The two pistols are very small, one is a flower mouth picker sent by Zhang Xueliang, and the other is a gun brand picker borrowed from Chief of Staff Yan, the bullets used are the same, the caliber is seven, six and five, there are clouds among the people, one gun, two horses and three flowers, mainly to smooth the mouth, in fact, the performance and power of these two guns are not comparable, and the workmanship is extremely sophisticated.

The gun was placed on the table, the empty magazine was pulled out and put aside, Chen Zikun said: "From today on, I will teach you to use the gun, starting with the pistol." ”

Jianbing said: "I can use it, no need to learn." ”

Chen Zikun glared: "Who helped you load the bullet, who helped you pull the bolt, the person standing five steps away, can you hit?" ”

Jian Bing pouted and stopped talking.

"Listen to my commands, start by loading bullets, take a gun for each person, and load the bullets into the magazine." Chen Zikun personally taught the two ladies how to use pistols, but women don't like weapons by nature, and it's okay to play casually.

"This gun is too heavy to hold." Yao Yilei also complained that she picked the gun tag, which was actually much lighter than the double-barreled shotgun she often played.

"Too heavy, try this?" Chen Zikun beckoned, Wang Degui took out the box cannon, closed the insurance and threw it over, Chen Zikun copied it and put it in Yao Yilei's hand.

"This one is heavier, and it's not fun at all." Yao Yilei said, still reluctantly picked up the gun and brand.

Under the guidance of Chen Zikun, the two ladies loaded bullets, pulled the bolt, opened and closed the safety, first familiarized themselves with it a few times, and then began to shoot, the target was a large watermelon five meters away, and it was expected that a magazine of bullets was missed, and none of them hit.

"Come again!" Chan said.

The two girls had sad faces, and continued to reload the bullets, and the saliva of the little orderly Chen Qingfeng who was watching from the side was about to flow out, Chen Zikun handed him the barge gun: "Do you want to try it?" ”

Chen Qingfeng took the gun, skillfully opened the safe, squinted his eyes, flattened the gun body, aimed at the watermelon in the distance and pulled the trigger, and the watermelon turned into a red cloud and burst open.

"Boy, okay, who did you learn from?" Chan was delighted.

"I learned from Uncle Wang, but I haven't really shot a gun, and it's the first time today." , Chen Qingfeng said embarrassedly.

"Yes, you can also practice together, but I don't have a gun for you for the time being." Chen Zikun told the truth, he still had 90 rifles left, and there was not a single pistol to spare.

For the personal safety of the two ladies, Chen Zikun poured his money into it, and Yao Yilei, who had experience in using shotguns, gradually entered the port, squinting her eyes, three points and one line, holding her breath, aiming at the target and slowly pulling the trigger, pressing to the second fire, decisively firing, the bullet whistled out, hit the big watermelon, and it was red all over the ground.

"Yikes! Hit. Yao Yilei jumped and jumped excitedly.

At the same time, the county magistrate Liu with four soldiers was digging pits in the yard sweating like rain, to be exact, digging treasures, but digging pits one after another, turning over the land, there was still no trace of treasure.

According to Liu Youjin, that is, Zeng Jiao, his father is good at collecting money, and he has been the magistrate of Nantai for ten years, and he has to earn at least 300,000 taels of silver, but there are no traces of the well-documented fields and houses equivalent to 200,000 taels of silver, and there are still 100,000 taels.

Nowadays, rich people, with spare money, always deposit in foreign banks in Tianjin and Shanghai, which is safe and can eat interest, but it was not so convenient in those days, and the old-fashioned practice is to dig cellars at home and hide the gold and silver cellars, and the bandits cannot find them, and the revolutionary army cannot find them, even if the houses are burned to the ground, it does not matter, as long as people are in the mountains, they can make a comeback.

But even the floor tiles in each room were turned over to see, there was still no trace of the treasure, and after practicing marksmanship, Chen Zikun and Liu Youjin sat together to discuss the whereabouts of the treasure.

"Could it be that you are mistaken, that you don't have so much treasure at all?" Chan asked.

Liu Youjin shook his head resolutely: "No, I have consulted a lot of files, Nantai County used to be a rich county, and my father left more than that." ”

"Could it be that Xia Dalong took it?"

"Impossible, so much gold and silver have been unearthed, the news will definitely leak, besides, I have investigated Xia Dalong's expenses in the past ten years, and it doesn't look like he has made a windfall."

Chen Zikun was worried, he now has one hundred and fifty borrowed soldiers in his hands, as well as seven or eight maids and servants, and eating alone every month is a large expense.

"Without money, we can't fight Xia Dalong." He sighed, and suddenly said, "I recently made a tour outside the city, and found a lot of neat wheat fields, why is there no one collecting the field tax?" ”

Liu Youjin said: "That's Xia Dalong's land, half of the watered land in Nantai County belongs to his family, who dares to collect his field endowment?" In fact, most of the abandoned land in the county is hillside land and saline-alkali land, who is willing to give up the really good land, the current situation is that the poor have no land to plant, and the big households do not pay grain, so I said that the county's taxes are only two pieces of city gate tax and poll tax. ”

Chen Zikunqi said: "The city gate tax is a tax, and the goods that enter the door must be taxed, I know this, but this poll tax, Beijing and Shanghai don't seem to have it." ”

Liu Youjin said: "No, that's right, the Republic of China has no poll tax at all, this is the public security donation set by the last county magistrate, the county's population, regardless of men, women and children, according to the head of each person, so it is called the poll tax, this money is used to suppress bandits, but after so many years, there are more and more bandits." ”

Chen Zikun thought thoughtfully: "The field endowment is a fictitious thing, the tax is levied arbitrarily, the poll tax is scraped three feet to the ground, are there any other tax items?" ”

"Yes, why not, there are also prints, furnaces, tooth shops, pawnshops, deed paper, wine tax, cattle tax, business donations, paper donations, plaster donations, liquor donations, cigarette donations, tobacco and alcohol donations, slaughter tax, vegetable cattle donations, etc., but Nantai is too poor, these tax items are not much different from not, the largest one, or the poll tax."

