Chu's Zhaohua

Chapter 19

Hearing the commotion outside the door, Chu Chan was slightly curious. Chu Zhen also ran out of the room, glanced at Chu Chan, and said nothing. Since the last time the first room and the second room had dinner in the third room, she was humiliated by Chu Yun. After a pause, he seemed to be more honest, and he didn't target Chu Chan these days.

After all, Chu Zhen was still a little girl, and she was very curious about the outside world at the moment. Seeing that Chu Chan was not moving, she thought about it, ran to the door of the room by herself and opened the door to look at it. Horrified look.

Mrs. Zeng and Mrs. Sun also came out. Although they hadn't seen what happened outside, they knew it very clearly in their hearts. They sighed, "It's really a crime."

Chu Chan's heart moved, and she walked slowly to the gate. There was still a lot of noise outside the gate. There were several people dressed as officers and soldiers standing diagonally opposite the gate, and they were yelling, "Everyone has to pay, it's not just Don’t hurry up with your family’s handover, and you will continue to collect taxes later.”

Receive tax?Chu Chan remembered the Fu of this era, and the information about Fu gradually became clear in her mind, and her face changed slightly.

Collecting taxes means collecting taxes. In this era, exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes are extremely harsh and heavy. Every household has to collect poll tax, as well as land tax, business tax, animal tax and other miscellaneous taxes. Paying taxes, what did Chu Chan say about why the family didn't even raise a few chickens and ducks.

This will clearly remind me that this tax is extremely heavy, such as the head tax, which is paid once a month, fifty yuan per person, just like the three houses of the Chu family. Now there are ten people in total. It is paid according to household registration, so you have to pay [-] won coins a month, which is almost [-] won coins a year, which is six pieces of gold leaves.

If it is a field tax, it is generally half of the output in the field. Not everyone has a field, and it is really unaffordable.

In terms of livestock, you only have enough to pay taxes if you keep them.

The person who was diagonally opposite the door had a little impression when he saw Chu Chan at the moment. I remembered that his surname was Lin, and he didn’t come and go much. At this moment, Aunt Lin was slumped on the ground, crying miserably, “Master Guan, please give me a few days. Time, I really can't make up this much money, I beg the official."

There are about ten people in the Lin family, big and small, and they also need [-] yuan. A few days ago, two children of the Lin family fell ill and spent a lot of money. At this moment, they can't even pay their taxes.

Although there were quite a few onlookers around, none of them dared to stand out, so what if they got ahead, maybe these officials would not collect taxes, but they were just beaten for no reason.

The Chu family just stood at the door and watched, Chu Chan sighed in his heart, this is the sorrow of this era.

These soldiers didn't give the Lin family a chance, but went in to search the house and removed all the valuables. The Lin family didn't have any previous items, mostly desks and kitchen utensils. In the end, the officers and soldiers went door to door to collect taxes.

The Chu family needed to pay [-] won, and if they didn't pay, it would be impossible. Zeng sighed, went back to his room and took out [-] won.

When the officers and soldiers left, the miserable weeping of the Lin family could still be heard outside.

When Father Chu came back at night and heard about it, he was a little stunned, "Why are there so many poll taxes? I remember before, didn't one person earn fifteen yuan?"

(End of this chapter)