In the early morning, outside Jiujiang Prefecture City.

As an important city in Jiangxi and one of the hubs of north-south transportation, Jiujiang has a different age than other cities.

The teams entering the city were clearly divided, with empty people walking on one side, while the merchants or caravans carrying goods walked on the other side.

There were only a few yamen runners who conducted routine investigations on the side of the people, while on the so-called businessmen, there were a group of tax officers, who were fully armed and serious, and looked hard to meet.

"June Junjun, all are food!"

Zhu Yunqiu saw several tax decisions in his own eyes in the team, and he unceremoniously poked the ox cart delivering vegetables with the stick in his hand.

The baskets of neatly placed vegetables were immediately stung by them.

"You said it's a dish or a dish?" The taxi smiled squintedly, "Who knows what you have in it?"

"The villain dares not!"

"I dare not, hehe!" the taxpayer sneered again, "Scale it next to you!"

"June, this..." the person who delivered the food complained, "Look at this villain's car, at most five or six hundred kilograms..."

“Scale….”

"It will take time off any later. How can a villain move by himself..."

"Gogun, don't fucking in. Jiujiang Mansion is short of you and you still have no food to eat?"

"No, no, the villain will weigh it now!" The delivery man with a bitter face, sighed and drove the car aside, then moved the baskets of vegetables down with sweat and prepared to weigh them.

But...what is the scale?

"This is not human being!"

In front of Zhu Yunxi's carriage were several merchants who were delivering meat to the city. Several people gathered together and whispered, "This taxman is obviously asking for money! The King of Hell is better than a little ghost. If you give him some benefits, then you will pass..."

"Hey! You think he is you!" A shopkeeper who looked rich and had a few guys whispered, "How much money can a delivery person make?"

"Shopkeeper, what business do you do?"

In the crowd, Zhu Yunsheng smiled and talked to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper turned around and saw Zhu Yunxi's extraordinary temperament, he hurriedly bowed, "I heard that this young master has a foreigner's accent? Is he the shopkeeper of Hengfeng?" He said, smiling, "I am doing tea business!"

"Tea?" Zhu Yunxiu frowned slightly, "I'll ask you, how much tax does this tea charge to enter the city?"

"Young Master is afraid he is not a businessman, right?" The shopkeeper's eyes were so slim. He looked at Zhu Yunxi and smiled. "Where is tea, in addition to attracting money from the imperial court, he also had to charge five points of city gate tax when entering the city..." As he said that, he looked at Zhu Yunxi again, and then looked at the followers behind Zhu Yunxi without hesitation. "It's hard to do business these days!"

Zhu Yunxiu asked, "Why do you say this?"

"According to the law of the court, merchants used tea to buy tea. When they saw tea and tea tickets along the way, they would not stop them from raising taxes privately. But now, almost every time they pass by, they have to make some more or less."

Zhu Yunxiu frowned immediately, "Someone has increased taxes without authorization?"

"It's not a tax increase, it's a worldly way!" The shopkeeper smiled, "Otherwise, how could he pass the test so easily!" He sighed, "The law of the court is, the more detailed the law is, it will be of no benefit to us small merchants."

As he said that, he continued to sigh, "Tea goods have to be taxed when entering the city. After entering the city, the tea account will pay a fixed tax of eight silver dollars to the prefect's office every year... Alas! Otherwise, this tea is just a tree leaf, how can it be sold so expensive!"

If there are policies above, you must increase your investment layer by layer. This is a chronic disease that has been around for thousands of years.

"That's how heavy the tax is!" Zhu Yunxi sighed.

"Who made Long Live like to collect taxes nowadays!" The shopkeeper smiled again.

Behind Zhu Yunxiu, He Guangyi, who had originally lowered his head, suddenly raised his head, staring at the shopkeeper's neck with cold eyes.

"Yeah!" Zhu Yunsheng smiled bitterly, "However, I heard that the Long Live Master has issued an order to specially establish the General Department of Taxation. In the future, businessmen will have less taxes!"

"It's all about changing the soup but not changing the medicine!" The shopkeeper smiled, "Long live the Golden Palace. He is not a clairvoyant, can he see what is happening in the local area?" As he said, he whispered, "Besides, even if the officials don't want them, those soldiers must want them, otherwise what will they eat?"

