Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 966

In the past, sometimes there were big battles, and they might go for several months.Sometimes I go to a farther place to do military service, and the service period may only be half a month, and it will take the same amount of time on the road.

What I am most afraid of is delaying the farming season at home.

Now it's all right, the money will be deducted from the service, and all the money will be shared in the fields and collected together with the land tax.When the government wants to serve, they always issue notices to recruit, and those who are willing to apply are paid according to their work. Even the time on the road is included, and food and lodging are also included.

Old blacksmiths sometimes go to work in the vicinity to earn some wages.

"Nowadays, most people can't get the labor jobs that are nearby. They come on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are late, they will be full."

Fortunately, the old blacksmith is a blacksmith, so he can take his sons to the market to strike iron during the slack season.

"Then how much money can you make by going to the market for a day?"

"I can't make a lot of money. After excluding expenses, I can earn a few dollars a day to subsidize my family."

"Do you have to pay taxes?"

"This is a wild market, so we don't have to pay taxes. If we go to the city, we usually have to pay taxes when we go to the market, but it's not much. We don't have much money." The old blacksmith said with a smile.

"That's not bad. After this way, there will be some surplus in a year, right?"

The old blacksmith told Luo Cheng that the past few years were turbulent, life was hard, and there was a famine and debts. Now that the land has been allocated for the past two years, life is slowly getting better.

"I would like to thank the government in particular. I borrowed a lot of debts before, and the interest rate was very scary. Later, the imperial court stipulated that it was to reduce rent and interest rates, and prohibit usury. For past debts, the interest should not exceed twice the principal. Once this regulation came out, it greatly lightened my burden. I didn’t know how much I had borrowed before, but now it’s all right. I just need to pay back the principal and add double the interest. "

"Twice the interest rate is still very high."

"It's much better. I don't know how many times I've rolled it before. I feel like I'll pay it off for the rest of my life. Now it's better. I only pay back twice, and I don't have to pay back the extra. The court even gave us a loan for young crops, interest-free. You see, I have finally paid off those debts now, and although my family is still a shabby cottage, I am debt-free and light-hearted."

The eyes of the old blacksmith are full of hope. According to the current life, the family will be able to build a new yard after another three to five years of hard work. Make it bigger.

"The county has designated a homestead for our family. I have a large family, and I have designated a two-acre garden house. I have already thought about it. At that time, I will build a large three-in-one yard, and then surround the house with a large vegetable garden. My son, each of the children in the family has a room of their own."

At this time, the young blacksmith's son said, "Father, we need to build a hut. Our family must have our own hut."

"Yes, build a hut, save the use of tigers in the room, it stinks."

Looking at the joy of these two fathers, Luo Cheng is also happy for them. Although they have worked hard, they are very optimistic and full of hope for the future.

"Master, do you think the current two taxes are high?"

The old blacksmith squinted his eyes and thought for a while, "If you just talk about the rent per mu, it's not too low, but now the imperial court pays the rent to the mu, and converts the service to the mu. So in total, the burden is actually lighter than before. Woolen cloth."

In the past, the old blacksmith had a family of eight, with four members, but the total land was only [-] mu. Therefore, the family had to rent the land from the landlord, and half of the harvest had to be handed over to the landlord, and the rest was not much.

But when you pay the royal rations, it is calculated by dime. No matter how much land your family actually has, it is a land rent of two stones per dime a year, as well as silk cloth for adjustment, and 20 days of free labor in a year. .

Not to mention, the communal warehouses have to pay for the food in the righteous warehouses.

From time to time, there will be some apportionments and the like.

It was miserable.

Well now, no matter how much land you have in your home, it depends on how much land you have. The rent is levied on the basis of mu, and then the household tax is paid according to the wealth. The grain handed over is a bit more than in the past, but there are hundreds of acres of fields, and these lands don’t need to hand over half of the harvest to the landlords.

Moreover, it also includes the food in the communal warehouse and the free warehouse, as well as the money for exile.

The old blacksmith said that his family is now a registered household, and there is not much household tax money. He hopes that in a few years, he can pay more household tax, which means that his family will be richer by then.

"It's just that the price of salt is expensive now." The blacksmith's youngest son interjected.

"It's a bit expensive. My family has to spend a few stones of salt for a year." The old blacksmith also felt a little distressed. In fact, people everywhere feel deeply about the high price of salt, but Luo Cheng also knows that the high salt tax is actually a disguised form of tax.

The imperial court has to collect tens of millions of salt taxes a year, which is the most important tax revenue of the imperial court, and this tax cannot be reduced.

Fortunately, although the salt tax is high, it is still within the range of the common people.

"The prices of other things are quite stable now, but the price of salt has remained high. I thought the world would be unified, and the price of salt should come down, but it hasn't moved at all. It's harder than the iron I forged." The blacksmith sighed.

The emperor and Wei Zheng looked at each other and could only smile helplessly.

Now the imperial court's financial revenue does not mainly rely on the two taxes of land tax and household tax, but on the industrial and commercial tax, of which special taxes such as salt, tea, iron, wine and horses account for the majority.

The imperial court needs taxes, mainly to support the army to fight.

Nearly 30 imperial troops, this is a standing army, and it costs no less than 2000 million yuan a year.Although some officials said that it would cost too much, and suggested that the forbidden army should be abolished, and all of them should be replaced by government soldiers, saying that this would save a lot of military expenses, but Luo Cheng did not agree in the end.

Now is the time for Daqin to forge ahead. If the forbidden army is cut, it will switch from offense to defense.

The father and son of blacksmiths are more eloquent, maybe they often go to the market to do business, and they also have some knowledge.

Luo Cheng chatted with them for a long time, from receiving land to debts, to income, to taxes, to the local government's reputation and so on.

"I feel that the parents and officials are not bad. The biggest feeling is that they don't disturb the people so much. The subordinate officials are much better now, and they are not as domineering as before."

"So, apart from the high price of salt, everything is fine now?" Luo Cheng took the hand-relief knife from the blacksmith. It can be seen that it is still good.

"Ten cents." The old blacksmith quoted with a smile. Luo Cheng didn't haggle over the price, so he handed over ten coins Kaiyuan Tongbao.

"I can't say that everything is good, just now, the imperial court is vigorously immigrating to the frontier. You can see that many people in the villages of this place have moved away. Now every village has immigrants. There are a lot of fewer people than before."

(End of this chapter)