At dusk, Li Yanqing's team arrived at Cannabi Town, about fifty miles away from Chengdu County. When he walked forward, he saw endless rice fields. Li Yanqing immediately ordered the army to rest in the town.

The army had simple marching tents and soon set up a military camp in the open space outside the town. However, Li Yanqing was quite interested in the town. Taking advantage of the time of the camp, he led Hu Qing'er and two personal soldiers to walk towards the town slowly.

This town of Cannabi is actually not small, but it is quite scattered. There are also large areas of rice fields distributed between the east and west of the town. The place where Li Yanqing garrison is located is in the east of the town, while the prosperous land of the town is in the west of the town several miles away.

However, there is also an inn, two taverns and a grocery store in the east of the town. At this time, it was not completely dark. When Li Yanqing saw the door of the yard open, he walked in and saw an old couple in the yard weaving bamboo utensils.

"Does the official want to buy bamboo tools?" The old man came forward enthusiastically.

The old man said a pure Sichuan sound, but he could understand it. Seeing that the bamboo utensils were well crafted, Li Yanqing smiled and said, "You can buy a few, but can your father-in-law give me a bowl of water first."

"Old woman, go and pour water!"

The old woman got up and went to pour water. The old man took out a few bamboo stools and enthusiastically asked them to sit down.

"From the accent of the official, I must be from the north!"

"I am from Xiangzhou, Hebei."

"No wonder he is so tall."

The old man looked at Hu Qing'er wearing tight armor and smiled: "It's rare for girls to join the army."

Hu Qing'er's face turned cold. She didn't like others to joke about her military affairs. Li Yanqing laughed and changed the topic, "Does your father-in-law make a living by weaving bamboo tools?"

The old man shook his head, "Weaving bamboo tools is just to subsidize his son for some household use. Farming is too hard and life is under great pressure!"

At this time, the old woman brought out a pot of water and a few large bowls. She smiled gently at Hu Qing'er, and continued to weave bamboo utensils.

Hu Qing'er quickly poured a bowl of water for Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing picked up the bowl and drank it, nodded and said, "The water quality is good and very sweet."

"We have a good water here. Drink it slowly, there are some in the pot!"

Hu Qing'er went to find the old woman to choose bamboo utensils, but Li Yanqing chatted with the old man casually.

"I see that the land here is fertile, with abundant water resources and abundant resources. How can I live a difficult life?"

"Hey! The tax is too heavy. In addition to the exemption of land tax, there is also military expenses for the anti-Jin period. Each person has a total of six people. Our family has six people a year. And now we are talking about a full amount of money, which is equivalent to the previous eight-stake money. At least four big fat pigs are needed to pay the military expenses for the anti-Jin period. I heard that the military expenses on Shaanxi Road are all on our Bashu, and life is hard!"

Li Yanqing asked for a moment of silence: "Is the salt tea in that family expensive?"

"Salt tea wine has always been very expensive. Now I go up the mountain to pick wild tea, but it is not allowed to sell it. The wine is the same. I brew fruit wine myself and drink it. I am not allowed to sell it. If I sell it, I will go to jail. There is no way to get salt. A bucket of salt costs hundreds of cents, so I have to save some food."

At this time, Hu Qing'er picked up more than twenty bamboo weapons. The personal soldiers paid the money and directly carried the bamboo weapons and followed Li Yanqing back to the camp.

"Old man, you just talked nonsense. That young man seemed to be not an ordinary person. That girl was his entourage. I can see clearly that even the helmet was made of silver."

The old man also felt a little regretful that he had said too much, but he still said stubbornly: "It doesn't matter. Everyone knows what I said, it's not a secret!"

Having said that, he hurriedly closed the door and gave the old woman a wink. The two of them packed up their things and hid in the inner room.

Li Yanqing returned to the camp almost silently. For the first time, he heard that there was a tax project for the anti-Jin military expenses. Each person had a constant monies of money per year. There was a population of five million on Chengdu Mansion Road, so at least five million monies were collected every year. Last year, the money given to the Zhengliu Mansion was six million monies, which means that in addition to the anti-Jin military expenses, other taxes were only one million monies. Is this possible?

Land tax, household tax, commercial tax, exemption of service, not to mention the government's specialty of salt, tea, wine, sugar, pig iron and other daily necessities. The monopoly income of these daily necessities alone is at least more than 10 million guan. Where did this money go?

Li Yanqing had already realized that this matter might be Zeng Xiulin's handle.

At noon the next day, Li Yanqing's team arrived in Chengdu County. The prefect Zeng Xiulin, the magistrate Xu Qingwei, the transportation envoy Zhang Ji, the commander-in-chief Hong Zhaonian and dozens of officials went out of the city to welcome the arrival of Jin Li Yanqing, the King of Jin.

Zeng Xiulin is about 60 years old, tall and fat, and energetic. He has a smile on his face anytime and anywhere. He is very good at controlling topics. He is almost alone from the city gate to the government office. Other officials only smiled politely, and no one interrupted Zeng Xiulin's words and interrupted.

