"Daddy, of course, can add taxes to the surrounding towns!"

Seeing that his father was in a dilemma, Jiao Bofeng directly proposed a solution to the problem.

Jiao Tianci frowned and said: "This can't be done, the tax burden of the surrounding towns is already very heavy, the place where our Wangshan Wei is located is different from other guards, the land is barren, and there are no special products, and the caravans rarely come here, if there is a heavy tax, I am afraid that something will happen." ”

Jiao Bofeng said calmly: "Daddy, you think badly again, yes, the land here in Wangshanwei is barren and there are no special products, but it is precisely because of this that it is good!"

"How?"

Jiao Bofeng said with a smile: "The child said something ugly, if our Wangshanwei side is a fat treasure land, can it still be surnamed Jiao now?"

Jiao Tianci shook his head and said: "That is naturally not possible, if it were like that, it should have been taken away by the surrounding group of feudal officials." ”

"Ah!" Jiao Bofeng slapped his palms: "So in such a poor place, isn't it my father and son who make the rules?

Jiao Tianci was stunned when he heard this, and looked at his son for a long time before he stroked his beard and laughed: "Sure enough, it's my unicorn! My father never thought of the layer you said! That's right, increase taxes, as for those untouchables, as long as they can still give them a stutter, they should thank me for their mercy! I'm afraid they will make trouble!"

Indeed, Jiao Tianci's Wangshanwei has the confidence to do such a thing.

The surrounding area of Wangshanwei is also peculiar in the entire Dragon Teng Empire, because it is close to the Qingtian Peak Mountain Range, so the communication between this side and the outside world is almost cut off.

Wangshan guards the moat, so naturally few people come, and even the caravans that are very common on the mainland are unlikely to run towards their poor place.

Except, of course, for the caravans that carried out the slave trade.

So in such a place, there will be no warriors among the people at all, after all, the resources are too poor.

There is not even a treasure that can make the Martial Sect ask for skills, so no matter what their talent is, most of the people here are just ordinary people who have no martial arts cultivation. They are making trouble? In the face of the Wangshan Wei Thousand Households composed of all martial artists, isn't that a search for death?

And Jiao Tianci is not afraid of the exile of the villagers under his rule, you must know that the exiles in the current Dragon Empire are the most unpopular.

As soon as they appeared, the local tycoons who dominated the side anywhere would find a way to disperse the displaced people or even kill them altogether.

As a result, there was a habit in the Dragon Empire that the exile was equal to starving to death.

Therefore, as long as he Jiao Tianci did not scrape away the last grain from the mouths of the people here, then they would not do the things of the mortal outcasts.

With such fearlessness, what is he afraid of excessive oppression?

Thinking of this, the father and son looked at each other, and they both felt refreshed, and they couldn't help laughing.

What they didn't know was that in the midst of their father and son's laughter, a young man who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old had slipped onto the streets of Optimus Town......

"This is Qingtian Town?" Cheng Hao frowned slightly as he looked at the scene on the street.

Standing beside him was a man from Qingxi Village named Wu Seventeen, who was the one who brought Cheng Hao out of the Qingtian Peak Mountain Range to Qingtian Town.

Qingxi Village occasionally comes outside to buy some daily necessities, using local products from the Qingtianfeng Mountain Range, such as animal skins and wild fruits.

Hearing Cheng Hao's question, Wu Qiqi smiled bitterly and said: "So that Cheng Zhuangshi knows that this is indeed the largest town within a radius of 100 miles, Qingtian Town, and the Wangshan Guard Station is ten miles north of Qingtian Town, which is a fortress stacked with stones, built against a steep cliff." ”

Cheng Hao nodded, and then looked at the so-called state of Qingtian Town, and couldn't help but wrinkle his nose hard, the smell was too unpleasant.

The scale of this Qingtian Town is not small, and it can even catch up with a district of Yunfeng City.

Both the buildings on the ground and on both sides of the street are made of stone, which is somewhat different from the Dragon Empire's habit of building houses out of wood.

I think it should be a relationship between the relatively high-quality stone produced by the mountain range here.

In the middle of Optimus is a straight main street, and you can tell from the deep ruts in the stone road that it must be a long and heavy carriage.

But now the streets are very desolate, and there are few people walking around, and there are not many stalls selling things, so they are completely deserted.

This is a bit of a contrast to the ruts that have been pressed out on the ground.

Moreover, dark red traces could be seen on both sides of the street and on the ground, and Cheng Hao's eyesight could naturally see that those were dried up bloodstains.

There were some yellow-black things mixed in it that I couldn't tell what they were, and together they gave off a strange smell that made people feel sick and sick.

"Why aren't there many people here?, and what are these things?" Cheng Hao pointed to the strange traces of drying up on the ground.

Wu Qiqi glanced at it and sighed: "Cheng Zhuangshi, you don't know anything, this Qingtian Town actually has a small population, as long as it is not a new moon day, it is difficult to see people." ”

"Oh, why is that?"

Wu Seventeen's face twitched slightly, and he said hatefully: "Isn't it because the New Moon Day is a bazaar, a human market!"

"Renji?" Cheng Hao felt very fresh about this name: "What is Renji?"

"Naturally, they are sold people! Among the several towns under the jurisdiction of Wangshanwei, all of them are dominated by the slave trade! If you want to say that there are few other things here, but there are the most slaves! Almost the entire Longteng Empire's big slave traders who do this line of work will come over regularly, and the New Moon Day is the villain's set, in order to let the people who capture slaves sell the captured slaves to the slave traders in Qingtian Town, and wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival Full Moon Day is the annual adult gathering, at that time, the big slave traders in the Longteng Empire will come here, and then buy slaves from the slave traders in Qingtian Town. ”。

Cheng Hao was so stiff that his eyebrows were about to stand up, and he said coldly: "What's the matter? Aren't the people of Wangshanwei just arresting you Qiman clansmen?"

"Naturally not. Wu Qiqi smiled bitterly and said: "After all, the number of our Qiman clan is too small, where can we satisfy the appetite of this group of great masters? ”