People in America started by developing the Yellow Turban Army.

They're being protected too well!

The homeless people below were stunned. What did he mean by "his protection is too good"?

Is this Eastern priest from a special social class in their country?

in fact……

As soon as he said those words, Chen Ping'an felt a lump in his throat. He took a deep breath to calm himself down before continuing, "I grew up in a remote mountain village."

In your terms, it's a desolate desert town, a very poor place.

I remember when I was a child, the economy in the East was not as good as it is now. My family was the poorest in that very poor place!

When our neighbor had a 50-inch LCD TV, we only had a 21-inch CRT TV.

Until I was in sixth grade and lived at school, my weekly allowance was only 5 yuan, plus a jar of salted radish strips, half a pound of cured meat, and 5 pounds of rice.

Do you know how much 5 dollars is if you convert it to US dollars?

73 cents!

Yes, it's less than a dollar!

That's my living expenses for a week!

As soon as he finished speaking, an uproar erupted below!

What does it mean to have less than a dollar for a week's living expenses?

73 cents. In America, a hamburger can cost at least a dollar.

Yes, 73 cents is enough to buy even the cheapest hamburger!

Chen Ping'an knew they were shocked and that they couldn't imagine what kind of life this was. He raised his hands and pressed them down, and the people below immediately calmed down.

Although they were still surprised, they wanted to hear what the Eastern priest standing on the stairs had to say next.

"Yes, you can't even imagine what kind of poverty I had that kind of childhood."

Even back then, no matter how poor my family was, I don't remember anyone ever going hungry!

We won't go hungry!

It's even more impossible that they'll be homeless!

This is impossible!

These words flashed through the minds of almost everyone listening to Chen Ping'an's speech at the same time.

They are not children!

Almost every homeless person has a wealth of social experience, even if that experience may not be extensive.

Even if some of them may have been homeless since they were 18!

But ultimately, they do have a certain amount of social experience!

Not to mention people like Hanks Gan, who used to have higher incomes and broader horizons.

"Boss, how could there be a country where everyone can have enough to eat and not go hungry?"

No need to sleep on the streets?

That's impossible, not to mention that as far as I know, there are 1.4 to 1.5 billion people in the East, which is 1.1 to 1.2 billion more than in the United States!

His meaning was clear: even in the United States, the world's largest country with a population of only a few hundred million, there are millions of homeless people sleeping on the streets, suffering from hunger and cold, and tens of millions struggling on the poverty line of not having enough to eat.

How could there be no one in the East, with a population of over a billion more than the United States, sleeping on the streets and suffering from hunger and cold?

This is not a Grimm's fairy tale, nor is it a fantasy, and the people present are not children!

Although he had made up his mind to join Chen Ping'an, it did not mean that he did not have his own ideas.

Not to mention, Hanks Gan just felt that the boss's glance at him had something to say, as if he wanted Hanks to question him.

That's why he acted impulsively and stood up.

Chen Ping'an seemed to have been waiting for his questioning, and raised his hand to press down, indicating that he should sit down first.

Then he slowly said:

"In our East!"

There is something called the household registration system, and within the household registration system, there is a type of household registration called rural household registration.

People with rural household registration are called farmers, and farmers must own land!

Although it may not be much, it is essential!

The farmers in our area are not quite the same as the farmers you imagine.

The farmers you understand are farm owners who own hundreds or even tens or hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

But the farmers in our area are different, because they are all just ordinary poor people.

In order to protect these poor people and enable them to survive, farmers with rural household registration must have homesteads.

It's... a plot of land where you can build a house, not too big, and without having to pay taxes.

It doesn't have to be big, but it's essential!

This is a guarantee that a socialist country provides to the most vulnerable people, and it is also a responsibility!

In the corner, a scruffy white man in his forties or fifties muttered under his breath, "No taxes to pay?"

How is that possible!

How can there be houses that don't need to pay taxes? How can there be land use rights that don't need to pay taxes?

If such a thing were possible, there would only be one place: Heaven!

Now, Chen Ping'an's eyesight has become much sharper than that of ordinary people, and his hearing has also become very keen. Of course, he heard the mutterings of the middle-aged white homeless man.

He looked at the other person and explained very seriously:

No taxes are required!

