Everyone thought it was good when they ate the innocent meal. Although there was no fish, everyone was not without suffering.

Especially Cui Xiuning, I felt that the simple rice was particularly sweet and I was filled with tears in my eyes.

After Li Luo finished eating, Li Yuan took the initiative to serve tea to him and Cui Xiuning.

Seeing that Li Luo and others were satisfied with their food, Da Cui breathed a sigh of relief and said with great confidence: "Officials, this year, they will be blessed with God and good weather. Only then can the grass people eat perfunctorily tonight's food. If they have to change it last year, there is no surplus food in the humble house."

Li Luo laughed secretly, crying and being poor.

What? Do you think you will be kind and give some food?

That won't work.

This is not Li Luo's stingy. It's... he has a better way.

"Why, you brothers are not old, have no children, and have no wives and concubines to raise, why are they short of food?" Li Luo made a questioning tone, "Is it because they are lazy and hate labor? Or they are not doing their jobs?"

Cui's face turned green when he heard it.

This is really a dog official of the Tartars!

You said why the people lack food? This should be asked your Tartar master, and I should not ask me! I also said that I am lazy and hate work and do not do my job properly. I only plant ten acres of land, but I have to pay the twelve volcanoes of grain tax. How can I not lack food?

How is this dog official’s hunchback different from “Why not eat meat minced”?

Dog official, you should go to the village to see the rice jars of other villagers. How many of them are almost empty? It’s less than the winter months, and it’s still more than two months before the New Year. It’s already this scene! This winter, people will definitely starve to death. Someone must have escaped and become refugees.

Cui Sisan could only answer with a forced smile: "It's not that we are lazy, but that we have to deal with the tax and grain department for most of the harvest every year, because of the shortage of food rations."

"What happened?" Li Luo said in surprise, "Now the imperial court has a clear order that a mu of land can only pay a few liters of tax, and the population tax is not much. It includes silver, silk materials, and each household has only five cents of money, and the sum of it is only six cents of money."

Da Cui smiled bitterly and said, "It is a six-civilian bill, but in fact, it has to pay twelve-civilian bills. The extra six-civilian bills are the shortage of food."

Li Luo knew all these things well.

How can I eat more than 20 pounds of land?

Why do we have to pay so much? Because there are still many messy and complicated taxes, which are not handed over to the court, but are intercepted by officials at all levels.

Why?

Because the salaries of officials in the Yuan Dynasty were too low. Later generations showed that the salaries of officials in the court were very low, and the Ming Dynasty was led by the Yuan Dynasty.

The harm of too low official salary is that officials at all levels can blatantly plunder the people with the acquiesce of the court, but the court has nothing to say and can only let it go.

The Yuan Dynasty originally had no salary, and officials relied on tax revenue to intercept them directly on the people. Later, Kublai Khan listened to Ahma's suggestion and settled the salary of officials.

But, how low is it?

The Prime Minister of the Secretariat, who has the highest official salary, is only 120 jin, but not copper coins, but paper money. He is only worth dozens of taels of silver when there is no inflation. What do you think is enough to do? Prime Minister, this is not enough to support the slaves in the family, right?

Not to mention local officials.

what to do?

A joke. Is it because I am afraid of having power? Isn’t it enough to just make a name for blackmailing the people? So, in the end, officials of all sizes don’t care about formal salary. Compared with the money plundered, that salary is nothing.

The Yuan Dynasty not only had extremely low official salary, but also had extremely low military salary. But the combat effectiveness was very strong. Why? By the same token, the Mongolian soldiers and the Red Army of Dissident were mainly trophy, and they still retained the atmosphere of tribal troops. They could grab them wherever they fought, and they could eat them for several years, so they didn't care about the little military salary.

So, since the military pay and salary that the imperial court spent was not high, how did the huge taxes of the Yuan Dynasty spend? Why did the Yuan Dynasty emperors still complain that they were short of money and kept printing and issuing paper money to plunder people's wealth, and later inflation?

It sounds ridiculous. The big expenses of the Yuan Dynasty's finances were actually rewards.

Reward the nobles and the Tantric monks.

Kublai Khan used the money to reward the sect kings and nobles every year, accounting for nearly half of the national treasury. The rewards to the monks were one-third. It was incredible to say it.

