Even when we got here, it was not over. Doctor Wu took this opportunity to find Mr. Li and said that your family has no men to farm, so why not sell all the fields to me? Look, the Wu family's land has expanded again. Then the Wu family used the front land again.

They used other methods to get rid of the land tax. They also gave more money to bribe the village chief, and then, and then... In short, the unruly people became rich, and the good family was oppressed and lost everything. This is: "The land is connected to the road, and all the subjects are incompetent."

It's the same as if the room was empty!'

Of course, this is not the end. Dr. Wu’s family already had land and money, and they were exempted from taxes and labor through various means. The family’s wealth would increase in a few years. At this time, the Wu family

On the one hand, he can spend some money to build bridges and pave roads, and in disaster years, he can build porridge shacks. As a result, those who were originally bullied by him and their families were ruined will instead rely on him and become his lackeys. At this time, he can completely control the head of Jia.

, the village chief put aside and dealt with the county magistrate directly. He became a country squire who must be treated politely by the county magistrate.

Even when we got here, it was not over. Doctor Wu took this opportunity to find Mr. Li and said that your family has no men to farm, so why not sell all the fields to me? Look, the Wu family's land has expanded again. Then the Wu family used the front land again.

They used other methods to get rid of the land tax. They also gave more money to bribe the village chief, and then, and then... In short, the unruly people became rich, and the good family was oppressed and lost everything. This is: "The land is connected to the road, and all the subjects are incompetent."

It's the same as if the room was empty!'

Of course, this is not the end. Dr. Wu’s family already had land and money, and they were exempted from taxes and labor through various means. The family’s wealth would increase in a few years. At this time, the Wu family

On the one hand, he can spend some money to build bridges and pave roads, and in disaster years, he can build porridge shacks. As a result, those who were originally bullied by him and their families were ruined will instead rely on him and become his lackeys. At this time, he can completely control the head of Jia.

, the village chief put aside and dealt with the county magistrate directly. He became a country squire who must be treated politely by the county magistrate.

"Your Highness, gentlemen, the purpose of the existence of the yellow book is to make the world's household registration clear. Based on this, the country can correctly collect various taxes and can reasonably assign farmers to accept corvees. In this way, the country's operations can continue, and the country can continue to work.

Zuo can last forever."

This is a commonplace truth, and Cao Huachun and others just nodded lightly.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Fengyi continued: "In this way, it is very clear who dislikes the yellow book the most. They are the unscrupulous people who want to avoid taxes and corvee, and the subordinate officials and subordinates who want to get involved in it.

Corrupt officials! Well~~ To make it easier for everyone to understand, let me take Dr. Wu as an example."

It seemed that the old man was somewhat dissatisfied with the fact that he had frightened him by bringing his royal guard to the door. Wu Youxing smiled bitterly and raised his hand to make a gesture of invitation to Lu Fengyi.

"We assume that Doctor Wu received a silver reward from Taisun and returned to his hometown to buy 200 acres of good paddy fields. However, Doctor Wu is not a civil servant, so he cannot be exempted from taxes, and he has to go to the corvee. And because the money in Doctor Wu's hands

There are too many good fields, and it is impossible to be a grain chief... It is not easy to be a grain chief. If the tax payment in his jurisdiction is insufficient, the grain chief will have to bear the entire difference himself. Doctor Wu was very worried, but he

If you don’t dare to ask your grandson for such a trivial matter, what should you do?”

"Well..." The person who answered this question was Xu Guangqi: "Of course I'm going to bribe the head of the army and the head of the village."

"Huh? It seems that Mr. Xu is also a master here. Why don't you ask Mr. Xu to continue?"

"Don't dare. I was deeply affected by it when I was a child, but I never knew how it worked. So I asked the old gentleman for advice."

"Well. Then the old man continued. Doctor Wu went to bribe the head of Jia and the head of the village, saying that there was too much land in my name and the taxes I had to bear were also very heavy. Can you help me think of a way? Here it is.

With a stroke of his pen, the director of other people's money recorded the fifty acres of land under Dr. Wu's name on the heads of fifty poor families with little land. This operation is called live spreading, or flying spreading. Hmm.

?Young master, there is something wrong with raising your hand?"

"Old sir." Li Chunzhong asked timidly: "If someone else's land comes to me, doesn't it mean that he gets the profits and I pay the taxes? Will the fifty poor households agree?"

"Hahaha, why don't you agree? Those fifty households are all poor! They can't even study and are illiterate. How can they understand the changes in the documents of the village chief? As for the tax collection next year, these five

The ten households will definitely feel that they have harvested more than last year. But on the one hand, the annual land tax of our court is actually not much, and the increase of one acre of land tax can be tolerated by these fifty households. On the other hand, our court likes all kinds of temporary

The people are accustomed to adding more people. If these fifty households have any questions at that time, the head of the village can just say that the imperial court has added more people."

"Damn it! For the sake of his own selfish interests, he harmed the people and even used the imperial court to bring bad name to him."

"Hey, young general, don't be angry, I've just started." Holding down Liu Zhao and his grandson, Lu Fengyi continued speaking calmly: "Doesn't Doctor Wu have two hundred acres of land? That's why it was transferred.

How can I bear the burden of fifty acres? I gave you five taels of silver from the village leader. You have to continue to find ways to reduce taxes for me. So the village leader thought of another way: In the past ten years, there have been four families in Benli.

The whole family died. Then the village head transferred 40 acres of the remaining 150 acres to the names of these four families. Now, these four families died, and the land under their names naturally became wasteland.

.Then you don’t have to pay taxes. This method is called dead mail.”

