"It seems very difficult."

"So we have to set a second goal. The first goal is lofty, which can be said to be a dream in life, and the second goal is achieved."

Zhu Jun was a little confused.

"The saddest thing is to set goals and not work hard."

“Some goals and efforts may not be achieved.”

"Then why not set a second goal?"

"Xiaolang, can you explain it clearly?"

"Okay, let me talk about the third one first. The third one is that it is not enough by hard work alone. There must be direction. For example, my first goal is the same as you, and I will be named Donghuamen, but it is very difficult, so I have to set a second goal."

"What is your second goal?"

"It turns out that the second goal is to survive, so I raise sheep, and then, I will wait to grow up while teaching myself. Only when I grow up can I do more. This is the second goal, the goal that can be achieved by working hard."

"But you have the Xia Kingdom Sword."

"Yes, with Xia Guojian, our brother and sister's lives can improve. But if you want to make progress, you must go out to study. Once you leave the village and enter the city, you have to spend money on everything. From now on, you have to save money gradually."

"I admire Xiaolang's independence very much."

"I'm not talking about this, I'll ask, where is Erlang's second goal? You have to know how difficult it is to sing Donghuamen? It's not like I'm going to say something that makes you discouraged. It's possible to win the imperial examination with Erlang's talent, but it's more difficult to sing Donghuamen than to reach the sky. Is it really spending a lifetime of time for an unfulfilled dream? Even if it can be realized, learning must also be based on methods. Did Erlang make a plan for how to learn? No planning is the same as having no life goal, that is, learning is random and reading hard."

Zhu Jun pondered.

Wang Ju was also helpless. He didn't say it, but he knew it.

The battle of Hei'aoling did not actually earn a thousand yuan of goods for the Zhu family, but caused trouble.

Zhu Huan is the idea of ​​investing, Wang Ju also knows it.

But no matter what, I have received favor from others.

This is a favor, and you have to take it down.

Therefore, Wang Ju was also moderately urging Zhu Jun, not Zhu Huan's kind of force, but an inspiring enlightenment.

“How should I set a second goal?”

"How should your second goal help your father so that your Zhu family will not be defeated."

"I can't do business."

"Then what can I learn? Is it more difficult to support three people in my family at the age of thirteen?"

With just one sentence, Zhu Jun was killed.

While he was talking, the second uncle hurried over and said, "No, the clerk is here to collect taxes."

The main rural taxes in the Song Dynasty were summer taxes and autumn taxes.

Summer tax is generally collected from April, and is often collected from July, and autumn tax is collected from August. When it is received from October, it may extend to February of the next year.

Wangjiazhai is located in a bitter and cold place in the northwest. The harvest of winter wheat and barley is very bad, and most people even do not plant it. Therefore, it is difficult to get summer taxes and autumn taxes are generally not difficult.

When it was time to collect autumn taxes, the chiefs of the elders from the village next door came over and said hello, and everyone spontaneously sent the autumn taxes to the Security Military City, but no clerks would come.

"For the sword?"

Wang Wei nodded.

"These ink officials have sharp noses." Wang Ju said with a funny look and rushed over quickly. Not only was there a clerk, but also two yamen servants.

"How many Xia Kingdom swords have you cast?"

"It cannot be called Xia Guo Sword, it is a fake Xia Guo Sword that made some swords."

The clerk looked at Wang Ju strangely, why did this village let a child talk to him?

"How many swords are sold?"

"Twenty swords sold for 400 stakes." Wang Ju replied honestly.

Since someone came to the door, he must have heard some rumors and could not hide it even if he wanted to.

This is the commercial tax in the Song Dynasty.

In fact, the commercial tax in the Song Dynasty was not heavy. Merchants paid 3% of the transaction volume, and traffickers paid 2% of the transaction volume for every transaction volume. However, since the Qingli War, everything went into chaos.

Before the Qingli War, the commercial tax in the Song Dynasty generally maintained an income of more than 8 million yuan. In those years, the country was not in good condition and the country rushed to start a war. However, after a few years of war, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent. Therefore, it had to pay heavy taxes, including commercial taxes. Even farmers selling vegetables had to pay taxes on fruits, vegetables and vegetables. Each prefecture and county set up all levels of field services and repeatedly levy taxes. Even the ends and ends had to be repeatedly levy.

For example, when the initial transaction is made, either the merchant or the manufacturer can pay it, but in those years the producer will also have to pay the tax, and the buyer will also have to pay the tax. After the final transaction, the trafficker will have to pay the last tax, and the retailer will have to sell it to the people, so the tax will be paid.

So in those years, the commercial tax suddenly expanded to more than 20 million yuan, almost tripling.

If it is business in the Song Dynasty, there is actually not much commercial tax of more than 20 million yuan.

However, whether it is the business of the literati or the business of the powerful or powerful, the clerks dare not offend and publicly evade taxes. In the end, this huge commercial tax had to be borne by small and medium-sized merchants, causing many small and medium-sized merchants to go bankrupt. In addition, Jiaozi issued randomly, prices rose, and people were living in poverty. Just in time, drought, which triggered a large-scale peasant uprising in Guanzhong and Henan.

