On the way here, Liu Rong was naturally not idle, and chatted with the woodcutter while hurrying.

I knew that this woodcutter's name was Deng Yi, and his family lived in Fenyin, and all the people in this village were surnamed Deng, and they were people of the same clan.

Hearing this, Liu Rong opened his mouth to ask this Deng Yi, who knew where there was a Houtian Temple in Fenyin County. And this Deng Yi said without thinking: "The villain has never heard of any Houtu Temple."

Hearing Deng Yi say this, Liu Rong was naturally a little disappointed, and Deng Yi even said: "There is an uncle in the villain's family, who is now over seventy years old, and knows many things that others do not know, and this noble person can ask him or learn about it."

And when he walked in front of the woodcutter Deng Yi's house, Deng Yi didn't care about Liu Rong and the others, and immediately stepped forward, pushed open the door and shouted: "Mother! Come out mother! The son came back with corn."

But after a while, I saw an old lady on crutches staggering out of a room, "But my son is back?" ”。

This Deng Yidang put down the sack on his back, brought it to his mother, opened it and grabbed a handful of corn, put it in front of the old lady's face and said, "Mother, smell it, this bag is full of corn."

"Good, good! I'm going to cook for my mother."

At this time, Liu Rong also walked into the courtyard, although the old lady could not see, but her ears were still very good, as soon as Liu Rong entered the door, she heard the movement.

"My son, but someone will come with you?"

Hearing what his mother said, Deng Yi remembered that there were Liu Rong and others who accompanied him.

When he turned around and walked to Liu Rong near him, he said: "The noble man forgives the sin, the villain was so excited that he forgot that the noble man was still behind him."

After speaking, he let Liu Rong into the courtyard, and when Deng Yi's mother heard that the money to buy corn was given by Liu Rong, she wanted to kneel down and kowtow to Liu Rong.

Liu Rongdang stepped forward to support the old lady, "The old lady doesn't have to be like this, it's just a little money, and she can't deserve such a big gift."

During the Han Dynasty, the elderly women can be called concubines, because they grew up in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Bang's mother, and there is no name, so the historian called Liu Bang's mother Liu Yuan when he recorded.

But the old lady insisted on kneeling down and buckled her head at Liu Rong as if she hadn't heard Liu Rong's words.

"The gift of the noble man is to save my family, so naturally I deserve to be kneeling down by the old woman."

Deng Yicai, who was on the side, hurriedly stepped forward to help his mother up.

At that moment, a woman came out from a room on the other side, leading two children with probes in her head.

When she came home, she heard what her husband said, and she wanted to go out of the house to get corn to cook, but she heard that there were others who had come to her, and she did not come out.

After a while, when they heard no movement outside, they thought that everyone had gone, and who would have thought that as soon as they went out of the house, they saw several people standing in the courtyard, and they turned around in fright and went back to the house.

When the woodcutter saw this, he had no choice but to say: "The woman of the countryside makes the nobleman laugh."

Liu Rong originally thought that after arriving at this woodcutter's house, he would ask about something related to Fenyin, but he didn't think about it, and he didn't ask again, only to see Tang Sheng leaning over to Liu Rong's ear, "Your Highness, there is a person who claims to be the chief of the pavilion here, and he asks to see His Highness."

Liu Rong also didn't expect that not long after it was sent to the place, the pavilion chief came to the door first.

After thinking about it for a while, he said to this Deng Yiyan: "I still have some things, and I will bother another day."

It was already dusk, Deng Yiyuan was a little embarrassed, in this poor and remote place, how could these nobles live here.

Seeing that Liu Rong was leaving, this Deng Yi should send Liu Rong and others to the door, and said, "Slow down!" ”。

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After that, Liu Rong asked Tang Sheng, "Where is the pavilion chief?" ”。

"Your Highness later".

After finishing speaking, Tang Sheng turned around and left, but after a while, he led a person to Liu Rong's approach.

"Childe, this is the pavilion chief here", Tang Sheng said with a bow.

Without waiting for Liu Rong to speak, this person should even step forward and give his hand, "Childe is a noble person in Chang'an?" ”。

"Oh? How do you know that I am starting Chang'an", Liu Rong also did not expect that this pavilion chief could see at a glance that he was a person from Chang'an.

I saw that the pavilion chief smiled and said: "The nobles travel more than ten carriages to accompany them, even the Fenyin Marquis of this county has not had such pomp and circumstance, except for the nobles in the city of Chang'an, where else is there anyone?" ”。

Liu Rong didn't know that there were not a few courtiers who came to Hedong from Chang'an, and most of them were the sons of gentlemen, and Chang'an and Guanzhong were full of royal relatives and people.

These gentlemen did not dare to be presumptuous in Chang'an and Guanzhong, so most of them went to the counties not far from Chang'an to act recklessly.

This is also the reason why the pavilion chief said this, guessing that Liu Rong is a noble person in Chang'an City.

"What the pavilion chief said is true, we are the people who came here from Chang'an."

The pavilion chief arched his hand again, "The villain doesn't know, but the prince is a person in the prince's mansion in Chang'an?" ”。

Hearing this, Liu Rong can see that this pavilion chief is still a master who doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles, and it depends on Liu Rong to see which family Liu Rong is the son of the courtiers.

Long before leaving Chang'an, Liu Rong unified the caliber with Jia Yi, Tang Sheng and others, and if someone asked where he came from, he said that he was a descendant of Marquis Zhangwu.

