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Chapter 59 Conspiracy

A full moon hangs in the sky, casting a shadow in the Zuojiang River, facing me from afar. This shadow makes the moon no longer lonely in this world thousands of miles away. The breeze blows, and the shadow becomes strange as the waves ripples, completely forgetting what he is like in the sky.

The breeze blew across the river, passed through the bamboo forest, and blew into thousands of courtyards, bringing the coolness of the night.

At Liu Dahu's home, Tian Er sat on a stool, holding a sharp knife in his hand, stepped on the other stool with one foot, and looked proudly at the two businessmen kneeling on the ground.

Liu Dahu's eyes shone beside him, and he was flipping the bags of the two of them. There were four tiny pieces of silver on one side, all of which were twenty-five taels of cake, mixed in a handful of gold grains of different sizes.

After finishing the bag, Liu Dahu didn't give up and turned it over twice, and it was nothing more than changing clothes.

After throwing the bag, Liu Dahu said in annoyance: "Without the effort, why is there only so much gold and silver? I have put all the women in!"

Tian Er smiled and said, "You barbarian are not greedy enough! Are you less? A lot! Those gold and silver are worth more than one hundred stale money, which is enough for us to have a lot of days of happiness."

The black-faced man on the ground said in a crying voice: "Two heroes, this gold and silver are the lives of both of us. It's fine if you take a ingot, you must not take them all!"

Tian Er spat at the two of you: "You two are in my hands, and you dare to bargain with me! Believe it or not, I will kill you and you will be defeated!"

Mrs. Qiu, who had been sitting aside and didn't speak, stood up, walked up to look at the pile of gold and silver, and said coldly: "How much money can this little bit be worth?"

Tian Er was stunned and said to Madam Qiu: "It is said that women are the most greedy, and the ancients did not deceive me! Madam Qiu, this is worth more than 100 guan. Do you still think it's too little?"

Mrs. Qiu sighed: "I originally expected this bet of money. I went to a restaurant by the river to get a place to settle down and no longer show up in public. How can more than 100 stale money be enough?"

The bearded man on the ground heard the words of several people and said angrily: "I said that you men and women were setting up a plan to extort our money. As expected, this is true! If you have the courage, leave the gold and silver and let us go, and see if you have the life to spend this ill-gotten fortune!"

"You are so stubborn!" Tian Er was upset by Madam Qiu's words. He picked up a teacup on the table and hit the bearded man in the face. "It made my grandfather sexually. I will kill you and throw it into Zuojiang to feed the fish!"

The black-faced man was startled and hurriedly said, "Grandpa, don't fight with my brother. He has this temperament and can't change it anymore. Grandpa just pretends that he didn't hear it, just pretend that he didn't hear it!"

However, Tian Er was already aroused by agitating a fierce look, and his eyes swept around the two of them.

The black-faced man was so cold that he said to Tian Er: "We are guests from other places. We have registered our names and hometowns in the store. When Niang Qiu comes back, others will see it. If it disappears, the official will pursue it. None of you can do anything. Heroes must not do stupid things, harm others and themselves!"

When Madam Qiu saw this little gold and silver, she became frustrated and said to Liu Dahu and Tian Er: "It's over, and it's no point in making these two guests difficult. Let's leave the gold and silver and let them go back."

When the black-faced man heard that he wanted to let them go, his mind became active again and said to Mrs. Qiu: "These gold and silver are the capital for us to buy goods. You can take them all. How can we explain to the owner when we go back? Why don't we take less this time and let us sell some good and bad goods back. What if you bring them back next time?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! The money is in my hands, so how can I spit it out again!"

Tian Er kicked the stool, stood up and said to Madam Qiu, "Who can guarantee that they will not report to the official? How can we get out of the matter?"

Madam Qiu turned around and saw that the two people on the ground were all circling their eyes. Knowing that they had their minds, she sneered: "I advise you to die as soon as possible. My husband is in the tutoring department, and you are just skinned and unable to touch us at all."

"There are people in the Tiju Sect? Do you know the people in the Tiju Sect and do such things? How can you get hundreds of stagnants of money and need to attack us?"

The thin black man looked at Madam Qiu with a look of a ghost. How could he trust her?

Mrs. Qiu sighed: "You will know that you are a foreigner after hearing this. The judiciary is strict and who dares to do anything randomly? You can only say a few words when you know someone, but you can't make any money."

The black-faced man looked at each other and said in a deep voice: "We are indeed outsiders, but we know that if you recognize someone in the Tiju Sect, you can easily make a lot of money. How could you take a hundred ten cents seriously? We foreign guests are spending money all over the sky in Taiping Village. It is still difficult for you to get in touch with the Tiju Sect. You have this path and are still doing this kind of thing, who is willing to believe it!"

When Tian Er heard the man's tone, he moved his heart and asked, "I think you have any special way to make money, but you don't have any way."

"No," the black-faced man nodded, "Our boss has a mountain of gold and silver, and he is trying to buy things but can't buy them. The little gold and silver we carry are just here to explore the way."

Tian Er and Madam Qiu looked at the black-faced man on the ground. Seeing that his face was serious and not like he was talking nonsense, he couldn't help but feel moved. He looked at each other and asked, "What do you want to buy from the Tijuan? Is it white sugar?"

The black-faced man smiled and said, "Where can't buy white sugar? What kind of ways do you want to use?"

"Then you buy something that is prohibited. Do you know the benefits and interests of the middle?"

The woman was careful and Madam Qiu took the lead in reacting.

