"We are just passers-by......" The man obviously didn't want to answer, but asked again: "Weng Weng, how much compensation did the court give after your son died?" ”

"That kid in my family is just a soldier, how much compensation can he have."

There were several large-scale battles in the Bashu region during the time of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi, but they gradually calmed down by the time of Song Zhenzong.

There were a lot of forbidden soldiers stationed in the original, but now there are only a few battalions of forbidden soldiers, generally there is a battalion in Chengdu Prefecture, and there is a battalion in Zizhou and Suizhou in the east of Chengdu Prefecture, after all, this is the core area of the Bashu region, and there are really not many officers and soldiers in the three battalions.

Then there is a battalion in Yazhou, which also shows that in the Song Dynasty, the various Tibetan tribes in the western part of Bashu were still relatively peaceful and self-contained.

The rest is in the southern region, Jiazhou and Luzhou are generally stationed in one battalion each, but in Rongzhou, three battalions are often stationed.

This point of forbidden troops must not respond to a sudden war, so there were often two kinds of fighting armies in the Bashu region before.

The first is the combat-type box soldiers, including the box army filled with criminals, just like the prison army of Lin Chong escorted Cangzhou written in the Water Margin, and this prison army is a kind of box soldier.

Its role is mainly to tuntian and control the river, this treatment is very poor, only four horses of silk every year, only one stone and five buckets of brown rice per month, even food and clothing can not be maintained. However, some of them are well-behaved and strong, and they have three functions, guarding the place, such as anti-theft, being a forbidden soldier, or directly used to prepare for the battle, and the treatment will be slightly improved, in addition to the above treatment, there is also a little monthly money.

The other is the native soldiers mentioned by Li Laohan, among which Guangnan has the most, followed by the Jinghu area. And then there's the Bashu region.

After all, the weather is hot in most areas. Or the mountains are high and the waters are far away. The forbidden soldiers from the north are not adaptable, and the other is that they can save money for the imperial court. However, the equipment of native soldiers in these areas is a very early thing, and it has nothing to do with Wang Ju, but Wang Ju has clarified and expanded them, and also suggested that the treatment should be slightly improved.

Not only the native soldiers, but also the archers in the north, the soldiers in the northwest, and in recent years, at the suggestion of Wang Ju. The official border soldiers that have gradually been established are all combat-type troops, and the local soldiers are treated the worst, just a little treatment, who wants to go to the battlefield and fight bravely to kill the enemy?

It seems that Li Laohan's child is the former kind of soldier.

As a native soldier, where will there be many pensions?

The man furrowed his brows, changed the subject and asked, "Weng Weng, how old is your grandson?" ”

"Five."

"At the age of five, the future is difficult."

"Not really," Mr. Li's old wife began to wipe her tears from the side.

At this time, a man from behind came on horseback. whispered.

The man rode back to the carriage behind him, through the curtain. I also said a few words to the people in the car, then took out a gold bracelet, came to Li Laohan's side again and said: "This is a piece of my mother's heart, for your grandson." ”

If it is an ordinary person, he may not know it, and he thinks it is copper, but Li Laohan knows how much such a big gold bracelet costs, and he hurriedly shook his hand.

"Weng Weng, I'm not short of money, being able to meet on this road is also a kind of fate, take it."

"What kind of fate is this, the small ones don't accept it."

"You don't have to be polite to our eldest man," said a big man on the side.

Where could Li Laohan pull these people, so he had to watch with trepidation and incomprehension as the man put the bracelet on his grandson's wrist.

However, the man seemed to have something on his mind, and although he rode on a horse and continued to set off with him in Xiangxian County, he kept frowning, as if he had encountered something very difficult, and kept silently looking into the distance.

Not far from the avenue are two earth hills, the vegetation on the earth hills is lush and lush, and the side is the field affairs in front of the county seat, but this is very close to the county seat, as long as the eyes are slightly raised, you can see the city gate not far behind the earth mountain.

Before he arrived at the scene, a few wolf-like officials came over, lifted Li Laohan's donkey cart roughly, and counted the number of silk in the car.

Because he spoke the authentic local dialect, the big man couldn't understand it, so he had to watch Li Laohan arguing with them.

Suddenly, Li Laohan knelt down.

The man snorted, and the man next to him, Shituo, stepped forward and asked, "Weng Weng, what happened?" ”

"Da Lang, please comment, we have already paid the past tax and the tax, and I still have Zhu Qian to testify, and they want us to exchange taxes and taxes."

In fact, Li Laohan's business also has a bit of hoarding, but what he earns is only the price difference formed between the two places, how much will this price difference be?

There are too many miscellaneous taxes, where can I make money.

"Shituo" then said: "You don't have to pay this tax." ”

"What do you brutes know!" A shroud shouted dissatisfiedly.

It's not that they're afraid of Dali people, but looking at this line, there are a lot of people, all riding horses, and wearing swords on their bodies, it seems that they are not easy to mess with, and they dare not go too far.

After finishing speaking, he vented his anger on Li Laohan again, pushed Li Laohan to the ground at once, and forcibly moved the silk silk from the car.

Shi Tuo then asked, "Brother Cha, do we want to pay taxes when we go into the city with some silver taels?" ”

"What you have to pay, what you have to pay," several officials immediately came to their senses.

Shi Tuo whistled, and the two big men in the back led a horse, and immediately there was a rucksack, and the two untied the rucksack, revealing two compartments, and opened the compartments, which were all filled with white and silver ingots, which looked pretty good.

