Wandao long distance

In the room, Shen Shuibi and Bai Di faced each other.

Most of Shen Shuibi's energy is focused on the documents in his hand. These documents are important data sent for processing and must be verified with physical certificates and seals.

In addition, there was a large amount of information that was not so solemn and was transmitted along with the spell. A large amount of information flow flashed in front of her eyes every minute and every second.

However, even so, she was able to talk to Bai Di freely and clearly stated the order, what Bai Di needed to do, and the reward afterwards.

There must be a reward, you can't just let the horse run without letting it eat grass.

Of course, Li Qi is unpaid, because he is paid and is also the actual leader of this war. This is the proper meaning of the direct line of Wushen Mountain. This is itself a war of witchcraft.

Moreover, these expenses were actually paid for by Li Qi himself.

Wushen Mountain usually does not tax taxes and does not make any distribution of private income. Naturally, there is no "public property" at all. Unlike humanity, everyone will contribute money to establish a "public fund" and then draw from the public funds. Allocate resources.

Wushenshan doesn't do that, but when they encounter such a big event with collective participation, everyone will basically pay out of their own pockets and be responsible for their own share.

Except for extraterritorial battlefields, extraterritorial battlefields involve too many areas and it is unrealistic to pay for them out of your own pocket, so just like Li Qi before, they are all allocated through the 'alliance', and the resources of the 'alliance' are collected by the witches themselves.

Li Qi didn't join in before because Zhu Fengdan gave it to him.

But now Li Qi is the one who is involved in this situation. Fortunately, he is quite wealthy and can't afford it.

Of course, Shen Shuibi would not save on such things. Neither husband nor wife valued extraneous things. If nothing happened, the profits would usually be shared with everyone in Luofu Mountain and the Chamber of Commerce, but now they need to use them.

"The specific things have been explained clearly, so let's do it." Shen Shuibi said to Bai Di: "This matter is very important, so I will tell you face to face. There is a magic weapon over there that covers cause and effect. You should take it with you. , which can prevent you from being counted by the divination method."

"Yes." Bai Di stepped forward and picked up the magic weapon. It was a compass and should be some kind of magic weapon in stock.

Although the couple are not very good at refining weapons, they still have some reserves.

Bai Di didn't say much, just picked up the compass, bowed slightly, and left the place immediately.

He does have a lot of doubts, but they are not things that should be discussed now. Let’s talk about them when he comes back.

After all, Baiyue is the place where he was born, and... he is not very accustomed to humane methods, so he will come back this time, even if he may face the danger of death.

But...

Wherever the Tao goes, what is there to be afraid of?If he chooses to do something he doesn't want to do because of cowardice, then he may be heartbroken.

It was as if he had resolutely left home, abandoned the smooth path of witchcraft, and chosen martial arts.

It seems that after countless twists and turns, he finally realized... what he was pursuing was not pure martial arts.

Compared with those warriors, he is not pure at all.

Those warriors can sacrifice everything for the sake of martial arts. Everything they do is so pure, so sincere, sincere to the heart and sincere to the mind. Only in this way can the martial arts and divine will become more refined.

But he couldn't do it.

He didn't know how long he had been fighting for, from that handsome knight in white to this vicissitudes of life, he finally realized what he wanted.

Force is just a means, what he pursues is to level the injustice.

Bai Di left here and quickly rushed to the front line. He had been in White Snake State before, and now he finally went to the front line of the battle.

Holding the sword in his hand tightly, the energy around him emerged.

Now, humanity is unfair.

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At the same time, in the Dalu Kingdom, there was a small village where Lishui was located.

Some petty officials are here to supervise corvee and tax collection.

Several petty officials arrogantly said to some farmers in front of them: "Now the front line is tight and they are almost out of food. The village elders have issued an order. Within two days, each family must hand over ten shi of food to use as military supplies!"

Hearing this, the farmers looked at each other with bitter expressions on their faces.

Thirty dan per family is not a small amount of money.

One stone weighs about sixty kilograms, and thirty stones equals one thousand eight hundred kilograms and one thousand eight hundred grains, which is enough for a family to save for a year.

