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On the road outside the city wall of the capital division, a shout suddenly broke out, and the pedestrians on the road looked sideways, and only when they saw that it was a young man dressed as a military attaché, they withdrew their eyes one after another. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"You're so shocked, don't scare people!"

A stocky man riding alongside the boy laughed and cursed, followed by a dozen carts, all covered with tarpaulins and firmly tied with ropes, so that it was impossible to see what was on them

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If you have the eye, you can see that the wheels are pressed to the ground, the ruts are quite deep, each chariot is a double horse, and there are many foot soldiers among the soldiers who escort the cart, but there are still many horses that do not carry anything, so they follow the carriage.

I'm afraid that it is gold and silver that is pulling, but seeing the more than 200 soldiers escorted, as well as the strong appearance, no one dares to fight this idea in this big New Year.

This is naturally Li Hutou and Sun Dahai and their party, they set off from Tianjin Wei and walked quickly along the road. On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, he still rushed to Jingshi.

The team that sent gold and silver could use the post stations along the way, and the post station knew that this was something sent to the palace, and all kinds of supplies were prepared with special care. In addition, the road surface is hard in winter, and although the things pulled by the cart are heavy, you don't have to worry about getting stuck in the mud, and you can walk smoothly. In a hurry, it was almost as soon as Wang Tong ordered, and several officers who were familiar with the process were not brought out, but the soldiers below were all familiar with it, and it was convenient everywhere along the way.

But when you enter the city, you make a joke, the direction of Tianjin Wei is going towards Jingshi, and it is most convenient to enter the city at Dongzhi Gate, but what else. The rule is that all trucks go to Chongwen Gate in the south.

Li Hutou was full of excitement, Sun Dahai's family members were all in Tianjin, but they were also quite excited to see the familiar Jingshi, and the two of them were in a good mood, so naturally they didn't care about the guards of the soldiers and horses at the city gate, and they just took a few more steps.

There are two days for the New Year, and the Chongwenmen people who take the goods come and go, and the merchants take advantage of the closing time to bring more goods into the city to sell.

The tax collectors in charge of tax collection in Chongwenmen Tax Customs are busy, and the Guizhou Department of the Household Department is in charge of Chongwenmen Tax Customs. The chief was also sent to keep an eye on it.

Every day, silver flows in like water. Whoever catches a handful of it is wealth. Therefore, in the past, the shift of seven days was changed to one round a day, and some related characters in the household department came to be tax collectors, make a fortune, and have a fat year.

Sun Dahai: They came here and lined up next to each other. also arrived at the city gate, and the tax collector at the gate saw the military uniforms on Sun Dahai and Li Hutou from a distance, and they were full of reluctance.

On a team with such tolerances, what taxes can be received, and there is no cheap money, and when I look closer, I see that these military recommended grades are not too high.

The young man was wearing a general flag uniform, and the man was wearing a hundred households, although it was the dress of a brocade guard, but it belonged to the most ordinary kind of brocade guard, and the soldiers who guarded it were in good spirits, but they were wearing coarse cloth robes.

Jin Yiwei does not do a thousand households, or go to the East Factory to mix a blue robe, in the Beijing division of this acre of three points of land is nothing, over this Chongwen Gate also play money.

"What's on the car?"

When they arrived at the city gate, a tax collector came over and asked with a big grin, Sun Dahai and Li Hutou were of higher grade than this tax collector, so they didn't get off the horse, seeing that these two people didn't get off the horse, the tax collector who came to ask was a little annoyed.

"Something sent to the palace."

The transportation of gold and silver, because the value is too valuable, will never say that this is gold and silver during the transportation, and even the escort soldiers do not know, and it is only clear when they arrive at the destination to hand over and unload, Li Hutou's answer is also decent.

Hearing that it was something sent to the palace, the tax collector couldn't help but be surprised, raised his head and squinted his eyes, that Li Hutou was just a child, and Sun Dahai looked very rustic, how could such a local child send something to the palace, and continued to ask:

"Do you have any paperwork?"

If you want to change someone else, you will already be slapped in the face, and you can ask about sending things to the palace, but Wang Tong's subordinates do things according to the rules, and since the other party acts according to the rules, then they will not violate it.

However, the matter of increasing the amount of gold and silver was very noisy at the court meeting at that time, and the cabinet and the household department have always refused to recognize it, and there is no vote, so naturally there is no effective will.

And this matter is in addition to the insistence of Emperor Wanli. The attitude of the other people in the palace was reserved, and they didn't even make a central decree.

Wang Tongjie sent so much silver into the palace. At most, it's just a receipt from the eunuch who collects it. If you want to say anything, there is really none.

