Chapter 86: Paying more taxes this year

The autumn wind blows down the leaves and the rice turns golden.

Anyone who planted late rice was busy sharpening his knife and preparing to harvest the joy of autumn. The old man was not idle either. He found a group of people and went to the ponds in the mountains to catch crabs. This was what Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan said in the letter, leaving a small part for the old man, and sending the rest to the water clouds.

The old man was waiting, and the two thousand acres of land belonged to his family, and was only used by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. The eight crabs were sent with the letter, and each usage was written in the letter, which made the old man feel warm while curious.

Crabs and shrimps were caught, and the servants of the Bi family cheered from time to time. The old man stood by and watched with his granddaughter Xin'er and Liu'er.

"Grandpa, do you have to eat the big crabs raw? I heard that eating them raw is good." Xin'er licked her lips with her tongue and asked, she didn't eat too many crabs.

Children's family generally do not give them these things that are prone to illness. If they accidentally get sick, they may die. She only ate them a few times last year, and they are still very small. They are fryed in oil and bite them in their mouths, but there is no meat.

The old man touched his granddaughter's head. "It should be eaten raw or drunk, but the letter written by Xiaobao and Juanjuan said that they would not eat that way. If you want to eat it, they would send it to Shuiyunjian, where they would be given raw and drunk crabs, otherwise it would be easy to eat something wrong. Let's eat steamed crabs."

"Shui Yunjian should also be cooked by steamed food, which is delicious." Xin'er believes most in the most about eating food now. She doesn't cook by her own chef.

"Okay, okay, just eat what Shuiyunjian made. Don't be afraid of eating your stomach. Send the first ones to Huayuan County Government in a fastboat, and then send some of them to Shuiyunjian. Let them cook first and eat when they go back."

The old man agreed indulge in spite of his incense that he was actually having a meal in Shuiyun. There was a recipe specially for him. Seeing that it had been harvested for nearly a thousand kilograms, he asked someone to send it to the Zhang and Wang families as soon as possible, and they would give it some first. According to the habits of the Zhang family, good things would be distributed to the merchants and yamen runners. The fewer than 500 yamen runners were not enough.

In Huayuan County, Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan and Li Xun were also waiting for the shrimps and crabs there to come, and they had a great meal.

The mountain road has been completed, and other roads in Huayuan County have to wait for a few months. There are too many people to support the roads that need to be built. There are many money in the yamen account. The 80,000 guan at the beginning, plus the various taxes collected later, Zhang Zhong has confidence in building the road to any place where he has a home. Except for the individual residents living on the mountain, all other places will be built.

Not only were there people in the county to repair the road, but Lin County also built a large road in a circle around it, and the manpower was hired directly from Lin County, and also discussed with Lin County that after the autumn harvest, Lin County issued people, Huayuan County provided tools and road construction materials, and repaired several main roads in Lin County.

The people in the yamen in Lin County were secretly happy. While agreeing, they said that Zhang Zhong was stupid. With so much money, he helped Lin County build roads just for the convenience of transportation. He left some of them himself, but no one said anything, so he foolishly took them out to help others.

Of course, the people in Lin County's yamen were just jealous, especially the yamen runners. While talking about the Huayuan County Magistrate Zhang Zhong was not smart, he envied the good days of the Huayuan County yamen runners. They all carried knives on their waists and rode horses under them, and their clothes were also fit and neat.

The yamen in Huayuan County actually hired a lot of people. Every day, the yamen runners washed the clothes they changed for the yamen runners. The yamen runners in other places only had one set of clothes, and they washed them from their own families. There were seven or eight sets of clothes in Huayuan, and the seasons were divided.

When doing things in the county, the yamen runners elsewhere either pay for their own money to buy food or bully a small shop. Huayuan County not only brings food, drinks and medicines immediately, but also a small card with a stamped stamp with numbers on it. As long as you eat in a store in Huayuan County, you can settle the bill with small cards. There is a specified number. At that time, these stores will come to the yamen to exchange for money or taxes.

In this way, the yamen runners in Huayuan County can persist no matter how hard they are in their training. In addition, the food supply is good, and they are strong and strong. When they are pulled out to compete with others, the yamen runners elsewhere can't raise their heads.

In this conflict of taking advantage and calling Zhang Zhongsilly, Zhang Zhong gave the tax and rent that he should have paid this year, which caused an uproar in the court. People in the court knew that the original County Magistrate Wen had charged an extra rent for one year. They thought that Zhang Zhong would write the memorial this year and said it was a reduction, but unexpectedly it was five times the usual one.

The news soon reached the surrounding counties. The county magistrates in these counties gritted their teeth in hatred. Huayuan County has sent so much, what should I do here? I also wanted to find excuses to reduce the exemption and leave more. Compared with Huayuan, if you dare to do this, you will not think about continuing to be the county magistrate next year. You are not capable.

At this time, Zhang Zhong did another stupid thing. He discussed with the surrounding counties to rent their land to grow vegetables in winter, and some of the materials they need to use also come from the yamen. The yamen will pay for the materials first, and then sell them to the Zhang family for some price. This is done in his personal name.

