This time, the village put the goods of the past two months into rattan baskets and carried them on their backs, leaving more than 20 young people, and then marched towards the bottom of the mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the way, I met villagers from several other villages who were rushing to catch up, so everyone gathered together. One is good to take care of each other; Second, in fact, the road is not very peaceful, not only wild beasts, but also some robbers composed of refugees, or those who came out to rob the road.

Along the way, I also encountered at least two mountain boars, but fortunately, these mountain people already had good combat effectiveness. In the end, it was the two wild boars that were cooked, but Li Yu was taken aback, and he was laughed at afterwards.

I have to say that these mountain people are indeed very familiar with the mountains, and they are clear where the shortcuts are and where they can take a detour. On the contrary, if the Han court plans to send troops to encircle and suppress, he is not familiar with the situation of the mountain, and he is afraid that it will be a trivial matter to get lost. If it is not good to be ambushed by the mountain people, even if it is impossible to say that thousands of people and horses will be defeated.

"That's it, what about the robbers made up of refugees?" On the way, Li Yu naturally also raised questions.

"Jiangbei is actually not very peaceful, and it is said that His Majesty began to openly sell his official position at the beginning of this year, and as a result, many people bought official positions, and naturally tried to get back the money invested. The big families have no choice, so they naturally attack the people of Limin.

Naturally, they don't care about the lives and deaths of the people, but in the past two years, there have been either major droughts or floods, and the people who can't survive can only become displaced people and try their luck elsewhere.

Some went south to the land of Wuyue to beg for a living, and the government was willing to accept it, and there were always some who couldn't settle down, and in order to survive, they could only fall into the grass on the mountains to make a living, in fact, they were just begging for food. Zu Heng explained directly when he heard this, and he could hear that he looked down on the bandits composed of these refugees.

"The Han Imperial Court, can't even settle some people?" Li Yu thought the situation was very funny.

"That's you, Mr. Li, who haven't seen the refugees all over the mountains. There are no less than tens of thousands of people, how much food can be taken out in a county? In the final analysis, the original granary, the grain stored in it is afraid that it has been emptied by the officials, and in the end it mainly depends on the family to collect it, to put it bluntly, the family took the opportunity to recruit a group of domestic slaves or something.

It's just a matter of being young and strong, and those who are old, weak, sick and disabled are leftover, so naturally they can only rely on their destiny. can't let go of his family, and in the end, in order to support his family, he has to fall into the grass. In fact, if you can live, who wants to live a life of licking blood from the knife? Zu Heng didn't speak, and the mountain people from another village next to him replied.

"Then our village won't take the opportunity to recruit a group of refugees?" Li Yu continued to ask.

"I recruited a batch last year, and I don't think I can continue to recruit this year. After all, there are not many places in the mountains that can be cultivated. Not to mention that it is easy to expose the location of the village, and to say that these refugees are all dragged by their families, recruiting one person is equivalent to recruiting someone else's family, where is there so much food in the village? The mountain man smiled wryly and shook his head.

In fact, he didn't say a word: because of the family's propaganda, those refugees are very wary of the mountain people, and even if they are in trouble, they still look down on their mountain people. Therefore, under normal circumstances, there are almost no refugees who are willing to become mountain people, and even among these refugees, there is the eye of the family, and the existence of the village will be leaked if they can't say it.

As for Li Yu, as far as his cross-dressing appearance is concerned, he is afraid that no one wants to believe the eyeliner of the family. Yes, Li Yu was despised by these mountain people......

The journey is basically thrilling, but to get from the village to Qianxian, you have to stay in the mountains and forests for one night. Obviously, in the next century, this hundred kilometers can be reached in more than an hour, but in this era, it takes two days to arrive.

In fact, the poldering only started today and lasted about five days. Of course, strictly speaking, this is not the same as the later polders, and the real polders only began to appear in the Yuan Dynasty.

At this time, the polder market is actually a temporary market spontaneously formed by the people around the county town in a month or a quarter. This situation can only exist in the Gangnam area.

At the beginning of each polder, the villages would descend the mountain one after another, and hand over the collected mountain goods and other things to the merchants who rushed here to trade. On the one hand, they sell things, and on the other hand, they buy some materials that the village needs.

For Li Yu's village, as well as a few villages that have participated in the looting, they will also take the opportunity to sell their stolen goods here. Those merchants did not refuse to come, but they naturally lowered the value of those stolen goods, in fact, they did not need to take much risk at all.

