175. Mist Approaching [1/3]
Recruiting extras? Which play is this? Yi Yun Dahan, he winked at Qi Xing, and the latter hurried over and said to the yamen runners who were beating the gong: "Several officials, what are you recruiting extras? Xiaoru is a little interested. Qipiaotian, a registered literary member, recommends this work qi"
The yamen runner tilted his head and looked at Qi Xing with a smile, "You are a good man, but you are a good material for being an extra. We are recruiting soldiers. After a few days, there will be a big item to live in our Jiashan Oasis for a while. We need to recruit sixty or seventy soldiers from the Hundred Houses. I see how you look like, there is a bit of a soldier smell. How about you? Do you want to make some copper coins? Every thirty copper coins, you can eat and drink for two meals, and you can sleep in the military camp at night."
Qi Xing pretended to be very interested and said, "Xiao Ruting is interested, how should I register for this?"
The yamen runner smiled and said, "Before the sunset tonight, you will register at the yamen. There will be an inn to receive you and you will be arranged to move into the barracks."
"Thank you, Master, please give me some advice." Qi Xing replied quickly.
Yi Yun heard these words and almost got angry. These bastards were too disgusting. They actually used this method to deceive me. I won't deal with you guys when I look back.
He continued to walk towards the city angrily. At this time, he passed by a free market. Several sporadic vendors were selling on the market, as if they were selling some Feng Qianli food. Yi Yun suddenly felt attentive. He wanted to manage his fiefdom well, so he had to understand the business situation of his fiefdom.
When he walked into the market, there was an old man selling sweet potatoes next to him. Yi Yun sat in front of Lao man, took out a ingot of silver, bought all his sweet potatoes, and then smiled and said, "Old man, how long have you been selling things here?"
"It's been a long time, fifty... sixty years..." The old man took the money and packed the sweet potatoes to Yi Yun, and said happily: "I used to sell yam, but later Folang brought sweet potatoes. We planted some by ourselves, and it felt good, so we started selling sweet potatoes again."
Yi Yun thought to himself: It turns out that the high-yield crop of sweet potatoes was brought by Folang. Oh, by the way, in my world, sweet potatoes seem to be food introduced to China only in the Age of Discovery.
"Is it good to sell things here?" Yi Yun asked: "Do you buy more things? Is the market alive?"
The old man sighed: "Look at it, you can't even get two people around you. How can you do business well? It's good to be able to survive."
The market is depressed... I also saw it. Yi Yun looked around and said, depressed. It was not easy for me to build this oasis after my buddy came here. This was simply starting from scratch and had no foundation at all.
While talking, a jailman wearing yamen runners' clothes suddenly popped up at the market door. He came to Yi Yun and the old man selling sweet potatoes, and shouted: "Old man Li, I saw that you sold all the sweet potatoes just now. How much did you sell? Pay the tax!"
"Well? I have to pay tax after selling things?" Yi Yun felt a little strange, but after thinking about it, he felt relieved. This is normal. Isn't there any commercial tax in the future? It is normal to collect some taxes.
But soon he realized what abnormality was. The old man sighed, took out half of the broken silver that Yi Yun had just given him, and handed it to the yamen runners.
Yi Yun was shocked. 50% tax? What a scam tax rate, should he still live? He couldn't help but jump up and shouted, "Do you have to pay so much tax?"
The yamen runner glanced at him and hummed, "Foreign land? It doesn't matter if you don't understand the rules. I'll tell you now. Anyone who sells things in this oasis market must pay 50% of the tax and silver as commercial tax."
Yi Yun: "..."
The yamen runner smiled and said, "I haven't finished half of it. Anyone who buys things in this oasis market must pay 20% of the physical goods as consumption tax. You... give me 20% of the sweet potatoes I just bought."
Yi Yun: "..."
Yi Yun really wanted to jump up and kick the yamen runners, and then let Wu Mingliang and Qi Xing beat him into a swollen face, but in this way, the visit in a small suit would be over. He had to suppress his anger and let Qi Xing give the sweet potatoes 20% of the yamen runners.
Until he left the market, Yi Yun was still depressed. How could this kind of business tax be cheated? It would be strange if the business system in this oasis did not collapse. What a hard thing it would be for me to completely rebuild the business system in the future. Oa! Seeing that the old man also followed the market, Yi Yun grabbed the old man's hand and put a ingot of silver into his hand, saying, "I'll get in the house. I'll replenish you 50% of the tax you have been forced to collect. These guys are simply outrageous."
The old man was startled, and tears suddenly rolled up at the corners of his eyes, and he bowed to Yi Yun: "This guy, you are so kind..."
Yi Yun sighed: "I've been in my home. This oasis is so tax-paying. Why don't you escape? If you change to an oasis, you might live a more comfortable life."
