I thought I was an anxious person, but I didn't expect someone to be more anxious than myself.

Aunt Zhang's lazy rooster had just crowed, and Donald Boss, who was riding a donkey, hurried over, accompanied by Donald Liu.

"Puppy! We're a family now! ”

Boss Tang, who was blocked by the big monk and refused to let him in, opened his throat and shouted at the East House.

The dog came out of the house with Hatcher and looked at the two of them, huh? Why are there two footprints on Donald Six's buttocks? It's too careless to walk and fall when you're old.

Raise your hand perfunctorily and salute.

"Uncle Tang, Sixth Uncle Tang, why did you come here early in the morning? I don't have the money to feed you! ”

Turning around and smiling at the idiot, the great monk went back to the house with a Zen stick.

"Puppy!" The two rubbed their hands together and entered the hospital, "Yesterday, the two of them were so reckless that they almost missed a trace, and I taught them a hard lesson after I went back!" ”

The dog pouted, "Uncle Tang, since the kid is back, why do you still send someone to monitor it?" ”

Donald said with a sneer: "No, no, it's not safe to walk at night, so I'll let them escort you back." ”

The dog rolled his eyes, and he didn't bother to talk to the two old men, so he crossed his waist and said: "Okay, okay, it's all grasshoppers on a rope, it's useless to say that, by the way, why did you two run over early in the morning?" ”

The two of them were stunned for a moment and said, "Didn't you call us over?" ”

The dog patted his head and oops, forgot.

"Ahem, that, the kid has an idea I want to discuss with you two first!"

The two hurriedly said, "Okay, let's discuss it earlier, and the people in the village can be stable earlier." ”

The three of them entered the house, each with a large bowl of tea, holding it in his hand and drinking it slowly.

Also drinking tea are the three giants in Yuchuan County.

"Ahem, this tea is cold!" Li Xianling turned his head and said to the priest behind him, and the priest immediately turned around and went out.

Sun Zhubo, who was sitting on the east side, sighed and said: "The tea can still be drunk when it is cold, but when the people's hearts are cold, they can only roll up the cover and leave!" ”

After speaking, he looked at the silent Liu County Lieutenant on the west side.

County Lieutenant Liu ignored him because he was deserting.

After several days of cloudy weather, the scar that had fallen on the body before was very troubled, and he raised his hand to rub the newly fallen wound on his right arm, and his heart was a sigh. I was so scared that I thought this little life was gone.

Fortunately, the puppy found a good Langzhong, the craftsmanship is not bad, it has been almost healed in less than twenty days, but in the past two days, the wound suddenly became red and swollen again, and I don't know what the reason is, and I am thinking about whether to call that Zhou Langzhong, or change to other Langzhong, alas, I have a headache, and it will cost one or two silver to go to the clinic, if I use his medicine, I will have to pay three or five taels.

Even County Lieutenant Liu, who has always been wealthy, was distressed, which shows how high Zhou Langzhong's consultation fee is.

As he pondered there, he heard a string of coughs in his ears and looked up.

"Master Sun, at such an age, you can drink a cup of tea, tsk!"

Originally, seeing that he was distracted, Master Sun Bo coughed vigorously to wake him up, but he didn't expect that as soon as he opened his mouth, he would say such a choking sentence.

"Hmph, reckless! Even if you choke on tea, it's better than if you become deaf early! ”

County Lieutenant Liu sent the table and said angrily: "Fake Sven, who do you say is a reckless man!" ”

Seeing that the two of them were arguing again, Li Xianling, who was sitting in the middle, was helpless for a while, it was the same yesterday, the quarrel broke up unhappily, and today he couldn't let them quarrel with anything.

"Okay, okay, you two have to stop a little, it's important to get down to business, don't delay military affairs! Drink tea to disperse the fire, hey, what about the tea? Why haven't you come yet! ”

The priest who was guarding the door hurriedly went out and urged again.

Pulling the two apart, Li Xianling turned his head and said to Sun Zhu Bo, who was in charge of silver and miscellaneous civil affairs: "Sun Master Bo, you can talk about this apportionment of silver!" ”

Master Sun Bo sighed and said: "Yesterday, I asked the people below to carefully calculate it again, and apportioned it to each household in each township, and there must be three yuan and six coins of silver!" ”

A group of people were shocked, "How can there be so many!" ”

Master Sun took a stack of documents from the hand of a scribe behind him and said: "Last autumn, in order to build the yamen, the state agreed to open a donation opening, a total of forty-six officials, large and small, although they are all nominal officials, but on the side of tax silver, it can no longer be added to them. ”

"These people, covering almost every village, are divided according to the middle and lower third-class households that occupy the land, and they should have to pay the most taxes, but this time in addition to some small money such as poll tax, everything else will be apportioned to the next people, so these people at the bottom, do the math, about three and six yuan!"

A crowd sighed.

Theoretically, Yuchuan County suffered from the war last year, and several villages were in ruins, even the county yamen was burned down, and it stands to reason that it should be exempted from paying taxes, even for a year.

But the paperwork for tax exemption was handed over, and then it sank into the sea, and there has been no news so far.

"Master Sun, how long do those donor officials serve?"

The donor official has no real official, and he doesn't even need to wear an official uniform, but only writes such a stroke on the tooth tag on his waist. To put it bluntly, it sounds better, a term is only three or five years, and when the term of office is up, you have to donate again, or you have to return to the ranks of "foreign masters".

