Liu Yi looked at the happy Zhang Fei in front of him, a sense of pride arose in his heart, and he was determined to do a great career from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, the happiest among the people are Zhang Fei and Wang San, everyone else's weapons are the same ring head knife, only the two of them are specially customized by Liu Yi, Zhang Fei's snake spear must be called "Zhangba snake spear", Wang San's two plate axes because they are a combination of plate axes and halberds, Liu Yi didn't come up with any good names for a while and a half to let Wang San name himself, Wang San didn't have any culture, so he gave a decent name "double halberd axe".

At this time, Liu Yi, who was squatting on the side and thinking about things, was suddenly attracted by the sound of "clanging" and the sound of applause from the short soldiers, Liu Yi stood up, and saw that everyone had formed a circle at this moment, Zhang Fei and Wang San were competing in martial arts, Liu Yi walked behind Yao Lie with great interest, Yao Lie saw that Liu Yi was busy moving to the side to make room for Liu Yi, pointing to Zhang Fei who was in the middle of the fierce battle, and the two praised "Zhang and Wang are really strong in martial arts!" The two of them fought for fifty or sixty rounds without a victory!

Liu Yi became interested as soon as he heard this, Zhang Fei's bravery Liu Yi had known it from the records of later generations, but he didn't expect Wang San to be able to fight with Zhang Fei for so long without falling behind, only to see Wang San holding a halberd axe weighing nearly forty pounds in one hand, and he was like flying, slashing, sweeping, stabbing and teasing at Zhang Fei, and he couldn't see the difficulty at all. On the other hand, Zhang Fei's side, after all, is a two-and-a-half-meter-long snake spear, although Zhang Fei is also more than one meter and eight meters tall, but it is still a little awkward to wield such a long weapon on the ground, but with his personal experience and skills, he can still have a slight upper hand, it seems that the "ten thousand enemies" praised by later generations is really not given in vain.

At this time, Zhang Fei, who was fighting fiercely with Wang San, saw Liu Yi watching the competition between the two, the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, and the spear turned and deliberately stabbed towards Wang San's side waist, Wang San was overjoyed when he saw this, rushed forward, picked up the halberd axe with his left hand to block Zhang Fei's snake spear, and then slashed the halberd axe round with his right hand to Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei saw this and pulled back the snake spear across his chest, only to hear the sound of "dang", the fire splashed, Wang San's halberd axe slashed firmly on the spear shaft of the snake spear, Zhang Fei was shocked to the tiger's mouth, and took half a step back to stabilize his body, I saw that Zhang Fei had to open his eyes at this time, gritted his steel teeth, and then shouted violently, and pushed Wang Sanlian and his axe to the ground at once.

Seeing that the victory and defeat had been divided, everyone hurriedly stepped forward to help Wang San, Liu Yi praised while helping Wang San, "I really didn't expect your kid to wilt and chirp, and you would be so fierce in a fight!" ”。

"Not really! It's rare to see someone who can fight against Brother Yide for so long," one of the eighteen chimed in.

Wang San saw Liu Yi and everyone praising him, he was embarrassed all of a sudden, scratched his head and said shyly, "If it wasn't for the eldest brother to let me, I would have lost a long time ago."

Zhang Fei on the side scolded with a smile: "Count you kid sensible!" But what a great power your kid was with that axe! The shock made my old Zhang's hands still numb! After speaking, he showed everyone that the tiger's mouth that was shocked red made everyone laugh.

After everyone simply cleaned up the peach orchard that was cut down by everyone, they returned to the inner courtyard, and everyone was tired after a long time and went into the house to find wine to drink, especially Wang San and Zhang Fei, one person drank four or five bowls in one go, and Wang San was directly helped to sleep by everyone after drinking.

Liu Yi and the others chatted for a while and went back to sleep, Liu Yi lay flat on the clay kang, with Zhang Fei's snoring in his ears and couldn't sleep for a long time, Liu Yi's heart blossomed at this time, thinking that God really favored him! Now except for Cui Si around him, everyone is a fierce general that is rare in a century! It seems that if you don't make a name for yourself, I'm sorry to God!

Thinking of this, Liu Yi suddenly thought of Cui Si, who had been in the county for almost a month, and couldn't help but be a little worried, and he didn't know if this kid would cause any trouble. But after thinking about it, a person like Cui Si, who can eat anywhere, can still take care of himself, and he no longer worries when he thinks about it.

At this time, in a tavern in the county town hundreds of miles away, Cui Sizheng was drinking with a few fox friends who had just dated for a short time, and suddenly Cui Si's nose itched and sneezed, Cui Si wiped his nose with his cuffs and muttered, "Who the hell is thinking about his fourth master behind his back!" ”

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A few days later, in the early morning, Zhang Fei took Wang San to the bunk, Liu Yi and Yao Lie stayed in the mansion, and Yao Lie stayed in Zhang Fei's mansion in order not to attract attention.

These days, the business in the butcher shop is sluggish, and a few days ago, Sun Fei took advantage of Zhang Fei's absence to always come for nothing, and he almost didn't make any money recently. Before Liu Yi built weapons for everyone and Cui Si brought a meeting gift to Lu Duyou, these expenses add up to a lot, and the follow-up may cost more, seeing that it is almost the end of the year, Zhang Fei also began to worry, thinking that if he didn't succeed this time, it would be a big loss.

"Hey~ brothers, I heard the third brother Wang say yesterday that since the second day we entered the city, the gate of this city has been closed, and we are not allowed to go out or enter, do you think it is strange?"

