Chapter 1798 Deliberately Targeting
Fortunately, Lord Shao was a reasonable man. He did not act recklessly and did not ask them for any benefits, either explicitly or implicitly. So, all in all, what they needed to pay was not that much.
Openly opposing the government is something only bandits would do; people like them would never do that.
Definitely not on the surface.
Of course, if the Fan family is strong enough and can turn the tables, it would be great if they could also benefit from it...
The Huo brothers were joking in private, wondering what tricks the old lady of the Fan family would use this time!
The Fan family has a total of 200,000 acres of fertile land. Because they did not use the seeds provided by the government, the yield was similar to last year, about 600 kilograms per acre.
This is water grain. After drying, 100 kilograms of water grain can produce about 70 to 75 kilograms of dry grain. That is, the yield of dry grain per mu is about 430 to 400 kilograms.
The tax of the Qin Dynasty was calculated based on dry grain, which was 1 in 30. Roughly speaking, the Fan family had to pay about 2.8 or 9 million kilograms of grain as tax. This was not a small amount!
There is absolutely no way the Fan family will hand it over eloquently.
Even if Lord Shao gave in and asked them to pay only half, the Fan family would definitely not do it.
You should know that in previous years, the Fan family only paid about 300,000 to 500,000 kilograms, and this was only after the prefect sent people to their house again and again and spoke in good terms that the Fan family paid like alms.
Now we have to harvest 3 million catties, haha! It will be quite exciting!
The Huo brothers were a little excited.
Old Mrs. Fan was furious.
This is too much!
Old Madam Fan was certain that Lord Shao had done this on purpose, deliberately targeting the Fan family!
Because everyone knows that the Fan family has the most fertile land in Anzezhou. Why did Lord Shao do this at this time? Isn't this abusing his power for personal gain and targeting the Fan family?
The most infuriating thing is that even though the Fan family knew that he was abusing his power for personal gain and targeting them, they couldn't find a reason to openly refute him.
In addition, the rice seeds provided by Shao Yunduan had a bumper harvest this year, while the Fan family used good seeds they obtained through other channels. Originally, they were complacent and gloating, planning to use the seeds issue to embarrass Shao Yunduan, make fun of Shao Yunduan, and force Shao Yunduan to bow his head and ask for help from the Fan family.
Unexpectedly, Shao Yunduan not only solved this problem, but also got much better rice seeds than Fan's family!
This one acre of land can increase production by at least 30%! Just imagine, if the Fan family's 200,000 acres of fertile land had used the rice seeds provided by the government, what a great harvest this year would have been!
Because of this incident, the masters of the Fan family, including Old Lady Fan, were so angry that they almost vomited blood! And countless people were making fun of them behind their backs.
Fan Ruyin even said many slanderous things to Old Lady Fan, saying that Master Shao was deliberately pitting the Fan family! He clearly had better rice seeds and knew that the Fan family was a large rice grower, but he didn't tell the Fan family or remind them at all.
He is a local official! He is not competent at all!
Now he doesn't seem to be guilty, but has the nerve to ask the Fan family for taxes. Isn't this too bullying!
Old Mrs. Fan actually agreed with it, and didn't think at all that even if Shao Yunduan had reminded her, or even begged the Fan family to use his rice seeds, would the Fan family be willing to use them?
Not to mention spending money to buy it, even if it was given away for free, the Fan family wouldn't want it, right?
So, when the Mei family and the Huo family sent their female relatives to give gifts and congratulate Lord Shao on the birth of his child, the Fan family remained silent for a long time.
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