In pre-modern times, tax collectors were the embodiment of brutality and the destruction of families. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoNo one can afford not to pay taxes, and those who don't pay taxes will be robbed of everything they have to offset their taxes. And the vast majority of tax collectors are brutal, because they have the power to collect taxes, so almost all of them are in their own pockets.

These tax collectors were very wealthy, and some were even able to rely on taxes to get rich.

Like this Fred. He pocketed his own pockets when collecting taxes, and sometimes even charged the townspeople several times more than the established tax rate. Especially after the outbreak of war, in order to maintain the huge cost of the war, the United States government. The government began to increase the war tax on a large scale, and because everything was important during the war, all the tax collectors were good tax collectors as long as they could collect the money.

In this case, Fred, who colluded with the mayor and the chief of police, almost scraped the entire town. Many townspeople have lost their families and even paid for it because of his harvest. The townsfolk are definitely the real enemies of life and death.

Several members of the Fred family were eventually forced out of their homes by Cheng Kui and them. This house was built by him with the wealth he had collected privately, but after living for a few years, it was robbed by the Ming army. At this time, the tax collector could not go to his relative, who was the deputy mayor of New Orleans, for help.

The police chief, who had been in cahoots with Fred in the past, had already fled and was nowhere to be seen. The mayor was called before New Orleans was captured and never returned. In the past, Fred was the only one who caused the town to be angry and dared not speak out.

One can imagine what kind of treatment Fred will be treated when he loses ground after the arrival of the Ming army. It's not that he doesn't want to run, it's that he simply doesn't have a place to go. In this era of information blockage, it seems that there are wars everywhere. Fred had no idea where he was going to run and get out. After all, he was going to take a large family with him, as well as the savings he had collected over the years.

Whether it is family or savings, once you meet the Ming army or people with bad intentions on the road, it will be all over. In this era when the police are the spokesmen of the underground, no one will help him.

Early the next morning, after the routine assembly roll call and early training. Cheng Kui left a few soldiers to guard his camp, and then led the others out of town. They were going to the pastures outside the town to go horseback riding. At the same time, it is also necessary to check what the environment is like here, and whether it is worthy of its general function here.

According to the order issued by the Supreme Command of the Ming Dynasty, everything in all occupied areas belongs to the Ming Dynasty. This is true of land, houses, or other types of wealth. The only way for private individuals to have it is for the soldiers to exchange it for military merit. Anything that wants to make a fortune from this war will not succeed. Because what is exchanged for military merit can only be inherited by immediate family members, and cannot be bought or sold. If there is no one to inherit it, it will be nationalized.

Zhang Cheng's sole purpose in doing this was to limit large-scale land annexation.

Cheng Kui's group of seven or eight people soon drove their own truck to the ranch outside the town. When I got here, I realized that I was still late. In other classes, there are already many robes who are surveying the environment in various pastures and fields further afield.

The people of the Ming Dynasty love the land. When they learned that they were going to get a large piece of land in the occupied area, all the officers and soldiers were excited. Even the recruits who have just joined the army can get at least 300 acres of land, while the veterans are basically calculated from 1,000 acres, especially the veterans who have been injured and made meritorious contributions.

Cheng Kui is the kind of veteran who is injured and makes meritorious contributions. The medal he wore on his chest was the best proof of that. Cheng Kui had already made calculations, and according to the conversion notice issued by the army, Cheng Kui calculated that his military merits could be exchanged for about 2,500 acres of farmland or 3,300 acres of pasture. That's a lot of money. If thousands of acres of land were placed in the local area, especially in the eastern region, it would definitely be a great local family.

The young soldiers under his command all ran to ride their horses excitedly. Cheng Kui drove his own truck around the vast fields to conduct field trips. This is perhaps the biggest investment in his life, and he has to be cautious and cautious in everything.

As for the angry anger and almost murderous gaze of the locals and the original owners, the Ming officers and soldiers did not care in the slightest. They're an occupying army, and it's only natural to take these things.

"It's nice here." drove the truck to the side of the creek, and Cheng Kui, who turned off the engine and got out of the car, came to the side of the creek and picked up the cold stream water and washed his face, feeling much better. Looking at the crystal clear river, Cheng Kui was very satisfied with it.

