A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiaopingtai's previous positions actually covered a wide range of areas, but precisely because he performed a lot of duties, he can be regarded as a people-friendly official. Although he is very unqualified as a people-friendly official. Due to various reasons, his household registration has not been sorted out, his fields have not been measured, and his countrymen have not visited him.

However, this does not prevent him from knowing the thoughts of these townspeople and Chinese people. The townsfolk just want to know how to collect the annual fixed town fees, building separation money, and space money, and whether they need to be increased.

Some of Ejiri's townsmen inherited the former Ejiri merchants of the Shirakawa clan, and some were Yamauchi merchants who obtained new monopoly privileges from Yamauchi Yoshiharu. However, since they all came to Ejiri Port to do business, facing the possibility of revising the tax rate due to the new official taking office, the two groups stayed together for the time being.

Speaking of which, Japan's business tax system and the method of taxing the huge property controlled by businessmen implement a very ridiculous model.

The Muromachi shogunate, the de facto central government, had the meaning of being the common master of the world from the moment it was established. Even in the era of the third generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, it only greatly strengthened the authority of the shogunate. In fact, the shogunate of the shogunate cannot convey the government orders to the lower counties of each branch. This means that Japan has not had a strong government to formulate a universal commercial tax system for the whole country for hundreds of years. So the local daimyo and his warriors showed their talents, and I don't know which eldest brother slapped his forehead and came up with a good idea.

The goods are all real. As you can see, it is simple to draw one out of 20 and one out of fifteen, just collect the money accordingly. Therefore, although the transaction tax also has the possibility of tax evasion and loopholes, it still has a basis and is easy to implement.

But how do you collect money from a businessman’s huge property? After all, dig a hole and bury gold and copper coins, where are you going to find them and collect taxes? Therefore, the entire Shannai Territory began to implement the inter-frame taxation mechanism decades ago, a "very reasonable" tax system.

What is the inter-frame tax system? This is a system that determines the amount of tax levied by measuring the size of your home. The bigger your home is, the more taxes you’ll collect. So Heita Xiao could see strange buildings with five-meter-wide fronts and fifty-meter-long houses in the town. (True fact, until 45 years ago, there were still prefectures in Japan that collected taxes like this. Now many old houses in Toyama Prefecture are long. Bamboo pole-shaped building.)

So now when you travel to Japan, if you find that some shops and houses have small or even narrow fronts, but the entire house is very long. Please don't be surprised, they are just trying to avoid taxes.

Moreover, Xiao Pingtai is not the kind of cool official who picks sperm off mosquitoes' legs. What kind of money can he make by scraping money? To make money, create something out of nothing and conjure money.

As for the people of the country, there are naturally only two things to ask about. The first and most important thing is to check the land. If you dare to check the land, I will dare to get up and kill you. Anyway, to check the land is to starve to death, and to kill is to die in battle. If you kill one person, you will earn enough money. If you kill two people, you will earn one. Who is afraid of whom?

The other is whether to formulate a new military service account, which is easy to understand. Lian Chuanzhong was a foreigner before, and the territory of 1,050 kuans actually required 300 or so people. The recruitment ratio was extremely high. There are many Chinese people among Jiangjiri people. If Xiaoping Tairuo talks about Tianxian and comes down with Shang Fang's sword to increase the number of military personnel, as long as it is not too exaggerated, they will still agree with tears. (As a Saukura clan member of the Hojo clan, Chiba Suke Shigein’s military service is as high as 3,000 cavalry, and Hara Daisuke’s military service is as high as 2,000 cavalry. However, Shimizu Yasuhide, who has a slightly higher status and has less than half the territory of these two, only has military service. 200 riders. The difference between Pudai and Waiyang is obvious.)

In short, the banquet with everyone's thoughts was successfully held as scheduled. The townspeople and the people of the country had been waiting in Ejiri for several days. As soon as Xiaoping Tai arrived, he just started the business. Anyway, everyone is not really here to meet each other for food, but mainly to test each other.

Before Mrs. Xiaoping arrived, she had already decided that everything would remain as usual and she was not going to make any changes. After all, a small territory in just half of a country was not worth fighting against Mrs. Xiaoping, who had become more and more swollen recently.

The well-established Ejiri local representatives all knelt down in a reserved manner under Koheita, the main seat, and no one dared to speak first. The only people present here were Matsushita Arakusuke Issei and Koheita, who had met several times during the Uedahara war. Everyone looked at each other and finally pushed him to come forward.

Matsushita Ao felt the gazes of dozens of Ejiri fellows, so he had no choice but to step out of the queue to pay homage to Koheta. The funny thing is that Matsushita Ao is the lord of the foreign city who has 1,500 guan Zhixing on his books, and Xiaopingtai is the lord of the city who has 1,300 guan Zhixing. This person has more knowledge and practice than Xiaopingtai, but he is still worthy of Xiaopingtai. The city lord.

"Sure, there is nothing good to entertain you here in Ejiri. At the end of spring, small white fish (small white fish is the whole species of cyprinid Culter alburnus Basilewsky, now one of the specialties of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, spring and "Winter fishing) is very delicious, you can try the soup stock." Matsushita Qing thought about it, made up his mind, and actually just said a word of gossip.

But this played into Xiaopingta's wish. In this era, TVs and computers were simply impossible, game anchors were not allowed to play, and even hot baths had to be arranged in advance every day. Apart from being a little interested in these purely natural ingredients, there is really nothing to miss.

Xiaopingtai picked up the lacquer bowl and took a sip. It tasted really good. After praising it, the atmosphere slowly became lively.

One of the townspeople looked familiar because he had taken over Koheita's candle export business. "Jodai can add some udon to the soup to give it a special flavor."

Xiaoping accepted it happily, and it was indeed delicious.

After that, hard dishes such as sea bream, deer breast, crane soup, etc. came out. There were not many fresh vegetables in spring, only a few decorations. Seafood and mountain products are the mainstay of the banquet. At the end of the meal is the famous tiger dolphin (Oriental pufferfish). Its blood and internal organs are highly poisonous. If it is not slaughtered properly, it will be life-threatening after eating. It is abundant in Yuanzhou Beach, Yuanjiang Country. In the offshore waters along the coast. ), Kodaira just stretched out his chopsticks, meditated for a while, and then said casually, "Sometimes, it's better not to try some new things."

After saying that, he put down his chopsticks gently and stopped trying to taste the plate of tiger, dolphin and raw fish that was said to be extremely delicious, tender and plump, and melted in your mouth.

There were not many idiots in the hall, and all of them who were quick-thinking reacted immediately, and everyone smiled happily.

While he hurriedly asked people to remove the tiger dolphin that Tanzheng didn't like, he also ordered people to get matsutake rice to give Danzheng a full meal.