After eating dumplings, Shen Yinxing and Xu Wei carried a tube of bamboo salt to the car, and then slowly drove towards Changchun City under the expectant eyes of the Xu family.

Hao Yue counted, this time there are about 60 cylinders of bamboo salt, and it is estimated that it can be sold for more than 60 taels of silver.

Since Da Yuan has just been founded for a few days, and he has not yet paid the salt tax, he can still take advantage of a loophole now.

Now selling salt is low-cost and high-profit, and there is no need to pay taxes, simply put, two words, huge profits!

The last time the Xu family made money from selling salt, they tasted the sweetness, and in the past two days, people have been working overtime overnight like chicken blood, and they have become more and more energetic, almost forgetting to sleep and eat.

Haoyue summed it up, and it was still the same sentence, the money is in place, and the people are wasted!

Xu Jingyang didn't go to the city with Haoyue this time, but with a sad face, he was holding a stirring stick to help stir the salt soil, which was manual work, and every time he stirred it twice, he had to shake his sore arm.

Alas, Xu Jingyang sighed, there is no way, after all, he can't offend the finance minister at home...

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The little donkey clattered all the way towards Changchun City, and Xu Wei turned around the wicker in his hand and whipped it from time to time.

Shen Yinxing sat behind the donkey cart with Haoyue in his arms, and beside him was a basket of bamboo tubes of salt, and in order to prevent the salt from getting wet in contact with the air, a rattan lid was also stuffed on each bamboo tube.

Haoyue nestled in Shen Yinxing's arms, and the sun shone warmly on her body, making her a little drowsy.

The small road on the outskirts of Changchun City is relatively narrow, only allowing a car and horse to walk, if there is also a car and horse on the opposite side, then one side needs to give way.

Far away, Haoyue saw smoke and dust rising on the path ahead, and faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves.

It seemed that the comer and the donkey cart were going in the opposite direction.

Seeing this, Xu Wei drove the donkey cart under the tree next to him early, waiting for the person riding a horse on the opposite side to pass first.

"Drive! Drive! ”

I saw a tall jujube red horse rushing out of the smoke and dust, and on its back rode a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, the girl wore a felt hat, tied braids, and raised a horsewhip.

The girl was followed by a column of men and horses, who seemed to be in a hurry, and waved their whips to the sound of hunting.

This group of people is the royal family from Inner Mongolia, and they came to Dayuan this time to discuss joining forces against the Qiang people.

And the leading girl is the little princess Gejiamu of the Gegemu tribe in Inner Mongolia, she received the news yesterday, I heard that there are white wolves in this area, and there are few white wolves in the Central Plains, so as soon as she heard the news, she knew that the white wolf must be her Hu Liena.

She and the snow wolf Hu Liena grew up together since childhood, it can be said that the relationship is very deep, but I don't know what the reason, since she entered Changchun City, Hu Liena disappeared, no matter how to find it, I heard in the morning that someone found the traces of the white wolf in this area, so I rushed here.

Originally, Haoyue's donkey cart stopped on the side of the road early, and the two would not rush, as long as they waited for others to pass first, and then returned to the road.

As a result, I don't know what madness the stupid donkey pulling the cart had, and suddenly ran to the road and rushed at the horses.

The oncoming horse was like a cannonball, and the stupid donkey, like a gust of wind, pulled the cart and crashed it up without hesitation.

This scene happened too fast, everyone didn't expect it, Xu Wei, who was pulling the reins, was directly lifted out by the stupid donkey, Shen Yinxing and Hao Yue in the car didn't sit still, and their bodies were thrown back violently with inertia.

Fortunately, Shen Yinxing's reaction speed was fast enough, she protected Haoyue with one hand, and grabbed the edge of the car with the other, so she was not thrown out of the car.

The horse on the opposite side was also startled by the stupid donkey that suddenly collided, the front hooves jumped high, making a deafening neigh, Ge Jiamu on the horse's back pulled the reins suddenly, and the whole person and the straight horse body formed a 90° angle with the ground.

The horse is tall, and the stupid donkey pulling the cart is not as tall as the horse's legs, and the horse jumping in the air is directly two positions higher than the donkey.

The frightened horse went a little crazy, and smashed the moon on the donkey cart with iron hooves the size of a bowl.

Haoyue: "? ”

Seeing the horse's hooves that were about to fall like a hammer in front of her, Haoyue's heart froze.

No, big brother, it was the stupid donkey who came over to provoke you, why are you stepping on me?

