Chapter 25 Characteristics of Feudal Society

Although Liu Gouwa is unwilling to be someone else's pawn and doesn't want to be used as a gun, but just like this week's county order, as soon as his father-in-law resigned, without the backstage, Hao Dongqing was going to fall into the ground, and wanted to gain a firm foothold in this officialdom, he had no power or power, so he had to find a big tree to shelter from the wind and rain, otherwise so many big trees were there, squeezing around, and your crisp and white seedling would have to die. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info All Liu Gouwa decided to arch the Zhou County Order for Hao Dongqing, helping Hao Dongqing is also helping herself, there is nothing hypocritical, and she also wants to sit in the seat of the Zhou County Order.

After Liu Gouwa came out of the Jiedu Embassy, he went back to the wine shop in the city, the four stewards of the wine shop handled the wine shop in an orderly manner, the business was booming, and the sales channels were wider than those in Xiao Song City, but the four stewards were still in charge of the business, but the financial management was a little chaotic, and every sum of money was not summarized and reported to Liu Gouwa, fortunately, Liu Gouwa's affairs in the yamen were not busy, otherwise he had to be busy with two jobs, and he had to be so busy that his hands trembled.

It was already afternoon when I came out of the winery, and the sun seemed to be sick, hanging high above the nine heavens, but the sunlight shining down was weak and not warm at all. Towards the end of the year, there are a lot of New Year's goods in the shops on the streets, and the number of people buying things has gradually increased, and there is a great atmosphere of the New Year.

Just when Liu Gouwa was looking around on the straight street, a fast horse galloped in the direction of the city gate, and the sound of tapping and tapping broke the peace in the city, and many people who wanted to buy things put down the items in their hands, and looked at the knight on the horse in amazement, and Liu Gouwa also looked at the past in surprise.

I saw that the knight on the horse was a sergeant wearing a Jingyang hat and a coarse leather coat, this kind of simple dress was obviously the soldiers and horses of the city patrol, that is, the soldiers under Lin Kun, who belonged to the second-rate troops of the miscellaneous army in the state. On a cold day at this time, the soldier saw sweat on his face and his clothes were stained with dust, and he quickly galloped in front of Liu Gouwa and went straight to the Jiedu Embassy.

Soon, a group of officers and soldiers came and went in a hurry, and the city strengthened its patrols, and the city gate also increased the number of soldiers and strengthened the investigation. When Liu Gouwa returned to the county office, she learned that the patrol officers and soldiers in the state city escorted the winter military rations to the officers and soldiers of the Wang Fuying camp in Xiaosong City, and they were robbed by bandits on the way, and several soldiers were killed and countless wounded.

Liu Gouwa thought to herself: Every New Year's Day, for the poor people, it is a heavy pass, so there is a New Year's Pass, and now that the New Year is approaching, I can't imagine that the bandits are also nervous, and even the military rations of the officers and soldiers dare to rob, which makes people panic, it is really bold. Liu Gouwa first thought of this gang of robbers, probably the gang of bandits and bandits who the fool planned to join the gang at the beginning, only they were the only ones who were more fierce during this time, and even robbed the goods of several shopkeepers in Xiao Song City and Zhou City, which was the good wine sent by Liu Gouwa in Liu Ji Wine Shop in Xiao Song City, and was also robbed of a car, and the owner of Li Fang just sent news to Liu Gouwa the day before yesterday.

Now that the military rations have been robbed and the officers and soldiers are not escorted effectively, it is natural to be held accountable, this is a good time to strike at the opponent, Hao Dongqing is willing to let it go, early the next morning, Lin Kun was degraded and fined by the Jiedu Embassy for slackness in official duties, and was demoted and fined to see the after-effects. This is also to blame Lin Kun for his bad luck, he just took the post of patrol officer, not long after he took charge of the army, the army was not familiar, so he wanted to send patrol officers and soldiers to escort the military rations to Xiao Song City, he thought that after the rebellion in Songzhou was put down, the state was peaceful, so he sent more than 100 officers and soldiers to protect the grain, which was more than enough, but he didn't expect to be robbed, he couldn't imagine that these more than 100 officers and soldiers were so incompetent, and they were rushed and crushed by a group of bandits with wooden sticks and hoes.

