NOVEL WEB Chapter 46 Chapter 46
The people don't fight with the officials, so you are asking for trouble with the people in the yamen.
Xu He looked at the man pulling the rein to change the leisurely way back just now, his face fell down, and he didn't have a good impression of those yamen who were collecting money, but he patted Zhang Fangyuan's hand and persuaded him own husband.
What kind of officials are they? They are not even as good as ordinary people, but they have been in the yamen for a long time. The county magistrate is often seen and feels superior to others. He shouts at the common people.
At first, the people in the yamen saw that he was strong and healthy, so they thought about letting him work as a yamen servant, to be able to arrest criminals, collect debts and so on. Dude, he's not going.
Xu He closed his mouth and looked at him quietly.
Okay, can I still be so small-minded that I can't get angry with them? Zhang Fangyuan looked at his wife and laughed again.
Xu He thought to himself that your mind is not small, who is small?
He said: There are two people in our family, so we shouldn't be able to pay much tax.
Every year when it’s time to pay taxes, the people in the village will fall into depression and suddenly have to spend a large sum of money to go out. After a banquet, the payment of taxes is completely equivalent to taking it for nothing. Who can be happy with such a little income in a year.
Xu He was afraid that Zhang Fangyuan would also be worried, so he joked: If you marry me later, maybe I will save my poll tax.
Zhang Fangyuan smiled and said, Don't you know there is a saying that buy early and enjoy early?
Your poll tax is nothing. Zhang Fangyuan said: And I am willing to pay it. What worries me is the days of paying taxes. Look, I probably have something to worry about.
Xu He was slightly puzzled: How to say?
Zhang Fangyuan didn't speak bluntly, and stroked Xu He's hair: Don't worry about it, I will block it. You will know what's going on in the future.
Xu He frowned slightly.
According to the court law, the people of the world pay taxes according to the population. Among them, those who are three to fourteen years old, regardless of whether they are girls or boys, pay a tax of 30 cash per year, which is called mouth money. Those who are fifteen years old are adults, and the annual poll tax for adults will reach one year, and one count is one hundred and twenty coins.
People pay poll tax until they are fifty-six years old, which means that the age range for people to pay poll tax is from three to fifty-six years old, and they have to pay fifty-three years of poll tax if they live in this world.
Of course, this is only the head tax price of ordinary people. If a wealthy family raises servants as servants, the head tax will be paid by the head family at twice the price of ordinary people.
In other words, the richer the family, the higher the tax.
Apart from these, Xu He was often laughed at by the villagers before he got married and said that if he couldn't get married, he would stay at home and pay the late wedding tax. There are also laws to follow. In order to encourage marriage, the imperial court, if the younger brother of a woman does not marry in the age group of fifteen to thirty, the older she gets, the higher the poll tax the family has to pay to him.
The poll tax increases year by year from the age of 15 to the peak at the age of 22. It can be as high as 50%, but after the peak, it will gradually decrease. After the age of 30, the late marriage tax will not be paid.
For this reason, for families with many children, girls and brothers will plan to marry early after they grow up, and they will do the marriage a little later every year, in order to avoid some taxes. Marriage in March and April every year There are many happy events.
And the married couple wants to marry again after June, avoiding the poll tax together, and the two parties play football with each other, but generally married couples can’t hide, after all, they are hiring a wife, too much bargaining will not get a daughter-in-law .
Because of the poll tax, it is very rare for village households to raise servants or three wives and four concubines. It is difficult for their own family members to raise them, so how dare they raise so many people.
There are only two people in Zhang Fangyuan's family now, and the poll tax is two hundred and forty cash. In addition, there is a household tax for a family unit. Each family pays two hundred Wen a year. This does not matter how many people in your family, whether it is one person or ten people. Unless black households. Of course, it is not a matter of paying money for black households, they will be directly arrested and locked up in the Yamen, and they will be carefully interrogated and interrogated what is going on with you.
Xu He went home and did the math, sobbing on the spot, all the money he earned today was wiped out, and he even had to subsidize a lot from his savings.
For this money alone, you have to pay four hundred and forty cash! There are only two people in their family!
In the past, Liu Xianglan was in charge of paying taxes at home with the yamen, and he had only heard about it a little bit. Now that he is in charge of the housekeeper, he realizes how big an expense it is.
Zhang Fangyuan looked at Xu He counting the money, and his little face suddenly lost its luster. Although he wanted to comfort him very much, he still told him very sincerely: More than that, you haven't counted the service money.
Xu He sat up straight in shock: How is the military service counted?
Zhang Fangyuan said unhurriedly: Girls and younger brothers have a late marriage tax, and men have a service tax, which is also called Gen Fu.
The court law stipulates that men must serve the court from the year of weak crown.
There are three types of service, one is Gengzu, that is, one month in a year is appointed to the local county government office, and no wages are paid, such as building a city wall, casting dams, and building a county official residence. department affairs.
