In such a foodie nation in China, no matter what kind of festival and what kind of etiquette, in the end it is inseparable from "eating", and the crown ceremony is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, after all, people come to your house early in the morning to watch the ceremony for your son, how should you be called to be eaten by others. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Therefore, when Zhang Shihua "concierge (bowing to the audience outside the ancestral hall)" and crown ceremony, after the ceremony, the banquet was also held in the Zhangjia compound.

After all, the Zhang family is a powerful family that has taken root in the county for a hundred years, although it was suppressed by the county Yin and various officials in the county two days ago, but there are still many guests who come to watch the ceremony for Zhang Shihua.

Even if it is the county seat of Liucao, out of the Li and Yang families, and the owners of the Zhang family who do not deal with each other did not come, the other family owners also came to the Zhang family, and even the county lord Bo H County Lieutenant sent people to the Zhang family to watch the ceremony, after all, unlike the Li and Yang families, they suppressed the Zhang family at the beginning only because the Zhang family was too powerful, but they did not want to become the sworn enemies of the Zhang family because of this, after all, if the Zhang family falls, who can guarantee that the next one is not them.

And in addition to people like them who have the purpose of easing relations, there are many guys who claim to be a charcoal in the snow, and they also want to take advantage of this time to tie up the Zhang family, after all, the Zhang family's power in the county is still very large, and it is easier to tie up at this time than at other times.

In short, no matter what kind of purpose these guests have, one thing is certain, that is, there are really many guests of the Zhang family this time, and even so many that the courtyard of the Zhang family almost can't set so many tables, so that those guests sighed in their hearts when they saw this scene: This Zhang family is worthy of being a century-old hero in TH County, and this network background is really not comparable to that of the nouveau riche.

Let's talk about Zhang Shihua, he is now pouring wine for his father-in-law on the wine table.

The Guo family is not only a world friend with the Zhang family, but the two families will become in-laws in two days, and the Guo Tianming brothers are also the hosts of today's ceremony, so naturally the two of them will also sit at the same table with everyone in the Zhang family to eat.

Because of this, the atmosphere at Zhang Shihua's table was quite warm, and the table was not cold from beginning to end.

And Guo Tianming looked at Zhang Shihua, a future son-in-law, and was very satisfied, although Zhang Shihua was now dismissed from his official position for some reasons, but in Guo Tianming's view, it was just a small inspector, as long as the Zhang family was in the limelight in two years, it would be nothing to get an official position for Zhang Shihua in other states and counties with the power of Zhang Guo's family.

In Guo Tianming's eyes, more important than the official position is Zhang Shihua, after all, as long as he has strength, everything else will be easy to handle.

As for the dismissal of officials, it is a good thing from Guo Tianming's point of view now.

Now the summer tax has to be collected a few months in advance, which seems to be nothing, but Guo Tianming, a person who has been in the low-level officialdom for more than ten years, can see it thoroughly, after all, with the greed of the group of government servants and landlords below, if you don't make trouble, then there will be ghosts.

And if you really have to wait until that time, Zhang Shihua will not be as simple as being dismissed.

Guo Tianming can understand this matter, and Zhang Liewu's brothers naturally understand it, not only that, but they see it deeper than Guo Tianming, as early as the day when Zhang Liewu knew that he would collect the summer tax early, Zhang Liewu sighed to his younger brother: "The peaceful days of our county are going to pass!" ”

So at Zhang Shihua's crown banquet, it seemed that everyone was happy, but in fact, these people were concerned about the collection of summer taxes.

As for Zhang Shihua, he also understands this point very well in his heart, so much so that Zhang Shihua always subconsciously pops up a sentence in his mind when he looks at the crown banquet in front of him, that is, "Tranquility before the storm." ”

And everything that happened after that undoubtedly confirmed Zhang Shihua's idea.

The day after Zhang Shihua and the crown ceremony, the county further increased the intensity of taxation, and there were more and more fights and casualties due to the taxation.

Especially when the county Yin Feng Fule encouraged this kind of behavior in front of the public servants, the situation became even worse.

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Deng Town, since Zhang Shihua exterminated the one-eyed wolf last year, the people of Deng Town have lived a peaceful and stable life, but this kind of life has only been less than half a year, and the above decree to collect summer taxes in advance has completely disrupted the original peaceful life of the townspeople in an instant.

Deng Zhen not only just came out of the shadow of robbers, but also after a long winter of consumption, the current people have difficulty eating by themselves, where do they have money and food to pay any summer taxes.

