The city of Daiju has existed for more than 1,000 years and is the capital of Daiju, named after its proximity to the Daiju River. Daizhou City has about 30,000 households and more than 100,000 people, and it is the largest city in Daizhou, and the outline of the city is four times that of the wooden city. Nguyen Thanh Van said that the maximum number of people living in Daizhou is 200,000.

Three hundred years ago, Daizhou used to be the base fort of Shengtaizu's advance, Shengtaizu raised troops in Youzhou, first annexed Daizhou, and then stationed 100,000 troops here. Acting on the vast territory of the north, the Holy Taizu waved his army to the south when the heroes were tired, and laid the foundation of the three hundred years of the Holy Han Dynasty in one fell swoop. In addition, Daizhou City is also rich in assassins, and more than half of the famous assassins of the Shenghan Empire are from Daizhou.

While speaking, everyone came to Daizhou City, but Zhang Xiaowu couldn't see the simplicity of Daizhou City, and only felt that the gate officials of the city gate were arrogant and oppressed the people. A few people who couldn't afford to pay the centime were whipped to the ground by the official, and if they ran slowly, they would be beaten severely.

"This looks so perverse at the door!" Zhang Xiaowu said angrily.

Ruan Qingwen hurriedly said: "Because the Holy Taizu raised troops here, many people in Daizhou are relatives of the rich and noble in the capital, so the officialdom here is the most difficult to do, and the slightest carelessness will offend the Wang clan in Beijing." ”

"Bullshit, I can't even look at my own dog." Zhang Xiaowu snorted coldly.

Wang Yijin stepped forward to circulate the customs clearance documents, the official looked at it, and said locally: "Shangguan is a nobleman, and when he enters Beijing to face the saint, he naturally does not need to pay the city entry tax." But the convoy behind Shangguan is a caravan, and he must pay the entry fee into the city, if he doesn't pay, don't blame Xiaguan for being powerless. "The centime and the city tax are one of the most important revenues of a city, and they are generally controlled by the local prefect or county order, who divide part of the tax revenue and hand it over to the village army.

But Daizhou is different from other places, Daizhou is poor, very poor, the so-called poor mountains and bad waters out of the people, plus the people of Daizhou are fierce and aggressive, there are often bandits infested, so the Daizhou garrison (township army) is a real number of 3,000, and scattered in the four prefectures and 17 counties of Daizhou.

Other prefectures and counties are rich, but they feed the 3,000 township army, but Daizhou is too poor, and the governor of Daizhou cannot fully provide military salaries to the township army. So Hou Mingren of Fenyang, the general of Daizhou, put forward an ingenious suggestion, he wanted to use the city gate tax and centijin of the four prefectures and seventeen counties of Daizhou as military expenses, and the rest was not taken. Naturally, there were other ways to generate revenue from the operation of the Yamen, so Zhizhou reached this agreement with the Marquis of Fenyang, and demanded that the entry tax should not be too high to avoid impeachment.

The Marquis of Fenyang did not ask for an excessively high entry tax, and the regulations he gave were two cents for adults to enter the city, one penny for the elderly and young children to enter the city, and tax exemption for weddings and funerals to enter the city, but they had to be handed over to the city gate guards to celebrate the cake. For the entry tax formulated by Fenyang Hou, the people clapped their hands in support, saying that Fenyang Hou deserves to be a good man who has guarded Daizhou for many years.

Hou Ming of Fenyang was appointed as the founding general of the country, and was ordered to guard Daizhou, but his descendants were more useless than one another, and when he arrived at this generation of Fenyang Marquis, because he really did not do anything for the emperor, he has now become the Marquis of Fenyang. If you don't make any achievements, I'm afraid that when the next head of the family is over, the Hou family of Fenyang will be demoted to a first-class Fenyang husband.

For the people of Daizhou, whether it is the Marquis of Fenyang or the husband of Fenyang, they are people they can't afford to provoke.

