The county is located outside the border of Suizhou, Youzhou and Gyeongju, and there are many mountains and ravines in the territory. To the north is a plateau, the land is brown, and the loess slopes have not yet been formed. To the west is the mountain range extending from the Baiyu Mountains, from which the Qingshui River originates, and the county seat of Bajiao is located on the alluvial plain beside the Qingshui River.

Due to Gao Yunquan's ineffective management of the army, Bajiao County is located at the throat, but there is no heavy garrison, so there are many bandits active in the territory, so that the merchants and travelers are mostly diverted to go to the Ling, Yan Prefectures of Shuofang through Gyeongju, but there are still many merchants who transport their goods to Tunji in Bajiao County, and trade with the Youzhou Dang Xiangqiang out of Luzi Pass.

For example, Zhang Quanxu, who was born in the Yanzhou clan, and Liu Xiansheng, the younger brother of Liu Xiuwen in Yan'an County, are the leaders of these smugglers, because these two people are now striking the county, so as soon as Zhang Yue entered the city, he saw that there were many merchants in the city, so he asked the county commander Zhang Guangren, who knew that Zhang County was squeaky and unwilling to say more.

Zhang Yue left a thought, and after staying in the post house, he found a servant overnight, and asked him both hard and soft, and everything was clear. When the sky was about to dawn, the city gate had not yet opened, Zhang Yue led his troops to raid the largest Guansai inn in the city, arrested Zhang Quanxu and Liu Xiansheng, and confiscated their goods.

This batch of goods was worth a lot of money, including 150 stone of green salt, more than 300 horses, mules and donkeys, 50 cattle, more than 1,000 pieces of raw hides, and 500 pieces of felt. There are also grains, tea, Shu brocade, silk and silk sold outside the customs that have not had time to be transported out of the warehouse, and Zhang Yue has also seized all of them.

By noon, Zhang Yue and Feng Qianhou counted all the goods separately, and they both felt uneasy. It was so fat that both of them felt very unsafe.

After meeting and reconciling accounts at the county yayi house, Feng Qianhou said with a wry smile: "The total value of all the goods is more than 15,000 yuan, which is a windfall, hurry up and send your own soldiers south to transfer two commands!" Otherwise, we are afraid that it will be difficult to return this shipment to Yanzhou! ”

"Not bad! I thought about it, maybe something was going to happen tonight! The county commander Zhang Guangren was also born in the Zhang family in Yanzhou, and Zhang Quanxu and Liu Xiansheng had just returned from Youzhou, otherwise they would have known the news that we had inspected the county, and there would have been more than two hundred entourage. "When converted into more than two million yuan, it's crazy, and Zhang Yue is also very worried.

After lunch, Zhang Yue sent Chen Jia to lead 50 cavalry to the south to transfer troops, and at the same time transferred the remaining 250 soldiers to the county government garrison.

In fact, of course, he didn't trust the county officials, and drove them to the back house under house arrest, and if anyone dared to make a move, Zhang Yue would certainly not guarantee their safety.

There was nothing to do that night, early in the morning, Zhang Xianling ran to the front hall post house to ask to see, Zhang Yue didn't want to pay attention, but Feng Qianhou ran out, and when he saw Zhang Guangren's panicked appearance, he smiled and said: "Zhang Xianling, why is he afraid?" Could it be that the robbers in this county dare to attack the city and plunder? Attack on the generals of the Praetorian Army? ”

"Nothing! The Judge is too worried! Since the opening of the Jin Dynasty, Yanzhou and Shuofang, Xia Sui has always been free trade, and there is no prohibition to say, it is based on the local merchants who have many customs merchants, can the judge persuade the seal to inspect the inspection, this time the matter is open, return the goods, the next time you go out of the customs to verify the tax, it is naturally good to discuss! Zhang Xianling wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead and said very uneasily.

"I heard that you were born in the Zhang family in Yanzhou, and Zhang Quanxu was also born in the Zhang family, what is your relationship?" Feng Qianhou understood as soon as he heard it that this county order was here to ask for goods.

"Zhang Quanxu is my brother, he has always been a businessman, and he has not done anything evil......"

"It is said that Zhang Kuangtu is your uncle, right? Do you have him as a surety? Feng Qianhou's eyes rolled, and he immediately thought of a countermeasure.

"This ...... Doing business is my brother Quanxu's own business, and it has nothing to do with my uncle, I just can't bear to look at it this time, so I came forward to intercede. Zhang Guangren immediately excused himself.

"What's going on...... I'll look at it! I'm afraid you have to have your family's uncle Zhang Kuangtu come forward......" Feng Qianhou was sloppy, sneering in his heart.

