Jing Wen ignored those jealous people at all, because they had no choice but to do so. If they could make the management and service attitude better, then the merchants might not have gone to them. But as officials, they naturally couldn't bear to serve the people, so they were destined to be arrogant masters. How could the people like them? Therefore, they would definitely not be able to receive enough commercial taxes, and this is not a big deal. Therefore, Jing Wen ignored them and turned around and left. Can they still bring people to rob taxes? This is obviously impossible. As for them to sue, Jing Wen was not afraid. He said that the lawsuit was much stronger than them in Chang'an.

"Ma Zhou, you don't have to worry about those birds, I'll support you. As long as you get the business tax, we can rest assured. At that time, not only can we use commercial tax as a guaranteed loan, but we also have to build a commercial-oriented commercial trade zone here. Wouldn't we be rich? You don't have to pay attention to those birds, they are all guys who say that grapes are sour. If you care about them, you can only lower your style. As long as you ignore them, they will just yell. Can they come here to do anything to you?" Jing Wen said.

"Thank you for your teachings!" Ma Zhou said immediately.

Jing Wen and Ma Zhou slowly drove to Mengjin County in a ox cart. Now they are not on the way, so they are just making ox carts. Jing Wen actually heard the people talking next to him, which surprised him a little.

"Hey, Zhang Laosan, the taxes in the court were really high last year." said a man who looked like a farmer.

"It's not that the court's taxes are high, but that the unscrupulous merchants took the opportunity to raise prices, so we are like this." Zhang Laosan said.

Another farmer also said: "It's all these unscrupulous merchants who took advantage of the court to collect taxes and make a big profit. Every time they pay taxes, they have to take the opportunity to lower the price of our grain and too high the price of cloth. Now we are in a miserable state. We have to pay a lot of taxes for no reason, and life is really helpless."

Jing Wen was a little surprised when he heard this. Jing Wen did not expect that there would be farmers complaining about the high taxes, which was really surprising. According to Jing Wen's understanding in the Tang Dynasty, the central government has been flirting with taxes and cultivating and replenishing. If the tax rate was not too low, it would not have caused such a difficult financial situation in the Tang Dynasty. However, in this case of flirting with taxes, the people were still saying that they were under pressure, which surprised Jing Wen a little. After all, if there was pressure in this situation, I am afraid that if the taxes were raised next, wouldn't the pressure on the people be even greater?

"Membersman, can you wait a moment?" Jing Wen stopped them.

"Sir, what's the matter with us?" Zhang Laosan asked.

Jing Wen immediately said: "My fellow villager, I heard you just now. Do you think the taxes in the court are very high now? The court has been cultivating and resting, so why do you still feel under great pressure?"

Zhang Laosan looked at another farmer and immediately said, "Sir, it's not high, the court and the people are not high at all."

Zhang Laosan and another farmer obviously thought that Jing Wen was an official who came to visit secretly. So they didn't dare to say that it was high. After all, ancient farmers were always used to being bullied by the government, so they didn't dare to say that the government had high taxes for a while. However, Jing Wen was always curious. What was the problem here?

Jing Wen immediately said seriously: "Tell the truth!"

When Zhang Laosan saw Jing Wen, he seemed to really ask, and said, "The taxes of the court were not high. But they were all caused by those unscrupulous merchants. Because the taxes collected by the court were 2 stones of grain per year, which was rent. In addition, two feet of silk, three liang of cotton, or two feet of cloth, and three jin of marijuana. This is adjustment. Moreover, we also have to perform labor service. Each person has to perform labor service for the government for 20 days every year, which is normal service. Of course, if you do not serve, you can also offset the labor service by paying three feet of silk or three feet of cloth, which is mediocre. Of course, if the government increases labor service, then rent and transfer can be reduced accordingly. This was a few days ago when the tax collector came to us to popularize it."

After hearing Zhang Laosan's words, Ma Zhou immediately said: "Jie Shuai, this is the idea of ​​Jie Shuai a few days ago. Let the tax collector explain the content about renting and mediocre tutoring to ordinary people. It should be quite clear to explain it to the people. Therefore, they can answer it. This is the tax on renting and mediocre tutoring that our Tang Dynasty currently adheres to the rules of the former Sui Dynasty and collects. This is also our current tax system, and we have always implemented it this way. What problems can there be? If there is any problem, why didn't we find it before?"

But Jing Wen was not thinking about these things, but deeper reasons.

"This should not be high, but why do you feel stressed?" Ma Zhou asked on his own initiative.

The third son of Zhang and another farmer thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, this is the thing. We have to pay taxes at the end of the year every year. And because the government collects two kinds of things, namely grain and silk cloth. At this time, we have to exchange grain for silk cloth to pay taxes. But at this time, everyone exchanges grain for silk cloth. There are too many grains, so it becomes low. And those silk cloths also have increased because they need too many people for a while. However, those unscrupulous businessmen often take advantage of this time to lower the price of grain and raise the price of silk cloth, so we have a lot of losses. But in normal times, the government is very anxious, so we have no choice but to cut the meat and sell the grain for cheap, and then exchange it for expensive silk cloth to pay taxes. Therefore, we are afraid that what we pay in fact is 50% to twice as much as the court stipulates."

"This..." Ma Zhou didn't know what to say, after all, he seemed to have discovered the problem here.

"No wonder, so that's it!" Jing Wen said.

Jing Wen finally knew why this kind of problem occurred. In fact, it was all the system that was used by others. No system was perfect, it had loopholes. Now this system has been used by some unscrupulous merchants, and the result has been the unlucky result now. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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