A full moon hung in the sky, casting a shadow in the Zuojiang River, far away from himself, and this shadow made the moon no longer lonely in this world thousands of miles away. The breeze blew, and the shadows became strange as the water rippled, and they forgot what they were in the sky.

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

In Liu Dahu's house, Tian Er sat on a stool, holding a sharp knife in his hand, stepping on the other stool with one foot, and looked triumphantly at the two businessmen kneeling on the ground.

Liu Dahu's eyes lit up next to him, turning over the burden of the two people. On one side lay four small pieces of silver, all twenty-five taels of small cakes, mixed with a handful of gold grains of different sizes.

After turning over the baggage, but didn't find anything, Liu Dahu didn't give up, and turned it over twice, and it was nothing more than a change of clothes.

Throwing the burden, Liu Dahu said in annoyance: "Out of the strength to eat milk, why do you only have so much gold and silver?" I've got all the women in there! ”

Tian Er smiled: "You barbarian is not greedy enough!" Is it less? Quite a few! The gold and silver are worth more than a hundred dollars, enough for us to live happily for many days. ”

The black-faced man on the ground said with a crying voice: "Two good men, this gold and silver is the net worth of the two of us, you can just take one ingot, you can't take it all!" ”

Tian Er spat at the two of them: "You two are holding your lives in my hands, and you dare to bargain with me!" Believe it or not, I stabbed you with a knife! ”

Qiu Niangzi, who had been sitting on the side and had not spoken, stood up, stepped forward to look at the pile of gold and silver, and said coldly: "How much is this worth worth?" ”

Tian Er was stunned and said to Qiu Niangzi: "It is said that women are the most greedy, and the ancients did not deceive me!" Qiu Niangzi, how can this be worth more than a hundred yuan, are you still too little? ”

Qiu Niangzi sighed: "I was expecting to get this money, go to a restaurant by the river, have a place to settle down, and no longer show up." How can more than 100 yuan be enough? ”

The bearded man on the ground listened to the words of a few people, and said hatefully: "I said earlier that you men and women are setting up a bureau to blackmail us for money, and that's true!" If you have the courage to leave the silver and gold, let us go, and see if you have the life to spend this ill-gotten gain." ”

"You are still hard-mouthed!" Tian Er was upset by Qiu Niangzi's words, so he picked up a teacup on the table and smashed it on the bearded man's face, "Provoke grandpa's sex, and a knife will kill you, and throw it into Zuojiang to feed the fish!" ”

The black-faced man was startled, and hurriedly said: "Grandpa Hao, don't fight with my brother, he is this temperament, and he can't change it anymore." It's good that grandpa didn't hear it, just don't hear it! ”

Tian Er had already been aroused, his eyes shot a fierce light, and his eyes swept over the two of them.

The black-faced man was chilled, and said to Tian Er: "The two of us are guests from other places, and we have registered our names and hometowns in the store, and others have seen them when Qiu Niangzi comes back." If it disappears, the official will investigate it, and the few of you will not be able to get out of it. Heroes must not do stupid things, harm others and themselves! ”

Qiu Niangzi was disappointed when she saw this bit of gold and silver, and she got up and said to Liu Dahu and Tian Er: "The matter has come to this, and it is not interesting to be difficult for these two guests, let's leave the gold and silver and let them go back." ”

When the black-faced man heard that he was going to let them go, his mind became lively again, and he said to Qiu Niangzi: "These gold and silver are the capital for us to buy goods, you all take them, how can we explain to the owner when we go back?" Why don't you take less this time, let's sell some goods back, and bring them back to you next time? ”

"What are you talking about! When the money is in our hands, where is there any reason to spit it out! ”

Tian Er kicked the stool, stood up on the ground, and said to Qiu Niangzi: "Let them go back, who can guarantee that they won't report to the official?" How do we get out of it? ”

Qiu Niangzi turned around, and saw that the two people on the ground were rolling their eyes, knowing that they were thinking, she sneered: "I advise you to die as soon as possible, my husband has connections in the promotion department, and your report to the official is just another layer of skin, and you can't move us at all." ”

"Is there anyone in the lifting division? You guys? Do you know people in the lifting department who still do this kind of thing? Where can't you get a few hundred dollars and need to start with us? ”

The black thin man looked at Qiu Niangzi with a hellish expression, how could he believe her.

Qiu Niangzi sighed: "Hearing you talk like this, you know that you are a foreigner, and the law of the promotion is strict, who dares to mess around?" Acquaintances can only say two sentences, and they can't make money. ”

The black-faced man glanced at his companion and said in a deep voice: "We are indeed outsiders, but we know that if we recognize someone in the lifting division, we can easily earn a lot of money, how can we take a hundred and ten guan in our eyes." We, the guests from other towns, are throwing money all over the world in Taipingzhai, and it is still difficult to get in touch with the people of the lifting department. You have this way, and you're still doing this kind of thing, who can believe it! ”

Tian Er heard this man's tone was very strong, his heart moved, and he asked: "Listen to what you mean, is there any special way to make money, but I don't have a way." ”

"That's right," the black-faced man nodded, "Our owner has mountains of gold and silver, but we can't buy things because we want to buy things, and the little gold and silver we have on us is just to explore the way." ”

Tian Er and Qiu Niangzi looked at the black-faced man on the ground, and when they saw that his face was serious, not like talking nonsense, they couldn't help but be moved, glanced at each other, and asked, "What do you want to buy from the lifting division?" Mo is not white sugar? ”

The black-faced man smiled: "Where can't I buy sugar?" What is the way to trust? ”

"Then it's a forbidden thing, do you know what's at stake?"

