As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 184 Chefs and Taxes

To be honest, after eating the food made by Chen Mao once, no matter how much he tossed about in the back kitchen of the lord's mansion, Jiang Ran would find it tasteless.

The main reason is that Chen Mao, the chef, is talented and knows how to match the ingredients, so Jiang Ran doesn't need to bother to train them.

Jiang Ran didn't think about it at first, she thought that with Chen Mao's craftsmanship, if she opened an inn that cooks food, it might be more profitable than entering the lord's mansion as an imperial chef.

In addition, Suling Town also needs a different cook to broaden the horizons of the people. Maybe everyone will imitate Chen Mao's cooking, and then Suling Town's delicacies will flourish.

But Jiang Ran is someone who likes to enjoy herself. Seeing that Chen Mao was still crowded here, she thought it would be okay to ask, so she asked him if he wanted to come to her house to do something.

The people with the tip of one ear shot envious eyes in unison.

In just a few days, everyone in Suling Town doesn't know Chen Mao's culinary skills, which are so fragrant. Even the locals who don't know Xinmin know that there is a chef in their town who can cook a lot of delicious food!

So it's not surprising that the lords would come to find Chen Mao, but they wished they had such skills.

After all, everyone knows that in the feudal lord's mansion, even a rough envoy is dressed cleanly and holds high monthly money!
And the most lucrative, except for the housekeeper, is the people in the back kitchen.

People in the back kitchen can eat one more bowl than others, and what the lord eats is always the best.

Iced Ganoderma lucidum, fire lotus seeds, spirit meat and spirit fish, even if you pick up some leftover vegetable dregs from the master's food, they are comparable to what the lower-level monks eat.

However, to everyone's surprise, Chen Mao refused!
"The little one is used to being rude. When I come to the lord's house, I'm afraid I will lose my manners and make a joke for nothing." Chen Mao politely declined, but he really didn't want to do that.

Besides, he is not young anymore, and he is used to being free again. He doesn't want to be restrained by others, and he is better than being his own boss when he becomes a cook in someone else's house.

Moreover, there is an angry and rebellious brat in his family. When he went to the lord's mansion, no one suppressed him.

Seeing Chen Mao's refusal, the onlookers secretly ridiculed, "I'm afraid this Chen Mao is not a fool, and he won't follow up with such good things!"

The Xinmin were even more anxious than Chen Mao, "Old Chen (Uncle Chen) is so confused!"

Jiang Ran just mentioned it casually, but she was not forceful, as long as she was in Suling Town, it was not difficult to eat delicious food.

With a fiery gaze, Jiang Ran glanced out of the corner of her eye, only to see a young man next to her squatting on the ground watching her talking to Chen Mao.

Seeing Jiang Ran looking over, the boy blushed all over as if he had been caught.

Jiang Ran has a little impression of the young man, Chen Mao's son, named Chen Mo, has a talent for cultivation and is of the fire department.

Apart from his tall nose, this Chen Mo doesn't really look like Chen Mao.

He has a good-looking appearance comparable to a woman's, and his slender eyelashes rise like a butterfly's wings. When he looks at her, he reveals a pair of bright eyes.

Jiang Ran looked away lightly, since Chen Mao didn't intend to enter the lord's mansion, it's fine, so he has to go back to the mansion.

But what was even more surprising was that the shy boy suddenly called out to her, "That, that, can I, can I go..."

Chen Mao suddenly leaned back, opened his mouth wide, and couldn't believe it was the child who said it.

Don't look at Chen Mo's reticence to the outside world, the image of a shy young man, in fact, the child has his own ideas.

And he is lazy, and he has a pair of good hands for no reason.

Jiang Ran looked back in surprise, "Can you cook?"

Chen Mo nodded vigorously, "Yes, yes."

"As an adult, are you married?"

Why do you still ask if you have a family? Chen Mo swallowed nervously. Although the lord looks like a fairy, he is a showman rather than a person. "Not yet..."

Could Chen Mao not see what his son was thinking? He, who was always gentle, couldn't help but slap him on the back.

"Lord, my son is still eight months away from becoming an adult...and has not yet married."

In this world, there are those who get married early and those who get married late.

Generally speaking, ordinary people generally get married early, and basically find someone to marry at the age of fifteen or sixteen.

But there are also some dignitaries, monks with spiritual power who choose to start a family later, or don't get married.

In Suling Town, which is sparsely populated, in order to encourage childbearing, men and women can get married at the age of 16, and if they are not married after 20, they are left with men and women.

Being a leftover man and a woman is against the law!

The measure to punish leftover men and women is to pay five times more poll tax than others.

After Jiang Ran took office, she still insisted on the measures to encourage childbearing. She has not changed the tax payment measures for the remaining men and women, but has also made adjustments.

For example, leftover men and women between the ages of 20 and 25 who have not yet married have to pay double the poll tax, those between the ages of 25 and 60 have to pay five times the tax, and those over the age of 60 do not pay the poll tax.

It is an indirect tax cut for everyone.

And rewards and punishments are parallel, five hundred silver dollars will be rewarded for giving birth to a child, ten gold dollars will be rewarded for raising the child to six years old, and twenty gold dollars will be rewarded for raising the child to sixteen years old.

So now there is a popular saying among the wanderers in the town, "Yo, did you make it?"

Jiang Ran is actually not worried that she will not be able to afford so much money. Suling Town also has a lot of properties in her hands, such as the ice body armor for the big head, the ganoderma lucidum for the middle class, and the cocoa fruit raw materials for the small head.

In addition, it is the tax of Suling Town.

It stands to reason that the land mu tax and the head tax are calculated separately, and the former pays tax according to the area of ​​land owned by an individual.

The latter pays tax on a head-by-head basis. However, because Suling Town saves trouble and land measurement is difficult, the head tax and land mu tax are combined together...

Therefore, the tax that everyone in Suling town has to pay is not low.

The wheat in Suling Town is planted in two seasons, so it is usually divided into two seasons, and the tax is paid half a month after the wheat is mature and harvested.

Suling Town occupies 0.5 mu of cultivated land per capita.

According to past data, the yield of wheat in the field used to be [-] catties per mu.

People often use grain to offset taxes, and the current market price of wheat is about 15 silver dollars a catty... In short, if it is converted into money, and miscellaneous calculations, the people in Suling Town pay about 650 silver dollars in taxes a year.

So this is equivalent to using your poll tax for giving birth to this child to offset the expenditure for encouraging births.

In addition, Jiang Ran doesn't have to worry about all the tax revenue being spent, because the evolution of wheat spirit worms has allowed the field to produce more wheat. Now, one mu of land can produce [-] catties of wheat, and the tax basis of land tax It is the output of one mu of land, which means that Jiang Ran can collect more taxes from Sancuijing a year.

Jiang Ran knows that the current tax system in Suling Town is very unreasonable, which may cause some people to pay wronged taxes, but there is still no major change, just want to collect more taxes.

In addition, there is also a lack of talents who can count. If the land tax and poll tax are really separated, there will be more tax evasion and tax evasion, and even wrongful taxes.

Jiang Ran asked if Chen Mo was an adult because of the situation in Suling Town. In addition, although Chen Mo was tall, he had a tender face. Jiang Ran was worried that he was too young to be disciplined.

(End of this chapter)