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A new edict was issued by the imperial court. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

All households in the world shall measure their assets and set them at the ninth grade, which shall be repeated once every three years.

Households are divided into grades, which have also been established since the Northern Dynasties, and households are divided into nine levels according to their assets. Many of the policies of the imperial court were implemented according to this rank, such as the military system that began in the Western Wei Dynasty, which was initially only selected from among the wealthy above the middle class.

Even the poor department, that is, the Yao service, is also related to the household, and the imperial court has a decree that the poor department is rich and strong first, and then the poor and weak, first more and then less.

In short, it is by no means something to boast about and praise for being rated as a superior household this year, on the contrary, a superior household means that you have to bear a lot of responsibilities.

Zhang Jiagang was rated as a first-class household by the government, and he was still an upper-class household in the ninth class.

The evaluation of households, etc., is to calculate assets, such as subordinates, slaves and maids, livestock, fields, houses, vegetable gardens, chariots and horses, etc., all must be counted. The local government has to update it every three years, and the county, state and province have to file it, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Shangshu Province has to keep it on file for nine years, that is, for 27 years.

The Zhang family is now very rich and rich. There are more than 1,300 acres of fields alone, and there are 1,200 acres of forests and ponds, several houses, and ten slaves and maids. There are more than 200 cows and horses, which is a standard large family.

The county order set a household for the Zhang family on the first day, and sent a list to the Zhang family the next day.

Payment of taxes, local taxes.

Two liters of grain per mu, plus five stones.

Looking at this list, Zhang Chao was very sad and painful, how could the people of the Tang Dynasty be like this, how could they pick rich people to bully? The last time he got war taxes and fundraising, Zhang Chao was drawn more than 100 times of blood. Now that you have a household, you have to pay a lot of blood.

The Zhang family now has more than 1,300 acres of land, and two liters per mu, which is more than 26 stones, and five stones will be added in addition, and a total of 31 stones will be produced.

This grain is still unavoidable, even if my father is a government soldier or an officer, he is not a household, but this grain is indispensable.

This grain is actually not the emperor's grain. Commonly known as land tax, in fact, the official name is Yicang grain.

Yicang was founded during the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty. The original intention of Yicang was to be organized by the state and to provide a private reserve for the purpose of disaster relief and self-help.

The imperial court asked the local people to pay grain according to the different levels of households every autumn, hand it over to the government, and store it in the righteous warehouse to prepare for the year of famine. When the famine occurs, the imperial court will open a righteous warehouse to relieve the victims.

In essence, the original intention of the establishment of this Yicang is very good.

However, although the Yicang is the grain paid by the people themselves, when it comes to the disaster year, it is not possible to open the warehouse at will. You have to ask the imperial court for permission before you can open a position. And those who receive more food are not able to share more.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Li family also began to set up Yicang in various places, and the charter was similar to that of the Sui Dynasty.

The standard of grain payment is two liters per mu, and then it has to be paid according to households, and those high-class households and merchants have to pay more.

Zhang Chao has more than 20 stones, which is calculated as two and a half liters per mu, which is equivalent to one-twentieth of Zhang's land rent income. Different from the national tax of rent adjustment, Yicang grain is considered a land tax, and it is inevitable that households are exempt from taxation, and government soldiers and officers are not exempt.

Twenty years of stone grain is not a big burden for Zhang Chao now. But Zhang Chao just doesn't like this kind of indiscriminate faction, and said that the Tang Dynasty had low taxes.

This righteous warehouse grain has to be paid every year, every year, it can not be less, it is collected according to the acres of land, and it is also levied by adding a household, and the liver hurts.

However, it should be handed over or paid, these days, whether it is a landlord in the countryside or a wealthy businessman in the city, it is impossible to twist the thigh of the court with his arm.

Fortunately, the price of grain is low now, and the Zhang family has no grain themselves, so they can just buy grain and pay it.

Thinking about it, Zhang Chao still feels wronged, his family's more than 1,000 acres of land, which have just been purchased, and the crops in that field still belong to the previous owner, and they will not officially belong to him until next summer's harvest, but he now has to pay grain according to the mu.

"Horse Tent, what's the price of grain now?"

Zhang Chao stood outside the courtyard, his hands were wrapped in fox skin sleeves, his neck was wrapped around his fox skin scarf, and he was wearing a fox fur hat on his head.

"Back to the east, the price of grain has been stable recently, and now it is basically about 80 wen per bucket of japonica rice, the price of wheat is the same, and 55 wen per bucket of corn."

Zhang Chao nodded, this year's grain prices in Chang'an can be regarded as a big dive, from the highest peak of 500 rice to the current 80 rice, I don't know how many profiteers who hoard grain have gone bankrupt.

Zhang Chao himself also planted a big heel, the more than 500 stone millet purchased in the early stage directly lost more than 2,000 yuan, and almost all the money from selling noodles before filled this hole.

Do the math, this time to pay more than 20 stone grain, Zhang Chao is equivalent to more than 10,000 yuan.

Now Zhang Chao is a loser, the last time he bought the Zhao family's land, he spent all his family savings, and then these days he bought cattle, bought ditches, and built houses and workshops, etc., spending money like running water.

It cost 1,000 guan to buy a ditch slope, and it cost about 3,000 guan to buy a cow.

repairing the cellar cover workshop to make the storefront, and the front and back have to spend nearly 1,000 yuan.

