Nà nián dàhàn, guānfǔ què zhàoyàng cuī zhe bǎixìng jiāo shuì.
That year there was a great drought, yet the authorities still pressed people to pay their taxes.
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官府 belongs to stories and history set before 1912; for a modern government say 政府. In folk tales it is the state as ordinary people saw it: distant, feared, and the place to go when wronged.
