"Master, there is a man surnamed Tang outside who said that he was looking for the prince and princess."

The subordinates nervously prayed, and Xiao Changge and Chu Yu looked at each other.

"Speaking of taxes, you should ask Young Master Tang and invite him in."

The corners of Xiao Changge's mouth pulled up a smile.

Fortunately, she took Mrs. Chen's money before the tax change and ran away, otherwise she would not have been able to pay the tax.

Of course, you don't want to lose money when you do business, and if you lose money, who will still do business

Once you open a shop, you have to pay taxes, and whoever can open it.

"Grass people Tang Moshu has seen the general, the prince and the princess."

Tang Moshu bowed.

"Okay, Young Master Tang, there are no outsiders here, so you can put away your set of etiquette."

Xiao Changge debunked, she didn't know what kind of person Tang Moshu was, and now he was pretending to be so polite, if he was familiar, he wouldn't even want his face.

"Aren't I trying to behave in front of General Xiao, how do you say you can demolish me."

After a while, Tang Moshu's original form was revealed.

Xiao Yongjue's face turned black, but Xiao Yongde gave Tang Mo a letter.

"Young Master Tang is here, why don't you serve tea soon."

Xiao Changge shouted at the subordinate who was still stunned, and when the subordinate heard this, he hurriedly made tea for Tang Moshu and sent it to him.

Tang Moshu is a courtier and has no dealings with the Xiao family, this will come to the Xiao Mansion, and those subordinates really don't look down on him.

Of course, Tang Moshu understands this, just by looking at the unkind appearance of these subordinates, he knows it, especially Xiao Yongjue's face, which is extremely ugly.

Tang Moshu didn't mind, anyway, he wasn't looking for Xiao Yongjue, he was looking for Xiao Changge and Chu Yu.

Tang Moshu sat on the chair generously, grinned, and arched his hand, "I forgot to introduce myself to General Xiao, in the lower Tang Moshu, a grass people." ”

Xiao Yongde saw Tang Moshu so polite, and also bowed his hand and said hello, "Hello Young Master Tang, what grass people are not grass people, we are all from Chu State, I hope Young Master Tang will not be restrained." ”

"You are friends with the four princesses, and you are also my friend."

Xiao Yongde said boldly, and he could see that Tang Moshu was not a bad person.

He also believes in Xiao Changge's vision of making friends.

"Hmph, how did a princess of yours become friends with such a person."

Xiao Yongjue asked arrogantly, the relationship between the two has eased somewhat, and now it is stiff again.

Xiao Changge can't learn how to be a woman, he has to mess with these men and have such a good relationship.

She's a girl, how can she be so good to everyone.

Of course, these words only appeared in Xiao Yongjue's heart, and he couldn't say these words.

"Don't you eat and eat vegetables all the time, then the rice is still planted by the people, can you still eat it?"

Xiao Changge retorted.

Xiao Yongjue couldn't look down on Tang Moshu and couldn't get used to the people, especially the people who came to the door.

Tang Moshu just wanted to take this opportunity to get in touch with their Xiao family, how could others not see what he was thinking.

Tang Moshu watched the conversation between the two, how did the relationship between the two seem to have changed a little

It's a quarrel, but it doesn't feel like it.

"Young Master Tang, recognize him, if he goes to your shop to buy things in the future, remember not to buy it for him, people are very noble, and they don't look down on the things in your shop."

Xiao Changge turned his head to look at Tang Moshu and said calmly.

Half of the shops in the capital are Tang family's, and what rouge gouache, what pharmacies, rice shops, etc., all have the Tang family's industry.

Xiao Yongjue couldn't look down on Tang Moshu, she guessed

Tang Moshu still doesn't look down on Xiao Yongjue.

"You"

Xiao Yongjue was so blocked by Xiao Changge's words that he couldn't say a word, because what Xiao Changge said was right.

"Okay, Young Master Tang is a guest, you are noisy in front of the guests, making people laugh noisily."

Xiao Yongde interrupted the conversation between the two, and the two of them were heartbroken, and said in unison, "We didn't quarrel, we were discussing problems." ”

The two of them were like this, which made Xiao Yongde a little stunned.

Did these two people have such a tacit understanding before?

After the two finished speaking, they looked at each other again.

"Thanks to Young Master Ben's efforts this time, I don't know how the princess and princess will reward Young Master Ben."

Tang Moshu asked the scoundrel.

"We can't hear what Young Master Tang is saying."

Xiao Changge pretended to be garlic, looking puzzled.

Tang Moshu didn't pursue much, anyway, he didn't expect Xiao Changge to repay him, after all, she was so picky, it was difficult to get a penny from her.

"It's time for Young Master Tang to come, we just talked about taxes and fees, and Young Master Tang should know more than us."

Xiao Changge smiled ill-willedly, and Tang Moshu shrunk his neck.

As long as Xiao Changge smiled like this, there would definitely be nothing good to greet him.

Xiao Changge's smile became brighter and brighter, Tang Moshu coughed twice, and understood Xiao Changge's meaning, "Okay, I said it's okay, I said it's always okay." ”

couldn't resist Xiao Changge, Tang Moshu had no choice but to sit upright, cough dryly twice, and take a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

Seeing that Tang Moshu understood Xiao Changge's mind like this, Chu Yu seemed to see something.

made a decision in his heart, let Xiao Changge stay away from Tang Moshu in the future, at least a few meters away, otherwise he would not be at ease.

