This Side Effect is Awesome

"The weather this year is not good. It has been dry for several months. If it continues like this, I'm afraid there won't be much harvest. Life is sad."

"We are better. We pay a lot less tax. People outside the farm are miserable. The drier the weather, the more bugs. I don't know what's going on."

"I just changed the new owner this month. It is said that I don't know any farm work. I have never grown food or medicinal materials. I just eat rice and can't help us solve our problems."

"In winter, I'm afraid many people will die again. I hope the new owner will not exploit too much. He will always leave us something to eat, so as not to starve to death, alas."

...

Hearing these discussions, Song Ankang fell silent, and Qiu Shi next to him was a little annoyed: "These people are really too much, and they gossip behind their backs, let's see if I don't deal with them."

"Don't worry about it, they're telling the truth." Song Ankang stopped Qiu Shi, and the good mood just now faded a lot.

Originally, with Song Ankang's status, when he heard these tenants gossip, he could slap them, or even whip them, but others would not say anything.

However, Song Ankang, who has just traveled from modern times, is not used to doing this kind of thing, and there are too many employees who gossip behind the earth, and I have never seen a boss who complained about the boss because of gossip. Ankang did it too, so he didn't deal with them.

The tax of Chaoyun Grange is not heavy. If it is a normal year, after paying the tax, the Grange can still have about 20% of the grain and about 10% of the medicinal materials.

Among them, 10% of the medicinal materials and half of the grain belong to the owner, who can decide where to go at will, and the remaining 10% is the harvest of the farmers.

It seems to be quite ruthless, but you must know that outside the farm, even in normal years, the villagers have to pay more than 90% of the tax, and only 10% belongs to themselves.

However, the share of Chaoyun Farm can reach 15%, which is far more than that of the villagers outside. Naturally, many people flock to become tenants of Chaoyun Farm.

But this year's severe drought has greatly affected both food and medicinal materials, but the tax will basically not be reduced, and may even increase. This means that more of Chaoyun Farm's share will be taken by the Tang family. Walk.

In this case, not to mention 20% of the food and 10% of the medicinal materials, I am afraid that even half of it can be left, or even less.

Even so, Song Ankang, as the owner of the estate, has to share a lot of profits, and the rest will belong to the tenants. There will definitely be very little left, and it will be difficult to survive.

But even in this case, not too many people think it is too much, and basically no one thinks it is too much.

Because these taxes were not handed over to the Tang family, nor were they embezzled and put into personal pockets, but most of them were shipped to the front line.

As I said before, there are thousands of races in the Xuanhuang Great World, among which the human race is just an inconspicuous lower third-rank clan, occupying an area of ​​only one state, surrounded by many races, many of which are far superior to the human race.

Two of these races have been at war with the human race for many years, one is the mermaid race and the other is the angel race. There are demons and ghosts in the human race, and the situation is precarious. Of course, the biggest danger comes from the front line.

Regardless of whether it is the Celestial-human front or the Mermaid front, as long as one of them falls, the human race is not far from extinction.

In order to be able to hold these two fronts, the entire human race is saving money to support the frontline soldiers. It doesn't matter if you are hungry, it's better than dying.

The soldiers on the front line are fighting desperately for them. Isn't it reasonable for them to contribute more taxes?

So no matter how much tax the country collects, basically no people will object to it, because everyone knows in their hearts that this is for the frontline soldiers and themselves.

Song Ankang once again experienced the difficulty of the human race in the Xuanhuang Great World,

It is not an exaggeration to say that walking on a tightrope.

Sighing, the mind that had just relaxed became tense again, and was about to go back to practice, when he heard exclamations from the wall of the village.

"Run, you'll be safe when you get back to the village. There are Qinggang stone slabs in many places in the village. Standing on them is not too dangerous."

"Don't look back, the earthworm is right behind you, you have to run past it, Shanwa."

"Help, come and save me!"

...

Song Ankang's expression changed, and he ran towards the wall of the village. There were already many people standing on the wall of the village. Seeing Song Ankang approaching, these people gave way to Song Ankang.

Song Ankang quickly came to the wall of the village and saw the situation outside.

Outside Chaoyun Farm is a large area of ​​woods and grassland, which cannot grow food and medicinal materials. It needs years of reclamation before it can be used slowly.

There are fierce beasts in the woods, so Chaoyun Farm built a wall to resist some small and medium-sized beasts and protect the safety of the tenants.

At this moment, on the grassland to the north of the farm, there was a farm tenant wearing rough linen clothes running away frantically, and behind him there was a raised earth line chasing him.

If the original owner's memory is correct, it should be an earthworm, a ferocious beast whose strength is comparable to that of a second-tier internal martial artist. It is active in the red leaf forest around the farm, and occasionally feeds on humans.

Apparently, this tenant named Shanwa was spotted by an earthworm when he was outside and wanted to eat him, so he ran desperately to the vicinity of the farm.

Although there were many people shouting on the wall, none of them dared to go down, because going down was basically courting death.

At this moment, the strongest person in Chaoyun Grange is only four levels of external training, which is more than two realms behind Earthworm, and the gap from external training to internal training is even greater.

Not to mention that when the earthworm is hiding in the soil, even warriors who surpass internal training can't do anything to it, so no one dares to go down to save people.

"puff……"

Just when Shanwa was tens of meters away from the wall of the village, the earth line that was chasing him suddenly accelerated under him, and then a gray-black bald earthworm that was as thick as a bucket and three meters long rushed out. The ground swallowed him in one gulp, and then quickly disappeared into the ground.

If there is no accident, it is impossible for this tenant named Shanwa to survive.

There was a dead silence all around, and crying sounded after a while, it was Shanwa's relatives and friends.

"It's only a little short. If Shanwa was faster, he would be able to escape to the Zhuangzi. There is a green stone road in the Zhuangzi, and the earthworms can't walk through it."

"It's a pity. Shanwa is the first time to leave the village in the past few months. She originally wanted to get some wild vegetables for the family, but she never thought that she would never come back."

"If the harvest is good, who wants to go out and take risks? Seeing that the weather is getting more and more dry, I don't know how much we can harvest this year. I hope the owner of the farm can reduce the profit and let us live."

"The owner of the farm is raising people. There are many adults in charge of Chaoyun Farm, and they also have to live."

...

About 10% of the medicinal materials and about half of the food that Chaoyun Farm can obtain in a normal year do not belong to the owner. After all, as the owner of Chaoyun Farm, he is also responsible for the monthly salaries of many staff in the farm.

Now Song Ankang's monthly salary is saved from last year's bumper harvest. If this year's harvest is not good, neither Song Ankang nor the management staff of Chaoyun Grange will be able to live comfortably next year.

Sighing, Song Ankang sent someone to deal with the Shanwa's affairs. In fact, there was nothing to deal with. Even the people were swallowed whole. There was basically no need for coffins and cemeteries. In the Clothes Tomb, bury some of his clothes during his lifetime.

Taking Qiushi back to the residence, he heard a knock on the door outside: "Master, I'm back!"

"It's Instructor Jiang. Instructor Jiang is finally back." Hearing the voice outside, Qiu Shi, who was a little listless, immediately regained his energy and walked quickly towards the gate of the courtyard.