走马楼吴简中的限米与屯田

Prescriptions of Rice and "Tun Tian" in Bamboo Slips of Wu Found at Zouma Lou

吴国的普通民户拥有自己的私田或佃种官田,并向官府缴纳税米、租米、布、钱等租税。诸如卫士、邮卒、传卒等常备兵种,没有土地或只有很少土地的金民、羖士等手工业者,在外地求学的贫苦书生(私学),以及因流亡而丧失原有田宅后又重新附籍的农民(还民),则被官府组织起来从事军屯或民屯,并缴纳限米。屯田者所缴纳的限米远远高于普通民户耕种自己的私田或佃种官田所缴纳的各项土地租税的总和。

Ordinary peasant families of the Wu kingdom either have their own farm land or land rented from the government and pay rents or taxes to the local authorities in terms of rice, cloth money, etc. Members such as guards, postmen, messengers and the like of standing armed forces, copper smiths who have no or litde land, handicrafts men like tanners, poor students pursuing their studies away from home, and people who had lost their land and houses and lived in exile, now become peasants again are organized into garrison troops or peasant communities to open up wasteland and grow food grain. These people have also to pay tax rice as prescribed for diem, which are even higher than the taxes and rents put together paid by ordinary fanners or tenants.