Chapter 349: Taking root is the most important thing
Wannian County is currently the wealthiest county in Datang.
This can be seen from the summer taxes and autumn taxes.
Just two cities, Jinchangfang and Qujiangfang, contributed more than 60% of the county's tax receivable.
Among them, Jinchangfang has the largest tax payment of 6,985 guan, followed by Dongshi with 4,752 guan, and Qujiangfang with 4,655 guan.
Including the other cities, Lifang, and Wannian County, the tax revenue of copper coins amounted to more than 23,600 copper coins.
The source of taxes in the Tang Dynasty was renting servants. The so-called rent was land rent. The average rent for an acre of land was two liters, which was silk cloth. As for renting, this thing did not exist in Wannian County because Wannian County did not allow it.
The people used three feet of silk cloth every day to replace the corvee.
There is really too little land in Wannian County, so the number of renters is not large. Although it is not much, it still surpasses many Datang states.
Based on the payment of autumn taxes in November of the sixth year of Yonghui, the Ministry of Household Affairs calculated based on corn prices that in the sixth year of Yonghui, the total income of the Tang Dynasty was 4.81 million yuan.
In the court hall, all the officials were naturally celebrating, because this profit was already the highest since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
Although Yun Chu was called "Two Hundred and Five" by the emperor, he was once again rated as the top choice in the evaluation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Qing Li Si Yamen.
Officials throughout the dynasty believed that since Yunchu could obtain such a benefit without stripping away the last piece of clothing that was used to cover up the shame of the people, it was not enough for the officials to give him a top choice to demonstrate his ability.
That's right, officials, at least those in the Ministry of Household Affairs, only look at the amount of money, grain, silk, and linen that enter the treasury every year. As for whether the people can survive, they don't care.
Very few officials were reprimanded by the Ministry of Revenue for causing trouble by pressing taxes. Even if they provoked a civil uprising, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue would only think that it was a fault of the people and would only need to send a large army to pacify it.
A herdsman, a herdsman, is an official who herds the people for the court. If there is no profit from herding for a year, this is the biggest failure of the official.
Yunchu's political achievements were very remarkable, so in the early spring of the first year of Xianqing, Yunchu officially entered the ranks of the fifth-rank official. Although he was only an official of the lower fifth-rank, he was no longer a minor official in the mouth of the courtiers.
Having truly entered the ranks of mid-level officials, he was finally qualified to step into the great hall to discuss state affairs with the emperor.
Datang's taxes are very flexible. Officials at the county level need to hand over 80% of the taxes they receive to the state, and the state then pays 70% of the taxes they receive to the state treasury.
With this calculation method, the amount of grain, silk, and linen contained in Wannian County's county treasury is very considerable.
Because, Yun Chu followed what the Ministry of Revenue liked most - converting the in-kind taxes received into currency and paying them to the Ministry of Revenue.
This is why the Ministry of Revenue strongly requested the Ministry of Personnel to upgrade Yunchu's grade.
What they don't know is that in the process of converting physical objects into currency to pay taxes, Wannian County makes at least 30% of the profit, and this does not include the losses, drift, transportation, storage, etc. that the local government has always had to do.
loss.
Yun Chu has never allowed the country to take advantage of him. Now, he is the chief official of Wannian County, so he does not allow the country to take advantage of Wannian County.
Therefore, the officials in Wannian County now straighten their backs when going out, not because of anything else, but because everyone knows that Wannian County has a tight warehouse situation this year, and they have to choose a high ground to build a
A group of warehouses were created to store grain, silk, and linen.
Because of this, no one outside knows about Wannian County's rewards at the end of this year except the officials and even the servants in Wannian County themselves.
Because Chief Wu of Wannian County made his words very clear when he was responsible for distributing rewards.
With the money and food given to you, you can secretly rejoice under the covers with your wife when you take it home, but you are not allowed to say a word to the outside world.
If things like county government rewards are leaked and the county magistrate is impeached by the censor, then there is nothing to say. Not only will the rewards issued this year be taken back, but the previous rewards will also be pursued.
Today's Wannian County government offices may have wine bags and rice bags, but there are no fools.
Even if someone dislikes Yun Chu, the county official, from the bottom of his heart, after receiving those rewards, even if he considers himself, he will never tell anyone.
Because once it is discovered that he told the truth, he will no longer have a place in Chang'an.
Doing what you should do well in Wannian County is the most important thing. Even if you don't appear in front of the county magistrate for a year, as long as there are no problems in the area you manage, then it doesn't matter if you don't see the county magistrate.
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More than half of the people in Wannian County live in Chang'an City, 20% of the families have people working for the government, and 20% of the families are doing business. Nearly 40% of the people live outside the city, all of whom rely on farming to make a living.
Only 30%.
Therefore, the poorest people in Wannian County are generally the families of craftsmen who have lost their main labor force.
In the Tang Dynasty, men were the main labor force in the family, and generally there was no cure for this kind of poverty.
Therefore, Yunchu began to consciously train women from this kind of family to become the main driving force and the main source of income for the family.
The cotton textile workshop came into being to solve this problem. In order to protect these women, Li Zhi handed over the cotton textile workshop to a group of eunuchs.
At least the eunuchs would not take care of some poor women as concubines in their back houses like Li Yifu did.
When there is too much food, it is inevitable that there will be the problem of old food, and this old food will only be supplied to those poor families in Wannian County.
Wannian County officials were basically fair and impartial when measuring what kind of families were considered poor.
On the one hand, doing this kind of thing well is a process of accumulating merit for them. On the other hand, the people that their county officials hate the most are those who take advantage of the poor.
Of course, how to obtain some benefits from the rich is a topic that everyone is studying in Wannian County. After all, as long as this kind of thing is within the scope of legal understanding, the county will ignore it.
The sun is shining brightly today, and the county magistrate Yunchu of Wannian County will personally take the officials of Wannian County out of the city to visit the poor and ask questions about their sufferings.
With such a good thing, Wen Wen naturally invited many familiar censors and officials to accompany him.
“This is not the first time this has happened in our Wannian County.
Spring is the most difficult day for people every year, especially for poor families.
Look at the grain, cloth, lamp oil, vegetable oil, some old ready-made clothes, hats, shoes and socks carried on the hundreds of carriages at the back. Some of them were purchased by Wannian County from its meager funds.
Part of it was donated by county officials, such as the Wannian County Magistrate, the Chief Registrar, the County Lieutenant, and people from the Liucao and Cao departments. Everyone donated enthusiastically.
As for many merchants who also took the initiative to raise funds, it created this scene. This is also a manifestation of the prosperous age of Datang."
The censors, who originally thought it was just a show, flattered Wen Wen with smiles, and some even jokingly told Wen Wen that after finishing this matter, they must go to a good Wen Wen town to make up for their hard work today.
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Qujiangfang, which is closest to Chang'an City, was directly ignored. Fangzheng Erniu complained loudly to the county magistrate that there were still many poor people in Qujiangfang who needed relief.
His words were a big joke to the ears of Wannian County officials.
Erniu doesn't care about this. He knows that the county magistrate came out today and brought all the good things for living at home. As long as he picks up some, Qujiangfang can hold one or two more long table banquets and reward those who have worked hard.
common people.
For this reason, he specially brought some villagers with all kinds of poor and strange looks to prove to the county magistrate that there were indeed many poor people in Qujiangfang.
Hu Cao's clerk, who often came to Qujiangfang, whispered a few words in Hu Cao's ear, and then Hu Cao began to curse in obscene language.
He also claimed that he would carefully review Qujiangfang's warehouse. If there was indeed not much grain in the warehouse, he could directly make the decision to provide some relief to Qujiangfang. If the grain in Qujiangfang's warehouse exceeded a certain amount set by him,
, and took away the excess to help people elsewhere.
These guys with all kinds of poverty-stricken looks, if according to the standards when Yun Chu was the street director, they are all the ones who must be rescued.
Forget it in the Tang Dynasty, people just look weird, have houses, food, clothes, and jobs. Although they earn less than other people in Qujiangfang throughout the year, according to the rules of other counties, this
They are definitely from an upper-middle-class family and cannot be considered poor at all.
Everyone knows that Erniu wants to fight for the interests of Qujiangfang. As the head of Qujiangfang, he has no problem doing this. After all, children who cry will be fed by milk. This is the consensus of all officials.
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Putting aside Qujiangfang, who is only interested in taking advantage, the further east you go, the worse the conditions in the inner streets here become.
Last autumn, the dam of Qujiang Pool exploded to release floods. Qujiangfang, which is adjacent to Qujiang Pool, did not suffer much damage. However, although they were not seriously affected, it was a great loss to the people.
The head of the village sent a list of people in need of relief, and Yun Chu led his subordinates and a group of censors to check and verify the names one by one.
When their houses collapsed, they gave more money and food to the families, and also told the village chiefs that the more disaster strikes, the more important it is to help each other, to bring into play the spirit of neighborly mutual assistance, to face disasters together, and to overcome disasters.
When encountering families who were impoverished due to illness, Yunchu, the medical director of the Imperial Medical Office, would even take the initiative to diagnose their illnesses and administer medicines, and would allow them to go to Pingzhun Pharmacy to get medicines at the maximum discount.
Slowly, the censors and officials realized that something was wrong.
Because Yun Chu, a fifth-grade county magistrate with such a noble personality, would take the initiative to go into the people's dark homes, open the people's rice jars to check the food situation, sit in the people's homes, drink the boiled water brought by the people, and ask them what they have.
Those difficulties were recorded in a notebook with a hard pen.
Until Yun Chu stood in front of the bed of an old woman who smelled bad, diagnosed her pulse, wrote the prescription himself, picked up the medicine from the medicine brought, and repeatedly asked the old woman's relatives to pay attention to the precautions and prepare the medicine.
During the taboo period, the mentality of these young censors and officials changed greatly.
