Liang Pandi's home is also like this slum, simple and shabby, but it is very tidy, and it can be seen that the hostess is a diligent and capable hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info As soon as she entered the door, she was busy boiling water, while Fan Jin and Sister Hu were waiting in the room.

Seeing that Sister Hu flickered her eyes and refused to look at herself and refused to speak, Fan Jin frowned, "What? What does this have to do with me? Or did I offend you and come to the third sister to complain? ”

"I didn't ...... No. Sister Hu hurriedly explained, and as soon as she met Fan Jin's gaze, she hurriedly turned her eyes away. Brother Jin didn't offend me, I just felt ...... I don't think I should bother you anymore. You've helped us a lot, and if you were asked to help again, you shouldn't. But this time the matter was too urgent...... I also had no choice, so I came to the third sister to find a way, but I didn't expect to come back with the third sister. I really didn't mean to wait for anything here, if...... If it's not convenient, I can go first and come back later. ”

Seeing her look as if she had done something wrong and was worried about punishment, Fan Jin's heart softened inexplicably, and the folding fan in her hand gently slapped her shoulder. "When did you start being so angry with me? What can you say to the third sister that you can't say to me, this doesn't make sense, is it possible that you have taken a fancy to Guan Qing and want the third sister to tell you a matchmaker? ”

"Not really!" Sister Hu hurriedly denied it, but when she looked up, she was looking at Fan Jin, and when she saw him looking at herself with a smile on his face, she knew that she had been fooled. Her face instantly flushed with shame, and after a while, she muttered, "It's really ...... It's not the face to see Brother Jin speak. I haven't said anything about the fifty taels last time, but this time I have to use silver, and I'm really ...... I really can't open my mouth. ”

Fan Jin said softly: "Silver? What's not to open your mouth here, you are not as good as in the past, you can make money in the city. When I was poor, you helped me so much, and now I can earn money, shouldn't I help you? Let's talk about what we do with money, and how much we need to use it. ”

Seeing that his attitude was very sincere, Sister Hu's heart was inexplicably sweet. She was already a woman who was easily satisfied, and after believing that Fan Jin was a god in the sky, and she couldn't catch up with her no matter what, this heart had already withered to death, but when she heard these three or two good words, she regained her vitality. The thought that had been broken off gradually recovered, and when he peeked at Fan Jin, his heart was beating extremely hard, and he was out of breath.

"Yes...... It's Daddy, who was sent by the township to procure spices, and asked Dad to go to Dongguan to purchase spices, saying that the emperor's grandfather wanted to use them. You know, whoever is sent this kind of sending will surely go bankrupt. Dad asked a lot of people to come out to talk, but no one was willing to be accommodating, and finally the yamen said that he would send ten taels of silver in to dredge up the relationship before he was willing to talk about the next thing. But ten taels...... The fifty taels given by my brother in front of me have to be prepared to be returned to the Zhang family, and I can't move a penny. For the sake of my younger brother, I have borrowed all the money I can borrow, and now I am desperate, but I can only make up two taels. I had to ask the third sister to find a way to see if the third sister could help me. ”

"Ten taels of silver is a trivial matter, I can give it to you without the third sister coming forward. But...... You can't do that. ”

As soon as Fan Jin said this, Sister Hu'er's face turned a little pale, her fingers twisted together vigorously, and she lowered her head tightly and said, "I know...... I shouldn't have found my brother to speak, fifty taels is already a lot, where can I borrow it again. Besides, Daddy is usually not respectful to Brother Jin, but ...... But he's my dad after all. Just when I borrow it from Brother Jin, and I will use it as a cow and a horse in the future, I will also return it to Brother Jin. ”

"It's not about money, it's about things that can't be done this way. I remember that last year, the year before last, the procurement service was all directly sent down the silver, but this time it was actually changed to a poor faction, which is strange. The yamen is like a bottomless pit, and no matter how much silver you throw into it, you won't hear the slightest movement. Ten taels is just the beginning, if it wants it again in the future, what should it do? What's more, if the people in the yamen deliberately set up a bureau, arrest people when Daddy Hu gave him money, and take the evidence of his joints, it is not the same as handing the knife handle to others, and they can kill us as they want? ”

