Yang Qi led people from the Tax Clearance Office of the Ministry of Household Affairs and gathered around a farmland.
The farmers working on the farm were frightened by this gesture.
"Master Yang, I have to remind you, in our country of Great Xia, destroying young crops... is a sin." Fang Jue reminded kindly.
Destroying young crops has been a near-death penalty in all dynasties on earth.
It seems like it's the only time now that I don't take it seriously.
But here, in the Great Xia Kingdom, anyone who destroys young crops can be punished by confiscation and execution.
Yang Qi heard this, but disdainfully said: "What green crops? What I saw was a green and good crop. It should have been harvested long ago... It's just that Mr. Fang, in order not to pay taxes, deliberately delayed it and wanted to harvest it slowly and quietly."
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Having said this, Yang Qi was very proud. He had legal principles, and even if someone held him accountable, it was his duty.
How can anyone not harvest crops after the autumn harvest? Isn’t this avoiding taxes?
Of course, Daxia Kingdom also has autumn crops, but they are all registered in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Fangjiazhuang is full of new species... Naturally, according to the law, they are not among them!
"Master, wait until I chop him up!" Dian Yi's eyes were about to burst, feeling that this bully was going too far.
Fang Jue shook his head: "He wants to die, let him go."
Noriichi refused to give up: "That is what the old pavilion master and the young master worked so hard to get, how can I let him destroy it!"
"Don't worry, he can't destroy it..."
Fang Jue glanced at the farmers who had gathered from all over the village.
The tenants we recruit these days are not good people...
Yang Qi hadn't realized that something was wrong, and looked at Fang Jue with a sarcastic look: "Master Fang's guards are really lawless. What kind of crime is attacking an official of the imperial court? Master Fang doesn't need to be reminded by his subordinates, right?"
"Don't worry, if he wants to kill you, there's no need to attack." Fang Jue said calmly.
"Even so, are you worthy of my attack?" Dianyi said disdainfully, "Do you think you are Mo Yuan or Fan Xi'an?"
"hehe……"
Yang Qi sneered, too lazy to argue with this reckless man. Anyway, he didn't believe anyone in the capital would dare to use force against him.
So what if he is ranked fourth in the world? If he dares to cause chaos, there will be hundreds of thousands of troops in the capital!
Civil servants, it seems, do not think highly of military men, and Yang Qi is the best among them.
"Someone, dig it for me!"
"As long as they are not in the household register, all the crops that can survive the autumn will be dug out by me... I must weigh them carefully and fulfill my duties!"
Yang Qi said proudly, and took a look at the title that was brought up by a few minor officials next to him.
With provocative eyes, he glanced at Fang Jue, who was silent beside him.
"Mr. Fang, this is also a matter within the lower official position... I blame Mr. Fang for not registering these new products with the Ministry of Household Affairs, otherwise how could such a thing happen?" Yang Qi said in a good tone.
Looking at the small officials who were already digging, Fang felt calm and relaxed, and even wanted to laugh a little.
He didn't yell for stop, nor did he cry for injustice.
Just watching calmly, he suddenly asked coldly: "Master Yang... I don't know who instigated you to come, but I dare say that the person who asked you to come can't protect you."
"Believe it or not?" Fang Jue smiled sarcastically. He rarely took pleasure in misfortune, except now.
Yang Qi said disdainfully: "Master Fang, it's just a routine matter to be dismissed from the official position. I'm sure you won't embarrass the official, right?"
He is not afraid of retaliation.
Although the prince and his junior master share the same rank, they only share the same rank and have no real power.
For people without real power, no matter how high their official positions are, they are just superficial and cannot defeat parties with dense network of connections.
Just like now, you can dig up all the crops in Fangjiazhuang, and no one dares to stop you.
Prince's Young Master?
From Yipin?
Haha, joke!
"Which minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Yan Shangshu, or the minister of the Ministry of Revenue, can drive the sixth-rank Minister of Tax Clearance to be the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, who has some opinions on me?" Fang Jue asked in a gentle tone.
"Master, who is this man?" someone asked among the gathered tenants.
Because we are not sure, it is Fang Jue who wants to dig, so everyone has not taken action yet.
Before Fang Jue opened his mouth, Yang Qi took the initiative to introduce himself.
"My official, Yang Qi, is the Chief of the Tax Clearance Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs. I am in the process of clearing taxes. Please move away!"
Yang Qi was so arrogant that he didn't dare to go too far when facing Fang Jue, for fear of being accused of committing the following offenses.
But facing these idiots, Yang Qi had nothing to worry about, and looked like a villain who had succeeded.
Just when he thought he could repel dozens of people with one sentence and show his official style, he found that the eyes of the dozen tenants looked at him were wrong.
"So, it's not about harvest?" The tenants understood.
