Chapter 190 Exposed

As mentioned last time, Sima Zhao called for help at the tax customs, and the officials secretly hated this little boy and let them hear this cry, which put them in a dilemma of saving or not saving.

If you save it, there are obviously a lot of biao men on the other side, all of them have thick arms and thighs, and their faces are fierce, and their bags are bulging, obviously carrying weapons secretly. Once the fight starts, it is estimated that the "official apes" who will only blackmail the people and bully the good ones will be dealt with by others in three or two strokes.

If you don't save it, just wait for Sima Yi's anger. Sima Yi is in a high position, if he learns that his family members have asked him for help, but his own people turn a blind eye and do not listen, then he will inevitably pay the price for today's inaction, and these costs are likely to be more than just going to the official position and losing his post.

Guo Changsheng, who was hidden in a certain carriage, saw through the gap in the curtain all the qiē that happened here, and just as the officials hesitated, he put his thumb and index finger in his mouth and blew a sharp whistle.

Hearing this whistle, the special forces jumped down from their respective carriages, and then aimed their crossbows at more than a dozen officials in the tax customs. The movements of the special forces are clean and uniform, and the sound of their military boots on the ground and the sound of the crossbows of the horses form a peculiar sense of rhythm, which makes people feel as if they are listening to music, and there is a kind of spiritual resonance.

However, for those officials, the feeling was completely different, they only felt a solemn momentum coming towards them, and the kind of murderous aura that was so thick that it could not be dissolved oppressed so that they could hardly breathe.

The officials trembled, their upper and lower teeth knocked each other and made a gratifying sound, and one or two of the timid ones collapsed directly to the ground, and there was a smell of urine # from the crotch of their pants.

Guo Changsheng raised his left hand, as long as his hand was waved, the crossbows in the hands of the special forces would shoot mercilessly at those officials, and they would turn into a hornet's nest in an instant.

Seeing that Guo Changsheng's hand was about to wave down, an older official reacted in time, he immediately knelt down, clasped his hands into fists and said:

"All the heroes spare their lives, the little one has an eighty-year-old mother, and there is a three-year-old child, and please pity the little one, don't kill the villain, the villain has not seen anything, has heard nothing. Please also rest assured that you will be on the road, and the villain promises that absolutely no one will dare to stop you. ”

The current shape shì is equivalent to a butcher's knife on his neck, and the old servant can no longer care about so much, and as soon as his head is hot, he said this classic begging for mercy cut when he met the king of the mountain. As for why his mother is eighty years old and his son is only three years old, he doesn't care if such a large time span is a Guinness record for human reproductive age.

Of course, in the future, whether he will be settled by him because he does not save Sima Yi's family when he sees death, and whether he will be settled by the county officials because he bends to the thief and begs for the loss of integrity, this will not matter at all, in this time of crisis, saving his life is the primary task.

Seeing the bear-like appearance of these people, the special forces deeply despised them, killing them was really dirty their hands, but if they didn't kill them, once they leaked the news, they might not be able to get out of the territory of Wei.

This customs is actually not in Zhangling City, but in the place where there is still five miles away from Zhangling City, the road in this place is sandwiched between two mountains, it is the only way to go to Zhangling City, and it is very suitable for building a checkpoint.

To leave the Wei realm, you must enter the city from the north gate of Zhangling City, then exit the city from the south gate, and then enter the territory of Shu from the mountain path.

The reason why the Zhangling County Commander set up a tax customs here was because he was not satisfied with only collecting a small amount of entry fees at the city gate. He collected the first tax at this gate, again when he entered the north gate, and then a third time when the merchants went out of the south gate, so that he could receive three taxes.

So why not combine three times into one, and collect more points at a time? There is also a reason for this, one of the reasons is that this is a small psychological game played by Zhangling County, if you collect too much at one time, those merchants are unprofitable or even operate at a loss, they may turn their faces. The timid may prefer to take a long detour rather than take this route again, and it is not surprising that the temperamental ones have a big fight.

After paying the first time (the first time is often not much, the more they will be collected later), when they encounter the second toll station, although they will also feel unwilling, but because they have already paid the tax once, if they do not continue to pay the money to buy the road, as far as they can do to pass this road, then the money paid for the first time is equivalent to paying in vain.

Moreover, the customs here are all charged in both directions, that is, they have to pay the tax once when they pass through both sides, so even if these merchants want to not pay the second tax and want to return the same way, then when they return to the first tax just now, they have to pay the tax again.

That is to say, as long as they pay the tax at the first level, after passing this level, they are forced to continue to pay at the later level.

The second reason is that a part of the taxes collected from entering and leaving the city need to be withdrawn and handed over to the imperial court, and the imperial court has specially sent officials to supervise this aspect of taxation, so that the taxes collected at these two checkpoints can fall into the hands of the Zhangling County Commander.

The first tax customs was set up by the Zhangling County Order, as long as the officials who concealed it or bribed him, then all the taxes collected by the first tax customs could be filled by him. For the sake of his own small treasury, Zhangling County Ling racked his brains to come up with such a three-stage tax collection method, which is not a genius.

In addition to collecting taxes, because after Zhangling City goes south, it is about to enter the mountains and forests, and it is difficult to find inns and supply points for a long time along the way, so most merchants have to stay in inns when they arrive in Zhangling City, and supply dry food, forage, etc.

Some guests with special needs can also go to the gambling house and the Qinglou to hey the skin, and these all need to be paid. As a result, the Zhangling County Order has realized layers of exploitation to maximize profits.

Of course, the maximization of income is talking about the Yamen of Zhangling County, and for the past merchants, it is the maximization of losses.

Originally, if they were not exposed, the special forces could have dealt with it calmly, they did not intend to stay in the city, as long as they paid the full tax, they would have passed through the city as quickly as possible and entered the mountains and forests.

As long as they enter the mountains and forests, they will be safe, because there are people there to pick them up, and the Wei army in the mountains and forests is far inferior to the Shu army, and even if there are chasing soldiers to chase them, they will not be able to help them.

But now all the words of Sima Zhao's kid were ruined, and his words forced the special forces hidden in the carriage to show up and expose them to everyone's eyes, so that once the news leaked and the defenders in the city were prepared, what would they do?

Do they want to conquer a city with their thirty men? Although this city is only a county seat, because it is located in the border area, there are 2,000 garrisons, 30 against 2,000, or 2,000 soldiers guarding the city, how to fight this battle?

ps. It is said that there will be a big seal next Friday, and I hope to have good results by then.