Chapter 1116: Clever Tricks
"Hmph, yellow-mouthed child, speak wildly! Even if you are strong in demon hunting and martial arts, even a few hundred of you want to collect tax money from millions of people's homes?
Do you think those people are easy to deal with? If you don't take advantage of the autumn harvest season to bring the grain back by boat, as long as it is dried in their homes, you will never receive any more grain!"
The county commander scolded, no matter how much you can fight the Demon Hunter Guard, can you still kill millions of people?
"The county lord is right, even if you can fight the Demon Hunter Guard, you can still kill millions of ordinary people?
Not to mention anything else, even if hundreds of thousands of families of food are given to you, you won't come back? Captain Zuo, you have to think twice!"
The master tried hard to persuade that there are some things that cannot be solved by force alone.
"Don't worry about the two of you, our young master already has a clever plan to deal with it, you just need to eat and sleep well, and help us check the tax and silver when the time comes!"
Zuo Feng said confidently that he had already received the tips and tricks given by the young master, and he had expected these problems a long time ago. It's really a stupid person doing stupid things, since ancient times, I don't understand the truth that I don't drink water according to the bull's head, and the tax money collected by Xingshi is not enough to pay the salaries of the servants, so why are you still doing this useless work?
Zuo Feng had a full chest, and gave an order to more than a thousand people:
"A thousand of us went to a thousand villages, and we told the common people that if anyone rushes to exchange grain for tax silver and deliver it to you before the Midyear Festival, all taxes and silver will be reduced by half!
If any official dares to come out and make trouble, he will be killed on the spot!"
Everyone agreed in unison, and the ten squads were divided according to the townships, and the squad leader sat in the center and commanded, each with the roster of the county government, and rushed towards the major towns and towns.
Along the way, when you meet a servant, you will be beaten, and if you slap down, you will cut off your hands and feet, not only to kill chickens and monkeys, but more importantly, to announce to the people:
Cangbei County has been taken over by my Demon Hunter! Thousands of refining mages flew in the air, which was already eye-catching, and the fight was fought when they saw the officials along the way, which attracted the applause of the common people.
They all stepped forward to inquire about the situation, and the alchemists sent out the written notices one after another and posted them in the most conspicuous places.
When they heard that the Demon Hunter Guard came out to take over the county government and that the tax and silver were halved, they immediately moved their minds and went back to the village with notices to tell each other.
The spirit refining mages followed in, and deliberately selected the landlords with heads and faces in the town to start, let them take the lead, and things would be easy to do.
Zuo Feng took a hundred people to a small town called Heishui Town, and asked the demon hunters to act separately, bringing all the dozens of village baozheng under his jurisdiction over, and specially chose to discuss matters in the Land Mountain Temple.
The spirit refining mages flew in the sky, flying with an ordinary person, and it took an hour to go back and forth, and only after dozens of Baozheng and the big landlords in the town had gathered, Zuo Feng slowly walked in.
Zhong Bao Zheng He had seen people who could fly to the sky, and when he saw that more than 100 people were saluting Zuo Feng, he panicked when he landed, and they all knelt down and shouted to Zuo Feng:
"Immortals."
Zuo Feng laughed, waved his hand at everyone, so that there was no need to make this big salute, and explained with a smile:
"I'm just a small captain of the Demon Hunter Dian Cang Clan, and I'm still far from the immortals."
"What is a person who can fly to the heavens and the earth not a god? What mortal can fly like a bird?"
Some big landlords asked enviously, now that they have no worries about food and clothing, and they are older, they have begun to be fascinated by the way of cultivating immortals, but unfortunately there is no famous teacher to guide them, and they have never been able to grasp the essentials.
Now that I have seen so many masters flying to the sky, how can I not be curious.
"In our cultivation world, only when we reach the Immortal Venerable Realm of the God King Realm, then we can be called immortals, we are more than two hundred years old, and we only have a half-saint realm, and we have no chance with immortals in this life!"
