Chapter 30: The Sharks That Smell Blood

Shi Kefa was very busy.

He was asking about the price of grain, the price of cloth, and all the prices related to people's livelihood, not only that, but he even invited the tax collectors in the market to drink tea and ask about the taxes of Lantian County.

The tax collector in the bazaar is aimed at those small traders, no matter what you sell, how much you sell, as long as it is your own production, you need to pay two copper coins, and the tax collector is also a lazy person, throw a large basket at the tax collection point, let the small traders throw copper coins into the basket, throw two copper coins, and take a red chip from the lottery holder by the way.

Shi Kefa watched it for a long time, but he didn't see anyone stealing and playing tricks.

The tax collector looked at Shi Kefa with some disgust and said: "Don't worry, even if no one is watching, no one will leak it, these two money are to be used to build rain shelters for them, sunshade shelters and transport waste, and the cost of cleaning the streets, it will be good for them to build it as soon as possible, if there is more money, two latrines will be built near here."

Their open-air stalls will become numbered semi-open-air shops, and they will be able to operate for a long time, and a fool will escape this tax. ”

Shi Kefa's expression was solemn.

Yun Zhao must ignore this kind of small thing, which shows that there are a large number of small officials who can be used and very capable under Yun Zhao, a person who can manage a huge market in an orderly and constantly better way, and is just a small official who is in charge of ten people.

Somehow, the tax collector ran away.

When Shi Kefa looked over, he noticed that a young man in a green shirt with an ugly face had come from the other side of the street.

As you walk, you will greet the businesses on both sides of the street, and you will seem to be very familiar with each of them.

When passing by the pork stall, he would carefully inspect the pork, and the stout butcher looked trembling, accompanied by a smiling face, watching the ugly young man in Tsing Yi take the butcher's knife and cut a few pieces of pork, nod, and the butcher stood up straight and began to boast of his good pork.

"Zheng Tu, if you dare to sell a pig with worms or a dead disease, your family's ancestral livelihood will come to an end, and you will go to prison, don't say that I didn't say it in advance."

Don't look at this man in Tsing Yi who is young and ugly, but when he speaks, he is majestic, and Zheng Tu, who is half fatter than him, has just straightened up and bent down again.

"Today's pork and the pork of the past few days are all good pork, cut me two catties of fat, go back to refining oil, and eat oil residue cabbage buns."

Hearing what the people in Tsing Yi said, Zheng Tu immediately pulled his voice and said: "Liu Lichang wants two catties of good fat meat, everyone come and buy it, really good pork——"

The man in Tsing Yi laughed and scolded twice, took the fat pork tied with a straw rope from Zheng Tu's hand, settled the account with the butcher, and came to the tax point with a hanging of pork.

Kick the bamboo basket placed on the side of the table and say to the tax collector: "Count it, you know the consequences of not raising the right money." ”

The tax collector hurriedly said, "After counting, there are more than a dozen coins." ”

The man in Tsing Yi glanced at the tax collector coldly and said: "What I said is that the money is equal, less will not work, more will not work, and the excess will be returned to others, we are the government, there is no shortage of money, as long as there are rules, understand?" ”

The tax collector, who had no one in his eyes just now, immediately picked out a string of money from the basket and hurriedly inquired along the street......

However, the lieutenant chief, who was carrying a load of fat pork, stopped a man in ragged clothes pushing a wheelbarrow, and asked Wen Yan why he was so depressed, and whether anyone owed his porter money, so that he had no food and clothing.

"Lao Tzu just doesn't have a mother-in-law, it's not that he has no money!"

The man who was questioned turned a pig's liver color with a face that turned a little annoyed and angry.

"The streets are full of poor sewing women, so you can't sew your crotch? It's black and it's beautiful? ”

"Ah, the crotch is torn, I said why is it so cool, hehe, this is going, this is going, but what, do you think there will be a mother-in-law who takes a fancy to me because of my torn crotch?"

"Fuck off......

Shi Kefa looked a little sluggish as he watched the black, thin and ugly man in Tsing Yi raise his leg and kick the porter who was a head taller than him, causing everyone to laugh.

"This is the government—"

Shi Kefa, who was soaked in sweat, held the teacup with bruised tendons.

Such a scene should have appeared in the Jingshi at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in the land of the sage, in the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, and only in the capital where thousands of sails were racing and merchants gathered.

Now, the scene that Shi Kefa most wanted to see actually appeared in a robber's den.

"There is no doubt that this is just the daily life of Lantian County."

A beautiful blue and white porcelain teapot appeared in front of Shi Kefa, and at the same time, several screens naturally isolated his table into an independent space, and a pair of slender and white hands picked up the teapot and poured new tea into his new teacup.

Shi Kefa looked at the orange and clear tea soup in front of him and said in a low voice: "People, ghosts? ”

"Now I'm still managing personnel, naturally it's a human, not a ghost!"

"A certain taste, a gentleman is thirsty and does not drink the water of the thief spring, he is not free from the food that comes from the mouth, the king abandons the brilliant son of heaven, the way of Confucianism is absolute, the thief is the king, and the flesh and blood of the thief is eaten, is it ashamed?"

Lu Xiangsheng came to the opposite side of Shi Kefa, poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip and said: "You have also seen that the taxes in Lantian County are given by the people themselves, and there is no oppression, let alone tyranny, no tax collectors entering the house in the middle of the night, no old man crossing the wall, and no old woman filling the army."

