Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 275 Picking Peaches

  The summer harvest is over, everyone is preparing for the summer tax, and Zhao Hanzhang has finally ushered in the harvest - tax collection!

  As the magistrate of Xiping County, Zhao Hanzhang struggled on the front line. She personally went to the countryside to inspect the tax collection.

  With her here, the amount of tax and grain in Xiping County this year is very standard, and the people are as happy as the New Year.

   She not only looks at the collection of summer tax, but also the situation of summer sowing to ensure the autumn harvest.

After a winter, everyone already knows that beans can also make a lot of delicious food, and everyone has more expectations and feelings for planting soybeans. In addition, the county government now accepts soybeans at a fixed price, and the price is slightly higher than before, even if it is not for the sake of To eat, in order to make money, everyone is more enthusiastic.

So the beans that have been sown without much care have been taken care of, weeding and weeding, and catching insects. Although they are still green bean sprouts, they look better than previous years, and the germination rate is not low. .

One of the advantages of    intensive farming is that the per capita land occupation will be reduced, the yield will increase, and the same number of fields can support more people.

   Xiping County is collecting taxes, and Shangcai County is naturally the same.

   Zhao Hanzhang went to Shangcai after collecting all the Xia tax from Xiping County.

   Coincidentally, the official document urging the counties to pay the grain tax has also arrived. Because of the war, the summer tax this year has risen again.

  Chai County magistrate was still having a headache about the tax to be paid this year. As soon as Zhao Hanzhang arrived, he immediately divided the summer tax he collected into three.

   One was handed in, one was left to the county government for expenses, and the other was to be returned to her.

   "Return to you?" The county magistrate of Chai was astonished.

"Yes, at the beginning of the year, I borrowed so much grain and copper coins from Shangcai County and Xiping County, can't I pay it back?" She said, "Although the two counties are brothers now, it is precisely because they are brothers that they have to settle accounts. "

  Chai County Magistrate: "...But in this way, the taxes handed over to the imperial court are far from insufficient, and it is not enough..."

   Zhao Hanzhang said: "Don't worry, Magistrate Chai, I will let Ji Yuan write a note, and you can copy it and send it to the governor's house, so that you will understand us."

   County magistrate Chai frowned, a little apprehensive, "Sanniang, how do you account for the one-third of the grain tax you took away?"

   Zhao Hanzhang said with a smile: "Don't worry, Ji Yuan will do it well, not to mention that there is no time to send someone down to investigate, even if it comes, we can handle it."

  Chai County magistrate was still very scared. For the first time, he withheld up to two-thirds of the tax. You must know that in previous years, he secretly withheld some, but it was only a little.

   In order to reassure him, Zhao Hanzhang said that her Xiping County withheld more taxes.

   She said: "For years of military chaos and natural disasters, our county government has to save some things, otherwise there will be an accident in the future, who can save us?"

  Chai County magistrate was still hesitating, Zhao Hanzhang said: "These things are taken from the people and used for the people. Isn't it right for the county ruler to be the parents and officials of Shangcai County, and to work hard for the people?"

  Chai County magistrate thoughtful.

   In the end, Ji Yuan still gave them two ghostwriting essays. Yes, one essay is for writing, and two are for writing.

   Anyway, it’s all complaints, so if you write the second letter, you will have experience, and the speed will be faster.

   So Zhao Hanzhang also gave him his book to write, and then she copied it.

   Replies from Xiping County and Shangcai County were slowly delivered to Chen County.

  Chen County is not far from a war, so a large number of refugees poured into Chen County.

   There is no way. Although they fought mostly in the wild, the King of the East Sea wanted to kill Gou Xi and rob Yanzhou; and Gou Xi wanted to kill the King of the East Sea and wanted to go to Luoyang to pick up the emperor, so he could not avoid attacking the city.

  At the same time, it is not only the soldiers on the battlefield who face death, but also the people who have been attacked.

  You Qi was in the summer harvest. As soon as they fought, they destroyed a lot of farmland, and many of the wheat that had not been harvested was wasted. Moreover, when the soldiers were short of food, they would directly grab the wheat with knives.

  A large number of refugees are generated in the place where the fighting spreads.

   They had to pack up and flee their hometown, one is to avoid the war, and the other is to escape the summer tax.

  Yuzhou is located in Yanzhou and on the edge of Luoyang, so most of the refugees choose to come to Yuzhou to settle down.

   Inspector He couldn't close the city gates to deny the refugees entry, but could only disperse the influx of refugees as much as possible and let them go down to the counties.

  At the same time, Chen County needed a lot of property and food to collect so many refugees. In addition to the expropriation task assigned to him by the imperial court, He Shishi directly transferred it to the lower counties, and the county governor or prefect was transferred to the lower counties.

   Therefore, the tasks distributed to Shangcai County and Xiping County are heavy, especially Shangcai County.

   It is not only a large county, but many counties in Runan County suffered military disasters last year, and only it was fine, so the task assigned to him was the heaviest.

   The county magistrate of Chai also knew this, so he was very afraid of refusing the above request for summer tax, but he also secretly left so much summer grain.

   But he copied the excerpts written by Ji Yuan, and the more he copied it, the more he felt that what Ji Yuan said made sense. Last year, it was very difficult for them to go to Cai County. This winter, several people died of starvation.

   If it wasn't for Zhao Hanzhang's help at the beginning of the spring, he and Xiping County formed a brotherly alliance, how could it be possible to collect so much summer tax?

   At that time, he was calling for help from the governor's office every once in a while, thinking that he could allocate some money and food to let the people survive until March.

   At that time, there will be a lot of wild vegetables in the wild, so you won’t be very hungry even if you eat them, right?

   But the governor's office has not replied to the letter for a long time, and he finally replied once, which also means that the treasury is empty, so let him find a solution on the spot.

   Zhao Hanzhang and Ji Yuan were right, he had to leave something for the county government. If something like this happens in the future, if the governor's government doesn't save him, he won't have no way out.

   Zhao Hanzhang was also copying the book. She copied it very quickly. After copying it, she checked it again and made sure that there were no typos, and then put it aside and handed it to Chen County.

   She took someone to watch the grain storage the next day.

   Most of the grain in Xiping County went into the grain depot, and the rest was sent to the military camp.

   She finally no longer has to buy food to support her soldiers.

   She has a lot of soldiers now, there are only more than 1,000 people on the bright side, but her tribes scattered in various resettlement sites are also soldiers. They also farm the land on weekdays, but they are more trained, so the food production cannot be self-sufficient.

   Besides, she has to take in more refugees and open up more famines, so she needs food urgently.

   Zhao Hanzhang did not bring back one-third of the grain tax from Shangcai, but kept it in Shangcai.

   She and Ji Yuan said: "This is from Shangcai County, so let's use it in Shangcai County."

  Ji Yuan is very satisfied with this, "Girls love."

   Zhao Hanzhang thought so too, so he smiled complacently.

   I wrote a little bit, and found that my eyes are about to close, so there is only one update tonight, and I will make it up tomorrow morning

   (end of this chapter)