In the eyes of others, his songs are medium-length, and his appearance is not as good-looking as Simei, but how can he attract bees and butterflies so much

On the contrary, he is so handsome, but few women take a fancy to him.

"Have you been out for a walk lately?"

Tang Moshu asked, and everyone nodded.

"I went out this morning and found that there were fewer people, and there were fewer vegetables brought in from outside the city."

In the past, when he went to inspect the city gate early in the morning, there was a dense crowd of people, but now there are fewer people than before, and the restaurants he used to go to are closed, and other shops are also closed, and the prices of those that have not closed are much higher than before.

"Yes, Young Master Xiao is right, there are fewer people."

Tang Moshu patted his thigh excitedly, and the others listened carefully.

"I'll summarize it for you, there are few people, the amount is small, and the shops have closed a lot, just this month, the Tang family's shops have closed five, but the Tang family is not counted as others, if you have to count, there are about thirteen closing."

"The tax is high, if you can't support it, you will close the door, and if you don't close the door, the price will increase, a bag of rice used to be 200 Wen, guess how much now"

Tang Moshu asked in a tricky way.

No one knows this gossip better than him.

"Now it's a bag of rice for a tael of silver."

Tang Moshu replied, and everyone's faces changed slightly.

"A tael of silver, this is not a money grab"

Xiao Yongjue said angrily, who would spend a tael of silver to buy a bag of rice.

If a bag of rice is eaten by one person, it will take about a month, and if it is eaten by several people, it will take a few days to half a month.

Like the subordinates of the Xiao family, how much money is a month.

If this continues, sooner or later they will all starve to death.

"This is not the worst, the worst thing is how many people lose their jobs when the store is closed.

Some people want to ask people to deliberately lower the price, anyway, now there are many shopkeepers can pick at will, on the price love does not come, if you don't come, there is no shortage of you, a bunch of people are vying to go. ”

Tang Moshu said, fortunately, his Tang family still had savings to support a year and a half before the big business.

What gives him a headache now is that everything has risen, but the things sent to the palace have not risen at all.

He also mentioned it to his father-in-law who handed over to the palace a few days ago, but his father-in-law said that the treasury is not rich now, and the price cannot be raised, and the emperor has no time to take care of these things.

It used to be easy, but now it is even more difficult to withdraw from the DPRK.

"The current Chu country is not the Chu country of the past, how good it was before, but now it is sluggish."

"Can you say less of this with your crow's mouth?"

Xiao Yongjue scolded angrily, and Tang Moshu chuckled: "It's a good thing that Young Master Xiao is full of enthusiasm, but the situation has changed, and Young Master Xiao knows this better than me." ”

"It's not as good as it used to be, and as far as I can tell, there are already people in other places who have taken the lead in uprisings, and most of them have chosen to go to other countries, abandoning their original country and choosing to leave their homeland, if they are not really cornered, who wants to do this"

Tang Moshu chuckled, if not

Looking at Xiao Changge, Chu Yu sat between the two and seemed to feel that Tang Moshu's eyes were looking at Xiao Changge, Chu Yu hurriedly blocked Tang Moshu's sight, and his phoenix eyes stared at Tang Moshu's eyes slightly raised, as if to indicate that Xiao Changge was his woman.

Tang Moshu looked back and coughed twice.

It's like worrying about someone else's things being discovered by the owner of the thing, and it's a little empty-hearted.

"Uprising"

Xiao Yongde frowned, and Tang Moshu nodded, "I'm not afraid that General Xiao will know about this, anyway, sooner or later, those people want to support others as emperors, that is, they are rebelling." ”

Tang Moshu lowered his voice and didn't dare to say it too loudly, and openly said that he was afraid that he would lose his head.

Now the singing and dancing in the capital is leveling, and the remote places have long been in chaos.

It is also the fact that the people in the capital know it later, and even if the prefect in the remote area is presented, it will take several months to reach the capital, and it may not be able to reach the hands of Emperor Chu in the capital.

Everyone wants to be safe and secure and not to make trouble, and even if there is a mess, they will make the mess disappear.

The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, how could the Chu emperor know about the affairs of the remote place.

Although he is not an official, he knows very well that officialdom is the same as doing business.

"How does Young Master Tang know about this?"

Xiao Yongde was puzzled and asked, how could Tang Moshu know so clearly when he was also in the capital.

"Hey, General Xiao forgot what I do, I'm a businessman, and I know more than just people in the capital who travel all day long, and I know them everywhere outside, as long as they talk about the people who go to transport goods, it means that I also know."

Tang Moshu exaggerated.

Although he is not his friend, but his father's previous accumulated connections, as long as he uses it well, he can become his person.

As long as it is profitable, as long as it can ensure their interests, who to make friends with is not to make friends.

"It's not that the people themselves want to rebel, it's really a helpless move by the officials to force the people to rebel."

Tang Moshu sighed lightly, of course he wouldn't be so stupid, after all, those small groups could just send a few guards to suppress them, and they couldn't become a big climate.

But if there is a shrewd leader who gathers all those who revolt together, as long as the ability can surpass the Chu Emperor, then

That might really be able to overthrow the Chu State.

Of course, this was just her guess.

He said that it was not God's calculation, but he could not calculate such a thing.