When Jing Zhe went out and saw the people from the official mansion that Han Han said, his heart was lifted up a lot.

Originally, looking at Han Han's nervous appearance, Jing Zhe thought that their identity as a mountain thief was exposed and surrounded by a large number of officers and soldiers, but when they came out, they were good, just two of them!

"The two officials are here, and the small shop is shining!"

Jing Zhe stepped forward and said with a smile.

Zhu Kuai glanced at him, his face expressionless: "You are the owner of this cool summer?" ”

"It's despicable!"

After receiving an affirmative answer, he couldn't help but look at him twice, and secretly said that he was a young owner!

"Don't stand outside the two officials, come and sit down in our store, I'll send someone to get mung bean popsicles for the officials, it's delicious to cool off, it's cool!"

One of the catchers just wanted to stretch out his hand to refuse, but was blinded by the other lean catcher and stopped moving.

The hot scene of selling popsicles in the cool summer has long spread in the city, and it is hard to find a stick - this is the most intuitive understanding of many Yongzhou people in the cool summer.

The two catchers are not rich people, and naturally they have never tasted the taste of popsicles, and they finally come across a chance to eat for free, and a fool will refuse!

After a while, Han Han walked out with two popsicles.

"Just two?"

Thin Catcher took a quick look and raised his eyebrows.

The last thing Han Han wants to see is these public family members, the two are not satisfied, and they have to inch in, Han Han immediately prepared to do it, but Jing Zhe hurriedly pressed it.

"The official doesn't know, the weather is hot, the popsicle is easy to melt, and it takes too long to take it out, but it turns into water after a while. When the official is leaving, I will ask people to prepare a few more, and the official will take them home! ”

After listening to Jing Zhe's words, Lean Catcher smiled happily.

"Not bad, not bad."

patted Jing Zhe on the shoulder and smiled and ate popsicles.

"Delicious!"

"Refreshing!"

The two of them mouthed quickly, and it didn't take long for a popsicle to be eaten, and they looked at Jing Zhe greedily.

Jing Zhe understood, and asked Han Han to take two more for them, and they ate the second one before they stopped.

At this time, Jing Zhecai asked with a smile: "I still don't know what happened to the two officials?" ”

As the so-called eating people has a soft mouth and short hands, Jing Zhe fed the two catchers in advance, thinking that the two of them would take care of it next.

The lean catcher quickly threw away the bamboo stick in his hand, stood up and said, "Come to collect taxes!" ”

"Collect taxes?"

Although Jing Zhe is a traverser, he also roughly understands that most of the taxes collected in ancient times were agricultural taxes, after all, the land tax is large and easy to collect, while the industrial and commercial tax is difficult to collect, or basically not collected.

Is the country's tax policy so sound?

However, even if the business tax is collected, it must be close to the end of the year, right? He just opened and came to collect it, which is really a bit far-fetched.

But as the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, especially if they are still bandits, and they can't have conflicts with the officials in the city, seeing that the sales prospects of popsicles are so good, and in a few days he can leave for Jingzhou.

At this juncture, he didn't want to make extraneous branches.

Collect taxes, then collect them!

So Jing Zhe asked, "Dare to ask the official, how much is this tax in total?" ”

"Twenty taels!"

The lean catcher didn't even think about it, and opened his mouth to say.

"Twenty taels?"

Everyone in the room exclaimed.

They had seen those who collected taxes, but it was the first time they had seen such a high tax.

Han Han, Fat Qiu and others were already furious, but fortunately, Da Yan was still a person who knew the overall situation, and he was afraid of delaying Jing Zhe's big event, so he secretly pulled them down.

"Dare to ask the official, how is this tax calculated?"

The smile on Jing Zhe's face disappeared, and he asked indifferently.

"How? It's complicated, you don't know! ”

Thin Catcher waved his hand, "Besides, I've heard that you earn more than 200 taels of silver a day, and you only receive 20 taels, so you can steal the fun!" ”

“……”

Jing Zhe bought two hundred and twenty taels of silver today, but he actually earned it, and most of it was pre-stored here by others.

What's more, even if he really earns two hundred taels, he doesn't have to pay so much, right?

Chen Mo next to him couldn't stand it anymore, and asked loudly: "Today, the saint levies commercial taxes, but it is just to regulate the commercial order, fill the treasury, and the levy ratio is two or three cents of 100 yuan, how did you calculate the twenty taels?" ”

"Who are you?"

Thin Catcher didn't expect that there was a knowledgeable person here, and he was a little speechless for a while, so he looked at Chen Mo.

"You don't care who I am, just answer my questions! The amount of taxes levied is clearly stipulated by the laws of the imperial court, you take out the provisions, and we will confront them face to face! ”

Chen Mo was not afraid of him at all, and asked questions one after another.

"Confronted? It's up to you? ”

Slender Catcher sneered twice, "You're just a small person in the market, what are you going to confront me?" ”

"Then I'll look for your prefect! I would like to ask you who has given you the audacity to corrupt the law of God, and who is so fearless of death! ”

Chen Mo was really angry, and his chest rose and fell violently.

"Looking for our prefect?"

The lean catcher was not frightened, and continued to sneer: "Today's matter is our prefect-"

Before he finished speaking, the catcher next to him pulled him and hinted that he should not say any more.

The lean catcher was stunned for a moment, and then changed his words: "Twenty taels, not a single point is missing, if you don't pay, hehe, don't think about opening this store again!" ”

"Don't pay! Let's go, let's go to Yamen! ”

"Go, go and arrest you, let you talk nonsense, and you will feel good in prison!"

Catch quickly and said fiercely.

Jing Zhe hurriedly stopped Chen Mo, this matter was all caused by his storefront, if Chen Mo was imprisoned for this, it was really not what he wanted.

"Twenty taels of silver, huh? I'll deliver! ”

Jing Zhe took out twenty taels of silver from his pocket and handed it over.

Lean Catcher's eyes lit up, and he was about to reach out to pick it up, but Jing Zhe retracted his hand and looked at him coldly: "If the money is handed over, will our store continue to open?" ”

"That's nature! Once the taxes are paid, who cares about you? ”

The lean catcher spoke quickly, but his greedy eyes did not take away from Jing Zhe's hand.

asked the names of the two again, perhaps desperately wanting to get the silver, but the lean catcher didn't even think about it, so he directly reported the name.

Jing Zhe threw the silver to him and said in a cold voice.

"It's better to go, don't send it!"

The catcher who got the money didn't bother to take care of Jing Zhe, and walked out happily.

Jing Zhe followed outside the door to see the watermelon shop diagonally opposite, Lin Tong was standing at the door, sneakily looking this way, and when he saw Jing Zhe looking at him, he shrank his head back in fright.

Watermelon shop, Lin Tong, Lin Wenyao, Lin Zhifu.

Jing Zhe sneered, already thinking of the cause and effect.

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