Seeing this scene, Gao Yiming was a little dissatisfied, the county official, as the parent official of the people, actually bullied the people so much, since ancient times, they have been wronged and debtors, only mediocre people will harm other people's families, it seems that this county official is not a good bird, and then he is ready to stay and take a look.

Back on the street, looking at the calm street, there is nothing on the face, but if you look closely, you will find that there are county officials, three or three, two by two, one with an abacus and one with an account book, and it seems that they are collecting taxes from the small stalls and shops on the street, and occasionally have quarrels with the stall owners, but they can always achieve the final victory, but after they leave, the angry stall owners will spit on them.

"This boss is invited." Gao Yiming came to a stall that had just been taxed.

"The guest officer is polite, where do I dare to call myself the boss, do you want to buy something?"

"What do you do?"

"I have a lot of foreign rouge gouache and some spices here."

"Hmm-I'll see, it just so happens that my mother-in-law at home can also use it."

When the boss heard him say this, he knew that there was a play in this business, so people became enthusiastic, and naturally they talked more.

"Business has been getting worse and worse these years."

"Oh? Why is that? Now the tax rate of our dynasty should be the lowest in all dynasties, and the imperial court also decreed that there can only be one tax in the whole country, and you are the national tax. ”

"We all know what you said, but it was an order from the imperial court, and I don't know anything else, but it won't work with us."

"Oh? So how many taxes do we have here? ”

"There are more than 10 kinds, you have to pay the gate tax to enter the city, you have to pay the land tax on both sides of the street, you have to pay the pollution fee for livestock to, you have to pay the noise tax when you scream, everything is 17 or 8 kinds."

"Damn it!" Gao Yiming's face was gloomy and a little scary, and when Zhou Hou looked at him like this, he knew that he was very angry, and pulled him with his jade hand.

Gao Yiming continued to ask: "What is the basis of this county order to dare to act so recklessly?"

"I heard that it is a relative of the queen of the dynasty."

Zhou Hou was a little anxious when he heard it: "Master-"

"Don't worry about Feng'er, who doesn't have a few unscrupulous relatives, but things are not necessarily, let's take a look." He said to the stall owner again: "Thank you boss, this box of pink rouge is good, wrap it for me."

"Okay, take it for the guest officer."

Gao Yiming handed the rouge to Zhou Hou, and the line followed the tax collector for a long time, and the situation was almost the same as what the first stall owner said. However, after careful questioning, I inquired clearly, the county official here is surnamed Yuan, called Yuan Buliang, and is a relative of Yuan Guifei's family in the palace, which is right, Zhou Hou's family is from the capital, and Yuan Guifei's hometown is here.

However, it is still what Gao Yiming said, who doesn't have a bad relative in the family, so he still advocates talking about things.

In order to find out what taxes there were, Gao Yiming asked Han Zanzhou to buy an ox cart, and he was going to try how many cats there were. Then he bought some firewood in the streets, pretending to go into the city to sell it, and then went to the tax collector.

"Stop, don't look at it, yes! Let's just talk about you-" There was no accident, Gao Yiming was stopped by those tax collectors.

"Where did it come from?"

"Gengjiazhuang outside the city." Gao Yiming didn't know what villages were nearby, but in later life, he had a friend who lived in Geng Village at the foot of Shaomu Mountain, so he said that Gengjiazhuang was a village, and the tax collector would care where he came from, and he habitually asked.

"Look at your old cow pulling it down the street, you pay the sanitation bill."

"Yes, yes—I don't know how much silver."

"One hundred texts."

"Ahh So much, how much does my cart of firewood sell. ”

"Then I don't care, this is set by our county magistrate, if you don't pay it, your ox cart will be confiscated, and I'll take a look at your tax stamps for entering the city."

"What tax stamp?"

"It's the receipt you gave you after you paid your taxes."

He is the first to be seen by such a hard way to collect private taxes.

"I waited at the gate of the city early in the morning, and when I first opened the door, the door was chaotic, so I haven't paid the tax yet."

"Alright! It turned out to be a bad man, but now you make up the tax, and your bankruptcy squeaks non-stop, and you also pay the noise tax, a total of one or two silver. ”

Your uncle, how much can this car of firewood sell? At most, it's only seven or eight hundred wen, and you dare to charge one or two taxes.

"This firewood hasn't been sold yet, why don't I give you the firewood for free to deduct your taxes?"

"What do we want you to firewood for? It's worth a few bucks, and if you don't have money, you can do it, so leave the ox cart behind. ”

"Don't, I only have this cow at home, and I still rely on it to work."

"You are an old poor sour, don't you eat and drink when you toast, don't you know each other, we will arrest you for the crime of resisting law enforcement, and squat in the room."

"Uncle, raise your noble hand."

"Uncle's hands are very expensive, and they are also high, you have to take out the things that make the master put down his hands."

"Really not, do you think this will work, how about paying the tax when I sell the firewood and make up for it?"

"Who has the kung fu to wait for you, and you won't pay taxes if you can't sell it out?"

"That's not what it meant."

"What's not it, I think this kid is not honest, head, he will be honest after catching it and squatting for a few days."

"Will you pay it?"

"I really don't have that much money down here."

"Then let's go, arrest this Diao."

It went well, Gao Yiming was arrested and put in the Song County prison.