"You can't change things from others, but you can change them with me. Menggo assured.

She greeted the children who were watching the excitement and said, "Go find some beautiful stones, and I'll give you candy." ”

Sugar is the best maltose of this era. The golden-brown, translucent gel-packed candy is packed in a jar and stirred with chopsticks to pull out a large lump.

Some people will add some water to the maltose and boil it, and then boil it with rice flour and soybean flour syrup to make gummies, and store them to coax children.

This time, Mongo brought two large jars of gummies, and a wooden barrel of maltose.

The children here are scared of outsiders from the bottom. The outsiders they had seen, the ones who came to ask for taxes, would beat and scold their parents and elders every time.

Meng Ge knew that this would be the case, so he asked Meng Mao to take the gummies and distribute them to the children. Not much, two small grains per person.

Sure enough, it is only between children that can communicate. Meng Mao took a small bag of gummies and walked around the middle of the children's door, and after a while, the children brought all the so-called beautiful stones from the village.

Meng Ge checked it and found that the stones were all natural amethysts.

The color of the crystals can be dark or light, with large clusters of crystals and single crystals that fall to the ground.

The overall purity of these crystals is very high, and the color gradient is also very symmetrical, not abrupt at all.

There were also some children who brought the original crystal cave stone that had not yet been opened. In order to prove that there was a crystal cave inside the rough stones, the older children smashed one of the rough stones on the spot.

Meng Gele looked at these crystals happily, and asked his subordinates to divide sugar and salt grain among those children according to the number and size of the crystals.

Dried pickles, vegetables and bacon are considered giveaways.

The adults didn't want Meng Ge to talk about it seriously, so they really let the children mess around and change a lot of things, so they all hurried over to help.

"Little brother, do you want more stones like this? You want a lot, we'll go and help you smash some now. A couple asked excitedly with the salt and brown rice they had received from their children.

Meng Ge gave the gummies in the small paper bag to the children and gave them the maltose in the bamboo tube, and said, "Don't worry, someone will come to discuss this matter with you in two days." It's a pity that you don't know how to spend this treasure. I think those people came to collect taxes just an excuse. Their purpose is to force you out of here so that you can take those treasures for yourself. ”

Meng Ge's words really reminded the villagers. Some of the elders understood as they spoke.

"No wonder. When we found the cave, we knocked a lot of stones and went outside to find someone to buy them, but they didn't bid too low, but they said they didn't want it. Since then, there have been people who have been forced to pay taxes. Flooding also began to flood in the third year. The trembling old man said remorsefully.

"Third Grandpa, what do you say we should do now? If they knew that we already knew that these things were valuable, would those people do anything to us?" asked the elder who led the group out of the mountain.

The trembling old man leaned on the rock, glanced at Meng Ge and the others, and said, "What are you afraid of, didn't this person say that he wanted to take care of this matter." Let's wait and see. It's a big deal and I'm leaving, and keeping my life is more important than anything else anyway. ”

The rest of the villagers felt that this was exactly what was going on. Anyway, no matter how bitter they are in the future, can they be even more bitter than now?

It is said that the counties and towns outside are distributing fields, and if they are willing to settle in their place, they can have fields to plant.

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These mountain people who suddenly became wary of her were really crying and laughing.

If she really wanted to calculate against them and monopolize the cave, why would she remind them of so much?

Besides, this cave still nominally belongs to the imperial court, and they have already violated the law by privately collecting it. All she had to do was help them legalize it all.

As for dredging the floods, it's a trivial matter, just find the source.

I'm afraid that the people who want to monopolize this place are too powerful behind it, and even the people of the Shi family can't handle it.

Anyway, Meng Ge and the others only took half a day to exchange everything they brought.

Even the five coarse cloths that Li secretly put in the miscellaneous items at some point were all snatched clean by those people.

The man from the Shi family looked at the five pieces of cloth, and then he understood: "I said why this thing is so heavy, it turns out that these cloths are making trouble." ”

Just five pieces of cloth is simply not enough. but can make a new garment for the head of all houses.

Meng Ge thought about it, anyway, they had to stay here for a few days, and when the people of the Shi family came to negotiate, they sent people to find more coarse cloth, as well as the things that were most scarce for the people here.

What is lacking here? The most important thing is medicine and food. Many children and elderly people here are sick and still have chronic diseases.

Meng Ge is a half-monk, a barefoot doctor who only knows the effects of some herbs, but does not know how to see a doctor and prescribe medicine.

That night Menggo was the most respectable family in the village, that is, it was built with planks and stones, and it is said that the house of the former chief was crowded together.

In the middle of the night, the village was in turmoil. As soon as Meng Ge heard this, he knew that it was the tax-collectors who had come.

She let everyone scatter and blend into the people, and she took Meng Mao and the two men sent by the Shi family to swagger out of the crowd.

"What are you yelling in the middle of the night, and you don't want people to sleep?" Meng Ge looked unhappy, waiting for those who were deliberately posturing to collect taxes.

After taking the photo, Meng Ge knew that those people were not from the government at all, they may have some background, but they are constrained in doing things.

They are also afraid of it.

When the leader of those people saw Meng Ge and the others, he arrogantly pointed at her and asked, "This is the helper you found?" I tell you, even if the king of heaven is here, you still have to pay taxes to us." This is the rule of the imperial court. ”

The momentum is quite sufficient, and there is no stage fright at all. It's just that arrogant appearance is a little weak-hearted.

Losing people doesn't seem to be able to get through here in Menggo. She walked around in front of those people with her arms crossed and asked, "Since you are from the government, may I ask which of you are your subordinates? How did I hear that since the new emperor ascended the throne, the people of the Qi and Song dynasties have been exempted from taxes for three years?"

The person who came was speechless for a while, but seeing that Meng Ge only had two helpers and a child around him, he was even more arrogant, and said with a tiger face: "I want to tell which adult sent it, can you be sure you recognize it?" ”

Meng Ge didn't have stage fright, so he looked at the man head-on, smiled mysteriously, and said, "I'm not from the court, but I have someone in the court." Tell me, are you doing this just to let your master's house be raided and wiped out as soon as possible?"

Menggo's words are not alarmist. Officials who dare to bully the monarch can only end up like this.

The new emperor has already issued a decree on tax exemption, and it would be fun if there were still officials who dared to disobey the law.