"The pigweed and vegetables sold by the people are still subject to taxes, and the same is true for those merchants who actually carry the goods. If it is good to have an old relationship with the prefect or the county order, if not, it will also be exploited or even blackmailed. ”

Liu Rong doesn't like to read like her brother, but she has the ambition of a boy and wants to be a woman and not let her eyebrows.

In addition, the Dazhao folk customs are open, and women can also preside over the family business, so she is actually the heir of the martial arts hall that her parents want.

This is also the reason why she has a martial arts body and understands Mingzhou's taxes very well.

As she mentioned earlier, her martial arts gym is also good at doing darts business.

Sometimes it was to deliver goods for merchants, and sometimes it was to be hired to come to Minnesota to do business and goods.

So she had clearly seen those scribes exploiting merchants, and you had to give you the money to buy the road, right? You have to pay taxes, right? If you don't have a bad attitude, the officials can even detain all your goods, saying that you are stolen goods!

As for what kind of dirty law, it's not these officials who have the final say?

There was once a merchant who hired their martial artist, because there were a few good fox skins in the goods, but he was directly taken away by an official who wanted to be a sycophant.

"How can this be true, how can this be true! How did the land of Mingzhou become like this today? What does his prefect Zhou Zhiyuan eat? ”

Li Cifu cares about the people's livelihood, and it is heartbreaking to hear Liu Rong's words.

However, Liu Rong did not rush to mention the prefect, but continued:

"Over time, the outside merchants no longer entered Mingzhou, and the local merchants in Mingzhou also declined. As long as there are no old merchants, almost all of them live a tight life, ready to close their shops at any time. Merchants are still like this, and ordinary farmers are even more difficult, especially in the past two years, Mingzhou has also been greatly enforced into forced labor......"

"Conscription?"

Feng Xi patted the invisible big black cauldron on his back, and said without choice on the spot:

"What are they going to fix? Repair a mausoleum or a coffin for the main palace? ”

Liu Rong: "? ”

Although she had experienced the way the princess spoke in the Eldest Princess's Mansion, she was still a little reckless when she heard "mausoleum" and "coffin".

Emperor Shengde even raised his hand to give some unlucky thing a look, but his son-in-law was quick and pulled the unlucky thing away at the same time as he stretched out his hand.

"It's not about building mausoleums and coffins, but about building official yamen, various villas, official mansions, and several Wangjiang Towers for enjoying the scenery and listening to music......"

Liu Rong paused, and still said 1510:

"As mentioned above, Princess Zhaoming is likely to go to Mingzhou to inspect in the past two years, and these are specially prepared for the princess......"

Feng Xi: "? ”

"For Hongu? Then they should build a palace for the main palace! What does the Cultivator's Mansion do? Let this palace be an official? Also look at the river building......"

Raising his hand to smooth the little phoenix with fried hair beside him, Qi Xiao finally sighed and said:

"Miss Liu, dare to ask if those villas and Wangjiang Towers have been idle, or are they ......?"

Liu Rong obviously heard the meaning of Qi Xiao's words, and shook her head at that time and said:

"As far as the folk girl knows, there are often officials and families feasting on the Wangjiang upstairs, and as for the Zhuangzi is more private, I only know that there is a hunting village that is often patronized by nobles......"

Listening to Liu Rong say this, what else does Emperor Shengde and others not understand?

These so-called places to prepare for Princess Zhaoming's patrol are actually places for officials and families to have fun, and Princess Zhaoming, who is in Shengjing, is just a tiger skin.

"Iniquity, iniquity! In two years to repair so many places, how many conscripts have to be levied and how many people who are weak and weak have to be harmed! ”

Looking at Li Cifu with a painful face, Liu Rong, who was as smart as Liu Rong, gradually realized that what she had heard before was wrong, or that it was impossible for them to understand Princess Zhaoming in Shengjing when they were far away in Mingzhou.

And she looked at this crazy look, and it didn't seem like the princess who only had pleasure in the mouth of the officials, and always tried to ask them for silver.

So she let go completely, and said something even more amazing.

For example, the people who were conscripted were not treated by the government at all, it was common to eat grass and chaff, and they even had to wear tattered clothes to work in winter.

If you're lazy, you'll not even have to eat, and you'll have to be whipped by the officials who take care of you.

In just one of the conscriptions she had gone to see, no less than thirty people had died.

"Even if it is a martial artist in our martial arts hall who is in better health, he can give up half his life when he comes back from a conscription. But if you want to avoid this servitude, you used to need only five or six taels of silver per person, but now you need more than ten taels......"

With the expropriation of the government, Mingzhou became more and more lifeless.

And the more lifeless it is, the more the government will have to levy and extort tyranny, because the prefect and the county magistrates have said that they have to pay taxes to Princess Zhaoming!

What do the people know?

I can only tighten my belt, and I can live one day at a time.

"Not only are the people unhappy, but the martial arts hall of the Minnu's family is also struggling, and all the martial artists were dismissed at the beginning of the year. You must know that Qingquan County, where our family is located, has always been protected by Song County, the only Qingtian lord in the five counties. ”

The topic returned to the Liu family again, and Liu Rong's face became more and more pale, even to the point of sadness.

It turned out that among the officials of Mingzhou headed by Zhou Zhiyuan, the county commander of Qingquan County, Song Yichun, was a rare Qing official, so Qingquan County was able to retain some vitality even in the past few years of wanton expropriation and violence.

But such an outlier not only made the prefect and the officials of the other four counties unhappy, but also made some members of the big clan who originally stayed in Qingquan County and used to bullying the weak and domineering in the past unhappy.

Among them, there is the first clan in Qingquan County, and the Deng family, which is known as the Deng Yuanwai of the county master of flowing water.

The Deng family made a fortune by doing business and tying up the powerful, because everyone in the family is very good at looking at people's eyes, and there are some clever things that ordinary people can't reach, so the family assets are ranked first in the entire Mingzhou.

"Deng Bing, who was outside Deng Yuan, had long been unaccustomed to seeing Lord Song, so he did everything possible to entrust someone to catch up with the Zhou prefect, and sent the two daughters who grew up with a golden spoon in their hearts to the Zhou Mansion, the second daughter was a concubine to the prefect, and the younger daughter was a concubine to the prefect."

Feng Xi: "? ”

Very good, a person who can stutter, and a ruthless person.

Since then, the Deng family has been rampant in Qingquan County, making trouble for Lord Song everywhere, and even helping the prefect set up cards to collect taxes. Among them, the son of the Deng family became the protégé of the prefect, so Deng Baochang, the third son of the Deng family, has always been in charge of these things. And this Deng Baochang is a very good woman, and when the folk girl and the little sister went out once, she fell in love with the little sister at a glance, and wanted to force the little sister to be a concubine......"

Hearing this, Rao was as indifferent as Qi Xiao, and he couldn't help frowning.