Chapter 524: Mr. Robespierre, You Are Right! (Seeking monthly votes at month's end)

"At that time, the road was extremely muddy, and the grain merchants couldn't enter the town to collect grain, so the farmers had to use their wheat to pay their taxes,"

"But since the Tax Farming Bureau had moved to the suburbs, people had no choice but to rely on manpower, carrying the wheat to the Tax Farming Bureau time and again. During this period, four people died from drowning or slipping down steep slopes, while much of the wheat transported to the Tax Farming Bureau was discounted at half price because it got damp."

Robespierre struggled to suppress his anger as he searched out files related to Stian Town for Joseph, "It was then that Leconu proposed that if the townspeople were willing to pay a 'transportation fee,' he could also go to the town to collect taxes."

"People reluctantly agreed. And the so-called 'transportation fee' was almost 70% of the price of the grain."