Zuo Feng sighed with feeling, but after thinking about it, as long as he does this matter well, the young master will reward himself with a holy medicine, although it will be successful
If you can't be a god king immortal, it's not bad to be a true god and true saint who can live for five or six hundred years.
In an instant good mood, he stretched out his hand and waved towards everyone, motioning for everyone to sit down.
"More than two hundred
is still so young at the age of the year, this is a real fairy! If I were seventy or eighty years old and you were so young, I would be content to live a hundred years old!"
The white-faced landlords on both sides sighed sincerely, but unfortunately with his physical condition, it was difficult to live to seventy.
"Old man, you only saw thieves eating meat, but you didn't see thieves being beaten! Don't look at our monks, who are more than 200 years old, and still look like a young man. In fact, half of the past two hundred years have been spent cultivating, and half of the time has been spent fighting demonic beasts, and I can't even sleep all year round.
Besides, how strong their monsters are! Two hundred years later, the ten friends who joined the Demon Hunter Guard with me at the beginning, and I was the only one who survived, do you still want to go to the Demon Hunter Guard to become a god and become an immortal?"
Zuo Feng retorted with a smile, as soon as the big landlord heard that he had to cultivate every day, and he also had to fight with the fierce demonic beasts, he was so frightened that he hurriedly shook his head and refused:
"Immortal, you are the old man, I am only sixty years old this year, much younger than you!"
The rest of Baozheng were only forty or fifty years old, and when they saw that the big landlords all called themselves juniors, they hurriedly called themselves juniors.
Zuo Feng smiled and didn't refute, according to their age, these people are not even their own grandchildren.
Zuo Feng slowly walked to the gate of the mountain temple, looked at the golden rice fields under the mountain, and said leisurely:
"I remember when I was in my twenties and first entered the Demon Hunter Guard, your entire Cangbei County was a barren battlefield, and at that time, it was here that ten friends and I slaughtered the first demonic beast in our lives.
I remember there was also a twenty-year-old girl, tall, fair, and delicate with two big dimples when she laughed, which was very infectious, and I still remember the way she laughed."
Everyone looked at Zuo Feng with a knowing smile, thinking that he was interested in the girl, and hurriedly asked:
"Girls with dimples are generally beautiful, did the two end up tying the knot and become a pair of fairy dependents?"
"I've seen those two dimples once, because in the process of hunting the Drifting Ox, she was splashed on her face and disfigured by the iron juice of the Burning Ox in order to save our lives.
From then on, she lived with a mask, and I never saw those two big dimples again."
Zuo Feng said calmly, his tone was flat, but the melancholy and sadness in it filled the entire mountain temple. Even the two attendants who followed Zuo Feng widened their eyes in surprise, no wonder Captain Zuo is still unmarried.
"You Demon Hunter Guard are like clouds, and there are a lot of strange flowers and plants on the Demon Beast Mountain Range, can't you still cure a burn?"
The big landlord asked in surprise, didn't he say that the gods are omnipotent?
"There are many exotic flowers and plants that can treat burns, but unfortunately she didn't find them until she died. Strange flowers and plants grow on the sacred mountain of the sacred mountain, where can she be a little body forging warlock to pick it?
Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. Only the Xuanjie Holy Mountain grows strange flowers and plants, she didn't even break through the Hongjie Mountain Range, where can she see strange flowers and plants?
When she was forty or fifty years old, she was eaten by a Hong-rank demonic beast, and I didn't even see the bones, and finally found this in the demonic beast's feces."
Zuo Feng took out a golden mask from Chu Yu, which was already deformed.
Everyone was silent, this was eaten alive by the demonic beast, and there was not even any bone dregs left, only this indigestible golden mask remained, and the tooth marks on it were clearly visible.
Zuo Feng walked back slowly, the melancholy on his face disappeared instantly, and said to the confused Baozheng and the landlord:
"Do you know how you got the fertile land you planted now? It's thousands of dimple girls, thousands of demon hunters, with their lives and blood
Taken from the hands of the Monster.