The land is vast and sparsely populated, the climate is mild, and the land is fertile. Definitely a rare place. Now all that left him was to get a field or a pasture, or both? And he didn't just need the land, he needed to get a house in the town. But these are things that need military merit in exchange. At this moment, Cheng Kui, who was in the distress of happiness, couldn't wait to set foot on the front line again to fight and earn military merits.

Taking off his shoes and walking in the stream for a while, watching the young soldiers in the distance howl happily and galloping wildly, Cheng Kui shook his head with a smile, "A group of stupid people, you will know that it hurts when you fall down." ”

"Who?" Just as Cheng Kui returned to the shore to put on his shoes and light a cigarette and start thinking, a rustling sound came into his ears. Cheng Kui, who suddenly pulled out his gun, crawled on the ground and asked loudly.

After a few moments, Cheng Kui got up and walked towards a bush not far away. He smelled blood.

It wasn't until the cautious Cheng Kui cleared the bushes that he found that the tax collector Fred, who had been kicked out of his house by them last night, was lying in a large pile of hay covered with blood. And there was a blonde girl sitting on her knees, crying and wiping her tears. This is also an acquaintance, the girl who was scared to pee yesterday.

"What are you doing here?" After observing the surroundings and finding no danger, Cheng Kui walked forward slowly.

"Ahh The startled blonde girl was immediately frightened to the point of softening on the haystack when she saw Cheng Kui, her lips trembled, and she looked at Cheng Kui with a pale face. Yesterday's encounter made this originally pampered girl really feel what it was like to be afraid.

"Help~~~" Fred, who had already fallen into a dying state, saw Cheng Kui's eyes flashing with a flash of survival, trembling and reaching out to Cheng Kui for help.

Cheng Kui, who was frowning, squatted down and examined the wound on Fred's body, and after a moment, he shook his head and sighed and said, "No way, you are too badly injured." What happened? The latter sentence was asked by the blonde girl on the side.

"We were kicked out and ready to leave the town." The frightened girl seemed to sense that Cheng Kui had no malicious intentions, and stammered in a trembling voice, "But we were attacked last night." It's all the townspeople of the town. They said that my father had ruined their family, and they wanted revenge. ”

The story is not complicated. Fred, who originally had the support of the mayor and the police chief, lost everything he owned after the Ming army came, and was kicked out of his home and became a lost dog. Under these circumstances, many of the townspeople who had been ruined by his taxes in the past immediately began to take revenge on them.

After a night of hunting and fleeing. Almost all of Fred's family was dead, and only his mortally wounded self and youngest daughter, Alyssa, fled here. It's a pity that despite Fred's best efforts, he still can't survive.

After hearing Cheng Kui's words, the desire to survive in Fred's eyes instantly dimmed. He knew his own affairs, and Fred knew that he was indeed hopeless.

"Sir." After a while, Fred regained his strength, sat up with some difficulty, sat up with some difficulty, looked at Cheng Kui with a big gasp, and said, "I'm going to die, but my daughter can't fall into the hands of those mobs." I beg the Governor to take my daughter in as a concubine for you, and you will protect her. Please. ”

It was obviously the Ming army that caused him to lose everything, but at this moment he had to beg the Ming army for help. This is the sorrow of the defeated country, this is the sorrow of the weak.

"Daddy!" The young blonde girl looked at her father in disbelief. In her dream, her husband would be a handsome, tall, learned and gentle man. But looking at the man in front of him who was slightly thin, with a hideous scar on his face, who couldn't be seen at all handsome in his military uniform, and even had two missing fingers, Alyssa said that she couldn't put him and her husband in the same position.

And, the most important thing is that just now her father actually said that he wanted her to be a concubine!

There are many Chinese Americans in the United States, and there are Chinese among her classmates. She knew very well what the so-called concubine meant! To put it simply, a maid, a maid who can be pulled into bed at any time!

She is the youngest daughter of the dignified Anderson family, a princess who was famous for her beauty when she was a school student in New Orleans and was chased by countless young handsome people. You actually want to be an old man's concubine?!

"Dad, I'm not doing it!" (To be continued.) )