There are already a lot of taxes on various things in daily life, and the tenancy alone accounts for [-] to [-]% of the harvest, and a male household is given three bolts of silk and three pounds of cotton every year. In addition to these taxes, there are also salt officials, The Tieguan and Gongguan all collect work and property taxes. This place is close to Lishui, and there is also the Dushui guan who collects fishery taxes.

For the bridge across the river, there is a road tax, a land tax, a city tax, a small tax, and miscellaneous tax, such as harvest, charcoal, fish, and salary taxes, all of which are ten or two. The most outrageous thing is 'harvest', which means that if you go into the mountains and pick up a sparrow, you have to pay a sparrow leg tax.

A large part of these taxes only collect copper coins, not grain, so you have to sell the grain into coins. To sell the grain, you have to go to the city. Among the commercial taxes, there are also over-taxes and residence taxes. That is the market stall fee, and the market entry tax, which is the value-added tax that Li Qi pays when he sells things. There is also tooth tax, pawn tax, and deed tax on some miscellaneous things.

In addition to taxes, there are also various "services", such as household service, labor service, corvee service, and various work services, which require time to do, and they all provide their own dry food, and there is no food supply.

Farmers work hard for a year, and most of the grain they receive is used to pay various taxes, taxes, and labor, leaving little left over.

If it weren't for the fact that the yield of spiritual rice was so high, it could easily produce a thousand pounds per mu, and even more with a little care. I'm afraid no one would be able to survive under such a level of tax burden.

And now that a military tax is added on, it is even more difficult to survive.

But they didn't say much to the clerk, they just nodded.

Needless to say, these officials have very powerful family skills. Some people didn't want to hand over their skills before, but now they have been beaten to death, and the government didn't care about it, or even did it on purpose.

In the current situation, everything is serving the war, and the military is more important than anything else, so it is far more important than the lives of these farmers.

But...the farmers are not helpless.

If you can't get it at home, just borrow it.

There are many places where you can borrow money, such as... local landlords and sects, many of whom are moneylenders.Although the interest is a bit high, it is better than being beaten to death if you can't pay taxes.

Zhang Haoming is such a farmer.

Hao Ling is a very common name. Farmers' names are generally relatively straightforward, and Hao Ling, who has been a farmer for generations, is even more so.

However, although his name is good luck, he has never encountered any good things in his life.

He was over fifty years old and was already on the verge of death. He was hunched over, thinking sadly about how much he should borrow and how much he should repay.

Thirty dan, if all is borrowed, at least [-] dan will have to be paid back. Then will the next year's harvest be able to repay it?
If you don't borrow it, how many things are there in your home that can be sold?
It seems like there is nothing left, only a daughter...

Maybe you can get married in exchange for some betrothal gifts, and the old bachelor at the east end of the village can give you some savings. He is quite hardworking and willing to work, but he is lame in one leg and he is old. He is already 30 years old. No one is willing to marry...

Zhang Haoming doesn't think there's anything special about marrying off his daughter. Everyone does it. There's just one problem. If you marry off and all the food is used to pay military taxes, what about the younger son's betrothal gift?

Fortunately, the sons who were eldest in the past few years are all married, otherwise I really don’t know what to do.

Alas, sad people.

He smacked his lips, put his hands behind his back, and returned home.

The house was very shabby, and there were constant sounds of squeaking and looming sounds. It was the old woman and several daughters-in-law who were weaving.

Primitive tools like looms are still in use, but they must be matched with corresponding techniques.

The speed of the textile machine that does not use Kung Fu is too slow. Although it can be used, it cannot beat others.

Zhang Haoming sat in the yard, looking at the rapeseed and rice in the land outside.

There are only these two crops, because his technique can only grow these two kinds.

Farming also requires the coordination of skills. How to plant, how to read the weather, how to judge the soil, how to use Qi to promote seed germination, and how to coordinate the terrain with mountain Qi to coordinate different crops all require guidance from Qigong. of.

Without these corresponding skills, you will not be able to be a farmer, and you will not be able to grow anything, or even if you barely grow it, it will not be able to match the output and quality of others.

Therefore, the skills are extremely precious and are almost only passed down by family members and certain small groups, such as within the village or by a certain surname.