Sister Hu'er was furious in her heart when Fan Jin said it, and her face changed several times, "No...... It can't be like that, right? Didn't people say that as long as the officials got the money, they wouldn't embarrass people? ”

"Ten taels of silver, this is the lion's big mouth, think about it, even if there is no matter of your brother, where will you get ten taels at home? It is true that the officials ask for money, but they will do what they can, and deliberately mention a number that you can't reach at all, and their intention is naturally not just to ask for money, but to dig a hole. If I'm not mistaken, the person this pit is going to deal with: me. ”

The more Sister Hu listened, the more confused she became, thinking that her family was unlucky and had been put on the procurement service, but listening to Fan Jin, this was actually a trap. Out of concern for her father and Fan Jin, she hurriedly asked, "Are they...... How are they going to deal with Brother Jin? Who is so bad as to set up such a trap to harm people? ”

"Who else? Of course, it's our Mr. Hong. Old thing, I originally wanted to clean him up in the future, but I didn't expect him to take the initiative to provoke and send him to death, so don't blame me for being unkind to him! ”

Liang Pandi also returned to the house at this time to greet the eldest sister, and when he heard this, he only thought about taking the silver at first, but when he heard Fan Jin say that it was a conspiracy against him, he also felt very puzzled. She couldn't figure out how the conspiracy against Hu Butcher could have a relationship with Fan Jin.

The two women looked at them with concern, and Fan Jin also compared the fan on the table, talking about his opinions.

If you only look at the paper data, the tax of the Ming Dynasty is not ridiculously high, at least for the people, the surplus after paying enough rent can definitely live. But the fact that the grassroots people are struggling to survive contradicts the calculations on paper. A large number of people would rather sell themselves into slavery and join the people and scholars, and the land rent they bear is often higher than the government rent. Of course, this is not the intellectual deficiency of the people themselves, but the fact that they have to avoid it is not taxes, but servitude. Compared with taxes, service is the real culprit that can bankrupt a wealthy family overnight.

is like the master who was recruited in Jinsha Township before, and this procurement service, without exception, is within the scope of the service. Dongguan, Xiangshan area, famous for producing spices, Xiangshan is named after the county for spices, the incense market of Dongguan Liaobu and the flower market of Guangzhou, the medicine market of Luofu, the pearl market of Hepu (called "the four major cities of Guangdong", Dongguan incense is also a very important export product of Guangzhou.

The inner court of the capital and the mansions of the princes and nobles are also inseparable from the support of good spices, and the annual purchase of Dongguan incense is an important work for the eunuchs of Guangdong City.

From the system, those who undertake the procurement business of Guanxiang should be the government service, but the institutional influence of the Ming Dynasty made the distinction between the people and the government very blurred. According to the Hongwu system, the government service itself is also a part of the service. There is no money for food, and even rations must be provided by themselves, and the young and middle-aged people in each county take turns to serve as the county officials.

Of course, such a system cannot be implemented, and at present, the government has long become a hereditary position inherited by the father and the son, but the government officials and the people do not distinguish between this, but they are used by the officials and become a tool to exploit the people.

The procurement work, which was supposed to be undertaken by the officials, was assigned to the people to complete, because since the people could serve as officials, they naturally had to undertake this work. The assigned individuals need to advance funds to Dongguan to purchase spices, and then take them to the yamen to make a public account for reimbursement.

On the surface, the handler seems to have the opportunity to eat the flower tent, which is a fat difference, but in fact, if it can be distributed to the people, it is destined not to be a good messenger.

The purchased spices are inspected by the officials of the yamen, and there is no standard for whether they are suitable for use, and it all depends on a word. If the incense is judged to be unqualified, of course, the imperial court will not pay for it, and it will not be settled until the appropriate spices are procured in full. And this part of the substandard products can not be returned, and it is even difficult to get them out of the yamen.

