Chapter 1081: Dispute
Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 inforeadx;? In the past, Tang Ling didn't know how much income Zhenjun had, only that through the plunder of the Zhenjun army and the manufacture of firearms in the Zhenjun forge, Zhenjun earned a huge amount of gold and silver.
Now when she came to Zhenjun, she suddenly found that Zhenjun could make money far more than foreign plunder and weapon manufacturing, and the grain storage in the Shah area could also bring a considerable amount of income to Zhenjun every year.
First of all, the farmer's tax, which is not a small amount, and the grain collected by the farmer every season, according to the regulations of the Zhenjun County Government, cannot be sold to grain merchants privately, but must be sold to the Zhenjun County Government.
The price of grain offered by the county government is often two or three percent lower than the price of grain purchased by grain merchants.
Zhenjun has made huge profits from all sides, but he has never handed over a penny to the court.
Shangguan Xiu blinked his eyes and said: "In the past, Zhenjun not only handed over silver to the imperial court, but also asked the imperial court for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and millions of stones of grain every year.
Tang Ling glanced at him again and said, "In the past, Zhenjun was barren, but now Zhenjun is so rich that it has even surpassed Anjun,"
She had also been to Zhenjun before, and the environment in Zhenjun at that time was the same as the scene, full of loess, most of the areas had no grass, and the people lived in poverty, so poor that they were so hungry that they gnawed on the bark of trees. Digging tree roots, countless, if there is no subsidy from the imperial court, the life of the Zhenjun people can not go on at all, but now it is different, whether it is a town, or a village, almost every household has built a new house, the Zhenjun people who join the army, can receive a large amount of military pay every year, if they are killed or injured, they can also receive a huge amount of pension, even if they do not join the army, just go to the factory to work, they can also receive a good salary every month,
Shangguan Xiu said: "Zhenjun's revenue can be used as my country's second treasury, and when the imperial court is in need, Zhenjun will never hold on to the silver,"
In the northern battlefield of Ningnan, the country of Feng has not been able to pay military salaries, or the silver drawn by Zhenjun was transported to the army, which stabilized the morale of the army in time.
Tang Ling shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything more about this matter, Zhenjun was originally a land to be abandoned by the Wind Country, and Shangguan Xiu contributed to today's achievements, if the imperial court wanted to take everything in Zhenjun as its own, it was indeed a little unreasonable, and Tang Ling didn't want his relationship with Shangguan Xiu to become incompatible.
As he walked forward, he saw two groups of people gathered together in the distance, pointing at each other, shouting one after another, Tang Ling watched for a moment, and said to Shangguan Xiu: "Ah Xiu, let's go over and have a look,"
Shangguan Xiu nodded, left the gendarmerie, and walked over with only Wu Yufei and Cheng Feng.
The two groups of people gathered together were basically slaves, some spoke Shah language, some people spoke Pakse language, noisy and harsh, Tang Ling did not understand it, and looked at Shangguan Xiu in puzzlement,
Although Shangguan Xiu has learned Shah language, he is not proficient in it, if the other party speaks slowly, he can still understand it, but the speed of speech is a piece, which is mixed with a lot of scolding slang, he can't understand it,
He shook his head at Tang Ling, saying that he hadn't heard what was going on.
Tang Ling put her hands behind her back, stood on the ridge not far away and watched quietly, after a while, she snorted and laughed, Shangguan Xiu looked at her puzzled, Tang Ling whispered: "The appearance of the Pakse people is quite interesting,"
The Shah people and the wind people are not surprised, but the skin color is slightly darker, and the difference between the Pakse people and the wind people is too obvious, the skin color of the Pakse people is not a little darker than the wind people, but completely black, black and shiny, when the eyes are stared, the whites of the eyes are particularly eye-catching, if you meet them at night, it is estimated that people mistakenly think that they have encountered a group of ghosts,
Shangguan Xiu didn't know much about the Pakse country and even the Pakse people, he had only heard of it before, and this time it was the first time he had seen the Pakse people, hearing Tang Ling's words, he smiled indifferently and said: "It's just a foreign barbarian," In his eyes, there is no essential difference between the Shah and the Pakse people, for the Feng people, they are all barbarians,
The two groups of people were swords-rattling and shouting at each other, especially the Shah and Pakas who rushed to the front, holding scythes and hoes in their hands, baring their teeth and grinning, and they had the posture of fighting each other.
