The merchants and landlords in Baojiao County are also very clever. Even a county tyrant like Medicine King Hall has bowed down. How can their small arms compete against big legs?
[Currently, Lord Tan has started to reassess the business taxes, but the implementation of 'land tax based on property and equal tax and grain contributions by both officials and gods' faced no obstruction from landlords and merchants, but resistance from nobles in the city, especially from Official Chai, the Duan Family of the City God Temple, and scholars...]
These people are from families with ancestral fame and enjoy ancestral blessings, as they have tax exemptions due to their family's noble titles. Consequently, they maintain large groups of long-term workers and servants and own numerous forest lands under their names, exempt from taxes.
