After a few people had consulted, they consulted with their clansmen.

Because it is for the sake of future generations, although the clansmen feel troublesome, they have thought about it carefully, and they cannot say anything against it.

And so it was settled.

The incense mushrooms of Yuan Lingchen's family were all taken away by Qian Hui on the surface, but in fact, they were sold to the system space by Yuan Lingchen and exchanged for energy points.

After a few days like this, it was time to collect the New Year's gifts.

The annual endowment of Shangyuan Village is generally handed over to the Lizheng by each family, and then escorted to the county seat by the official family.

Among them, the rice, grain, and silk cloth paid must be checked by the official and confirmed that there is no problem, and it can be regarded as passed.

Li Zheng never had any difficulty, and when he saw the clansmen in the past, he was also smiling and kind, until the clansmen finished paying the New Year's endowment, and then went out with the sorted booklet.

When the chief officer saw him coming, he greeted him politely.

"This time to escort the year to the county seat, the Ming Mansion is afraid that you will be tired, so I specially asked me to prepare a carriage ......"

Li Zheng felt strange that their county order would never be so sympathetic, and when things went wrong, he inevitably asked more, "Usually there is no carriage ......"

An inexplicable light flashed in the official's eyes, "It turned out that the Ming family had a son a few days ago, and he was in a good mood these days......"

Li Zheng nodded, accepted this statement, and when he got into the carriage, he felt that something was not quite right.

Those officials in the yamen, although they are only small officials, but they have always been above the top, why can he be greeted by them with a smile on his face?

Normally, there is no such attitude.

Li Zheng was a little vigilant in his heart, and after getting into the carriage, he lifted the curtain from time to time to take a look at the car full of years behind him.

When the carriage was halfway through, he heard a few chaotic sounds from behind, and he was about to lift the curtain to look, but was blocked by the official outside the car.

"That's another group of people who collect New Year's gifts, and it happens to be on the way with us, and the two teams are walking together, which is more secure."

Li Zheng looked behind him and saw that there was nothing wrong with his convoy, so he suppressed the doubts in his heart.

He thought that those officials were also shouldering the heavy responsibility of escorting the New Year's endowment, and if something went wrong halfway, everyone would not be able to get out of it, so he expected that those people would not dare not be unreasonable.

When the convoy entered the city and arrived at the place, the other two tax envoys personally checked it.

This test is the only one, but the test is wrong.

"The rice grain you have handed in is not the new grain of this year, but the old grain that has mold, that is, the silk cloth has been insect......

Li Zheng was shocked: "How is this possible?" I personally verified this batch of endowments, and there is no problem. ”

There is a problem with the things handed in, and they will all be convicted of these inspections, and Li Zheng turned his head to look at the official in charge of the escort, "There is no mistake in the inspection, then it can only be a problem in the transportation, and this batch of years is determined to have been replaced." ”

The official was quite calm, "You have to think twice when you speak, we can't afford to change the guilt of the year." ”

"But when you checked it at the beginning, you all saw it with your own eyes, and there was no problem with the annual taxes handed over by the villagers."

Li Zheng is sure of what he said, but the official still has a fearless appearance.

"We are in charge of escorting, where do we dare to guard and steal? That's to be punished, it's not because the villagers are cheating, they must have used some means to deceive us......"

The subordinates of the two tax envoys waved their hands impatiently, "No matter what mistakes go wrong in the middle of this year, you and others will not be able to escape the crime of dereliction of duty, come here, take them all down, and send someone to Shangyuan Village to collect taxes." ”

Those officials knew that someone would protect them, but they all looked indifferent, so they were directly arrested.

Before Li Zheng was escorted down, he was still shouting, "This lord, it is urgent to find out where the annual taxes have gone, if the taxes are levied again, this is forcing the villagers to die." ”

"Do you mean that we can't steal from the guards? I have to talk to the Ming Mansion about this, and I have to ask for justice......

The subordinates of the two tax envoys were not stupid, and seeing their attitude, they also sensed that something was wrong.

But he didn't bother to care about the lives of the common people, he just thought about collecting the annual endowment as soon as possible, and he didn't have a good face for Li Zheng.

"I'm waiting for things to do, and I don't need you to put my beak."

In the final analysis, the matter was finally reported layer by layer and reached the ears of the two tax envoys.

When the man heard this, he didn't even blink an eyelid, and waved the person away at will.

"How big is it, it's worth moving people to investigate? The court did not give you money to solve such trivial matters. ”

This also means that he supports his subordinates to levy taxes again.

The news was transmitted back to Shangyuan Village on the same day, and the patriarch thought about it at home for a long time and went to find Yuan Jin'an.

said about it, and then said with a sad face, "I just paid the annual endowment once, and I have to pay it again, do the clansmen still want to live?"

Those officials who came were not good, and if any of them could not hand it over, they would suffer.

As the patriarch, he couldn't bear to let his people suffer because of this.

Seeing his expression, Yuan Jin'an knew that he had something to say, so he asked him directly, "The patriarch found me, but what do you think?"

Seeing that he had guessed his intentions, the patriarch felt that it was a little difficult to say that, but thinking about the current situation, he stubbornly said his thoughts.

"It's really difficult in the clan this time, I don't know if I can ask Qian Chaofeng to be accommodating and advance some rice grain for mushrooms to the clansmen?"

The patriarch is really thinking about the clansmen, and he looks at those officers and soldiers who are fierce and arrogant, and he will not give them half a point of accommodation.

At that time, if someone is injured, those officials only need to prevaricate at will that the clansmen do not cooperate with the payment of taxes, and they will die in vain......

Yuan Lingchen was originally in the room, but after listening to the system's words, he went directly to the outer courtyard and saw the patriarch whose eyes were red.

"Patriarch, I still have some food in my house, and there is still some silk cloth, if the clansmen need it, they can be regarded as lending it to them, and if they earn silver money in the future, it will be ...... to return us."

She actually has the object of suspicion in this matter, and she has called Qian Hui to investigate.

At this time, borrowing the rice, grain, and silk cloth of the clansmen, she didn't feel embarrassed, but no matter how much she lost this time, she would ask the mastermind behind the scenes to go bankrupt to pay it back.

The reason why the clansmen asked them to return it was just that they didn't want them to develop the habit of asking for it, and if they were counting on their family for everything, it would be unclear in the future.

"Since Chan'er agrees, the patriarch will come with me."

Yuan Jin'an took the key from Yuan Lingchen and led the patriarch to a room, and after a cursory look, the patriarch saw that the house was bigger than the next one.

When Yuan Jin'an opened the door, he saw the mountains of rice grain inside, and his eyes suddenly widened in shock.

"So much rice."

"Chan'er said that the outside world is not good, and the price of grain will only rise higher and higher, so we exchanged all the money and money we can use at home for rice and silk cloth...... It's all here, and the patriarch has called someone to move out. ”

"Okay, you wait for me, I'll call someone."

The patriarch settled his mind and walked away with the soles of his feet.

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