The carriage drove on the official road for an hour, and then made a big turn to the east gate of Chiyang City, but saw a long queue of motorloads entering the city, not to mention fifty or sixty carriages waiting for the inspection of the guards at the city gate.

The city lord gave the guards the right to search the vehicles coming and going, and the guards also used this right to the extreme, turning over and over the goods on the carriage entering the city, and doing a thorough inspection of the carriage with a posture of trying to find some prohibited items. It is the most normal thing to turn over and over the goods and fall and beat.

In order to protect their goods from excessive inspection, the owners of the carriages had to pay a fixed amount of money for entering the city and pay a part of the tea money to honor the guards guarding the city, of course, these were all secret operations.

The city lord also acquiesced in these covert operations. It's true that the guards are making money, but every time the beast tide hits, these guards and the army of the empire charge at the forefront, protecting the entire city with their lives.

Especially in Chiyang City, a small-scale city close to the Hengduan Mountains, the city gate was broken in history, and the matter of the spirit beast slaughtering the city is not unprecedented, after all, the intelligence of the spirit beast is relatively low, and it will only kill or eat it directly when it encounters humans, and it will not be as varied as humans deal with spirit beasts, such as making spirit beasts into delicacies, raising spirit beasts in captivity for gladiatorial fights, and domesticating spirit beasts to work for them.

When the cost of entering the city increases, the cost will be passed on to the goods, and the final purchaser in the city will suffer in the end. As the ultimate purchaser, you enjoy a safe living environment while also enjoying cheap goods that are not possible. Compared with the safe living environment in the city, more people still live outside the city, and the larger villages have made relatively solid protective measures, as long as there is no beast tide, they can still resist the invasion of several spirit beasts at the same time. Some smaller villages are more pitiful, and there are often incidents of wild beasts or spirit beasts attacking people.

The city wall is still the original city wall, and the city gate is still the original city gate, but this time the carriage driven by Lin Yuan is no longer the village chief's carriage. Uncle Hua's carriage is engraved with a characteristic mark on the upper left side of the carriage, and this mark can only be engraved with the permission of the city lord's mansion, and has the right to enter the city without inspection. Lin Yuan saved the trouble of having to go through the formalities of entering the city for a carriage like the village chief.

Lin Yuan once asked Uncle Hua about the source of the mark, and the reply he got was that Uncle Hua had done the city lord a great favor, and in return, he engraved this mark on the carriage. As for what specific help he helped the city lord, Lin Yuan knew the answer without asking, and it was recently confirmed. The lord of the city is more than fifty years old, has seven children under his knees, but has no son, and has been busy with official business for many years and neglected sexual affairs, and has not been out for ten consecutive years. When I wanted it again, I found that I couldn't do it anymore, and I found a doctor everywhere but found nothing, and then I was introduced to Uncle Hua, and I went down with a medicine, only four months have passed, and the two concubines of the city lord Xinna are pregnant, and the city lord is grateful to Uncle Hua, and the gifts that he personally gave to him were all rejected by Uncle Hua, and finally he had to reply with a sign of entering the city.

Lin Yuan touched his ass and couldn't help but sigh that it was good to be rich and powerful, and his ass was not sinned, and he didn't line up when he entered the city. Propping up the cowhide to reveal the special symbol of the process, he waved his horsewhip lightly, and looked up to see the sky walking proudly towards the city gate. Glancing at the queue of carriages, he whistled vigorously as if to say to passers-by, you stupid dicks, the master is driving the carriage into the city through a special passage, you wait slowly, hahaha.

It didn't matter to the coachmen in line, but the expressions of the owners of those carriages were indeed varied. There are flattering expressions of flattery, it is estimated that this kind of person has no status, hoping to offend a powerful second lord less, to avoid an additional enemy in the business field in the future; there are also those who express disdain, you have the ability to sit in the carriage, no matter how awesome you drive, you are just a coachman, and the coachman is still a slave in the end.

When they reached the city gate, the guards on both sides stopped to check the vehicles and saluted in the most standard imperial military posture to show respect for Lin Yuan's carriage.

Lin Yuan slowed down his driving speed, raised his head three points higher, and looked like he was enjoying this feeling to the extreme.

As soon as the carriage entered the city gate and was about to turn around, he heard the roar of the horses' hooves behind him, turned his head to look, but saw a larger carriage galloping towards him, and the carriage driven by Lin Yuan next to him overtook it, and the word "Qin" printed on the large flag hanging at the end of the carriage fluttered gently in the wind, as if he was laughing at Lin Yuan: Boy, if you don't accept it, you will bite me.

The wind spirit horse stopped with a slight startle, and Lin Yuan saw that the horse's carriage was about to leave, and shouted loudly: "Old boy, you are driving a little floating!"