"Then can the lower official go to the prison to meet my brother Zhang Quanxu?" Zhang Guangren cautiously tried it.

"This should be no problem, as long as you stay honest, there will always be a time when things will be resolved!" Feng Qianhou smiled comfortingly, and gave another glimmer of hope.

The county order Zhang Guangren left, Feng Qianhou returned to the hall, and when he saw Zhang Yue in a daze, he couldn't help but ask strangely: "Don't you want to know what the county order is doing?" ”

"What do you think will happen if we insist on confiscating the goods, biting our mouths and not letting people go?" Zhang Yue muttered absently.

"Tonight, there will be robbers entering the city to attack the county government! If you are still alive, you will still encounter an ambush on the way back to Yanzhou. Of course, this is still good, maybe Li Yiyin outside the gate will be involved! Feng Qianhou said indifferently.

"Yes...... Zhang Kuangtu, the old fox, is still standing, if he didn't have a foundation, he was afraid that he would have been ousted from power by the Gao family long ago. Let's do this, it can be regarded as a timely meeting, right? Zhang Yue suddenly realized.

"So I stabilized Zhang Guangren just now, lest they jump off the wall in a hurry, and when our soldiers come, Zhang Kuangtu will also come, and then I will talk about it!" Feng Qian smiled confidently.

Four days later, Xue Wenqian led two commanding soldiers to arrive. There was also Zhang Kuangtu, this old man actually only brought a few followers, in fact, he didn't have any soldiers in his hands, but the invisible force was strong. This guy is also the master of the school and the deputy envoy of Jiedu, and Zhang Yue had to take people out of the city to greet him.

When the group met and exchanged pleasantries, Zhang Kuangtu actually took the lead and put on the shelf of his deputy envoy, claiming to invite Zhang Yue and others to the restaurant, and order a table of wine banquets to eat and talk.

This is not just a banquet matter, Zhang Yue insisted on going to the county Yazheng Hall for official business, Zhang Kuangtu was very annoyed, but he didn't dare to offend, so he was promoted to the court.

Zhang Yue took out his Yanqing and two prefectures to inspect the seal, and read out the emperor's book, indicating that he was legally questioning, and then read out the decrees issued by Zhongshu Province in the past:

Among them, there is a certificate issued in the first year of Guangshun: one edict for a cowhide, three years in prison for this prisoner, a stab with a weight, and ninety rods for this section; If there are more than two sheets, he shall be put to death, and he shall be imprisoned for two and a half years in the rank of the subsection, and he shall be sentenced to sexual servitude by stabbing and weight, and the informant shall be rewarded with fifty thousand and so on.

Guangshun two years of edict: should be the world's cowhides, now will be paid by the number, three points minus two points, one point in the household seedlings on the acre. Every autumn and summer seedlings are a total of ten hectares of Nalian horn skin, the cattle take four taels of dry tendons, half a catty of buffalo, and the calf skin is not in the limit. Cows, horses, donkeys, mules, and bands and horns, in the future, officials will not be able to break off, but they will not be able to go out of the foreign enemy territory. The state and county first set up the inspection of the kraft section level and stopped.

This is about the tax of cowhides, and selling salt is also a felony, and there is also an edict: the old rule of green salt is 800 wen per stone, and one bucket of salt; One stone of white salt draws 500 wen and 5 liters of salt. After the green salt is a stone to draw money consistently, a bucket of salt.

This tax is also very heavy, one stone of green salt is one hundred and twenty-five catties, one bucket of twelve and a half catties, and the selling price is five yuan, of course, there are more than illegal salt dealers, and the price is raised to seven or eight yuan, so it is also necessary to crack down on illegal salt.

However, this Zhang Quanxu and Liu Xiansheng are sold in raw skins from outside the customs, so it is not easy to convict. But the salt can't escape, and Zhang Kuangtu is on the side to persuade the round, and finally Zhang Yuejing and Feng Qianhou discussed, and the verdict is as follows:

All the goods sold back from the customs by the caravan led by Zhang Quanxu and Liu Xiansheng will be confiscated, and those collected in the warehouse will be returned as long as they are not prohibited.

Even so, Zhang Yue still made a lot of money, if he didn't want more war horses, and a kind of pasture called alfalfa by the Wuding River in Xiazhou, he wouldn't have returned any goods.

As for Zhang Kuangtu, Zhang Yue didn't take him in his eyes at all, and when Yanzhou was stabilized, the few nests of robbers outside Luzi Pass would be easily wiped out.