Bao Zheng and other ministers kept writing letters, and the war stopped and wanted to relieve the pressure on the people.

But when this head opens, where can it be taken back?

The state's commercial tax revenue seems to have returned to the past, but the officials in various business departments are still exploiting merchants.

Wang Quan's face also changed.

Wang Ju used an impatient look, not this three percent tax, he was worried that there would be other taxes.

The clerk's eyes turned and said, "It's not Xia Guo Sword, can a sword be sold for twenty pennies? If it were Xia Guo Sword, how could a sword be sold for only twenty pennies!"

Wang Ju just told Zhu Jun that articles should be reasonable, and the clerks were also reasoning, but what he was talking about was false truth.

Wang Quan's face changed drastically.

The clerk opened his mouth so big. If he really taxed it according to the price of Xia Guojian, God knows how much tax it would be?

"Where is the place where the official position is?"

"A certain surname is Gu, and the field service is the security military city."

"Uncle Second, please come to my house to get the paper and pen."

Wang Wei went to get paper and pen.

"Boy, do you want to resist taxes?"

The result of tax resistance is arrest, detention, and torture.

It has been there since Zhao Kuangyin, and the court has issued many orders to release the detained tax-owed people and leniently exempt the tax-owed people.

But there was no strict suspension.

If the people are tightened, they will develop resentment towards the country. If the people are loose, they will not be afraid of the court and will not pay taxes. This is also the "drug of the mean". In fact, it is the "flexible governance" in the rule of man.

Gu Xu Lie talked in front, while the two yamen runners were eyeing him.

"Mr. Gu, how dare you resist taxes?" Wang Ju smiled slightly and said, "I just want to write a paragraph for Mr. Cheng."

"Did Mr. Cheng tell you not to pay taxes?"

"No, Uncle Yuan Hei created the real Xia Guojian. The boy wants to ask Gong Cheng to write to the court to let the court reuse Uncle Yuan Hei."

"You dream..." Gu Xuli suddenly stopped.

Xiaxia Kingdom Sword and Xixia Crossbow, and cold forged armor are famous all over the world, but the cost is high and the output is small.

However, the Song Dynasty was in operation. The annual military expenditure of the Song Dynasty was almost equivalent to the total tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty for three or four years. The Song Dynasty's iron production was not comparable to that of the Western Xia. Although the Western Xia was well-equipped and produced less iron, most of the iron ore was exchanged for private markets or mutual markets between the Song and Liao countries. If you want money, you need iron and iron. Once the Song Dynasty gets the technology of the Xia Kingdom sword, it can be greatly promoted.

This principle is the same as the later Divine Arm Bow. Li Ding, the chief of the Western Xia tribe, came to the castle. He brought the Western Xia bow and crossbow technology and combined it with the Song Dynasty's bow and crossbow technology. He invented the Divine Arm Bow. He was invented before and immediately promoted it later, and continued to improve it. The pulling force was improved from the original two stones to one stone. Although the status of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty was a bit low, he invented this weapon. Song Shenzong issued an edict to reward Li Ding and gave Li Ding an official position.

If Yuan Heizi really had the skill to make Xia Guojian, he would definitely cause a sensation in the court and the public.

If not, he would have been blackmailing this time.

It is conceivable how big a storm will occur once this music is presented to Cheng Kan.

The border needs to maintain stability!

"Do you dare? Can you still capture me if the villagers in the village want to protect me? Or when you bring more yamen runners, maybe I wrote dozens of memorials and handed them to Yanzhou, even to the capital, or even to the Wenguyuan in the capital!"

"You, you..."

"You can reach out, but it's not possible to use any excuse. If you use the Xia Guo Sword as an excuse, it's just a clever word to match the army!"

"You, you..."

"Let's do this, since Mr. Gu has come down, then Zhu Chao who has opened five swords."

This is a step for the clerks of Gu surnamed. But Wang Ju lamented in his heart that the Song Dynasty was well paid to maintain integrity. It should be said that the phenomenon of corruption among officials was relatively light in history, but what about these clerks? How could Wang Anshi's reform be invincible!

Tigers need to be beaten, and flies need to be beaten even more.

PS: The Song Dynasty used "currency" as a certificate for taxation. Before taxation, the banknotes were not printed, and they were called white banknotes. After tax payment, the tax group seals and strips were stamped, which were called red banknotes. In order to prevent counterfeiting, the group seals were stamped on the date and the seal styles were changed regularly. The seals were different in different places. The old seals were destroyed after the printing was modified. At the same time, there was a set of strict backup and storage measures to know the economic situation in various places, facilitate management, reduce the harm of small treasuries, and assess the political achievements of officials. Some measures are worth learning from even now. Of course, backwardness in ancient times was inevitable, and there were many disadvantages. This was a helpless thing. After all, backwardness in productivity was also the era of imperial power.

Wang Ju asked Zhu Wen, who had five swords, and the remaining fifteen swords, 300 swords, nine swords, were to pay the three people for errands, otherwise things would be stalemate.

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