Recently, the Marquis of Fenyang suddenly became angry, it turned out that the daughter of the Marquis of Fenyang had already married the Marquis of Yingchuan, and was ready to marry the Marquis of Yingchuan next year. And like Zhang Xiaowu, it was the first time in the history of the Holy Han Empire that he went from a commoner to a feudal official.

As the brother-in-law of the Hou Guan's family in Fenyang, Cui Xi, who is on duty at the north gate today, is not a person to mess with, this person is used to running rampant in the city, a few days ago, the Gu family caravan went out of the city, and originally did not need a piece of gold to go out of the city, but he was stunned by Cui Xi to scrape a layer of oil, so he was particularly proud - what is the Gu family, it is the dragon that has to be coiled in Daizhou City, and the tiger has to lie down in Daizhou City. Even the caravan of the Gu family dared to scrape the oil, and Cui Xi's courage was getting bigger and bigger.

Because there is no standard for centimetal in commercial tax, the centigold charged by each door is different, and even depends on the mood, coincidentally, Cui Xi's mood today is not very good, because he lost the gambling money. But all gamblers have a shortcoming, they like to play with their lives when they have no money, they are poor, and his backer is his brother-in-law, the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion of Fenyang, so that he acts even more unscrupulously.

Zhang Xiaowu raised his head, looked at the gatekeeper, then looked at the city, and shook his head.

Ruan Qingwen smiled bitterly: "It seems that the Daizhou Guard General and the Daizhou Governor do not welcome adults. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "It's not that they don't welcome me, but they look down on my background, I am a commoner's son, and they are the queen of the scholar clan." ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "They are all people, they all have a head and a torso, who has more than whom?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu is a third-grade general, and the Daizhou guard general Fenyang Hou Mingren is just a third-grade general, according to the rules, Fenyang Hou should line up to greet him. However, not only did the Marquis of Fenyang not greet him, but even the prefect of Daizhou County and the prefect of Daizhou Prefecture did not greet him, which shows that he was excluded by the officialdom of Shenghan at the same time.

Since you have excluded me, I don't have to be polite to you, I should use the law of the country and the law of the country, and use the law of the family instead.

Zhang Xiaowu knew that this Fenyang Marquis had always looked down on the common people, and he wanted to touch this nail to see if the hammer was hard or the nail was hard. He motioned to Bao Yin to step forward with his eyes, and Bao Yin immediately stepped forward and scolded: "Blind your dog eyes, you can't see such a big banner, and you actually block the ghost guard?" ”

"It doesn't matter if you are a ghost guard or a Mao Wei, tell you, I am still the general of the Marquis of Fenyang, do you dare to try it?" The official Cui Xi craned his neck and tilted his chin and said arrogantly.

Bao Yin turned around and looked, Zhang Xiaowu nodded, Bao Yin slapped it with a big mouth, and Cui Xi only felt a buzz, and then the sky was dark and fell to the ground. Everyone was in an uproar, and the township army guarding the door suddenly surrounded them, but when they saw that the ghost guards were strong and strong, their eyes were full of fear, and they couldn't help but take a small step back.

Cui Xi was helped up, and his face suddenly became red and swollen, but instead of restraining, he jumped up and scolded: "You son of a!" Dare to beat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will let people dig your ancestral grave, burn your ancestral hall, and your mother-in-law will ...... day"

When Zhang Xiaowu saw him spitting out swearing, he was furious, and sneered: "Kill." ”

Jas, who was on the side, also immediately pulled out the short knife and threw it at the officer's face, only to hear an "ah" sound, the short knife was directly pierced into the officer's left eye socket, and the short knife was stuck in the eyebrow bone, just afraid that the knife would penetrate the eyeball directly and pierce the brain.

Cui Xi rolled on the ground in pain, but Jas suddenly rode forward and picked up the mace in his hand and smashed the man's head to pieces.

The brain, the skull, the blood, the flesh and skin, splashed in all directions like a smashed watermelon.