After Li Yan returned to Qilizhai with grain, not only a few days later, the head of the Wang Bantou who collected taxes came again.

"Mr. Li, the villain is bothering you again." Wang Bantou said with a smile.

Li Yan said helplessly: "Wang Bantou, you have been really busy in the past few months. What kind of tax is charged for this visit? ”

Wang Bantou nodded and replied, "This time I came to collect autumn taxes." I have to do it, please put Mr. Haihan, Haihan. ”

"Autumn tax?" Li Yan frowned and said, "Isn't it completed in December?" ”

"Yes, yes." Wang Bantou nodded and said: "It's December to complete, the villain came this time, just to inform General Li first, so that General Li can have a preparation." ”

Li Yan said impatiently: "Say, how much?!" ”

Wang Bantou said with a smile: "A total of two hundred and ninety taels." ”

"How much?!" Li Yan stared at Wang Bantou and asked.

Wang Bantou hurriedly explained: "Mr. Li, we have seen your current acres, and there are at least 1,600 acres. The price of food is now a little lower than in the summer, and you only pay half of it, and the villain has calculated it for you tightly. If you think that the villain is not right, and the villain has made people recalculate now, what do you think? ”

Li Yan no longer looked at Wang Bantou, closed his eyes and began to taste tea. After slowly putting down the teacup, he said, "It's still 310 acres, and the rest are newly opened, and there is no harvest." ”

"But the rule is that if you have land, you will be expropriated." Wang Bantou was embarrassed and said: "Please don't embarrass the villain, the villain and the brothers are just earning food." ”

Li Yan lowered his face and said sternly: "I have already given your food money before!" I won't pay for the meal now! You and the filthy accounts above you, you get rid of it yourself, and I won't accompany you! ”

Wang Ban was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Li Yan to be so tough and say it so bluntly. But after being stunned for a moment, he immediately regained his humble appearance and pleaded: "Mr. Li, you better think about it again." It's not easy for the county lord, the above is urgent, and the grade is examined, and what you see is the amount of tax paid for the finished grain. ”

"Wang Bantou," Li Yan suddenly smiled and said, "I heard that your family is carved and painted, and you have a beautiful wife and concubine, and it is said that you have at least two or three thousand stones of grain hidden in your house." I don't know if these things can be worth half of the taxes paid by Hexian County? There is also Zhang Dianshi, which is a rich party. ”

Wang Bantou asked in a trembling voice: "Mr. Li, what do you mean by this?" Zhang Dianshi is related to Huang, so you can't mess around. ”

Li Yan said lightly: "You have to enjoy, and I have to survive." You enjoy yours, but you can't make me unable to live. Wouldn't everyone be at ease with their own lives? As for Zhang Dianshi, you can also learn this from him, I think he should be able to understand my hard work. ”

Wang Bantou didn't dare to stay any longer, so he immediately arched his hand and said, "Okay, okay, the villain must bring your words." ”

"Slow." Li Yan stopped Wang Bantou.

"What else does General Li command?" Wang Bantou quickly stopped, turned around and bowed and asked.

Li Yan said: "Wang Bantou waits first, and it's not too late to take this year's autumn tax." Then he told them to go and fetch the money.

After a while, Li Zhong sent the money over. Li Yan handed over fifty-eight taels of silver to Wang Bantou and said, "Wang Bantou, our autumn tax has also been paid, have you forgotten something?" ”

Wang Bantou immediately understood, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to come in to issue a certificate, and recorded: The autumn tax in Li Yan's name has been paid.

Li Yan nodded at this time and said, "Okay, Wang Bantou can go back." ”

As if he had been pardoned, he immediately left with the money and his brothers. He saw that Li Yan had more soldiers than two months ago. At that time, he dared to fight against Yang Shoubei, let alone his strength has risen sharply now. If a small miscellaneous fish like him joins the war between the two sides, there will be only one way to die.

Li Yan saw that Wang Bantou and his subordinates were gone, so he shook his head and sighed: "There are few yeoman farmers for a long time, and they are still asking farmers for money, there is really a problem!" ”

Li Zhong was also very indignant and said: "The princes of the court and the central government have no ministers! Who is not clear about the current situation, they just don't dare to report it to the emperor. for fear of harming them, as well as the old interests of their relatives and friends. 'Hometown wishes, the great thief of Lourdes', Confucius is really a saint, he has already seen through everything. ”

Li Yan shook his head helplessly, what he wanted to say was that in fact, the emperor was the same, his relatives and relatives also occupied good land and monopolized the business of making money, not only did not pay taxes, but also had to give Lu rice to the imperial court. What's even more odious is that they actually asked the emperor for land, and the emperor personally issued a letter of confirmation of the land they got through various means. If the Emperor had moved a little bit to get them to pay a little money, they would have united in their resistance. He even did not hesitate to kill the emperor's son. It's crazy!

Huguang, Zhuxi County, a small town.

Although Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai defeated Zuo Liangyu and Luo Dai's attack, now the entire Ming Dynasty knows the news that they have rebelled, so it is more difficult for them to attack the prepared county again. So they had to move outside the county seat, but they still didn't get out of the mountains between the house and the bamboo.

"Cao Cao," Zhang Xianzhong said worriedly: "Yang Sichang is coming soon, we should make a move." ”

Cao Cao hugged a beautiful woman and asked the woman to feed him grapes. As he chewed on the grapes, he asked vaguely, "How do you move?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong doesn't care about Cao Cao's wandering form, now the generals of the righteous army are like this, and he himself is the same. He said: "To the west, go to the junction of Shaanxi and Sichuan, where the mountains are big enough and there are many roads, so I am sure that Yang Sichang will not be able to catch us." ”

"Aren't there mountains everywhere here?" Cao Cao put his hands up and down the woman's body, and said with a smile: "We are familiar with the land here, such a large mountain is enough." Why bother running to a place where the bird doesn't? ”

Zhang Xianzhong frowned and said: "Yang Sichang's 'four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net' you haven't seen it. When he comes, he will do the same, and when the time comes, he will surround us here, and we will be unable to fly. ”

"How can it be so evil?" Luo Rucai wiped the woman's tears, and said nonchalantly: "It's a big deal, let's surrender again, it's not that we haven't surrendered, and when we have enough strength, we can turn against him @ Niang." Don't cry, don't cry, I, Cao Cao, am a philanthropist and will treat you well. Obviously, the latter words were to comfort the beautiful woman he was holding.

Zhang Xianzhong stood up, hugged his fists and said: "Then so be it, I'll take my people to the west, if you can't stand it, go find me." After saying that, he left Cao Cao's house and went back to his camp to prepare. He is not as easy as Cao Cao, he can surrender if he says he surrenders, so it is better to be completely prepared.