During the autumn harvest, the first important thing is to collect taxes. This year, Qinglin County has good weather and the people have a good harvest. Every household is planning to have enough to eat this winter.

Originally, Yin Shuangshuang thought that collecting taxes should be very simple. He just brought a bucket with grain, collected all the grain according to the quantity, pulled it back and put it in the granary.

Unexpectedly, upon inspection, I discovered that this bucket also had something inside it. Not only was it larger than the bucket required by the imperial court for collecting grains, but there was also a deep pocket one palm high underneath. This deep pocket alone could hold ten more grains.

Kilograms of rice.

Yin Shuangshuang's face suddenly turned cold after seeing it. This thing was specially researched by the aristocratic family. It was originally used to deal with farmers who rented their own land.

Later, he may have benefited from it. When he was an official and collected taxes, he also used this kind of bucket. Then the grain given to the court would be the correct amount of tax revenue, or it had been exploited.

Then the overcharge plus the expropriation, in short, the bulk of the grain tax went into the pockets of the wealthy families. The people's lives were just like the poem, there was no idle land in the world, and the farmers were starving to death.

Yin Shuangshuang took a deep breath and said to Wang Ruibo and Wang Ruiqi, who also looked ugly: "Destroy these buckets and send people to rebuild them as quickly as possible.

In addition, people were sent to every village to inform them that the collection of grain taxes would be delayed for a few days, so that the people could wait before preparing the grain to pay the taxes."

Naturally, it was the county government's police officers who went to run errands to notify him. Now, except for Wang Ruibo, who was the head catcher, the other members of the Yanzi team in the county government had returned to Yin Shuangshuang's side to continue their guard duties.

The county police officers have all been replaced by people from Qinglin County and surrounding villages. This is also an inevitable result. First of all, the police officers are not county magistrates and cannot be changed every three years.

If we keep using people from the Yanzi Team, when Yin Shuangshuang leaves the county government, all the police officers will be gone, and there will be no one available to succeed him.

When a local is familiar with the local terrain, once something happens, such as arresting someone, it is easy for a local police officer to catch the person.

After all, they all know the nooks and crannies of the corner. If you are unfamiliar with the place, no matter how skilled you are, you may not be as efficient as the local police.

Just like at this moment, Yin Shuangshuang issued an order, and these agents put together a plan and went to places they were familiar with to deliver the message, and the matter was completed without Yin Shuangshuang having to worry too much.

This year's harvest was good, and the people were happy, with smiles on their faces. One woman was shocked when she saw her young man who was a policeman running back in broad daylight.

He hurriedly rushed forward and grabbed his boy's arm, and reprimanded him anxiously: "Why did you come back here in broad daylight?

You still think that you are a bastard who works in the fields and has no one to care about you. Now that you are eating from the yamen, how can you run back without permission during the day?

If you, a bastard, dare to throw away such a good job, I will break your legs."

The policeman who reported the news showed a helpless smile and could only stop and comfort the anxious mother: "Mom, look where you are going, am I the kind of person your son is?

It's rare for an adult to take a fancy to my strength and make me a policeman. The salary is generous, so I naturally have to work hard.

This time I didn’t come back privately. My lord asked me to come back and deliver a message to everyone. My lord asked us not to prepare the food for taxation at the moment, and we will pay the tax after we get new food buckets.”

When the old woman mentioned the battle to pay taxes, her heart trembled and she couldn't help but become nervous. She tightened her grip on her son's arm and said, "Why, why do we have to do a new battle again?"

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The policeman saw that his mother was so frightened that her words were trembling. Knowing what her mother was worried about, he couldn't help but raise his hand and slap himself in the mouth. He was very upset.

"Oh, Mom, I see you are scared. It's all my fault for saying things that have no cause and effect. But you are the same, Mom. Are you the kind of person who doesn't care about the life and death of the people? How can we raise taxes?

When your Excellency went to check the grain bucket for tax collection today, he found that the grain bucket was not built in accordance with the court's rules and charged a lot more rice from the people. Your Excellency was very angry.

No, Your Majesty directly ordered those buckets to be destroyed and new buckets to be made according to the court regulations, so the tax collection had to be delayed for a few days. This is a great thing.

When you get the new bucket ready, there should be a lot of food left at home after this year's taxes are paid, so you don't have to worry about going hungry in the winter."

"Oh, it turned out to be such a good thing, but I, an old woman, was so confused that I wronged you. You deserve to be beaten. You are the great master of Qingtian."

The woman who had been panicked just now suddenly became happy. She clasped her hands and bowed several times in the direction of the county government office. She had a smile on her face and was extremely grateful to Yin Shuangshuang.

Scenes like this kept happening in villages one after another, and soon the people around Qinglin County knew that their magistrate was an upright official.

This time, the grain tax not only did not exploit them, but also reduced them a lot so that they could have enough to eat. For a time, people everywhere expressed their gratitude to Yin Shuangshuang.

The process of collecting the grain tax was very smooth. The people prepared the grain early and took the initiative to pay the tax. After paying the tax, many people cried with joy and cried bitterly when they saw the large amount of grain left in their homes.

They really lived a very hard life. They struggled to grow the food every year, and after paying taxes, only a little was left.

Every winter, frail old people and children starve to death, which is the deepest pain in their hearts. Now with this food, they finally don't have to worry about the old people and children at home starving to death.

Although he did not exploit the people, Yin Shuangshuang calculated the taxes collected and found that they were more than four times the annual tax. Yin Shuangshuang was furious again.

Gao Ya held a cup of Chang'an's special Qinghuo tea and put it in Yin Shuangshuang's hand. Seeing how angry she was, she couldn't help but persuade her: "Sir, calm down, you've done a great job.

When my father first became an official, the prefects above him put pressure on him, and the junior officials below him were often bribed by those aristocratic families. They often struggled to get ahead. I understand this feeling of anger best.

At that time, my father was also worried every day, and the preferential treatment he could give to those people after all his efforts was only a little, and he had to fight for it with all kinds of difficulties, but you are not as good as you, sir."

Yin Shuangshuang took a deep breath, picked up the teacup on one side and drank it all in one gulp: "I don't want to be angry. If these aristocratic worms are not eradicated, the people of the world will not be able to live a good life.

Look, this is still a good year, but the people's life is already so difficult. What if this is a disaster year? It just gives these corrupt officials who were born in aristocratic families a better opportunity to make money.
Chapter completed!