Xu Jingzong finally realized that he couldn't get mixed up in the circle of Xungui alone, so he began to find friends for himself, Xue Zihuai is a good opportunity, as long as Xue Zihuai is included in the door, Xue Wanche and Xue Wanqian brothers will become their allies, as for Princess Danyang, Xu Jingzong never thought that a grumpy, arrogant and lascivious woman would become an obstacle to himself.

But anyone who has a little vision has already seen that the great era has come, this is the best era, but also the worst era, people who can conform to the tide of history will be mixed like fish in water, and people who cannot keep pace with the times will feel out of place in front of this new era, the old concept is in the final struggle with the new trend of thought, Yun Ye believes that the fangs of the new era have appeared, and have bitten on the throat of the old man "the past".

Li Er and his eldest grandson still wandered around the streets and alleys of Yuezhou, and sometimes appeared in the farmland on the outskirts, they no longer concealed their identities, but purposefully inspected the new city in the company of Han Cheng and Qian Sheng.

A small temple has appeared in the place where Yun Ye threw rice seedlings indiscriminately, and the inscription is still there, and the sarcastic tone on it has not changed, but a sentence has been added at the end: "At the end of the year, the acres of land here have a bumper yield." ”

There is a statue of Yun Ye in the temple, and I don't know who carved it, but he actually carved Yun Ye's tired appearance into the wood, holding a bunch of rice seedlings and throwing them into the field.

"The people who can make trouble automatically make a statue of him, I really have nothing to say." Li Er entered the temple and patted the head of the statue with his hand and sighed with emotion, whether this guy's magic is luck or whether there are really a hundred gods in the dark.

"Niangniang didn't know, Yunhou felt that it was inappropriate for the golden crown brocade to farm the land back then, but it was already rare for him to have the mind of a young nobleman to farm the land, who would have thought that his method of farming was to pick up the rice seedlings and throw them around. Don't you see, the seedlings in other fields are neat, only the land planted by Yunhou is messy.

Weichen thought that he was just messing around, messing around with such a big thing as farming, and he was angry, so he resigned and planned to go back to the countryside to teach. Wechen never expected that the neat fields that others had worked so hard to plant, and the growth of seedlings could not catch up with what he threw indiscriminately, so Wechen withdrew his resignation, planning to take a look at it at the time of the autumn harvest, and as you can see, Wechen had to sobbed his mouth and carved the last words on the stone tablet. “

The eldest grandson was not surprised by Yun Ye's magic, looked at the rice fields that were already about to be harvested in the field and asked, "The seedlings in the fields are still neat. Since Yun Ye can beat an extra grain by throwing it casually, why don't the people learn to do it? ”

Qian Sheng said with a wry smile: "Niangniang, the common people are counting on these harvests in the field all year round to survive, who dares to take the seedlings in the land, throwing the seedlings indiscriminately This kind of thing has never been heard of since ancient times, Yunhou can succeed, the people think that this is the blessed noble ancestors are blessed, and they don't have that blessing." Or farm steadily according to the method of the ancestors. ”

The eldest grandson sighed and glanced at Li Er, and continued to move forward. Li Er looked at the verdant mountains around him and asked Han Cheng: "This place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is close to water, swamps are dense, mosquitoes are rampant, why do you rarely see wild beasts?" I used to hear that dragons were rampant in Yunmengze, and there were herds of tigers and leopards on the mountains. Now that we have been walking here for a day, why is it so difficult to see even small beasts like foxes? ”

Han Cheng bowed down and replied: "If you return to your majesty, Weichen is now just sighing that there are too few dragons, and the traces of tigers and leopards are difficult to find. ”

"Oh? Why is this why dragons and tigers and leopards are pests, why do you sigh like this? Li Er knew that there must be a reason. There are many places in Yuezhou that are different from other state capitals, one of which is that the gate of Yuezhou is never closed, as long as there is an endless stream of cars and horses driving into Yuezhou City in the second half of the night, only after asking that Yuezhou City does not allow merchants to buy goods during the day, and can only transport goods into Yuezhou in the second half of the night when the market is empty, the reason is that the history of the assassin thinks that the pigs and sheep pass through the market is unsightly.

"Your Majesty, although the dragon, tiger and leopard are all pests, but also the whole body is a treasure, after the dragon skin tanning has become the best leather, used to make boots for many years is not bad, you don't know, the best leather craftsman, can peel a dragon skin into four layers, so Yun Hou is not satisfied that peeling into ten pieces is qualified, the peeled crocodile skin is soft as silk, tough as hemp, used to make all kinds of cages is the best choice, you see, those female officials carry bags are produced by Yunjiadian pù, the price is outrageous, With Weichen's money, I can't buy a few such bags a year.

Jiaolong meat is now even more in demand, and doctors believe that Jiaolong meat can replenish qi and nourish blood, relieve asthma and cough, so large households have Jiaolong dried meat in case they are not needed. As for the tigers and leopards, it is the same, the furs made by master craftsmen from Chang'an have now sold big food, and twenty percent of the industry in Yuezhou City is supported by these dragons and tigers and leopards.