The woman was careful, and Qiu Niangzi was the first to react.

"What's at stake? Salt is also forbidden, tea is also forbidden, is there still less people who sell it? It was the salt from Cochin, which was sold to the nearby mountains for thousands of catties, and those merchants put a lot of silver into their bags, ate delicacies from the mountains and seas, and held their wives and concubines in their arms. In this year, as long as there is a way to sell the goods, you will enjoy endless wealth, which doesn't care what you sell! ”

When the black-faced man said this, Tian Er and Qiu Niangzi couldn't help but be moved. Yongzhou is located on the border, smuggling forbidden goods have always been rampant, and the salt produced in Jiaozhi can even be sold not far from Yongzhou City, especially the barbarians in the mountains, which will take the imperial court law ban seriously.

"You two, do you really have a way?"

The black-faced man looked at Tian Er and nodded heavily: "You just need to buy the goods from the lifting division!" ”

"What the hell are you going to buy? Which is the owner behind it? ”

The black-faced man didn't answer him, looked at the gold and silver outside the baggage, and said in a deep voice: "Yongzhou is near the left, where is the place where a large amount of gold and sand can be produced?" That's where our proprietor does business! ”

"Guangyuan Prefecture!"

Tian Er and Qiu Niangzi glanced at each other, and their hearts were bright. It is said that there is a golden river in Guangyuan Prefecture, and the bottom of the river is covered with gold sand. The gold there is not valuable, it depends on whether you have the ability to transport the goods in and out of it. In the past two years, the Nong family has been able to get wind and rain in Guangyuan Prefecture, and it has relied on the inexhaustible placer gold there.

Silver moonlight spilled down from the sky, carrying a cool scent. The bamboo forest in the courtyard was smeared with a layer of silver edge by the moonlight, which was more elegant. The plantains on the edge of the bamboo forest danced gracefully in the breeze in the silver moonlight, stirring up the shadows on the ground to pieces.

Xu Ping put down the document in his hand, let out a sigh, looked at Duan Yunjie, who was still cleaning up the paper on the table not far away, and said to her: "The will of the Chinese book is down, not only the body of Yongzhou is exempted, but the entire Guangnan West Road is also exempted. Fortunately, it is clear that there is no need to change the leap year diagram this time, which saves us a lot of things. ”

Duan Yunjie said softly: "This is the best, today can be regarded as the end of the busy." ”

"yes, I've been busy at home these days. Thanks to you, otherwise I would have been alone, and I was afraid that it would have dragged on for a while. ”

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

Duan Yunjie put the things on the table and smiled lightly: "I'm an idler, but I just help with chores, where can I really help anything." ”

The bright light illuminated Duan Yunjie's jet-black hair, and because she was dressed as a man and held her hair in a bun, her soft and white neck was in front of Xu Ping, and her curves were perfect.

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

After a few months of getting along day and night, in the face of such a perfect young woman, Xu Ping's heart is not iron-clad, and it is inevitable that there will be some heartbeats in the deepest part of his heart.

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

In this world, he is already a magistrate from Dr. Taichang of the seventh grade, a general judge in Dazhou, and an annual income of millions of cane sugar affairs, and one word can decide life and death. His daughter is four years old, and his wife's appearance is no longer clear even in his dreams, and love only leaves a faint shadow on the path of his life.

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

Duan Yunjie straightened up, as if she didn't notice Xu Ping standing behind her, and said casually: "The general sentence has exempted the body of Ding Mi, although there is not much, it is always virtuous and political, and the people will remember you." ”

"No matter how little it is, it's rations, and when it comes to the green and yellow harvest, some people may be able to survive because of this extra handful of rice. Hey, I always comfort myself with this, and things are done in a more interesting way. ”

"It's nothing, what you said is good, sometimes a handful of rice is a life in poor people."

Duan Yunjie said, twisted his body slightly, and walked two steps to the door. She never looked back at Xu Ping, as if she didn't know that he was behind her, but her movements just dodged.

Since the Han Dynasty began to collect population tax, the early Song Dynasty when the country was established, the newly unified southern roads are still levied according to the old practice of the previous dynasty, called Shen Ding Qian. In the Zhenzong Dynasty, the money of all walks of life in the south was officially exempted, and the population tax was officially abolished in the Song Dynasty. However, for various reasons, some other names of the population tax remained, such as the body of rice in Liangguang and the body of salt in some places in the south, just because of the difference in the name, it has become a fish that has slipped through the net. Of course, the magistrates have no incentive to cancel it, and they have been together for a long time. Xu Ping also noticed this name when he compiled the Leap Year Chronicles, and Yongzhou was not short of money and food, so he simply canceled all the last chapters, and the entire Guangxi was also exempted.

The Great Song Dynasty did not collect money, not that it really did not collect population tax, but in a different way, such as the monopoly of salt and tea, which was an indirect population tax. In the Song Dynasty, there were many monopolies, but the meaning was different, in terms of bulk sales, the monopoly of tea and salt was an indirect population tax, and the monopoly of wine was a luxury tax. From the emperor to the officials, they all know this, so the fluctuation of tea and salt prices often causes shocks in the government and the opposition, which involves a wide range of people, but no one cares about the fluctuation of wine prices, as long as the court has a lot of income, it is perfect. As for the people who are too expensive, in the words of the bureaucrats, it is good not to drink if they are too expensive, and if they don't drink, they will not starve to death.

The moonlight is like water, and the whole world is painted with a dreamy color.

Duan Yunjie held on to the door frame, looking at the charming white moonlight, her eyes were a little confused.