Chapter 612?Moore: The so-called kingdom of heaven is bright on the surface, but the foundation is collapsed!
November of the seventh year of the Tianli period of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Huangshi Town, Daye, Hubei.
A very rare "Jianghai"-class steam sailboat in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River dragged white smoke and slowly docked on the dock of Huangshi Port.
On the dock, hundreds of thin-clothed porters shouted horns, their backs bent into shrimps, and carried baskets of iron ore from the wheelbarrow to the wooden boat. When Bai Siwen got off the boat, he pinched his nose to avoid the sour smell of sweat on the porter: "The beach is a little bright, but unfortunately, when he walked inland, everything was still the same!"
Wanzhen held the maid's hand and stepped on the springboard: "This place is indeed far worse than Shanghai - but the King of Wu said,
By the second five-year plan, railways will be built between Daye and Pingxiang.”
Bai Siwen snorted, "Listen to him brag...:::.There is at least 15,000 taels of silver on a railway line, and at least 700 miles from Daye to Pingxiang. Haha, more than 10,000 taels! What is he going to do to repair it?"
Moore stood beside a foreman who was keeping accounts, secretly glanced at other people's books. The foreman in a silk shirt was drawing the name of the porter with a red pen, and every five baskets were carried, he would remember the word "其".
Friedrich wrote in his notebook: "There are still a large number of inefficient handicraft production in mainland China. Once the scale of the coastal machinery industry further expands, these backward handicraft industries will be ruthlessly eliminated...
As soon as the few people got ashore, Huangshi mayor Xiao Defu was already waiting at the pier with three and four green sedan chairs. The short and fat man was wearing a Suzhou silk gown, with a golden pocket watch on his chest shaking. When he saw Moore and Friedrich, he stepped forward and bowed: "I am the mayor of Huangshi, with his surname Xiao, and his name is Defu. The two must be foreign masters from England, right? Thank you for your hard work! Hongbin Tower has prepared a welcome banquet, and the guest room has also smoked mugwort!"
"There is no need for a sedan chair." Moore waved his hand to refuse, but saw the two sedan chair husbands having patched their knees and their straw sandals exposed their frozen red toes.
Mayor Xiao followed Moore's gaze, then smiled bitterly and said to the two sedan chairs: "It's true,
Can't you two dress more decently?"
Wanzhen walked on the mud-covered dock with her jacket and skirt: "Master Xiao is so generous. These three green sedan chairs are not cheap, right?"
"You must be the fourth prince's wife of the King of Wu, right?" Mayor Xiao said with a smile. "These three sedan chairs belong to the town office, the one belongs to the farmer's association, and the other belongs to the Huangshi Port Management Department under the Daye Mining Bureau. They are all from the public."
Moore whispered to Friedrich in English: "The old nobles were defeated to become the new nobles..."
Before he could finish his words, a cry suddenly broke out outside the dock. Three ragged farmers were dragged by tax collectors on their shoulder poles, and brown rice was sprinkled all over the floor.
"Okay, okay, okay, I won't dare again...\n.\n" An old farmer begged while picking up the falling brown rice into the basket.
The tax collector did not give any mercy at all, but kept scolding: "Who told you to set up a stall and not pay taxes? Do you know that Hongbinlou in the town? That was the transaction of Mr. Xiao, and the commercial tax that should be paid has never been missing...:.
Moore frowned and took out his notebook, but Friedrich held his wrist and said, "Look at it." More than 20 porters were carrying iron ingots from a screw truck with the sign "Dazhi Mining Bureau" to a business.
A businessman wearing a cotton robe in Hangzhou stood next to the car, holding an abacus and chatting with a tax collector.
"That was Chen Shifang, the shopkeeper of Chen Ji Iron Store in Daye County, "Master Xiao followed them and said, "That's the God of Wealth in Daye County, one-third of the pig iron in Daye was sold by him."
Every year, the commercial tax paid to the county alone contains 5,000 Taiping silver dollars...
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"Five thousand?" Bai Siwen suddenly interrupted, "I remember that the Tongzhou Cao Transportation Office only took a year...
"Boom!" Suddenly, a loud noise came from the dock. Two wheelbarrows carrying iron ore collided together. The basket filled with iron ore fell over and broke a coolie's thigh. The coolie screamed in pain. However, Mayor Xiao did not raise his eyelids and ordered his left and right: "Go and take a look, if you can't die, let the dock give two money to send the person away."
Wanzhen whispered, whispering: "Do you need to send it to the clinic?"
"It's still the king's heart!" Xiao Defu said with a waist, "Come here, I'll send the injured to the clinic, Hongbin Tower, and invite it!"
Moore and others were passing by Huangshi Town Office on the way to Hongbin Tower, when they suddenly saw a thin middle-aged man squatting on the threshold of the town office to stew ramen noodles. The middle-aged man snorted with some pickles and ate a large bowl of noodles, while his red silk official uniform showed that he was at least a sixth-rank official from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
"Mr. Yang, why don't you know that when you come to Huangshi Town? You are so happy to entertain you!" Xiao Defu saw this man and quickly stepped forward to salute. This man was Yang Laobai, the county magistrate of Huangshi County. He forced Huang Shiren to the United States to release usury. He had a prosperous career in the past two years and actually became the county magistrate.
"Chief of Heaven?" Moore's eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt good about this hard and simple Chief of Heaven.
