After passing the finger gap heights, you will arrive at the boundary of Chen County.

Langzhong County is in the southwest of Chen County, and if you want to reach Langzhong County, you have to pass through Chen County.

Huang Zhang's entourage was about thirty people, and in order to hurry, Huang Zhang did not march with great fanfare, but just set off along the fastest road to Langzhong County.

It was precisely because of this that he missed the Chen Jun Taishou who was originally going to receive him.

But with Huang Zhang's temperament, it's better to miss it.

Sanyang Dam in Chenjun.

This is a relatively rich area of Chen County, with endless farmland, vertical and horizontal traffic, and the flow of people who will meet and meet, the existence of these factors makes Sanyangba a relatively good development area in Chen County.

Lao Yang has been from Sanyangba for generations, and his ancestors have a piece of land, although he is not fat, but he can still support his family.

But today, Lao Yang is a little worried.

"Is anyone there?"

Just when Lao Yang was worried, someone suddenly started knocking on the door.

Lao Yang was a little scared, but he still opened the door with trepidation.

After opening the door, there were two people standing outside, a man and a woman, both of whom looked relatively young, but they were very well-dressed, and they looked like ordinary people.

"Old man, we are passing passengers, and we want to drink water under your pretext!"

Lao Yang looked left and right, and after making sure that there were only two people, he nodded and invited these two people in.

"Where are you two going?"

"Langzhong County!"

"Langzhong County? I've heard that it's not very peaceful. ”

Huang Zhang smiled.

"Maybe if we go, it'll be too peaceful there."

After entering Chen County, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, he made a surprise attack on Langzhong County, and Huang Zhang temporarily separated from Chen Lin.

He asked Chen Lin to take the official road, and he took Hu Yi'er to take the path, crossed over, and met in Langzhong County when the time came.

Chen Lin didn't want to agree to such a risky move, but there was no way, Huang Zhang had just praised him, he couldn't just disobey the will of the eldest prince after being praised, right? In addition, he also knew Hu Yier's skills, so he agreed.

In this way, Huang Zhang and Hu Yier arrived at Sanyangba while traveling alone.

Hearing Huang Zhang's words, Lao Yang also smiled helplessly.

"That boy is just joking."

"Hey! Old man, are you alone in this house? ”

Hearing Huang Zhang ask about the situation at home, Lao Yang couldn't help but sigh!

"Alas, old man, my surname is Yang, and I have a daughter at home, and I am considered to be good-looking in ten miles and eight townships."

"Then why don't you see your daughter?"

As soon as Huang Zhang finished speaking, Hu Yier glanced at him!

"I'm not afraid of this son's jokes, my daughter, who is hiding in the mountains now."

"Hiding in the mountains? Why? ”

As soon as Huang Zhang heard this, he began to feel inexplicable. This old man looks like his family is okay, and there is no war in this Chen County, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like he needs to hide everywhere, right?

"You don't know, the government heard that there is a big prince in the imperial court who is coming, saying that it is to show the hospitable side of our Chen County people and force us to pay a filial piety tax."

"Filial piety tax?"

Hearing this tax name, Huang Zhang's face immediately changed.

This is a harsh tax, and it is shameful to use his name!

"The imperial court didn't set up these taxes, and the officials of Chen County dared to collect them?"

After Huang Zhang finished speaking, Lao Yang said helplessly; "I'm afraid that the prince is from the capital, I don't know the situation over the years, over the years, the government has collected all kinds of taxes under various slogans at every turn, if you don't pay it, it is anti-tax, and the people of the government will immediately put you in prison!"

"Since this happened, no one went to the capital to report it?"

"Why not, it's useless! When he arrived in the capital, he was immediately arrested as soon as he arrived at the yamen to shout grievances. Those officials in the capital protect each other, today I heard that you are going to sue, and the next day I will give you a charge, if you have a hard mouth, I am afraid that you will lose your life! After this back and forth, who would dare to go to Beijing to sue? ”

Hearing Lao Yang say this, Huang Zhang reacted. In the past, Sun Miao was responsible for the taxation of Su Nei. He thought that Sun Miao was just filling his pockets for the third child and favoritism, but he didn't expect Sun Miao's casual embezzlement to be so poisonous in these places!

"Before the autumn harvest, the government just collected a harvest tax, and this is just the beginning of spring, and it is coming again. Last year, the government collected all kinds of taxes, and the family could not take out the silver, so they borrowed silver from the Zhou family, the landlord of Sanyangba, hoping to spend this year. As he spoke, Lao Yang looked desperate.

"Then why is your daughter hiding in the mountains?" Hu Yier said curiously.

"It's not the Zhou family, after hearing that the government was going to collect this tax, I forced me to pay back the money, saying that I would pay off my daughter's debts if I didn't pay it back, where could I take out this money, so I had to let Mao Mao go into the mountains to hide, alas, how can the poor live in this world!"

"Do you owe a lot of money? Do you want to take your daughter to arrive? ”

As soon as he heard this, Lao Yang became angry.

"You said that I would borrow more from the government's taxes, how much can I borrow? There was not much money in the first place, but the Zhou family knew that I would not be able to pay it back for a while, so the interest continued to increase, and now I owe the debt to the Zhou family, I am afraid that I will not be able to repay the land sale. No, they put Mao Mao's idea on the spot, saying that if I don't marry Mao Mao to his stupid son with dementia, they will arrest me and take me to the government. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Yang became more and more angry the more he spoke.

"I don't know what that guy has in mind, huh! What is marrying his stupid son, it is nothing more than wanting to take Maomao as his own, the old guy looks at our Maomao's eyes are not normal, he said on the surface that he is looking for a daughter-in-law for his stupid son, and he doesn't know what the idea is behind his back, phew! Jackals! ”

After listening to Lao Yang, Hu Yier looked at Huang Zhang with a worried face!

Indeed, the situation of the old Yang family is too miserable.

But what Huang Zhang thinks now is that what happened to Lao Yang is definitely not an isolated case.

If the government continues to do this, I am afraid that it will not only be Lao Yang, but also the thousands of people in Chen County and even Su State.

"Are there many people who have suffered the same as you?"

Hearing Huang Zhang's words, Lao Yang shook his head.

"This is actually not much, don't look at the Sanyangba people, two or three hundred people, ninety percent of them are tenants of the Feng family, and only we, the retail households, have their own land and can rely on this meager land to support themselves. If the people in the government don't go to them to collect taxes in the face of the landlords, then the tax will naturally be distributed to us retail investors. ”

After speaking, Lao Yang was still a little unwilling.

Now there are not many retail investors like him in Chen County, either they can't hold on to selling land and then attach themselves to the landlords and wealthy families in various places, or they sell land and then move their families.

But no matter what, the land in their hands just can't be kept.

Now Lao Yang is also thinking about how to sell the land, and then go to the mountains to find his daughter Maomao, and go to Zhongping County next door to have a look. Of course, he only heard about it, and he didn't know it himself, but he had to try his luck, what if he did?