The merchants of the Pu family were the most unhappy, they had always been above the top, and they had a discriminatory attitude towards the people of the Great Wei and even the civil and military officials.

The Celestial Kingdom was once a great power that spanned thousands of miles, and the Caliph was considered the Son of God and was born to rule over all peoples.

Although the Celestial Empire was in decline, the Samarkand people were rebelling and revolting internally, and many small subordinate states and city-states were conquered by the Samarkands, the Celestial Realm was still a large country, and its power was still considered to be above the Great Wei.

Whether it is territory, economy, or their teachings, they are considered to be first-class beings.

Including the army that was once strong, rushed all the way to the Western Regions of the Great Wei, and almost crossed the Hexi Corridor into the hinterland of the Han civilization, it was considered to be much stronger than the current Wei army.

Due to the Great Wei's care for the Semu people, although it comes from the actual needs of foreign trade, this also makes these Semu merchants have a strong sense of superiority.

They regarded the Great Wei people as incompetent natives and had a poor image.

In the Kingdom of Heaven, the Great Wei people in the East are the harlequins of all kinds of dramas, ugly, short, with black and yellow skin, ridiculously long hair and ridiculous robes, the army is weak and incompetent, and it is simply a country of funny clowns.

If it weren't for the fact that they could produce a large amount of raw silk, these gorgeous silk robes could be made into the favorite white robes of the Celestial People, as well as delicious tea, as well as cotton cloth and fine porcelain, and the noble Celestial Talents would not have come to the Great Wei to trade with a bunch of ugly monkeys.

In the eyes of the Heavenly People, even the European countries where the Crusaders were located were much more powerful and noble than Great Wei.

After all, the two are almost the same race, both are white-skinned and tall.

Try to have a small number of Tianfang merchants are still relatively sober, and the Great Wei is also a huge unified country, with a civilization that is different from the independent system of Tianfang and the European continent, and it is also quite advantageous.

The average height of the Great Wei people is not short, and the skin is not as black and yellow as the few local people in the south, and even many Great Wei people are tall and fair-skinned, with handsome faces, showing excellent appearance and demeanor, but normal people can't wake up people who pretend to be asleep, even the Pu family, a businessman who has been in the Great Wei for more than a hundred years, is also full of contempt for the Great Wei in the depths of his heart.

They only fear the real power, so when the Donghu people entered the territory of the Great Wei, the Semu people heard the wind and surrendered, and they attached themselves to the Donghu people, although the Donghu people were much harsher to them than the Great Wei, because the Donghu people were conservative and self-contained, and they didn't like industry and commerce at all, they slaughtered all the way, plundered wealth, as long as the people and the fields, the industry and commerce were completely destroyed, and only a small number of Semu merchants were attached very early, and they worked for them a lot in the process of Donghu's unification. The Donghu people barely left a small amount of trade and commerce for the Semu people to control.

In this way, these Tianfang people sold Da Wei for a good price.

Without the Great Wei merchants to compete, the Semu people would soon be able to control the entire area occupied by the Donghu people and suck the blood of the Donghu people.

Now these vampires are forced to pay gold, silver, or copper coins.

In this way, they were able to pass the level, and at the same time, they were faced with the excited and joyful faces of the Great Wei merchants in front of them.

Many people are hoping and looking forward to the Pu family's success, but when the Pu family's convoy came, Pu Shouchen ordered to pay the transit tax as always, and still paid the amount according to the standard of group donations.

Seeing such a scene, many businessmen with hidden hope in their hearts could only sigh and honestly pay the money and leave.

Of course, they didn't see the madness and weirdness in the depths of Pu Shouchen's eyes.

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Today, the people in charge of the Nankou tax card are Chen Zuocai and Jin Baoyi, and the other two team soldiers.

A team of captains, a team of archers.

The long hand is holding the long hand, and takes turns to stand on both sides of the official road in a standing posture, and it is very powerful after the row.

This is also Xu Zixian's proposition, always have to call out the money owners to see what the group training looks like, so that they feel that Nan'an Hou Shizi has not lived up to their money.

Even if these businessmen are forced to pay.

In fact, the effect is very good, the businessmen in the past are always amazed, the level of Nan'an regimental training is obviously quite high, the regimental training soldiers are generally tall and strong, due to the continuous meat and physical exercise for several months, which makes the regimental training warriors originally generally thin body become stronger, with obvious muscle bulges.

The body shape is erect without exception, and the hands are naturally held or vertical, and the posture is quite standard.

Looking straight ahead, whether it is those noble-looking businessmen, small and medium-sized businessmen, or officials in transit, the regimental training soldiers are basically regarded as equals, and they have never changed a bit.

The weapons held by the soldiers are also relatively sophisticated, the archers are all strong bows bought from the bow and arrow societies of nearby states and counties, and the standard of the foot bow is to be able to pull ten forces, using heavy arrows with flat arrows and three-edged light arrows, the former piercing armor, and the latter penetrating and killing.

