The opening of the city in the border town pays attention to opening late and closing early, for fear of being exploited by foreign enemies, and this rule has been implemented for a long time to become a means for officials to make a fortune, no matter if you have a big emergency to enter and leave the city, you must always make some rules to stop you, and you can't get in if you don't give money.

Since you want to make a fortune on this, it will definitely not be early to open the city, and it is normal to delay for half an hour, but today it is the opposite, which is really weird.

Knowing that the city gate was going to be opened, Zhu Da's caravan was busy for a while, watching the drawbridge slowly lowered, and when the drawbridge was lowered, the city gate was already half-open, and dozens of people poured out of it, and these dozens were not pedestrians and businessmen out of the city, but officials and deputy servants dressed in white, and more than half of them were armed with knives and sticks.

Even though the sky was just dawning, and despite the moat, I could still see the expressions of these officers on the other side, who were really not kind, and stared at this side viciously.

Zhu Da looked at the other side, and out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed that his team was starting to get nervous again, the deterrence of these forty or so messengers was not in the number of people and the weapons of iron rulers and clubs in their hands, but in the city behind them, which represented Wang Fa, the Datong border army, and the Ming Empire.

Not everyone can know Zhu Da as deeply, but everyone vaguely feels that this is where the pressure lies, many hired workers look back at Zhu Da, look back at the outside of the city, and the handlebar style of the family business in the city is like earth on all sides.

"It's not hard to kill them all." Zhou Qingyun suddenly lowered his voice and said.

The voice was not loud, that is, Zhu Da and Li He nearby could hear it clearly, Li He was also very nervous, but after hearing this, he suddenly relaxed, Zhu Da shook his head, looked at the officials who were walking across the suspension bridge and said, "Are they also worthy?" “

After saying this, Zhu Da raised his voice and asked everyone in the team: "How are these officials compared to the thieves you met halfway?" How about the thieves? How about the bandits who besieged us in the Zheng family? Look at how many wooden guns you have in your hands, how many throwing guns, are you still afraid? “

"You are really similar to Mr. Qin, are you ghosted, how can you look like those thirty or forty years old." Zhou Qingyun sometimes talks a lot.

Zhu Da turned his head and glared, then turned his head again, with an indifferent smile on his face, after he said that, the expressions of the hired workers changed significantly, from panic and nervousness to doubt, and then looked at the officials who were approaching on the opposite side, and their expressions began to soften, from doubt to suddenness, from sudden to contempt, and then from contempt to relaxation.

For ordinary people, it is the most difficult to contact life and death at the beginning, blood and death will make people collapse, some people will never be able to adapt to it, some people will become accustomed to it when they adapt, the loser will become numb, the winner will become excited, in this era, the impermanence of life and death is not far from everyone, it is not so difficult to adapt, and it does not even need the harsh training and discipline of later generations, after all, it is just to adapt to life and death.

"Are you still afraid? What's so scary? Do you feel like laughing? Zhu Da said in a relaxed tone, this is a skill learned in the field of travel, the team leader will use idle talk to guide and improve morale, which is useful for people who have experienced an information explosion and have a lot of thoughts, and it will be more useful for these simple-minded young people.

Before Zhu Da's words fell, the employees laughed, at first this laughter was subconscious, and then they felt that the previous panic was so unreasonable, just like the scoundrel idler just now, I was afraid in the past, what is it now, thinking of this, my heart is more and more relaxed, and the laughter is even greater.

They were laughing, and even the handlebar style was much more relaxed, even though they were laughing so hard that they couldn't figure it out, and they looked left and right with envious expressions on their faces.

However, the officials who came from the suspension bridge slowed down, and after so many years, they had never seen dozens of officials walking towards them, and they were still vicious and menacing.

The momentum is one after another, the officials slow down, and even some stumble with garlic under their feet, the suspension bridge is not wide, and some people are unstable and suddenly cause chaos, and the leader is over there shouting and scolding, making the laughter here a lot louder.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the officials to come to the other side of the drawbridge, on weekdays, they set up cards at the city gate for random inspection, and the people who were blackmailed by them could not enter the city, and they had to walk back from the drawbridge, so that this narrow and somewhat dangerous passage was very congested.

At this time, only Zhu Da's team was waiting to enter the city, and there were people behind them, but they could avoid it and refuse to go forward, these people may not know that the city gate was opened, but those gangsters who were close were lying there screaming, the living lesson was there, who dared to get too close.

"To ...... Going into town? This is nonsense, the official was going to ask it aggressively, but except for the three handlebar slightly flattering smiles of the two dozen people in Zhu Da's team, the smiles of the others were a little condescending, and there was a vague chilling meaning.

