"And the grain tax is collected based on the number of people and the land, but after you no longer own land, you naturally don't have to pay it because you have sold yourselves to the local gentry and landlords, no longer considered human."
"As for the taxes the local gentry need to submit, it might just be ten or twenty percent, after all, they're familiar with the officials."
"What about the part of the tax that is underpaid?"
"Officials can report to the royal court that the harvest was poor this year, then they can not only reduce the taxes for this area but might even receive a commendation from above."
"With the heavens high and the emperor far away, though Kun Country is small, it is large to the common farmer, so large that many of you would never have left your own little villages unless you were nearly starving to death."
Dog Two asked, "Do they do this every year?"
If this happened every year, wouldn't the emperor be a fool?
He could be emperor himself!
