Last time, he said that Tang Zhou no longer believed in anyone because of his own experience, except for his own parents, only he could believe in himself.

He has to rely on his own hands to solve the difficulties in front of him. He got back to his old business. Fortunately, he didn't get rusty because he didn't use it for many years, and he quickly got the money he urgently needed from the Wengang passengers. The victim didn't realize that his belongings had been stolen, but he felt that the beggar who bumped into him was super disgusting and annoying, and he wished that he would disappear from front of him immediately.

Tang Zhou also cooperated and left immediately, and left Wengang directly. Because if he had pretended to be a beggar, it was estimated that the ship's boss would refuse to board him for fear of causing unease to the other passengers. So now his priority is to clean himself up.

It's too dangerous to just expose your true colors in public. But now I see that as long as I cross the Yellow River, I can reach Luoyang, and when I get to Luoyang, I can report the Taiping Sect, and I will be safe. So even if there was a cliff in front of him, Tang Zhou had to jump down with his eyes closed. Although the Taiping Sect is also very powerful in Luoyang, that is where the Son of Heaven is, and it is impossible for the Taiping Sect to cover the sky with one hand in Luoyang.

In fact, Tang Zhou was too worried, except for Zhang Jiao and a few other high-level officials, there were really not many people who knew Tang Zhou, not to mention that Ma Yuanyi, who went south with him, was still struggling with what to do, and he didn't organize people to search for him at all. Even if Tang Zhou swaggered to Wengang a few days ago, he was very safe. It's a pity that he doesn't have the Eye of God, so he can only remind himself to be careful and careful.

Tang Zhou simply washed it by the river, then found a family, and put a set of clothes on his body while no one was paying attention, and then cautiously returned to Wengang and dived in the direction of the wharf. It wasn't until he got on the ferry, and when the ferry left the shore and everything went well, Tang Zhou's heart was put back in his stomach.

When the ferry docked, Tang Zhou got off the boat, touched the money bag in his arms, and felt that it should be enough for him to get to Luoyang. Tang Zhou thought: He has already arrived at Sili, and the Taiping Sect should not dare to arrest people too blatantly. So I started to let my guard down a little bit.

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After all, if the Si Li is arrested casually, the other party may be a person from the imperial court, and if the Taiping Sect openly arrests him, it will cause a commotion and attract people from the government. When the time comes, he will poke their conspiracy out, and the problem will be the Taiping Sect itself.

But Tang Zhou didn't want to report to the official in Pinggang, he felt that his news was too valuable, and the rank of the Pinggang official was not high enough, and the credit that fell to him in the end was estimated to be very little. If you want to report to the official, you have to go directly to the Zhili Yamen, and the lieutenant of the Sili has the right to report directly to the emperor, so that you can get the most. Maybe if you are not careful, the emperor is in a good mood and meets him, then he will be able to rise to the top.

Tang Zhou quietly walked around Pinggang, bought a water bladder, kept more than a dozen papers, and bought dry food with the rest of the money, before leaving Pinggang and walking in the direction of Luoyang with satisfaction. Because his previous experience on the north bank of the river had caused him to suffer, he didn't want to touch anything that wasn't eaten by people anymore.

When Tang Zhou ran errands for Zhang Bao before, he had also been to Luoyang a few times, so he knew the way from this giant deer to Luoyang. When he arrived on the south bank and left Pinggang, he didn't dare to continue on the main road, because in a crowded place, the people of the Taiping Sect might still have some scruples, but if they left the densely populated town, it was better not to take risks. After all, who in the government will leave the comfort of the town without anything?

So after Tang Zhou confirmed that no one was following him, he started his detour again.

After wasting another 3 days, Tang Zhou finally saw the towering city wall of Luoyang. It's just because Tang Zhou didn't take the path of ordinary people, and his clothes had been cut by shrubs and weeds. When the guards saw that he was dressed in tatters, they thought he was a beggar, and behind the guards was the national capital, how could they let a beggar in and affect the appearance of the city? So the guards blocked Tang Zhou from the city gate and said that they wouldn't let him in.

Tang Zhou couldn't, so he could only turn back and go to the people who lived outside the city to steal clothes. Originally, he wanted to use his extra dry food to change clothes, but the family living outside the city was so poor that the family only had one set of clothes to go out, so they refused to change anything. In the end, Tang Zhou could only steal the last set of clothes.

Tang Zhou changed his clothes and secretly threw the set of clothes that had been rotten into strips of cloth and threw them in the courtyard of the house where the clothes were stolen, hoping that they could mend the clothes, and they should be able to make do with them. After these days, he can understand the bitterness of the poor family, so he can't bear to do things too much.

Tang Zhou wore a patched suit and went to the city gate again, but was still stopped by the guards.

The guards looked at Tang Zhou with disgust and called, "You, what are you doing in the city?" ”

Tang Zhou said: "Do some small business." ”

The guard looked at his patched clothes and said, "You can also do business with this background?" ”

"Sir, I'll go into the city and sell some home-made bread." As he spoke, Tang Zhou opened the bag on his back and showed it to the guards, and there was indeed a bunch of bread inside.

The guard counted the breads and said, "One bread is taxed for 1 wen, and you want 3 wen for yourself, for a total of 33 wen." ”

Tang Zhou was dumbfounded when he heard this, he knew about the poll tax, so he had already prepared more than a dozen dollars, but how could this bread also be taxed? That's not enough to give. In the past, when he entered the city, he was either carried by others or dressed in bright clothes and empty into the city to do business, and he was not embarrassed by the guards.

The guards saw him standing there without any reaction, knowing that he should not have so much money, and he saw such a poor man a lot every day, and he didn't want to be too embarrassed for him, so he didn't talk nonsense with him, and directly took 11 pieces of bread, and called out: "Next." ”

When the guards saw that Tang Zhou was still stunned, they said to him, "Aren't you doing business?" Goods are subject to tax. After saying that, he ignored him.

Tang Zhou still couldn't react, but just rewrapped the burden very mechanically. If you really want to do a business, you will be taxed by one-third of it all of a sudden, so what else can you do with this transaction? Lost to death. Tang Zhou felt very sorry for his dough, and it was estimated that he was poor and scared these days.

In this Luoyang city, the east of the city is the market area, the north of the city is where the rich live, the south of the city is where the poor live, and the offices of the various departments of the imperial court are concentrated in the west of the city. Because of his current status, Tang Zhou was a poor peddler, so he could only enter the city at the Daxia Gate in the east of the city, near the market area.