Chapter 72 Zang Ba’s Sorrow [35 Please read it! 】
As I said before, Zang Ai is not a playboy, on the contrary, he is a second generation with talent, knowledge and ability.
Therefore, he can see that this method can indeed solve the urgent needs of the Zang family, and also benefit the Mi family
In this way, both parties can benefit, just like The win-win situation that Mi Feng mentioned in front of him.
Although Zang Ai was obviously tempted, in the end, Zang Ai failed to make a decision.
"It's a matter of great importance. We must report this matter to my father and ask him to make a decision."
As for Zang Ai's attitude, Liu Feng and Liu Feng naturally had nothing to do with it.
After the two sides agreed to see each other again, Zang Ai ignored the banquet and stood up to leave.
After leaving the inn, Zang Ai had no intention of continuing his work and simply went home.
After arriving home, Zang Ai asked if his father was at home, and Zang Ai went directly to see him.
Zang Ba liked Zang Ai's son very much. He often boasted that he was a warrior, but he gave birth to a Confucian scholar.
It's a pity that in this world there is no way for powerful and poor families to rise, and the identity of Zang Ai Shi may not be recognized by the nobles.
No matter how much Zang Ai studies, without the help of famous teachers, classmates, and Confucian scholars to help him become famous, he is still just a powerful son.
Zang Ba was feeling worried in the study at this time.
Gongsun Du’s channel for buying horses is not easy to deal with. If the transaction fails this time and the contact is cut off in the future, there will no longer be a channel for buying horses.
But during this period of time, Zang Ba had searched all the places he could and had borrowed a lot from others, but he still couldn't get enough.
In the tax system of the Han Dynasty, there was a land tax of thirty and one tax, but this was just a land tax, that is, for the grain you grew on the land, you had to pay a grain tax first.
Most people in later generations think that the taxes in the Han Dynasty were very light, only 3.3%, but this was an extremely serious misjudgment.
Because in addition to land taxes, there are a large number of other taxes.
Including but not limited to mu tax, 10 yuan per mu, paid one to four times a year, it all depends on the conscience of local officials.
As a tax, this is a poll tax for adults in the family, but as for whether you are an adult, I'm sorry, it still depends on the conscience of the local officials.
If you have no conscience, your five-year-old child will look like he is fifteen years old, and your family members who have died a few years ago are still on the government's tax books, so they have to continue to pay.
The oral tax is very unique. In theory, it is a poll tax paid by minors. In order to show mercy to the people, the emperors of the Han Dynasty would always reduce or reduce taxes in this area.
But in fact, many minors do not enjoy this benefit at all. Isn’t it surprising?
This surprise comes from the fact that the lower-level officials and powerful men of the Han Dynasty feel that Your Majesty has no right to deprive the children of the honor of paying taxes.
As for other things like watch duty, corvee service, labor service, mulberry farming tax, and residence tax.
It can only be said that there is no essential difference between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the subsequent dynasties, and it is also a long-lived country.
The so-called Cao Wei can tax farmers to 80-90% of their income, that is after including these miscellaneous taxes. If only the field tax is 80-90%, then Cao Wei's officials are all necromancers, so they can only Farming depends on dead people.
After all, including miscellaneous taxes, all the output has been paid and still owes the government, but you can’t work in vain to repay the debt.
What really oppressed the people in Cao Wei was that the land tax was too high. Their land tax was often collected at more than 50%, but even so, the people still lived better than the military households.
Therefore, in the later period of Cao Wei, he could only rely on the central army to fight the war. The army of the prefectures and the household soldiers were getting worse and worse. This was also perfectly inherited and replicated by the Jin Dynasty.
As a qualified tyrant and warlord in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zang Ba felt that he still had a very conscience.
Because of these miscellaneous taxes, he only received the next year.
Because Zang Ba felt that the money was enough to support the army, and there was no need to expand in a short time, so there was no need to continue to exploit the people.
The people are suffering too much these days. It’s good to let them take a break. After all, you have to grow leeks when you cut them.
But now, Zang Ba, who is short of money, is starting to think about how to temporarily collect the miscellaneous taxes for the year after and the year after that in advance?
The area of Kaiyang is still very prosperous and has not experienced war. The weather has been good in the past two years, and the fields are irrigated by Yishui. Most of the people have some financial background at home.
Even if you have to pay taxes for an extra year or two, you can still afford it. After all, if he hadn't risked his life to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, Kaiyang would have been in vain.
Zang Ba couldn't help but sigh again. He also wanted to make life easier for the people under his rule.
But the price of horses is really too expensive these days, especially the price of war horses, which has soared to the sky.
If you want to buy less, Gongsun Du will definitely not be interested.
A big warlord who controls half of Liaodong wants to negotiate a small business with you for dozens of war horses?
You must know that he negotiated these one hundred horses with great difficulty.
Originally, the other party did not negotiate the price for less than 200 horses.
It's already late January, and including the time on the road, the money needs to be sent by mid-February at the latest.
In this way, the time for the horses to set off will be in the spring. If it is delayed until the summer, the weather is hot and humid, the horses will easily get sick, and the losses will be huge.
Just when Zang Ba was anxious and hesitant, his eldest son Zang Ai came back and came specifically to see him.
Zang Ba calmed down and called his son into the study.
As soon as Zang Ai came in, he smelled heavily of alcohol. He had obviously gone to a banquet.
Moreover, he has not washed himself since he came back, which is extremely rare for a polite gentleman like Zang Ai.
After Zang Ai came in, he didn't care about being rude and first told the other party's proposal at the Mi family banquet.
Zang Ba narrowed his eyes while listening.
He silently calculated in his heart.
If the Mi family is to be believed, then this is really a win-win deal.
The Mi family took his grain and went to Liu Bei to ask for rewards, and then he used the money given by the Mi family to buy horses.
Then the Mi family will go to surrounding places to purchase grain, and then transport it to Kaiyang to sell it back to him at a fair price.
Zang Ba and Zang Ai had the same reaction. At first, their eyes lit up and they thought it was a good idea. But after calming down, they also discovered a lot of risks.
The biggest risk is whether the Mi family can return the food as scheduled.
If Liu Bei wants to farm, he will need food. At least it will cost tens of thousands of dan, or even more than 100,000 dan.
Now it is no different than when Tao Gong was around. At that time, there was still grain saved in previous years in the warehouse of Xuzhou Prefecture, and there was enough money in the treasury.
Liu Bei was poor and had nothing to lose. He inherited a mess. The government and grain depots were empty. If he wanted to farm, he almost had to rely on the Mi family and the powerful nobles to pay for it.
Therefore, Zang Ba had no doubts about the Mi family's request to buy food.
Because it makes sense and is common.
The biggest doubt of Zang Ba and Zang Ai is whether the Mi family can return the food in time.
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