The sun is shining high, and the white clouds are blooming.

Outside Tianbo City, dozens of officers and soldiers with a somewhat lazy expression were checking the pedestrians passing by.

It is said that it is an inventory, but in fact, it is just collecting tolls.

"You, yes, that means you, pay twenty silver coins!"

One of the officers and soldiers shouted loudly, and kept tapping his fingers on the table in front of him, making an impatient "click" sound, and putting on a look of "I have the final say here."

At this time, Tianbo City, compared with the Tianbo City in the past, has long been unrecognizable: public order is chaotic, all kinds of crimes occur frequently, but the dark thing is the collusion of officials and thieves, and the people are not happy!

"Brother Guancha, don't you only charge ten silver coins, how can you ......?"

It was a businessman who was doing small business.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't grind it for me if you pay twenty silver coins, and if you are verbose, let you pay twenty gold coins!"

The officer and soldier glared at him, and in order to demonstrate, he slapped the saber on the table at his waist.

In this era when officers and soldiers were robbers, the petty merchants and peddlers had no reason at all, and in the end they had no choice but to hand over twenty silver coins.

The officer smiled with satisfaction, put the twenty silver coins into his pocket, and began to wait for the next target to appear.

This checkpoint is just a cover-up for people's eyes and ears, in order to intercept those outsiders who don't know the situation.

People who are really familiar with Tianbo City will not choose to go through the city gate.

The officers and men who collect fees here are very good at watching people charge fees, and if they seem to be rich masters, they will open their mouths widely; if they see a fierce guy, they will not only not charge fees, but will even give them away with a smile, absolutely bullying the weak and fearing the hard.

“...... What, let me call a gold coin, I ...... I'm just passing through. You're going to charge a gold coin?"

A woman who had been stopped shouted.

"Don't talk nonsense, we've got the say here!"

"Can't I go into the city anymore?"

The woman turned to leave, but was surrounded by three officers and soldiers.

"It's okay to go, but the money has to stay!"

"Why didn't I go into the city,...... You guys...... What are you going to do, come on, grab money!"

The woman suddenly exclaimed, but his shouts had no effect, and the three officers and soldiers snatched her money bag anyway.

And I can't help but say. I divided the money inside.

"God, don't let people live, in broad daylight, the officers and soldiers have become bandits......"

The woman lay on the ground crying and wailing, attracting the attention of many people.

Although there were a few pedestrians passing by, for this kind of barbaric behavior, they didn't dare to meddle in this kind of barbaric behavior.

Tianbo City at the moment. The villain is in charge, and black and white are reversed.

How can there be the prosperity of Dongfang Long when he was a general, some ruffians and hooligans just spent a little money. He turned into a person who ate the emperor's grain, which made ordinary people suffer, except to endure it silently. It's just nowhere to go.

"Get out, get out, cry and cry. Got in the way of our work, believe it or not, locked you up!"

The woman's screams were so harsh that they also affected the charges, and several officers and soldiers ran up to the woman with hideous faces and kicked and beat her, and threatened to put the woman in prison.

After all, it was a woman's family, and in the end she could only swallow her anger and leave with tears in her eyes.

These officers and soldiers were able to feel at ease in such a hurtful matter, and even began to chat when there were no pedestrians passing by.

"There aren't many passers-by today, how much do you earn?" one officer and soldier asked the other.

There is a clear division of labor among these people.

"It's not much, so far, it's not enough for the city officials, if you don't have some fat sheep, it is estimated that you will have to pay out of your own pocket. ”

"Twenty gold coins per day, let's add it up, every day just to the city official, there are hundreds of gold coins, hey, I knew that it was so easy to be an official, I might as well spend more money and get a petty official!"

Several officers and soldiers whispered, looked up at the city wall, and held a sun umbrella in a conspicuous place, accompanied by the sound of singing and dancing.

Under the umbrella, there was a fat man sitting, eating and drinking, while enjoying the show, it was the city gate official in charge of the place.

"People are more popular than people!"

"We are tired, and people have money, hey!"

The officers and men were chatting, and suddenly, everyone stopped talking in unison, and their eyes all looked in one direction.

I saw that several young men and girls on horseback were moving from far to near.

With their experience in knowing people, it can be seen that these people are definitely rich masters!

Dongfang Xiuzhe and his party, after more than two days of hurrying, finally came to the front of Tianbo City.

The horses on which they rode were left by the thieves that night.

Dongfang Hu and Jia Liu have been following at the rear, always maintaining a certain distance. Since the two of them secretly hid in the woods that day, together with such an honest person as Li Erniu, they didn't give them a good look.

Looking at this former birthplace, Dongfang Xiuzhe felt a little, I don't know if there have been any changes in the city after so many years?