After all, in this era, communications were not developed, and Nanling County was attacked by Shanyue, but I am afraid that the people in the Central Plains will never know. These merchants sell these goods here, and they don't have to take any risk at all, which is really a huge profit.

"What are you going to buy this time?" Li Yu asked.

"It's mainly salt and rice, and it's not okay to always eat wild fruits and vegetables, as well as animal meat. In addition, if you can buy cloth, iron, etc., you naturally have to buy some. In fact, as long as you give enough money, Han Jian and Huanshou Sword can still be bought, but they are all rags, but they are better than nothing! Zu Heng said in a low voice, after all, they were already close to the polder.

In these years, ordinary people mainly use wooden farm tools, and in the more affluent families, their tenants may have some iron farm tools, and as for all iron or even all steel farm tools, naturally there is no need to think about it.

Zu Heng bought iron materials, mainly because he wanted to go to the blacksmith shop in Qianxian County to build some tools, such as jugs and axes for logging, and to give more money for the blacksmith to secretly help make some spear heads or arrows for backup. These things are not crafted during the day, but in order to make money, the blacksmith will secretly build some at night to make extra money.

It is not difficult to see from this that by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, local arms control had actually begun to be relaxed. In fact, few people in the southern villages have bows, arrows and spears, after all, there are wild beasts and raw fans, and even the occasional mountain people come down the mountain to raid.

However, there is a bottom line that has been preserved, that is, crossbows, only the forbidden army of the imperial court is allowed to be equipped with crossbows, otherwise it will be punished as a rebellion. Therefore, the soldiers everywhere at least dare not match crossbows on the surface.

Unconsciously, I have come to the polder, and a large number of merchants have gathered here and put their goods on display. At the same time, they are also sending out men to buy the mountain goods they need everywhere.

"You go to trade, I'll take Mr. to see and see!" Zu Heng handed over those ordinary mountain goods to the other villagers, and took more than a dozen people himself, with those rattan baskets mixed with stolen goods, and took Li Yu to other places.

Although I don't know if I was wrong, Li Yu felt that Zu Heng's expression was a little crooked, and even the people in the village behind him showed an expression of 'I understand'.

This made Li Yu couldn't help but be depressed, could it be that Zu Heng was planning to take him to some indescribable occasions?

Later, he learned that the people who usually set up stalls in such places are basically small businessmen with little background. Such small traders are limited in what they can buy, but the prices are relatively high.

On the contrary, some big businesses have families behind them to rely on. They rented some farmhouses directly or left a buying point here directly, and bought mountain goods and even some other things on a regular basis. Only here do these guys dare to buy the stolen goods. It's just that compared with the small businesses outside, the price reduction here is more powerful!

"Brother Zu is here to help the small shop business again? I don't know what good things are there this time? The shopkeeper seemed to know Zu Heng, and when he saw him come in, he immediately greeted him cordially.

"There are some hard goods, but I don't know if Brother Zhang can eat them?" Zu Heng pointed to the rattan basket behind him and said.

"Haha, you can eat as much as you want from the shop! It is said that Lingyang seems to have suffered a disaster some time ago, could it be ......" Shopkeeper Zhang seems to be well-informed, knowing that Zu Heng is going to sell the stolen goods, and said with a bit of ridicule.

"Eh, brother, how can you say that, we are all good citizens!" Zu Heng didn't want to be pale and retorted with a little anger. It's not, who admits that who's stupid X at this time.

"Hahaha, joke, joke! Brother's personality, brother, I don't know? Shopkeeper Zhang said meaningfully.

After that, under his guidance, the group came to the back room, where things were traded, surrounded by their own people, and even Zu Heng would not admit anything if he left here.

"Originally, these things were worth two thousand yuan, but it is not easy to help you sell these things, but everyone is an old acquaintance, so let's give a discount, eight hundred yuan to buy these materials, can you?" The shopkeeper carefully counted and then gave the price.

It's a four-fold discount all of a sudden, do you need to be so black-hearted? Li Yu, who was watching all this at this moment, couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"Brother can't let someone suffer, right? How about making up a thousand? "Of course, Zu Heng can't be slaughtered too much. Although these things are stolen by thieves, they are brought back by the brothers with their lives, and part of the money will eventually be taken out as a pension.

In order to maximize profits, the shopkeeper naturally couldn't allow it, so the two began to bargain on the spot, and after a fierce argument, these things were finally sold at a price of nine hundred and twenty yuan.

