These days, there have been children on the streets of Wenxi City clapping their hands and singing nursery rhymes:

"In the morning, people seek promotion and in the evening, they seek alliance. It is difficult for poor people to survive in the fields. We welcome the king's division and restore the Han Dynasty. The people of the Han family will pay a tax of one tithe. If they don't pay, it will be regarded as a gift."

 (Calculation of tax, i.e. poll tax)

 “Restore the Han Dynasty, divide the fields, and the king will have enough food and clothing when he comes.”

 …

The reason why nursery rhymes are nursery rhymes is that they are different from those elegant spring and snow songs. They are sung to lower-level people.

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Not only can I understand it, but I also like to listen.

With the encouragement of caring people, within just a few days, people not only sang the song in the streets and alleys of Xiwen City, but also began to spread it in various villages in the countryside.

In this case, before the king's division of the Han Dynasty arrived at Wenxi County, Captain Nong opened the city gate early and took the initiative to send people to meet the king's division and join in the great cause.

General Guan naturally highly praised this move of abandoning darkness and turning to light.

 Under the protection of his personal guards, General Guan rode a tall horse into Wenxi County.

On both sides of the street, the villagers and gentlemen greeted by drinking and water, after seeing General Guan, shouted:

 “Welcome Master Wang!”

Although General Guan knew that this was the arrangement of Captain Nong, he still couldn't help but smile on his face. When he saw her stand up and dismount, he held up his hands and said to everyone:

"Guan was sent by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to lead a righteous army to fight against the rebels and restore the Han Dynasty. I would be very grateful to you for your help."

“General Guan, you are so polite. We look forward to the king’s division, just as we look forward to the rain after a long drought. Now that the king’s division has come, we are only happy!”

“Yes, yes, the thieves have usurped us, and we have been suffering for a long time!”

General Guan smiled slightly:

"I also know that the world has been suffering from thieves for a long time, so I am here to make an appointment with you: As long as the king's master is there and the family has land, the tax will only be 11%, and no additional tax will be charged."

 Everyone was immediately in an uproar.

 In the early Han Dynasty, the tax was light, first taxing one for fifteen, and then one for thirty, which was praised by later generations.

 Compared with this, the tithe tax can be described as a heavy tax.

  But this tithe is a tax levied on the basis of no imputed tax.

 If you really want to calculate it, it is not much different from the fifteen tax of the former Han Dynasty.

At that moment, an old man kept saying: "Master Wang, you really are Master Wang!"

 Guan Ji pressed her hands to calm everyone down, and then continued:

“I have always known that Wenxi is a place for thieves to farm. However, over the years, the thieves have used the name of farming to practice harsh government.”

“There are many people in the villages who have no food to feed them, no clothes to cover their bodies, and are overwhelmed by the burden. The emperor of the Han Dynasty pities them very much.”

“Therefore, I hereby promise that as soon as the thieves are defeated and Hedong is recovered, the imperial court will redistribute the fields so that those who till the land can have their own fields.”

As soon as these words came out, the officials and village elders suddenly became silent.

 The smile on Guan Ji's face did not diminish, but her eyes were slightly narrowed and she looked at everyone.

The old man who was called "Master Wang" just now was sweating on his forehead for some reason, and he said with a dry smile:

 “The emperor is benevolent... benevolent!”

 “Be kind to his mother!”

 In a Wubao outside Wenxi City, someone was yelling viciously:

“What does it mean that those who have land in their families are only taxed 11%? What does it mean that no tax is counted as a tax?”

 From ancient times to the present, land taxes and tax calculations have been the most important revenue for the imperial court.

Now the Shu captives are loudly shouting that they will not collect taxes and only ask those who have land to pay tithes. Do they not support officials or soldiers?

However, the fact is that not only did Shu captives raise troops, but they also cost more than those of the Wei Dynasty in raising troops.

 How else could the Jingqi of the Wei Dynasty have been defeated by the Shu captives over the years?

So where does the money and food come from?

 Isn’t it just people with “land and land”?

It is not obvious that whoever owns the most land will suffer the greatest loss?

So the question is, who will occupy the most fields?

These problems involved are beyond the imagination of a mud-legged person. Don’t people from aristocratic families understand?

So once the news about Xiwen County spread, many people were already cursing "Master Wang" secretly to go back to Shu.

 Someone said hesitantly:

“If this is really the case, wouldn’t it mean that the Shu captives would have lost their hearts before entering the pass?”

　　From a sneer:

“Do you know who the person named Guan is?”

“I heard that he is the son of Guan Yu, but isn’t he from Hedong? That’s even more inappropriate. How can you treat an elder like this?”

"Bah! That's the number one general under Feng Thief! Do you know what reputation Feng Thief has in Shu? Humanity is ruthless and cruel to Xiao Wenhe!"

“Where do you think that cruelty and ruthlessness come from? That’s a reputation he earned by repeatedly using poisonous tactics to harm the great families of Shu.”

“If it had been anyone else, I would have said it was just talk. If it had been Feng Wenhe, would you have said that he really didn’t dare to do it?”

 Someone gritted his teeth and said:

"We have worked so hard over the years to accumulate such a small amount of property. If the Shu captives are as they say, not to mention how much meat we have to cut off, even the farmers below will have to flee..."

 The tithe is a tithe, and there is no need to pay it as a tax. No matter how you look at it, it is a benevolent government.

 But this benevolence is the greatest evil to a wealthy family.

 “Then what should we do?”

"What should we do? In this world, we have always heard that those who win the hearts of the people win the world. If the Shu captives go against the grain, will they not be defeated?"

Rather than making good friends with aristocratic families that have been standing for hundreds or even hundreds of years, the Shu captives instead went to curry favor with those weak-legged people. What else is it but a reverse act?

 A mud-legged man...does he deserve to be called a citizen?

Just when everyone was filled with anger and discussing countermeasures, suddenly a servant came to report urgently:

"My lord, someone is calling outside the fortress, saying that they want to collect grain."

  Recruiting grain?

 What kind of food is collected?

 We have always been the only ones collecting food from others. Who dares to ask for food from us?

"People in the stronghold, listen, now the king's army is fighting against the bandits, and the army is short of food, so we have been sent here to raise some food and grass for the stronghold..."

Outside the stronghold, Shi Bao was riding on a horse. He couldn't help but feel proud as he watched the sergeant from the front shouting to the people inside the stronghold.

 Handong’s big dog family, you didn’t expect that I, Shi Zhongrong, is back again!
Chapter completed!