"Master, the front is Yanggu County. Into the city? ”

Wu Ciyou asked Li Yu softly.

"Come in, why don't you go in?"

Li Yu replied.

After checking their identities at the city gate, Li Yu and his entourage swaggered into Yanggu County. The city is a small city, the walls are only a few miles long, the streets are only a few meters wide, the population is not very large, at least the pedestrians on the streets look sparse. And I don't know if it's a psychological reason, these people all look dull, their eyes are chaotic, their spirits are numb, and they look like sentient beings who need to be saved urgently, and everyone is embarrassed. Duan Wenchang later recalled:

"From Xiangzhou to Yunzhou, hundreds of miles in between, everyone who saw it was like this. Fang knows that Zhu Fang is not the only (Fang Town) remnant of the people, and the heart of the remnants of the people can really be described as a thief and a country. ”

In such an environment, Li Yu and they were not in the mood to go out and walk around. The market is depressed and cold, and there is no beautiful scenery in winter, so I didn't stay for a moment in Yanggu, and hurried out of the south gate, but what I didn't expect was that I was stopped by tolerance as soon as I arrived at the south gate. Wu Ciyou was nervous in their hearts, and their faces were not good, so the leader gave Wu Ciyou a whip and said:

"Look at what, tax!"

Wu Ciyou's heart calmed down and asked:

"What taxes? Have you ever been on it from time to time when you just entered the city? ”

He looked at Wu Ciyou and them with disdain, and said:

"Hillbilly, know what? When you enter the city, you pay the city tax, and when you go out of the city, you pay the city tax, the same is the same, and the tax is paid quickly. ”

Wu Ciyou had no choice but to reluctantly hand over the "tax", out of the city gate, I heard an old woman begging for exemption and exemption, it turned out that there was no rice at home, so she had to hold her own egg-laying hen into the city to sell, because you have to pay taxes twice in and out of the city, where is the old woman willing to go, so she has to hold the hen and stand at the gate of the city to sell. I thought I could dodge it, but I just sold the chicken, and the tax collector called me to collect the "land tax" and "selling tax", but the old woman refused, and wanted to run, but where did she run over the tolerance, so the money that was sold so hard was snatched away by the tolerance, and the old woman cried and threw herself on the ground, holding the tolerance leg to beg, but was kicked away by the tolerance. Tolerance Road:

"Crazy woman, you dare to resist Li Dashuai's tax. If it weren't for your old age, I would have locked you in prison and sold you as an official prostitute. I don't know how to thank you for your great kindness, so get out of here. ”

Another tolerance said:

"You old woman, do you know that it's not that we don't pity you, but if we pity you and can't collect taxes to eat in the yamen, who will pity us?"

After all, he still took the old woman's life-saving money and walked away. Li Chen's heart was sad, Wu Ciyou also clenched his hands, and asked Li Yu if he wanted to go up and teach these tolerances. Li Yu muttered:

"Forget it, the root is not in these tolerances. After beating away these tolerances to get back the money, he could only help one, but he couldn't help all the people of Ziqing. ”

Wu Ciyou knew that Li Yu was reasonable, but he was angry in his heart, looked at Duan Wenchang, and hoped that Duan Wenchang would help talk about it, but Duan Wenchang didn't look around, stretched out his hand and handed over a bunch of money, and said:

"Go and give it to the old woman. Don't forget, Hugh will lose a big deal because of the small. ”

Wu Ciyou came to his senses. He went and picked up the old woman, handed her the money, and said:

"Old man, that money is very expensive. Arise and use the money to buy food. Remember to stay away from the city gate in the future, so that you can run in time. ”

The old woman sobbed and turned over and was about to kneel, but was pulled by Wu Ciyou and said:

"Hurry up, or the public will see it, and they will collect your taxes again."

The old woman went with a thousand thanks. Wu Ciyou also returned to Li Yu's side, but on the way, he heard a tolerance just now:

"Little brother, if you take the money like this, I'm afraid that you won't be able to get to Qinghe County, and your money will be gone. It is certainly a good deed for you to do this, but can you help one, can you help hundreds of people in this world? ”

Wu Ciyou stood still, this question made this young man in his twenties very dazed, and even Li Yu wanted to hear with great interest how Wu Ciyou answered this question. After a moment of silence, Wu Ciyou replied:

"Accumulate a lot, gather sand into a tower. If everyone in the world can help each other, there will be a day when the sun and the moon will be clear. ”

After that, he left the tolerance who asked the question behind him and protected Li Yu.

