After time travel, he devoted himself to helping his father with his career.

When the new dynasty was established, the emperor announced to the world that taxes would be exempted for the entire country for one year. They all knew that no one would collect taxes in the first year. The people were very grateful to the new emperor.

During the autumn harvest of the next year, a government official came to collect taxes, saying he was from the city. The villagers did not dare to disobey, so they all paid twenty-one. The tax was lower than that of the previous dynasty, and the villagers were still grateful to the emperor.

However, the one-in-twenty tax only lasted for two years. It becomes a one-tenth tax, which is fine if it is a state with high food production. However, Sichuan is short of water and drought, and its grain output is not high.

The one-tenth tax left many people with no enough food to eat, especially in the spring when there was a shortage of food. Many people relied on wild vegetables and grass roots to survive.

Unexpectedly, it was adjusted to one-fifth last year. After collecting grain and paying taxes, the people did not dare to have a full meal. They have been drinking porridge or even wild vegetables.

Now that there is a new magistrate in the county, they are really afraid that if taxes increase again, they will really not be able to survive.

Xiao Qingshan and Xie Boyuan were very shocked and angry when they heard what the people said. You must know that the national tax is now one-tenth, and the emperor in some remote and barren places has an amnesty of one-twentieth.

Xiao Qingshan was angry that the officials oppressed the people in this way, and Xie Boyuan was angry that the officials had betrayed the emperor's trust and harmed the people's hearts and deserved to be killed.

In the afternoon, Xiao Qingshan and Xie Boyuan continued to ask about other money-related matters. It was Xie Boyuan who discovered the problem. The imperial court was a poor state and county and would issue spring plowing subsidies every year.

When the new dynasty was first established, the court was also very short of money. However, the emperor knew the importance of spring plowing, so the annual spring plowing subsidy has never been reduced. In order to reduce the burden on the people, the emperor even built royal breeding farms in various places.

The dynasty began to be established in the second year of its founding, and from the fourth year onwards, the scale increased. Each county can purchase cattle, donkeys, mules, etc. from the royal breeding farm at the county's expense to help with farming. According to the situation in Qu County, there are at least three quotas for cattle.

The annual spring plowing subsidy is mainly money to buy grain seeds. The cultivated land area is estimated based on the tax revenue of each county and then distributed to the states. The county magistrate goes to the prefecture city to collect it and then distributes it to each village.

Now the taxes in Qu County are twice as high, there is no subsidy for spring plowing, and we have never heard of cattle. Can Xiao Qingshan not be angry? No wonder the people of Qu County are having such a hard time!

The two discussed how to handle the matter. It would be best to go to Da Tian Ting, deal with the magistrate of Sichuan Province, and bring justice to the people of Sichuan Province. However, Xiao Qingshan was a humble person and was only a county magistrate. Because of his status as an Asian scholar, he was only in the seventh rank.

Finally, they both remembered a major event. As an official of Qu County, a subsidiary of Sichuan Prefecture, Xiao Qingshan forgot to go to Sichuan Prefecture City to visit the magistrate first when he entered Sichuan Prefecture.

The two people who discovered this looked at each other. It was Xiao Qingshan's first time as an official, and it was close to the time set by the Holy Emperor to take office, so Xiao Qingshan was busy with his thoughts.

As for Xie Boyuan, he is actually used to having others take the initiative to visit him wherever he goes. I always forget that now I am just a master of the county magistrate.

Xie Boyuan did not want to expose his identity, and he guessed that there must be many such things across the country. But not every humble official has someone beside him!

He wanted to see how Xiao Qingshan would handle the matter, but he still had to write a letter to Beijing. Pretending to have the same troubled expression, he watched Xiao Qingshan distressed.

Xiao Qingshan doesn't understand the twists and turns in the officialdom, but he knows the suffering of the people and how to make ends meet. He has no ability to overthrow Lord Zhizhou, let alone save the entire Sichuan Province. He just wants to protect the people of Qu County.

Xie Boyuan was surprised after hearing what Xiao Qingshan said. He found that he had never understood Xiao Qingshan. However, he was very satisfied that Xiao Qingshan didn't have the ambition to be a scholar and went to kill the stone with an egg. Even if his family was destroyed, I still wanted to restore the prosperity of Sichuan Province.

So the question now becomes, how to help the people get spring plowing subsidies and cattle without offending Zhizhou or offending Zhizhou to death.

In the end, the two discussed it for a long time, but it was difficult to achieve it. One of them was straightforward and the other was too shady and could easily offend others.

Xiao Qingshan suddenly heard Xie Boyuan's voice: "What would Jiajia do if this happened to her?" Xiao Qingshan turned to look at Xie Boyuan in surprise, Jiajia was still just a child!

But Xie Boyuan felt that Xiao Mingjia was young and looked at the problem from a very different perspective, and might actually have a different solution. It doesn’t hurt to give it a try.

The next day, as soon as Mingjia woke up, she saw that neither her father nor Uncle Yuan went to the county government office. Both of them sat there and watched her eating breakfast, confused.

As soon as she put down the bowl and said she was full, her father picked her up and walked out. (⊙﹏⊙)What happened?

Arriving at Xie Boyuan's room, Xiao Qingshan put his daughter in the chair. I couldn't wait to tell my daughter about my discussion with Xie Boyuan yesterday, and finally asked if it were her, how would she get the subsidy?

Mingjia finally knew why his father and uncle Yuan looked so bad yesterday. In fact, she could guess that local officials would be obsessed with taxation. Even if the dynasty had not just been established, some bold officials would go too far.

After thinking for a long time, Mingjia slowly said: "Dad, you want to get subsidies from the adults in Zhoucheng, but you don't want him to hate you too much, right?"

Xiao Qingshan was very happy to see that his daughter understood his demands very well: "Yes, dad can't get him away, but he can't be allowed to bully the people of Qu County like this."

"Hehe" Mingjia suddenly smiled and turned to ask Xiao Qingshan a question, "Dad, do you want face?" Xiao Qingshan was stunned when he heard his daughter's question, and Xie Boyuan was also stunned.

In fact, Xie Boyuan also thought of many ways in private, but it was not convenient for him to take action because he was afraid that someone in the city might know him.

Mingjia saw her father's confused look and decided not to tease him anymore. I asked my father directly when he was in Tianjia Village, did he pay attention every time the village chief's mother-in-law came to catch the autumn wind?

Xiao Qingshan really didn't know. He used to be in the college, and he didn't often go to the village when he was on vacation, so he never met him once.

Mingjia felt relieved now, and she told Xiao Qingshan and Xie Boyuan the steps that Old Liu used every time he came to his daughter and son-in-law's house to enjoy the autumn breeze.

Every time Mrs. Liu came over, her son would carry her to the entrance of Tianjia Village. Before she even entered the village, Mrs. Liu started to cry. While loudly moaning about how miserable her family was, having been without food for several days, she used her incomparable energy to express herself. Taking small steps towards the village chief's house.

I finally arrived at the door of the village chief's house, and I was not in a hurry to enter the house. He said that he was too tired from walking all the way here and had to rest at the door first. Then he sat down in front of the village chief's house and continued to cry.

In the end, he wished that the whole village would come to watch and the village chief could invite his mother-in-law into the house.