How many orphans and widows have we had waiting for the rice to fall?
And how many gray-haired old people are waiting to be supported?
The imperial court and the Xuanyuan royal family lay in the courtyard of the mansion and collected fifty percent of the tax silver, and took it to spend the sky and wine, took it to raise the emperor's relatives and relatives, and took it to raise wild seeds for His Majesty Emperor Wu.
And the orphaned mother of our Demon Hunter Guardian is only
You can wait for the rice to come to the pot, you say, if we who are alive in the Demon Hunter Guard, if we don't make decisions for orphans and widows, who will call the shots for them?"
Zuo Feng pointed in the direction of the county government office and reprimanded angrily:
"A small county government has collected fifty percent of your tax silver, but in the end it can't make ends meet, and you have to find a money bank to borrow money to pay food!
None of them can make a fortune of their own, and the orphans and widows of our Demon Hunter Guard will still be able to hope for it in the future?
So this time, our Demon Hunter Guard went down the mountain, that is, to take over the corrupt and corrupt county government, since their Xuanyuan Imperial Family can't control these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, then we Demon Hunter Guard will take care of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, listen up, we, the young master of the Demon Hunter Guard, have issued an order to fully take over the right to collect taxes and silver from the state capital and county government of 700,000 within a year.
From now on, as long as the good land is the one that our demon hunters have brought down, all the taxes will be halved, and any official dares to make trouble, as long as you set off this firework, our demon hunters will arrive within a quarter of an hour, and you will not be responsible for the rest."
"Half the tax? Are you telling the truth, my lord?"
The big landlord and Baozheng stood up in shock, this is a great thing! This year happens to be a good year, and if you leave two and a half more, you can at least survive two small disaster years in a row!
"How can the order issued by our Demon Hunter Guard Young Master himself be fake? Besides, we don't collect two and a half percent of the tax silver to pay the Demon Hunters, we take one percent ourselves, and another ten percent is used to relieve the hungry people, and half percent is used to build river embankments.
Build those rotten fields that have fallen into disrepair and use them to house the homeless and hungry people, and from now on, you will never have to worry about their hard-earned food being stolen by them."
Zuo Feng smiled and continued to announce the good news, and when he heard that the Demon Hunter came forward to appease those hungry people, several large landlords who had been suffering all the year round immediately applauded, and a sense of excitement about meeting a confidant instantly filled his chest, and he said excitedly:
"These hungry people can't pay their taxes and silver, and they are forced to hide in the mountains to find wild fruits and beasts to fill their stomachs, and I have already raised my opinions with the county master and master.
You can't solve the problem by force alone, you fight him to hide, you go and he comes again, just by increasing the number of servants to maintain order, the hungry people who turn back can't be eliminated, but instead raise tens of thousands of more officials in vain, isn't that stealing chickens and not eating rice?
Build river embankments and canals for disaster relief, your young master is a knowledgeable person!"
"Then naturally, our young master is both civil and military, familiar with history books, and he is also from a civilian background, how can he not be an expert when he sees big things since he was a child?"
Zuo Feng said proudly, Ye Congwen's trick for himself can be said to be the right medicine for the case, only pinching the court seven inches, the moment he saw the trick, he knew that the demon hunter had won.
Next, as long as the Xuanyuan Imperial Family's counterattack is resisted, the entire Great Xia Dynasty, except for the imperial capital and the thirty-six county palaces, which are the areas that the emperor has beaten down, all the state capitals and county governments will fall into the hands of the Demon Hunter Guard.
"By the way, who is your young master?"
"This is kept secret for the time being, when the time is ripe, he will reveal his true identity to the world, anyway, with his cultivation speed against the sky, everyone here can see it!
From now on, please spread the good news of the halving of the tax to the ears of every villager, the preferential tax period of our Demon Hunter is only one month, and there is a payment point in each village, starting from today, the levy will be halved within 30 days, and after this preferential period, the original price will be restored at that time!"