Chongzhen seven years, autumn!

Zhu Zhi is two years old, she can now run around the yard, and the little girl always likes to hang two long snots, not like a girl at all. For this reason, the two sisters, Zhang Yingxian and Qiu Ye, were really anxious, and they chased the little girl in the yard every day to wipe their noses, and slowly taught her some things that girls should pay attention to.

Li Qingshui began to be busy collecting this year's autumn tax, because Baishui's tax is very special, only the rich and the gentry, not the poor people, so the way of collecting taxes is different from other places, and Li Qingshui will have problems as soon as he intervenes. Therefore, in the past year, whenever it was time to collect taxes, Zhu Yuanzhang would instruct the officials to put Li Qingshui in the air, so that he could not figure out where the taxes were collected at all.

But this year is different, Li Qingshui is no longer a fledgling Leng Touqing, and he doesn't want to be deceived by the officials anymore.

After all, he is a member of the Donglin Party, in his heart, there is the idea that "all the officials in the world are bad people, only I am a good person", in order to prevent the officials from "oppressing the villagers", Li Qingshui decided to do everything by himself. In this way, officials can be prevented from extorting good people by taking advantage of the opportunity of collecting taxes.

It's good that this "Qingtian Lord" doesn't mess around, but this messing, the people who used to live a peaceful and beautiful life suddenly complained, because they didn't have to pay taxes, but as soon as the Qingguan Master intervened, they had to pay taxes.

On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang was training soldiers in the training ground, and his training ground is now divided into two, such a shady thing as heavy infantry. It was relocated to a remote training ground near Huangshanlong, and the training ground near Baishui City was a visible "militia group", and Li Qingshui often came here to inspect.

When he was practicing, he saw the chief manager Li Chujiu running over on a small donkey, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang with a smile: "Brother Zhu, something funny happened, Li Qingshui issued a notice that this year's taxes will be collected by him in person, and the officials will no longer be allowed to collect them." ”

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "He wants to check it himself." Shall all the people not be oppressed by the messengers? ”

"Yes!" Li Chujiu said seriously: "This kid is very dead-eyed, he thinks that if the messenger helps collect taxes, he will take the opportunity to ask the people for food and cards, so he asked all the people of Baishui to go to the county yamen to pay taxes this year, and he sat in the hall and watched the collection, and kept the accounts one by one." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and smiled: "If it were another county, it would indeed be a blessing for the people for him to do this, but in our case, the situation is completely different." The people who shouldn't have paid taxes now have to pay taxes. It's no wonder they're not angry. Li Qingshui, the old man of the blue sky, is like a poor official. ”

"Hahaha!" Li Chujiu and Zhu Yuanzhang both laughed.

The two of them laughed for a while, and then they saw a group of people rushing over, all of whom were familiar faces. They are good people in Baishui, but in the first year of Chongzhen, they once rebelled with Zhu Yuanzhang and went to Huanglong Mountain, and later Zhu Yuanzhang's army came out of the mountain to occupy Baishui County, and they plucked up the courage to follow out, and got a large amount of land, and now life is not bad.

The Li Qingshui tax incident obviously stimulated their nerves. So they came to Zhu Yuanzhang to reason.

"Brother Zhu, you have to take care of this county order, if he continues to do this, we will all have to pay taxes."

"Yes, Zhu Bugling...... You have to deal with him. ”

"Can't let him do anything ...... wrong"

Listen, Li Qingshui is really kind and can't be reciprocated, and he has actually been raised to the level of doing evil.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and shook his head. He said to the people, "I can't do anything about it...... Everyone knows that this guy is the county commander stationed here by the imperial court, and if our identity is revealed, the imperial court will send a large army to suppress it. So I can only watch him mess around, and I can't rule him. ”

"Oops......" the people sighed.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and signaled them not to quarrel, and then asked, "How are you doing now?" ”

"It's okay, the harvest in the field is good, and since the taro was planted, there is still surplus grain at home." The people are honest.

"Then it doesn't hurt to pay some taxes." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "As long as the person who collects taxes is a Qing official, according to the tax of ten taxes and three taxes in our Ming Dynasty, your life should not be affected too much." You might as well think about it a few years ago, when the drought did not come, everyone planted millet, and one acre of land would receive two or three stones, and with the output at that time, even if it was tax-free, you only had two or three hundred catties of rations a year. And now...... You can collect more than 1,000 catties of taro per acre, and even if you pay taxes, you can still have **100 catties of taro left, and you can harvest two seasons a year......"

What Zhu Yuanzhang said, in fact, the people have already calculated it in their hearts, so everyone understands it as soon as he says it.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally summed up seriously: "A little tax is no longer a burden for you. Go pay your taxes! ”

When the people heard this, they had no more opinions, and went home to carry grain and pay taxes.