Friedrich, who was standing beside him, nodded repeatedly: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom still has a bit of the true nature of a peasant regime!
"What to entertain? It's better to do things like anything." Yang Laobai wiped his mouth and glared at Xiao Defu fiercely. This guy knew that he was making money and was fooling about his errands! If it weren't for Xiao's surname and a relative of the King of the West, he would have done it long ago!
Yang Laobai glanced at the two foreigners and Wanzhen, and without saying anything, he walked straight into the lobby, grabbed the auspicious hall and slapped it at the desk: "Take a prisoner!"
The criminal...\n.\n.\n.\n.\n. It was not a robber who killed people and set fire, but eight honest farmers who were carried in by militia from Huangshi County. The leading old farmer Wang Er knelt down: "Master Qingtian! This year's insect storm and hail, and two acres of paddy fields only collected three stones of grain..."
"The quota for two acres of paddy fields is six stones, and one stone should be paid for six taxes," Yang Laobai sneered, "You only pay three dou, do you think I can fool you?"
Moore, who was listening outside the office yamen, asked Mayor Xiao, "Why is it six taxes and one? Shouldn't it be nine taxes and one?"
"The nine taxes are given to the court...\n::.\n:" Xiao Defu explained, "adding local taxes is six taxes 1
"The baby's mother got tuberculosis and sold a stone of food to get medicine...:
"Fart!" Yang Laobai threw the account book, "The holy soldier is still hungry in Sichuan to clear the monsters. Are you pretending to be pitiful in the back? People come to the mines one by one to work for a month to get tax deductions!"
Mayor Xiao explained again: "If you cannot pay taxes, you will usually get to work...:::. Use labor to deduct taxes! However, the mining bureau in Daye is always short of staff, so you send them there."
Moore and Friedrich both showed disappointment. Finally, they met a "clever official" but were so cruel in their work. Mayor Xiao was the best at observing the words and expressions. When he found that the two "foreign heavenly masters" were unhappy, he walked into the lobby with a smile: "Mr. Yang, the lower official welcomed the two heavenly masters in Hongbin Building, or you would go too...
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"Check your mother's wind!" Yang Laobai glared at him, "The autumn tax is still 1,200 taels away. Do you have money to serve wine? Do you believe it or not I will participate in your abuse of public funds?"
"You can participate!" Xiao Degui was not angry and said with a smile, "The reception banquet was the amount of 'foreign entertainment', which complies with the provisions on official expenses issued by the Ministry of Revenue."
At this time, a child's endorsement sound suddenly came from outside the town office: "The trapezoidal field acre algorithm, add the upper bottom and multiply the lower bottom and divide the height into two...
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Old Bai Yang's face was a little slow, and said to the farmers who owed taxes: "Did you hear it? The new policy of King Wu's school has been taken effect. The boys in the town will count the land acres. ::::. If you calculate the land acres, you can calculate the yield acres. If you want to ow taxes, you will have no door!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a little boy carrying a schoolbag walked into the county office. He saw that there were so many people inside, and then turned to look at Xiao Defu. It turned out that the child who was memorizing the formula was Xiao Defu's son, and he studied at the Dazhi Mining Bureau Primary School in Huangshi Town. This is the best primary school in Daye County, and not anyone can go to it.
A day later, at a tea stall outside the town office opposite Huangshi Hotel, Wang Er trembled and put his handprints on the field deed. A mu of paddy fields cost 20 yuan to be given to Mayor Xiao, and the accountant put abacus on the accountant: "The monthly interest rate is two cents, and the land will not be redeemed for the month of expiration and will be returned to the owner...
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"Xiao Defu!" Yang Laobai rushed out of the lobby of the office, "You kid is swallowing the fields of ordinary people again!"
"Yang Qingtian Mingjian!" Mayor Xiao bowed, "This is all the farmers voluntarily pay off their debts. They are to treat his wife's illness. You can find out the taxes in the county. The officials are willing to behead them!"
Wang Er, who was squatting in the corner of the wall, just kept crying: "Volunteer, voluntarily... I can't watch the child die of illness!"
"That's right, that's it," Xiao Defu said, "A couple has a hundred days of kindness...:::. If you have nothing to do with your wealth, don't regret it. If you still have a mu of paddy fields to sell to me, you will have the travel expenses to Nanyang!"
Next to the dock in Huangshi Town, a man with a farmer pushed a boy to the broken fence of the newly opened Huangshi Town Primary School: "Recognize words! Learn abacus! Become a good person in the future!"
Moore squatted down and asked the thin boy, "Why do you study?"
"Be the headmaster!" The child's eyes shining brightly, and he pointed at Mayor Xiao who came to see Moore and others off, "Wear silk, sit in a sedan chair, and eat meat every day!"
Friedrich was stunned: "The dream of the children of Prussian workers is to be engineers...::
"It's all the legacy of the imperial examination!" Bai Siwen smiled, "I will continue to eat the people with official skin."
Wanzhen pointed to the groups of children who flocked to the school gate: "Even if you choose one in a million, you can always produce tens of thousands of talents..."
"What then?" Moore said to himself in German, "When a cruel official like Yang Laobai? a borer like Xiao Defu?"
When the volleyball roared, more than 20 straw sandals schoolchildren ran across the stone street in the drizzle. They all held their schoolbags in their arms, which contained textbooks distributed for free by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom court.
Chapter completed!