There are many tigers and leopards in the Qinling Mountains, poisonous insects, the people have gone down the mountain, eat their own soil, do not want to be with the tigers and leopards poisonous insects, and there is no snake catcher who shouts poisonous boils, and the cultivator has his field, the dweller has his house, the male plough and the woman weaves, the craftsman guards the fire, the merchant bears the burden of the road, and the soldier operates outside the territory, each performing his own duties so that if the world is a thief's nest, Lu Xiangsheng can't wait for the Ming Dynasty everywhere, all of which are thieves' nests. ”

"So, what is the Holy Son of Heaven?

Although the king regards his ministers as grass mustard, and his ministers regard him as an enemy, the Son of Heaven is not stupid, but only deceived by traitors. ”

Lu Xiangsheng saw Shi Kefa's sad face, so he spread his hands and said: "A certain family has been beheaded by the Son of Heaven, oh, if it weren't for the many ways of Xianzhi, he might have to go through the punishment of beheading before his soul can return to nothing." ”

Shi Kefa sighed and said, "Can life and death change Brother Jiandou's ethics?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "There is a great terror between life and death, why can't it?" ”

Shi Kefa picked up the teacup and invited Lu Xiangsheng to drink together, and after this cup of tea was drunk, he paused the teacup on the table and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "When he meets each other in the army, Brother Jiandou must not show mercy to his subordinates. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "If Brother Xian has a good opportunity to kill me, don't hesitate." ”

Shi Kefa smiled and agreed.

Lu Xiangsheng said again: "I heard that the constitution was promoted, and I am gratifying. ”

Shi Kefa sighed and said: "One person, one servant, one donkey to Nanjing, what can be done is very limited, if Brother Jiandou can help me, he will be able to achieve something great in Nanjing." ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "It's difficult, it's even more difficult, Ying Tianfu is more quagmire than Shun Tianfu, it's easy to get promoted to Xian, it's too difficult to do things." ”

"Is Lantian County really worthy of your nostalgia?"

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "I am a human being, so naturally I have to live in the world for a long time, and I can't stay in the ghost for a long time." ”

Shi Kefa said angrily: "Has the Great Tomorrow become a ghost? ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "Isn't it? ”

Seeing that Shi Kefa was about to be annoyed again, Lu Xiangsheng got up and took Shi Kefa's sleeve and said, "You only saw the land of merchants in Lantian County, and a certain family will take you to see the real Lantian County." ”

Shi Kefa smiled dumbly and said, "I'm going to go to the military aircraft to see if it's okay?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The Phoenix Mountain camp is not far from here. ”

"Can a certain family want to go to Yushan Academy to meet the literary devil there?"

"Chief Xu Shan is waiting for him, if Xianzhi is willing, he can also arrange it when he meets a certain family in Lantian County."

Shi Kefa sighed and said: "The strength is weak, so don't see Yun Zhao!" ”

Just when Lu Xiangsheng and Shi Kefa were catching up in a small teahouse, Yun Zhao's big study was crowded with people.

Not only is there a lot of money, Yang Xiong and his cadres are here, and none of the eight gentlemen of the academy are here, even Zhou Guoping, who has not yet gone to Qingshui County to take office.

The big study room was full of people and messy, and everyone was gossiping about recommending Shi Kefa's subordinates to Yun Zhao.

"Zhang Feng, male, a fourth-year student in the upper courtyard of Yushan Academy, Ying Tianfu people's family, once served as a scribe by Gu Yanwu's side for a year, in the locust plague in Shanxi, he showed his organization and scheduling ability to everyone, and he can be Shi Kefa's confidant scribe."

"Zhang Feng is not successful, this person is obedient to words, sensitive to action, although he is very introverted, but he is not good at expressing himself, unless he gets along for a long time, he will not find this person's strengths, if you want to become Shi Kefa's scribe, you need to let Shi Kefa accept ...... in a short time"

"Tan Boming, male, a third-year student in the upper courtyard of Yushan Academy, a native of Suizhou, this person is thoughtful, and clever and adaptable, and is highly praised by Huang Zongxi during the period of controlling locusts, and the secretary and supervisor have a middle-to-upper evaluation of this person.

The most rare thing is that when he went out of Shanxi with Huang Zongyi, he did not start from Shaanxi, but was simply pulled out of the exiles for Huang Zongxi in Shanxi, so I think this person can appear by Shi Kefa's side as soon as possible. ”

"Zhou Guoping, female ......"

", do you think you can go to Yingtianfu if you remove your buckteeth? Do you want to seduce history? ”

"I can be a servant!"

"What should you do if you are captured by Shi Kefa and taken to bed?"

"You—you don't look like an outcast without a woman!"

"Bring your wife to ......"

"The old lady killed you!"

Yun Zhao lay on the table, holding his chin with one hand and looking at a room of nameless people.

He didn't understand why these people were so excited after Shi Kefa came to Lantian County!

Especially when these people learned about Shi Kefa's situation, they were like sharks smelling blood, swimming out of their own world one by one, and began to make a fuss around Shi Kefa tightly......

After listening to these people's messy suggestions, Yun Zhao keenly found that the eternal opportunity for him to meddle in Jiangnan finally appeared.

Listen to these people...... They are going to kill Shi Kefa's old servants, and slowly gather around Shi Kefa when he is lonely, and then let Shi Kefa slowly discover the talents of these people in the environment of sharing weal and woe...... In the end, he formed a strong team with Shi Kefa, so as to shed the last drop of blood for Daming in Shi Kefa's heart.