Chapter 451 Tea Fee

The pace of life in Longdu City was obviously much faster than the rest of the empire, but it was too slow compared to the city where Zhang Xiaowu lived in his previous life. He sat at the tea stall on the street, watching the lives of the people with great interest, feeling the busyness and leisure of everyone, and felt that more and more immersion in this period was the real life.

In the past, life was slow and so busy that I forgot the time.

And Zhang Xiaowu's life is becoming more and more "ancient", and even his thoughts are becoming more and more "ancient", and even the "dirty and sinful" idea of "three wives and four concubines" has been born psychologically. He did not have the ambition of other time-travelers, Lao Tzu was a prince and general, and he must have taken it on behalf of the Son of Heaven, let alone make any inventions to promote social progress, let alone the lofty idea of turning imperialism into communism.

He always thought of himself as an ordinary person, an ordinary person who could live for himself and his friends, he liked the life of ordinary people, and longed for ordinary life, although he didn't remember how many people he killed or how many battles he fought. If one day he says to his men: "I want to be a small people, I don't like to kill, I love peace." I'm afraid that his subordinates will hug him and cry bitterly: "General, are you crazy?" What disease do you have, can it be cured? ”

A porter carried two loads of goods, a basket on the left was tofu, and a basket on the right was a living animal, probably a chicken and duck, and his feet were flexible as if Ling Bo was shuttling through the crowd of people, shouting in his mouth: "Sorry, sorry, let way, let way, excuse me, excuse me." ”

An old man who sells candy is surrounded by a group of children, and Child A says, "He wants a horse!" Child B said, "I want a snake." Child A said, "You want a horse." Child B said, "But I am a serpent." Child A said, "Fool, horses have a lot of candy." The old man who sold the candy man laughed and drew a big horse for them, and the two children happily held the sugar horse, you lick a bite and I lick a bite and leave.

The two veiled girls were laughing and talking about something, and from time to time they secretly looked at the passing scholars, so bold.

A bare-ass little boy ran and ran, was knocked to the ground by the stones on the ground, and immediately lay on the ground covering his face and crying, a wheezing woman ran over, first picked him up, and then gave him a few slaps on the ass, scolded him loudly, and then carried the bare pigtails on the little boy's head, and dragged him home.

Zhang Xiaowu laughed when he saw it, he was carried home by his parents by the collar when he was a child, and this kind of life made him feel the beauty of life.

"Life should be so good." He muttered to himself.

The tea guest next to him felt that there was a nervous patient sitting next to him, and hurriedly hid away.

was drinking tea, a few people with red hats came over with their teeth and claws, the people around them retreated, several vendors and merchants hurriedly took out the money, Dr. Tea also hurriedly walked over, accompanied by a smile and handed out the copper coins, a few people took the money and collected it one by one, and then swaggered away.

When the red hats walked away, Zhang Xiaowu called Dr. Tea (Xiao Er) and asked about the identities of these people, but they were robbers. Dr. Tea said with a bitter face: "Although they are not robbers, they are more powerful than robbers, and they are the helpers of the Yamen of Longdu Mansion." Longdu Prefecture requires that the stalls in the market charge three cents a day for tea, and only after paying the three cents tea fee are allowed to set up stalls in the market to do business. ”

Zhang Xiaowu hurriedly asked: "Why does the Yamen of Longdu Mansion charge for tea?" Are they short of tea? Why have I never heard of this tea fee in the Holy Han Empire? ”

Dr. Cha explained: "This tea fee is the cost of the Yamen of Longdu Mansion to protect everyone's safety and clean up the debris and stolen goods on the ground, but it is not expensive, but it is not expensive. ”

Zhang Xiaowu was puzzled: "Has there always been this kind of tea fee?" Excuse me, Dr. Tea, I'm an out-of-towner, we don't have tea fees there? There are so many rules in this dragon capital, and you still need tea fees to set up a stall. ”

"I can hear it, you are from Yongzhou, and your accent is a bit of Yongzhou." Dr. Nacha laughed and continued, "Actually, there was no tea fee rule in Longdu Mansion before, and it only appeared this year. Previously, the imperial court set up silver guards to maintain law and order in Longdu Mansion, and the officials of Longdu Mansion were only responsible for killing people and stealing goods. But since the cancellation of the silver guard, there has been no one to manage it, so the officials of the Longdu Mansion have replaced the silver guards to manage the dragon city. But there are only a few officials in the Longdu Mansion, and the Yin of the Longdu Mansion ordered to recruit a lot of helpers. Since the appearance of these helpers, there has been this tea fee, and I heard that the salary of these helpers is our tea fee. ”

"I see." Zhang Xiaowu nodded, this is a market management fee, and he asked again: "Then now that the silver guard is back, isn't it useless for the servants to help idle?" ”

Dr. Tea pouted and smiled, gloating: "You know a lot about this guest officer, even the matter of the silver guard, you wait to see a good show, but this tea fee is at least three hundred taels of silver a day!" Therefore, the silver-clothed guard will definitely have a conflict with the servants, and then you will be able to see whose wrist is more powerful. I bet that the Yamen of the Dragon Capital Mansion is more powerful than the Silver Guard. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Xiaowu smiled, "What do you say? Why do you believe that the Silver Guards can't work? ”

Dr. Tea shook his head and said, "I didn't say that the silver-clothed guards are not good, those silver-clothed guards are by no means vegetarians, but what is the Yamen of Longdu Mansion?" Do you know who is the Longdu Mansion Yin today? That is the proud protégé of the left minister, the senior brothers and brothers of the people are all over the government and the opposition, no matter how powerful the silver guard is, it is just a dragon crossing the river, and if the dragon wants not to be starved to death, he can't offend the local snake. As long as Lord Fu Yin gives an order, saying that the grain shops in the whole dragon capital are not allowed to sell grain to the silver-clothed guards, the people of the silver-clothed guards will soon be starved to death? ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled slightly, turned around and left.

As soon as the silver guards made a move, they took back all the households, no less than a military coup, if it were not for the 7,000 well-trained men, they would have been scared to death by the other party. And through this thunderous method, it also gave a warning to the major forces in Longdu, don't underestimate the silver guard, let alone Zhang Xiaowu. However, Longdu is more complex and troublesome than imagined, the relationship between people is complicated, the social situation is complicated, and many people cling to the system of scholars and bureaucracy in Longdu, creating an intertwined network of relationships, and many things affect the whole body at once.

"Let the storm come harder." Zhang Xiaowu muttered to himself.