Thinking of those high summer taxes and the heavy burden, Deng Chongqi, who was in his twenties, sighed, and the wrinkles on his forehead wrinkled even deeper, Deng Chongqi's family is not a rich family, on the contrary, with their family's current economic level, even in the poor town of Deng Town, it is a family that is holding back the average.

At the beginning, Deng Chongqi's family was not so poor, in the past, Deng Chongqi's family, although only he and his father depended on each other, but it could be regarded as an ordinary family, but the more like them, the more difficult it was to protect themselves at this time, because such a family was most likely to be targeted by robbers and robbers outside.

And Deng Chongqi's family was unfortunately targeted by the one-eyed wolf and their group of robbers, and the robbers also beat his father to serious injury, in order to treat his father's injury, Deng Chongqi had to sell the family property, but even so, Deng Chongqi and their family still owed a lot of debts outside.

Deng Chongqi originally thought that he would wait until this year's grain harvest and then pay off his debts, but after thousands of calculations, Deng Chongqi never thought that the county official would collect the summer tax early.

Deng Chongqi was naturally very dissatisfied with the tax collection so early, but what could he do if he was dissatisfied, I heard Master Lizheng say that this tax was used to repair the Yellow River, and it was collected by the emperor.

So Deng Chongqi can only suppress the dissatisfaction in his heart, after all, life has to go on.

In order to make up the money to pay taxes, Deng Chongqi went to the west and ran to the east in the past two days, and his relatives and neighbors all went around, but the neighbors were all poor neighbors, and the relatives were all poor relatives.

Thinking that the deadline for paying taxes was getting closer and closer, Deng Chongqi couldn't help frowning his forehead, sighed and said helplessly: "Do you really want to sell the family's land, but if you don't have land, how will you and your father live in the future?" ”

Thinking of this, Deng Chongqi could only sigh helplessly, and walked towards his home with a stomach full of sorrow.

As soon as Deng Chongqi arrived at the door of his house, he met two errand officers who came to urge the tax, one of them held a chain in his hand, and the other held a red and black water and fire stick, the officer with the chain looked tall and thin and skinny, and the other officer with a water and fire stick was short and fat with a face full of meat, in short, these two officers did not look like a good person just from their appearance.

And the temperament of these two people is really in line with their appearance, I saw that the roe deer rat-eyed messenger turned his head and saw Deng Chongqi, and immediately showed his mouth full of yellow teeth and walked in front of Deng Chongqi with a smile, and said to Deng Chongqi: "Oh, isn't this Chongqi, how about the summer tax, how is your family preparing?" ”

Deng Chongqi looked at the errand officer with a lewd smile on his face, lowered his head and said to the man in an almost pleading tone: "Uncle Liu, you also know that my father has been unable to get out of bed since he was sick, so can you give a small grace period of two days, just two days." Speaking of this, Deng Chongqi almost lowered his head to the ground.

And when the officer surnamed Liu heard Deng Chongqi's words, the smile on his face fell, his expression changed, and he stared at Deng Chongqi with a hideous look in his small eyes: "You asked grandpa to give you two days of grace, and I will go to you." As he spoke, he slapped Deng Chongqi in the face, and slapped Deng Chongqi to the ground with so much force.

Then he raised his foot and kicked Deng Chongqi's stomach several times, kicking a young man like Deng Chongqi alive and couldn't straighten his waist, hunched over and lying on the ground, twitching in pain.

Then the officer surnamed Liu bent down, slapped Deng Chongqi's face and said to Deng Chongqi: "The surname Deng is for you, the labor and management told you about the summer tax, don't talk to the labor and management all day long about how your father is, that old thing is dead, and it has nothing to do with labor and management, now the labor and management will give you a word, tomorrow when the labor and management come, if your family still can't get the taxes, hum, then you can go to the prison with your old immortal father to live." ”

After saying this, the officer surnamed Liu greeted the fat man who was watching the excitement behind him and said, "The fat man is gone, let's go to the next one." ”

Their family lives in this hellish place, and the labor and management who are harmed have to make a special trip for them.

When the fat man heard this, he agreed and left with the servant surnamed Liu, but before leaving, the fat man also kicked Deng Chongqi on the ground several times, and said to Deng Chongqi: "The surname Deng, don't forget about tomorrow, you kid." ”

After saying this, the fat man twisted his big belly and left here step by step.