This has also led to a situation where a certain village can only grow a certain kind of vegetables and cannot grow other vegetables. The village in the east can only grow radishes, and the village in the west can only grow cabbage. All kinds of boundaries are very tight. .

In Li Qi's time, this was already the case, so there was a person like Caitou.

The only universal one is Lingmi. Lingmi is a top-grade seed developed by humane farmers. Almost any technique can activate the seeds of Lingmi. It doesn’t even require a technique. It requires physical means to germinate. Come on, the output is not low either.

But those are not what Zhang Haoming considers. He has long been accustomed to everything around him.

The world is like this, as if petty officials can bully others, daughters can be sold, and sons are the most important things in this life.

Worried about what to do with the military tax, he looked back at home again.

The old woman at home knew nothing and understood nothing but weaving, working and cooking. She made all the big and small matters at home by herself.

The sons are afraid that they will quarrel over this matter. It is a lot of trouble for each family.

He thought over and over again, but couldn't make up his mind.

But looking up at the entrance of the village, there were already many people there, carrying baskets and poles, ready to borrow food.

Borrowing food is a daily thing, very common, and everyone is familiar with it.

Zhang Haoming, an old farmer, didn't think anything was wrong, but in fact, someone had already concluded it.

As the saying goes, "Sell new silk in February, sell new grain in May, heal the sores in front of your eyes, but cut out the flesh in your heart." Farmers have to sell their products in urgent need of paying taxes, or borrow money at double the interest rate, and even have to sell their fields. The children come to pay off the debt.

The so-called urgent and tyrannical government, the constant collection of taxes, land rent, taxes, corvees, and military service, disasters caused by floods, droughts, frosts, hail, and locusts, but fortunately harvests, public and private debts, competing for each other, but the grain has not left the field, and the silk has not yet fallen. The opportunity is no longer one's own. The food he eats is not enough chaff, and the clothing he wears is brown but not complete. He has been serving the world for a long time, and he doesn't know what other way to live.

The government collected large amounts of labor and money from the peasants in various names, but in fact the petty officials of the same class as the peasants regarded this official position as a way to make a fortune.

As for the officials, they don't care about all this at all. Officials are almost all practitioners. The person they are responsible for is the king. It is the king who gave them official positions and salaries, not the farmers. For the leader of Baiyue, They are not willing to do all this well. They just want to maintain the status quo, because if they really do this, their foundation will be shaken.

Therefore, the practitioners and officials above them are unwilling to take action to prevent "natural disasters", and the petty officials below are even less willing to provide relief. As a result, "natural and man-made disasters" often occur at the same time. Moreover, because farmers are usually exploited and plundered too much, they are completely lost. They are not able to cope with any sudden disaster, let alone compensate for the losses suffered. In this case, naturally, just a little "natural disaster" can expand to the point of being out of control, but they are always very tenacious, and every time they appear For this kind of thing, you can try your best to survive, just like a locust. Every time it dies in the winter, it can leave behind eggs, which will appear one after another in the next spring, and it will repeat again. past life.

This kind of repetition is the foundation of the Baiyue Kingdom. He needs a stable and unchanging country to become his foundation. In fact, the real "stability" is not static, which is rotten. Doc is unreasonable.

If a person wants to be a farmer for thousands of years, he will most likely go berserk.

As the saying goes, running water does not rot, door hinges do not become beetrooted, and the same is true for the foundation of the road. So how can we achieve "flowing water" while still remaining unchanged?

The leaders of Baiyue Kingdom gave a good answer.

That is... reincarnation.

Endless reincarnation is like the passage of time, with mortals dying one after another and growing up again and again. Mobility is guaranteed by time, while the constant repetition of tragedies ensures stability.

Zhang Haoming smacked his lips.

Forget it, let's marry our daughter off. The betrothal gift will be a matter for later. Let's take care of our immediate needs first.

Just as Zhang Haoming stood up, he saw a ray of light falling in the distance and hitting the house of the landlord who often went to borrow money.

He climbed down immediately.

That is, the light of supernatural power!

Could it be that war is coming? ?

No way! ? (End of chapter)