"Shark fin is stewed with goldenrod and shredded meat, and the color, relieves depression and is beneficial to people......"

The shark fin banquet in front of him is the best cook in the south of the Yangtze River, full of color, flavor and flavor, although the food of the Yizhou soldiers is good, but most of them have never seen shark fin, listening to the words of the grandfather of the country, he immediately threw off his cheeks, but he stuffed it into his mouth. After a while, the table was full of dishes and plates, and even the soup was gone.

Zhang Ke couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "The unpromising thing made Mao Zhongcheng smile." ”

"How dare you!" Mao Yilu hurriedly waved his hand, he really wanted to be like these soldiers, eating a heartless meal, even if he died, he was a full ghost, it was better to be alive and suffering!

"Grandpa Guo, let's talk from the bottom of my heart, the matter of taxation is too involved, don't be reckless! Take Suzhou as an example, hundreds of thousands of people, every day firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, a little indispensable, behind these shops are all Jiangnan clans, if they close the shops, - excellent - small - say - more - new - the fastest - WWW.UUXS.CC - the people have no food and clothing, hundreds of thousands of people will make trouble, and the consequences can be much more violent than last time. Jiangnan is an important place for the imperial court, and millions of stone of grain are transported every year, if the transportation is stopped, millions of officials and people in the capital, as well as the palace, the consequences are unimaginable! ”

Mao Yilu said that his legs were weak and he knelt on the ground.

"Grandpa Guo, you said that it doesn't matter if you are incompetent, whether you have no bones, and you can't levie taxes casually, I beg you!"

Mao Yilu's head hit the flower brick, leaving a dark red mark.

Shen Qingyan saw it in his eyes, and his little face sank suddenly, and he said to Zhang Ke: "Grandpa Guo, Lord Mao has a heart for the people, didn't he say that he listened to people's advice to eat enough!" The slave family thinks that you will listen to Lord Mao, and if you kowtow again, you are afraid that your head will be broken! ”

Zhang Ke sighed and stretched out his hand to pull Mao Yilu up.

"Mao Zhongcheng, it stands to reason that I, Zhang Ke, am not an eventful person, but I can't stare at the southeast in my eyes as an official. The Ming Dynasty has internal and external troubles, if it can't make up for the deficiency. I'm afraid that sooner or later the world will be in chaos. At that time, the southeast will have everything, that is, there will be no force to protect them, and the north will have nothing but swords and guns to rob! What will happen, it goes without saying. ”

Zhang Ke grabbed the wine glass as he spoke, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and said with a wry smile: "Benjue wants to invite the big clans in the southeast to come over and discuss it and come up with the best of both worlds." Who knows that people look down on Benjue. It's okay, if they don't come, then do it my way! ”

Mao Yilu scolded crazy in his heart, and said that beating people is not a slap in the face, these guys in the southeast are too arrogant, what kind of character is Zhang Ke, he has killed the old chief, and he doesn't even care about the king of a country, do you still care about you!

"Grandpa Guo. If you don't humble your position, go and talk to them again, this time let them feast on the grandfather of the country, it can be regarded as making amends......"

"Not necessarily!" Zhang Ke waved his hand decisively and sneered: "Mao Zhongcheng." Benjue knows how to measure, you just have to cooperate! ”

Zhang Ke strode up to the soldiers and said sharply, "Brothers, have you eaten and drunk enough?" Copy guys. Taxe me! ”

……

Taicang Prefecture belongs to Suzhou Prefecture, close to the Yangtze River, and has a developed textile industry. The literary style is prosperous, although it is not a place like the paradise of Suzhou and Hangzhou, it is also a rare rich place. Since the pacification of the Japanese invaders, there has been almost no war here.

But just a few days ago, suddenly everyone got the news that the imperial court had sent a tax inspector to collect commercial taxes.

And some people take the trouble to say that the people who levy taxes are Jinyiwei and even people from Dongchang, who are simply blue-faced fangs, a group of evil ghosts who eat people and don't spit out bones.