"The store has accepted it, but I don't know if my grandfather plans to help the shop?" Shopkeeper Zhang did not pay the cash immediately, but asked Zu Heng a question.

"I need a batch of salt and iron, can I get it?" Zu Heng also fell simply, directly explaining the intention.

"How much do you need?" Shopkeeper Zhang didn't say if he could, but directly asked him how much he wanted, obviously such a transaction was not once or twice.

"Eight hundred in half, the same half!" Zu Heng replied.

"Two stones of salt and four hundred catties of iron, is it okay?" Shopkeeper Zhang calculated and replied.

According to his price, it is almost two hundred yuan a stone of salt, and it has always been five baht to exchange for a pound of iron. In ancient times, one stone was about 120 catties, in other words, 400 guan could only be exchanged for 240 catties of salt, which was simply a huge profit!

But don't forget that in these days, salt and iron were monopolized. Since Shanyue ****, the imperial court has restricted the export of salt and iron to Shanyue, and even the mountain people, Zuheng and they don't want to buy these two things even if they have money. Therefore, the original 300 wen a pound of iron has risen to the usual price of one catty, and the salt of 20 guan and one stone has risen to 200 yuan and a catty, and others sell it more expensive in other places.

This reminded Li Yu of the red movie series, where there was a clip of the people sending salt to the Red Army in the blockade area. But I don't want the situation of this mountain people, which is quite similar to the Red Army back then.

The payment for the goods was paid twice, and the remaining one hundred and twenty yuan, Zu Heng obviously had other uses.

As for the salt and iron bought, it is not traded here, and the caravan of the Zhang family will pass near the village in a few days, and then they will go down the mountain and rob it. At that time, the Zhang caravan will naturally have to report to the official, but if something happens in this way, it will naturally have nothing to do with the Zhang caravan.

Behind the Zhang caravan, there is the Zhang family of Wu County, which is a second-rate top family. It is a matter of course to get some share of the salt and iron franchise, and the government will not say anything. After building something, Zu Heng will find another way to deal with it.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, to avoid the government's investigation. Although there is no money to enter the polder, there is a tax to leave. All mountain dwellers are required to hold a transaction voucher and pay taxes according to the amount of the transaction.

The tax collector will specifically find the merchant to verify, if the tax evasion and the transaction of contraband, the goods will be confiscated at least and the goods will be lost, and the worst will be killed on the spot. The worst is to be directly reduced to a slave, openly sold, and even tattooed on the face in order to avoid escaping.

The Zhang Chamber of Commerce naturally has a way to solve this kind of trouble, of course, for this reason, it is necessary to get through the relationship to some extent, and it is no wonder that the price is so low. In fact, if you really want to talk about it, the real risk to take is actually at this time.

"Leaving a hundred guan should be enough to pay taxes...... There are still 20 times, do you want to have fun? Zu Heng made a simple calculation, and then turned around and said.

"The tax is actually a hundred?" Li Yu instantly thought that he had misheard.

"It's not surprising, why do you think we would be the mountain people if we didn't have such high taxes? If there is no such high tax, why does the government think it allowed the emergence of polders? Zu Heng knew that Li Yu had lived in the mountains for a long time, and it was inevitable that some common sense was not very clear, so he explained it to him.

According to the government's taxes, the tax of the mountain people's trade is as high as forty percent, that is, the tax of forty yuan must be paid for the sale of 100 yuan.

In other words, this time, Zu Heng's transaction volume is 250 yuan, which is mainly due to the relationship between Zhang's firm and the help of fraud. It is also said that there are thousands of transactions at once, and no matter how you look at it, there are problems. The risk of being caught trading contraband is more terrifying than the risk of counterfeiting.

As for the remaining twenty times, they can not only be used for drinking. Many businessmen have also brought a lot of female refugees from the northern refugees, who want to have a kiss with Fangze, the most expensive only need the same money, and the cheapest only needs 200 Wen, mainly older refugees.

The most beautiful and youngest were all sent to the green building in the big city for tuning. Teach, so that the benefits are maximized.

Of course, if you like which, you can buy it back for ten dollars. Here, the human trade is so straightforward and undisguised. What makes people speechless is that those women are very welcoming to others to buy them, after all, it is better to serve one than to stop for a day.

After understanding these circumstances, Li Yu couldn't help but sigh: "Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road......"

The upper and lower classes are completely unequal, and this is the most direct manifestation of the feudal era. As for modern times, the common people can still get some basic security and welfare. True fairness, no matter what the era, has never existed.

Ever since there has been such a thing as a 'class' in human beings......