"Mother, you eat." The knee-high doll held a huge head that was out of tune with his body and raised his hand. 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 could not even squeeze out a smile: "You eat, mother is not hungry, mother drank a lot of water, and her stomach is very full."
The doll didn't know that the adult was lying, so he stuffed the melon and vine into his mouth, chewed it twice, and swallowed it - there was still mud on it, but no one disliked it at this time.
The doll squatted on the field ridge: "Mother, when will my sister come back?"
The woman was stunned. Tongzhou recruited soldiers, saying it was recruiting, but it was actually arresting Ding. Her father-in-law was arrested, her husband was arrested, her eldest son and second son were also arrested, and even her uncles were arrested. The family was originally a small landlord, but now he has sold his servants and valuables, and he has not been able to pay the tax.
She can't support her daughter, her daughter is so young, she can talk and call her mother, she is very beautiful, a little girl like flowers.
But I can't keep it at home!
Children who are too young to even buy teeth.
She took her daughter to the city and threw her under the corner of a large family.
These days, she has been telling herself that the big family has kind hearts and her daughter will definitely survive.
In the beginning, it was just to sell the wealth. Later, the family wealth was gone, and the mother-in-law took the old people to lock themselves in the house. Except for drinking water, they did not want to eat anything, and the old people died.
But the old people died, and life was not easy, the tax became heavier and heavier, and soon it was the point of selling daughters.
Several older daughters were sold.
Then came the older son.
Later, their children were too young to sell, so they had to throw them away.
Some poor families gave birth to children, both male and female, and drowned directly.
The doll asked the woman, "Mother, I heard that there is a Nan 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 not to go out. If there is no document to leave the city, they will be killed on the spot.
The people did not dare to escape.
Besides, she was born in Tongzhou since she was a child. Her world is only one-third of the land in front of her. She has never been outside, and she doesn't know what it is like.
She also didn't know if her husband and father-in-law were still alive and whether they would come back.
In the past, when the days were peaceful, she was also the wife of a small landlord's family, and she was intrigued with the concubines.
Today's days are sad, but the concubines have twisted into a rope.
The sun has gone down.
The woman glanced at Hongxia on the horizon, took the child's hand, stooped and said, "Go back."
She gave birth to four sons and three daughters. In the end, she only kept the youngest son. The sons of the concubines were not saved, so the youngest son is the only root. As long as the youngest son is there, the family will still be there. , married a daughter-in-law, had a few more children, and the family got up again.
The original brick house was also sold, and the woman’s family now lives in a grass hut. She goes to fetch water first, prepares to cook a pot of wild vegetables, and then puts some beans. Together with the water, she can make a round belly.
The concubines came back one after another. They used to be girls of the landlord's family, but they were still the wives of the landlord's family after they married, but now they have become peasant women and they have to go to the fields themselves.
They did not dare to sell their property, it was their ancestral property. If they did, they would be sinners. No one wanted to be a sinner of a family. They would rather starve to death than sell the land.
The concubines had been 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 depressed, and the baby didn't dare to speak. Every day at this time, it was like this at home. He was too young to remember what his life was like when he was younger. There are many people. Once he asked his mother, what about the brothers and sisters around him in the past
As a result, his mother hugged him and cried a lot, and he has not dared to ask since then.
But tonight, the woman's second sister-in-law whispered after dinner, "I heard that women can also establish a household in Gaoyou..."
After a moment of silence, the sister-in-law said, "Don't think about it, you can't get out."
The second sister-in-law lowered her head, tears fell into the bowl: "I thought, when we go to Gaoyou, we can all go to make clothes and sew. I heard that if Gaoyou can work, he can live a good life and eat enough. There is a baby, and I don't want to drown him when he is born."
She only found out that she was pregnant after her husband left, but pregnant women are not expensive at this time, and still go to the ground, but the concubines will take more care of her.
The second sister-in-law sobbed in a low voice: "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 that easy.
Since the men in the family are gone, the elder sister-in-law is the one who decides. When the family married a daughter-in-law, it was the most difficult to choose the elder daughter-in-law, because the family business was to be passed on to the eldest son, so the elder daughter-in-law had to be able to manage the house and do everything. The old lady has chosen for several years, and then she has decided on the sister-in-law.
She didn't disappoint her elders. After she got married, she took over the accounts of her husband's family and managed the servants' house. Even if she didn't have children, her status was very secure.
The men are gone, and she is the one who supports the family.