The royal family, nobles and Tantric monks occupied a large amount of land and slaves, and were already rich. The emperor still had to reward him a lot for years and rob the poor and help the rich. What's the point! Is the emperor stupid?

Of course not.

Because this is the Mongolian tradition: the tradition of distributing spoils and rewarding spoils. The important responsibility of the Khan is to divide the benefits and share the blessings.

You see, in the eyes of the Mongolian Khan and the nobles, the treasury is not taxes, but trophy.

So, the root is still culture.

When Li Luo thought of this, he further despised the Yuan Dynasty. Of course, he knew the thoughts of Cui, but pretended to be generous and continued to stimulate: "I see that your family has a lot of books, so I must be addicted to reading, so I missed the farming and the crops and produced a bad harvest, so I was in a difficult situation."

What?

Isn’t this picking up a bowl and eating... radish, putting down the chopsticks to curse? In love, we can’t eat enough because we are not doing our jobs in studying? What kind of bastard is this?

Cui was so angry that he wanted to kick this shitty official to death when he heard this.

Da Cui tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart, bowed with a bland look, and replied with a needle hidden in the cotton: "Good instructors know that the Caomin brothers have been farming and studying and passing on their families. Although they like to study, they are just slack in the farming field. There is no slackness in the fields. As for why they still can't eat enough, the Caomin is just a commoner, so it's unknown."

Li Luo couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Da Cui held back his anger and asked, "I wonder why the great official laughed?"

What is ridiculous about mothers, farming and studying to pass on family life is a virtue of China?

Even Cui Xiuning couldn't help but roll his eyes without any trace. Cui is very likely to be my ancestor, so you were rubbing it freely? What kind of attitude should you, the son-in-law of the Cui family have?

Li Luo stopped laughing and said, "What's the use of studying? Is it necessary to be an official in the imperial examination? I will tell you that the imperial examination will never be reopened within at least ten or twenty years."

When Cui Xiao heard Li Luo's words, he had no doubts and was depressed.

"A villain only reads to understand the truth, know honor and disgrace, and understand rise and fall. As for the imperial examination and official position, what kind of virtue is the villain? How dare you make such a luxury?" Da Cui said without being soft or hard.

"I understand the truth, know the honor and disgrace, know the rise and fall, and have such a great ambition." Li Luo laughed and said, "Why don't Xian Kunzhong understand the truth the most?"

Da Cui said lightly: "The villain doesn't understand any great principles. He likes to read miscellaneous books the most. He just learns about farming, law, military affairs, and arithmetic.

Xiao Cui said: "The villain just knows some geography, water conservancy, and arithmetic."

Li Luo nodded and said, "So that's it. Then this is a talent for practical work. Why don't you apply for the county government to recruit staff documents?"

Da Cui smiled bitterly: "Although Caomin knows some practical paths, he has no way. WW. How can he use the officials and county magistrates?"

He had actually reported it at this time. This official might recruit himself. If that was the case, it would be a way out.

Therefore, he was ready to accept Li Luo's "test".

It seems that this official's previous "bastard" was probably testing his brother.

Cui Xiao and Cui couldn't help but worry about gains and losses.

But what he didn't know was that he had actually passed Li Luo's test.

Cui is probably Cui Xiuning's ancestors. How could Li Luo let them ignore them and let them endure hardships here? Of course, they have to take them back.

Li Luo is so rich and arrogant that he is not afraid of raising two idle people.

Of course, if the two are really talented, it would be best, but they just happened to be in their pocket. With Choi Soo-ning here, their loyalty is more guaranteed.

After a while of testing, let’s not talk about the specific talents, at least the brothers’ cultivation of their minds and expressions of their thinking make them satisfied.

These two people are at least capable, and they are definitely not fools.

It can be used, but there is no surprise in the future.

Li Luo now has many talents with the qualities of military generals, but none of them are literary talent. Lin Biju from Haidong is not a true confidant.

People like the Cui brothers are just the government affairs helpers he and Cui Xiuning lack.

"Since the county government does not need you, then I will serve as a private note for me. I am Daluhuachi, Ninghaizhou, and I can recruit your brothers for twenty cents of money per month. How about it?" Li Luo finally made it clear.

What?

Daluhuachi, Ninghaizhou?

Twenty cents a month?

When Cui Xiao heard Li Luo's words, he was stunned.
Chapter completed!