Chapter 347: Paying the Spring Tax

Qiao Xiaomai looked at him and took a long sigh.

Alright, it could only be this way at the moment.

The day passed in a blink, and soon it was the day to pay the Spring Tax.

Early in the morning, Tong Tiehu rang the big bell of the marketplace, summoning everyone in the village.

The county town's bailiffs had arrived, the tables were set up, and they were collecting taxes from each household according to the population and farmland recorded in the household register.

For peasants, the taxation of Daqi wasn't burdensome. All that was required was to hand over a certain amount of grain and cloth as per the size of their fields, and serve a month of labor during idle farming seasons. And with that, their tax obligations would be fulfilled.

Abominations like property tax and head tax from the previous dynasties were totally absent under Daqi.

However, even though Emperor Yongan had reduced labor services and taxes, for farmers, paying taxes was always an unpleasant task.