"You can't just give up." Ji County Bureau, the county order thundered. The sound of the huge pounding table, the sound of clanging objects falling to the ground and breaking can be heard on the street, and in anger, he swept away all the pen and ink cases on the public case, and jumped to his feet and scolded in the lobby. "I will sue the governor, the governor, and the court." Jixian County Zun raised his hands high, like a mad tiger.

(Ji County, in order to let everyone see it, so I evolved the current name, in fact, in the Ming Dynasty, to be exact, Jizhou, with 1 state as the county.) Prefectural order from 6 pins)

The masters around him were silent one by one, holding their hands and bowing their heads, and no one dared to say anything.

There is indeed a reason worthy of the thunderous thunder of this county lord, just last night, the county man he sent to collect taxes was actually cut off by someone under the bright lights, before everyone saw it, and at the same time, the tax burden collected the day before yesterday also made people a pot, that is a wealth of thousands of taels, so gone, how can this not make the county lord feel pain?

What made him furious the most was that this incident was definitely made by the pickled thing in Yichuan, Shaanxi Province.

The day before yesterday, he Zhao Zi sent some bullshit master to shout in front of his tax yamen, saying that he was as stupid as him and reduced the transit tax burden of merchants to four out of a hundred, are you crazy?

Although this Ming Dynasty does not have a reason to collect taxes on merchants, but tolls and various taxes are endless, I just collected thirty percent of them according to the rules, are you red-eyed?

Yes, without your low taxes in Yichuan, there would be no prosperity in the ferry now, but that's your business, if you don't want to get rich, don't stop others from making a fortune, what an ultimatum, I'm bah.

At that time, when the county Cheng sent someone to ask for instructions, everyone agreed that Yichuan was crazy, not only because the two families did not belong to each other, but more importantly, you also stretched out your hand too long, a small seven-grade actually managed the six-grade Shangguan, is this court product still there? If I agree to your request, won't my face become my ass?

At the same time, at that time, everyone thought that it was just because he had a little higher oil and water here, so he didn't have much income there, so he made a moth, and wanted to get a piece of the pie under this alarm, and didn't pay attention to him, but as a result, Zhao Zi actually got the real guy and killed my tax collector. This is murderous and powerful, it is tolerable or unbearable, and it must not be compromised, which is not only about face, but most importantly about the inside - silver.

You know, since the implementation of low taxes on the other side, Shaanxi Shanxi businessmen are willing to take advantage of here to come and go, even the merchants who are transported to the Western Regions, as well as those who go to Inner Mongolia and Jinggi from Sichuan, are willing to go around here. Dad has already written two letters to praise himself for being the best in the whole clan, and at the same time, he agreed to take out half of the silver money and let the clan brother, who is a waiter, take care of it up and down, and get himself a prefect.

Get a prefect, is their dream thing, in this Jizhou, I am about to sit in the lobby, although there are clan brothers, but the money still has to be sent like flowing water, if it wasn't for their own short money, they would have changed their robes and clothes, this is at a critical juncture, but you cut off my entry, why don't you let me have a desperate mind?

"The proprietor is angry, and the lord is angry." The master of the master stepped forward one after another, and gave his hand again and again.

The master in charge of the money and grain has been frightened into madness, hiding at home and not coming out, now, it is the time for this criminal master to perform, the master of money and grain he is not good, but to collect taxes and people, I know that the kid only in this short month, he bought the most luxurious house in the state, and at the same time accepted the popular number one in the city as a concubine, but think how much oil and water the ferry tax does?

"How can I calm my anger? How can you make me angry? The county lord shouted like thunder. This is hurt by face and lizi together, as long as you retreat with anger, then you will no longer be able to have a little majesty in front of the world in the future, and this anger will never be stopped.

"The proprietor, in fact, this murderer is definitely not the Yichuan County Order. I think there must be something else hidden here. ”

"What's the secret? Where does the secret come from? Earlier, I let a master bookkeeper block my door to demonstrate, and when I ignored me, he jumped over the wall in a hurry, which is a very reasonable thing, where is there anything else? ”

"Can the proprietor think about it calmly?" The master hurriedly served a cup of herbal tea that had failed the fire, handed it over with both hands, and then explained softly.

The county also roared with a dry mouth, it was the middle of summer, the lobby was dark, not ventilated, and the heat was unbearable, after jumping up and down, it was also sweaty clothes, a cup of herbal tea came to the eyes, of course, it was the most intimate, so he stepped on the mess all over the ground and took it, and drank it all together with the tea.

After a cup of herbal tea, the fire in his heart had just subsided, and he spit out the tea stalk in his mouth with hatred, and sat on the Taishi chair panting.

When the master saw it, he quickly opened the folding fan that he didn't leave in his hand in winter and summer, and ran to the proprietor's side for a while, which made the master of the miscellaneous things and the master book regret for a while, why didn't he seize this opportunity to make a fool of himself?

A cup of herbal tea, a gust of breeze, calmed down the irritable county Zun a lot, thinking about it, he suddenly remembered what this diligent master had just said, but there was something in the words, so he turned his head and asked suspiciously: "What did you just say?" Is there a secret to this? What's the secret? ”

As soon as he saw that the proprietor was attracted by his topic, the master hurriedly took over the topic and said: "The proprietor, think about it, that Yichuan small county, with a population of only tens of thousands, is poor and hungry, so Zhao Zi wants to stabilize the place, so he relies on us to smuggle grain for help, how dare he have any thoughts against us?" Isn't he afraid that we will choke him? Therefore, he does not dare to oppose us. ”

As soon as the criminal master said this, he caused a fart behind him, which was simply loud and loud, and the contact was extremely tight.