Li Chujiu flicked it on the account book and said with a smile: "Brother Zhu, I'm afraid there will be a lot of autumn fu this year, and I don't know how many pages I have to write down to finish remembering." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "We have always only collected taxes from the squire, but it is not right to do so. As the army grew in size and better equipped, it was impossible to afford the ever-increasing expenses of relying on the squires of the three counties to pay taxes. Sooner or later, we have to let the people pay taxes together, and this time we will use Li Qingshui as a shield to do this in one go. ”

Li Chujiu nodded and said, "That Huanglong, Chengcheng, and Dali...... These three places? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said with a smile: "Huanglong continues to be tax-free, but Chengcheng and Dali can also be collected, you pass the news to the past, and let the desperate San Lang and Xue Hongqi push out the county order and collect it in their name." ”

"Yes!" Li Chujiu answered, and was about to leave, when he suddenly saw a fast horse running on the post road, and the knight was a scout, he arrived in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, rolled the saddle and fell off the horse, and reported in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, the leader of the generalissimo is back...... It was ten miles to the east. ”

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed: "Very good, hurry up and gather all the leaders to welcome the generalissimo brothers back to the camp." ”

The scout went in a hurry, and after more than an hour, Yang Hong, Wang Er, Miao Mei, Feishan Tiger, Big Red Wolf, and even Xue Hongqi, Li Jieqiong and others rushed over, and everyone sat in the grass next to the road, waiting quietly, and after waiting for a while, a convoy finally appeared on the post road in the east, and it was a big convoy, at least more than fifty carts, and the first was a few knife men riding fast horses who were responsible for opening the road. In the middle is a huge freight team, hundreds of people in the front and back of the team are patrolled and protected by knife hands, Xu Renjie and Xia Erduo are riding high-headed horses, their faces are full of wind and frost, and they appear in everyone's sight with a smile.

"I'm back!" The leaders greeted each other with a smile.

Xue Hongqi looked at Xu Renjie's hippie smiling face, and couldn't help but sigh, but he didn't catch up.

Xu Renjie laughed, he didn't greet Xue Hongqi, he just grimaced at her, and then shouted at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Chief Coach, I'm back!" ”

Hearing him call the head coach, everyone was shocked, it seemed that Xu Renjie's convoy was mixed with outsiders and could not reveal his identity, so he shouted like this to remind the leaders not to say the wrong thing. So everyone laughed and said, "Xu Yuanwai, what good things did the runner bring back this time?" ”

"Hahaha, of course there are good things, are sweet potatoes that are better than taro considered good?" Xu Renjie laughed loudly, glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang, snuggled with his mouth, swept the car behind him out of the corner of his eye, and said in a low voice: "The gunpowder is also back, dozens of cars, hehehe, covered under the sweet potato, several times I was almost found out by the sentry of the officers and soldiers, and I made a lot of silver." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, secretly happy in his heart. With so much gunpowder, you can practice the gunners well.

Xu Renjie suddenly walked to the front of a caravan that could carry people, lifted the curtain, and said loudly: "Let me introduce you to a businessman friend from Spain, his name is ...... Belch...... What's it called? I'll still say his Chinese name, his name is Feng Wuxi. ”

He opened the curtain of the car, and immediately a gringo with a height of nearly six feet, white skin as if it was water, blonde hair, and blue eyes popped out. This gringo followed the example of the Ming Dynasty and clenched his fists, and said in a jerky official dialect: "You are called (good), my name is Feng Wuxi...... I enlightened (taken) for myself, is it good? ”

"Wow!" The leaders were startled by the white-skinned and blue-eyed monster, and retreated a few feet away as if they had seen a ghost.

Xu Renjie laughed: "Haven't you seen a foreigner?" Look at your appearance, you are all scared like monkeys. ”

The foreigner did not find it strange, he had encountered such a scene everywhere he went, and he had long been in a calm situation, and he noticed that there was only one man who was not frightened, and that the man was still looking at him with a smile on his face, and it was evident from the man's momentum and the position in which he stood that he was the leader of the group.

The person noticed by foreigners is Zhu Yuanzhang, he has seen the world for hundreds of years, and he is no stranger to Westerners, not to mention that even if a real ghost stands in front of him, with his experience in his previous life, it is enough to be unmoved. He stretched out a hand, made a Western handshake gesture, and said with a smile: "Hello! ”

The foreigner is a little blind, he has not met anyone who knows how to shake hands in Daming. Habitually stretched out his hand and shook Zhu Yuanzhang: "Oh, you look like a gentleman." ”

Xu Renjie introduced in a timely manner: "This is Mr. Zhu Chong, the head of our Baishui militia group, and he has a bigger deal to talk to you about." ”

Foreigners are overjoyed: "Big deal, I ...... porridge (like)"

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