Cross the ancient times with golden fingers to farm and raise cubs

Chapter 31 Tax Payment
Yu Xiaoxiao nodded in agreement, and signaled Shen Ye to continue.

"For this reason, I asked Aunt Li specifically, if you think of a larger brick house, you have to prepare at least twenty or thirty taels. If it is that kind of spacious and bright blue brick house, you will definitely not be able to build it without forty or fifty taels Come on, that kind of big house is not only comfortable to live in, it is said that it can be lived for decades, if it is well maintained, several generations of the family can live there.”

As she said that, Shen Ye recalled Aunt Li's envious and yearning expression when she said this, and remembered that his family used to live in that kind of big house, which was clean, bright, spacious and tidy...

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Shen Ye who was suddenly stunned, and stretched out her hand and shook it in front of him. Seeing that she hadn't recovered, she slapped Shen Ye's head lightly, and rubbed it vigorously. Shen Ye regained consciousness.

Yu Xiaoxiao didn't ask what she was thinking just now, but urged: "Any other thoughts?"

Shen Ye shook his head.

Yu Xiaoxiao opened her mouth and brought up an aspect that Shen Ye didn't expect: "Our family still needs land, so we don't know how to grow it ourselves, but we can rent it out. In the future, we don't have to buy such expensive food anymore. The rent is enough for our family to eat.”

When Shen Ye heard it, he realized what he had missed.

I don't know how to farm, and neither do my family members, so I take it for granted that I don't need to buy land for my family, and I can just buy food and so on.

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the two children and concluded: "That means we have three options to choose from:
First, send Ye'er or Xiaoqi to either of you to study.

The second is to find someone to build a big house to solve the housing problem for the next few decades. We have lived in this thatched cottage for three years, and it leaks occasionally when it rains. Worried that the snow would bring down the roof.

Third, ask someone to reclaim wasteland or buy land, but my mother thinks it is more cost-effective to reclaim wasteland. "

After all, Yu Xiaoxiao paused for a while, leaving enough space for the two children to think, before asking: "Which item do you think it would be better to spend this money on?"

Shen Qi looked at his elder brother, and planned to express his thoughts first: "Mother, let's build a house first."

Yu Xiaoxiao didn't say whether she agreed or disagreed, but instead asked the reason: "Xiao Qi, why did you say that you need to build a house first?"

"Mother, didn't you say that our house will leak now, and it may collapse in winter, then we will have no place to live, shouldn't we build the house first?"

At the end, Shen Qi expressed his doubts.

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Shen Qi soothingly and said, "Mother just wanted to know why you wanted to build a house, and didn't say that you were wrong."

Only then did Shen Qi nod his head and look at his eldest brother.

Yu Xiaoxiao also set her eyes on Shen Ye, waiting for Shen Ye's answer.

Shen Ye frowned and thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "Build the house first."

Yu Xiaoxiao also asked why.

And Shen Ye's answer was: "Although our house can still be lived in, as Xiaoqi said, if the house collapses, we will have nowhere to live.

And there is no need to worry about reading. I now copy books every day, and I read all the books in the book shop. I can study by myself, and I can also teach in the short term.

We don't have to worry about opening up wasteland. The money our family earns is enough for us to eat, so we don't have to worry about running out of food for the time being.

After thinking about it, building a house has become a top priority. "

Yu Xiaoxiao listened to the methodical analysis of the eldest son, and she was more inclined to build a house in her heart. In this way, the three of them can be regarded as unified.

So, Yu Xiaoxiao made a final decision that the money saved in the past three years will be used to build a big house.

After the matter was decided, Yu Xiaoxiao planned to talk to the village head uncle after the busy spring.

The almighty village chief, whoever makes the village chief the most powerful in the village, has also allowed the village chief to understand the situation in a radius of a hundred miles in three years, and he knows more about the town than us ordinary people.

So if you have something to ask the village chief, you must be right!

As in previous years, Yu Xiaoxiao still collects hemp sticks to make twine at home.

The accident came at this time. Yu Xiaoxiao hadn't paid taxes in the past three years, and Yu Xiaoxiao had forgotten that there was such a thing as taxes.

On this day, Yu Xiaoxiao was spinning twine at home as usual, when the fifth aunt next door came to her.

The fifth aunt shouted loudly outside the yard: "Xiao girl, come out~"

Yu Xiaoxiao, who was busy in the house, heard the sound, so she could only put down what she was doing, went out and opened the courtyard door, and asked in confusion, "Why are you here, fifth aunt? Is there something wrong?"

The fifth aunt said in surprise: "You still don't know? The village chief sent everyone to the entrance of the village. Today is the day when the officials come to collect taxes. I'm here to ask you to go with me."

Hearing this, Yu Xiaoxiao was stunned. Didn't she say that she would be exempted from tax for three years?

Oops, let me go, this is the fourth year, I have to quickly find out how much the original owner's annual tax revenue is in memory, so as not to hinder my plan to build a house.

Finally, Yu Xiaoxiao found the memory about taxation deep in her memory.

The main taxes to be paid in ancient times were land tax and head tax, and there was also the need to perform corvee every six months.

Land tax is also land tax, and 1/3 of the tax is collected every year. Now the yield per mu is basically about 500 catties, so the government generally collects 170 catties of grain tax. Scale conversion.

As for the poll tax, there are two types. Children under the age of three do not need to pay the tax. Children under the age of three will start to pay. Children between the ages of three and fourteen will have to pay two or three dollars a year. Population tax for silver.

15 years old is considered an adult, and each person has to pay twelve taels of silver every year. This tax has to be paid until the age of 56. If you are over 56 years old, you don't have to pay it.

In addition, the servants and maids who support the family also need to pay poll tax, which is doubled, and each person has to pay 24 taels a year.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaoxiao was really about to despair, life was hard enough, and she had to pay so much taxes, how could she live!

But you can't refuse to pay. If you don't pay, they will put you in jail.

Yu Xiaoxiao expressed her distress. She had imagined that when she had saved enough money in the future, she might still be able to live a life of being served by someone. Now that she thinks about it, it is simply impossible. Even the poll tax cannot be paid...

The fifth aunt saw Yu Xiaoxiao so stupidly distracted, stretched out her hand to push Yu Xiaoxiao and said, "Why are you so dazed, hurry up and get ready for us to go to the entrance of the village."

Yu Xiaoxiao came back to her senses in a daze, and mechanically went back to the house to get the money.

There are three people in my family, two children have to pay four taels of silver, and I have to pay twelve taels of silver. In total, I have to take sixteen taels of silver.

Yu Xiaoxiao packed up the money, and comforted her with a wry smile in her heart, fortunately her family has no land, otherwise she would have to spend a large sum of money, thinking about it makes her heart ache to death.

After taking the money and going out, Fifth Aunt was still standing at the gate of the yard waiting.

The two went to the entrance of the village together, and almost everyone came.

(End of this chapter)