There are also trees behind the house, with lush branches and leaves, and the shade of trees is poured down, just in the room with earthen kang. Even if you sleep inside, it shouldn't be particularly hot in summer.

There was only a small piece of open space in the yard, which could be dried or people could walk around, and other places were planted with vegetables, so naturally they were planted by Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou.

Judging from the happy growth of those vegetables, they should be planted by the seeds in her space.

There is only one neighbor next to it, that is the courtyard where Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou live, which is Zhang Dazhu's house.

Zhang Shoushou's biological father actually had the surname Zhang, and Zhang Dazhu actually did not change Zhang Shoushou's surname.

The layout of Zhang Dazhu's family is similar. Now the gate of the yard is open. You can see that the yard is full of vegetables and only a small piece of open space is left.

There are even several wooden boxes made of wooden boards in the corridor, and vegetables are planted in the wooden boxes, and the vegetables are green and green.

"Somewhat strange." Jiang Yue whispered to her Xue Yan. "No matter how many vegetables are planted, I don't plant them in the back of the house, whether it is the back of the house we are going to live in or the next house.

Later, it was obviously more suitable for growing vegetables, but it was not that trouble. When we came here just now, we passed by other houses, we didn’t seem to see anyone planting vegetables behind the house and outside the yard, both in the yard.”

Xue Yan nodded, "It's strange. Ask."

"Um."

Seeing that Yuebao nodded, Tao Zhen was here at this time, and wanted to see if there was any place to help, Xue Yan asked him about this.

Tao Zhen said: "Sowing behind the house, even if you only plant a little bit, the government will collect taxes like the fields. It will be different if you plant it in the yard. It is equivalent to planting at home, so you will naturally not collect taxes.

The yard is not enough to expand. Generally, there is a house deed. The house deed contains the size of your house, including the size of the yard. It can only be planted within the size of the deed. If it exceeds it, taxes will be collected, so you will expand the yard privately.

No matter how big it is, it is useless to plant things in the yard. The government ignores you and still charges your taxes.

It is obvious that we collect more taxes, which is only the past two years, and there was nothing before. Even if there were a lot of taxes before, we could survive. Moreover, in the past two years, taxes are not based on the harvest per mu.

Instead, it stipulates how much tax you have to pay per acre. Therefore, sometimes the harvest is not good, and you are busy all year round and plant a lot of things, which is not enough to pay taxes. So we are afraid of encountering floods, locust plagues, floods,

Yes, we still have to pay so much tax on the crops. Isn’t this pushing us farmers to death?”

Jiang Yue and Xue Yan both nodded. This was indeed a heavy tax.

Tao Zhen was silent for a moment, but still couldn't help it, and said again: "So, I hope, it's just that the government here is doing it. In fact, the emperor doesn't mean that."

Then, I couldn't help but say, "Actually, I really want to go to other places, especially the imperial capital, to see if it is taxed like this. It's impossible for each place to collect taxes differently, right?

The same is true for the imperial capital, then I will give up. If this is different, it is obvious that the officials and officials here really think that the emperors are far away, and they have all bulged their pockets. But we are all poor

This is the case, there is no need to worry about the imperial capital. Even if you can go there, you will not worry about it."

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Chapter completed!