Look at me, I'm a bully, right?

Still unreasonable?

Seeing that the horse's hooves were about to step on the women and children on the donkey cart, Ge Jiamu, who was riding on horseback, desperately clamped the horse's back and signaled it to stop quickly.

You must know that the angry horse is so powerful that if the horse's hooves are stepped on like this, it can go straight through the breasts and backs of women and children, and then trample them into a mess of mud.

However, the mad steed was already red-eyed, and did not listen to his master's orders at all, and smashed down with his iron hooves so high.

This scene also directly frightened the people next to her, Ge Jiamu saw that the matter was irreparable, and quickly closed her eyes, she couldn't bear to see the upcoming bloody scene.

However, what happened next shocked everyone.

After the horse's hooves smashed straight down, the woman holding the child subconsciously blocked it with her hand, and then lightly blocked the fatal blow.

What's going on?

Nothing happened?

After rubbing their eyes, everyone made sure of what was happening in front of them.

Yes, that's right, the falling horse's hooves were gently blocked by a woman's hand, and the point was that her movements were very casual, as if she had caught a small pebble flying in the air.

Everyone was amazed that they could stuff an egg in their mouths.

A woman directly resisted the powerful iron hooves with her hands?

This extremely absurd scene happened in front of my eyes.....

At this time, in the face of the crazy horse, Shen Yinxing's eyes also floated with a trace of killing intent.

That killing intent seemed to come from the abyss of hell, and it was extremely cold.

Animals are sharper than humans and can perceive things that humans can't.

The frantic horse could feel the danger signal emanating from Shen Yinxing's body.

It was a very terrifying momentum, a murderous aura cultivated in a sea of corpses and blood.

was stared at by that kind of gaze, as if it was himself who was choked by the throat in the next second.

Then the steed ceased to be mad, and its hooves were raised high, and it fell gently, and then nothing happened.

The stupid donkey was also shocked by the murderous aura on Shen Yinxing's body, and he didn't go crazy anymore, and obediently pulled the car and retreated to the side of the road.

When Ge Mujia and Hao Yue saw this scene, they were also stunned.

Yes? What just happened?

......

At the same time, Mangrove Village, which also lives not far from the suburbs of Changchun City, came to a group of uninvited guests.

The man in charge was a messenger of the government office, followed by a team of officers armed with sticks.

Mangrove Village is a small village in Hebei Province, where the people of the village live by growing herbs and cotton in the saline-alkali land.

The strong men in this village were requisitioned by Daxing to fight with the Japanese people before, and then everyone never returned, they all died on the battlefield, and the rest were some orphans and the old, weak, sick and disabled, according to the words of the second housekeeper of the Gongsun family, it was very easy to bully.

After King Yuan took charge of Hebei, he did not show special sympathy for these war orphans, after all, they fought for Daxing before, not for Dayuan.

Because no one in the village was a soldier, the taxes in Mangrove Village were different from those in villages that implemented the military field system, and the taxes in Mangrove Village were very heavy, and they paid all kinds of miscellaneous taxes at two ends in three days.

When the villagers of Mangrove Village saw the servants coming, they immediately understood that this group of people was here to collect taxes again, so they hurriedly hid in the house.

Seeing this, the officers who were experienced in collecting taxes stepped forward and smashed the door without saying a word, and then broke in and pulled people out.

Half an hour later, more and more villagers in Mangrove Village were pulled out, and those who walked slowly were inevitably hit with a stick on their backs.

In a short time, a wail rang out over the village.

The village chief of Mangrove Village rushed over with a cane when he heard the news, and waved his hand again and again: "Poor master! Poor master, what are you doing here, didn't you just pay your taxes a few days ago? ”

"Before, it was a grain tax, and now we have to levy military rations, the Qiang people are in rebellion to occupy northern Henan and central Henan, and they are about to arrive in the Ganjiang River in a few days, and the saint has gathered 300,000 troops to contend with it, and the army will be collected when the army is formed, and your village will collect 300 stone of military rations according to the regulations. Today, not a single grain of these 300 stone military rations can be missing. ”

"Three hundred stones!?" The village chief of Mangrove Village turned white when he heard this: "The salinization of the land has become more serious this year, and there is basically no harvest in the field, and people are living on the old grain of previous years. ”

Before the village chief could finish speaking, a voice interjected.

"Boss! They still have food in stock! We searched a lot, and this group of Diao people just didn't want to pay food. "An errand officer brought out half a bag of grain from a farmer's house.

