"I just came from the northern countries I don’t know this kind of thing? The emperor of the northern country issued an imperial edict requiring landowners not to collect more than 40% of the rent from leased land, and those who disobey the edict will have to pay a heavy price.
And farmers who own their own land don’t pay rent at all. It’s only necessary to pay a farm tax to the court every tax season. All taxes are gone. By the way, even if they levy labor, they will give money. "
The villagers were even more surprised
"True or false?"
"Do you still pay for labor?"
"Don’t they all pay for rice?"
"I also heard that there are places where people starve to death after two or three days without even caring about their meals."
"Yes, my cousin ran back from the site where he didn’t give food and hid in the mountains for more than a year before avoiding the limelight, but now he has changed his name."
The villagers talked about their experiences and what they saw and heard. Xu Tong listened. When they had finished talking, Xu Tong declared the country again.
For example, after the emperor led the army to seize land, he distributed it to farmers and set up peasant associations to let farmers mind their own affairs.
The national farmers’ association has a lot of power, and the county government can’t collect taxes at will. The tax department can dock with the farmers’ association in the tax season according to the regulations, and can’t do the rest of the tax collection, let alone even think about it.
All kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies imposed on farmers by governments at all levels in the Southern Song Dynasty were abolished by the Ministry of Peasant Associations, and even the rural landlords and gentry were eradicated together, and the land was returned to farmers.
For farmers, a thousand roads and ten thousand roads are not as real as land and tax reduction. What they want most, at least at present, is land and tax reduction.
Wouldn’t it be great if most of it belonged to me?
Every farmer has thought like this.
"Most of the food sent by Chinese farmers really belongs to them."
Xu Tong’s words made many villagers disbelieve.
"Before the disaster, we begged the main family to reduce the rent. The main family cried to us that there was no surplus food in his family, so he had to get some roots and no food. If the emperor of the country was so good, he probably wouldn’t have enough to eat."
Xu Tong laughed for a while.
"You also believe this nonsense? I ask you how much rent do you pay the landlord every year? "
A villager raised his hand.
"Our place is four six, our four main families are six, which is all right. Many places around us are full of Sanqi and two are too dark."
"How many tenants do you have there?"
"Probably more than four hundred."
"You live on these four achievements alone. What do you think that the main family with more than 400 people and 60% grain harvest will not have enough to eat? How many people are there in the main family? There shouldn’t be a thousand people, should there? It is estimated that it is a bit difficult to eat. "
That said, the villager was a little embarrassed.
"This … I don’t know …"
Of course he doesn’t know. If he cleared it, there wouldn’t be such a problem and such doubts.
This shows how deceptive the landlords and gentry are when they talk nonsense.
Lies need to be debunked, and the truth needs to be obtained!
Chapter 736 The second wave of peasant uprising broke out
Even if the emperor is at the end of his tether, the landlord’s house will not be without surplus food.
This is known to all members of the Renaissance Association.
They are very angry about this kind of lie and know it very well.
"At most, there are dozens of people in the main family, and hundreds of people in the servant’s hospital have overcharged you so much food that you can’t eat enough? Do you believe this? "
Xu Tong fumed, "Is there a word in the mouth of the landlord and gentry that can be trusted? Not a word! All they want is more rent, trying to squeeze us to death! Let’s not eat enough and starve to death, so we will be their cattle and horses, and they will be exhausted and live! "
Xu Tong listed the taxes that farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty needed to pay and the actual taxes, and told the villagers how much they paid and where these taxes were embezzled by who.
The villagers looked at each other. When they first heard such a thing, they felt at a loss and puzzled. They felt that everything in the past suddenly became very strange.
After the agricultural tax, Xu Tong said the salt tax.
"Is it difficult for you to eat salt? Do you think salt is expensive? "
"Of course!"
As soon as I arrived here, the villagers seemed to complain more than food, saying that salt was too expensive and bitter, and the quality was too poor and it was difficult to buy.
Others say that they have bought cheaper private salt and the quality is better, so they don’t want to buy official salt since then.
However, sometimes the government is so strict that it has to check the salt. When it sees white salt, it is said that it is private salt. It is necessary to punish the official salt that is bitter and yellowed with some wet salt.
Official salt and private salt were unexpectedly distinguished in this way!
Xu Tong nodded his head and said, "Do you know that the same catty of salt in China is sold for twelve pence where the salt price is the highest?"
"How much?"
When the villagers heard it, they froze, one and two seemed to have heard something very incredible, and their faces were unbelievable.
"Incredible, isn’t it? But this is the real country. The price of salt is so cheap. Do you know why you buy salt so expensive? "
Xu Tong said with a smile, "90% of the price of a kilo of salt is tax, and more than 90% is tax, because everyone has to eat salt, and people in the court have got very rich money and feasted!