who originally occupied these lands were fortified in Jingguan, and the land naturally became an ownerless land, and the ownerless land was

Isn’t it fully consistent with the preferential policy of three exemptions and five reductions to redistribute land to the people?

Of course, Zhao Huan didn't care about the land tax.

Compared with the commercial tax, the tax on three melons and two dates in the fields is really not enough, and it is nothing compared with the several near-monopoly businesses in the hands of the young governor.

Zhao Huan was satisfied with the performance of Ding Hong, the prefect of Jin Prefecture, in this matter - Ding Hong specifically pointed out that these were gifts from himself. This is called kindness, and it can contain the people of the original Liao Kingdom to a certain extent.

of the people's hearts.

What Zhao Huan never expected was that the original people of the Liao Kingdom would be dissatisfied because of this, and were not even willing to take advantage of it.

"We came today because we wanted to find an explanation from the officials. We had gone to see Magistrate Ding before, but Magistrate Ding said we were messing around and kicked us out of the yamen, preventing us from paying the same taxes as everyone else.

Pay taxes."

Xiao De raised the tray in his hand and said: "These are the same deeds as mine in the city... documents signed and pledged by the people. They also want to pay taxes like other people."

"Then I have to chase you away."

Zhao Huan laughed loudly and said: "Since the imperial court has set the rules, it will definitely not change them easily. If it says it is three deductions and five exemptions, it must be three deductions and five exemptions. You cannot say that you will not pay if you want.

You can’t say that you can pay if you want.”

Xiao De frowned and said, "That's not possible. The officials gave us land and saved us from the golden dog. The officials are our great benefactors, so we should give them to the officials."

The family pays taxes and this is the same principle when it comes to breaking the law.

Besides, people in other parts of the Song Dynasty have normal relations with each other, but we are the exception? Then we don’t feel at ease."

"Why, you don't even want to wait for five years? But, the court's rules are here, and I can't change them at will. Just enjoy the benefits of these five years in a down-to-earth manner."

Seeing that Xiao De and other Khitan people were determined to pay taxes like the people in other places, Zhao Huan was also helpless by these people.

"Also, has Magistrate Ding ever regarded you as outsiders rather than as ordinary people of the Song Dynasty?"

"Why doesn't he treat us like outsiders?"

Hearing what Zhao Huan said, Xiao De felt even more aggrieved. The brows and eyes on his originally angular face were wrinkled together, looking like a myna with a dark face.

"In the past, when the Liao Kingdom was still there, I was not drafted into corvee service, but what about now?"

"Since the Jijin Mansion was returned to the Song Dynasty until now, we have not had to do any corvee work!"

"Later I heard that the Great Wall was being built in Fengsheng Prefecture. We thought it was time to collect corvee labor from us this time, right? For this, we have even prepared dry food! But..."

"But there's still nothing wrong with us!"

"Later, I thought about going to the government to ask, but I was kicked out by Magistrate Na Ding. He said that we could go work if we wanted to, but instead of recruiting us as corvees, we would be given wages."

"Isn't he bullying others?"

"Who has ever heard of a person who works as a corvee and is paid for his wages? He is simply treating us as fools!"

As if he had opened a chat box, Xiao De began to pour out the bitter water in his belly. After pouring out, he began to complain: "Guan family, we don't ask for anything else. We just want to pay the taxes that we should pay like other people of the Song Dynasty."

“Come on, we’ll do the corvee work that we should do, so we can’t always treat them differently, right?”
Chapter completed!