Chapter 1137 Sending a Maid for Mid-Autumn Festival

Chapter 1137 Sending a Maid for Mid-Autumn Festival

The warehouse was designed on the east side of the county government gate courtyard, very close to the backyard where Sun Shan lived.

The design of the warehouse is different from that of ordinary houses. Apart from the main door, there are no windows, only small holes for ventilation. The entire design is dark inside.

The warehouse is designed to be moisture-proof and anti-rat and sparrow-proof, and it must be inspected from time to time to pay attention to the preservation of grain.

The floor of the warehouse is compacted concrete, with wooden joists raised on top and wooden floors laid on top.

Reed mats were used to surround grain bins on the floor, with one bin for every hundred dan of grain. The grain bins were sealed with special wooden stamps.

Sun Shan walked into the warehouse and looked at the piles of grain, and he couldn't help but feel calm.

If you have food in your hands, you won't be worried. As long as you have food to eat and don't starve to death, you can survive.

Sun Shan scooped up a handful of millet, looked at it carefully, grabbed a few grains and chewed them, and found that the meat was very full. It seemed that it had passed through many checkpoints during the collection.

The yamen runners were not fools, so they would naturally not let the people who paid taxes get away with it. The grain in their hands was still their salary.

Sun Shan conducted a random inspection and after finding that some of them were qualified, he walked out.

He said to Ambassador Cang: "Please take care of the warehouse. Thank you for your hard work."

Ambassador Cang shook his head in fear and said, "Sir, it's not hard."

Ambassador Cang was very uncomfortable with the sudden politeness.

He may be smiling on the surface, but he may be doing something sinister behind your back.

You must not lose yourself in Lord Sun's gentleness and must be on your guard at all times.

If Sun Shan knew what Ambassador Cang thought, he would definitely roll his eyes.

He was being falsely polite, not really polite. He was just speaking so gently out of politeness.

Even if the shrew of Sunshan Township was asked to curse in the streets, he would not be able to do it because he has an easy-going personality.

Daqian believed that land tax was the main tax, and summer tax and autumn tax could be levied in Yuanlu.

Sun Shan now only collects summer taxes, and after the autumn harvest, he will be busy collecting autumn taxes.

There was also corvée, which was a labor tax.

Ordinary people would serve the government for free, while wealthy people would pay others to help serve, or they would directly pay money to serve in lieu of others.

Sun Shan checked the corvée labor in Yuanlu and found that generally they collected labor service silver directly and refused to let the people pay for labor service.

Next is the poll tax, which is paid based on age and number of people, and is also an important source of tax revenue.

But it's only summer now, so the money will not be received until before the New Year.

The reason why the government chose this time to collect taxes was that it was when the people were the richest. If they didn't collect taxes now, when would they collect taxes?

Then there is commercial tax.

The commercial taxes here are mainly customs duties, that is, fees for entering the city, and even fees for leaving the city are collected.

There are also some miscellaneous taxes, such as the tooth tax, which is the intermediary tax, the deed tax, which is the real estate and land transaction tax, as well as the tea tax, salt tax, liquor tax, etc.

Sun Shan took a look and found that the proportion of commercial tax was very small.

Firstly, the tax rate collected is low. Secondly, Yuanlu is not a place with prosperous commerce. It is all self-sufficient with some small businesses. It is almost impossible to collect taxes.

Daqian also has many sources of tax revenue, such as tea-horse trade tax in the border areas, mining tax, market tax, etc.

It’s just a pity that Yuanlu doesn’t have these at all, so even if they want to collect taxes, they can’t find anyone to do it from.

Fortunately, it is still the early stage of the court, and no additional taxes have been levied.

Especially the three taxes (Liao tax, suppression tax, and training tax), which are simply trying to grab chestnuts from the fire and drinking poison to quench thirst.

Although there are sporadic bandits, road bullies and gangs in the world today, it is generally peaceful and conflicts have not intensified.

When Sun Shan thought about the single type of tax in Yuanlu and the very little that was collected, he wanted to sigh.

Open source, open source, open source, important things should be said three times.

We must find ways to increase taxes and revenue so that we have more money to do things.

It’s August 15th in a blink of an eye, and the moon is exceptionally round.

As per custom, Sun Shan took some things out of the warehouse as Mid-Autumn Festival gifts for the officials.

According to Sun Shan, he didn't want to distribute it, but in the first year, he had to lie low and everything remained the same.

What's more, the summer taxes had just been collected and the government had money in its pockets, so it would be difficult to find a bad excuse.

The officials looked at the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts and found that they were the same as in previous years, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

This indicated that everything was normal with Lord Sun, and they felt a lot more at ease.

County Magistrate Wang took the Mid-Autumn Festival gift and didn't know what to say for a moment.

This Lord Sun is sometimes innovative and sometimes conservative. He is unpredictable and no one knows what he is thinking.

County Magistrate Wang responded to all kinds of movements with inaction. If Lord Sun didn't deal with him, he wouldn't deal with Lord Sun, but he would definitely be on guard.

Manager Wang's waist finally got a little better. Although it still hurt, at least he could get out of bed and help Sun Shan with housework.

Steward Wang came in with a long gift list and said, "Master, these are gifts from others. Please take a look."

When someone gives you a gift, it means you have to give something in return.

Usually these matters were handled by the magistrate's wife, but there was no one in Sun Shan's backyard except two middle-aged and elderly women.

Those who wanted to curry favor with Sun Shan could not find anyone through "wife diplomacy".

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask his servants to deliver the gifts in person.

The wealthy and powerful people in Yuanlu couldn't understand why Lord Sun's backyard was empty. Even if the lady stayed in her hometown to take care of her parents, she should bring a concubine with her.

Even if you don't have a concubine in your hometown, you can buy one on the road or take one in locally.

There are some things that men cannot say and they have to be said through women.

As a result, it was difficult to find even a female mosquito in Lord Sun’s backyard.

The two cooks couldn't even speak clearly or understand each other, so it was difficult to curry favor with them.

So some wealthy businessmen who wanted to curry favor with Sun Shan personally sent maids to Sun Shan.

When Sun Shan took the gift list and saw that there were two maids, his eyes widened instantly and he raised his triangular eyes high, looking quite interested.

Emma, ​​finally someone sent him a maid. He had been looking forward to this day for twenty years.

No one knew who had said that as long as he passed the imperial examination, someone would send him a woman.

When I passed the exam, I had little money, let alone women.

Later, he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, but he still couldn't see a woman.

Emma, ​​I don't even have the chance to feel the woman someone else gave me.

Poor Mr. Sun, he is clearly one in a million, but he ends up living a miserable life and no one believes him even if you tell others about him.

When Butler Wang saw Sun Shan's eyes sparkling, his heart skipped a beat.

Emma, ​​the master is interested in the maid.

Emma, ​​what should I do, miss?

If I had given birth to a baby boy, I wouldn't have to worry so much, but since I only have a little girl, I absolutely cannot let the illegitimate boy get ahead.

Butler Wang has been eating the He family's rice for so many years, so his heart must be biased towards Sister Yun.

Butler Wang was anxious, but he couldn't say it out loud. What if he made the master unhappy and sent him back to Sun Village?

Sun Shan looked at the gift list with great interest. Not only did one wealthy businessman give him a maid, but there were two other wealthy businessmen as well.

Hehe, after counting, he was given four maids in total.

Emma, ​​look, this is the benefit of being an official. Only when you are an official you have power, and when you have power people will cling to you.

It turns out that simply passing the imperial examination is not enough; one must have real power in hand to be noticed by others.

Sun Shan was overjoyed, thinking that after ten years of hard study, he had finally tasted power.