In Chengtianfu, Dongchen Village, on the outskirts of Jinling City, in the largest house at the head of the village, a young man in a brocade robe exhaled cold air to the open window, although there was no light snow fluttering outside the window, but it was still a cold wind.

Yesterday, there was a sudden cold wind, which made people feel the deep affection from winter.

At this time, a small servant came from behind: "Master, Madame sent someone to report, saying that Madame and Miss are ready!" ”

Only then did the young man turn around, and then said, "The carriage is ready, it is even colder today than yesterday, and the bedding and stove on the carriage have been forgotten!" ”

The little servant said: "Don't worry, the second housekeeper has already prepared the carriage himself, but the second housekeeper said that the Liang Nursing Home was cold last night, and I am afraid that I will not be able to follow into the city today, and if there is one less person, there will only be four nursing homes, lest I be unable to protect the safety of the lord and the lady and the young lady." ”

The young man said: "It's okay, although it hasn't been very peaceful recently, there were quite a few stragglers who looted bravely, but now there are no more, and it is enough to have four escorts!" ”

The little guy also said at this time: "What the master said is that although those pseudo-Tang thieves are more ruthless, they are still very hard at the matter of suppressing bandits, and in just a few days, they have wiped out the stragglers on the ground nearby, and I heard that hundreds of people have been killed this time!" ”

The little guy said this, but the young man on the side frowned slightly, and then said: "Forget it at home, you have to be cautious when you go out, don't say the four words of this pseudo-Tang thief army again, don't cause trouble for no reason!" ”

"The young master's lesson, the little one won't dare in the future." After hearing this, the little guy also showed a burst of nervousness, and suddenly remembered that a few days ago in Xichen Village, it is said that when a young man was talking loudly, he was a pseudo-Tang and a thief, but he was directly arrested by the patrol police in the village, and then put on the hat of slandering Wang Shi, and beat more than a dozen boards on the spot.

I heard that the patrol leader was an outsider, or someone who had just retired from the thief army, which made him hear the words slandering the Tang Dynasty Wangshi, which would not be polite.

As for Dongchen Village and Xichen Village, you can know from the name, these two villages are said to be two villages, but in fact, one east and one west, they live in the same place, and the village chief, tax officials and patrol police sent by the pseudo-Tang Dynasty are all under the unified management of these two villages.

It didn't take long for the young man to go out of the room with the little servant, and then went to the lady's side first, and after picking up the lady and sister, this was the official departure, and the carriages that had been prepared a long time ago.

Outside the carriage, there were two old mothers and three maids who went out together, as well as four nurses, two maids, and one housekeeper.

A group of fifteen people rode a car and walked on horseback, after leaving the Chen Mansion, it was to drive on a dirt official road, and looking backwards, you can vaguely see three archways standing at the head of the village, the shape is the same, all the Jinshi archways!

Among them, the latest completion of the archway is the young man Chen Lifu when he was admitted to the Jinshi archway, and the slightly old, some years of the archway, is Chen Lifu's father, Chen Yonggao's archway.

As for the Jinshi archway, it is the Jinshi archway of the young man's uncle, Chen Yonglin High School, who ranked eighth in the second class of Jinshi.

As soon as you look at these three Jinshi archways, you can know that this Chen family is a typical scholarly family, an official family, and it is the top one!

During the Ming Dynasty, the Chen family also had people who came out one after another, and in the last twenty or thirty years, it was out of control.

It has created a good story of a three-jinshi.

It's a pity that although the Chen family is on the road to the imperial examination, it is not good to meet the gods and kill the Buddha, but the three Jinshi of the Chen family are not good on the way, Chen Yonglin was the first high school jinshi, and he is also the eighth place in the second class, the ranking is quite good, and later he also passed the court examination and entered the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi, but it is a pity that he died of illness within a few years of taking office, otherwise, this person may become a high-ranking official in the ministry for decades.

Chen Yonggao was one subject later than Chen Yonglin, and after passing the Jinshi examination, because he was only a top three, and the court examination was only the lowest, so he was finally sent to Shaanxi to serve as a county commander, but unfortunately this person is suitable for studying and is not suitable for being an official, he will not flatter, and he has nothing to do, so he is a county order, and he has been a county commander for more than ten years!

More than ten years later, the disheartened Chen Yonggao resigned and returned to his hometown, but unfortunately this person has not returned, but he fell into the water and died halfway through.

Chen Yonggao's son, that is, the young man Chen Lifu in front of him, he was only admitted to the Jinshi last year, and his father was only a top three, and he was originally going to be awarded an official after passing the Jinshi, but this person had just been admitted to the Jinshi, and he was the head of the Ministry of Engineering for a few days, and last year he learned from others to play impeachment, and it was not someone else who was impeached, but Yan Song, the old man on the spot, and then ......

And then there was no then......

This unlucky baby has only been an official for a month, and then he was taken off his official hat!