Fang Jue said helplessly: "I told Mr. Yang that these crops have not yet been harvested. He didn't believe me. He said that I didn't register them with the Ministry of Household Affairs. He had to dig them out, weigh them and then ask me to pay taxes..."
"Oh, it's true that people speak lightly."
Hearing this, a tenant farmer hummed: "Master of the tax clearance department, don't you know what it is to destroy young crops?"
Yang Qi looked coldly, grabbed a whip from the hand of the clerk on the side, and whipped it on the tenant's face.
"Snapped--"
There was a crisp sound, and a bloodstain appeared on the left side of the tenant's face, and he stared at Yang Qi in disbelief.
Just when he was about to rush out, he was stopped by a tenant on the side, who shook his head to signal him not to reveal his identity.
"Okay..." After being whipped, Wang Book looked gloomy. He had been in the Hanging Sword Division for many years, and even the first master had never beaten him.
When have you ever suffered this injustice?
But in order to stay in Fangjiazhuang and not reveal his identity in front of Fang Jue, he had to endure this whip.
"How dare a commoner come to teach me the law? How outrageous!" After the whipping, seeing that the other party did not dare to resist, Yang Qi curled his lips proudly and glanced at everyone.
In this capital city where nobles gather, it is rare for a sixth-grade person to have such an opportunity to be unrestrained and unrestrained.
This tone comes out so smoothly...
"You're seeking death..." Fang Jue and Dianyi looked at each other with a sigh of relief.
Almost none of these tenants were real tenants, they were all sent by the emperor.
Either it is affiliated with the Hanging Sword Division, or it is affiliated with the Forbidden Army, or it may even be hiding a private army close to His Majesty.
Fang Jue deliberately didn't expose it, but actually there was a very important reason...these people were really good at work, how could they find such useful tenants if they were to be driven away?
"What are you doing standing there in a daze? Do you want to be whipped?"
Yang Qi looked sternly: "dig for me, dig them all out, and over there, over there... dig out all those who are not on the list, don't leave out any of them!"
Seeing Yang Qi's provocation, Fang Jue nodded secretly.
"I understand, Mr. Yang, the person who sent you did not want to mess with me... but wanted to kill you..."
Fang Jue sighed, if the other party wanted to embarrass himself, they would not send such a fool.
He actually didn't know anything about Fangjiazhuang, so he just acted wantonly in Fangjiazhuang. The person who sent him must not have told him this... then he was deliberately trying to trick him.
"Master Fang, even if you are angry, there is no need to say such unnecessary words, right?"
Yang Qi hummed.
Fang Jue didn't look at him. From the corner of his eye, he saw someone among the tenants running out of Zhuangzi in a hurry.
Not long after, before half of the sweet potatoes in this two-part field were dug, a large group of people arrived.
"Sir..." A petty official discovered.
Yang Qi turned around and saw a group of people coming from Zhuangzi's entrance. They were the mixed flags of the Forbidden Army and the Hanging Sword Division.
"What are they here for..." Yang Qi wondered, he hadn't finished yet, so what did he send someone to do?
Unexpectedly, the next moment he saw hundreds of people rushing in from outside the village.
Shouting: "Protect Young Master!"
Before he could react, Yang Qi saw dozens of cavalry surrounding him.
"Stop, don't dig!"
The minor officials were also frightened and quickly surrendered.
"this……"
Yang Qi was shocked and then ecstatic. He pointed at Fang Jue and said, "Young Master, you are so bold. You dare to mobilize the imperial army. No one can protect you now!"
The Prince's Third Division had attempted rebellion, so for many years the Third Division did not dare to have anything to do with military power.
Yang Qi thought that it was Fang Jue who mobilized troops privately, thinking that he had some leverage.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, the sergeant on the cavalry reached down with his spear and pressed it against his throat.
"Bold!" Yang Qi roared.
A man walked out of the Forbidden Army. Lin Bei was riding on a horse and looked at the dying man indifferently:
"Send him to the Hanging Sword Division."
Yang Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Lin Bei changed his tune and sneered: "No... take him to the Guards Prison of the Forbidden Army to wait for His Majesty's disposal!"
Yang Qi was shocked and angry: "No, the Forbidden Army has no power to deal with this official. Even if this officer has committed a crime, it should first be issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs, investigated by the Ministry of Personnel, and detained by the Ministry of Punishment... At most, the Xuanjian Division can be involved in pickets, so why should the Forbidden Army intervene?
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oh?
Lin Bei was a little surprised: "You seem to know the law very well?"
"That's natural!" Yang Qi said very proudly. He had already calculated that nothing would happen to him, so he dared to offend the prince's young master.
"It's a pity that your Majesty personally took care of the matter in Fangjiazhuang. You hit the iron plate...take it away!" Lin Bei waved his hand, and Yang Qi, who was bouncing just now, instantly became depressed.
