Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 372

2021-12-22

Chapter 371 Xiacheng Anthem Square

Tax evasion will be investigated, and tax inspections in this era A very simple method is adopted. At the end of each month, the city hall will spend a month organizing accounting, and will check all the tax returns of the previous month by 10 out of 10, and check whether the tax amount in recent months is not. There are fluctuations, whether there is a discrepancy in the name of the payment, etc. If the fluctuation is large and there is a problem with the payment, a special city hall civil servant will visit the door to check the accounts, or check the gas meter and other methods to calculate the production cost and so on.

Although it sounds complicated, it is actually only a detective agency, and taxpayers who are inconvenient to conduct exact business verification need special attention. There are indeed some loopholes to avoid tax, but Shade has no such idea, after all, he is in serious business.

It took half an hour to complete the tax declaration process at the tax department next door to Blackstone Security. Shade declared the tax for the last two months and paid a heavy tax of 7 pounds 14 shillings.

This is a lot of money. If Shade can have such an income every month, he can barely reach triple digits after paying taxes in one year, which exceeds the income level of the overwhelming majority in this city. .

In this way, the job of detective is actually very promising.

"Where did you buy these maltose?"

The tax office in the North District is next to Blackstone Security Company, and Shade has come to Iluna before, so it doesn't count First visit. On the contrary, the cat on the first floor of the security company was still very enthusiastic about Shade, but in order to prevent the cat at home from being unhappy, Shade did not hug it this time.

Iluna met Shade in the lounge on the first floor of the security company. Shade was holding a magazine in his left arm and a tin box with yellow gelatinous maltose in his right hand. The sugar is just at the bottom of the box, not too much in fact. The box has no cover, the corners are a little rusty, and there are two short wooden sticks that are thicker than chopsticks.

"Also, aren't you going to solve the commission? It looks like you've been hanging out all morning."

Saying this, Iluna was suspicious. Take a look at what Shade looks like at this time.

"If the one-time tax exceeds a certain amount, some gifts will be given. These candies are taxed. Gifts include but are not limited to two copies of this morning's newspapers, a box of maltose, three raw eggs, a Wooden pen holder with City Hall stamped bookmarks and a brass whistle. Oh, the last one is gone, otherwise I'll have the whistle, that one should be good for cats."

Shade replied.

These gifts are meant to encourage tax payment, and you can choose one of them if you pay more than five pounds of tax on site. The value of gifts is not equal. For example, after Shade finishes eating the candy in his hand, the tin square box can also be used as a pen holder. So he just took a box of candy at random, and seeing that Iluna was interested, he shoved it to her.

"Shade, do you think I'm still a child?"

The seventeen-year-old girl said with a smile, took the candy and put it on the table next to her, looking very Happy.

"And what about magazines? Why are you interested in magazines for women's clothing? This is also a tax return?" Shade subconsciously wanted to hand it to her, but immediately thought of what was in it.

"no!"

He raised his voice slightly:

"Here is the book I borrowed from the Black Raven Library! Yes, You can't show it to others."

Iluna nodded, just a little strange how Shade reacted so much.

Then, Shade briefly explained his itinerary this morning, and told Iluna the two things that had been resolved.

Iluna has nothing to say about dead young ghosts, which is not uncommon. And the peeping thing that happened later, Iluna also had a headache:
"We can't control the affairs of the ordinary person, but since the other party asked us to entrust, I think Captain will find a way to solve it. Really, money really doesn't matter. Good money."

"What method will your Captain use?"

"It's hard to say, it mainly depends on whether the other party is obedient."

So Shade He stopped inquiring, because the rest had nothing to do with him.

Three commissions from Iluna, and now only the last one is left, which is the merchant who sells spices in the Northern Part of City.

The other party does not have a fixed shop, but is like a small vendor in the Sainteland square, haunting a square in the northern district of Tobesque.

The first two commissions are not major events, so Shade considers the third one to be an ordinary event, just as a distraction today.

After saying goodbye to Iluna, I took the carriage to the destination at a moderate pace. On the way, I also chatted with the driver about recent prices. The midsummer is coming to an end, and the price of cheap fruits such as apples will remain stable, and children of ordinary households can occasionally eat them.

Tobesque chant square is one of the more prosperous squares in the northern part of the city. It is said that the origin of the name is that the city established Early-Stage to commemorate a bishop of the Church of Peace and composed a chant here. , but somehow not named after the other party.

The Northern Part of City in Tobesque is the lower part of the city in the usual sense. Unlike the resident-dominated St. Teresa Square, Anthem Square is the largest trading center in the Northern Part of City. The plaza extends in all directions, surrounded by Three Cats Inn, Hunter Bookstore, "Bai Bing Xiao" medical herb shop, Shu Madam Lan ready-to-wear shop, etc. There is even a blacksmith shop with a sign of "High Level People" to help people repair rice cookers , sharpening knives and scissors. As for the square, vendors selling all kinds of groceries, fruits, vegetables and meat, gang loan sharks, and various performers emerged one after another.

The villages and towns around Tobesque, such as the village where Mr. Kopps, who provided corpse materials for the ring warlocks, lived in the village, when they entered the city, they would take the Northern Part of City's Anthem Square as the center of activities .

The upper class is the upper class. The poor and the villagers in the countryside live in the same space with them, but they are definitely not the same life.

Although it is downtown, Anthem Square is more lively than downtown. There were no noble women or fashionable gentlemen to be seen here, only people in patched clothes walking around.

Women are wearing headscarves and aprons, carrying vegetable baskets to compare the products they want to choose; like children who haven't washed their faces for a long time, they are barefooted in the streets, and when they meet strangers, Will be a little scared to dodge; the rude brawny man in black shoes is holding a wine bottle and complaining about the unhappiness of his life with his companions; the beggar by the wall seems to be indifferent to the surrounding noise and the sound of the blacksmith shop ding ding dong dong It doesn't matter, curled up on the straw mat, and only leaves when the owner of the house yells.

This is the first time for a foreigner to come here. The streets and squares are dilapidated, but they are full of life. Compared with the people who live in Sainte-de-Land Square, the people who live here do not seem to be in the same world as the former.

"It turns out that there is such a place in Tobesque."

Outlander stared wide-eyed, standing on the edge of the square, turning his head and looking towards everything around him. The smell of low-quality tobacco, fermented food and rotting grass in the air mixes, and various sounds rush into the ears, forming a complex background noise.

He had only seen this place on the map left by Detective Sparrow before, the map that recorded the information about densely packed, and even marked how to find warblers, loan sharks and underground casinos nearby Entrance.

"If I want to see more of this world, I should actually come to this place more often."

The shock brought by the scene I saw at this time , no less shocked than Shade's first time out when he saw the street scene in a foreign land.

The life ring in the soul is slowly turning, and the brass-colored Enlightenment elements are enriching. This represents this scene, so that foreigners who are still unfamiliar with this world have more insights into civilization.

Compared with people in this world, foreigners have unique advantages in thinking and understanding of civilization. However, this advantage is not the application of literature and fairy tales like Dorothy and Laccia Princess, but more similar to Old John's understanding of civilization as a whole.

(end of this chapter)