"Envoy, the officials of the Yuncheng family are not short of money, and the food you think is good in the restaurant is just ordinary in their eyes, because they can often eat it, and compared to the expenses of Gou Daojiang, they will not think that you are very sincere."

In their eyes, Zhao Hanzhang and Gou Xi are the same characters, they don't know Zhao Hanzhang's daily life, so they will use Gou Xi's daily life as a reference.

Zhao Hanzhang thought that he took out a lot of money to invite them to the restaurant, but in their opinion, Zhao Hanzhang just invited them to a light meal.

Therefore, it is better to take the road of elegance than to go luxurious.

Ming Pre said simply and rudely: "Envoy, you are now the third person in the Great Jin, except for Your Majesty and Gou Xi, you are above 10,000 people under one person, so what you personally took out, you said that it is priceless, then it is priceless." ”

Zhao Hanzhang realized, "So the tea I brought is rare in the world, it is worth a lot, the tea set I took out is rare, and it is also worth a lot, osmanthus cake is vulgar and elegant, and peach blossom is wild." ”

Ming pre smiled and bowed his head, "Exactly." ”

Zhao Hanzhang was taught, "Amazing, Mr. Ming will really throttle." ”

The two of them looked at each other and smiled like foxes.

Tinghe walked in quickly, bowed down and said, "Girl, Tan Shen and Zheng Xiao, who met in front of the General's Mansion this morning, have come to deliver the post, and they are now in the gatehouse." ”

Zhao Hanzhang smiled and said, "Please let them in, I'll see them here with Mr. Ming." ”

Listen to the lotus and go away.

Zhao Hanzhang and Ming Pre explained: "When I went to the General's Mansion today, it happened that the two of them were also asking to see the General, and I saw that they were haggard and seemed to have something embarrassing. ”

Ming predicted and said: "Envoy, this is Yuncheng, I know you have a good heart, but you must also be cautious, people who come to take refuge may not be sincere." ”

Zhao Hanzhang nodded, "That's why I want to ask Mr. Ming to distinguish it for me." ”

Tinghe led two middle-aged men over, and as soon as they entered the room, without waiting for Zhao Hanzhang to speak, the two knelt down, touched the back of their hands with their foreheads, and said respectfully: "Meet the assassin." ”

Zhao Hanzhang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up, please sit down and talk." ”

This is the Jin Dynasty, kneeling is a very important etiquette, except for facing the king's parents and respected elders, generally no one performs this ceremony.

Tan Shen and Zheng Xiao didn't get up, but raised their heads, just put their legs together, pressed their bodies back, put their hands on their knees, and sat on their knees.

Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but glance at Ming Yu, pointed to the mat opposite her and said, "Come here and sit, talk closer." ”

Tan Shen and Zheng Xiao glanced at each other, then got up and sat down respectfully opposite her.

Zhao Hanzhang didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Please say it, two of you." ”

Seeing that Zhao Hanzhang didn't even have a trace of doubt, he directly asked them to state, and both of them couldn't help but reddened their eyes at the same time, their hearts were sour and astringent, and they were moved, why didn't they meet Zhao Hanzhang at the beginning?

Tan Shen stabilized his emotions and said: "Back to the history of stabbing, in the lower Tan Shen, a native of Le'an County, Le'an County, our Tan family is a small clan in Le'an, the ancestors are in the shade, and there is a sacrificial field offering school in the clan, so that the children of the clan can read and write, but that's all." ”

His face was flushed, but he still said: "Our Tan family is from a manu, and the ancestor was a manu in the Hengdi Shiyuan, and then he was fortunate to be redeemed, and by chance he came to Le'an County, and raised horses in the county government. Because of this background, the children of the clan have not been able to order products, and when I go to the banquet, Xiao Zhongzheng doesn't want to see us, let alone Zhongzhong and Da Zhongzheng. ”

"So the most prominent in the clan is my cousin Tan Jian, he works as a clerk in the county government, just a clerk who is not in the grade, because he does a good job, the county order of Le'an County promised him that when the main book retires, let him take over as the main bookkeeper," Tan Shen said: "For this matter, their family spent a lot of money, almost hollowing out the foundation, and the clan did not want to go, so they took the initiative to take on this matter." ”

"We spent more than 2.6 million yuan to finally get the position of the main book, but as soon as he took office, he shared the taxes, of which three taxes were newly added, and they were evenly distributed to each people, and each person had to pay 98 wen more than in previous years, and a family of five would have to pay 490 wen more, and most people have more than this population."

"This tax is too heavy, and the people can't afford it at all, so Tan Jian told the county order that he would appeal to the higher authorities and reduce this part of the tax." Tan Shen's eyes turned red when he said this, and he said: "But these three taxes were personally requested by the assassin Shi, how dare the county order be admonished?" ”

"The people of the county government asked each mile to collect taxes, Tan Mou is not talented, it is a mile of Zheng, the people under his jurisdiction, some people sold their daughters, some people left overnight with their burdens, and there are two families, they are really desperate, and the family is committed suicide......" Tan Shen said: "They are all villagers, many of them are relatives and friends of our same clan, there is really no way, we will hand them over first." ”

"We've counted the levels in it, but what about the rest of the world? I'm just in the middle and can't care so much, but Tan Jian is the main bookkeeper, and he can't ignore it. ”

"He finally persuaded the county commander to go to the county guard together, but the county guard didn't want to offend the assassin history, so he didn't agree to reduce it, it happened that the assassin was hunting near Le'an County during that time, and the county commander took Tan Jian to find the assassin history, and neither of them could come back."

Tan Shen wept, "I don't know where I heard about paying taxes on behalf of the villagers, saying that we were clever and kind, harboring evil intentions, and wanted to copy our Tan family." In the end, we scattered all our family wealth, asked the people around the assassin to intercede for us, and offered treasures to the assassin on our behalf, which made the assassin believe that we were not paying taxes on behalf of the villagers, but only lending money to the villagers to tide over the difficulties temporarily, and also charged high interest, without buying people's hearts. ”

Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help grinding his teeth and asked, "Then what?" ”

Tan Shen smiled bitterly and said: "Wang Tingshi and Liu Tingshi attacked Qingzhou, there were rebellions in Qingzhou, and the Assassin Shi retreated again and again, and just retreated to Le'an County, he was sure that our Tan family would also rebel, so he sent troops to surround us and want to kill us as thieves." ”

Zhao Hanzhang was already expressionless and asked, "How did you survive?" ”

"I gave him the Tan family's fields, houses and shops, plus my Tan family has two trade routes and three caravans, which can make money all the time, so I was 'recruited', but the assassin didn't allow us to live in Le'an anymore, and moved my entire clan to Yuncheng."

Tan Shen said: "On the road, as long as we encounter the enemy army, they fight, we will find a way to escape, but because there are many people, we can't escape together, under the dispersion, about half of the people who ran away, but they don't know life and death, and the rest, except for those who died on the road because of war and illness, there are eighty-two people who came to Yuncheng with the assassin history." ”

"I originally wanted to ask the general to open up and allow us to go back to Le'an's hometown," Tan Shen bowed deeply: "But now, I want to ask Zhao Tingshi for mercy and allow us to migrate to Yuzhou." ”