Back To The Beginning Of Ming To Do Charity

"Mother, you eat." The doll, who is not as tall as a person's knees, raised his hand with a huge head that was out of tune with his body. He held a melon vine in his hand. He was also very hungry and greedy, and his eyes kept staring at the melon vine. , swallowing saliva.

The woman straightened up, her face full of wind and frost couldn't even squeeze a smile: "You eat, mother is not hungry, mother drank a lot of water, her stomach is very full."

The baby didn't know that the adult was lying, so he stuffed the melon vine into his mouth, chewed it twice and then swallowed it - there was still mud on it, but no one disliked it at this time.

The baby squatted on the field ridge: "Mother, when will my sister come back?"

The woman was stunned, and Tongzhou recruited soldiers. She said it was recruiting, but in fact it was arresting. Her father-in-law was arrested, her husband was arrested, her eldest son and second son were also arrested, and her uncles were also arrested. The family was originally a small landlord, but now they have sold their servants and valuables, but they have not paid their taxes.

She can't support her daughter, her daughter is so young, she can be called a mother if she can talk, she is very beautiful, a little girl like a flower.

But the family can't support it!

Children who are too young are not even willing to buy human teeth.

She took her daughter to the city and threw her under the corner of a big family's house.

These days, she has been telling herself that the big family is kind, and her daughter will definitely survive.

At the beginning, it was just a sale of property, but later the property was gone, and the mother-in-law took the old people and locked herself in the house, unwilling to eat anything except water, and the old people died.

But the old people died, and their life was not easy, and the tax became more and more heavy, and soon it reached the point where they sold their daughters.

Several older daughters were sold.

Then came the older son.

Later, their children were too young to be sold, so they had to throw them away.

Some poor families gave birth to children, regardless of gender, they all drowned directly.

The baby asked the woman: "Mother, I heard that there is a Southern Bodhisattva in Gaoyou, where anyone can find a job and have a full stomach. Mother, why don't we go to Gaoyou?"

The woman gritted her teeth and said nothing.

Now that Tongzhou is closed, people are only allowed to come in, and no one is allowed to go out. If they leave the city without documents, they will be killed on the spot as a middleman.

The people dare not flee.

Besides, she was born in Tongzhou since she was a child, and her world is only one acre of land in front of her. She has never been outside, and she doesn't know what it is like outside.

She also didn't know if her husband and father-in-law were still alive or if they would come back.

In the past, when life was peaceful, she was also the wife of a small landlord's family, fighting with her sisters-in-law.

Today's life is hard, but the sisters-in-law are twisted into a rope.

The sun has gone down.

The woman glanced at the red clouds in the sky, took the child's hand, bent her body and said, "Go back."

She gave birth to four sons and three daughters. In the end, she only saved the youngest son. The sons of the sisters-in-law did not keep it, so the youngest son is the only root. As long as the youngest son is there, the family will still be there, and when the son grows up , married a daughter-in-law, had a few more children, and the family rose again.

The original brick and tile house was also sold, and the woman's family now lives in a straw hut. She went to fetch water first, and prepared to cook a pot of wild vegetables, and then put in some beans, which together with the water, could also make a round stomach.

The sisters-in-law came back one after another. They used to be the girls of the landlord’s family, and they were still the wives of the landlord’s family when they married, but now they have all become peasant women and want to go to the fields by themselves.

They dare not sell the land, it is ancestral property, if they sell it, they are sinners themselves, no one wants to be a sinner of a family, they would rather starve to death than sell the land.

The sisters-in-law were tired all day, but they didn't eat anything, and they all looked at the woman eagerly.

The woman smiled at them: "It will be fine soon."

No one spoke at the dinner table, the atmosphere was very depressing, and the doll did not dare to speak. It was like this at home at this time every day. He was too young to remember what kind of life he had when he was younger. There are many people. Once he asked his mother, where were the brothers and sisters around him before?

As a result, his mother cried a lot while holding him, and he dared not ask since then.

But tonight, the woman's second sister-in-law whispered after dinner, "I heard that women can also open households in Gaoyou..."

After a moment of silence, the sister-in-law said, "Don't think about it, you won't be able to get out."

The second sister-in-law lowered her head, and tears fell into the bowl: "I thought, when we go to Gaoyou, we can all make clothes and mend them. I heard that Gaoyou can live a good life if he can work, and he can eat enough. I have a baby, and I don't want to drown him when I give birth to him."

She only found out that she was pregnant after her husband left, but pregnant women are not expensive at this time, and they will go to the field as usual, but the sisters-in-law will take more care of her.

The second sister-in-law sobbed softly: "I can't live like this forever, who knows when it will be gone."

Her voice was hoarse: "I don't want to die yet."

The choice between life and death is not so easy.

Since the men in the family disappeared, the elder sister-in-law became the master. When the family married a daughter-in-law, choosing the eldest daughter-in-law was the most difficult, because the family business was to be passed on to the eldest son, so the eldest daughter-in-law had to be able to manage the house and take care of things. The old lady had been choosing for several years before deciding on a sister-in-law.

