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Chapter 908 The Ultimate Scholar's Wife 20
The agricultural tax in this era is about 5 jin, that is, for every [-] jin you harvest, you pay [-] jin to the state. The tax rate of [-]% is not particularly high, especially because the other party does not call you door-to-door every year. How much grain has been harvested this year will only estimate your tax amount based on the number of acres of your family and an official yield per mu.

The yield per mu given by the government is not very high, and it will definitely be lower than the normal output value. Like the Li family, they used to have [-] mu of land and two rice crops a year, which can probably produce tens of thousands of catties of rice, but According to official statistics, one mu is only two hundred catties for them, so two crops of rice a year are only counted as six thousand catties, and the tax collected is only three hundred catties, which is not much compared to their family's harvest.

But even if it’s not too much, it’s still three hundred catties of rice. For the common people at the bottom, let alone three hundred catties, they are reluctant to part with even three catties, so naturally they can’t pay taxes if they can.

Fifteen acres would have to pay so much tax. If Li Silang had 1600 acres in his hands, it would be calculated as [-] catties per mu, and he would have to pay [-] catties in taxes for two rice crops a year. This figure is not small. Therefore, the imperial court exempted the scholars from the food tax, which in fact saved a lot of money for the scholars.

In fact, the country can’t collect this amount of tax, because this dynasty is the same as the Ming Dynasty in her real world. Some people took advantage of Wang’s law and knew that those scholars had tax exemptions, so they would donate their fields to the names of those scholars. .

Although on the surface there is a limited tax-free quota for scholars, it is reasonable that there will be no situation where they cannot collect, but those scholars do not honestly only collect land within their tax-free quota, and many people will collect contributions that exceed their tax-free quota. Scholars may not be so bold, but as long as they have a certain power, many people will do this. Anyway, the people at the top will not go to the countryside to check one by one-if they really want to be so serious and check one by one, this People may immediately become the mortal enemy of the entire court's Arita class, so no one will do such a stupid thing-the key is the tax collector at the county level. As long as you win over the local parents and officials, who will care about your name? How many fields.

In this way, this dynasty lived happily in the farming era, and there was no financial bankruptcy. At first, Enron wondered why. Later, according to Enron’s inquiries, it turned out that it was because the dynasty was supported by commercial taxes—that is, , This is an era that does not suppress commerce. The development of commerce has led to a large amount of commercial taxes to be collected, and agricultural taxes are dispensable, and it is fine if they cannot be collected.

An Ran feels that this is a bit similar to the Song Dynasty, the country has plenty of money.

However, the three Li Dalang brothers couldn't help but look at each other after hearing Mrs. Li's words, and finally Li Dalang said: "Let's go back and discuss it."

But he didn't agree right away.

Li Erlang and Li Sanlang also mean the same thing.

An Ran understands why, because the donation needs to put the land under someone else’s name. Some people worry that it is a fake sale of the land, but if the other party does not keep their promises and the land is taken away one day, then they will cry ?In order to save that little tax, it would be too uneconomical to lose the fields.

After listening to the words of the three Li Dalang brothers, Mrs. Li also understood their thoughts. It is true that such a major matter cannot be decided immediately, so he did not object at the moment, nodded and said: "Okay, you go back and discuss it."

At that moment, the three brothers came out, each thinking about going home.

On the way, Mrs. Li San couldn't bear it first, and said: "Didn't the land under the parents' name be agreed at the time, that they would temporarily use it as a field for the elderly? Now, without asking our opinion, they directly put it under the name of the fourth brother." Next? Then from now on, will it be accepted that it belongs to the fourth brother, and will not be distributed to us? The conditions of the old four are good enough, but the old man still favors them. I really don’t know what to say... No matter what Said, our conditions are so poor, so we should be more partial to us, right?"

Although Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li also thought about this, they thought more about it. They thought that if the fourth child's good luck continued and he was admitted to Juren, the benefits to them might be better than these few acres of land. More, after all, the three mu of land was divided among the four brothers, and each of them was less than one mu. It was worth ten taels of silver.

But if the fourth child is admitted to Juren, the improvement of social status and other invisible benefits that will be brought to them at that time, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li think, it is definitely not comparable to this acre of land, so at the moment they are also Thinking of this, I feel a little uncomfortable, but I don't plan to have an attack immediately, but I plan to wait and see. If the fourth brother's advantages are exhausted and he can't pass the exam, then it's not too late to talk about it; In the future, if they can be admitted to Juren, or even Jinshi, and become high-ranking officials, then they will forget it. After all, as long as the fourth child is willing to take care of them, they will get back their money.

Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li Erlang didn’t say anything, and of course Li Dalang and Sister-in-law Li Erlang didn’t say anything, because their wives had already blown pillow talk with them, and they also felt that they could wait and see for a while, but it was Li Sanlang, because Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li Erlang wanted to Li Sanlang also listened to her words very much—of course, he also I felt that what Li Sansao said was good-so no one else said anything at the moment, only Li Sanlang echoed: "That's right." Then he looked at Li Dalang and Li Erlang, and said, "Big brother and second brother, don't you think so?"

Li Dalang and Li Erlang, who didn't want to express their opinions, were suddenly asked by Li Sanlang, so they could only say: "How did father arrange it? Let's just listen. Although parents love fourth child more, they haven't done us any harm."

The truth cannot be told, and Li Dalang and Li Erlang can only say this.

"Haven't we owed us anything?! Why can't we read the fourth child who can read? They were all born by parents. I don't believe it. Where can we go? The fourth child can read good books and pass the exam. Scholars, we may not be able to do it." Li Sanlang said.

Speaking of it, this has always been a knot in his heart, because he is only two years older than Li Silang, and smarter than Li Silang since he was a child, otherwise he would not have married a wife with such good conditions. In the end, such a smart My parents don't allow me to study, but let my fourth son read it. If I let him read it, now he must be as beautiful as the fourth child, or even more beautiful than him. After all, he is smarter than Li Silang Yes, maybe he can do better than him?
Li Erlang said: "Isn't that what the wandering Taoist said, that our fourth brother can be a high-ranking official, so it's normal for his parents to let him study. Now it seems that it is really possible."

Li Sanlang muttered unhappily: "Can you believe those liars? Be a high-ranking official? Let's talk about it after he has passed the Jinshi exam! Now he is just a little scholar!"

　I wish you a happy March [-] Goddess' Day!
　　
　
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