Looking at the people who had fallen into silence, Lu Fengyi felt heavy, but in order to let Zhu Youdong truly understand the situation at the grassroots level, she continued: "I Chaoli A system stipulates that one hundred and ten households in each district are the main households.

In addition, those old, weak, orphans and widows were stationed in each li respectively. This is called Ji Ling Guan. This kind of family, because of the lack of labor, Taizu said that they did not have to pay taxes. Then the li leader asked Doctor Wu to instruct his youngest son.

, brought ten acres of farmland, and linked it to an account in Benli that only had an old man left. This method is called a split household.

As a result, Dr. Wu no longer had to pay taxes on the entire one hundred acres of land. And then, if Dr. Wu wanted to tax the remaining one hundred acres of land, it would not be something that the village chief could do. So, here,

Under the introduction of the chief, he met the head of the household in the county. After taking out twenty taels of silver as a bribe, the head finally agreed to help.

Speaking of this, I want to explain to you first that our government allows land sales. If it is a private sale between two people, the contract signed is called a "white deed". The government will not recognize the "white deed". The only way to do this is to hand over the contract to

It will not take effect until it is stamped by the county government. The effective one is called a 'red deed'.

The chief told Dr. Wu, "Didn't you just buy ten acres of land from General Liu? You sign the white deed first and don't go through the formalities. In this way, there will be no records in the yamen, and the yellow book and the fish scale album will not be changed. That's it."

, the income from these ten acres of land is yours, but the taxes are still paid by General Liu. This method is called 'no cutting at all'."

"That's unreasonable! Am I stupid? I'm so miserable that I want to sell my land, and I still have to pay taxes for him?"

"Hey, General Liu, you just said that you were so miserable that you sold your land. It seems that your family is in trouble. And this Doctor Wu has two hundred acres of paddy fields. His family must have a lot of money. Then we can hire a few strong men.

Han comes to your door and stops, what will you do? Are you not convinced? Beat you until you submit!"

"Here, doesn't the government care? Why am I so stupid? Aren't the officials bribed by him?"

"Government? General Liu, you are thinking too much. In our Ming dynasty, if there is a dispute between villagers, as long as it is not a murder case, it must first be mediated by the village chief, Jia Shou, and the three elders of the countryside. If the mediation fails, the village chief and the village elders will

The county government will only take the case if the boss agrees to hand it over to the county government. Government? You won’t be able to see the county magistrate at all, okay?!"

"How can this be unreasonable! How can it be unreasonable! I thought the villagers were simple and honest, but who would have thought that they would be so bloody!"

"Haha, why are you so angry, Doctor Wu? I'm talking about you." Lu Fengyi continued: "Speaking of which, aren't those cunning and shameless people in the countryside all made their fortunes like this? If you are gentler, you can buy other people's land and live forever.

Tenant the land to the person who sold it. Then explain that half of the land is white deed and half is red deed. In other words, I sold the land to you. In addition to leasing your land and paying you rent, I have to

I will bear half of the taxes for you. This is called "inclusion". In addition, there are many methods such as "there is always no need to spread", "suspended", "buried" and other means. In short, it is a cunning person who colludes with subordinate officials and even a county supervisor.

All kinds of robbery. In the end, the poor become poorer and the rich become richer.

Of course, after all these twists and turns, all the land tax was passed on. But after all, Doctor Wu was still white and had to serve as corvee. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, those with more people in the family should go to the household, and more people should be sent to do corvee service.

Those with fewer people are middle households and lower households, so fewer people are sent to serve. Doctor Wu bribed the village chief again and forcibly changed his family's status from an upper household to a middle household.

But here comes the problem. The number of people in the village is certain. If your household level is lowered, there will be fewer people going out to serve, and there will be one less person in the village to serve. So, the village chief looked at the village and chose

He moved into Mr. Li's family, which had only two sons, and changed the family from the lower household to the middle household.

The two men in Mr. Li's family are subordinates. Only one of them can serve at a time. Therefore, whether it is the imperial service once every ten years or the temporary additional service of local prefectures and counties. In short, one goes out to serve and the other works at home.

Originally, life was barely passable. Now it has been changed to a middle household. If you go out to serve, you need two people. Isn’t the land barren? Master Li naturally refused to agree, and then, haha...

Even when we got here, it was not over. Doctor Wu took this opportunity to find Mr. Li and said that your family has no men to farm, so why not sell all the fields to me? Look, the Wu family's land has expanded again. Then the Wu family used the front land again.

They used other methods to get rid of the land tax. They also gave more money to bribe the village chief, and then, and then... In short, the unruly people became rich, and the good family was oppressed and lost everything. This is: "The land is connected to the road, and all the subjects are incompetent."

It's the same as if the room was empty!'

Of course, this is not the end. Dr. Wu’s family already had land and money, and they were exempted from taxes and labor through various means. The family’s wealth would increase in a few years. At this time, the Wu family

On the one hand, he can spend some money to build bridges and pave roads, and in disaster years, he can build porridge shacks. As a result, those who were originally bullied by him and their families were ruined will instead rely on him and become his lackeys. At this time, he can completely control the head of Jia.

, the village chief put aside and dealt with the county magistrate directly. He became a country squire who must be treated politely by the county magistrate.

What's even more frightening is that now that the Wu family is rich, they can fully support their children's studies without any scruples. In ten or twenty years, if someone in the family becomes a Jinshi, the Wu family can spend a lot of money and food.

Let this Jinshi bribe the Shangguan to speed up his promotion. If done properly, what if this Jinshi rises to great heights and even joins the cabinet and becomes the cabinet minister?"

"Everyone." Looking around and looking at the pale faces of the people around her, Lu Fengyi also changed her teasing tone and said solemnly and solemnly: "You now understand that if you want to rectify the Yellow Book, what you need to face is
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