Under the control and control of more than 20 soldiers, a small number of disgruntled businessmen can only honestly bow their heads through the checkpoint, the bodyguards they hired from the port do not dare to confront the soldiers head-on, in several limited conflicts, several bodyguards were shot full of arrows, but the Hou Mansion does not want to die, most of the soldiers shoot is not critical, but this is enough to teach these reckless men who do not know the height of the sky.

The local Han merchants were very happy, and after seeing the military guards guarding many checkpoints and patrolling the surrounding roads many times, the nearby trading houses cut down their guards or cut off the bodyguards accompanying them.

The business of the surrounding dart shops has been irreversibly affected, and many dart shops have expanded their business to distant places, and they can't afford to provoke them, so they can hide.

Of course, in the case of Qishan thieves, no one dares to really take goods and gold, silver and copper coins on the road without any guards, once encountered, these guards and dart masters are life-saving existences, even if the other party is more powerful, darts can also protect the personal safety of the proprietor through negotiation means, which is also the real significance of the existence of the dart master.

Many of the darts are bandits and pirates, and they have old connections, no matter which side wants to give some face.

The several large wooden baskets in front of Chen Zuocai were almost empty, only a small number of strings of copper coins, which were the group training donations paid by the merchants who had passed the 1,000 yuan of goods.

More of it was gold and silver, and the merchants came from overseas, and of course they could not carry heavy copper coins with them, but they would carry copper with them.

The copper ore production of Dawei is quite limited, there are many copper mines and few high-quality copper mines, which are not easy to mine, most of them are deep mines, and there are many ore impurities.

In contrast, there are many overseas copper mines and most of them are shallow ore layers, and there are few impurities in copper ores.

At this time, it seems that the copper mines in Myanmar have not yet been explored, and more importantly, the Yunnan copper mines, which supported the 200-year copper coin system of the Qing Dynasty, have not been developed.

Of course, Chen Zuocai didn't know about these things, he was only responsible for accounting for the goods, counting the list of goods submitted by the merchant, checking the numbers, and seeing if there was anything to hide.

Under his keen eye, many of the Semu merchants who tried to conceal their quantities were counted out for more goods, and were forced to make up for the gold and silver in despair.

Some people who are reluctant to pay for gold and silver will take pieces of copper to offset the money, and the Hou Mansion is also quite welcome to this, and there is no profit or loss.

By noon, the bulk of the caravan had almost gone, and Chen Zuocai had time to sit down and drink tea and chat with Jin Baoyi under the shed.

Chen Zuocai almost filled a pot of tea, and then he felt that his mouth was no longer thirsty, and at the same time, his body was much warmer. He asked Jin Baoyi casually, "Do you have a holiday in the year of the martial arts?" ”

"Prepare to be released in turns, one of the three battalions, one battalion for five days, the other battalion for another five days, and the last battalion can only go home for the Yuan Festival."

Shangyuan Festival is also the Lantern Festival, but this year is still called Shangyuan Festival, and it is also an important festival second only to the New Year.

"How do you put it?"

Jin hugged and said with a smile: "Li Fengchang's idea, the three battalions sent people out to draw lots in public, and whichever batch they grabbed would go home one day." ”

Chen Zuocai smiled and said, "That's fair." ”

"yes." Jin hugged a group: "Our tooth generals, that is, regimental training military attachés, are the same, and follow the battalions to take turns on vacation." At this time in previous years, I was already calling friends at home, going out of the city to hunt, playing horses, playing chess, drinking, listening to plays, watching juggling, watching fighting in sumo shops, gambling money in gambling shops, and having indescribable fun. ”

"Then you're going to be miserable now." Chen Zuocai said indifferently: "I'm different, I've been living in Zhuangzi outside the town, a poor talent, I don't have to go to teach during the New Year, it's just reading at home." ”

"Of course you are different readers." Jin Bao sighed with emotion, and continued: "However, in previous years, the annual reward of Yulu did not exceed five yuan, is this money enough?" Paying off debts, buying some New Year's goods, and having empty hands, most of the fun they say is hanging out and watching others play. Now it's different, Yulu is more than ten times, the prince gave an annual reward of ten dollars, and now I have dozens of dollars in hand, and when I have a holiday, I want to have a good time. ”

"Don't gamble." Chen Zuocai warned: "The prince hates his subordinates playing with money the most, and the martial arts have been fired so far, except for a few who can't stand it, there are more than a dozen or so who are all found to be gambling money." ”

"Ball, the son of the world may not have clairvoyance." Jin hugged a conscious word, and then sighed again, and said: "It's almost the same without clairvoyance, it's not a good thing to be bumped into." Moreover, Lao Yang has run away, the trouble is so big, and the methods of the prince are also powerful. ”

"You avenge Yang Yingming's grievances?" Chen Zuocai said disapprerovingly: "As the head of the Hou Mansion, he eats inside and out, and he also makes a murder in the Fucheng City, implicating the Hou Mansion, I don't think he can come out, and if he comes out, he should be taken and beheaded." ”

Yang Yingming's matter had already come out, and dozens of servants sent by the Fuzhou government had come to the town in the early afternoon to investigate inside and out.

The team was led by the general judge of the palace and a group of Confucian officials and officials.

These people also went to the other courtyard to ask for Xu Zixian and asked Yang Yingming in person.