Soon, several more wind men hurriedly ran over, with the arrival of these wind people, the atmosphere on the field did not ease, but became more tense, a Pakse man with a hoe in his hand, suddenly smashed a Shah man opposite to the ground,
He suddenly made a move, and everyone on the other side stopped doing it, each other, and hit each other together,
The wind people didn't make a move, they were blushing and shouting at each other, as if they were arguing about something, and the interesting thing was that they were already in a mess all around, but the fight between the people on both sides did not affect them at all.
Shangguan Xiu turned his head sideways, and Wu Yufei immediately stepped forward and said, "Brother Xiu,"
"Then call a couple of wind men,"
"Yes," Wu Yufei agreed, his figure was empty, he disappeared, and when he reappeared, the person had already appeared in the crowd of fighting,
The Shah people and Pakse people who were fighting together gave each other a dead hand, and they were completely beaten to the death, but they completely held an attitude of avoidance towards the wind people, and did not dare to hurt a single hair of their hair.
Wu Yufei walked almost unimpeded to the few people who were still arguing, she said a few words to them, and then pointed back to Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling.
The wind men immediately stopped arguing, and stopped their respective slaves, and then trotted to Shangguan Xiu and the others approached,
"This son is ......" A young man in his early thirties bowed to Shangguan Xiu and asked cautiously,
Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling are both in civilian clothes, but the elegance and temperament naturally revealed by the two of them, as long as they are not blind, they can see that their identities are extraordinary.
"Shangguan Xiu," Shangguan Xiu bluntly reported his name,
The wind men were stunned for a moment, and then their faces changed suddenly, and they knelt on the ground in unison, kowtowed forward, and said in a trembling voice: "Villain...... The villain has eyes and no beads, please meet His Highness,"
"Get up," Shangguan Xiu waved his hand to a few people, and after a few Feng people thanked him, Fang Xin slowly stood up from the ground in fear, "What's going on here, why is there a fight?"
Another middle-aged man in his forties took a half step forward and arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, the cause of the incident is all because the Liu family sealed our canal,"
The young man surnamed Liu glared angrily, and said loudly: "Fart......" After speaking, he immediately realized that he was disrespectful and rude in front of Shangguan Xiu, he hurriedly bowed to Shangguan Xiu and explained: "Your Highness, this canal is originally in my Liu family's field, it is my Liu family's field, it is benevolence and righteousness to give them Zhang family, and it is also reasonable not to give them Zhang family water......