But then again, where the guards will escort the goods, the tax card shall not be inspected and intercepted, which is also the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Hutou and Sun Dahai looked at each other on the horse. Turning back to ask, the soldiers who followed also shook their heads and said no, these situations fell into the eyes of the tax collector who asked Sun Dahai turned his head and said in a deep voice

"Although there are no documents, these goods are escorted by thousands of households, and the tax card is not allowed to be inspected according to the rules. still

Seeing this, the tax collector thought he understood, sneered at the moment, and said:

"Two, how many goods come in and out of this Chongwenmen all year round, if everyone says that they will send things to the palace, they will send soldiers to escort them, and the household department will not collect this tax, our eyes are very bright. If you can't fool it, you will also eat official food. It's convenient to sell, let us inspect the goods, pay taxes and fees in accordance with the rules, and never ask for more. ”

Qianhu, hearing this official position, the tax collector sneered even more in his heart, Wengui and Wuyi, you are a military attache from other places, and you are so open-minded to escort goods into Beijing, do you think this hole is so easy to drill?

A dozen big cars, you can collect a lot of taxes. At that time, there will be a lot of profit in the upper part of the household department, even if the thousand households want to fight a lawsuit, will he dare to do it against the household department? The military pay is choked by the neck and makes them cry to death.

Thinking of this, the tax collector was even more courageous, and turned around to beckon a few helpers, and went up to untie the rope to inspect the goods.

This so-called never too much, that is, on the tax rate of the Ming law, plus three points of benefit, is regarded as the rule of Chongwenmen, everyone knows it,

From top to bottom, there are only fifteen people in total, and no one can be busy, so there are ten to twenty helpers under each person, all of whom are natives of the capital division, and most of them are cunning and vicious.

These helpers know everything very well about Jingshi. Naturally, he would not put these rustic brocade guards in front of him in his eyes, but felt that people came and went at the city gate to check the goods of the brocade guards, how majestic.

The soldiers who were about to go up to Qianjiang to guard the cart had already pointed their spears, looking at the murderous appearance of the other party, the tax collectors were all frightened, turned their heads and ran back.

"Two, there are so many people waiting in the back, don't break the rules,"

Halfway through the words, he stopped abruptly, his mouth opened but did not close, the cold and shining spear tip was in front of his eyes, the distance was only three inches, I don't know when Li Hutou took off the spear and led the horse forward. With one hand, the spear was raised flat and stabbed in front of him.

"Bastard thing, the things in this car are also something you can inspect, believe it or not, the master stabbed you to death with a shot!!"

There was a burst of exclamations around, and the tax collector's face was even more pale, and his whole body trembled like chaff, Sun Dahai looked left and right, frowned and said:

"Tiger head, this is Jingshi, don't mess around."

Li Hutou withdrew his spear angrily. Seeing the blade disappear from front of his eyes, the tax collector reacted for a long time, trembling and taking two steps back. I stumbled under my feet and sat directly on the ground.

There were more and more people watching the excitement before and after, seeing the embarrassed appearance of this tax collector, and then thinking about the arrogance of this person who was making difficulties everywhere with his nostrils facing the sky, they were all crying out for joy, and some people couldn't bear it. Laugh out loud.

One laughed, and the others followed. For a while, the audience was full of laughter, and the front of Chongwen seemed to be very lively.

The tax collector struggled to get up on the ground, listening to the laughter around him, his face couldn't hold back, he gritted his teeth and looked at Li Hutou who was looking down on the horse, took a few steps back, and scolded viciously:

"This is the capital, this is the foot of the Son of Heaven. You are so unruly, you have no royal law, should there really be nothing to clean you up, it's a big trouble. You're going to lose your heads one by one."

Seeing that Li Hutou rode his horse with a cold face and was about to step forward again, the tax collector turned his head and ran towards the city gate, and everyone laughed again.

The scene was really laughable, Sun Dahai shook his head on the horse and turned around to say hello. The whole team is moving forward again.

Who would have thought that the big car here would move, but the crowd in front of it was running around, and then look. But it was the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division who quickly ran out from everywhere to line up, and there were also groups of people running on the city wall.

There are garrisons at all the gates of Jingying and Jingwei, and the police can be dispatched if there is a police, but Li Hutou and Sun Dahai never expected that because of a dispute over tax collection, they actually mobilized the garrison soldiers.

Passers-by scattered in all directions, and the soldiers escorting the cart also picked up their weapons, and the two sides confronted each other like this, and a middle-aged man wearing a six-grade civil official robe walked out with a cold face, pointing at Li Hutou and his cadres and shouting:

"You waited at the feet of the Son of Heaven to coerce the court officials and refused to be prosecuted, did you want to rebel, and you didn't drop your weapons and confess your guilt!!"

The soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division who came out to line up have been stationed here all the year round, and some people saw that something was wrong, and whispered to the generals around them:

"Boss, isn't that the convoy of Tianjin Weilai to deliver silver to the palace?"

Hearing this, the eyes of the leader of the Terracotta Division suddenly widened. Before he could speak, he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and a group of knights hurried towards him.

The people on the horse were all wearing black robes, and it was strange to see the excitement, when did the people of Jingshi react so quickly

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