Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

In fact, life for these military households is more difficult than that for horse households.

The so-called military household is a system established by the founder of the country to properly arrange the three million troops. One man serves as a soldier, and generations of soldiers serve as soldiers.

Military households usually farmed and farmed, and in times of war they prepared their own weapons, grain and grass for the battlefield. This is naturally good in times of war, but its shortcomings are revealed in times of peace.

During wartime, military merit is paramount, and these military households will have their day. Now in peacetime, they are virtually no different from farmers.

However, most of the land under his name was occupied by military officers and local powerful men, and he had to perform military service. This caused a large number of military households to flee. Often, a guard station has an establishment of more than 5,000 people, but the actual number of soldiers is less than 30%.

That is to say, Zhao Jingzi relied on the support of Han Fantai and Dutai, and his salary and silver were sufficient. Therefore, he has the strength to wipe out all the bandits nearby.

These military households risked their lives in exchange for two years of good life. If the court said they should be eliminated, they would be eliminated, so naturally they were unwilling to do so.

Go back to farming? There were only a few acres of land left.

If you can't live any longer, you must be acting in a different way.

These officers and soldiers from the Qianhu Station in Gaoyang Mountain instantly dispersed into the mountains, forests and water villages of various places to cause trouble.

The small group of thieves that Xie Chengan and Su Mulan met when they returned to Qingsong County were these former officers and soldiers of Qianhu Station!

Dusi suppresses bandits?

But come on, Zhao Jingzi's three hundred horse thieves could not be exterminated, so they were recruited. This time, there are hundreds of soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles. How to suppress them?

Dutai didn't come to take office for a long time, so the commander, Tongzhi, Qianshi and others simply lay down.

Just drop it as much as you like, at worst it will last till the end. If we go to suppress bandits in the mountains, maybe all the guys eating will be lost.

The matter occurred in Anlan territory, and Wang Zhixian and his officials were responsible, so he had no choice but to find a way. Fortunately, Zhao Qianhu defeated the thieves at the beginning, and Wang Zhixian supported him throughout the whole process and also knew the officers of Qianhu Station, big and small.

Now these people are bandits, and Wang Zhixian used his face to persuade some of them to surrender, and added them to the third class of the county government.

It was also learned from these people that the chief secretary, Xia Heishou, was secretly supporting the mutinous officers and soldiers, as well as other thieves and bandits who were causing trouble. Some cities in Wangzhi County secretly investigated Xia Heishou's criminal evidence.

When he was about to report to his superiors, he was killed in the county government office.

Xia Heishou was safe and sound and continued to be his chief clerk, seemingly unaware that Magistrate Wang was investigating him.

When Xie Chengan took office, he was busy with all kinds of entertainment. How could he have time to understand the situation?

It wasn't until Lin Xu came and subdued his subordinate Kuaiban Yamen that he learned the inside story. But as you know, the evidence from Wang Zhixian's investigation has long been destroyed.

Therefore, the murder case of Wang Zhixian seems complicated, but is actually simple. Many people in the county government knew who the murderer was.

If you don't understand the situation in the prefecture and county, you will wonder why Wang Zhixian didn't arrest Chief Secretary Na Xia directly, but waited until he was investigated and proved, and he was killed as a result? ?

Within a county, the county magistrate is the official seal official. The county magistrate and chief registrar are assistant officers, while the history officer and inspector are subordinate officers.

The county magistrate is the eighth grade, and the chief administrator is the ninth grade. Although their status is not as good as that of the seventh-grade county magistrate, they are also court officials, and they cannot be moved by the county magistrate at his word!

The appointment and removal of county magistrates and chief registrars must also be approved by the Ministry of Officials.

Moreover, the county magistrate and chief registrar do not work in the county government office in the county seat. For example, Chief Xia is in charge of rivers, but the government office is stationed at the River Information Office in Anlan County.

The day after Wang Zhixian died, a county official disappeared. It was said that this person was on good terms with Master Xia!

