The words are divided into two ends.

After Li Su returned to Chengdu, ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was already half past July.

The climate in the south is warm. At this point, the autumn harvest in Shu County, Jianwei County and Zhuti County has been completed. The people are busy drying grains - grains cannot be stored as soon as they are collected. They will take a few days to dry, otherwise they will be eroded.

However, because people in the late Han Dynasty bought and sold grains with a bucket of volume, which was calculated by calculating the volume rather than weight, the grain that was being turned on can already enter the transaction stage, because drying grains will only significantly reduce the weight but will not significantly reduce the volume. Especially those grains that were bought and eaten directly, it would be fine without drying them, and the fresh rice would be more fragrant even if it was boiled directly.

Guanghan County, which is relatively northerly, and several counties near the Daba Mountains of Ba County are still being harvested and can be harvested in a few days. Then they will also enter the granary storage transaction.

In previous years, grain prices should have begun to drop, but this year it has dropped very low, which is completely abnormal.

Obviously, there are some guys who are resistant to join forces to make up for the price.

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On July 16th, the collection of autumn taxes in Jianwei County and Zigong counties had not yet begun in full swing. There were indeed dozens of grain trucks and grain ships transporting grain. Many wealthy families and local tyrants were in a hurry to pay taxes on their own initiative.

When the household officials in Jianwei County saw it, they were dumbfounded at the beginning: What a prosperous scene! The court is so popular with the people? There is actually a grand occasion of "paying grain and paying taxes, striving to handle it early"?

Even when Li Su, a time traveler, was present, he would sigh: Only Luo Guanzhong dared to write this kind of thing in the Romance of the Romance of Luo Guanzhong? Didn’t Luo Guanzhong say that when Zhuge Liang governed Sichuan, the people were convinced and they all rushed to come first.

The current householder Cao's name is Zhao Min, and he is the confidant of the prefect Chen Shi. He betrayed the king's merchant and surrendered to Zhao Yun, so although he was not promoted, he made a fortune and took charge of the tax collection of a county.

On that day, he personally inspected Zigong County, the largest taxpayer in the county, and met an old acquaintance to pay taxes.

The visitor was named Chen Liu, who was the cousin of the prefect Chen Shi. Chen Liu's father, Chen Jian, whose courtesy name was Shengkang, was Chen Shi's cousin. He was also the current patriarch of the Chen family of the four Shu Confucian sects. He was the number one landlord and rich man in Jianwei County.

As we all know, the Dong Fu family of the four sects of Shu Confucianism was killed by Liu Bei for instigating a certain crime to destroy three clans, while the Ren'an family was destroyed by Liu Yan on the charge of colluding with Liu Bei. The other ones were also killed by Du Qiong, Du Wei's brothers and Qiao Zhou's father.

Therefore, only the Yang family of Shu County and the Chen family of Jianwei stayed, and the Yang family also suffered certain losses. Only Yang Hong and other loyal people from the Han faction preserved the industry, and several other local tyrants were also destroyed. The Chen family was basically not damaged because Chen Shi took the initiative to help Zhao Yun take down Jianwei County.

Before Liu Bei entered Sichuan, Chen Shi was not the number one strong figure of the Chen family, nor the patriarch. He was just a side branch. But because he led the way early, Chen Shi is now the person with the highest official position in the Chen family, but his family property is still not the most.

When Zhao Min saw the prefect's cousin paying taxes in person, he certainly had to greet him with a smile: "Mr. Chen, the emperor is worthy of being a court official, and he is loyal to the country. He is trying to deal with tax payments early. Why do you have to come here in person? You guys, don't count it quickly, and you will have to delay Mr. Chen's time!

There are so many negligences. In previous years, taxes were not collected so early, and the people's grain had not been dried yet. We are not well prepared here."

Chen Liu also held the now popular jade handle folding fan and sang high-profile: "Isn't that support the reform of renting and mediocre adjustment advocated by the King and the Right General? Of course, we have to rush to pay taxes this year, which shows our support.