When Li Yu and his entourage arrived in Pingyin, a message was also delivered to Yunzhou with a fast horse:

A civil uprising occurred in Yanggu County. Organized and published in àp.. cn

The leader is a tolerance in the yamen, named Su Qi, in order to deal with the imperial court requisition now, he is unrestrained to the people, and even kills and scolds at will, and carelessly disrespects people's lives, Su Qi dissuades Shangguan and is beaten instead, so he rises up and kills officials and rebels. The mob has now occupied the county seat of Yanggu, burned the county office, and opened a warehouse to release grain. Don't look at the fact that the Qing Qing has extremely tight control over the people, but the net also has a mesh, right? And once the net is torn apart, there will be more fish that will slip out. Su started the first day, and in the second day, thousands of people had gathered. Although Yanggu is a small county, it is the north gate of Yunzhou, and there are many soldiers and horses stationed around, so when there was an incident in Yunzhou here, Li Shidao sent soldiers and horses to Liu Wu to personally lead 800 troops to encircle and suppress. However, the encirclement and suppression did not go well, because before Liu Wu and Wei Bobing from the north arrived, Su Qi coerced the people to turn east. Originally, Li Shidao was not very concerned about Su Qi's incident, but as soon as Su Qi turned east, Li Shidao panicked. Because the war was mainly fought on the western and southern fronts, the hinterland of the Qingqing was empty.

The news quickly spread to Pingyin, and what surprised Li Yu was Su Qi's slogan. Su Qi's slogan is:

"Open the city gate to welcome the king, and the king will not pay for the food when he comes."

This slogan is very familiar to Li Chen, because it comes from him. Of course, it is a copy of the famous slogan tailored by Li Yan for Li Zicheng. Now, if there is no promoter of the Grain Statistics Department behind the Su uprising, Li Yu does not believe it. Since Li Chen's plan for a sea landing operation was denied, Li Yu instructed the Grain Statistics Department to do its best to create instability in the hinterland of the Grain and Straw and undermine the mobilization ability of the Grain and Straw Statistics, but he did not expect that the Grain Statistics Department would be able to promote an uprising. This uprising made Li Yu both happy and worried, and the joy was naturally that the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty would no longer be the stable rear of Li Shidao, and he was sad that his way back was blocked.

In order to return to Chang'an as soon as possible, Li Yu chose a tortuous route, from Yanggu to Dong'e to Pingyin, and then went south, crossing at the junction of Li Guangyan's Yicheng War Zone and Wang Pei's Xuanwu War Zone where Li Jifu was seated, but Li Yu could see that Su Qi had the push of the imperial court behind him, and Li Shidao could also see it. In order to prevent other places from responding en masse, Li Shidao ordered a strict investigation and control of people from outside Jiqing, and Li Yu's current identity is a merchant from Huainan. Here Li Yu and his entourage went out of Pingyin, and the pursuers of Pingyin over there went out of the city.

What are you kidding, although these merchants are dressed shabby, but which one of them does not carry money? As long as you catch a team, you can have a small fat year. These merchants are all outsiders, and no one will come to the door even if they rob openly, not to mention that there is an excuse to be above board?

"Master, what should I do?"

Fortunately, Pingyin is mountainous, hiding in a remote mountain recess, Wu Ciyou came to ask for instructions. To protect the emperor's safe return to Chang'an, the young man now has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders and a lot of pressure. Now he was staring at the emperor and Duan Wenchang, counting on them to give him an idea.

Li Yu smiled slightly:

"Go back and watch, don't be impatient, don't be impatient."

told others not to be impatient, but Li Yu was very impatient in his heart.

"What to do? If Lao Tzu knew, would Lao Tzu still stay here? ”

Li Yu's heart was empty, and he was actually a little angry. When people come to this and say that they are not afraid of whether it is true or false, Li Yu watched coldly here, and he has already seen several teams of merchants and even pedestrians unlucky. Seeing the wolf-like excitement of these young soldiers, Li Yu immediately judged that these turtle grandsons planned to fight with open fire, rob legally, and take the opportunity to make a fortune with his rich TV series and real experience. If it falls into the hands of these scumbags who are ruthless in law enforcement, the consequences can be imagined. Li Yu estimated that even if he showed his identity as the emperor at that time, these thick-skinned and black-hearted little soldiers would be able to kill themselves without blinking their eyelids, change their faces, and destroy their corpses with a slight smile. This is the Qingqing realm, no one takes the emperor seriously, even the most powerful Li Shidao on the ground, the generals under his command are full-fledged, can't they kill him and replace him?

The so-called Hades is good to say, the little ghosts are difficult, if there are no these little ghosts, Huangquan Road may be smoother than the highway, and there are toll stations on the highway.

"Toll booth, yes!"

Li Yu remembered how the drivers in his hometown hid the toll booth that should have ended in fifteen years, but stiffened up for more than 20 years and became bigger and bigger.

There are no toll booths there, or are they the least managed?

Li Yu shouted:

"Wenchang, Ciyou, come over for a moment."

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