After sleeping all the way, he finally arrived at Fengjie without danger, and saw the boats moored at the Fengjie City Gate and the wharf outside the city gate from a distance, Han Xiufeng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Master Han, it's here!" Qin Wu stood at the stern of the boat and shouted.

"Go to the docks."

"Yes."

The famous Kuiguan is in front of you, there must be many tax officials and tax collectors on the dock, Pan Erla Han Xiufeng's sleeve: "Young master, you have to pay taxes as soon as you dock." ”

Han Xiufeng held on to the top of the cabin and said lightly: "Well, you have to pay it when you have to pay it." ”

As soon as he mentioned that he had to pay taxes, he didn't care that Du San was by his side, and couldn't help but remind: "Young master, Master Du has a military department, and told the tax officer that we are all Master Du's family, so we don't have to pay taxes." It's not enough for us to be entangled, and it is a penny to be saved! ”

"Master Du is Master Du, we are us." Han Xiufeng was not only unmoved, but turned around and said: "As far as I know, Kuiguan only collects five miscellaneous taxes on clothing, food, supplies, groceries and livestock. We only have some clothes, not only are they all for ourselves, but most of them are old, and they can't levy much of our taxes. ”

"But ......"

"Don't do it, hurry up and get the household registration card, and bring the big one, the tax officer on the dock may want to check it."

Pan Er couldn't figure out why the good things he had said earlier had changed, but he didn't dare to ask more in front of Du San, so he could only go back to the cabin to get Han Xiufeng's missing documents and the household registration cards of the three of them.

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The closer you get to Fengjie County, the more you can see how strict the tax of Kuiguan is, there are many officials and tax collectors on the wharf, and there are several military ships on the river, and all the passing ships have to dock. If anyone dares to break through, those few ships will not hesitate to catch up and take it down.

Qin Wu didn't know how many times he had to pass through here, and when he saw the stitches, he was familiar with the boat and carried the boat to the dock. And met a lot of acquaintances, and from time to time I greeted the boatman moored on the edge of the pier.

As expected, as soon as the ship docked, before the ship could be moored, a tax collector jumped over from the boat next to him with a ledger and two tax collectors, and as soon as he jumped on the boat, he asked, "Who is the owner of the ship?" ”

"I, I am!" Qin Wu hurriedly supported the penny and climbed from the stern of the boat along the gang to the bow of the boat.

"Who is the owner of the goods?" The tax collector asked again.

Han Xiufeng was already standing at the bow of the boat, looking at him with a smile and arching his hand: "This big brother, the boat was hired by me, and there are only three of my master and servant and Master Du Qian on the ship, and there is no goods." ”

Kuiguan is the customs of the Ministry of Households, and the supervision of Kuiguan is either from the Ministry of Households, or the coating of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and even those who sit on the shore to collect taxes are from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Not to mention Du San, the president of Qian, even if he comes to the county master, the tax collector will not give face, looked up at everyone, and asked in a weird way: "Mr. Du Qian, where is Mr. Qian?" ”

Du San was embarrassed and scolded: "Blind your dog eyes!" Lao Tzu is the thousand general manager of the right capital of the town standard, and the king of the second wall of your Kuiguan association is always my uncle! ”

"Wang Erqiang?"

"Hmm."

"I haven't heard of it, even if I have heard of you, you have to pay taxes."

"Lao Tzu is going to the capital to fill the vacancy, Lao Tzu has a military department to investigate, open your dog's eyes and see!" Du San was on fire, untied his bag, took out the waist card from his bag and surveyed it with the military department.

"Master Du, I'm offended, you don't need to pay taxes as usual, you can go ashore." The tax collector leaned in to take a look, confirmed that Du San was not an impostor, and turned sideways to let him ashore, but still put on a dead face.

"This is my brother, he also went to the capital to fill the vacancy, and these two are my family." Du San turned around and said.

"Master Du, that's not what they said just now." The tax collector had already seen that Du San was not pleasing to the eye, and he couldn't return empty-handed when he got on the boat, so he looked at Han Xiufeng and asked: "This lord, the little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and I bother you to show the military department to investigate." ”

"I don't have a survey, I'm a civil official." Han Xiufeng handed over the household license for donation.

The tax collector was immediately happy when he saw the license, and said with a smile: "Master Han, I don't know how many masters like you will meet in a year, and a salt merchant who passed here yesterday also has a license, and he is still the alternate magistrate of Zhengqipin, but he still has to pay taxes as usual." ”

"Just hand it over, I won't embarrass you."

"Master Xie Han." The tax collector smiled, and turned back and motioned for the two tax collectors to go into the cabin to see what was there.

The silver tickets and scattered silver coins were all hidden on his body or in the blanket on his shoulder, but Pan Er was still not at ease, and followed him into the cabin. As a result, in a hurry in their eyes, the two tax collectors actually looked through the luggage one by one, and made a mess of the clothes that had been organized.

After turning over, he knocked on the boat board to listen to the sound, to see if there was anything entrained, a boat that was really not big, they actually checked the kung fu of nearly two incense sticks, Pan Er couldn't help but say: "Big brother, my young master is going to the capital to fill the vacancy as an official, we are not merchants, except for these luggage boats, there is nothing else on the boat!" ”

"Don't say that you go to the capital to fill the vacancy, even those who go to Beijing to catch the exam may bring things to people, dodge, I haven't seen it here."

"Okay, good, look, look slowly, look carefully, see what you can find."

Han Xiufeng knew that they were rummaging through the boat to see if they were carrying anything, and they were also deliberately embarrassed by trying to get some oil and water, but they stood at the bow of the boat as if they didn't know anything, and the two tax collectors were rummaging in the cabin.

Mrs. Qin couldn't hold her breath and shouted: "Poor master, this is my family's rice, what we ate on the road, not any goods!" ”

"Lao Tzu said that food is food, and if it is food, you have to pay taxes!" The short tax collector mentioned it and estimated that it was about 100 catties, and said, "Zhang Shucheng, there are 400 catties of food here." ”

"Anything else?"

"Ninety pieces of clothing! Thirty pieces of use! ”

Han Xiufeng didn't expect them to be so black-hearted, and suddenly became angry, and asked sharply: "This big brother, you're not kidding, those luggage that is clearly my master and servant are clearly the boat's rice grain, pots and spoons, why are they clothes, food and supplies?" ”

"Master Han, isn't luggage just clothes, aren't clothes just clothes?" The tax collector looked at Han Xiufeng obliquely, and said with a smile: "Rice grain is food, pots and spoons are things, even a three-year-old baby knows it, why is it a joke." ”

"You're using strong words!"

"Master Han, what do you mean by this, don't you want to pay taxes?"

Han Xiufeng stared at him tightly, and said coldly: "I won't pay a penny less than I should pay, and I won't pay a penny if I shouldn't!" ”

"Master Han, let's see what kind of place this is."

"I know where this is."

"So you're not going to pay taxes?"

"Again, I won't pay a penny less in taxes that should be paid, and I won't pay a penny if I shouldn't pay."

The tax collector thought that people like you had seen too much, and couldn't help laughing: "Master Han, since you insist on not paying, then wait here, and the little one will go back when he goes." ”

"I'm still afraid of you, I'll wait here, even if the lawsuit goes to the overseer, I'm not afraid!" Han Xiufeng snorted coldly, sat on the bow of the boat, and put on a posture that he would not fight to death.