Liu Yi looked at the man who spoke and smiled: "Who knows what kind of moth this dog official is going to make trouble with?" ”

"It can't be for us!" Yao Lie frowned.

"No, we didn't set fire to anyone else, why did he arrest people? What's more, in Brother Yide's mansion, as long as we don't do anything hurtful to the heavens and reason, he Sun Yu doesn't dare to arrest people casually," Liu Yi comforted everyone.

After listening to Liu Yi's words, everyone was at ease.

It is said that Zhang Fei and the others just arrived at the shop and saw a small group of officers and soldiers posting notices on the street, these officers and soldiers just left, the people on the side gathered in front of the notice board, Zhang Fei's shop was not far from the notice board, Zhang Fei cut a piece of ribs and nailed the knife to the board, wiped his hands and said to Wang San, "You are watching me here, go and see what moth this old bastard is!" ”

Before Zhang Fei stepped forward, he heard some people start scolding and saying something, Zhang Fei thought that it must be no good, and when he stepped forward, he saw that it was true! He scolded and walked back.

It turned out that it was not only Zhang Fei who caused the economic crisis, the natural disasters in the past two years have continued, the people are not happy, there are not a few homeless people who starved to death on the roadside like Liu Yi before, and it is even difficult to eat and pay taxes, Sun Yu father and son have spent a lot of money in order to please their superiors in the past two years, and now it is time to congratulate the county prince once a year.

The emergence of "poll tax" is the embodiment of the political darkness in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the poll tax as the name suggests is to collect taxes according to the capitation, the poll tax for children is called "mouth endowment", all children in the family are 1 years old ~ 14 years old, each person has to pay 23 yuan per year; The poll tax for adults is called "calculation of the endowment", 15~56 years old, regardless of men and women, each person pays 120 yuan per year, ordinary people are like this, for businessmen like Zhang Fei to pay the tax is doubled. If it was just to pay taxes, every time Sun Fei collected taxes, he would personally lead troops to search every household in the county to see if anyone had concealed the number of people, saying that a search was actually no different from robbery.

Every year, when the poll tax is collected, the whole county will be restless, and the streets and alleys will be wailing.

There are more than 2,000 officers and soldiers registered in the entire county plus the soldiers of the Sun Mansion, and more than 2,000 people will be divided into two groups when collecting taxes every year, one group is led by Sun Fei's deputy, who is mainly responsible for going to the following towns and towns, and the other group is led by Sun Fei to be responsible for collecting taxes in the county. In this way, everyone is waiting to report others to receive rewards, who would dare to hide the living.

Every year, Sun Fei will also lead troops to Zhang Fei's mansion, but because he is afraid, Zhang Fei will generally not go too far, and in addition to the taxes that should be collected, the most he will do is to take a few pork. Zhang Fei was afraid that he would not be able to control his temper, so he did not appear in court at this time, and only handed over the tax money to Cui Si and asked Cui Si to pay it on his behalf.

As soon as he thought of Cui Si, Zhang Fei was even more angry, and scolded as he walked, "Fuck you, Cui Si is stunned!" Took away so much money from me, and I didn't even bring a fart back to Lao Tzu for a month, and when you come back to see Lao Tzu and don't pick your skin"

At this time, on a main road in the county town, four people carrying a sedan chair (the earliest sedan chair made of bamboo and wood) are walking towards the Taishou Mansion, the person in the sedan chair is Lu Duyou, and outside the sedan chair there is a person like a pug who is following the sedan chair, this person is none other than Cui Si, Cui Si is talking to his uncle and Lu Duyou at this time, and suddenly he was full of excitement, and felt a chill in his back rushing to his head, Cui Si was so frightened that he hurriedly looked around, and scolded in a low voice after seeing that there was no one. These two days are so fucking evil! ”

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Liu Yi and the others saw that Zhang Fei ran back in a hurry and knew that something had happened, so they hurriedly locked the courtyard door and gathered in the inner courtyard.

"Why don't we get out of the city tonight while it's night?" Yao Lie was the first to speak.

After speaking, Zhang Fei, who didn't wait for Liu Yi to speak, scolded on the side: "How do you get out?" The old bastard closed the city gates early, and said that no one was allowed to leave the city until the tax was over! Damn, if it doesn't work, let's strike first! "After saying that, I really went to get my own Zhangba snake spear.

Liu Yi grabbed Zhang Fei and said angrily, "Stop!" What if you kill Sun Fei? The entire county town does not count the soldiers of the Sun Mansion, there are 2,000 registered officers and soldiers, how can we run out when we kill Sun Fei in the city? Are you going to let all these brothers die with us? ”

Zhang Fei saw that Liu Yi was a little angry, and the hand that stretched out to take the snake spear also retracted. "So what do you say? How could I have lost these eighteen brothers all at once? ”

Liu Yi didn't come up with any good solution, and was momentarily speechless when Zhang Fei asked.

"No wonder I closed the city gate a few days ago, it turned out that I was afraid that people would run away! Or let's pretend to be a passing merchant, and say that the merchant who came to sell horses will stay in Brother Yide's house for a few days? One of the eighteen said, pointing to the horse they were riding.

Liu Yi shook his head and said, "It's easy to say this in the past, it's a big deal to pay more taxes, since Sun Yu's father and son knew Yide's words in the downtown after Yu Er's death that day, they have long hated Yide and are about to look for an opportunity..." ”