Chapter 161 3. Not Eating Tigers and Pigs to Appease the People

In fact, Koheita's previous positions involved a wide range of areas, but it was precisely because of his many duties that he was considered a people-friendly official. Although he was a very unqualified people-friendly official, due to various reasons, he had not sorted out the household registration, measured the fields, or visited the people.

However, this did not prevent him from knowing the thoughts of the townspeople and the people. The townspeople just wanted to know how to collect the annual fixed town fees, the dobutsu money, and the inter-frame money, and whether they should increase the amount.

Some of the townspeople in Ejiri inherited from the former Shirakawa family's Ejiri merchants, and some were Yamanouchi merchants who obtained new monopoly privileges from Yamanouchi Yoshiharu. However, since they all came to Ejiri Port to do business, facing the new official's three fires after taking office, the two groups temporarily huddled together for warmth in the face of the possibility of changing the tax rate.

Speaking of Japan's commercial tax system and the taxation method for the huge property held by merchants, it is a very ridiculous model.

The Muromachi shogunate, the de facto central government, was meant to be the common ruler of the world from the moment it was established. Even in the era of the third shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the authority of the shogunate was only greatly strengthened. The shogun of the shogunate could not actually convey the government orders to every county in the country, which means that Japan has not had a strong government to formulate a universal commercial tax system for hundreds of years. So the local daimyo and his samurai showed their talents, and I don’t know which big brother slapped his forehead and came up with a good idea.

Commodities and goods are real, as you can see, 20 to 1, 15 to 1, this is simple, just collect the money according to the number. So although there are possibilities and loopholes for tax evasion and tax evasion in transaction tax, it still has a basis and is convenient to implement.

But how to collect money for the huge wealth of merchants? After all, gold and copper coins are buried in a pit, where can you find them to collect taxes? So the entire Yamanouchi territory has been implementing the inter-frame taxation mechanism for decades, a "very reasonable" taxation system.

What is the inter-frame taxation system? That is, the system of determining the amount of tax by measuring the size of your house's front. The bigger your front is, the more tax you will collect. So Kobayata can see strange buildings with a five-meter-wide front and a fifty-meter-long house in the town (true story, until 45 years ago, there were counties in Japan that collected taxes this way, and now many old houses in Toyama Prefecture are long bamboo-shaped buildings.)

So now when you travel to Japan, if you find that some shops and houses have very small or even narrow fronts, but the whole house is very long. Please don't be surprised, they are just trying to avoid taxes.

And Kobayata is not the kind of cruel official who cuts the meat from the mosquito's legs. What money can he make? If you want to make money, you have to make money out of nothing.

As for the Chinese people, there are naturally only two things to inquire about. The first and most important thing is the land inspection. If you dare to inspect the land, I will dare to get up and fight you. Anyway, the land inspector will starve to death, and the Ikki will die in battle, and they will be killed before they die. Killing one will make up for the loss, and killing two will make one profit. Who is afraid of whom?

Another question is whether to establish a new military service account, which is also easy to understand. As a foreigner, the Renkawa clan had to send out 300 or so people for a territory of 1,050 kan, which was an extremely high conscription ratio. There are many foreigners among the Ejiri clan. If Kobayata comes down with the imperial sword and asks to increase the number of military service, as long as it is not too exaggerated, they will still agree with tears. (As a member of the Hojo clan's Sakukura clan, Chiba Suke Shigetane's military service is as high as 3,000 cavalry, Hara Oeki's is as high as 2,000 cavalry, while Shimizu Yasunari, who has a slightly higher status and a territory less than half of these two, has only 200 cavalry. The gap between the hereditary and the foreigner is obvious.)

In short, the banquet with different thoughts was held smoothly as scheduled. The townspeople and foreigners had been waiting in Ejiri for several days. When Kobayata came, he just started it. Anyway, everyone was not really here for a meal to welcome the guests, but mainly to test each other.

Before Koyata came, it was decided that everything would remain the same and no changes would be made. After all, a small territory of half a country was not worth the increasingly inflated Koyata.

The prominent representatives of the Ejiri region all knelt down under the main seat of Koyata, and no one dared to speak first. The only person present was Matsushita Magasuke Ichisei, who had met Koyata a few times during the Battle of Uedawara. Everyone looked at each other and finally pushed him to come forward.

Matsushita Ichisei felt the gazes of dozens of Ejiri fellows, so he had to step out and greet Koyata. The funny thing is that Matsushita Ichisei was the outer castle lord with 1,500 kan of zhixing on the books, and Koyata was the castle lord with 1,300 kan of zhixing. This zhixing had more than Koyata, but he was still considered the castle lord under Koyata.

"Tanzheng, there is nothing good to treat you here in Ejiri. Now in late spring, the whitefish (whitefish is the whole of Culter alburnus Basilewsky, a carp-like animal. It is now one of the specialties of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and is caught in spring and winter) is very delicious. You can try the soup made from it." Matsushita Ichiqing thought about it and made a big decision. He just said something casually.

However, this is exactly what Xiao Pingtai wants. In this era, TV and computer are impossible, game anchors can't play, and even daily hot baths have to be arranged in advance. Apart from being a little interested in these pure natural ingredients, there is really nothing to miss.

Xiao Pingtai picked up the lacquer bowl and took a sip. It was really delicious. After a compliment, the atmosphere gradually became lively.

A town resident was somewhat familiar with Xiao Pingtai because he had taken over Xiao Pingtai's candle export business. "The castle lord can add some udon to the soup, which is different."

Xiao Pingtai accepted it happily, and it was indeed delicious.

After that, the main dishes such as sea bream, venison, crane soup, etc. came up one after another. There were not many fresh vegetables in spring, only a few embellishments. Seafood and mountain products were the mainstream of the banquet. When it came to the end, it was the famous tiger pig (the blood and internal organs of the star-shaped pufferfish are highly poisonous. If it is not slaughtered and handled properly, it will be life-threatening after eating. It is abundant in the coastal waters along the coast of Yuanzhou Beach in Yuanjiang Province.), Xiao Pingtai just stretched out his chopsticks, thought for a while, and then casually said, "Sometimes, it is better not to try some new things."

After that, he gently put down the chopsticks and stopped tasting the plate of tiger pig sashimi that was said to be extremely delicious, tender and plump, and melted in the mouth.

And there were few idiots in the hall. Those who were quick-witted immediately reacted and smiled happily.

On the one hand, he hurriedly asked people to remove the tiger-pork dish that Danzheng didn't like, and on the other hand, he ordered people to bring Matsutake rice for Danzheng to have a good meal.