Sister-in-law drank the last sip of wild vegetable soup. She looked around the concubines and found that everyone lowered their heads and asked, "Do you all want to go to Gaoyou?"
The sisters hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.
Sister-in-law asked again, "Even if you die on the road, do you still want to go?"
The woman hugged the doll and said to her sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, Hui-ge is six years old, and after eight years old, it's time for military draft..."
Can an eight-year-old doll go to war? 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 who has used it once and never again. In her eyes, this is her lifeblood.
She didn't save the other children, and she didn't want to save the last one.
She thought that she was the only one who wanted to escape to Gaoyou, but she never dared to mention it. Now that she knew that other concubines had also thought about it, she finally summoned up the courage.
Sister-in-law was silent, and the concubines were frightened and did not dare to speak.
Said to wait for the men to come back, but they all knew in their hearts that there was no news for so long, and they would definitely not come back.
The dead are dead, and they have to live!
Sister-in-law put down the bowl: "Let's go tonight, don't bring luggage, don't bring dry food, there is a dog hole under the city wall, let's go when no one is there."
"Sister-in-law... How did you know there was a dog hole there?"
Sister-in-law coughed lightly: "Just you guys thought about escaping to Gaoyou?"
A family of female relatives left Tongzhou in the middle of the night with a little baby. They lived on the edge of the city. They dared to run when the soldiers on the night watch changed their defenses. The baby did not dare to make a sound. Run with the greatest strength in my life.
run!
There is a way ahead!
The concubines gritted their teeth, hunched over and ran forward.
Given the opportunity to be a human being, who would be willing to be a pig and a dog
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"The people of Tongzhou have begun to flee?" Lin Yuan did not expect the people of Tongzhou to be so tolerant, and only ran away until now. At the end of the thirteenth year of Zhengzhou, Tongzhou drove away the refugees, and now it has been the end of the fifteenth year of Zhengzhou, and there are only one after another. The people fled.
Some people fled to Gaoyou, some fled to Taizhou, and some fell into trouble.
Lin Yuan is not afraid of many people, but is afraid of few people.
Of course, this number of people must be within his tolerance.
Robben said by the side: "Tongzhou's tax is too high."
Tongzhou has not implemented the taxes set by the imperial court for a long time. They recruited soldiers aggressively, took away the strong labor of the family, left the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and had to support soldiers. , the various taxes have been equal to the commercial tax.
But do the people have the financial resources of the merchants
The people at the bottom were the first to run away, and then 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 50,000, and it is still increasing.
Lin Yuan learned from the taxation experience before crossing the road, and he set a limit, and those whose income is lower than this limit do not need to be taxed.
As for how much people earn, it is up to the clerks and officials to manage, and there is a special tax bureau.
There is also assistance for poor households - there is no subsidy, and Lin Yuan is also poor.
Earn less, don't pay tax.
Earned average, paid little tax.
The more you earn, the more tax you pay.
Moreover, most of the jobs are now in big factories, and they are good at investigation and management. There is basically no difference between the income reported to the tax bureau and the actual income.
However, tax evasion is common, and Lin Yuan also understands that, so different industries have different tax deduction standards.
When the tax bureau set the rules and gave them to him for a review, Lin Yuan himself was very concerned, and stayed up for several days and nights to find out the irregularities and let them continue to correct them.
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 fought the country and worked hard to support the people. The Yuan Dynasty relied on commercial tax, not agricultural tax. According to historical records, some Local agricultural taxes are as low as nothing.
But when Genghis Khan was alive, he was fine. When he died, the decree began to be greatly reduced.
Tongzhou, for example, dares to collect taxes on its own.
Moreover, the taxation of Tongzhou is very strange. Tongzhou looks at the land. For example, Tongzhou said that one mu of land can produce 30 shi of rice, so people in this city will pay 10 shi of tax this year.
But what if the land is not abundant
What if there is a flood or drought
In addition, there is the poll tax. The poll tax is not paid by farmers, but by ordinary people in the city who have no land. How many people in the family, how much tax each person pays a year, what? A little doll waiting to be fed? That's an individual, and you have to pay taxes.
Therefore, Tongzhou people dare not have children, and they will drown when they are born.
Last year, the tax was only paid 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."
After collecting so much tax and not actually going to war, the granary must be full
Lin Yuan smiled at Luo Ben: "Do you dare to fight?"
Robben bowed solemnly: "But please fight!"
The author has something to say: Lin Domineering President Yuan: "It's getting cold, and Tongzhou will go bankrupt."
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