The parties are running back and forth, advancing their own capital and travel expenses, and also have to deal with the exploitation of officials and the deduction of substandard products. So this kind of forced labor has long since turned into a disaster more deadly than taxes. It was this kind of forced labor that Hu butchers were sent to.

The last time Xiao Fanzhuang resisted taxes, Fan Jin passed the basic tax law, and the common people could basically understand that the imperial court's policy of sending servants to those who had land would send silver service, and those who had no land would send forced labor. Hu butchers make a living by killing pigs, and have no land under their names, which is in line with the standard of forced labor for those who have no money. Guan Xiang must be done, there is someone to do the work, it is nothing more than a question of who is unlucky, from the point of view of the procedure, the Hong family engaged in the Hu butcher to do not leak and find no flaws.

In the past, no matter who was assigned to this kind of forced labor, they chose to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, and they paid a sum of money by themselves, and asked the government officials to serve on their behalf, and it was easy to solve the problem with the public service. But this time, the lion opened his mouth in the yamen, and he asked for ten taels of silver when he opened his mouth, which was obviously not normal.

Fan Jin pondered, "I think it's because Uncle Hu has a few dozen taels of silver, but somehow he leaked the news, so that the people in the yamen were aware." When these people see silver like flies see blood, they naturally want to cut it down. In addition, there are people in the Hong family in the yamen, and there is collusion between inside and outside, so it is not surprising that such a bureau has been set up. ”

Liang Pandi said: "Then look for Sa Shizhong, he is Jinyiwei, his father is a thousand households in Jinyi, and he can do things with one sentence." Don't look for my brother-in-law again, talk to them about the catty and see if you can ask for a few less money. ”

Fan Jin shook his head, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Although the Sa family is a brocade cloth, the current situation of Ti is not as good as before, and not everything can interfere. Besides, Guan Xiang's procurement involves the promotion of eunuchs. Most of the eunuchs who can be put outside are Jane's celebrities in the emperor's heart, and Jinyi doesn't want to or dare to touch them. They are nominally the poor of Pai Hu's father, and they didn't look for me directly, if I stepped into it, I would stand firm. The Hong family just got this point in hand, and as soon as I rushed in, they just closed the net and caught my big fish. Maybe around the eunuch, there will be the eyes and ears of the Hong family, waiting to play my book. ”

Sister Hu was puzzled: "Then how do they know that Brother Jin will definitely come out?" ”

Liang Pandi snorted, "I am willing to lend you fifty taels of silver without saying a word, no matter how you look at this, your relationship is not ordinary." As long as you come and beg him, he is too embarrassed not to come out? ”

Sister Hu'er's face turned slightly red when she said this, and she bowed her head and said, "Then since this is the case, enter the brother...... Still leave it alone. I'll send ten taels of silver in first, and see what they have to say." ”

"It can block the city gates, but not fill the sea eyes. It is useless for you to send ten taels of silver in, they will only continue to ask for it, and even if they can't attract me, they will suck up your blood. I didn't plan to move the Hong family now, but if I move them, there will be a lot of things in the future, so I have to talk about it after it stabilizes. But they jumped out on their own initiative, and I had no choice but to do it. I'll give you a few taels of silver, and let the uncle hide well and come back when the matter is over." If the travel fee is not enough, I will take it from fifty taels of silver, and I will find a way to solve the matter of the Zhang family. ”

Sister Hu nodded and promised one by one, she would believe everything Fan Jin said without reason. In her heart, Brother Jin is a god in the sky, omnipotent.

Because she was worried that Sister Hu would have any accidents, Fan Jin had no choice but to send her to leave first, and Liang Pandi's home would be cleaned up by herself. The two walked out of the courtyard and walked outside, counting Sister Hu as they walked.