Now not only can you not see the big dragons around Yuezhou City, even the small ones are nowhere to be seen, tigers and leopards can only be seen when they enter the deep mountains, because of this, the price of Yuezhou's cages and furs is much higher, Weichen is very worried that these scourges will have an impact on Yuezhou, but he didn't expect the Yun family to attract small dragons from Poyang Lake, and raise them in captivity, and it is estimated that raising tigers and leopards is already in the Yun family's plan. “

Li Er called an accompanying female officer and asked her to bring her backpack over, Li Er tore it a few times with his hand, opened it to see, the female officer's pretty face immediately turned crimson, and it was full of women's personal belongings, Li Er didn't care, turned it over and poured it on the offering table in front of the statue of Yun Ye, looking at a copper crocodile mark surrounded by clouds on the backpack and studying it carefully.

"There are a lot of concubines in this kind of luggage, and the Yun family will send some to the palace as long as there are new goods, but they don't know the value of the concubines, how expensive a bag can be. Huannu, how much did you spend on this bag? The eldest grandson stepped forward to take the bag and asked his female officer without thinking about it.

"Back to Niangniang, this is the share that the slave maid has saved for two years and bought it yesterday in the Yun family's old shop, and it took twelve silver coins." The female official lowered her head and did not dare to look at her eldest grandson, the mother has always advocated thrift, and she is not used to such behavior.

"Twelve silver coins?" The eldest grandson screamed in surprise, and slapped the female official's head casually: "The Yun family's asking price has always been black-hearted, and fifty stones of grain bought this thing?" ”

Seeing that the eldest grandson was angry, Huan Nu hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, and the rest of the female officials put their bags in front of the eldest grandson and knelt down to plead guilty, and each of them actually had one.

Han Cheng interceded for these female officials: "Niangniang is angry, Weichen has a wife, a concubine and three daughters in his family, there are as many as ten such bags, and the bags are already the biggest thought for them in addition to jewelry, they came to Yuezhou with Niangniang from Chang'an, and it will be strange if they don't buy some bags and Weichen." “

"Are you saying it's the norm for women to buy this stuff?" The eldest grandson asked Han Cheng in disbelief, after all, this thing was too expensive, and ordinary people couldn't afford it.

"That's true, some of Weichen's old friends are in Chuzhou, and Chengzhou will write to ask the old man to buy a few new bags for them, and I'm ashamed to say that Wechen's money is all on this." Qian Sheng also helped on the side.

"Bastards, they are all bastards, where are their minds, where is a bag worth fifty stone of grain, this palace is going to ask Yun Ye this bastard, what is the reason for looting people's wealth like this!"

Li Er laughed and pressed the hand of the eldest grandson to draw east and west, and said: "I think that the price is set higher, the people who can afford these bags are not poor families, at least they need to have no worries about food and clothing, this thing can fundamentally divide a woman and a woman from an ordinary family into two classes, and twelve silver coins are not much." Qian Sheng, what did Yun Ye say? ”

Qian Sheng said helplessly: "Weichen asked the Yun family at the beginning, and they said that what they sold was not a leather bag, their family only sold a noble life, and this leather bag was just a sign that the owner was in a rich life. ”

Li Er smiled and said: "I remembered, Yun Ye had asked for an additional luxury tax before, and I didn't think so at the time, but now it seems that Yun Ye is a wake-up call for me, or not, it is indeed too much to buy a leather bag with fifty stones of grain. The province of the hit book draws up a list of luxury goods to triple their tax rates......"

Li Er let the female officials get up after announcing his will, and he was not ready to scold them, he could find a loophole inadvertently and quickly fill it, and he couldn't help but say that this was a victory.

The news that the emperor is ready to levy a luxury tax suddenly made the big shopkeeper of the Yun family's old store, Lao Zhou, fall to the ground, and make money without a bottom in his heart, now it's okay, the imperial court has begun to collect heavy taxes, this is a great thing, the Yun family's business has always been to be safe first, it must be reasonable and legal, and the introduction of the luxury tax has made the early worries suddenly come to naught.

After making a cup of hot tea, I found the most comfortable chair to sit down, this year, the wooden sign of the main house should fall into the hands of the old man, and a heavy tax will be levied? How much was levied? I have to ask this, I didn't hear it clearly.

"Fu Shou, Fu Shou, tell me, did His Majesty's decree say what is the rate of luxury tax?" Lao Zhou put down the tea bowl and asked the guy who reported the news just now.

"The shopkeeper's majesty has set the luxury tax three times more than the current one." The guy hurriedly replied.

"What?" Lao Zhou jumped up from the chair all of a sudden, and his sleeves knocked down the tea bowl. Anxiously said to the guy: "Hurry up and tell the Hou Ye, Your Majesty is patting your head again, three times, how can it be three times, Your Majesty doesn't know what you're doing, if you go through the three provinces, our family will have to be scolded to death." (To be continued......)

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