The large carriage also took a special passage, coupled with the domineering driving method and the fluttering word "Qin", Lin Yuan guessed that this carriage should be the Qin family, one of the three major families in Chiyang City. The Qin family has stood tall in Chiyang City for hundreds of years, and the family industry covers many industries, and it is a veritable hegemon in Chiyang City.

But these Lin Yuan are not afraid, Chiyang City is still the chassis of the city lord in the final analysis, we are the people who have great kindness to the city lord, if it weren't for Uncle Hua's prescription treatment, the city lord might be cut off, and the unfilial piety is the greatest, how can the city lord not take care of his benefactor?

The city lord of Chiyang City changes every ten years, and he is appointed from above, and this city lord has outstanding political achievements, increasing various industry taxes in an open source way, and the total tax revenue is more than thirty percent more than the previous one every year, and ordinary people have also increased their income, and he is a good city lord that everyone praises, plus I heard that there are people above, and it is very obvious that the term of office is going to be adjusted upwards.

Lin Yuan thought that if he scolded a coachman of the Qin family, he felt that he would have to put him to death because he couldn't get by with face, and we wouldn't be afraid, it would be a big deal to drive the carriage to the city lord's mansion. There are many daughters of the city lord, in case of entering the city lord's mansion, a certain city lord's daughter takes a fancy to herself, so isn't it the joy of planting melons and getting beans? Our body is full of muscles, and the face is also relatively handsome, and there is no reason why the daughter of the city lord will not look at herself.

The groom of the Qin family was slightly stunned when he heard the shouting, and when he turned his head to see that he had not hit it, he threw a silver ingot backwards, and disappeared into the crowd of carriages and horses without turning his head back.

The silver ingot landed in the open space between the handlebar seat and the horse's butt. Whether to pick up this money or not to pick it up Lin Yuan began to make trouble, his original intention was to roar out of anger, but he didn't expect the cart groom to treat him as a porcelain toucher.

Lin Yuan felt that his pure and young heart had been seriously insulted, but looking at the silver ingots that were extremely transparent, there was no doubt that it was official silver, and the size was at least ten taels, which was not a small amount, and ten taels of silver for a family of three was enough for a month.

Although there were many people who were paying attention to Lin Yuan when he yelled just now, no one noticed that the cart and horseman had thrown silver ingots over. Whether to pick it up or not, Lin Yuan hesitated.

The Wind Spirit Horse came back from the fright, stepped lightly on the spot for a few steps, glanced back at Lin Yuan, and actually cocked the horse's tail and began to solve the physiological problem. The excrement happened to fall on the silver ingot, Lin Yuan retracted the hand that was about to pick up the silver ingot, and exclaimed: Your uncle, fortunately, the master reacted quickly, otherwise if he grabbed a handful of horse manure, his reputation would be completely ruined.

"Old boy, driving a carriage through the city, sooner or later he will be killed by himself. Lin Yuan cursed a few words fiercely and secretly, shaking the reins and walking towards the city.

In order to resist the tide of beasts that come from time to time, the city wall of Chiyang Castle has been renovated many times to leave two gates, east and west, and the sluice gates that run through the city from north to south to ensure the supply of water and the exchange of merchant ships.

Two main roads in the city divide the entire city into nine blocks, and through the management of many city lords and the accumulation of the city's own development, various industries have formed a relatively cluster distribution. The Lord's Mansion and the Governor's Yamen, which deals with various organs, are located in the middle of the city.

The Chiyang River is buried in a small river only seven or eight zhang wide due to the diversion of the moat, and the headquarters of the mercenary union and dozens of adventure unions are located on both sides of the river, and the supporting green buildings, restaurants, shops and inns are more concentrated in other blocks.

After the bold reform and several years of operation of the city lord, this place has developed into the most famous fireworks place within a radius of more than 1,000 miles. The most well-known measure is to add various business taxes to encourage the diversified development of green houses and meet the diverse needs of prostitutes.

The old prostitute who has the most right to speak commented on the reform of reducing the tax on prostitutes' clothing: In the past, when buying a spring was to break open the underwear to find the buttocks, which was exciting; The development of this tax boldly liberated the traditional idea that the clothing in the women's hall of the Qinglou was exposed to immorality.

Although the Qinglou has to hand over part of its income in the form of taxes, it objectively improves the satisfaction of the guests, increases the flow of repeat customers, and greatly increases the total income, which is of great benefit to the long-term development of the Qinglou. As a result, adventure unions in other cities are constantly moving to Chiyang City.

Finally, the three blocks to the west are mostly residential areas and various processing workshops, and the residential areas provide labor for processing workshops.