In rural areas, farmers who build houses on homestead land allocated to them do not need to pay taxes.

In the East, except for a very few cities, all houses are exempt from annual taxes; the taxes are paid at the time of sale.

However, houses built on one's own homestead in rural areas are not allowed to be bought or sold.

This is what our country is worried about: some fools will sell their hometowns and their means of escape.

This is why, after coming to America, I'm puzzled as to why you would rather be homeless on the streets than return to your hometown where you have no other choice.

Because in our hometown, we have a way out. As long as we're willing to retire and live an ordinary life, we basically have no dead ends!

At this point, he added:

I searched for some information online these past few days and then learned some things that I don't know if they're true or false.

It turns out that only a major Eastern country in the world allows people to pass on their old rural houses to their children without paying inheritance tax!

Ok!

If everything the priest said is true.

That kind of country must truly be paradise!

Hanks Gan acknowledged this, and not only him, but other homeless people thought the same way.

But is this true? And what does it have to do with them now?

This is the most important!

What was the purpose of this Eastern priest calling them together for a meeting and saying all this?

Of course there's a purpose!

Chen Ping'an's purpose was: "I called you here to give you an opportunity."

My church is newly established and has no believers yet; you can be the first group.

And if you become one of the first believers in my church, I will give you a benefit.

The benefits that an Eastern farmer is born to enjoy.

Each of your households will be allocated a 200-square-meter plot of land so that you can build a house.

This doesn't require any tax payment, and you can pass it down to future generations.

The main thing is that he is still a believer in my church, as long as his registered residence is still in my Ping'an Town.

In addition, each of you, the first believers, will be given an acre of basic land.

Rent-free for the first three years!

Three years later, they had to pay grain taxes every year, and the amount collected was 10 percent of the average harvest from all the land in the previous three years.

This was the amount collected in the East before the public grain tax was abolished.

That means it's the American land tax or agricultural tax!

Everyone present, including Hanks Gan who was subconsciously playing the straight man, and Hathaway who had already identified herself as one of the Eastern Taoist priests, had their heads buzzing.

"Father, did I hear that right?"

"You're going to give us land, is that true?"

Chen Ping'an nodded: "Of course it's true!"

However, this only applies to you, the first batch of believers.

After all, I only own 580 acres of land now.

It won't be enough for many people!

Moreover, this is my land, and giving it to you is not the same as giving it to you.

You could say it's rented to you!

However, it is my church that is renting the land to you. You don't need to pay land rent, so you can build houses.

You can inherit this lease as long as you continue to live here and don't move elsewhere.

Moreover, the one acre of basic agricultural land per person is also leased to you; at least that's what the lease agreement states on the surface.

This land lease can also be inherited by the children.

However, neither the homestead land, nor the houses built on it, nor the basic lease for this acre of agricultural land can be bought or sold.

The situation quickly became uncontrollable. It felt like a fire or a cloud of smoke was being shoved into the chests of all the homeless people present. If they didn't say a few words and let out their emotions, they might explode.

Once you become a believer, you can own a house and the land to live on.

If it's true,

What kind of magical church is this?

Why didn't I encounter such a kind church sooner?

"Of course, besides becoming believers, you also need to do some things if you want to get a plot of land to build a house and basic agricultural land."

"That is, to build the Eastern church I need, which is the Taoist temple where we Easterners practice Taoism."

Then, build your houses.

But it must be within the planned land area I draw for you.

Finally, in a few days I will blast open the blockage in the water source again, and we will regain drinking water and irrigation water for agriculture.

What you need to do is clear away the slag and gravel that were previously dumped haphazardly from the mines on the irrigable land.

Of course, I will buy a few small excavators that are common in the East, the kind that cost around $1000, for you to use.

It works great!

In fact, for an Easterner, owning a piece of land, even if it cannot be used for farming, can still lead to the development of ways to make money.

Even if it's just connecting with overseas trade groups of a major Eastern power, we could build this place into a transit logistics base.

They can all make a fortune.

However, money is not important to Chen Ping'an.

At the very least, it's not the most important thing.

He wanted to preach.

The Taiping Dao sect needs followers.

Nothing is more enticing to the homeless than a piece of farmland that can be inherited and is free from land tax, property tax, and inheritance tax.

in fact.