A few days later, martial law in Songcheng was still in place, and Lin Kun was demoted to the captain of the city, commanding 500 troops, which was the same as the number of people in Little Songcheng, but the quality of the soldiers was very different. When Liu Gouwa was bored in the county office, Lin Kun sent someone to send a person to meet him, this person is Li Daniu, the son of the owner of Liu Ji Wine Shop in Xiao Song City, Lin Kun saw him when he arrived at the wine shop, and heard that he came to find Liu Gouwa when he checked at the city gate.

Li Daniu brought the news that Wang Fu of Xiao Song City had found the mountain bandits who robbed the grain, and sure enough, it was the group of refugee mountain bandits that the fool was going to vote for. Due to the steep mountain, the officers and troops led by Wang Fu fought several times, but they also consumed countless grains and returned in vain. Now, in the name of exterminating the mountain bandits and returning the merchants to the peace of commerce, Wang Fu has increased all kinds of taxes and extorted them violently, and Liu Gouwa's Liu Ji Liquor Workshop is no exception, and the tax burden is heavy. The owner of Li Fang asked Li Daniu to come to him, thinking that since Liu Gouwa was an official, let him go through the door and exempt or reduce the taxes of Xiao Songcheng Liquor Factory.

Liu Gouwa knew that Wang Fu was the person who made Hao Dongqing in moderation, but he was very ashamed that he was making waves in Xiaosong City, making him angry and resentful, and the people were not happy, and he did not stand up for the affairs of his wine shop, so he had to inform Hao Dongqing of this situation, and let Hao Dongqing come forward to stop him from doing this, and he could no longer let him do anything wrong and harm the people of Xiao Song City.

Liu Gouwa went to the Jiedu Embassy to see Hao Dongqing, and described in detail what Wang Fu did in Xiao Song City, Hao Dongqing listened, his cloudy eyes rolled and said: "This kid is really not the same, he is really young, the emperor has just issued a decree to benefit the people of the light and thin endowment, and persuade farmers to produce, this kid made Xiao Song Cheng jump." In this way, the old man gave an order, let him cancel those levies and agricultural endowments, as for the commercial endowments, there is no need to cancel them, they can afford the high points, these profit-seekers, chasing hundreds of thousands of times the profits, how to account for this tax. ”

In ancient times, commerce was regarded as a cheap industry by those in power who mastered knowledge and culture, and the commercial tax of exploitation was much higher than that of other agricultural taxes, and it was much despised. But life is indispensable to the goods sold by merchants, so business is a helpless existence in the eyes of those in power, and is despised by those in power. It is no wonder that Hao Dongqing should be treated differently, abolishing agricultural taxes and commercial taxes, and lowly merchants and noble peasants, which is a major feature of feudal society.

Hao Dongqing scolded the bald head in front of the monk, which embarrassed Liu Gouwa, who should not admit it or not. Seeing this, Hao Dongqing smiled and said, "Of course, the old man didn't mean you, I heard that Lord Liu opened another wine shop in the state city?" ”

"Xiaguan just moved the wine shop in Xiao Song City to the state city, and did not open another one, and the workshop in Xiao Song City was reluctant to abandon it, so he had to let people manage it over there." Liu Gouwa saw Hao Dongqing ask about her wine shop, so she had to reply.

"It's not that the official said you, Lord Liu already has an official status and a person with status, how can he be willing to fall and participate in those contemptible profit-seeking industries, you can buy some land and buy some estates, it's better than those flies and dogs." Hao Dongqing said bitterly.

"Yes," Liu Gouwa hurriedly admitted, "but Xiaguan will only make wine, not anything else, and if Xiaguan doesn't make wine and doesn't sell wine, I believe that many people in the city won't drink all kinds of good wine." ”

"It's true, the one called osmanthus wine that Lord Liu sent to the official last time tasted good, it tasted sweet and greasy, but not too sweet, with a slight fragrance of osmanthus flowers, after drinking, it was fragrant at the corner of the mouth, and it lasted for a long time." Hao Dongqing smiled and said intoxicatedly.

"As long as the adults like it, tomorrow the official will ask someone to send some over." Liu Gouwa said busily.

"Lord Liu is polite, there is still some left, there is still some left." Hao Dongqing stroked his beard and smiled, "However, Lord Liu has to cherish his identity, and those profit-seeking things can be taken care of by his subordinates, and he doesn't have to do it himself." Hao Dongqing softened as he spoke.