This also shows that Zeng Xiulin's strength is the only one in Chengdu Prefecture and even Chengdu Prefecture Road.

Everyone sat down in the government office, Li Yanqing pointed at Zhao Kai and introduced with a smile: "This is our Shaanxi Road Transport Envoy Zhao, I believe everyone knows you!"

Everyone showed a look of embarrassment on their faces, and Zeng Xiulin laughed dryly and said, "Envoy Zhao met Bo Le again, which is a joyful congratulation!"

Zhao Kai snorted coldly, "Zhao has always been engraved in his heart by the prefect Zeng's care for Zhao."

The smile on Zeng Xiulin's face finally got a little out of touch. He quickly turned around and asked with a smile: "What did Li Jingluo come to Chengdu this time?"

"Three things!"

Li Yanqing smiled slightly and said, "The first thing is my normal inspection. As the Sichuan-Shaanxi Military Commissioner, I have only come to Bashu Road Three Roads so far. This time I am mainly visiting everyone."

Everyone laughed and said, "I'm saying that when Li Jingluo arrives, I must punish three drinks of wine as a punishment for not coming to Bashu for a long time."

Li Yanqing smiled and waved his hand, "Thank you for your kindness. If you have the chance, I will definitely punish you three drinks to apologize to you. But I am afraid that you can't drink alcohol if you are in official business. I will have a chance next time!"

"The second thing that Li Jingluo did is"

"The second thing is about the local Xiangjun going to Jingzhao for training for one month. Everyone knows that I don't care much about the government affairs of Bashu. This is also the official's intention. Let me focus on military affairs. As a strategic commander in charge of military affairs, the Xiangjun training is a task I must complete this year. There are eight thousand Xiangjun troops on Chengdu Mansion Road. How about it, let's lead the other two routes!"

Zeng Xiulin was actually not interested in military training. Since Li Yanqing admitted that he only managed the military and not the politics, Zeng Xiulin had to give Li Yanqing this face. If he refused, it would be difficult to continue the next issue.

Moreover, this time Li Yanqing only led 500 female soldiers to the south, which invisibly made him relax his vigilance.

Thinking of this, Zeng Xiulin nodded and smiled at the commander-in-chief Hong Zhaonian, saying, "Since it is the task that Li Jingluo will complete this year, of course we must support it. Commander-in-chief Hong will arrange it! I will send the Xiang army to Jingzhao Mansion in the next few days to strive to come back before the New Year."

"I understand, let's make arrangements immediately."

"Li Yanqing smiled again and said, "Anyway, the army has to escort money and grain to the north these days, so it's just right to train in Jingzhao Mansion."

The lobby was immediately silent. After a while, the fortune transfer officer Zhang Ji smiled bitterly and said, "I will not hide it from Li Jingluo, money and food matters are a bit difficult!"

Li Yanqing looked at Zeng Xiulin coldly, "Prince Zeng, it's October now, but the money and food for the first half of the year have not been released to us. When will your mansion delay it?"

Zeng Xiulin smiled dryly and said, "Li Jinglei didn't know anything. We were in a difficult situation because the Song and Jin people discussed peace talks, and the court believed that there was no need to transfer all the money from Bashu to the northwest. Now the court argues a lot about this matter, and we want to wait until there is a conclusion before starting the shipment."

"I have never heard of reducing money and grain. The government has never told me that the Song and Jin peace negotiations can reduce military expenditure. Could it be that the prefect of the past magistrate received the imperial edict from the government?"

"The official's decree was not received, but the Supreme Emperor's decree was received, requiring us to cut halves to supply money and grain to the third road northwest."

Li Yanqing was stunned, "********* Xiulin nodded, "Although the Supreme Emperor has abdicated, he is still guiding the emperor to govern the country. We local officials dare not refuse to obey his will. Please understand our difficulties."

Li Yanqing pondered for a long time and said, "This is it! You escort me the money and grain for the first half of the year first, and then I will ask the official family for instructions. Let's take the official's official order as the basis. If the official family decides to cut money and grain, then I can only accept it. The prefect, this plan is not excessive!"

Zeng Xiulin bit his lips and said, "How about I give half of it first, and my other half will be owed, and then I will make a decision when the official's order arrives."

Li Yanqing shook his head and continued to bargain: "The Song-Jin negotiations are in May, so you must give all the ones before May, and you can give half of the ones in the next two months. Even the Supreme Emperor cannot violate the Song-Jin agreement!"

"Okay! That's it. Let's escort two million and five hundred thousand s of grain to Jingzhao Mansion. We will follow the remaining ones to the court."

Zeng Xiulin still had confidence. He believed that the government would not be able to beat the Supreme Emperor in this matter.

"Then we will decide!"

Li Yanqing stood up and laughed and said, "My army has been resting for a long time and will continue to patrol Zizhou Road tomorrow morning. I will trouble the prefect Zeng to arrange the money and food. I will try to go on the road in the past two days. It is coming to the New Year, but I still owe military funds, and the morale of the army is already a little unstable."
Chapter completed!