Second, serving as a prime soldier, you only serve once in your life, but once for as long as a year, you have to go to the capital to serve as a soldier.
The last type is called garrison soldiers, who go to the border gates for three days every year. The time is very short, but the border guards will not be assigned nearby, and they will go wherever you go. It's fine if the house is close, if it is far away, it may take a year and a half to come and go, and the travel expenses will be huge, and it will delay things.
For this reason, the imperial court is also very humane. If you want to serve in the nearest military service, you can pay for it and make arrangements. As for the specific amount, it is up to the local officials to decide. And those who don't want to go at all, also pay money, and the court will hire other people to go, three hundred cash per year.
Because garrison soldiers can pay money to hide from service, gradually the first two types have evolved into that they can not go without paying.
The court doesn't calculate the service age according to the birthday, but it starts enlisting people to serve in the weak crown years. I'm just 20 this year, so I have to pay for it.
Zhang Fangyuan looked at Xu He with a smile: Of course, you don't have to pay me, I can go to serve.
Xu He squinted at him: Since you want to serve in the military, then I will save your service money.
Don't, don't! Zhang Fangyuan hurriedly begged for mercy. It's fine in this county. If you go to the border or go to the capital to serve as a soldier, let alone when you will come back, it is still a matter of whether you come back with your life: Are you willing? I'm going, and I can't let you go.
Xu He laughed and said, Then what kind of military service did you serve this time?
Zhang Fangyuan said: I don't know about this. I have to find out that the yamen servants come to see it. This is arranged by the court. They come once in the first half of the year, and once after the autumn harvest in the second half of the year. The service alternates, and the master book will record it.
Xu He nodded, paying heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes made life difficult for the common people. Today is still a time of peace and prosperity, if in times of war, taxes would increase and military service would be more stringent, it would be truly miserable.
The yamen servants came next to each other along the road in the village, but they arrived at their house not long after.
Xu He politely said to the yamen servant: I have already prepared the money, but I don't know what kind of service my husband is serving this time?
Every time I come to the village to collect taxes, it is also an extremely troublesome thing. The county government is also the busiest at this time. People who can’t pay the money are like crucian carp crossing the river. There are countless begging, crying, and kneeling. No matter how good-tempered the yamen servant is, he will lose his patience after being urged for a long time.
Playing officialdom is not the goal, but collecting all taxes is the most important thing. For this reason, when I met someone like Xu He, it was very comfortable to hear such an answer to the question, and my tone changed from the fierce prestige in the Hu family: Your husband Zhang Fangyuan, right? This year is actually twenty. Let's start Starting from Girls, the second half of the year will be residence. Should I pay or go to the military?
Xu He said, Pay the money.
Then you should pay five hundred and sixty cash this time.
Xu He took out another sum of money on the basis of the original one, and wore four strings of money. The yamen servant counted it three times, and after checking it was correct, he recorded it clearly in the book for their family.
The yamen servant said: If you don't go to serve in the second half of the year, you have to prepare the money earlier like this time.
Okay. Officers, let's have a sip of tea before leaving.
The yamen servant waved his hand. Although his mouth was a little parched, he couldn't be lazy. If things were not up to standard, the pressure from his superiors was not small: We still have to accept two families. It's getting late, so I dare not stay any longer.
Xu He didn't stay any longer, and the yamen servants went to the Chen family not far away.
The yamen servant was still talking from a distance: If every family is as fast as this one, there is no need to spend so much trouble, and the village's taxes and taxes will be fully paid in three days.
If you want to have such a cheap errand, it will be your turn and mine.
After Xu He saw that people were pouring into the courtyard of the Chen family, he went back to his own courtyard and closed the gate. Zhang Fangyuan was told to burn pig hairs in the house, fearing that he would clash with the government servants again when he went out.
gone?
all gone.
Zhang Fangyuan put down the pig's trotters that had been burnt until they were clean: I haven't asked my fourth uncle's family if they have enough to pay taxes.
Xu He said: The fourth uncle's family has one more Xiaomao, which is not much more than ours.
In fact, Zhang Fangyuan just casually said that their Zhang family is already a middle-class family in the village, and none of the uncles would be too poor to pay taxes. On the contrary, the uncle's family has many cousins, and the taxes are the most, but the more people earn more money, the uncle will pretend to be poor, but he will not be unable to pay taxes.
But it is precisely because he knows that the Zhang family is a wealthy family in the village, and they have more troubles when paying taxes than other families.
Brother, don't cook fish at night, just make something simple. Then put the pig in the water to wash it, and marinate it in the middle of the night.
Xu He didn't understand what he meant, but he did as Zhang Fangyuan wanted.
Later, when the night was windy and it was dark, he finally understood why Zhang Fangyuan was like this.