The road is difficult, the road is difficult, the legs are sore and there is no support, but the road is mountain after mountain.

In ancient times, people walked long distances, which was a test of life and death, so the ancients generally did not go far without much trouble.

The rivers are crossed one after another, and the mountains are also turned over one by one.

Before Poyang Lake, a group of people made horse-drawn carriages, and the waist board was painful along the way, but fortunately, when they arrived at the Jiangnan Road, all kinds of ships carrying people and soliciting passengers stopped at the beckon.

"I said dog, why are you still depressed with this great lake and mountain!"

The dog looked at Da Lang, sighed softly, folded the letter in his hand carefully, put it close to his body, looked up and replied: "Although the rivers and mountains are beautiful, my heart is cold!" ”

Wen Crepe's words, Da Da Lang couldn't understand it, but why he said such a thing, the root cause still knows.

"Dogs! The third lady has gone, no matter how sad you are, people won't be able to live! So my brother advises you, look forward to everything, and you can't say that you can meet a person like the third lady! ”

The dog shook his head, "In this world, there is only one three ladies, and I will never meet them again!" ”

Speaking of this, he paused abruptly, opened his mouth and asked, "Brother Pang, did you say that the third lady died, is it because of me!" If I hadn't pressed her tightly, maybe she wouldn't have ......."

Seeing that the dog showed an uncomfortable expression again, Da Da Lang said helplessly: "I said dog, as the saying goes, there is a debtor who is wronged, even if there is no you, with the temperament of the third lady, she will kill herself, so it is not you who forced her to die, it was Feng Bo, if it wasn't for Feng Bo, alas!" ”

Dang Lang said well, and suddenly sighed, and the person stopped, and after a long while, he said: "This world is like this!" 'The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for the sake of profit'! ”

Dang Lang, a rude military man, never entered the academy when he was young, so he would not say this.

The only ones who can say this sentence are Gou'er and Yang Xiaoxiu in the team, and the dog is in a bad mood, so naturally he won't say this, so it can only be Yang Xiaoxiu.

This sentence comes from Sima Dada's "Historical Records: The Biography of the Cargo Colony", at his age, he has not learned this book, but Yang Xiaoxiu said that the reason is that the reason is that the boat that the dog is on is a cargo ship.

The goods and merchants on the ship came from all over the world, and they remembered this sentence when they heard it from all over the world.

"The world is bustling, all for profit, yes, this world is not like this, as long as there are interests, what morality is often unprincipled!"

Jiangnan Road, the climate is pleasant, whether it is crops or forests are very dense, coupled with the green water of this river, the dog's boredom along the way is finally relieved a little, and this brain also has a gap to think about some other things.

Cormorant, this kind of fishing bird, after being domesticated by fishermen, can replace fishing nets or hooks, enter the water to catch fish, cormorant is very miserable, because it is fortunate to get a day, all to the fisherman, what you get is some small fish and shrimp, like the merchants on the boat, not afraid of hardship, not afraid of the danger on the road, wandering for many years, going south and north finally earned two silver coins, all kinds of taxes are paid, and the rest is only enough for a family to eat and drink, year after year, like cormorants, until they are old, the next generation takes over themselves.

A merchant with slightly white hair, seeing that the dog was standing on the bow of the boat and seemed to be in a bad mood, came over and greeted: "Dare to ask this little official, but is it an official of the imperial court?" ”

The dog turned to look at him and nodded silently.

The law of the Great Song Dynasty stipulates that if an official is on official business, the carriages and ships on the road must be planted for a ride, if the court vehicle is used, the head of the honor guard must be played, and pedestrians must avoid, and the dog takes out the tooth tag in order to take a tailwind boat, and when he gets on the boat, he also confiscates it, and only hangs it on his waist, so it is not an exaggeration for the merchant to see the identity of the dog.

"Dare to ask the official, but you went to work?"

The dog was stunned for a moment, and guessed his identity, but he could still know that he was in office, so he frowned and said, "How do you know?" ”

The merchant said: "My Lao Zhang has been doing business for many years, and the price of this eye is still there, I see that you have escort horses, but you don't have any heavy luggage, so it doesn't look like you're going to go far, plus you have worries on your face, especially your young face, so the old man guesses that you are going to take up the post in the middle of the list!" ”

All right! The dog nodded and praised him: "You are really thoughtful!" ”

The merchant laughed, approached the dog and said, "The most important thing is that the old man just heard your servant say, 'You are a second-class jinshi at the moment, and you are going to Anhua to be a big official'!" ”

This......

The dog glared at Yang Xiaoxiu, turned his head and said, "Don't you know what happened to Zhang Yuanwai?" ”

Merchant Zhang smiled, got closer to the dog and said: "I was rude just now, the reason why I came to bother Xiao Langjun is because the old man is also going to Anhua County, so I want to go with you!" ”

I thought that this guy was going to have something, but it turned out to be a partner, so the dog replied angrily: "We are in a hurry to travel, so we don't have the time to wait for you to do business slowly on the road!" ”

Zhang Shangshang laughed and said: "That's really a coincidence, what the old man wants is fast!" To tell you the truth, my goods, Anhua has been waiting for a long time! ”

"Oh, that's a coincidence!"

The dog replied with a lack of interest, I thought this guy would leave sensibly, but...

"Oh, I don't know if Xiao Langjun is to any position in Anhua County?"