"What are the advantages and disadvantages? Salt is also a forbidden object, and tea is also a forbidden object. Are there fewer people selling it? It is the salt from Jiaozhi sold thousands of kilograms to the nearby mountains. The merchants put a lot of money into their bags, ate delicacies and the beautiful concubines in their arms. Which one is doing? Nowadays, as long as you have a way to sell the goods, you will enjoy endless wealth. Who cares about what you sell!"

When the black-faced man said this, Tian Er and Qiu were moved. Yongzhou is located in the border area, and smuggling contraindicated goods have always been rampant. The salt produced in Jiaozhi can even be sold not far from Yongzhou City, especially the barbarians in the mountains. Who would take the imperial court's ban seriously?

"You two really have a way?"

The black-faced man looked at Tian Er and focused: "You just need to buy the goods from the tutoring department!"

"What exactly are you going to buy? Which one is the boss behind?"

The black-faced man did not answer him, looked at the gold and silver outside the bag and said in a deep voice: "Where is the place near Yongzhou, which can produce a large amount of gold and sand? Our boss does business there!"

"Guangyuanzhou!"

Tian Er and Niang Qiu looked at each other, and their hearts were bright. It was said that there was a golden river in Guangyuanzhou. The bottom of the river was covered with gold sand. You could pick it up at will, but you could not pick it up. The gold there was not valuable, it depends on whether you had the ability to transport goods in and exchange it out. In the past two years, the Nong family had to be in the wind and rain in Guangyuanzhou, so they all depended on the inexhaustible sand gold there.

The silver moonlight sprinkled from the sky, with a cool breath. The bamboo forest in the yard was painted with a layer of silver edges by the moonlight, making it look even more elegant. The bananas around the bamboo forest dance gracefully in the silver moonlight, stirring the shadows on the ground into pieces.

Xu Ping put down the documents in his hand, breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Duan Yunjie, who was still packing the paper on the table not far away, and said to her: "The Secretary of the Communist Party of China has received the order. Not only will the body of Yongzhou be exempted, but the entire Guangnan West Road are also exempted. Fortunately, it is clear that this time the leap year map does not need to be modified, which saves us a lot of trouble."

Duan Yunjie whispered: "This is the best, today I'm done."

"Yes, I've been busy at home these days. Thanks to you, otherwise I'd be alone, I'm afraid I'll have to delay it for a while."

Xu Ping said, stood up and walked to Duan Yunjie.

Duan Yunjie arranged the things on the table and chuckled softly: "I am a idler, but I'm just helping with chores, so how can I really help with anything?"

The bright light shone on Yunjie's black hair. Because she was wearing a man's outfit and tied her bun, her soft and white neck was right in front of Xu Ping, with extremely perfect curves.

The figure in the light was a little dazed in Xu Ping's eyes, which made him feel very unreal.

After spending several months together day and night, Xu Ping's heart was not strong enough to face such an extremely perfect young woman, and he was inevitably moved in the deepest part of his heart.

In the ninth year of Tiansheng, Xu Pingxu was twenty-two years old. He was still studying in college in his previous life. The seeds of love had just begun to sprout, and there was only a hazy consciousness.

In this world, he has already been a seventh-rank Ph.D. Taichang, a magistrate of Dazhou, and a procurator of sugar business who earns millions of yuan a year. He can determine life and death with just one word. His daughter is four years old, and his wife's appearance can no longer be seen clearly in his dreams. Love just leaves a faint shadow on the road of his life.

But the woman who always pretends to be a man in front of him still makes him feel a little moved.

Duan Yunjie stood up straight, as if she didn't notice Xu Ping standing behind her, and said casually: "The magistrate has waived my own body, although there is not much, and it is always a moral government, and the people will remember you."

"No matter how small it is, it is food rations. When the weather is not enough, some people may be able to get over it because of the extra handful of rice. Hi, I always comfort myself like this, and things are more interesting."

"Nothing, what you said is good. Sometimes a handful of rice is a life."

Duan Yunjie said, gently twisting her body, and walking two steps to the door. She never looked back at Xu Ping, as if she didn't know that he was behind her, but she just avoided her movements.

Since the Han Dynasty began to collect population taxes and the country was established in the early Song Dynasty, the newly unified southern routes were still levied according to the old rules of the previous dynasties, called dying money. By the Zhenzong Dynasty, the dying money in the south was officially dismissed, and the population tax was officially abolished in the Song Dynasty. However, for various reasons, the population taxes of some other names were retained, such as the dying rice in Guangdong and Guangxi, and the dying salt in some parts of the south, which became a fish that was missing because of the different names. Of course, local officials did not have the motivation to cancel it, and they have been together for a long time. Xu Ping also mentioned this name as the editor of the Leap Years. It was not enough for Yongzhou to avoid this little money and grain, so he simply canceled all the memorials, and the entire Guangxi was also exempted.

The Song Dynasty did not charge any money for vacancies, which did not mean that it would not be a population tax, but instead it was a different way, such as the monopoly of salt and tea, which was an indirect population tax. The Song Dynasty had many monopoly products, but the meaning was different. In terms of the bulk, the monopoly of tea and salt was an indirect population tax, and the monopoly of wine was a luxury tax. From emperors to officials, there were all understanding of this, so the fluctuations in the price of tea and salt often caused shocks in the court and the public, which involved a wide range of issues, but no one cared about the fluctuations in the price of wine. As long as the court's income was quite large, it would be perfect. As for the people who thought it was expensive, in the words of bureaucrats, it would be good to not drink it, and not to drink it and not starve people to death.

The moon is as bright as water, making the whole world full of dreams.
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