The county magistrates were happy now. Zhang Zhong rented a thousand acres of land at once, only a few months, and gave him fifty cents acres of land. If you want to make such a vegetable place on so many land, the material would have to be several thousand guan. Even if you add 20% of the price, you can earn an income of one thousand guan.

This is a county of 1,000 acres, and then local people will have to be hired to help farm. After a few months, the people hired earn more money than farming in a year. When scolding Zhang Zhongsilly, several county magistrates also breathed a sigh of relief and wrote a memorial to raise the highest amount of money and grain paid in the county this year, twice as much as in previous years.

I wanted to keep some of my own, but by Zhang Zhong's complaint, no county magistrate dared to keep more. It was not worth keeping less, but everyone was mentally tortured and almost got into trouble.

I scolded, hated, and liked Zhang Zhong.

Not only that, Zhang Zhong also asked the Zhang family to open the game store in several counties first, using maps of several counties, and divided some work to make villains for the poor people in several counties. He also customized a large number of handicrafts in several counties, and collected all poultry and livestock in all counties, and sent chickens and piglets at very cheap prices.

It is precisely because of this that the money earned by the surrounding counties is enough for them to double the money and grain they handed over this year and double the rent, so that the lives of the people will be good enough. Someone secretly calculated for Zhang Zhong that the money he used these times would not be able to get enough without 40,000 guan.

Forty thousand guan, how much land and population should be bought? It was just used by Zhang Zhong to take care of the nearby county.

Every day, things from other counties were brought in by car. Zhang Zhong arranged for people to repair more than a dozen large warehouses and put them in them in different categories. Poultry and livestock were directly slaughtered and frozen. For a time, various blood tofu began to be bought in restaurants in Huayuan County, and the yamen runners also took them home all day.

There is also a road in Yaowang Mountain, along with Linxian. When Zhang Xiaobao and the other three were waiting for the crabs and training people, a small team of five cars came over there.

"Xiaobao, tell me what your family wants to do? For the first time, I saw that doing good deeds like your family did. So much money was in vain."

Li Xun's eyes moved with the five cars, touched Zhang Xiaobao next to him and asked.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, "I don't know, maybe my father thinks he is leaving. He wants to give more benefits to the people here. It is not easy for the people to live. If you can, please help me."

Li Xun thought about it for a while and felt that there was no other reason other than the reason Zhang Xiaobao said. He glanced at the training person and said, "I don't know when the crabs and shrimps will come. I have to use the eight crabs you gave me."

"It should be soon. Grandpa Bi will definitely send the ones he had taken before here. You can't hurry. I'll make a few more dishes for you at that time." Zhang Xiaobao was also slandered by Li Xun's question.

Li Xun stared at the other side. When a convoy appeared there, Li Xun happily said to Zhang Xiaobao, "Here you come, here you come."

"That's not?" Zhang Xiaobao squinted his eyes, feeling that he didn't look like the team that the old man asked someone to give him something.

"Not what? It's the thing I've brought to you. Twenty carts, which are usually not visible here. I'll have someone to transport it from other places. It should be twenty-two to twenty-three carts, but when I've been transported all the way, I can't eat the outside, so I can only throw it away. This thing is good and I'm going to plant it elsewhere, and then there will be vegetables to eat in winter."

Li Xun waved to the other side.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were curious, and the convoy gradually approached. When they stopped in front of them, the covered curtain was lifted. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were stunned for a moment, and then they became happy.

Li Xun walked over and took one, "Have you seen it before? Bai Song, it was planted on Hebei Road, and it was inconvenient to transport it. No one has ever been transported. The yield this year is large. I hope that it can be planted in more places. There were also some other places before, and the colors were different.

I know you always have to make something you haven't seen before, and you'll be given it to you. The taste of white squid tastes better than other squids. I'll give you these to you enough for your family to eat in winter."

"Baishou? Cabbage? No, why is this season coming out? It should be a few days later." Zhang Xiaobao touched the cabbage with his hands. He didn't expect to eat cabbage. This thing has a large yield and has been stored for a long time.

"So that's it? Ye left Wang Jian to prepare food, just a sausage on the plate, called sausage? No wonder I can't find it. Now it's time to make pig sausage dishes." Wang Juan also reacted. She looked up a lot of things, looking for all kinds of useful and familiar ones to use, but she didn't expect that the ingredients needed for the sauerkraut that she had always wanted to eat in winter were around her.

"Yes, that's it? Can you eat it? It's okay to stir-fry or stew tofu." Li Xun nodded beside him and said, "Of course it's this season, otherwise when will you wait?"

"You can plant other vegetables first and then plant this one. This thing is cold-resistant and wastes the opportunity to plant other things. Do you have seeds? Get more, and there are some new things that appear elsewhere, all of them, such as stir-frying and stewed tofu. I'll tell you how to eat this thing."

As Zhang Xiaobao spoke, he pulled his hand into the cabbage core with great effort. When he came out, he took a handful and handed it to Wang Juan half. The two of them ate it raw.
Chapter completed!