After Li Su asked this question, the rest of the people present also turned their gazes over.

Obviously, what Li Su asked was the voice of all of them.

When Liu Cheng saw this movement, he immediately understood that people like Li Su were stunned by the high profits!

It’s right to think about it, after all, this is 30% of the income!

Moreover, as long as you pay for the first year, you don’t have to invest anymore in the future, but you can continue to collect it.

With such huge profits and benefits, it is normal for them to react like this!

"Well, that's 30%!"

Liu Cheng nodded heavily and said with full certainty.

My heart was filled with a deep sense of joy for a while.

However, this feeling of relief did not last long, because Liu Cheng soon knew the truth of the matter!

These guys don't think that the 30% extraction is too high and the benefits are too high, but that it is too low!

Not only Li Su, but also people like Xu Huang, Liao Hua, and Zhao Yun, who have endured hardship and lived a hard life, also feel that the charges are low.

They generally feel that charging half of the income from farming is already kind enough.

Not only will the people not feel angry, they will also be grateful.

As for Li Su, a guy with a dark heart, he even suggested charging 70%!

Such remarks immediately stunned Liu Cheng, feeling that many things in his heart had been subverted.

After some explanations from these guys, Liu Cheng realized that by this time, the taxes and taxes of the Han Dynasty were already in chaos!

The taxes stipulated on the surface are not much, but they cannot withstand all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes with clever names!

Moreover, in addition to various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, another terrible thing is that the head tax (poll tax) is collected according to the official population of each state!

In the last years, the population loss was serious, many people were annexed by powerful families, and many people went into the mountains to become rogue bandits.

These taxes, as well as other miscellaneous taxes, are collected normally.

Officials who collected taxes naturally did not dare to collect taxes from those powerful people, so they transferred them to the rest of the people.

Originally, these taxes only needed to be paid once a year. However, now, if a place collects taxes seven or eight times a year, this is not an act that requires a thunderbolt from heaven at all, but a kind of behavior.

It is extremely beneficial to the people!

Because the most common situation in the world is that the tax is collected twenty or thirty times a year, or even fifty or sixty times!

If a place cannot collect twenty or thirty times of tax, it would be hard to call it the land of the Han Dynasty!

These exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have led to many disastrous consequences. One of the direct effects is that a large number of abandoned babies have appeared in various places.

Therefore, abandoned baby means an abandoned baby on the surface.

She paid too much in taxes and had no money left at home. In order to survive and not make the already poor family worse, she had no choice but to reluctantly throw away her newborn child...

After learning about these situations, Liu Cheng couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.

In later generations, he complained more than once that life was too stressful, that it was not easy to live, and that he had all kinds of troubles.

However, compared with the life that ordinary people live now, the life that I complained about in the past is simply like heaven!!

Ordinary people in this era would never dream of white-flour steamed buns, eggs, etc. In their eyes, if they could eat them once or twice a month, they were already very extraordinary things. In later generations, they have become the most common food.

exist.

Some people often think these are not delicious.

There are also many people who, for the sake of their own health and body shape, skip meat and eat vegetables that are low in oil and salt...

Sure enough, happiness comes from comparison.

In the past, in later generations, Liu Cheng felt that his life was mediocre and not as good as many people around him. Now when he compares it with the people at the bottom of this era, it's hard to tell how much higher he is than them!

It has completely become a life that they could not even imagine in their dreams, and they have become what people of this era call 'other people's children'...

After some comparison, Liu Cheng was filled with emotion.

"Forty percent, just forty percent, no more! We always have to give the people a way out, we always have to let them accumulate some wealth in their hands, so that they can have the ability to deal with diseases and disasters..."

Liu Cheng sighed and said with emotion.

Hearing what Liu Cheng said, Zhao Yun and Xu Huang walked out almost at the same time and saluted Liu Cheng extremely respectfully: "The emperor's uncle has such a heart, which is really a blessing to the people. The people will definitely remember the emperor's kindness. No,

I will forget your uncle..."

Seeing this, Hua Xiong, Li Jin, and Liao Hua followed suit.

Seeing this, Li Su felt that the emperor's uncle was too kind and the charge was too low, but he still followed the others and bowed to Liu Cheng without saying anything more on this matter.

This matter is settled.
Chapter completed!