"County Lieutenant!" The dog said casually.

"Hey, this position is a good job if it is in another county, but in Anhua it is an errand that everyone avoids! I don't know how a petty official got this errand? ”

The dog was stunned for a moment, and glanced up and down at the businessman, it seemed that he was indeed doing business often in Anhua County.

"Ahem, Zhang Yuanwai, how do you say this?"

Zhang Shangshang sighed: "The old man has been running between Anhua and Hongzhou all these years, so he knows a little about the situation there!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Shangshang said many things about the official face of Anhua and the people one by one as if he had opened a conversation folder.

It turns out that although this Anhua has been recovered by Zhangdun, it has been under the rule of the imperial court for a long time, but this place is mountainous, many rivers, and few plains, so there is a shortage of food and daily necessities, plus the local "Meishan barbarian" loves to hold a group, and when encountering any injustice, he loves to besiege the government sent by the government, and the last county lieutenant was killed by the villagers with stones when he went to the countryside to collect taxes!

Listening to this businessman surnamed Zhang, the dog thought that he would go this time, easily mix for three years, and then make some political achievements, spend money, and then be promoted, but listening to this situation, the dog's dream seems to be in vain.

"Zhang Yuanwai, you said that there was a Meishan barbarian rebellion in Anhua?"

Merchant Zhang shook his head, "It's not actually a rebellion, they just surround the yamen!" ”

"Surrounding the yamen is not a rebellion?" Danglang wondered.

Merchant Zhang let out a long sigh and explained: "This matter, yes, yes, it's right, but I can't complain about these Meishan barbarians if I go through the details!" ”

The dog was stunned and said, "Why? ”

"This Meishan Barbarian has many branches, the largest one is called Tuman, and then Miao Man! Most of them live in the mountains, but as for the people living in the county, most of them are Han Chinese! ”

"First of all, the Han people in the city, looking down on the barbarians in the city, if there is nothing to do, they are looking for faults and fighting! The second is that the barbarians in the mountains outside the city are hostile to the Han people, and the barbarians and the Miao barbarians are hostile to each other, and these three people always start fighting at every turn, fighting in the depths of the mountains, fighting in the villages outside the city, and fighting in the city every once in a while, in short, it is a mess! As the so-called grievances have been accumulated for a long time. ”

The dog said: "Doesn't the government care?" ”

Zhang Shangshang shook his head and said: "There are only 100 officials in Anhua County, and there are no officers and soldiers, so there is no deterrence, as long as there is no lawsuit for human life, you will generally turn a blind eye!" Let them fight! ”

This yamen, the dog shook his head in disappointment.

"By the way, Zhang Yuanwai, I don't know how the last county lieutenant died?"

The official position he took over was also a county lieutenant, so the dog had to find out the cause of death, so as not to lose his head in a daze as soon as he took office.

"Alas, it's shameful to say it!" Zhang Shangshang said: "It is said that the county lieutenant had a whim one day, and suddenly wanted to go to the village to personally supervise the tax, at first there was nothing to do, and later, when he met a family that could not get the tax, and he had been in arrears for a long time, and he didn't know whether the county lieutenant happened to fall in love with someone's little lady, or what, he decided to take the top account on the spot, and then he was out of control."

"According to the official who escaped back, the villagers of the surrounding seven or eight villages chased with hoes and sticks, and they ran for their lives.

"Later, when the officials went again, they saw the corpse of the county lieutenant who had been smashed in the head by a stone and died of blood!"

This thing is troublesome, the dog pats his chest, fortunately, he doesn't love anything but the third lady, so he doesn't have to worry about the risk of robbing someone's daughter and then being beaten to death by the villagers.

always said that the county lieutenant died, and it was unlucky to die, and he would be the county lieutenant soon, so the dog interrupted Zhang Shangshang, who was still lamenting the death of the county lieutenant, and said:

"Zhang Yuanwai, I don't know what kind of business you do!"

"Me, I'm in the sackcloth business!"

"Sack?" The dog was puzzled: "You came all the way from Hongzhou to Anhua just to sell linen?" ”

Zhang Shangshang laughed and said: "Isn't it, the hemp in Hongzhou is of good quality, and the woven cloth is also fine and strong, and the common people of Anhua and the barbarians in the mountains like it the most!" ”

"Isn't there hemp in Anhua?"

"Of course there is! But the hemp fields planted in Anhua, the government has to collect taxes! ”

"After collecting taxes, there will be no delay in weaving linen!" The dog replied.

"That's right, but the hemp fields demarcated by the government, after collecting taxes, the rest are fortunately wove out, and another batch of 'linen taxes' will be levied, and then commercial taxes! Anyway, it was a mess and a lot of taxes, and in the end, it was found that the hemp in the hemp field was all taxed, so there were fewer local people who planted hemp fields! ”

"The wild hemp in the mountains, one is the quantity, and the other is the quality! This comes and goes, we sell linen cloth, although the profit is small, but the water is long-term, and we can make some silver money in a year! ”

Okay, the dog nodded, and just wanted to inquire with him about the situation in Anhua County again, when he felt the boat under his feet shake violently, and then he heard a violent explosion in front of him.

"Well, the people on the boat listen, quickly leave the money to buy the road, otherwise grandpa will blow up your stupid wooden boat and let you all go into the water to feed the fish and turtles!"