Without waiting for him to finish speaking, the middle-aged man surnamed Zhang puffed up his anger and said: "At the beginning, the canal was dug and built, but the money from our two families together, why can only your Liu family use it, but my Zhang family can't use it,"
"This is the decision of the lord of the castle, if you are not convinced, go to the lord of the castle to comment,"
"The surname Liu, don't think that I don't know what you did in private, the city lord has already been bought by you, of course he is talking to you," After speaking, the middle-aged man surnamed Zhang bowed down to Shangguanxiu, and choked up with tears: "When the canal was dug at the beginning, it was said that it was shared by the two families, and the villain also paid for it, and now that the canal is built, the Liu family has turned their faces, and occupied the canal alone, not allowing the villain to use it, His Royal Highness commented on the reasoning, how can there be any such truth in the world, and please ask His Highness to be the master of the villain,"
The young man surnamed Liu also knelt down and said loudly: "A canal, shared by two families, the harvest of the two families is not good, the city lord has awarded the canal to the Liu family, the money from the Zhang family at the beginning, our Liu family has also returned all the money, but the Zhang family still has to rob the canal, it is simply bullying, lawlessness, do not put the city lord in his eyes, and ask His Royal Highness to uphold justice and severely punish such lawless villains,"
The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, now let Shangguanxiu make a judgment, he doesn't even know the ins and outs of the matter, how can he judge who is right and who is wrong,
He asked, "Who made the first move,"
"It's him," this time the young man surnamed Liu and the middle-aged man surnamed Zhang reached a high degree of consensus, and they invariably stretched out their hands to each other, Shangguan Xiu looked at this, and then looked at that, and didn't know how to judge for a while, Tang Ling suddenly smiled and said: "This matter is simple, since the Liu family's canal was built with the help of the Zhang family, then now, the Liu family will pay for it, and also help the Zhang family build a canal, isn't it good, such a trivial matter, why bother to gather a crowd to fight, and hurt so many people,"
Hearing the words, everyone noticed Tang Ling beside Shangguan Xiu,
Seeing her appearance clearly, people invariably showed a dull color, in Xibu City, they have seen all kinds of people, all kinds of beauties don't know how many they have seen, but a beautiful woman like Tang Ling is still the only one seen so far,
Seeing them looking at Tang Ling in a daze, Shangguan Xiu coughed and said, "This matter, let's do it, bandage the injured people quickly, don't make a fuss,"
"Ah...... Ah," Shangguan Xiu's words made everyone unable to react for a while,
Shangguan Xiu raised his eyebrows and asked in a condensed voice, "Can't you understand what I said?"
Everyone finally came back to their senses, the young man surnamed Liu and the middle-aged man surnamed Zhang glanced at each other and whispered: "It's just a slave, if you are injured, you will be injured, and if you die, you will die, and it will not be in the way,"
The price of a slave is not as expensive as a pair of medicines, unless it is a skilled and excellent slave, no slave owner will be willing to treat the slave's injuries and make a loss-making transaction.
Hearing the words of the two of them, Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling both frowned secretly, and they were still a little uncomfortable with Shahe, who was prevalent in slavery and didn't treat slaves as human beings at all.
At this moment, Nanhuai, the lord of Sibu City, heard the news and arrived.
Nan Huai is not a military general, but a literati, used to do the account in the city lord's mansion in Huya Pass, and later the city lord Liu Yun became the county guard of Zhen County, Nan Huai still stayed in Huya Pass, continued to do the account room, until a year ago, he got the opportunity, was transferred to Xibu City, became the city lord, Nan Huai did not come alone, he also brought a large group of Xibu City officials, and thousands of city troops,
Among the officials, most of them are wind people, and occasionally you can see Shah people, as for the Pakse people, there is not one, in the city army, there are very few wind people, the main force is Shah people, only occasionally you can see wind people officers and Pakse soldiers mixed in it,
The people didn't know Tang Ling, and Nan Huai didn't know Tang Ling either, but he had already gotten the news and knew that this time it was Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling who came to Shah to inspect together.
He trotted forward, and when he came to Shangguan Xiu and Tang Ling, he didn't dare to raise his head, knelt on his knees, kowtowed forward, and said to the ground: "Nanhuai, the city lord of Weichen Xibu City, knock to see Your Majesty, Your Highness, Your Majesty's Sheng'an, Your Highness Jin'an,"
The officials and city soldiers behind him also knelt on the ground with hula and greeted him in unison.
When several people of the Wind Country standing nearby heard this, they were all frightened, Your Majesty, this woman who stood up with His Royal Highness, like a fairy in the sky, is the Heavenly Maiden, and the bodies of the people kneeling on the ground are about to shrink into a ball, trembling and shaking.
Tang Ling lowered her eyes, looked down at Nan Huai expressionlessly, just glanced at him, she didn't like Nan Huai, the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, her eyes flashed, the so-called relationship was born from the heart, just looking at his face, he didn't look like a righteous gentleman, and just now the people surnamed Zhang also mentioned that Nan Huai accepted bribes from the people surnamed Liu,