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Chapter 1632 Summer Harvest in Luxi Village ([-])

These self-cultivated farmers who have money to pay taxes are all at the front of the line. They thought this year would be an easy year, but the yamen servants still didn't give up until they emptied their money bags.

The people who paid the tax later followed the example of the previous ones. They only brought the people who had paid the full amount of tax money with them. The money raised was sent to the redeemer, and because of this bondage, an additional fine was added, even the copper coins were paid.

This move frightened the farmers who were waiting to pay their taxes at the back of the line. It is useless to hide money, it is wise to offer money with both hands.

Knowing that this is the yamen servants taking the opportunity to deliberately make money, but how can the villagers resist? After a whole morning, the self-cultivating farmers finally paid the summer tax, and at the same time, the money bags were so clean that they had never been filled with money.

Several families who originally planned to marry their wives and daughters were paralyzed at home exhausted and had no other ideas.

The yamen servants collected the money happily, and as long as the villagers paid consciously, they would not cause much trouble. After all, the villagers who have been impoverished for generations knew how the money came to them this year, and they never thought of doing anything out of the ordinary to offend Qi Zhuang.

From the winter wheat in early summer to the cartloads of millet not long ago, Qi Ke is now recognized as an expert in farming. The rich families in this county admit that the yield per mu is not as good as hers. It is no wonder that the villagers who work with her do not make money. Tighten Qi Zhuang's thighs, so that he can fatten up again when the autumn tax comes.

The owner farmers had no other twists and turns except being emptied out of their pockets and returning to poverty. But in the afternoon it was the turn of the tenant farmers to pay taxes, which was completely different from the morning.

Year after year, the common cry sounded again. Although some tenant farmers earned some change from working in Qizhuang, it was only enough for the family to eat, and it was not enough to pay taxes, because their summer grain harvest was too little. Landlords have little left after their rent.

The tenant farmers are land-lost farmers. They have no land tax to pay, but they line up to pay the tax. Naturally, it is the result of Zhang Jinjiang’s three landlords passing on the tax that should have been borne by them. The farmers who paid the tax money were tied to a tree with a rope to show the public. If the women and children in the family can collect money to redeem the man, they can take him back, otherwise they will be taken away for hard labor.

The maids of Qizhuang were not at the scene of paying taxes, but they still saw everything in their eyes, and they were not in charge. The army is the army, and the people are the people. If he doesn't pay taxes to the Yamen, Qi Ke will not provoke the Yamen's power to collect taxes, and will not do anything to give them a chance to torment General Bai and the Bai family army.

Based on the various tax collection behaviors of the yamen servants in the morning, Qi Ke is enough to stir up her tax resistance nerves and even put it into action. But for the villagers, they have never dreamed of a tax resistance riot, and they can survive by being obedient. The only way, even if you can't stand it anymore, is suicide.

In the chaotic scene, there were still some quick-witted people, watching their men tied to the tree, women and children who had turned their heads ran to Qizhuang, kneeling outside the gate with empty hands asking for money.

The deputy housekeeper walked out of the main room slowly, stood behind the gate and looked at the women and children kneeling outside the gate, with no mercy in his eyes.

"It's easy to borrow money. What do you repay? Do you use your own house as collateral?"

(End of this chapter)