Chen Zikun said: "The villagers are displaced, and all the security corps can control is the county seat, even if it is expropriated, how much money can it have." ”

Liu Youjin smiled bitterly: "That is the case, I can't stand the way of others, this public security donation has been received in the Republic of China for 36 years, do you say this money can be less." ”

"Are there many rich people in Nantai County?" Chan suddenly asked a new question.

"Although bandits have been raging in recent years, many fields have been abandoned, but they can't stand the thick foundation, the rich people in Nantai County are concentrated in the county seat, but in terms of quantity, there are still many poor people, what, are you going to start with them?" Liu Youjin was a little surprised.

Chan nodded.

"Be cautious, offending the local gentry is worse than offending Xia Dalong, you can't move an inch." Liu Youjin hurriedly dissuaded.

Chen Zikun said with a smile: "Who said that I want to eat a big family, I want to be tax-free, this public security donation poisons the people the most, so I will use it." ”

"What did you say?" Liu Youjin's face was incredulous.

"I said, I'm going to cancel the security donation." Chan is very serious, not like a joke.

……

At noon on the same day, the four city gates of Nantai and the gate of the county government have posted notices, announcing the revocation of the public security donation in the name of the escort envoy, and the county seat is boiling all of a sudden, and the new Lord Chen is not screaming, and the praise of the escort envoy in Nantai is endless.

"Lord Qingtian." Some county residents knelt down in front of the proclamation and wept at that time, the public security donation is nothing to the rich households, but for these small people, it is an extremely heavy shackle, which makes them breathless, and suddenly heard that the public security donation has been canceled, it is like a feeling of rain for several months, and suddenly it will be sunny.

"Chen Dashuai is a person who does great things!" The squires all said this, they didn't care about this little money, what they cared about was that the protector made Lord Chen finally go to war with Xia Dalong.

The public security donation is the money that Xia Dalong took to support the security group, cutting off this source, the security group will not be able to maintain, Xia Dalong has been the emperor in Nantai County for more than ten years, can he bear this breath?

For a time, the streets and alleys of Nantai County are talking about this earth-shattering event, tax reduction and exemption, usually only the change of dynasty or disaster year can be encountered, the army envoy first arrived to release such an earth-shattering move, really won a lot of people's hearts.

However, the gentry still held a wait-and-see attitude, and the gentlemen carrying caged birds in the teahouse would ask each other when they met: "Brother Nian, what do you think about this?" ”

"In my opinion, a strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake."

"I think too, ginger is still old and spicy."

"Hehe, what you see is slightly the same, slightly the same."

……

In the Xia family's mansion, Xia Dalong couldn't help but sneer when he heard the report of Head Qiu: "Tax exemption, he can't figure it out, cancel the public security donation, who will support the security group?" Who will kill the bandits? ”

Qiu Fuzhao said: "Master, the surname Chen said, cancel the public security donation, he has his own way to pay the brothers, in the future, each person will have five oceans per month, and there will be double pay during the New Year's holidays, I think he is a fart!" ”

Master Xia sneered and said, "The surname Chen wants to invite people to buy people's hearts, okay, then I'll give you a chance, have a good show, come here." ”

Qiu Fuzhao came up: "Master, what do you command?" ”

Xia Dalong took off the jade pendant on his belt and said, "Take this thing and find someone......"

When he went out, Qiu Fuzhao saw Xia Jingxi kicking the shuttlecock in the shade of the tree, so he stopped to look at it for a while, and Miss Xia noticed that he was peeking and simply stopped kicking.

"Girl, you played so well." Qiu Fuzhao said with a shy face.

"Really?" Xia Jingxi smiled, Qiu Fuzhao suddenly felt that his soul had flown away, and his bones were not heavy, and when he woke up, he would have left.

……

Just when Chen Zikun was about to show his strength, a sudden, but expected, news extinguished all his enthusiasm.

Xu Haizhen's envoy Chen Tiaoyuan sent people to urge the company to return to the establishment as soon as possible.

This one hundred and fifty people, but Chen Tiaoyuan's guard pistol company, from the quality to the equipment is absolutely first-class, originally only responsible for escorting the Jiangbei escort envoy to take office, but was left by Chen Zikun, he couldn't wait, and he couldn't wait, Xuzhou was in a hurry, Nantai didn't have a telegram, and there was no post office, Chen Tiaoyuan simply sent an adjutant with his own handwritten letter to ask the reason, and by the way, he brought the soldiers back.

This made Chen Zikun very embarrassed, people are so righteous, but what he has done is not authentic, what is most important in these years, not gold and silver opium, nor guns and cannons, but loyal and well-trained brothers, this company of people, even if they need it again, they have to pay it back.

Chen Zikun wrote a letter explaining the situation, and paid the soldiers a month's salary before letting them go back to Xuzhou.

At dawn on this day, a company of soldiers and horses drove out of the county government compound, quietly left the north of Nantai County, the whole county is still asleep, except for a few wild dogs traveling at night, no one knows that the Jiangbei Guardian has become a real commander of the light pole.