Chapter 174: The Zhao Clan

June of the second year of creation, the month of tax collection.

The only city in Dabie Mountain, Yunlong City, is also the representative of the imperial court, the highest yamen in Dabie Mountain, with a brigade of 100 people, respectively, to various villages, tribes, and cottages to collect taxes.

However, Yunlong City is not a one-time dispatch, after all, there are more than 400 villages, tribes, and cottages in Dabie Mountain, and more than 40,000 people are needed to radiate at one time.

Yunlong City is based on a hundred-person brigade, a total of 100 teams, and the first wave goes to a hundred potential forces, which not only ensures efficiency, but also does not use too many people, and has other plans.

Shuanglong Valley, Fulong Tribe!

Because of the collapse of the Tulong tribe nearly three months ago, the Fulong tribe dominated the Shuanglong Valley, and the strength of the army soared, the population skyrocketed from more than 13,000 people to more than 20,000 people, of which 3,000 militia expanded to 5,000, plus the force units in the tribe, it can pull out more than 10,000 armed forces at any time, which has far exceeded the Tulong tribe of the day.

"The county commander is benevolent and generous, and loves the people like a son. Only two kinds of taxes, such as population tax and land tax, are collected according to the imperial court, and there are no ten kinds of taxes, such as land rent, agricultural tax, human tax, mouth tax, birth tax, customs duty, and commodity tax. According to the survey, your tribe has a population of 21,757 people, and you must pay 108 diamond coins, 78 gold coins, and 50 copper coins this quarter, which is much lower than the previous taxes. It's only fifty diamond coins here, which is far from enough. Please Patriarch Zhao don't make it difficult for villains! ”

In the Fulong tribe, the centurion who led a hundred people to collect taxes pleaded with a bitter face, and his confidence was quite insufficient.

Although the strength of the new county order is now known, Dabie Mountain is well known. However, as the centurion who is responsible for this tax collection, if the tax is confiscated, it is that he is not doing things well, which will have a great impact on his promotion, and the centurion will naturally try his best.

In fact, this time the Fulong tribe paid the tax very quickly, and as soon as the tax official arrived, the tax was paid.

It's a pity that before these tax officials set off, they were told that according to the population known by the survey, they must not be bored, and they must seek truth from facts, and the Fulong tribe only gave fifty diamond coins, so they naturally couldn't make a difference.

"Oh? The county commander is very powerful! Even the population of our people knows it so clearly. Unfortunately, most of them are not of our ethnic group and do not pay taxes, so naturally they do not need to pay taxes. If you want to collect it, adults should collect your own taxes! ”

Patriarch Zhao was quite surprised, his eyes rolled, and his face was full of bitterness and helplessness.

In fact, since the collapse of the Tulong tribe, the Fulong tribe has expanded its strength, and has subdued many small villages and tribes nearby, and the population has continued to grow, and now the population is not more than 21,000 as Yunlong City knows.

"Patriarch Zhao, don't make it difficult for villains! Since the nobles included them in the tribe, the taxes were naturally the responsibility of the nobles! Of course, if the nobles are willing to migrate to Yunlong City, they don't need to pay taxes! ”

The centurion knew that this tax collection would not go so smoothly, and asked with a wry smile again.

The latter sentence is the propaganda and notice that the county government requires every tax official to do, and only the people in Yunlong City have preferential policies, and the rest do not.

In fact, it's not just the Fulong tribe that has gone along the way, but the tax collectors of the hundred roads are not smooth, but they are not as ruthless as the Fulong tribe, and they directly hide most of the population. After all, Yunlong City only collects two kinds of taxes this time, and it is no longer the previous ten taxes, even according to the actual population, it is not as much as the previous taxes, so the villages, tribes, and cottages are not difficult, the fluctuation is not large, and it is bearable.

The power given to the tax collectors by Yunlong City is that the tax shall not be less than 10% of the prescribed amount, and the Fulong tribe only pays less than 50% of the tax, so this team of tax collectors naturally cannot pay the difference.

"Bold! Although my Shuanglong Valley is one of the eleven townships of Yunlong, my clan is not among the one hundred and thirty-two villages. Giving fifty diamond coins is already giving face to Marquis Wu Huan, and no matter how verbose he is, he won't give a copper plate! Get lost! ”

Beside Patriarch Zhao, a rather rugged and sturdy young man, with a swaying figure, directly snatched the money bag in the centurion's hand, and scolded loudly.

