When the merchant lined up to leave the city gate with his burden, the soldiers guarding the city already recognized him, opened the bamboo basket and looked at it, and waved him out after making sure that he was not carrying any prohibited items.

The merchant bent down with a smile on his face and bowed his head, and walked out with big strides.

The two teams on the right outside the city were inspecting the team that had bought buns with him, and the two stewards couldn't help but smile when they saw each other.

They saw a half-grown boy carrying a bucket of soup coming out behind the merchant, and as soon as he came out, he went straight to the crowd, selling hot soup, a penny and a bowl, apparently made by the family and offered to sell it.

The two stewards are both businessmen, because they heard that the Wang family was coming to Luoyang, so they found a relationship to take refuge in them, and everyone on the way here was worried, not knowing what the scene would be in Luoyang.

Today, they came to Luoyang to the right place, the general is tolerant of businessmen, and the soldiers guarding the door are so indulgent to merchants, and the environment in Luoyang looks even better than Yuzhou.

It's time for a hundred wastes again......

Sure enough, it is the same as the rumors in Xiping, it is really full of gold.

Zhao Hanzhang walked forward along the team, and when he saw the people in front of him, it was dark in the morning, and only the fire burning on the ground emitted a dazzling light.

The soldiers were holding torches to check the goods on the car, and after checking them one by one, they handed the list to the students invited by Taixue, and they quickly typed the list on the abacus, and it took a long time to calculate the tax they should pay when they entered the city.

A team of stewards took out something wrapped in oiled paper from his bosom and said loudly: "Your honor, this is the receipt of my lord's battle to help defend the country." ”

The convoys on the left and right who were inspecting looked at each other with admiration and envy.

Zhao Hanzhang officially defined the battle of destroying the Xiongnu and collecting Shile as a battle to defend the country, and when he fought this war, he encountered a great drought and locusts in the north, and the disaster was the most serious.

So there is a lack of money and food.

Ji Yuan and Zhao Ming have been forced to pay taxes many times in the back, and these businessmen have naturally been forcibly levied, and later complained, Zhao Hanzhang wrote a letter to Ji Yuan and Zhao Ming after thinking about it, so that they can overcome the rigidity with softness, grief, and reason.

The rich should be allowed to pay more, and the pressure should not be passed on to the people.

She proposed that anyone who was willing to contribute money and food to the country would be given a receipt by the imperial court, and in the future, when she was able, she could use the receipt to recover the principal and interest.

It is equivalent to the fact that the money is borrowed by the state and them.

Zhao Hanzhang naturally has no money to repay them now, so after discussion, she just issued an edict not long ago, allowing merchants with receipts to deduct taxes.

Even, with this receipt, they can still see Zhao Hanzhang.

Everyone looked at it with envy and jealousy.

The inspector carefully checked it, and after determining that the slip was opened by the imperial court, he went to Zhao Zheng and Zhao Erlang, and said: "The imperial court has indeed issued an edict, can this tax be deducted?" ”

Zhao Erlang didn't think about it and said: "Since my sister has issued an edict, I naturally have to obey it, so I will arrive." ”

"But I don't know how to record it."

Zhao Erlang said: "Just take an account book and write it down." ”

"How is the ledger recorded? Once it can't be fully deducted, next time they may not be deducted in Luoyang, how can other counties keep accounts? Who will end up with this account? ”

Zhao Erlang: "What did my sister say?" ”

"The edict only says that the account belongs to the treasury, but I think, someone deducts it in Luoyang, someone deducts it in Xiping, he is in Luoyang this time, and next time he changes to Xiping, how can this be calculated?"

Zhao Zheng thought for a while and said: "You write down this matter first, record the amount of deduction tonight on the list, and wait for me to go back and discuss it with others, so that they can come to the county government office in three days to handle the closing letter." ”

The other party looked at Zhao Erlang.

Zhao Erlang said: "Listen to the county." ”

Only then did the other party turn around and go down.

Zhao Zheng actually already has a charter in his heart, but this matter is important, and it has to be approved by Zhao Hanzhang.

He pulled Zhao Erlang aside and explained it in detail, but this matter was a bit complicated, Zhao Erlang tried to understand it a few times but still didn't understand, so he said irritably: "Why do you have to tell Sister A, don't you say no?" ”

Zhao Zheng: "You are the county commander, you have the right to meet the general, I don't." ”

"You just come to my house, the fifth uncle is here, don't you have to come to the door to visit?" Zhao Erlang said: "When you want to see it, you can see it." ”

Zhao Zheng thought for a while, lowered his voice and said: "But there must be a lot of people who go, this receipt was not available to the Zhao clan at the beginning, discuss this matter in the mansion, I am afraid that it will provoke trouble, so let's talk outside." ”

When Zhao Hanzhang was fighting, Zhao Song came to the door, and the people of the Zhao family paid for it, but there was no receipt at that time, after all, the army in Zhao Hanzhang's hand was called the Zhao family army, and it originally existed to protect the Zhao family's Wu Fort.

They are now equivalent to fighting the world with Zhao Hanzhang, and naturally they will not say that Zhao Hanzhang will return the money and food given.

Others are just fine, but the Seventh Uncle Ancestor has always been treacherous, if you mention it......

When no one mentions it, everyone doesn't think much about it, but when people mention it, everyone is afraid that they will not be convinced.

Zhao Erlang said: "Then I'll call Sister out, you explain it to her, what you said, I only understand half of it, why the county town designated for deduction has to offset what taxes in the public account, there are too many, I can't remember." ”

Zhao Zheng thought for a while and said: "In the afternoon, the decree came back from the water mill, and I didn't see the general return to the city today, so she must have been delayed, you pay attention for a while, and stop the general when you see it, and I'll talk about it then." ”

Zhao Erlang proudly raised his chin and said: "I knew that Sister Ah didn't come back, and I've been keeping an eye on it, so I don't have to worry that I won't miss it." ”

Zhao Hanzhang had already dismounted at this time, threw the horse to Zeng Yue behind him, pinched his waist to lift the cloth on a car and looked, "What is this?" ”

The guard, who was watching them buy buns on tiptoe, turned around and immediately stopped, "What, what, who told you to turn over our things?" ”

When the steward heard the shout, he immediately left the merchant who was selling buns and trotted up, and saw that although she was dressed simply, the fabric was good, and there were more than a dozen guards behind her, all of whom had horses, and the expression on her face immediately changed.

He glared at the guard, "What to shout, what to do if you scare the guests?" ”

He smiled and saluted Zhao Hanzhang and said: "The servants in the family have no complaints, they offended the girl, and asked the girl to forgive them." ”

Zhao Hanzhang shook his head with a smile, indicating that it was okay, and asked, "What is this?" I seem to smell an aroma. ”

"Girl has a good nose," the steward smiled and lifted the oilcloth, opened a box, and there was a layer of oiled paper covering it, he carefully lifted a corner, opened the cloth bag inside, grabbed a handful and showed her, "This is peppercorns." ”

Zhao Hanzhang stretched out his hand to take it, smelled it, tasted another one, and couldn't help but say: "Good thing, did you also follow the convoy from Yuzhou?" ”

(End of chapter)