But why are so many people rushing to donate? Because the donor official has a clear advantage, that is, he is exempt from a certain amount of taxes, and there is also a small service, after all, there is an extra word "official", which is more than the so-called less than the top.

In addition, there is a layer of hidden benefits, that is, you can "enter the house", just like spending a lot of money to package yourself in later generations, you can squeeze into a certain circle with fame, if you still have the ability or opportunity, you will become an instant hit, popular, will there be less money?

These donors are also, with this identity can enter and exit the official's mansion, although no one will look at it, but it is still okay to take care of the relationship and take care of the business, the relationship is more, the road will be wider, the business will naturally prosper, and the money of the donor will be doubled back, and this business is not a loss.

Sun Zhubo coughed and said: "At that time, I was in a hurry to build a yamen and build a county school, so it was opened for a period of three years. ”

A group of people had no choice but to give up.

"Three and six silver coins, when they are not receiving money, where did they get the money!" County Lieutenant Liu on the side slapped the table fiercely and shouted.

Master Sun rolled his eyes and said: "You are sympathetic to the people's strength, this thousand taels of military silver, will you help them out?" ”

County Lieutenant Liu snorted, "Collecting taxes is your errand, I don't care, I just don't want to stir up civil unrest!" ”

Li Xianling, who was in the middle, slapped the table and said viciously: "Those who dare to make trouble are just arrested and sent to the front of the army!" ”

Is this going to be a hard knife? Don't you want to be an official?

The two of them looked at him in unison, Li Xianling coughed, and quickly changed his words: "I mean, people who dare to kill officials and rebel!" ”

Cut! Old ghost!

It's not the first time that these two people have looked down on them, and Li Xianling didn't care, and spread his hands and said, "Then what do you two say?" ”

The two shook their heads for a while.

This is a tricky matter, so I have to talk about another, more tricky matter.

"Ahem, by the way, how is the matter of Ding Gong?"

Liu County Lieutenant was in charge of the conscription, so he had to sigh and say: "There are not many people in the prison anymore, and if you count the scoundrels on the street, this gap is even less than half!" ”

Li Xianling sighed: "It's really not good, then go to the village to collect it!" ”

"How can that be?" Sun Zhubo on the side directly objected: "This time the life and death of Ding Gong are unpredictable, dozens of people will be requisitioned at a time, at least two or three villages will be levied, if the people come back safely, if they can't come back, there will definitely be a big incident!" Don't forget that last year, I forcibly conscripted Ding to repair the yamen, and there were several chaos! ”

"So what do you say? Or you go for it! "Liu County Lieutenant on the west side is alive and well.

The grandson of the northeast returned the favor with a tooth for a tooth: "I don't care about your errand, anyway, I want the relationship between the county and the village to be repaired with great difficulty!" ”

"Stop, stop!" Li Xianling, who was in the center, slapped the table vigorously and said: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, how can I do it!" In three days, the state's detainees will be here! If we can't finish the errand, we'll all have to eat and hang. ”

That's what happened, and the deliberations broke up as unhappily as ever.

Liu County, who returned to the county lieutenant's hall, sat behind the desk angrily, holding tea in his hand but couldn't drink it, saying that he was inviting him to lunch, and the Li county order who slammed the door only served one meat and two vegetables, and the so-called meat dishes turned over the bottom and only found meat the size of a fingernail, and said shamelessly, "The state is urgent, as the lowest herdsman official under the imperial court, you should think of thrift and protect the country" Yunyun...

Hearing this, there was a burst of nausea in the stomach, everyone lives in this yamen, who doesn't know who, and they know what to do every day!

"Liu Sanlang!" He shouted into the hut.

Liu Sanlang walked out with a scroll under his arm.

Liu County Lieutenant looked at him with anger, pointed at him and scolded: "Didn't you just make two poems to mock him for being insatiable, as for becoming like this!" ”

Liu Sanlang said sullenly: "He also asked me to follow the people to the state!" ”

County Lieutenant Liu said angrily: "It's not that you haven't been to the state, what's so scary!" ”

"Uncle!" Liu Sanlang stomped his feet and said: "That old man is ruthless in his grudges, he definitely harbors evil intentions, and my nephew thinks that he will definitely let me be sent to the front line with a messenger." ”

Liu County Lieutenant sent a table and said loudly: "That's not right, back then, your father and I were escorting forage for the army, and we happened to meet the Jin soldiers scouts robbing grain and grass, and the two of us held big knives to look at the front and the back, and the team of more than a dozen people was all cut off by the two of us, if it weren't for your father not even knowing how to count, how could there be so much less when registering military merits, and in the end I was rewarded with a small capital, if the accounts were calculated correctly, how could the official position be one level higher than now." ”

As he spoke, on a whim, County Lieutenant Liu got up and walked to the weapon rack and pulled out a broken Pu knife, which was a trick.

After dancing for forty moves, he squatted on the ground with a painful face.

Liu Sanlang on the side was shocked, and hurriedly ran over, and saw that his originally red and swollen right arm was actually bleeding, and when he got closer, there was a peculiar smell.

Liu Sanlang ran out of the door and said to a few people who were chatting at the door: "Go and call Zhou Langzhong!" ”

The two of them quickly hugged their fists and promised, and ran away with their waist knives.