Shang Ke was happy to see this and didn't say anything more, he also knew that the only thing he could think about now was to be glad that he could continue to live a rich life.

Although he once followed Jiannu and could get rich and noble as a prince, he knew that following Jiannu would be like a slave in front of the Manchu nobles even if he was a prince, and he would still have to leave a "thief" infamy in the future.

And now Shang Kexi has become a member of the mighty army, although he is a nominal court official, he still has a lot of wealth and does not have to be a slave like a dog, after all, the people of the mighty army are still polite to him at least on the surface.

Of course, Shang Kexi also knew that the mighty army had to work by himself if he kept him.

Therefore, after he arrived at Wendeng Camp, he officially followed Lu Yuan's instructions and began to set up the Lijin Bureau in accordance with the requirements of Shangyunzuo, and it was in Wendeng County that the headquarters of the Lijin Bureau was set up in Tongqu Hot Spring Town, which is located in the two counties of Dengzhou Prefecture, two Wei and one state, and then set up Lijin Bureaus on various major roads, including the necessary road ten miles away from the county seat of Wendeng County.

In this way, Shang Kexi officially began to collect commercial taxes for the mighty army on the grounds of training troops and suppressing bandits.

This was not a great shock to the local gentry.

No one thought that this was still a good thing, and Wen would dare to collect business taxes after he became a general.

"We are from the Confucian Mansion, and this batch of grain is going to be transported to Dengzhou Mansion, what are you doing?!" Are you bandits or officers? ”

At this time, the tax collector in charge of collecting the gold from the Hot Spring Town Lijin Bureau stopped a group of merchants.

One of the gentry in the Confucian robes of the merchant questioned the tax collector very recklessly.

The tax corps of the Lijin Bureau saw that the other party was from the Confucian Mansion, and they didn't dare to provoke it, so they hurriedly sent someone to ask for advice from Shang Yunzuo.

Now Shang Kexi only builds a mansion in the hot spring town to raise Meiji, and he doesn't care about things at all, just the empty name of the general, and the one who really cares about this matter is Shang Yunzuo.

After hearing this, Shang Yunzuo only said: "The official said that no matter who it is, those who do not pay the money are not allowed to enter our Wendeng County!" ”

Thereupon.

The tax collectors of the hot spring town continued to block the caravan of the Confucian Mansion from entering the territory of Wendeng County.

"You are presumptuous!"

The gentry directly slapped the tax collector.

The tax collector didn't know what to do for a while, and then the whole tax collector could only watch the caravan pass.

"Kill this gentleman, including all his caravan personnel, not a single one will be left!"

Shang Yunzuo immediately ordered after knowing this.

In this regard, Shang Xin did not disobey, after all, he also had a share of this centigold.

So, this Shang Xin and the cavalry family again pretended to be bandits and killed the caravan.

Seeing a large number of cavalry surrounding him, the Confucian gentry couldn't help but panic, and hurriedly shouted: "Go and ask the local officials for help, let them come to the rescue!" Fast! Tell them that if the Kong family's property is lost, they will not be spared! Come on! ”

Soon, the people of the Confucian caravan came to the General's Mansion in Hot Spring Town.

But Shang Kexi refused to meet him on the grounds of recuperation, after all, he himself is not in real power at all.

Seeing this, the gentry of the Confucian Mansion couldn't help but scold the officials and soldiers for being incompetent, but they had no choice but to come to apologize to Shang Xin in person: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are the people of the Confucian Holy Mansion, this is the food on the Confucian Holy Mansion, we are willing to give 5,000 stones to help you, and please let us go!" ”

The Confucian gentry knelt down as he spoke.

"It's too late to let go, now we're all going to do it!"

After this was still credible, he hurriedly asked the cavalry to kill him, and immediately these Confucian merchants slashed and slaughtered flesh and blood.

Only then did the Confucian gentry understand that daring to come over was the reason why they didn't pay the money, and they couldn't help but be angry: "You, you, you are a prison guard and a thief!" You are thieves, not officials! ”

But the Confucian gentry suddenly understood again, and knew that if they wanted to survive now, they could only give in.

Therefore, the Confucian gentry continued: "This is because we don't know how to raise in the first place, and we also ask the official to spare his life, and we are willing to pay the full amount of money." ”

"I said it's late, didn't you hear me?!"

This is still credible, and he stabbed the Confucian gentry in the stomach.

This Confucian gentry felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and couldn't help but glance at this Shang Credible, he didn't expect this official army to be so bold, and he dared to collect business taxes while pretending to be bandits to teach himself these gentry who don't pay business taxes, this world is really chaotic!

Then.

Other gentry were also dealt with for not following the rules.

Although these gentry hated Shang Kexi's behavior of collecting money and collecting taxes on merchants, they were helpless against him for the time being.

As a result, these gentry could only obediently pay taxes and pay cents.

As a result, the Lijin system in Wendeng County was officially implemented, and a large amount of tax revenue was brought to the Weiwu Army in the first month.

But this is nothing new.

When the mighty army on the side of Wendeng County collected commercial taxes in the name of Shang Kexi, Guantao County, that is, on the side of the original Qingshui Town, the trade of the mighty army was taxed by others.

"The people of the Dewang Mansion set up checkpoints on our way to Linqing, and the taxes they collected were still very heavy, and even the merchants we allowed the people to be self-employed! The little girl who had a merchant was robbed, and her father was brutally murdered for refusing, and now the little girl is being locked up in the courtyard of the checkpoint set up by the people of the Dewang Palace. ”

Wang Botao said to Lu Yuan.

"The people of the vassal king are taxing, Lu Lang, we can't move lightly, or we should let the court deal with this matter?"

Tang Ying couldn't help but persuade.

"A group of pig-like guys also dare to on the head of the official, if it weren't for the birth and death of the official and the brothers of the mighty army, they would have become the ghosts of Jiannu! Let Fan Siyuan of the Garrison Bureau pretend to be a bandit, immediately get rid of this level, no matter what kind of palace he is, kill them all, leave no one, and return the money! Let Mr. Xiao write a note, and say that there was a bandit in Guantao County, and it has been quelled by this official! In the end, it was found out that there were thieves who wanted to take the opportunity to infiltrate Shandong and disrupt the luck. ”

Lu Yuan said.

Tang Ying didn't say anything when she saw this, she had to admit that Lu Lang is very fond of playing this trick now, and he does bad things in the name of thieves and bandits at every turn, she can't help but think that the bad reputation of thieves and bandits in the world may not only be caused by themselves, but also by some officials and gentry like Lu Lang.

"The most fundamental interest of our mighty army is to safeguard the interests of the entire mighty army and people, this German palace killed our people, and robbed our people, but it is not a good thing, although now the mighty army and people will not resent us because of this, but this seed will be planted, and once we ignore the interests and lives of ordinary soldiers and civilians of our mighty army, they will ignore each other's interests and lives, they will ignore us, this is not what I want to see, the mighty army is a loving collective! Everyone is each other's brothers and sisters, and they all have to take each other very seriously! ”。

Lu Yuan couldn't help but say to Tang Ying.

Tang Ying nodded: "What Lu Lang said is that I only care about the status of King De, and ignore the soldiers and civilians of our mighty army!" I'm still not as far as you think."