章節 459: Such a huge pit in 446

Roger continued to ask with curiosity, "With the sharp decrease in population, how do they explain to the higher-ups?"

"According to the books, there hasn't been any sharp decrease in population! That's because the tax revenue hasn't changed at all!" Tang Mo spread his hands, quite proud of his bold move.

Hearing what Tang Mo said, Roger was even more astonished, "We helped them make up the tax shortfall? How much money would that take?"

"Not much, just over a million Gold Coins. Compared to bribing, this is just small change," Tang Mo said, even finding himself a bit fond of Zheng Country's tax system, full of loopholes, utterly inefficient, and very unreasonable, antiquated at its core.

Under this corrupt system, Zheng Country's tax revenue was extremely low, as lower officials had long kept the tax records at a very low level.