My father heard that because of the implementation of the new law this year, the people who are promoting the fight for profit are mostly for profit-seeking, destroying fields and planting mulberry trees, and raising silkworms and reeling silk and weaving brocades as their main business. There is a food shortage, so we will pay all the food this year! Give the opportunity to make huge profits for those people who are pursuing profit-seeking brocades."

This is really beautiful, and Zhao Min has just opened the autumn tax this year, so he didn't hear the problem. He can't blame his poor business ability.

Zhao Min just kindly reminded and confirmed: "Oh? This year, a new law has been implemented. You said 'pay all the grain'. However, in addition to the land rent, you should pay the grain, and use grain to compensate households with one stone of rice to mix the mediocre service worth three stones of rice? That is, every population in the clan has to pay six stones of rice. Is the grain stored in the clan enough this year?"

Chen Liu smiled grimly and said sincerely that there was no need to worry. Zhao Min also collected taxes according to the tax.

Seeing that the grain ships were emptied one by one, transported into the Changping warehouse of the government, and the tax accounts were registered, Chen Liu secretly thought: Haha, in the private warehouse of the wealthy family, who has no grain savings that can be eaten for many years? Even if he handed over all the harvest this year, the Chen family would be enough to eat.

People like Lusu, when they were landlords in the countryside, had "storages of grain, each with three thousand stones."

What's more, the grain he brought to pay tax today was originally the old grain he had stored in his warehouse in previous years, so he was just pretending to clear out the stagnant inventory.

The government's Changping warehouse energy is limited. As long as the rich and wealthy families joined forces to release all the stored grains in previous years, and squeeze out the government's Changping warehouses. When ordinary poor people came to pay taxes, they could not even pay the grains, so they could only sell the grains for money and brocade, and use the "regulation" of renting and mediocre adjustment methods.

Because the quota for "renting" will be fully occupied, and the quota for "adjustment" is not fully occupied. Jinhe money is much smaller in size and will not corrupt or deteriorate. The storage conditions are low. No matter how much brocade and copper coins are collected, there is no problem of the government warehouse being filled with liquidation.

"Records of the Grand Historian. Book of Pingzhun" records the final prosperity of Wenjing's rule, and only dares to say that "the capital was huge, and the money was rotten but could not be sank", "the millet in Taicang was mixed with Chen, and it was filled with dew and accumulated outside, and it was corruption and inedible."

It can be seen that no matter how much money is, only the rope that is "spun" will break, causing the money that has always been scattered. There is no need to have too much money to put it down. Only when there is too much food will it rot in the same way.

There were not many other books to read in the Han Dynasty’s scholars and officials, but most of them could know some allusions about the Records of the Grand Historian. The Taishi Gong taught how to squeeze the "sensible evil methods" of the imperial court. How can those who are interested not use it?

How Sima Qian condemned Sang Hongyang back then, today's profiteer can learn how to deal with Li Su.

Zhao Min worked hard all day, and finally filled the Changping warehouse in Zigong County, and a small part could not be filled. She quickly asked Chen Liu: "Mr. Chen, I didn't expect you to pay so much food this year. It's really not possible here. Why don't you go to Jiangyang County, the county seat, to pay? I see that some of your reported household registration should belong to Jiangyang County, and it's just right to pay it there."

Who made the Chen family have a large population? The total number of people, slaves, and tenants they reported can be equivalent to 70,000 or 80,000 taxable population. So after Zhao Min calculated and paid all the food according to the renting and mediocre method, he had to pay 460,000 shi! It was a real loss for their family to take out so much food.

Chen Liu didn't make things difficult for Zhao Min. After spending an extra day with him, he finally paid the tax.

But the strange things Zhao Min saw were far from over. After that, he filled the official warehouses of Jiangyang County and Jadao County for several consecutive days.

The poor people are not in a hurry to pay taxes at all, and the news is blocked. Often, they can be too late. In previous years, they have been waiting for tax collectors to go to the countryside to force them to give food. They have no idea what has changed in the outside world, and they don’t know that even if they want to pay the food, they can’t pay it and the official warehouse can’t put it down.

