The people in the city are grumbling at increnged taxation. Several opium dens have had to close doors—and a very good thing too—because 40 cash a day has to be aid for every lamp; 8 cash a catty has en put extra on sugar and wine. A shopkeeper told me this extra money was not all to go into the Treasury, but was partly to be used for local benevolent But even for the doing of good deeds, increased taxation ig not liked by the people.
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