Daliushu Village,
The second son of Fang Mu's Fang Family had become a Martial Scholar. And unlike a Xiucai, a Martial Scholar seemed even more distinguished—he could exempt three hundred mu of farmland from field taxes, along with the poll tax for ten people.
Their family only had a dozen or so mu of land and four people in the household.
That still left over two hundred mu of field taxes and the poll tax for six people that could be exempted.
The poll tax exemption was not much, so few people gave it much thought.
But those remaining two hundred-plus mu of tax-exempt land had become the talk of Daliushu Village over the past ten-odd days.
Among the Fang Clan Members, who knew how many wished to donate their family land to him.
That way, they would not have to pay taxes on their farming; they would only need to pay rent to Fang Yue's family.
Judging by the arrangement at Master Liu's household in the village, land donated in this manner only required rent equivalent to thirty percent of the previous field tax.
And that was thirty percent of what the tax had been before the Imperial Court raised it.
If they donated their land, they would no longer have to pay so much field tax in the future, nor would they have to live such hard lives.
Fang Yue's family was of the same clan. Even if they donated their land, they surely would not be treated harshly, and there was no need to worry about their property being "ingeniously seized and forcibly plundered."
But after that incident the other day, many Fang Clan relatives who had once been close to them were now too embarrassed to visit the Fang Family. Naturally, there was no way for