But another murder case, the death of Juzi named Tong, is quite difficult. It cannot be solved so far, and there is no even direction.

According to what Lin Xu said, Tong Juren's death seems to be related to the mutinous officers and soldiers of Qianhu Station, and to the Prime Minister of Meixian County. Some people also say that it is related to several big squires of Anlan!

But this Tong Juren is the eldest son of Tong Yuanwai, a wealthy businessman in the county.

Xie Chengan felt dizzy after hearing this.

Well, the two murder cases involved the county magistrate, the chief registrar, the local squire, officers and soldiers from the former Qianhu Station, horse thieves, and wealthy businessmen in the county.

Xie Chengan felt like his head was as big as a bucket. It was really hard to be a seventh-grade sesame official!

However, except for two murders. Xie Chengan is still in big trouble!

After Jiang Ruiyan finished explaining the case, he brought up the issue of tax collection in the county. It's already June, and the summer tax hasn't been collected yet.

Although the magistrate is a small person, his responsibilities are very detailed. To sum up, there are mainly four aspects. Qiangu, criminal name, education, public security.

Qiangu ranks first, that is, it collects taxes for the court. This is basically the most important part of the county magistrate's political achievements.

Enlightenment is not bad, with Gaoyang Academy here, successive magistrates can win on top of enlightenment.

But Qiangu always defaults on his payment. After all, Anlan County is full of mountains, forests, and rivers. Although there is a lot of cultivated land, it is all occupied by local gentry. They are a tax-free class.

Anlan is a county with a large amount of money and grain. There are nearly 1.3 million acres of government land, private land, and confiscated land within the county. It is stipulated that the land tax that needs to be paid is 128,460 shi of grain.

Logically speaking, this tax is not too heavy, but every time tax is collected, there will be a lot of trouble.

Fields are divided into large and small acres, and are divided into Toyota and Susukaku fields. This has led to unfairness in the actual collection, and even the grain chiefs, li chiefs, etc. may not be able to collect the money, or they may line their own pockets.

Jiang Ruiyan spent this time checking the transfer room account books. Today, the actual taxable farmland is less than half of what it was before, but the taxes stipulated above have continued to increase.

An ordinary farmer who farms honestly has an average of ten acres of thin farmland, with an average yield of two hundred kilograms per mu, and a regular tax of twenty kilograms per mu. In a normal year, there would be 1,800 kilograms of grain left.

There are an average of five people in each household. Normally, they eat at least 1,500 kilograms of grain a year. This is not an era when there were so many non-staple foods in later generations.

Ordinary people only add pickles as their daily staple food, so one pound of grain per person per day is just barely enough to fill their stomachs.

But this does not include seeds, farm tools, and water conservancy expenses. Therefore, in a normal year, the income and expenditure are just balanced, and at most there is a slight surplus to buy some New Year goods.

Once there is a drought, flood, or locust plague year, the fields will produce less and people will not be able to have enough to eat. If a family member gets sick or something unexpected happens, the only way to deal with it is to sell off the land.

With fewer fields, there will naturally be less income. Even if the weather is good in the coming year, you will not have enough to eat. There is really no choice but to continue selling land, forming a vicious cycle.

In the end, if there is no land, then we can only rent land to landlords as tenants for farming. The ground rent is often half or even more.

If you really can't survive, you can only sell yourself into slavery.

There were so many cases like this that the land quickly concentrated in the hands of a few landlords and gentry. And many of these people have tax exemption or tax reduction privileges.

As a result, there will be less and less land that can collect land taxes, but the money and food set by the court will not be short. The government suppresses the county, the county suppresses the li, and the li suppresses the household.

The burden on ordinary farmers who have not yet gone bankrupt will be even heavier.

It’s not that farmers don’t want to pay land taxes, they really can’t.

The more Xie Chengan listened, the more he became restless. He knew that the people were suffering, but he never expected that it would be so difficult!