The common people were already terrified of Jinyiwei, and when they heard that hundreds of people had been killed outside Suzhou, they were even more terrified. Ordinary citizens searched their homes, went to the store to buy food and supplies, hoarded them at home, and when the tax collector came, they would not come out.

If you really find out your home, you can only resign yourself to fate!

As for the shops, most of them closed their doors and no longer operated, for fear that bad luck would befall them.

It's a cold winter outside, and the hearts of the people are colder than the sky!

A middle-aged woman hurried down the street at a trot to the front of a grocery store. When she looked up, she was suddenly frightened and changed color.

"Dead old man, you don't want to die!" The woman leaped behind the man and grabbed his arm.

"The master, I didn't see it, all the shops on the street are closed, you remember to open the door, and you are not afraid that the people from the court will find you?"

The man frowned, flicked his sleeves, and sneered: "If you find it, you will find it, I will bear any crime!" The old woman, the son has been sick for seven days, buying medicine to see a doctor, spending money is like running water, if we don't open the door again, the family will have to fight the northwest wind! ”

The woman did not retreat at all, and sneered: "Drink it, you can't find death anyway!" I don't have any money for medical treatment, I sold all my dowry, be in charge, listen to me, and survive these few days! ”

The man was so touched by the words that he sighed and was about to go inside.

"Slow! You're the owner of this shop, aren't you? ”

The two of them seemed to have been immobilized, and when they looked back, they saw more than a dozen people coming, some wearing soapy clothes, some wearing strange grass-green clothes, holding fire guns in their hands, and bayonets on them!

Although I don't know the woolen military uniform, both of them know that someone from the government is here!

"That's the end of it!"

The woman fell limply.

"Oh, old woman, wake up!"

Sun Jiawen touched his nose and sniffled embarrassedly: Lao Tzu sees people love him, and flowers bloom, as for being scared like this?

"Shopkeeper, is your lady alright?"

"No, no!"

"That's good!" Sun Jiawen smiled and said, "You won't let me go in and have a look!" ”

"Ahh

The shopkeeper was so frightened that he hurriedly got up, and said in a panic: "Little ignorance, neglect the official, forgive the sins!" ”

The two of them trembled and asked Sun Jiawen to go in, and Sun Jiawen took the two of them to the shop. There are only three doors in the grocery store, with pots and pans, firewood, rice, oil and salt, as well as preserved fruits, needles and threads.

Sun Jiawen looked at the two people behind him, muttered a few words, and smiled in front of the shopkeeper.

"We have estimated that we can buy three hundred taels of silver a year, right? The tax is levied at 5 percent, and a tax of 15 taels of silver is to be paid. ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, it was his turn to spin around and fall to the ground.

His daughter-in-law didn't care about being in charge, so she knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.

"The military master is gracious, the military master will leave a way to live! The small shop is operated with a small profit, and there are not a few taels of silver left all year round, but the child is sick in bed, and he really can't take out a tael of silver. ”

"That's not going to happen!" Sun Jiawen said with a smile: "There are two things in life that cannot be escaped, one is death, and the other is paying taxes!" Take it, it's a tax bill! ”

The shopkeeper woke up slowly, took the tax bill, and trembled as if he had got a landmine.

"Master Jun, the small one can't take out the silver, you see what's good in the shop, you can take it!"

The two hugged their heads and cried, Sun Jiawen looked at these things, and smiled bitterly in his heart: "What do I want these things for!" ”

"You get up first, there is one more thing for you, this is Xu Kun, the official of the Zhizhou Mansion, the secretary office, the head of the team, and the cadres of the lieutenant chief and others, adding up to almost seventy!"

Sun Jiawen couldn't help but sigh: "It's not easy to make money, the big heads have been given to these moths, can you not be poor!" From now on, you only have to pay your taxes, and the rest of the deductions are gone! (To be continued......) R1292