"Poor master, that's the last ration for our winter!"

A skinny old farmer is trying to get the grain back.

"Get out!" The old farmer just wanted to get up in pain, and hit him with a stick, and the messenger scolded while beating: "If you dare to obstruct official business, you will be arrested and punished in the yamen!" ”

The villagers around him dared not speak out, so they could only let the wolves raid them.

"Boss! All the food I have collected is here! One of the servants patted the basket for grain.

The leading cha master saw that there were no three baskets of grain found in the entire village, and frowned: "This group of Diao people must be hiding their secrets!" Call me! ”

At the sound of an order, the families who did not pay enough food were taken to the open field and beaten with sticks.

Looking at this scene, the village chief of Mangrove Village trembled with anger.

At this moment, the second housekeeper of the Gongsun family came over with a few loads of grain, and the person behind him was Lao Mengtou.

The Gongsun family is a famous family in Hebei, and when they meet the second housekeeper, they naturally have to give some face.

The poor master arched his hand towards the second housekeeper and said, "Why did you go to the countryside today?" ”

The pot-bellied second housekeeper stepped forward and whispered a few words to the poor master, and the poor master immediately ordered his subordinates after hearing this: "Don't fight, stop, the second housekeeper has something to say." ”

As soon as the poor men stopped, the women cried and stepped forward to help the half-dead family members, and the field was in chaos.

"The villagers are all quiet and listen to me say a few words." The second housekeeper shook the pile of deed paper in his hand: "Ming people don't say dark words, today I am here to collect the land, everyone sells the land deed to me in exchange for grain, five stones of rice per acre, this is almost the New Year, everyone pays taxes and has food for the New Year." ”

The villagers said angrily: "One acre of land only gives five stone rice, you are taking advantage of the fire to rob, it is a robbery!" ”

The second housekeeper waved his hand: "You don't grow anything in the saline-alkali land, so you can barely collect some herbs, there are already a lot of five stone rice, don't be ignorant." ”

The villagers fell silent after hearing this, the land is the lifeblood of the peasants, even if they survive this time, there will be no land to plant in the coming year, how can people live.

Seeing that the villagers bowed their heads and were silent, no one moved. The leading messenger turned around and ordered: "Continue to fight me until this group of Diao people has enough food." ”

The purpose of the government and the local gentry is to force the villagers to hand over their fields, and under the guise of collecting military rations, they can't find flaws on the surface, which is really clever.

After the words fell, the servants below raised their sticks and hit the villagers, an old farmer was beaten to a coma, his wife had to hurriedly go back to the house to get the title deed, tearfully handed it to the second housekeeper, and then exchanged five stone rice and immediately handed over the military rations, which saved the people.

Seeing that he couldn't hide today, the villagers also sold the title deed one after another, exchanged some grain and handed it over to the poor master.

The second housekeeper who received the title deed on the side happily closed his mouth, holding his bulging belly, like a locust sucking blood.

People who have no land are homeless, although the land in their hands used to be saline-alkali land, and they could grow crops anyway, but now they don't even have land, how can people live?

The second housekeeper is now smiling, he is going to acquire and annex a large number of saline-alkali land through this means, and then use it to try to refine soil salt, if he can refine successfully, then he is a great achievement, and he will be appreciated by the head of the Gongsun family in a few days, and then become the position of the chief steward.

The big butler who had a straight face all day long pressed him everywhere, which made him really unhappy.

Now that he has a large area of saline-alkali land, he grabbed another Xu family member and asked about the production method, and he had another bargaining chip for promotion.

"You guys come here." The second housekeeper beckoned to the family behind him: "A few of you and Lao Mengtou will go to the vicinity of Xu's house to squat, and then tie up someone who knows how to boil soil salt." ”

"No!"

Mangrove Village is not far from Erlitun, and the families quickly rushed to the Xu family's way to the saline-alkali land.

Then one by one they lurked in the grass and waited for their prey to appear.

At this moment, Xu Ajiu, who was walking to the campsite alone with salt soil on his back, entered the family's field of vision.

"This person seems to be the son of that Captain Xu, I usually see him in and out of the tent, he must know how to boil soil salt!" Lao Mengtou, who was lying on the grass, pointed at Xu Ajiu.

The family nodded: "Well, it's him, he looks thin and weak and easy to bully, it is estimated that he will be able to recruit everything if he is scared." ”

After the conspiracy was completed, several people determined the victim candidate, so they took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and pounced on Xu Ajiu.