After returning to his hometown, Chen Lifu turned out to be not a court boss, naturally it could not be Jian Zai's heart, and there was nothing to hope for, so although he was unwilling, he could only honestly squat at home, read books or teach the children of the clan to go to school, and go out to visit friends in his spare time.

However, in the past two months, he has not gone out at home, because the last two months have not been peaceful!

Last month, the thief army entered Jinling City, and that period was even more chaotic, and until now, the situation has calmed down a little, listening to the news from outside that there are no bandits on the road, and the pseudo-Tang Dynasty has also opened the ban on access to Jinling City, allowing entry and exit from Jinling.

In the past few days, it happened that his wife wanted to go back to her parents' house, and his little sister also wanted to go to play, so he simply took his family into the city, of course, he himself was actually quite curious about the current Jinling City, and he was also ready to visit a few friends in the city to discuss a big event!

Although he has not been at home for the past two months, and he has not dealt with the people of the puppet Tang thief army, even some time ago, when the notorious tax inspection team of the puppet Tang came to collect taxes, he only asked the foreign housekeeper to send them away.

Although it is said to be dismissed, but it is bribery and tax evasion, naturally it is not daring, but to pay taxes honestly, and now it is an eventful autumn, and it is better to have more than one thing, because a little agricultural tax will lead to trouble, and it is not worth it.

Of course, what is more important is that he knows very well that there are no people in the vicinity who do not want to pay taxes, and most of them are not better off there, with heavy fines and confiscation of land and property.

If it is more serious, for example, if you refuse to hand it over whether you live or die, and you don't even let the assets confiscate if you don't cooperate, then it's not as simple as confiscating some assets, but you will directly raid the house, and by the way, all the men in the family will be arrested and locked up for ten days and half a month, and the first offender will be beheaded.

The pseudo-Tang Dynasty actually levied taxes on their gentry Haoqiang, it was unbearable, so some people tried to resist, as far as he knew, the Zhao family, more than 30 miles away, was to gather hundreds of guards and tenants of young people, and even planned to unite with many other Haoqiang to expel the thief army and welcome back the official army.

But this man has not yet assembled, but he has been blocked by the tax inspection team of the brigade.

At that time, the leader of the tax inspection team was quite arrogant:

"If you want to rebel, you have to pay the tax first!"

The fate of the Li family is conceivable, this kind of behavior has gone beyond the scope of tax resistance, but has risen to a rebellion, so the Li family was directly raided and exterminated, and all the adult males were beheaded for public display.

After killing a few chickens, the remaining monkeys are much more honest, and when the tax officials from all over the country come to collect taxes, it will be much easier, and most of them will pay their taxes obediently!

Of course, tax evasion is not uncommon, generally at this time, it is the time for the tax inspection team to come to the door, if you do not cooperate, it is basically the end of the house.

However, now the prestige of the tax inspection team is already very big, even if it is a famous gentry like the Chen family, when they hear the reputation of the tax inspection team, they also have the mentality that more is better than less, and obediently pay the tax to avoid getting into trouble.

Thinking of this pseudo-Tang tax inspection team, Chen Lifu frowned slightly, how could this pseudo-Tang Dynasty tolerate the appearance of such a cruel organization as the tax inspection team, could it be that they would not advise the puppet emperor Li Xuan?

If he was an official in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, he would definitely impeach this tax inspection team ruthlessly, and it would be unreasonable to be so harsh.

And what kind of agricultural tax, it is simply chaotic and tyrannical.

They are dignified gentry, and they also have to pay taxes? This is a ridiculous joke!

Also, the spread of Ding into the mu, this is the chaotic government that the pseudo-Tang traitor came up with, and it turned out to be Ding Yin into the tax per mu, this is not to make it clear that countless good people's families will bear the Ding Yin of those landless mobs.

The pseudo-Tang Dynasty is so chaotic, even if it can be dominating for a while, but in the long run, after the people's grievances reach their peak, they will definitely cause chaos.

Alas, prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer, if there is a big chaos in the future, I am afraid that the people of the world will suffer again.

Recently, Chen Lifu has often lamented that although he is no longer an official in the imperial court, and now he is just an ordinary gentry and sage, but the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband.

Sometimes he also thinks that if he is an official in the puppet Tang Dynasty, he will definitely persuade the puppet emperor Li Xuan, and then impeach a ** minister in the puppet Tang Dynasty, so that the gentleman can establish a court.

Why don't you think about it, 'If only the Ming Dynasty came back one day!' You think he's stupid, people know it's impossible, right!

Since the Ming Dynasty can't fight back, many chaos and tyranny of the puppet Tang Dynasty must be stopped, and to stop the tyranny of the puppet Tang Dynasty, joining the puppet Tang Dynasty is the best way.

When he entered the city this time, in addition to catching up with old friends, he was also going to discuss with them the important matter of entering the pseudo-Tang Dynasty!

Alas, there is trouble in the world, the people are in distress, I don't go to hell, who will go to hell!