Master Xingming was furious, turned his head, but saw the master of miscellaneous things looking at him with a smile, and took a fan and fanned it under his nose.

"What do you mean, old dog?" Master Xingming was really angry, stretched out his dry and bloodless arm, and pointed at the nose of the master of miscellaneous things with his chopstick-like hand and shouted, the most embarrassing person is this, at that time, he was blushing and his neck was about to fight.

The county zun had a small temper at this time, and blamed this miscellaneous master for insulting Sven, but he wanted to watch a good show.

The masters are all local, and some are still several generations of masters, so there are often old officials from other places, but the officials who have taken office in various places can only write sage articles, and they don't know anything about the criminal name, money and food, and most of the masters, who are officials, and when he moves, he still doesn't know how much land and population he has under his jurisdiction, and he can only count on these masters to contribute for himself, but once those masters hold up the group and fight against themselves, then even if they sell themselves, they don't know how much the price is.

To deal with the master, you can only pull and fight, and you must let them fight endlessly, which is the art of balance, and opening and pinching like this is what you are most happy to see.

"Proprietor, student rudeness." The master of the miscellaneous goods gave the proprietor a gentle salute without blushing and panting, and then regardless of the scolding of the famous master, Shi Shiran said: "I just listened to the analysis of this criminal name, and I simply wanted to trap the proprietor to death, so I had to stand up and say a few words to relieve the proprietor's life." ”

Seeing that this miscellaneous master was serious, the county lord also put away his anger and asked solemnly: "Where do I have to worry about my life?" Don't be alarmist, sir. ”

"In front of the proprietor, where do students dare to be alarmist? I just want to analyze the matter, and I ask you to refer to it in detail. As he spoke, he fanned the folding fan in his hand even faster.

"How?"

This miscellaneous master didn't go back to the county to ask, but turned around and asked the criminal master who was angry and angry, but could only gasp: "This good colleague of mine, take it for granted that Zhao Zi has a request for us, and may I ask, in the past month, has he ever sent his subordinates to our state merchants to borrow grain and grass as he did at the beginning?" ”

This question made the famous master of the criminal master stammer, "How do I know if he will come to borrow grain, this matter belongs to the money and grain." It took a long time to hold back such a sentence.

In fact, I don't blame him, he is responsible for the criminal name, where can he manage the money and food? It's just that according to the convention, every time the business comes down, I take my own share, but now that I think about it, this month, I only got the ferry share, but I didn't have the share of the smuggled grain in previous years.

"It shouldn't be that the money and grain master swallowed his own share, no, I have to call the door to ask for clarification."

"Hahaha, isn't this the end?" The miscellaneous master laughed proudly, but the county respected him frowned and thought for a while, yes, this is the time when the green and yellow are not accepted, originally according to the example of previous years, then Zhao Zi had to send someone to beg him to quietly let go of the ferry grain, but no one came this year, why is this?

When the master heard this, he was stunned, so he stepped forward and said, "I know what happened." ”

The miscellaneous master smiled and stopped talking, some things are better for others to say, as long as the county master knows that he already knows.

"Because of what?"

"My lord, last month, Gao Yingxiang entered Shanxi in Bendu, the reason was not that Zhao Zi drove away, but also because he Zhao Zi couldn't drive away, and it was actually the thief who drove Gao Yingxiang to leave Yichuan."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the lobby couldn't help but gasp. Yes, it was the thief who drove away the thief in the first place, but why did the thief be kind enough to drive away the thief? Still don't fancy the boundary of Yichuan? I heard that the thieves promoted potato planting in the four counties, and the harvest was not the same, and there was no need for foreign food supplements, and then look at the liquor vermicelli that was transported in Yichuan day and night, it was all the handiwork of the thieves.

The county lord understood everything at this moment, stood up in horror, shrunk his neck and asked: "What do you mean is that this county is not Zhao Zi, let alone killed by a merchant in anger, but that-"

Everyone stopped talking, and the lobby immediately fell into a deathly silence.

Knowing but not saying it, this is the way to protect oneself.

"Could it be that this piece of fat is just giving up?" The criminal name whispered unwillingly, if the thief proposed, then the tax will be one-tenth of the current one, and it will be less than thirty percent all of a sudden, what a large amount is that? Although the county takes the lion's share, after all, with such a large amount of income, how good is everyone's life?

"No, absolutely not." The county gritted his teeth. He is a thief but a hairy boy, and he will only be in power for a few days, once the autumn grain is harvested, the imperial court will definitely suppress it, especially this time, that Hong Chengchou is in power, and he is even more firm in the policy of encirclement and suppression, so we must not give up. ”

"But—"

"No, didn't he send a killer? We will take strict precautions, and those guards will not be able to eat dry food in vain, and let them send troops to protect the tax offices, and if they do not come out, they will be cut off from the supply of food and grass. ”

"Yes, yes, let the army of the guard protect it." The crowd immediately shouted, and one by one they became red.