Did Sifujin get promoted today?

Chapter 1966

Chu Xian and the others really wanted to know this, but it was a pity that the farmer didn't hear it.

After the questioning, Chu Xian gave them a little silver and asked them to get a room in the inn in Sijiu City.

Luo Shuang looked at it and said nothing.

What Chu Xian did was only to make them feel better for the time being. As for the future, it would ultimately depend on themselves.

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The second person Chu Xian and the others met was the mother-in-law who felt that she hadn't experienced any hardships along the way.

That mother-in-law is also a good talker, but she is a little deaf. After several questions, she can answer only two out of ten.

However, Chu Xian still got some information from it.

For example, this mother-in-law did not come here on foot with crutches, but a car brought her to Beijing.

I heard from my mother-in-law that it was all a coincidence.

It just happened to meet a kind person who gave me a ride.

But it's hard enough to meet kind-hearted people when you're away from home, let alone being given a ride by the other party.

Suspicion appeared on the faces of Chu Xian, Luo Shuang, and Yue Zhuangcai.

But when I asked my mother-in-law what was going on, she couldn't remember clearly.

I just repeated back and forth that I met a kind person.

In addition to the mother-in-law, there are also some old people I met accidentally on the road, and they didn't come by themselves, but someone came by them.

After arriving near the capital, those people put these old people down, and then disappeared without a trace.

The old people didn't know who did it, and they didn't know who the leader was. Anyway, they were going to Beijing, so the car brought them here.

For this reason, eight or nine old people are grateful to the young man driving the car.

But when I asked why the old people went to Beijing?

They faltered and hawed and couldn't understand, and their memory of the cause of the incident was basically zero.

Only an old lady said that the family was starving, and someone said that there was food in Beijing, and then they came.

Chunchun made Chu Xian speechless.

After the old man finished asking, Chu Xian immediately followed Luo Shuang and the other two to meet the scholar who was like a scholar.

See if you can find a breakthrough in him.

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The scholar is a good scholar, he speaks neatly and clearly.

According to what he learned, many people can't eat this year because of the gradual increase in the proportion of food in taxation over the past few years.

Once the ratio goes up, after a few years, the common people can't bear it anymore, and this will lead to the current situation.

However, taxation is unified throughout the country, and it is not the case in other places.

Chu Xian asked her doubts.

The scholar replied that the tax rate is the same, but the specific policies implemented in different places are different.

In some places, the goods are abundant, and most of the payment is the common currency-copper coins.

Some places are desolate and barren, so you can only pay what you have, and then the imperial court will put those things to use and pay them back.

Food can also be regarded as a kind of tax credit.

In the past, people were asked to change their own money to pay, but there are too many black people in it, and it is not very friendly to the stability and maintenance of order.

In addition, some kickbacks are still very generous, so this matter has gradually become a private job in the yamen.

Since it's a private job, it's inevitable to get some oil and water in it.

But in the past two years, the oil and water have really gotten bigger and bigger.

This year, the whole disaster came out directly.

Even the emperor was alarmed, and he wanted to take a tour of Shandong in the south to have a look around and deal with it.

People in Shandong are in panic.

(End of this chapter)