Zhu Da turned over and dismounted, and replied with a smile: "We are a team here, and we are waiting early, of course we are going to enter the city." ”

After saying that, they beckoned, the handlebar men got out of the car and led the livestock, and the hired workers began to prepare helpers, of course everyone knew that they would not let everyone into the city casually, and sure enough, this side moved, and the officials over there shouted and said: "What is on this car, you can enter the city after testing." ”

From the hired men to the handlebars, everyone knew that the carts were loaded with gold and silver, and that some of the things that were earned this time, some of which were seized this time, and some of which were dug up this time, were put in boxes and leather bags, and placed on the carts in a grand manner, and covered with hay and door panels, and no one could hide such covers.

The dozens of taels of silver that everyone got were carried with them, and they were carried on their bodies in various ways, and some people suggested to Zhu Da in private, suggesting that the master should find a place where no one knew about the gold and silver to bury them first, and then bring them into the city in batches, so safe, but Zhu Da didn't listen at all, looking at the dozens of officials who were like wolves, there was only one word "money" in the eyes of these yamen, and such a large amount of gold and silver was seen, so I was afraid that I would cause trouble.

"We went out to do business in the city, and when we came back after the delivery of the goods, we asked about it, and the cart was loaded with hay, dry food for eating and drinking, pickled vegetables, and a few collars of felt." I thought I would go back, but I didn't think that Zhu Da would introduce it to 1510.

This kind of response, not only Zhu Da's companions were stunned, but the officials were also stunned, but after being stunned, the officials and messengers relaxed a lot, looked at each other and smiled, no matter what you have, you have to bow your head in front of Wang Fa.

"Is that all?" The elongated voice of the one who shouted earlier said, but it was back to its former demeanor.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhu Da, Zhu Da didn't realize it, but he lifted the hay and door panel covering the leather pocket of the wooden box, his action made the handlebar and the hired workers confused, completely confused, and stunned to help him do it, the wooden box and leather bag were displayed.

Zhu Da didn't seem to know what to hide, and he didn't expect the trouble that would be caused by the exposure of the goods, so he opened the box and leather bag so generously, revealing the yellow and white things inside, not to mention that the officials even looked at the employees and handlebars, and the officials were stunned for a moment and crowded forward, and the sound of many people swallowing saliva could be heard a little farther away, and anyone could see the greedy color on their faces.

"This is ......" "This is ......" The official muttered two sentences, and the whole person was already confused.

"This is the proceeds of this out-of-town trade, let's read it!" Zhu Da replied simply, most of the yellow and white things are yellow, but not gold coins, but copper coins, a small part of them are silver ingots, looking at the copper coins and silver ingots, a few boxes and pockets of goods, Zhu Da has been specially adjusted, of course, you can't directly show the gold coins or something in front of people, so that people can see, although there is a shock, but it will not feel outrageous, more copper coins, less silver, everyone estimates a number in their hearts, this number is reasonable.

Estimating the weight of a loaded load according to the depth of the rut is an empirical skill that many people understand, but it is rare to estimate the weight of the load with relative accuracy by relying on the rut, so no one thinks it is unusual to say that the wooden boxes and leather bags full of copper coins and broken silver, and the wheels press deep grooves on the ground.

"There must be two thousand taels, no, three thousand taels!" Some errand servants couldn't help but whisper, the amount they estimated was also within the range of common sense, who would have thought that the Zheng family had hidden such a big fortune in the well.

The officials were in a daze, but Zhu Da reached out and covered the lid of the box, and the nearby handlebar and hired workers were not slow, closing the lid tightly and fastening the pockets.

After the yellow and white light that was not very dazzling disappeared, the officials who were stunned finally reacted, and a middle-aged messenger with a square hat and soap clothes shouted: "If you enter the city, you have to collect taxes, you have to check, you open the lid!" “

"Open it quickly, is there something hidden inside!" "Bastard, don't you know the royal law?" The officials scolded one after another, and the behavior of such cooperation just now had made the officials get back to the feeling they had on weekdays.

Zhu Da clapped his hands and said lightly: "The goods in and out are pumped, and the money is not said to be pumped, you can squeeze money from the people and merchants, because you have a knife in your hands, and you want to squeeze me, what do you rely on?" “

No one expected Zhu Da to say it so bluntly, and it was cold for a while, and there was nothing wrong with his words, but it was probably the first time he said it so confidently, and after a moment of silence, someone in the official crowd stammered and responded, "It's the royal law!" “

"Did I break any royal law?"