Chen Ping'an doesn't need to make such a big sacrifice.

They provide food, work, and a job.

That way you can cultivate a large following.

But Chen Pingan felt that this was not shocking enough.

At the beginning of the market launch, it takes a fortune to buy a horse's bones.

And these twenty or thirty believers right now are his horse bones.

As for...

Exempt from land tax, house tax, and inheritance tax, homesteads that can be passed down, and houses on homesteads.

Is it really feasible?

One word: Of course.

Lin Zhiyong and Chen Pingan personally consulted with lawyers.

He took the legal documents containing the system rewards to consult with the authorities, and the documents showed that Chen Ping'an's territory had already been locked up with the initial tax of more than $4000.

No matter what happens in the future, taxes on this land cannot be increased.

This authority was jointly confirmed by Congress, the state government, and the state legislature.

This is why Chen Ping'an dared to use the land for residential and basic agricultural purposes.

Otherwise, without this document, anything he says is meaningless.

A bustling tavern.

Tonight is full of questions.

But Chen Ping'an didn't just talk the talk; he directly pulled out the legal contracts he had already prepared for the free rental of homestead land and the rental of basic agricultural land.

The rent for basic agricultural land will be as Chen Ping'an just mentioned: tax-free for the first three years, and after three years, the amount of grain to be paid as public grain will be 10% of the average annual harvest of the first three years.

White paper with black ink and fingerprints.

That was easily settled.

Although there was no lawyer present, the 27 homeless people present, plus Hathaway's 28, each carried a contract in their arms and couldn't sleep all night.

Besides the 28 homeless people who were used as horse bones by Chen Ping'an and couldn't sleep all night, there were 5 other people who were extremely unlucky.

The Colombian gang leader, along with his four men, originally planned to sneak into the town of Peace, the homeless village of the Eastern priests, as instructed by their boss, by blending in with the vagrants.

Unexpectedly, as they walked, they discovered that the homeless people had either gone inside long ago or collapsed from exhaustion by the roadside, and there were very few still on the road.

When they arrived at the edge of the abandoned mining town, which had been renamed Ping'an Town, they found themselves looking quite out of place, very well-dressed, without a trace of being homeless.

Even though they were already wearing some worn-out clothes.

But their builds didn't match, and especially since there were no other homeless people with them, they couldn't blend in at all.

Moreover, it was almost dark when they arrived, so the leader decided to wait until it got dark and sneak in.

Maybe then there's no need to get involved.

By sneaking in, one might see things from the shadows that others don't want to see, such as how to make that so-called holy water.

But when they finally arrived at nightfall and entered the territory of this abandoned mining town, they suddenly became unlucky.

A group of five people suddenly started falling flat on their faces one after another for no apparent reason; it was very inexplicable.

Keep in mind that this was under the moonlight.

The road, which was full of gravel, was easy to walk on and had good visibility. How could I have fallen on flat ground?

And it wasn't just one person, it was five people who all fell on flat ground, several times in a row.

This is really baffling.

Even stranger things were yet to come.

Someone has been bitten by a snake!

South Pacific rattlesnake, a potentially deadly snake!

They were walking forward together, but the leader in front was fine.

The second person was fine, and the third person was fine too.

On the fourth one, he was unlucky enough to step on the snake and get bitten.

When others heard the sound, took out their phones, turned on their flashlights, and took a closer look, they all gasped in shock.

This guy is really unlucky; he got bitten by a rattlesnake right in north Los Angeles.

The most important thing is not that there was one bite, but that three bites landed on his legs.

That's really weird!

Why were others fine, but he stepped on three?

It's not that rattlesnakes from the South Pacific shouldn't be found in Southern California.

Instead, it shouldn't appear in northern Los Angeles, where there are many eagles and little bushes, making it difficult for snakes without cover to survive in an area with many eagles.

Didn't you see how few coyotes and rodents there are?

The henchman silently pulled a kukri from his waist.

"Floyd, this is a rattlesnake from the South Pacific."

If only one bites you, you can endure it for a few hours while we carry you back to get the car and take you to the hospital.

But now, unfortunately, three rattlesnakes have bitten you at the same time, and you won't last long!

Fortunately, all three rattlesnakes bit one of your legs at the same time.

"If you let me cut it down, you'll live!"