What Zhao Min handled was only the situation of the relatively wealthy Jianwei County. The same drama was also performed everywhere in Shu County, Ba County, Zhuti, Jinghu, Guanghan.

On July 18, a group of local tyrants led by Zhu Bao, a local tyrant, took the lead in monopolizing the share of the people who paid grain taxes by the people. However, the county did not produce Shu brocade and had no textiles to export, so the people in the city were even more miserable. If there was no government intervention, they would have the option of paying copper coins.

On July 19th, several county officials in Zhuti County were Pang Le, the former Dongzhou scholar and former official under Pang Xi, as well as Zhao Wei, a local tyrant in Ba County who had served as an official in the Liu Yan period and was depressed after he joined Liu Bei. They all had thousands of households and tens of thousands of slaves and tenants, and they rushed to take up Zhuti's share of the amount of grain paid and tax payment. Zhuti's granaries were all filled with grain.

On July 20, Shen Mi, a tyrant family member of Ba County, and Lou Fa took the lead in renting Yong and transferring all the grain. Poor Ba County Prefect Cai Yong and Li Su's father-in-law were obsessed with civil affairs, did not understand finance, and did not feel any danger at all. He also wrote a congratulatory letter to Liu Bei for "the people actively paying food this year."

Then, Guanghan County had a representative of Wang Shang and Gong Yang, "the frustrated famous scholar after Liu Bei entered Sichuan", who also did the same with local rapists.

In the end, even some people jumped out of Li Su's base camp Shu County. When Li Su saw the list, he was a little strange - because among the big landlords and tyrants who jumped out, there were actually famous scholars, a Sushi named He Zong.

He Zong is not famous in the history of Shu Han, and there are not many records, but it is definitely true that he is well versed in etiquette and law, and a well-educated person. This person originally followed Du Qiong and Qiao Zhou in history and used the prophecy to create power for Liu Bei to become emperor. However, after doing this, he was also presented by Liu Bei as a judge of the etiquette in Honglu Temple, and there is no record.

He Zong is also a student of Ren An. He is a classmate of Du Qiong and Qiao Zhou's father. It is said that his knowledge is not as good as Du Qiong, but his reputation is worse than Du Qiong. However, because He Zong had no bad records before and did not do bad things in history, when Li Su designed the purge of Ren An's school, he did not touch him, but just used Liu Yu's knife to kill Du Qiong and Qiao Zhou's father.

So when Li Su saw the list, he couldn't help but sigh: "How can I do this? Why do I force a mascot or old man to oppose the new law that has not been anti-Han in history? Is it so tempting to release usury every year when the green and yellow people are not accepted, and to lower the grain prices and exploit the people during the autumn harvest?

Well, He Zong is still from Pi County. He is the people of my fiefdom. How could he oppose me? Hum? What does this mean? Their He family originally had some real estate in Pi County, but because they were unable to hide it, they were sent to the names of classmates Du's family and Yang's family in Pi County. Later, when Yang's family and Du Qiong were speculated in Pi County, the land became counterproductive and became my fiefdom? Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk

When Li Su saw it at the end, he found the hidden information that his subordinates found, and then he felt that this matter was easier to understand.

Forget it, the old ones don’t go to the new ones. In the thousands of hectares of fertile land in Pi County, there must be many of the local landlords who were accidentally injured by accident. Since this is the case, there is nothing to do.

Anyway, they jumped out and gave their heads.

"Jianwei: Chen Kang. Jingyun: Zhu Bao. Zhu Ti: Pang Le, Zhao Wei. Ba County: Chen Mi, Lou Fa. Guanghan: Wang Shang, Gong Yang. Shu County: He Zong..."

Li Su counted the "big grain-paying households" in various counties, actively selling grain to lower grain prices, and was preparing to give them some real tests.

Of course, one thing must be stated: not all of the people on this list are resistant to the new laws and hoarding and hyping. Maybe some are "really sharing the worries of the country", but they lack economic knowledge, so they do bad things with good intentions.
Chapter completed!