She didn't disappoint the elders either. After she got married, she took over the account books of her husband's family and took care of the servants' house. Even if she didn't have children, her position was very secure.

The men were gone, and she was the one who supported the family.

The sister-in-law drank the last sip of wild vegetable soup. She looked around at the sisters-in-law and found that everyone lowered their heads. She asked, "Do you all want to go to Gaoyou?"

The sisters-in-law hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

The sister-in-law asked again: "Even if you die on the way, you still want to go?"

The woman hugged the baby and said to the sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, Brother Hui is six years old, and after eight years old, he will be drafted into the army..."

Can an eight-year-old doll go to the battlefield?Can't hold the gun steady?Going to the battlefield is just to die.

In the eyes of the adults above, this doll is just a ding that has been used once and never again. In her eyes, this is her lifeblood.

She didn't keep the other children, and she didn't want to keep the last one.

She thought she was the only one who wanted to escape to Gaoyou, and she never dared to mention it. Now that she knew that other sisters-in-law had also thought about it, she finally summoned up her courage.

The sister-in-law was silent, and the sisters-in-law were too frightened to speak.

They said they were going to wait for the men to come back, but they all knew in their hearts that if there was no news after so long, they would definitely not be able to come back.

The dead are dead, but they still want to live!

The sister-in-law put down the bowl: "Let's go tonight. You don't need to bring luggage or dry food. There is a dog hole at the bottom of the city wall. Let's go when there is no one else."

"Sister-in-law... how do you know there is a dog hole there?"

The sister-in-law coughed lightly: "You guys have thought about escaping to Gaoyou?"

A family of women left Tongzhou in the middle of the night with a baby. They lived on the edge of the city. They dared to run when the night watch soldiers changed their defenses. The baby didn't dare to make a sound. Run as hard as you can in your life.

run!

There is a way ahead!

The sisters-in-law gritted their teeth and ran forward hunched over.

Given the opportunity to be a human being, who would want to be a pig or a dog?

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"The people in Tongzhou started to flee?" Lin Yuan didn't expect the people in Tongzhou to be so tolerant, and they didn't run away until now. At the end of the 13th year, Tongzhou drove away the refugees. Now it's the end of the 15th year, and people have fled one after another. .

Some of the people fled to Gaoyou, some fled to Taizhou, and some became bandits.

Lin Yuan was not afraid of crowds, but of few.

Of course, the number of people must be within his tolerance.

Robben said beside him: "Tongzhou's tax is too high."

Tongzhou has not implemented the tax set by the imperial court for a long time. They wantonly recruited soldiers and took away the strong labor force of the family, leaving behind the old, weak, sick and disabled. , the various taxes have been equal to the commercial tax.

But do the common people have the financial resources of the merchants?

The first to run were the low-level people, and later the small families were also dragged down and began to flee.

In the past three months, the number of people under Lin Yuan's rule has increased by [-], and the number is still increasing.

Lin Yuan drew on his tax experience before crossing, and he set a quota, and those whose income is below this quota will not be taxed.

As for how much people earn, it is up to petty officials and officials to manage, and there is a special tax bureau.

There is also help from poor households—without subsidies, Lin Yuan is also poor.

Those who earn less do not have to pay taxes.

Earn average, pay little tax.

The more you earn, the more taxes you pay.

And now the jobs are generally in large factories, which are easy to investigate and manage. There is basically no difference between the income reported to the tax bureau and the actual income.

However, Lin Yuan also understands that tax evasion is common, so different industries have different tax deduction standards.

When the tax bureau finished the rules and sent them to him for review, Lin Yuan himself was overwhelmed, and stayed up for several days and nights to find out the irregularities and let them continue to make changes.

The agricultural tax in the Yuan Dynasty was very low. Lin Yuan always felt that Genghis Khan was really good. From the perspective of a ruler, he conquered the country and worked hard to support the people. The Yuan Dynasty relied on commercial tax, not agricultural tax. According to historical records, some The local agricultural tax is as low as it is non-existent.

But Genghis Khan was fine when he was alive, and when he died, the government orders began to be greatly reduced.

For example, Tongzhou dares to collect taxes by itself.

Moreover, the tax collection in Tongzhou is very strange. Tongzhou looks at the land. For example, Tongzhou said that if one mu of land can produce [-] shi of rice, then the people in this city will have to pay [-] shi of tax this year.

But what if the land is not abundant?

What if there is a flood or a drought?

In addition, there is poll tax. The poll tax is not paid by peasant households, but by ordinary households without land in the city. How many people in the family, how much tax does each person pay in a year, what?The little doll waiting to be fed?That is also an individual and has to pay taxes.

So Tongzhou people dare not have children, and they will drown if they do.

Last year, the tax was paid only once a year, but this year it has to be paid twice, once every six months.

That's why so many people fled.

Lin Yuan said softly, "Tongzhou...it's time to move."

With so much tax collected and no real war, the granary must be full?

Lin Yuan smiled at Luo Ben: "Do you dare to fight?"

Robben solemnly bowed down: "I just want a fight!"

The author has something to say: Lin · Domineering President · Yuan: "It's cold, let Tongzhou go bankrupt."

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