How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

Chapter 63 He also wants to make money!

It’s time again for the government tax collectors to collect taxes.

The weather has been good this year, but the grain tax is as heavy as ever.

The farmers have worked hard for a year and still can't afford to have enough food and clothing.

Even though Landlord Zhang collects [-]% of the tax from his tenants, Landlord Zhang's steward will reduce or reduce the tax to a certain extent based on the actual situation of the tenants in each village.

For example, if the family is wealthy and has a lot of labor, his income of [-]% is a real deal.For example, for those widows and lonely families whose family conditions are not good and whose life is almost unsustainable, he may get a half-percent reduction like others.

The government nominally only collects [-]% of the grain tax.

However, after that, the government will collect money in various names.

For example, the cost of firewood, the winter tribute fee specially given to the county magistrate and various famous men in the government office, and the ceremony fee... add up all kinds of miscellaneous things, and the average household comes up with half a tael of silver.Many families who cannot survive will now come up with the idea of ​​renting out their homes to their mothers and wives.Or just sell them all.

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The tax collectors and government servants came in donkey carts.

No more, no less, exactly three people.

The person who specializes in writing documents and keeping accounts, whose surname is Yu, is the nephew of the county magistrate's wife.He is only 30 years old this year.

The clerk here has read several books and knows some words.He used to manage a pawnshop for his biological father in Hui County, Shanxi Province.

Abacus is his basic skill.

Later, when his father died of illness, he took his mother to live with the most promising aunt in the family.

He worked as an assistant to Master Qian Gu hired by his uncle.

It's been a year now.

This was also his first time going to the countryside in person to collect taxes from the villagers.

Looking at the thatched houses in front of him, with the occasional two-room blue brick and tiled house, Yu Wenshu suddenly said to a government servant named Zhao under him: "Uncle Zhao, this Chenjiacun looks like a good place. It seems a little better than that Majiazhuang, right?"

Zhao Yamen is a distant relative of County Magistrate Zhao.Five servers have been released.He looked flattered when Yu Wenwen called him that.

"Brother Yu, I can't afford to call you Uncle Zhao! Just call me Zhao Dazhuang!"

Yu Wenwen shook his head and said sincerely: "That can't be done. You are so much older than me. It's too disrespectful to call you Zhao Dazhuang. How about I call you Lao Zhao?"

"Okay, okay, just call me Lao Zhao." Zhao Dazhuang nodded repeatedly.

A group of three people were riding in a donkey cart. After entering Chenjia Village, they saw that every villager looked like a refugee, and all of them were half-clothed.

Many children, both male and female, had no clothes to wear.He didn't even have a pair of straw sandals on his feet.

All of them were thin, yellow and black, and their hair looked as if it hadn't been washed in several years, and was as messy as a bird's nest.

When they saw a donkey cart entering the village, none of them dared to come forward. Instead, they stared at the donkey with a pair of dark eyes.

"Hey, people's livelihood is so difficult!" Yu Wenwen suddenly sighed when he saw that Chenjiacun didn't seem to be much better than Majiazhuang.

When Zhao Yamen saw that he was like a woman and had a kind heart, he suddenly spoke and flattered him.

"Yu Wenshu, you have a bodhisattva heart. These villagers are lucky to meet you like this!"

After hearing this, Yu Wenshu shook his head, but thought to himself, if this county is so poor, how will he make money in the future?
He married a wife, two concubines, and three maidens.They have thirteen children.Each wife has to have two new sets of clothes made every season.It was their birthdays, and he had to give them all new jewelry of gold or silver.Sometimes, he had to spend a lot of money to give them valuable jade bracelets to please them.

Furthermore, eight of the thirteen children were boys.He was worried that the women at home could not take care of his son, so he bought seven or eight girls to help them.

When the male children in the family reach the age of four, he sends them to private schools.

The family is big but the business is not big.

The food, clothing, housing and transportation for a family of more than 20 people all depend on him alone.

Most of the savings saved in previous years have been spent.

What he won this time was a fat job in the eyes of many government officials.If he can't get more money this time, his whole family will have to drink the northwest wind from now on!
Just when he was thinking about how to make money, the donkey cart drove slowly to the door of the village chief Chen Qiliang's house.

Looking at the strange-looking door of Chen Qi's family, Yu Wenshu, who claimed to be well-informed, couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.

"Old Zhao, look, is this the village chief's home in Chenjia Village?"

Zhao Yamen knows the situation of each village in the county very well.

He looked up and found that the door of village chief Chen Qi's family was particularly weird, resembling a coffin. He nodded heavily.

"Yu Wenshu, this is the village chief's home in Chenjia Village!"

Yu Wenwen wondered: "Why does this door look like the lid of a coffin? It's so dark that it's really seeping."

When Zhao Dazhuang heard this, he immediately explained to him.

"Hey, don't people from the countryside not have much money? His mother-in-law was seriously ill a few years ago and was about to die. The village chief Chen Qiliang asked his sons to go to the coffin shop in the county town to give them to the coffin shop. His wife built a coffin. She also paid a deposit at that time."

"Later, for some reason, his wife was probably too rigid and her life span was not over, so she was allowed to survive. But the county coffin shop had the coffin lid fixed for her, and then the coffin box underneath. , and his family couldn’t come up with the money. The owner of the coffin shop, Lao Zhou, is an old acquaintance of my family, and he is the most loyal and honest person. Seeing them acting like this, I had to ask them to put back the lid of the coffin. "

"Unexpectedly, this family is extremely stingy. After the coffin lid came back, they always felt that it was too unreliable to keep the lid at home, so they thinned it out and made it into two leaves. They made it their own door."

When Yu Wenshu heard this, he was shocked and stared at the door of the village chief Chen Qiliang for a long time without saying a word.

After a long time, he couldn't help but ask: "Old Zhao, are there any taboos when passing through this kind of door? It shouldn't hurt the luck and wealth of our government officials, right?"

Zhao Dazhuang shook his head and said firmly: "That's not the case!"

"I brought Xiao Wu here to collect taxes this summer, so I never had any trouble."

Yu Wenshu felt relieved after hearing this.

After asking Xiao Wu, the yamen servant who kept silent while driving the donkey cart, to knock on the door, they kept waiting.

When the village chief Chen Qiliang, leaning on a cane and supported by his sons, opened the door and greeted them warmly, the three of them slowly got out of the donkey cart.

When Yu Wenshu and his three friends walked into the home of the village chief Chen Qiliang, he saw that his so-called large brick house with tiles was actually not that good.

It's just a little better than a thatched house.

Yu Wenshu was very disappointed with the financial resources of the village chief Chen Qiliang.

However, when he started to look at Chen Qiliang and his family, it happened that Chen Yixuan came down from the mountain with Chen Feiyan and several others.

When passing by Chen Qiliang's open door, Yu Wenwen glanced casually and suddenly noticed Chen Feiyan's rosy and shiny complexion and her sincere smile.

(End of this chapter)