Moreover, the local Immortal Sect, Qing Mountain Pavilion, which sheltered this place, also took nearly one-fifth of the income as taxes every year, another huge burden.
In the previous ten years, they also faced penalties, with another ten percent added to their taxes.
The City Lord's mansion over there also collected one-fifth of the taxes.
When all was distributed down the line, the local common people had to hand over more than eighty percent of their annual income.
What they could keep for themselves was less than twenty percent.
How could this possibly be enough to live on?
Therefore, for the past ten years, the local populace had lived in extreme hardship, their faces pale and malnourished, where not having enough to eat was the norm, and it was not uncommon for people to starve to death.
Everyone was already hovering on the brink of starvation.
It was precisely because of this.