"You can't escape!" The old man cried sadly: "Our Jiashan Oasis implements a joint seating system, and every ten households are organized into a group. If one flees, the tax he should pay will be borne by the other nine households. If five families flees, the taxes of these five households will be borne by the other five households. If nine families flees, the taxes of all the taxes will be borne by the last household... So... either don't run away, or you have to run with ten villagers, otherwise it will cause the villagers to be borne by the villagers..."
After hearing this, Yi Yun gasped!
This oasis... don't live? What kind of county magistrate dares to formulate such shameless policies?
The old man wiped his tears: "The ten families I have lived with are all my fellow villagers for decades. No one wants to stop, so he has to grit his teeth and hold on. Once, he almost couldn't hold on. Fortunately, Franchise brought sweet potato crops, which are drought-resistant, cold-resistant, and high-yield. They can be planted for several seasons a year, otherwise we would have starved to death."
Yi Yun felt sad and didn't know what to say, so he could only remain silent.
The old man shook his head and said, "Brother, you are a good person. I think you are here to check whether this oasis can be traded? I advise you not to trade here, go to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing...whether is not better than here? Especially the Nanjing oasis is good. The Prince of Jinling is in charge. If the poor have no food, as long as they stay in front of the King of Jinling's mansion, they can be given buns to eat... The government does not dare to bully the poor under the eyes of King of Jinling... Let's go!"
Yi Yun clenched his fists and whispered to the old man: "I understand, thank you for coming home for telling me all this, I will repay you."
The old man sighed and left tremblingly.
Yi Yunke's face turned pale. What kind of county magistrate is this shit-like place? He is so arrogant? I really think that the emperor is far from being able to be!
Next, Yi Yun walked around and inquired about the small oasis with a few kilometers of radius, and was facing many problems, such as the problem of fertile land. This oasis was originally small, with only a few small pieces of farmlands of a few miles, but these farmlands were only a few pieces of rotten fields in the hands of the people. For example, the old man who planted sweet potatoes had only a few steps long, and he made a living by growing a few sweet potatoes. All the slightly fertile fields were taken over by the county magistrate.
In addition, because the government did not pay for repairing the city wall, wind and sand often plague this small oasis. Sometimes the sand and wind were a little more violent, and even the roof was blown away. The army's combat power was also low. Not to mention Japanese pirates, even wild thieves could not deal with them. Occasionally, wild thieves attacked the city, and the county magistrate colluded with wild thieves when they entered, so that the soldiers would deliberately not resist. After burning and robbing the city, the wild thieves deliberately let the county government and military camps go, and only robbing the people.
It is said that the county magistrate will secretly collude with Japanese pirates, intending to use the trick of dealing with wild pirates when the Japanese pirates come, so that the Japanese pirates can only kill the people and not destroy the city... to protect his status.
After investigating these, it was too late. Yi Yun angrily ordered Wu Mingliang and Qi Xing: "Look for an inn, stay here first. Mingyao, let's go back. I plan to transfer an army from Jiaxing Oasis to tear all the county magistrate and the ** garrison here."
Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Wu Mingliang and Qi Xing smiled and said, "The prince said, these bastards are too much. Although our Sichuan army occasionally bullies the good people, they are not as excessive as they do."
"Don't bully the good people anymore in the future. I'll castrate you..." Yi Yun took out the promotion certificate for "castration" from his arms and threatened: "I'm ready for everything."
Wu Mingliang and Qi Xing joined the two sides quickly expressed their loyalty and would never oppress the good people again.
The group of five people found a dilapidated inn in the center of the city. The inn seemed to have no customers and was in dilapidated. This is also the case. How could there be any business travelers willing to come to this place? Only when there is business in the inn can there be ghosts! The shopkeeper not only uses this place as an inn, but also sells some buns, soy milk, tofu and other businesses, so that they can barely maintain it. If they only do inn business, they will probably go bankrupt long ago.
As soon as Yi Yun entered the inn, an invisible Minami appeared on the corner of the street. This Minami was wearing a strange tight black suit, his wrists and ankles were tied tightly, and he was wrapped in a headscarf, with two small swords hanging around his waist, and an elbow stuck in his arms. If Yi Yun saw him, he would recognize him immediately. This Minami dress was a typical Fusang ninja outfit.
The Fusang ninja looked carefully at the inn and confirmed that Yi Yun would not come out for the time being. He sneered and said to himself: "These few entry are suspicious. After arriving in the city, they are obviously not good for the county magistrate. Hehehe... Since the local county magistrate has started to cooperate with us, I will help him solve these unstable factors..."
After saying that, Fusang Ninja pinched a gesture in his hand and shouted softly: "Ninjutsu, Fog Technique! (Mist Hidden Technique)" His body disappeared in the air without a trace, turning into a faint smoke, floating towards the inn...
Chapter completed!