And Zhangwu Marquis Dou Guangguo was originally the younger brother of Liu Rong's grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dou, and the uncle of his father, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, it is naturally not an exaggeration to say that he is a member of his family.

Liu Rong smiled, "The pavilion chief can know that Zhang Wuhou, I am a descendant of Zhang Wuhou's family."

For the candidates in the middle of the court, how can this little pavilion chief know it, but he has heard of the name of Marquis Zhangwu, in the 60 years since the founding of the Han family, only a few people have been crowned with the Hou of 10,000 households, except for the Marquis of Dongyang of Dongyang County in Hedong and the Marquis of Jiangxian County, only the Marquis of Liuwu and this Marquis of Zhangwu are the Hou of 10,000 households. And Marquis Zhangwu is the younger brother of the Queen Mother, the person in authority of the Dou clan.

At this time, looking at Liu Rong's pavilion chief in front of him, his eyes were about to glow, and he said secretly: "This is a relative in the court, if I serve him well, I can't say that I will also have a day of soaring, so I can get rid of this poor and remote place and become an official in Chang'an City!" ”。

Not long ago, the pavilion chief had been to Chang'an, since arriving in Chang'an, he was impressed by the magnificent scene, and often fantasized about whether he could live in Chang'an City one day, and this life was enough.

"The name of Marquis Zhang Wu, how could the villain not have heard of it, and please go to the post station in the pavilion to rest quickly?"

For the environment of the post station, Liu Rong and others have long been a little unbearable, and Liu Rong knows that this post station is not a post station set up on the straight road, and the post station on the straight road is all set up by the imperial court, and the Shaofu allocates money for daily management expenses.

Although the post stations in the counties were nominally set up by the imperial court, the daily management and usage of the county were all counted in the expenses of the local government.

The officials of these county offices never counted these expenses as the affairs of the government office, but all of them were showdown to the heads of the people in the villages, and when the rent was collected, they were all collected into the government treasury.

However, when he paid the collected taxes to the imperial court, he never handed over the income to the imperial court, but all of it flowed into his own pocket.

Such clever and blatant imposition of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been common in all dynasties, and they have become more and more intense.

In the middle of the Han Dynasty, each county implemented the practice of paying one stone of grain and consuming two buckets......

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that the officials of the Ming Dynasty, when the people paid taxes and grains, the government used a large Hu as a measuring device, and the people put the grain into the Hu, and then weighed it to calculate their share of the grain.

The grain pile should be packed up according to the pointed pile type, and some of it will go beyond the wall, and then the warehouse bucket level will kick it with a few feet. It is said that the overflow of grain was used to make up for the loss of grain during storage and transportation, and the people were not allowed to sweep it back, but to fill it with the stored grain.

In the end, all the grain that was kicked out of the grain was privately divided by the officials who collected it.

When it was not until the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng came up with a strategy to make the world's fire consumption return to the public, and the "consumption envy" surtax since the Ming Dynasty was changed to a statutory positive tax, and the system was to raise incorruptible silver, which was intended to crack down on the arbitrary apportionment of local officials.

For this reason, some officials of the Han family would often go to the post station to eat and drink, and then count all the money and food consumed by the post station on the heads of the people.

And the people of Fenyin are already so unbearable due to the drought, Liu Rong naturally does not want to live in the post station anymore.

"I waited out of Chang'an to travel abroad, and if I wasn't sent by the imperial court, how could I live in the post station."

Liu Rong said this, but this pavilion chief was dumbfounded, and he came to Fenyin to wait for his children, and this pavilion chief had seen several of them, all of whom were some gentlemen, and every time they arrived at the post station, they were not eating and drinking arbitrarily.

I didn't think about it today, but when I met the juniors of the Wuhou family today, I bluntly said that I didn't live in the post station in the pavilion, how could I not surprise him.

After pondering for a while, the pavilion chief said, "How about the noble man go to the villain's house for a while?" ”。

Looking at the pavilion chief with a flattering face, Liu Rong said secretly: I want to see what kind of calculation you make.

"Okay, since the pavilion chief is so invited, how can I refuse."

In this way, Liu Rong got into the carriage, and after following the pavilion chief for several miles, he came to a house.

After getting off the carriage, Liu Rong saw that the house where the pavilion chief lived was better than the Deng Yi house he had just seen.

Without entering the door of his house, you can see that there are at least ten houses in this house.

Under the guidance of the pavilion chief, as soon as he entered the door, he saw that there were several pigs and two horses in his house.

There was no surprise to Liu Rong about raising pigs, but these two horses surprised Liu Rong a little.

Since the beginning of the pre-Qin Shang Zhou Dynasty in China, the homes of ordinary people have been housed for pig raising.......

In the Han Dynasty, some people raised pigs to accumulate fat, but the meat of pigs, in addition to ordinary people, nobles and officials all sneered.

However, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the meat eaten by the nobles was still cattle and sheep, and later Su Shi wrote the article that has been passed down through the ages - "Ode to Pork", which made pork the attention of the nobles.

Pig raising is a common thing in the Han Dynasty, but raising horses is very different, since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the entire Han family is a shortage of horses. This is also why Liu Rong's father, Liu Qihui, issued an edict ordering that all the people of the world can raise horses, and after they are raised, they will be collected by the imperial court.

Raising horses is a lucrative business, but even so, most of the commoners in the world still have the money to buy horses and raise horses at home......