"This is not the place you should be, and no matter how urgent it is, you are not allowed to come to this place next time. Even if it's about Qing following, it's not safe here, you know? ”

"En......" Sister Hu lowered her head and followed behind Fan Jin like a tail. It wasn't until she saw the city gate and the guards at the city gate that Sister Hu breathed a sigh of relief, stroked her chest with her hand and said, "I'm scared to death." I also knew it wasn't a good place, but whoever kept Black Widow out of the store had to go there and find it. My heart was about to jump out at that time, and it wasn't until I met my brother that I wasn't afraid of anything. ”

She looked at Fan Jin with two red eyes and said, "Brother Jin, you ...... Would you like to help me? I thought that after giving me fifty taels of silver, you would not care about me. ”

"What is this called, when did I say that I gave you fifty taels, I will not care about you. Where is your father, I'll send you to him first. ”

Sister Hu shook her head, "We're ...... Let's go back to my brother's yard first, the money sent by Sa Gongzi and the money saved by Brother Jin are all there. I was afraid that the bad guys of the Zhang family would come to steal things again, so I buried them all. Now it's time to dig it out and let Brother Jin take it away, so as not to turn around and lose it, I can't tell. ”

Fan Jin thought about it and agreed with her. "It's okay, it's not that I'm worried that you won't be able to tell me, but I want you to do me a favor, and when I go back to the village, I will quietly bring the money to my mother. Tell her that her son is now very powerful, can earn a lot of silver, and has become friends with a group of noodle people, and does not need her old man to dig in the soil anymore. It's better to come into the city and live a comfortable life. By the way, I'll show you something, you haven't seen it before. ”

When he was about to walk to the gate of the courtyard, Fan Jin took out the Guan Shu from his sleeve and showed it to Sister Hu, "This thing is called Guan Fang, which is the Great Seal." The governor is used by Dazhongcheng, it won't take long for me to do things next to the governor, some are good days, you explain to my mother, so that she doesn't have to worry about me, just go into the city to come to Nafu with peace of mind. ”

Sister Hu kept nodding her head, and when she walked into the courtyard, she suddenly asked, "Brother Jin, you have given me so much silver, aren't you afraid that I will abduct the silver and not give it to my aunt?" ”

"You...... If I can't even trust you, who else can I trust? If you do keep the silver, it means that you are really in a hurry, and I don't blame you. ”

Hearing Fan Jin say this, Sister Hu'er's face turned red again, and while finding the hoe she had bought earlier and pointing out the place where Fan Jin hid gold, she asked, "Brother Jin, what are you eating tonight?" Shall I buy you your favorite pig intestine? ”

"I'm not hungry, I just ate in Nanyuan at noon, and there is a banquet at Sa Gongzi's house in the evening, so I don't eat at home, you take the silver to live for one night, find an inn to live in, the bigger the better, for safety, go home after dawn tomorrow, by the way, remember not to show your wealth on the road, so as not to be robbed." It doesn't matter if you lose money, don't suffer a loss. ”

Fan Jin chattered while digging the ground, Sister Hu made an exception and did not help, but stood behind and looked at Fan Jin's back, and there was already a mist in front of her.

He doesn't like to eat pig's intestine anymore...... Those who can go to the house of the lord in brocade clothes to have a banquet, and the staff of the governor will no longer love to eat these vulgar foods. His brother Jin was about to soar and go straight to the clouds, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up with him.

The girl, who has always been tame, decided to go crazy once and gamble on a chance to catch up with the immortals.

On a summer afternoon, the courtyard is unusually silent, and there is no sound except for the uninteresting cicadas chirping high and low. There was a slight collision between the hoe and the ground, Fan Jin wiped the sweat on his head, turned around and said: "You must be careful on the road, if someone robs money, give it to him, don't fight with people...... Shelf ......"

The last word, but it is already weak.

I don't know when, Sister Hu has already taken off her clothes and is standing behind her. The afternoon sun shone into the room, the eldest sister opened her arms, and under the light, her body was as pure as an angel, exuding a soft and holy light, which made Fan Jin dare not look directly, for fear that her filthy eyes would desecrate such holiness.

The angel walked towards him, and the light enveloped the two people in one place, whether it was the redemption of sin, or the divine tainted by sin, who could tell.