Spoilers for The Red Mansion, Daiyu’s mentality is broken

Chapter 368 Tax Ratio
After hearing these four conditions, the fourteen family heads could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

10 taels of silver is not a small amount for their fourteen aristocratic family.

However, it can still be obtained by borrowing one or two.And this carriage workshop is a golden chicken that can lay golden eggs!
A one-time investment will yield benefits for at least ten or even decades.

As for year-end dividends and not being able to interfere in the management and operation of the carriage workshop, these are not problems at all.

In other words, they have no problem at all with these four conditions.

Thinking of this, the head of the Wang family couldn't help but ask: "We have no problem with the four conditions proposed by your Excellency."

"As for the number of acres of fields, how can we dare to deceive you? But now that Ping'an County has implemented a new law, people are divided into acres. I don't know how much tax we need to pay for one acre of land?"

After the head of the Wang family, other family heads also agreed, agreeing to the four conditions proposed by Jia Huan and willing to pay taxes.

Well, actually they don’t have many choices.

As the saying goes, when gods fight, little ghosts suffer.

They are the little devils caught in the middle.

Both parties in the fight are ruthless, and they will ransack their homes and kill everyone at every turn.

But this county magistrate is undoubtedly further away from them.

If they don't obey, disaster may be imminent.

After all, the Cao, Song, and Bai families had just been ransacked yesterday, and the direct descendants of the Cao family and the Song family were directly beheaded in public.

How to choose is actually not difficult to decide.

And Jia Huan couldn't help but be overjoyed after hearing what they said!Done!

Jia Huan couldn't help but said: "The new law is for the gentry to pay the grain as one, and it is also a tax law, which is divided into acres. From now on, all taxes will be spread into acres. Therefore, one acre of land only needs to pay a tax of one tael of silver." "

Hearing this number, the fourteen family heads couldn't help but take a breath.

The head of the Wang family couldn't help but said: "Your Excellency, the county magistrate, this tax is too high!"

Jia Huan couldn't help but ask: "Are these taxes high?"

The head of the Wang family said fearfully: "Your Excellency, the county magistrate, for our family, this tax is not unpayable, and even if we lose money on the fields, we can still make money in the carriage workshop."

"It's just that for ordinary people, this tax seems a bit high!"

After hearing what the head of the Wang family said, Jia Huan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He has never farmed, nor has he even experienced it in person in the countryside.

He also has no specific data reference for the income of ordinary people in this era.

Perhaps, what the head of the Wang family said actually made sense.

Thinking of this, Jia Huan couldn't help but ask the head of the Wang family: "Master Wang, I wonder how much money ordinary people can earn from planting an acre of land?"

Seeing that the county magistrate actually asked for advice humbly, he was not ashamed to ask.

The head of the Wang family was flattered and said hurriedly: "Master Qi, this acre of land can harvest about five to six hundred kilograms of grain in one year."

"And the price those people sell their grain is only about two cents per catty. Therefore, their income from one acre of land is only one or two cents."

"thus……"

hiss!
Hearing this, Jia Huan couldn't help but take a breath.

The common people's income from one acre of land is only a little over one tael, and you actually want to take it all away at once?

If you really accept it this way, you are really more corrupt than a corrupt official!But vaguely, Jia Huan felt that something was wrong.

He suddenly remembered the records in the "Complete Book of Taxation" of the Qing Dynasty that he had read in his previous life.

Different provinces across the country have different land tax standards, with the Jiangnan provinces and Shaanxi bearing the heaviest burden.

江浙两省田赋的标准为每亩派银7钱3分，外加每丁编徭银2钱1分，总计每亩交银9钱4分。这样算下来，10亩田地就要向官府交税9两4钱。

Moreover, the taxes collected by the government are never collected according to regulations, and are usually raised by [-] to [-]%.

In fact, for ten acres of land in Jiangnan, he had to pay about 11 taels of tax to the government, which was higher than the tax of one tael of silver for one acre of his land.

If the people in the south of the Yangtze River had only one tael of income per acre of land, wouldn't they all starve to death?

Well, although that is the information from the Qing Dynasty and it is the Daxia Dynasty now, it shouldn't be such a big difference.

Thinking of this, Jia Huan couldn't help but ask: "Master Wang, isn't this right? Why did I hear that the tax in Jiangnan is as high as one tael of silver per acre of land?"

"If the common people can only earn one tael of silver per acre of land, won't the common people in Jiangnan starve to death?"

Hearing Jia Huan's question, the head of the Wang family hurriedly said: "My lord, you don't know. In the Jiangnan area, there are actually two crops a year. Moreover, their farming must be more precise, and the yield per acre is higher than in the north."

"And they not only grow rice, but also mulberry and other crops. Therefore, they can earn two to three taels of silver per acre of land a year. It is definitely not comparable to our northern land."

"Now my land in the north is ripe every year, and one acre of land can only earn about one tael of silver a year. If you don't believe me, just ask around. If I tell any lies, let me do whatever you want."

Is it still ripe once a year in Northland now?

Jia Huan remembers that in the late Ming Dynasty, with the promotion of sowing soybeans in summer, the two-year and three-crop farming method began in North China.

It seems that the two-year and three-crop farming method in Daxia has not been popularized.

It seems that the income of the people in Ping'an County is only about one tael of silver per mu.

If it hadn't been for the advice from the head of the Wang family, he would have almost caused a catastrophe.

It can be seen that although the official positions of parents in a county are small, they are also related to the livelihood of tens of thousands of people.

If you are careless, tens of thousands of people may starve and freeze.

Thinking of this, Jia Huan couldn't help but stand up, bowed deeply to the Wang family and said, "Thank you very much, Wang family, for reminding me. I almost made a big mistake."

The head of the Wang family hurriedly stood up and returned the greeting. He was too frightened to say anything.

Jia Huan asked the head of the Wang family to sit down and talk in a pleasant manner.

After pondering for a moment, Jia Huan couldn't help but ask: "Everyone, how about I prepare to set the tax per acre at [-] coins?"

One acre of land costs two hundred cents, which is a tax of ten and two cents. This commission is actually very high.

In many dynasties, the agricultural tax was one in ten, and in the Han Dynasty there was even a ratio of one in thirty.

Most dynasties had more than one tax per ten.

It seems that the two out of ten taxes proposed by Jia Huan are extremely heavy taxes, but don't forget that all dynasties collected more than just agricultural taxes.

They also charge a lot of other exorbitant taxes.

As for Daxia's new law, all taxes were integrated into agricultural taxes.

Therefore, the ratio of ten taxes to two taxes is actually not high, and can even be said to be an extremely low ratio.

After other family heads heard this ratio, they nodded repeatedly and praised Jia Huan for loving his people like a son.

(End of this chapter)