Ma Zhou dutifully reminded Zhang Chao that the Zhang family had already run a deficit.

Speaking of deficits, Zhang Chao taught Ma Zhou a way of keeping accounts, using red ink to record liabilities.

The Zhang family has a deficit of 5,000 yuan.

If Zhang Chao hadn't cheekily gone to the Qin family to borrow some money, the Zhang family's new kiln and workshop would have been suspended.

Zhang Chao, who has a debt of more than 5,000 yuan, is now very sensitive to paying his bills.

"The owner, the Shecang is also urging the payment of grain, when will we send the grain?"

Zhang Chao frowned when he heard this, what the hell is this.

During the Sui Dynasty, Yicang was also called Shecang, and Yicang Shecang was the same thing. But in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Yicang, there was a Shecang. Yicang is managed by the government to pay grain for the people, and Shecang is also for the people to pay grain, but it is a reserve granary managed by the township itself for disaster relief.

Or because of the Sui period, those Yicang failed to play a good role in disaster relief, so the people were willing to pay some more grain to build a warehouse, so that in case of a disaster, they could open a warehouse immediately, instead of waiting as hard as Yicang.

The Shecang is basically a township and a warehouse, which is presided over by the landlords and gentry with high popularity in the township.

Yicang is two liters per mu, while Shecang is one liter per mu.

In addition, large households should also be donna.

Zhang Chao now has a disdainful view of many systems in the Tang Dynasty, such as the fact that large families in the Tang Dynasty seem to be particularly discriminated against.

The Tang Dynasty is a county with imperial power, and there are three-level grassroots units in townships and villages under the county, but there are townships but no township heads, and only five li are taking turns to preside. Not only did there be no township officials, but there was not even a yamen such as the township government and township office, and the lizheng on duty all went to the county government to listen to errands, and was responsible for assisting the county in handling the affairs of the township, levying taxes and arresting thieves, and even lawsuits, all of which had to be involved.

But there are no public services.

Education, health care, transportation, etc., don't even think about it.

If you want to build roads, the court will not pull out money, and if you want to set up a school, the court will not pull out money, let alone anything else.

In the township, the local clans, those squires and landlords, became heaven.

This day is not all power, but more of obligation.

If you want to build a road in the township, if you don't have money, what should you do, the people will contribute their labor, and then the big families will pay for it. If you want to build a bridge, it's the same, find a big family to raise donations.

If you want to build a school, you have to find a big family.

Even if the people usually have a dispute, they rarely go directly to the county office, or find a big household to preside.

When villagers need money urgently, they still borrow money from large households.

Anyway, in these days, the big families in the township are simply omnipotent, both judges and bankers.

If you are generous and responsive, then you can get a reputation for kindness and kindness. If you don't want to help, then you are rich and unkind.

In these days, it is so difficult to be a landlord.

Yicang had just finished producing more than 20 stone of grain, and Shecang had another fifteen stones.

Moreover, Lizheng Village and those landlords and villagers also unanimously asked Zhang Chaolai to serve as the new warehouse manager of the Shecang, and the former warehouse manager was sick and could not be a director.

As for the location of the social warehouse management, Zhang Chao is not interested at all. What's the point of running a granary, with no wages and no benefits, you have to bother with Baal. If the grain is moldy and stolen by rats and thieves, you have to take responsibility, and you will not be praised for doing a good job.

But it can't be refused, everyone says that Zhang Sanlang is young and smart, and the Zhang family is prosperous, if the social warehouse is handed over to Zhang Chao to manage, it will definitely be managed, and everyone is at ease.

Ma Zhou said with a smile, "Who doesn't know Zhang Sanlang now, everyone praises you for being righteous and responsive." ”

Zhang Chao couldn't cry or laugh, "This is not a good reputation, this reputation spreads, and it will be difficult for me to be a bad person in the future, hey." ”

"Then does the owner accept or refuse to be the manager of this social warehouse."

"Pick it up, can I not take it, everyone expects it." Zhang Chao sighed, the snow day is not cold, the snow is cold, the day is gloomy and there is no sun, the air is frosty, no matter how much you wear, you feel cold.

"I thought about it, since everyone asked me to be this warehouse manager, then I will take it. However, I'm also very busy, specific things, I think about it, in the future, you will manage the horse tent room, anyway, there are only two or three thousand stone grain in the community warehouse, and there is usually no entry and exit, you can take care of it. The villagers are also arranged to take turns to take care of these specific care. ”

Since he can't push it off, Zhang Chao won't push it either, but Zhang Chao is also a landlord who owns thousands of acres of land, how can he do everything himself. I still have subordinates, Ma Zhou is very suitable, just let him take care of it by the way.

"Ouch, it's so cold this day, I'd better go back to the house and go to the kang for cats."

Zhang Chao returned to the house with his hands, leaving Ma Zhouren standing messy in the cold wind. This owner is too unreasonable, bullying honest people, I am in charge of all the accounts of the Zhang family, not only in charge of the accounts, but also in charge of the money, and now I have to take charge of the social warehouse, which is too unreasonable.

"Boss, I'm asking for a raise!"

Zhang Chaotou didn't reply, "This request can be considered, you do it first, if it is done well, I will consider it." ”

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