Chapter 1554: Doesn't this drive us to death?

   Chapter 1554 Isn't this forcing us to death?

  There are also trees behind the house, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and the shade of the trees is pouring down. It just happens to be covered in the room with the kang. Even if you sleep in it, it should not be particularly hot in summer.

   In the yard, there is only a small open space where you can dry things or walk around on it. The other places are full of vegetables, which are naturally planted by Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou.

   Judging from the gratifying growth of those vegetables, they should have been planted from the seeds in her space.

   There is only one adjacent family next to it, and that is the courtyard where Zhang Dazhu and Zhang Shoushou live, which is Zhang Dazhu's house.

   Zhang Shoushou's father actually had the surname Zhang, and Zhang Dazhu did not change his surname to Zhang Shoushou.

   The layout of Zhang Dazhu's house is similar. Now the gate of the courtyard is also open, and you can see that the courtyard is also full of vegetables, and only a small space is left.

   Even in the corridor, there are several wooden boxes made of wooden boards, and vegetables are grown in the wooden boxes, and the vegetable seedlings are green.

   "It's a little strange." Jiang Yue whispered to her family, Xue Yan. "However, the vegetables are planted under the corridor, and they are not planted in the back of the house. Whether it is the back of the house we want to live in or the house next door, it is obviously more suitable for growing vegetables, and it is not that troublesome. We just came here. This, when I passed by other houses, I didn't seem to see anyone who planted vegetables behind the house or outside the yard, all in the yard."

  Xue Yan nodded, "It's strange. Just ask."

"Um."

   Seeing his Yuebao nodding, Tao Zhen just happened to be here at this time, and wanted to see if there was anything he could help, so Xue Yan asked him about it.

Tao Zhen said: "If we planted at the back of the house, even if we only planted a little bit, the government would charge us the same tax as the field, but if we planted it in the yard, it would be different. It would be equivalent to planting at home, and naturally we would not be taxed. It’s not enough to expand the yard. Generally, a house has a deed. The deed has the size of your house including the yard. You can only plant within the size of the deed. If it exceeds, you will also be taxed, so you are expanding the yard in private. No matter how big it is, it’s useless to grow things in the yard. The government doesn’t care about you and still collects the tax. This is obviously overcharging, and it’s only a matter of the past two years. There are also a lot of taxes, but everyone can live to a certain extent. Moreover, in the past two years, the tax is not based on the harvest per mu, but stipulates how much tax must be paid per mu. Therefore, sometimes the harvest is not good. The end of the year, we have planted a lot of things, but the total amount is not enough to pay the tax. So now we are afraid that we will encounter some kind of flood and locust disaster, and the crops will be lost. We still have to pay so much tax. Are we peasants forced to die?"

   Jiang Yue and Xue Yan both nodded, this is indeed a heavy tax.

  Tao Zhen was silent for a while, but still couldn't hold back, and said again: "So, I hope, it's just the ghosts of our government here, in fact, the emperor didn't mean that."

Then, he couldn't help but say again: "Actually, I really want to go to other places, especially the imperial capital, to see if it is also taxed in the same way. You can't have different taxation in different places, right? The same is true for the imperial capital, then I really give up. If this is different, doesn’t it make it clear that those officials here really think the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and they have puffed up their pockets. But we are all poor. If you look like this, how can you go to the imperial capital to have a look, and even if you can go there, you won't come back."

   PS: Babies, ask for a monthly pass~

  

  

   (end of this chapter)