The speed of the wind and the fierce momentum directly frightened the centurion and the rest of the tax collectors, making the hundred tax collectors instinctively show their weapons......

Conflict breaks out!

……

In the evening of the same day, the tax collector who went to the Fulong tribe returned, and only thirty-nine of the hundred people remained, and not a single copper plate of tax was brought back.

The next day, all the 100 tax collectors returned, and although most of them did not meet the prescribed taxes, most of them were within the permitted 100 percent, and the small half exceeded the regulations, but they were also within 30 percent, and there was no bloodshed, and there were no casualties.

"The Rising Bird has appeared! Human desires are really unlimited, and it is indeed human nature to gain an inch. The two taxes collected by this seat are already much lower than the previous ten taxes. Even if the Fulong tribe pays taxes according to the truth, the population of more than 20,000 is not as much as the ten taxes paid by the previous population of more than 10,000 people, right? ”

Getting the situation of the Fulong tribe, Jian Yan had a headache and said to himself with emotion.

The civilian, military and military generals present were all silent, and they really didn't know what to say, after all, this time the sword was indeed extremely tolerant and relaxed, but it was still out of the chain, a hundred teams of tax collectors, and the taxes that were really collected as they wished were only seven teams!

"People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves! I don't want to go to war again, but someone wants to provoke the bottom line of this seat and kill myself! ”

Everyone was silent, and Jian Yan shook his head again and muttered to himself.

Gao Hong, Yu Qing and other civil officials changed their faces slightly, and they stopped talking.

Gao Gong, Luo Sheng, Ma Qiang and other generals were in great spirits, because the sword was already murderous, they had something to do, and they didn't have to train soldiers all the time, and led the troops to reclaim the wasteland!

The stage of a soldier should be on the battlefield, not in the field.

"My lord! According to the investigation, the Fulong tribe is not a local power, but migrated here decades ago, with a mysterious origin, martial arts, and low-key behavior. It's just that this time the strength has risen sharply and the ambition has swelled, but it should not be underestimated! ”

The killing intent of the sword martyr, not to mention the generals, even the civil officials can feel it, Yu Qing reminded loudly.

"Huh...... So what? Don't tell this seat, those more than 20,000 people are martial arts masters? Heroes? I believe that the matter of the Fulong tribe will soon spread all over Dabie Mountain, and various villages, tribes, and cottages will pay attention to the Fulong tribe, right? They want to be in the limelight, don't they dare to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys? ”

Jian Yan shook his head with great confidence, and replied in a cold tone.

……

Dabie Mountain, Shuanglong Valley, Gukou!

Today, the traces of the fierce battle between the three thousand militiamen of the Tulong tribe and the wolf army are still faintly visible, and the ground of the valley mouth of thousands of square meters has no grass and dark red, which is a manifestation of a large amount of blood watering.

At this time, on the slopes on both sides of the valley entrance of Shuanglong Valley, the figures were passing quickly, and the figures were dense.

Don't think that the Fulong tribe does not pay taxes and kills the tax collector, it is to ignore Yunlong City, ignore the wolf army and Wuhuan Marquis of Dabie Mountain.

In fact, everything is just a mistake, and the Fulong tribe is also afraid of the Marquis of Wu Huan, who is in office strongly, otherwise they will not hand over the tax of fifty diamond coins.

For an army of 100,000 soldiers, fifty diamond coins is not much, and even basic soldiers are not enough. But for the local power, fifty diamond coins are already a lot of wealth, if given to individuals, placed in any village and town-level household registration, can be a well-known rich household, a little bit of power, even diamond coins have not seen anything.

As soon as the tax collector retired, the entire Fulong tribe mobilized, worried, and the atmosphere was as depressing as if the end had come.

Zhao Lei, the second son of the patriarch of the Fulong tribe and the great consummation of the day after tomorrow at the age of twenty-five, was the initiator of this conflict.

Not only Zhao Lei, the second young master of the Fulong tribe, but also Zhao Feng, the eldest son of the Fulong tribe, Zhao Yu, the eldest lady, and Zhao Dian, the third young master, also followed.

Among them, the third young master, Zhao Dian, is only seventeen years old, and he is already a master of the clan in the day after tomorrow, and when converted into attribute values, the force value is as high as more than eighty.

