Looking across the street from the building, Zhang Baoer saw an old man from the south who put a pick on the side of the street, two baskets of fresh peaches with green leaves, which made people salivate. Zhang Baoer, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, stepped forward to buy the old man's peaches, but he didn't know that he didn't understand the language, and Zhang Baoer didn't explain it for a while. In desperation, Zhang Baoer stopped bargaining, took out a piece of broken silver, and didn't care how much it was stuffed into the old man, took the peach and turned around.

"Then the southern barbarian, hurry up and pay taxes, uncle, I saw it, you can sell it for two taels of silver, and you need to pay taxes for one tael!" Just as the three of them bought peaches and turned around to leave, a loud voice came.

Zhang Bao'er frowned, turned her head and saw a shiny official rushing out of a corner.

The official was followed by a man who was also dressed in Nanban costume, and he muttered a translation to the old man. When the old man heard this, he glared at them hatefully, and took out a tael of silver from his bosom and threw it at them.

The man who looked like a servant took the silver and walked away, and the old man of the Southern Barbarians glared angrily behind him.

"Two taels on one tael?" Zhang Baoer was very surprised: "I remember that the tax of Datang has always been one of ten taxes over the years, when did it become so high?" ”

Although Zhang Baoer is not very concerned about the affairs of the imperial court, he still knows a little about this tax.

While he was in doubt, a more arrogant voice came into Zhang Baoer's ears not far away: "This little barbarian girl looks very good, it suits my taste, uncle, take it away!" ”

Zhang Bao'er raised his eyes, only to see a gentleman stop a Nanban woman, looking at the gentleman's clothes, it can be concluded that he is a Tang Dynasty, and he is also the son of an official eunuch, because he is followed by several government officials.

The Nanban woman who was stopped was indeed handsome, with a hint of hotness in her delicateness, which had a unique charm compared with the Tang Dynasty woman. At this moment, the Nanban woman's face was full of gloom, and the two Nanban men behind her were also angry.

After a moment of confrontation, the Nanban woman muttered a few words to the two men behind her, and suddenly turned around and ran.

The gentleman was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, the three of them had already run away. The gentleman was annoyed and angry, and shouted to the official behind him: "A group of rice buckets, chase me!" ”

Zhang Baoer was about to ask Uncle Hua to stop them, but suddenly heard someone shouting to him, turned his head to look, and it turned out that Jiang Yuqiao was beckoning them upstairs in front of the window of the private room on the third floor of the Yuanwang Building. Zhang Bao'er looked at the people just now, and the two groups of people had already disappeared, so they had to give up.

The three of them went upstairs, and Ying'er told Xiao Er to wash the peaches he had just bought.

Zhang Bao'er asked, "Father-in-law, how is it, have you found him?" “

Jiang Yuqiao nodded and said: "I found it, he told me that if you want to enter the Nanban Cottage, someone must lead the way, and he promised to help me find a familiar man and give me news within three days!" ”

"Familiar? What is Cooked Man? Zhang Baoer said curiously.

"Those who have been returned to the king and can speak Tang Han are called Shuman, and many of them no longer live in the cottage, and there is no difference between them and the Tang people in the state and county. Those Nanban people who live in the mountains, do not speak Chinese, and still live a life of slash-and-burn farming, are called Shengman. The Southern Barbarians are divided into six types: Red Barbarians, Flower Barbarians, Green Barbarians, White Barbarians, Black Barbarians, and Aconitum Barbarians. Because of the Aconitum barbarian's Gu magic, in addition, the Southern Barbarians have always worshiped witchcraft, and the famous wizards are all from the Aconitum barbarian. Therefore, the aconitum man has always been the head of the barbarians. Jiang Yuqiao explained in detail.

After hearing this, Zhang Bao'er was overjoyed and said: "It seems that we are here at the right time this time, the great wizard said before he died, he is from the Aconitum Man!" ”

Jiang Yuqiao said worriedly: "Bao'er, don't be too happy too early, although we have come to the right place, but it is unknown whether he can enter the Wutouman Cottage!" ”

"Why is that?" Zhang Baoer was puzzled.

Jiang Yuqiao explained: "Expanding the barbarian area and controlling the barbarian area is the main way to treat the southern barbarians of Jiannan Province since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the tax on raw barbarians should be heavier than that of mature barbarians, and the purpose is to let the barbarians gradually become mature barbarians, which is conducive to local governance. Generally speaking, the tax of the Shuman is equivalent to that of the Tang Dynasty, which is one of ten taxes, and the one of eight taxes of the Shengman. However, the local government and the barbarians colluded with each other to deliberately oppress the barbarians, and sometimes the taxes even reached four taxes or three taxes, so those barbarians were very repulsive to the Tang people! ”

Zhang Baoer told Jiang Yuqiao about the tax collection she saw when she bought peaches just now, and Jiang Yuqiao's worry became even stronger: "These dog officials in Shuzhou are simply dizzy, isn't this clearly forcing the southern barbarians to rebel?" I'm afraid we're going to have a lot of trouble on this trip! ”

Zhang Bao'er's eyes were resolute, and she said loudly: "As long as we can solve Xiaotong's Gu poison, even if it is a sea of swords and fires, we have to break through!" ”

Sure enough, on the third day, a person dressed in Nanban costume came to the Tianbao Inn to look for Jiang Yuqiao.

Jiang Yuqiao and the man muttered in the house for more than half an hour before the Nanban hurried away.

When Jiang Yuqiao came to Zhang Baoer's house, his face was heavy and he told him a shocking bad news.

"What? All the southern barbarians in the eighteen villages rebelled? Zhang Bao'er was dumbfounded, and was stunned for a while before he hurriedly asked: "Father-in-law, why didn't the Southern Barbarians rebel sooner or later, but rebelled at this juncture, what is going on?" ”

Jiang Yuqiao hated and said: "It's all because of Zhong Wenhuan, a dog official......"

It turned out that the name of this Shuzhou thorn was Zhong Wenhuan. Since Zhong Wenhuan served as the assassin of Shuzhou, he secretly collected all kinds of rare things and presented them to Queen Wei and Princess Anle, and Queen Wei and Princess Anle praised Zhong Wenhuan. As a result, Zhong Wenhuan was promoted to the defense envoy of Shuzhou and the assassin of Shuzhou, and he held the military and political power alone. Zhong Wenhuan tasted the sweetness, and it increased year by year, embezzling the money from the government warehouse like taking something in his pocket.

Zhong Wenhuan has a large group of officials under him who help him do bad things, all of them steal from the people, and they don't even pay a single hair. If there was anything strange in the house of the people that was worth playing, they would break into the house with their big-shouldered and round-waisted soldiers, mark them with yellow seals, and not take them away immediately, but let the owner of the house take good care of them, and if they were slightly negligent, they were convicted of great disrespect. When it is time to ship, they will destroy the houses, break down the walls, and get out the tribute. If anyone is unfortunate enough to have something more strange, everyone will say that it is a bad thing, and it is afraid that it will be destroyed.

Later, Zhong Wenhuan pretended to be a holy decree that all the land and houses around Yishan should be bought as a reward from the imperial court, and thousands of barbarian families, Zhong Wenhuan limited them to move out within five days. Yishan is the place where the ancestors of the Southern Barbarians lived, how could they give it up, so Zhong Wenhuan sent an army to urge and drive away, and the Southern Barbarians lamented and cried along the way, miserable.