Several officials immediately walked over greedily and carried the two boxes of silver to the side of the field. As for the previous big man who got off the horse and was helping Li Laohan, a few people will still watch and take care of it.

They began to weigh again, and it stands to reason that in the Song Dynasty, gold and silver played a very small role in the currency, and most of the time they were still commodities, so the field affairs would also be taxed. For example, in the capital, the price of silver is equivalent to 2,000 wen yuan per tael, but in some silver-producing areas in Quang Nam, it is only equivalent to 1,000 wen yuan.

However, because they are expensive, and easy to carry and conceal, if this man had put the silver under the seat of the carriage, would the servants have pushed the woman down and forced the carriage to look over the seat?

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, the tax rate of gold and silver was very small, almost negligible, and there was. Most of them also went into the pockets of the officials.

And even Li Laohan can see that this line of people is not simple. Is there a stupid person who takes the initiative to pay the silver "entrance fee"?

But several of the officials blinded their eyes with the light of the silver. Didn't think of the details here at all.

Several people were weighing the silver, and suddenly one of them took out a small locked box and asked, "Shituo", "What is in this box?" ”

"The contents of this box are very valuable, and I advise you not to open them to see them."

It stands to reason that a few people also have the right to forcibly let Shi Tuo open it, but several people all looked at each other, what is more valuable than silver?

O gold!

The gold also had to be taxed into the city, but after a few people looked at each other, they tacitly put the small box back into the box.

The leader whispered to the other. The other man quickly mounted his donkey and ran towards the county town behind. The leader turned to Shi Tuo and said, "Please wait a while, we don't understand silver, and we are afraid that something will go wrong, so we sent someone into the city to ask someone to identify it. ”

"Okay, we'll wait."

The leader felt that something was wrong, but the expressions of the group were always very calm, and only the two of them were talking beside the old man, which made him feel at ease.

The group continued to wait. Several officials also continued to collect taxes.

Originally, the man continued to ask Li Laohan: "Are you hurt?" ”

Li Laohan held his waist and said, "It hurts here." ”

"I'll help you get into the car. I'll give you justice in a moment," anger finally appeared in the man's eyes, just now, he witnessed it with his own eyes, it was not called pushing, it was tantamount to beating someone, it seemed to hurt the old man's waist.

The two helped the old man into the donkey cart, and at last the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and out came a beautiful young woman, but her face was pale and sickly.

The man walked over and asked with concern, "Qiongniang, why did you come down too?" ”

Yes, this group of people is Wang Ju and his guards.

Originally, Wang Ju also planned to go to Meizhou to take a look at Mount Emei, but he didn't need to be in such a hurry to come back this time, and the imperial court asked him to serve as the governor, although he was very happy, but it also made him feel puzzled, so he had to ask people in the capital to inquire about the ins and outs of the capital first, so it didn't matter if he was slow, but he didn't need to be too fast.

But Qiongniang was sick in Yazhou, and she was not lightly ill, Wang Juti was faster, and planned to rush to Chengdu Mansion to ask a wise doctor to see a doctor for Qiongniang.

So I set off directly from Qiongzhou to Chengdu, and happened to encounter this one.

The person named Shituo is named Zhang Nantuo, the word Shituo, and he is one of the three disciples that Wang Ju brought back from Dali.

Qiong Niang said: "Official, the concubine just came down to take a look." ”

The two of them spoke authentic official dialect, but their voices were very small, and several officials did not hear them, on the contrary, they looked at Qiongniang's pretty appearance, and several people whistled playfully.

"Let's go back." Wang Ju's eyes flashed with anger again, and he helped Qiongniang back into the car.

Those few officials didn't know their upcoming tragic fate, and when they saw Qiongniang getting into the car, they were still talking in dialect, saying something, a little far away, Wang Ju couldn't hear it clearly, but even if it was close, he might not understand it, but looking at his demeanor, he could also know that they were talking foul language.

The wild dragon bleated angrily as he gripped the hilt of his sword.

Wang Ju said softly: "Baa, don't be impulsive." ”

"Shaobao, they must have sent someone back to call the officers and soldiers."

"This doesn't matter, although I don't know what the origin of this county is because of the government, but I still know the distribution of the entire Qiongzhou army, mainly stationed in the area of Linqiong County, followed by Huojing, Pujiang There is also a battalion of soldiers, as for Yizheng County, there are officers and soldiers, there will not be many, and they are just ordinary soldiers."

"That's good." Ye Long Ba Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "These turtle sons are probably not saying good things. ”

"Well, it's possible, maybe I'm talking about how much gold I have in that box, or how much precious jewelry I have...... In addition, we have a bag for each horse, whether there are other possessions, maybe we are also calculating the value of the jewelry on Qiongniang's body, and even how much Qiongniang can sell. ”

"They dare!"

"Shi Tuo went up to negotiate, they thought we were from Dali, and Dali was taken by me, why don't you dare!"

"Less than ......"

"So try to make it as big as possible this time...... Otherwise, if it continues to develop, it will be a big thing for me. ”

The big thing Wang Ju said not only refers to the slander against him, but also the hearts of Dali.

Of course, this is the greed of these officials, but if it is spread out and used by someone with a heart, it will be a big deal.

What if Wang Ju went to Dongfu? After all, this is the place where the Emperor of Heaven is far away.

As the sun set in the west, people came.

A large group of people, more than forty people, looked from a distance, and they were indeed dressed as van soldiers, but all of them were holding weapons in their hands...... (To be continued......)