It is worth mentioning that according to the genealogy of the Fulong tribe, the patriarch of the Fulong tribe in this generation happens to be the German generation, which happens to be the end of the round of faith, righteousness, benevolence and virtue, so the patriarch of the Fulong tribe is named Zhao Deping. And the next generation, the word generation has a bye, so the younger generation of the Fulong tribe is named after two words, among which the children of the patriarch are named after the wind and rain, thunder, lightning, clouds, fog, frost and snow dew, among which the eldest son Zhao Feng is already twenty-seven years old, and the youngest son is only five years old, and the youngest daughter Zhao Xue is only full moon.

"It's coming! It's really coming! The wolf army is coming! ”

Zhao Feng, Zhao Yu, Zhao Lei, and Zhao Dian, the four young masters, were hiding in the valley entrance woods of Shuanglong Valley with a sad face, waiting for Yunlong City to react, and a clansman Zhao Cheng was agile and agile, jumping between the mountains and forests, like the wind coming, and reported in a panic.

"Panic what! Our clan is martial arts, and it is a family of generals. The clansmen who practice martial arts can be ten with one, and ten thousand people can defeat an army of 100,000. What are your concerns? ”

Zhao Feng, the eldest young master of the Fulong tribe, his face sank, and he scolded in a displeased tone, which made Zhao Cheng's expression slower slightly, and his pale face softened slightly, and Zhao Feng asked again: "What is the scale of the wolf army?" Which general is in command? ”

Actually, don't look at Zhao Feng as calm as a mountain, full of confidence, but the name of the person, the shadow of the tree. For the strong and fierce wolf army, it is also a drum in his heart.

Although the Fulong tribe is still martial, and it is rumored that everyone can be ten with one, but that is an elite class that can be used as ten compared to strong civilians, is it still less?

"The size of the wolf army is about 20,000 people, and it seems to be the rumored Wuhuan Marquis guard...... The wolf rider and the wolf rider were all dispatched. And the vine elephants are also here, and there are nine generals riding Siamese elephants! It is estimated that this time it is Marquis Wu Huan who is personally in command, and the elite of Yunlong City is exhausted! ”

Zhao Cheng, who was originally a little slower, turned pale again when he heard Zhao Feng's inquiry, and replied stubbornly.

"Huh?"

The faces of everyone changed drastically, and they looked at each other in horror, and no one said anything for a while.

Quiet!

Quiescence!

"I provoked this matter, I, Zhao Lei, do things alone, I ...... I'm going to turn myself in! ”

The atmosphere was depressed and solemn, Zhao Lei took a deep breath, stood up suddenly, and shouted as if he was dead, there was a great momentum of "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone".

"Nonsense! You think it's a homicide? You...... If you turn yourself in, will Marquis Wu Huan give up? Haven't you heard? If the wolf army doesn't come out, it will be rumored, and if it comes out, it will be exterminated?! ”

Zhao Feng's face was quite ugly, but he was the eldest young master, so he couldn't help but sway, and his tone was not very smooth, obviously he was also lacking in confidence.

After a pause, he forcibly suppressed his fear, and calmly continued:

"I thought that Yunlong City would be dispatched with the whole army. It's just 20,000 people, and my Zhao clan can be one as ten, and it's enough to see an army of 100,000! What's more, there are no longer a few villages, tribes, and cottages that are not subject to the rule of Yunlong City, how dare Marquis Wu Huan do his best? Yunlong City doesn't have to defend anymore? Xiao Cheng must have read it wrong! ”

"Big brother! The military strength of the two sides is not converted in this way, and it is said that the wolf army can be a hundred with one! Moreover, in addition to the 40,000 wolf army guarding the thirteen passes, there are 20,000 wolf riders and 30,000 wolf troops in Yunlong City! Even if 20,000 wolf horsemen are dispatched, and there are 30,000 wolf troops to defend the city, who dares to attack ......"

As soon as Zhao Feng's voice fell, the third young master Zhao Dian couldn't help but retort, saying and talking, seeing that the eldest brother's face was getting more and more ugly, he couldn't help but whisper more and more, and he lowered his head and stopped talking!

He thought that Zhao Feng was both wise and brave, and he was already a recognized patriarch successor, could he not have imagined it?

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