"Stop, stop!"

They were about to enter the city when they were suddenly stopped by several officers and soldiers.

"Each person has to pay ...... You have to pay ten gold coins to enter the city!"

One of the officers and soldiers hurriedly said.

"Pay to get into the city?"

Dongfang Xiuzhe was stunned, in his impression, it seems that you don't have to pay money to enter the city, hasn't you come all these years, and there is a new policy?

For this little money, Dongfang Xiuzhe didn't take it to heart, and glanced at Chenyue beside him, who took out a bag of gold coins from the ring.

Looking at this bag full of gold coins, the eyes of the officers and soldiers who blocked the way suddenly lit up.

"Take it!" Chen Yue counted and threw the money bag down.

After taking the money bag, several officers and soldiers immediately surrounded him.

"It's so rich, it's a bag of gold coins when you take it, and today I finally caught a fat sheep. ”

"It can be seen that they don't care about these small amounts of money at all, and they are really generous, and they don't even ask. ”

"Didn't you notice the ring they were wearing? It's probably the Ring!"

"Na Ring, isn't that a magic item worth millions of gold coins, this time we really met the God of Wealth. ”

Several officers and soldiers winked at each other, and then summed it up, feeling that it was too worthless to let these rich people pass in this way, and they had to make a lot of money from them anyway.

"Stop, you can't go in yet!"

Just when Dongfang Xiuzhe and his men were about to enter the city on horseback, more than a dozen officers and soldiers all surrounded them.

Dongfang Xiuzhe frowned, but he didn't speak, and Chen Yue next to him asked, "Why don't you let us in." Didn't I already give you the money?"

"The little money you gave is only head money, but you are still riding horses, and the head money has not been paid!" said an officer and soldier in a strong voice.

"And how much are we going to collect for our horses?"

Dongfang Xiuzhe narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile.

Li Erniu and Lei Ya both seemed to know the meaning of this smile, and they couldn't help but look at these officers and soldiers who were blocking the road with some sympathy.

"The size of the horses is larger than the people, so the cost will naturally be doubled...... one of the officers and soldiers said as he pondered, and finally stretched out five fingers and said, "Fifty gold coins." Fifty gold coins per horse. ”

After saying this, these officers and soldiers all stared at the reaction of these people with some expectation.

To their surprise, except for the smile on the face of the young man in front of them, a look of regret flashed on the faces of the others.

"Is fifty gold coins too high?"

I was muttering in my heart. But suddenly I heard the sound of the gold coin bag falling to the ground.

These officers and soldiers instinctively looked down, and they were all stunned, only to see several bags of golden coins, with their mouths open. It landed not far from their feet.

Oh my God, so much money, all gold?

In the sunlight. The gold coin emitted a dazzling light, which made these officers and soldiers who saw the money drool for a while.

One of them was about to lean over to pick it up, but at this moment, a black shadow flashed, and the young man who had just spoken stood in front of him.

"The head fee, the horse head fee have all been said, and there are no other fees, let's say all of them, save me a waste of time!"

Dongfang Xiuzhe didn't look at the money on the ground, but his eyes swept over the faces of the greedy officers and soldiers in front of him.

"There are also protection fees, environmental cleaning fees, land occupation fees, and migrant population management fees......

These officers and men thought that they had encountered a big wrong, and they told all the expenses they could think of.

"These idiots, they still have to inch in, I don't know if the more you talk, the worse the end will be!"

He couldn't figure out what the purpose of Dongfang Xiuzhe was to accompany these guys to mess around, just by waving his hand, wouldn't it be easy to solve them!

Dongfang Xiuzhe's behavior was always something he couldn't guess, and he didn't bother to guess, he just wanted to see what would happen to these officers and soldiers in the end.

"Are you finished?" Seeing that these officers and soldiers finally said differently, Dongfang Xiuzhe smiled lightly, "I don't remember any of these taxes you said, let's just say it, how much money can be put into us!"

"Look at Childe, you are also a cheerful person, a fixed price, 200,000 gold coins!"

This officer and soldier is really a lion with a big mouth.

Dongfang Xiuzhe smiled, when it comes to blackmail, he is the originator!

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion above the city gates.

Then, after a short time, the fat city official ran out with dozens of subordinates.

These of his subordinates, how can they have the temperament of being a soldier, they are clearly ruffians and hooligans in official uniforms, shaking their heads one by one, and they look even more crooked!

"Damn Lord City Official, I'm going to intervene at this time!"

The officers and soldiers who were about to blackmail Dongfang Xiuzhe immediately changed their faces when they saw this fat city official come out.

They knew that the fat sheep in front of them was no longer the meat in their mouths. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )