"whispering sound!"

Li Xizhu’s voice was just right!

"I thought everyone here knew the rules, but I never thought you would dare to fool us, Mr. Hong!" Li Xi spoke in Donglai dialect, which was very different from his usual tone of voice.

The man never imagined that Hong Jinglai would have a local snake from Donglai next to him, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"Stand down! You don't need to take on the responsibility this year!" Li Xizhu scolded loudly.

The man quickly looked at Hong Jinglai, but Hong Jinglai naturally completely believed what Li Xi had said. Not only did he not object, he nodded in agreement.

"My lord! My lord! I'm willing to pay you a thousand taels!" The man knelt down again.

"Left and right! Get him out!"

Han Wushi and Li Jichu strode in, moving left and right, and threw the man out like a chicken.

"Xizhu, how can we do such a hard job that people still come to ask for help or even spend money?" Seeing the person being forked out, Hong Jinglai turned to ask Li Xizhu.

"There are some joints here." Li Xi looked at no one and sat next to Hong Jinglai again, and said eloquently.

When the dynasty was first established, that is, before Li Chenggui seized power, Wang's Goryeo experienced large-scale harassment by Japanese pirates and a large-scale invasion of Goryeo by the Red Scarf Army.

In a corner of Goryeo with a population of only a few million, after the people were gathered together, taxes were re-determined, and the amount of color and tribute was actually very small.

Two hundred and eighty-six kilograms of pear paste sugar is said to require more than six thousand kilograms of pears, but one large water pear can weigh five, six or even seven or eight taels. If modern agricultural technology develops and the seeds are well selected and cultivated, each pear can weigh one kilogram. Most of them are idle.

It only costs thousands of pears to make a tribute. What is this thing worth? The entire county of Donglai cannot produce thousands of pears? It is really the simplest thing.

Hundreds of years ago, one of the thousands of households in Dongnai presented a pear as tribute to the king. In Dongnai, a pear-producing area, this did not add any burden to the people at all, and even the pear trees on the roadside were hung. Fruits, travelers on the road pick and eat them without anyone caring.

And even now it has to pay 4,000 kilograms of pear paste sugar and consume up to 280,000 kilograms of water pears. In fact, it has only slightly increased the burden on the local people.

First of all, in terms of population, the household registration in Donglai has been about three times that of the early years of the Kingdom. Therefore, the number of people sharing the tribute has also tripled, which means that in the past, each household paid one pear, but now each household pays four or five pears.

For Donglai, where almost every household has a pear tree, handing over pears is just the simplest first step in the whole errand.

This is where the fun begins!

The first step is to boil the sugar, which requires an iron pot and firewood, as well as sixteen hours of boiling and constant stirring.

This has always been one of the labor levies in Donglai! The poor people need to bring their own iron pots and firewood and come to the government every day to boil sugar for the court for free.

This is naturally a hard job for the common people. In the past, there was a rotating system, that is, the poor worked in turns. Anyway, the labor service had to be issued every year, so everyone would have a turn, and every household could not run away.

But things are different now. Now it is compulsory to pay free money! Everyone in the county has to pay, and the value of this money is about the same as the cost of an iron pot and all the firewood.

It fluctuates with the market price! If you don’t refund the amount, you have to make up the amount!

It means that before, it was only a one-time service every few years, but now it has become a national service. If you can't afford the money, congratulations, come and serve!

Someone will ask, how can he prepare his own iron pot and firewood when he doesn't have money to take off work?

Oh, fellow, your daughter is quite handsome! Your wife is also pretty good!

None of this, isn’t there still a fellow countryman himself!

After all the fun and excitement, the main event begins!

How to send to Hanyang?

Boating is the fastest, manpower is also available, and the government doesn’t pay for it anyway!

Fellow fellow! The king has stabilized the world and brought peace to the people. The time has come for you to contribute and serve with all your heart!

To transport four thousand kilograms of pear sugar to Hanyang, the freight is a huge expense. There is also the husband's wages for food, carriages, horses or ships. Pear sugar is not a solid, it can only be packed in jars, and it is difficult to transport it.

easy.

All wealthy households in Tognae come to Toyamaura to draw lots! The one who wins the lottery will be escorted to Beijing with pear candy!

Along the way, we not only have to prevent theft and destruction by officials (also to get money), but we also have to constantly deal with extortion and extortion from government offices at all levels.

If you can't reach Hanyang with four thousand kilograms, I'll kill your head!

Donglai was on the front line against Japan, and many people got rich doing small businesses. In order to defend against Japanese pirates, the imperial court settled hundreds of families of soldiers and good men here, but they were all rich farmers who owned fertile land.

Therefore, the number of wealthy households that need to be escorted is close to 2,000!

Do you choose to go bankrupt and have your whole family die on the way to escort the tributes to Hanyang? Or do you choose to lose money and avoid disaster, hand over a few taels of silver, and live a stable and happy life in Donglai?

There are too many flowers here, and the tribute will never be the biggest one. There are countless places on the entire profit line where one can get involved.

After Li Xizhu finished speaking vividly, Hong Jinglai suddenly remembered an irrelevant person.

What a mistake!

That year, when he went to Jizhou to meet Li Zaichao, Hong Jinglai showed off his power in front of the Jizhou County House and angrily scolded the Jizhou County Sheriff who had collected almost ten times the tribute. He wrote a letter to the Nine Heavens and beat the Jizhou County Sheriff to the bottom.

How heroic and majestic he was at that time!

Now he has actually become a "cool official" who collects almost fourteen times the rated tribute!

Is this Hong Jinglai’s fault or the fault of the times?

Hong Jinglai could write to King Sunjong directly as before, and then the tribute would return to the amount of 286 kilograms.

But what about the people in this entire line of interests? The domestic demand department in charge of collecting tributes in the palace, and the officials of the inner support temple, who often move around the palace. Is King Sunjong the most wise king in the world? Can he be loyal and treacherous?

Everyone in Hanyang, including the eunuchs of the parliamentary government, the court officials of various ministers, the empresses of various palaces, and even the clan members and relatives, all enjoyed the free pear paste candy.

What do they think?

Hong Jinglai, this little XX, this stupid person, this brainy person, this XXX, what are you pretending to be Bao Longtu? What are you pretending to be Haigangfeng?

You are the only one who stands gracefully and gracefully!

Are we all just moths attached to the big tree like Li Chao, sucking its juice and gnawing at its stems?

"What a hardship to the people of Donglai County!" Hong Jinglai stood up and sighed.

"Master..." Li Xi looked at Hong Jinglai's unbearable expression and realized that Hong Jinglai was definitely not a corrupt official who made such shady money.

"What's the difference this year?"

"Gelang! There are more than a dozen people coming outside! They are all here to ask for help! I asked them to wait in the office room."
Chapter completed!