As he was talking, a tax kid was holding a water and fire stick, and urged him, "Hurry up, don't be muttering, come here!"

The team moved forward, and there were endless jingling sounds.

It was the sound of silver and copper coins falling into the frame. On the edge of the money frame, a ninth-rank official with his feet on a stool and a straw hat covering his face.

"You..." A tax officer pointed the iron ruler in his hand at Li Jinglong in front of Zhu Yunsheng, "Are you the shopkeeper?"

Li Jinglong is tall and looks like a rich man.

"That's right!" Li Jinglong said with a smile.

"What business do you do?" The tax dean asked again with a squinted look, condescending.

That posture is just a red armband.

"We are a horse dealer!" As he said that, Li Jinglong pointed behind him, more than a dozen fat and strong horses continued, "I want to send these horses to the mule and horse market to sell!"

Suddenly, the tax dial's eyes lit up.

This is a big deal!

The dozen war horses were already shining gold in his eyes.

But suddenly, the tax official who had been dozing off with a straw hat and took off his face and showed his suspicious face.

"Where did you come from?" asked the tax officer.

"Yes, where did you come from? Household registration documents!" Tax Ding Hu asked with a powerful voice, then waved his hand suddenly, and several Tax Ding came over, and then shouted, "Where did your horse come from? Why did you run to our Jiujiang Prefecture?"

When I went out, I was a private visit, and my identity was already prepared.

Li Jinglong handed over the household registration document, "We are from Zhili..."

"Where do these horses come from? Do you have tax receipts?" The tax officer interrupted him without hesitation.

"This horse was purchased from the Western Regions. I wanted to send it to Hankou to sell it!" Li Jinglong smiled, "But the first time doing horse sales business, I passed by the precious land, and thought about asking about the market..."

"Tax invoice!" the tax official said again.

"Tax invoice?" Li Jinglong was stunned and smiled, "I'm the first time I'm doing business, I forgot..."

"If there is no tax invoice, it means that the origin is unknown." The tax official narrowed his eyes and said, "Come on, collect it first!"

With his order, a few tax officials stepped forward and pulled the horses.

"Wait!" Zhu Yunxiu said loudly, "If you don't know the origin, do you want to take our horses?"

"Who knows if it's a thief?" the tax officer snorted coldly, "Not to mention horses, even people must be deducted!"

"Hold me?" Zhu Yunhuang sneered.

"You have a little extra feather?" Tsing Ding cursed, "You don't look like a good person when you look at it!"

Suddenly, everyone changed color.

Deng Ping, Hu Guan, and He Guangyi put their hands into their bag at the same time. When the emperor spoke, they directly knocked the guy into a hornet's nest with a musket.

"What if I've detained me?" Zhu Yunxiu gave Deng Ping and others a look of not moving, and asked.

"Why are you talking so much nonsense?" The tax officer looked at the flatterers with his eyes and said impatiently, "Come here, send them to the prefect's office... and question them well!"

"Let's wait!"

Suddenly, the tea shop that had just passed the scale and paid the tax silver turned around and said to the tax official, "This adult, the foreigner doesn't understand the rules..."

As he said that, he quickly walked to Zhu Yunxiu and whispered, "Young master, a strong dragon won't beat the local snake!" As he said that, he continued to lower his voice, "If the yamen arrests you, it will be not easy to think of it!"

"Hmm?" Zhu Yunxiu sneered again, "Why, you still have to lock me up?"

"Your horse can't tell the origin, so you will naturally be locked up!" said the shopkeeper seriously, "They also do things according to the rules!"

"He held me, how can I prove my origin?" Zhu Yunhuang sneered.

"Young master, don't you understand?" The shopkeeper smiled bitterly. "It doesn't matter whether the origin is clear or not! If you are detained, even if your family sends the certificate, it will take a year or two for a year or two."

As he said that, he lowered his voice and said, "Don't say whether you will suffer from flesh and blood, will your horses be cured? At that time, even if you prove that the horses are really sold from the Western Regions, the government will touch the upper lips and the lower lips, and then tell you that these horses are dead and buried. Do you have any place to reason?"

Zhu Yunxiu felt angry and said, "Please give me some advice from the shopkeeper!"

"Money!" said the shopkeeper, "Since you are a horse vendor, are you missing those three melons and two dates? It's obvious that you are asking for money, so you just want to kill the wild ghost..."
Chapter completed!