Daizhou City has existed for more than a thousand years and is the capital of Daizhou. It is named because it is adjacent to the Dai River. There are about 30,000 households and more than 100,000 people living in Daizhou City. It is the largest city in Daizhou with a city outline of
Mucheng is four times as large. Ruan Qingwen said that Daizhou can have a maximum of 200,000 people living there.
Three hundred years ago, Daizhou was once the base for Saint Taizu's advance. Saint Taizu raised troops in Youzhou, first annexed Daizhou, and then stationed 100,000 troops here. With the vast territory in the north, Saint Taizu was tired when the heroes were tired.
He sent his troops southward and established the 300-year-old foundation of the Holy Han Dynasty in one fell swoop. In addition, Daizhou City was also rich in assassins. More than half of the famous assassins in the Holy Han Empire were from Daizhou.
While talking, everyone came to the gate of Daizhou City, but Zhang Xiaowu couldn't see the simplicity of Daizhou City. He only felt that it was particularly disgusting that the gate officials at the city gate were arrogant and oppressed the people. Several people who could not afford to pay a few cents were whipped three or two times by the gate officials.
If he falls to the ground and runs too slowly, he will be beaten severely.
"Look at the door being so surly!" Zhang Xiaowu said angrily.
Ruan Qingwen hurriedly said: "Because Saint Taizu raised troops here, many people in Daizhou are relatives of the rich and powerful in the capital. Therefore, the officialdom here is the most difficult. If you are not careful, you will offend the famous families in the capital."
"That bullshit noble family can't even look down on its own dog." Zhang Xiaowu snorted coldly.
Wang Yijin stepped forward to circulate the customs clearance document. The gate official looked at it and said nonchalantly: "Shangguan are all nobles. They come to Beijing to meet the saints, so naturally they don't need to pay the city entry tax. But the convoy behind Shangguan is a caravan and must pay the city entry tax."
centimeters
If the money is not paid, don’t blame the lower officials for their inability.” The money and city entry tax are one of the most important financial revenues of a city. Generally speaking, they are controlled by the local prefect or county magistrate, who allocate part of the tax to pay.
To the rural army.
But Daizhou is different from other places. Daizhou is poor, very poor. The so-called poor mountains and rivers breed unruly people. In addition, the people of Daizhou are tough and aggressive, and bandits often appear. Therefore, the Daizhou garrison (rural army) is actually three thousand people.
Counted, and scattered in the four prefectures and seventeen counties of Daizhou.
Other prefectures and counties were wealthy, but they could support three thousand rural troops, but Daizhou was too poor, and the magistrate of Daizhou could not fully provide military pay to the rural troops. So Daizhou guard Fenyang Hou Mingren put forward an ingenious suggestion.
To Daizhou Si
The city gate tax and lijin of the seventeen counties of the prefecture were used as military expenses, and the rest was not taken. Naturally, there were other ways to generate revenue for Daizhou Yamen, so the magistrate reached an agreement with the Marquis of Fenyang and required that the city entrance tax should not be too high to avoid being attacked.
Impeach.
The Marquis of Fenyang did not ask for an excessively high city entry tax. The regulations he gave were two cents for adults and one cent for the elderly and young children. Entry into the city for weddings and funerals was tax-free but wedding cakes had to be given to the village soldiers on duty at the city gate. For Fenyang
The people clapped their hands in support of the city entry tax enacted by Marquis Yang, saying that Marquis Fenyang was indeed a good man who had guarded Daizhou for many years.
Fenyang Houming served as the founding general of his ancestors and was ordered to guard Daizhou, but his descendants became more and more useless. By the time of this generation of Fenyang Hous, because they really did not do anything for the emperor, they have now become third-grade Fenyang Hous.
If we don't make any achievements, I'm afraid that when the next head of the family comes, the Fenyang Hou family will be demoted to the rank of Fenyang husband.
For the people of Daizhou, whether they were Fenyang Marquis or Fenyang Fu, they were people they could not afford to offend or dare not offend.
Recently, Fenyang Hou suddenly became proud. It turns out that Fenyang Hou's daughter has been engaged to Yingchuan Hou and is planning to marry into Yingchuan Hou's family next year. Marriage between two marquises is not a rare thing. The nobles often talk to each other.
The marriage consolidated the relationship, and they joined forces to kill the common people's chances of success. But like Zhang Xiaowu, it was the first time in the history of the Holy Han Empire that he rose from a commoner to a frontier official.
As the brother-in-law of Fenyang Hou Guan's family, Cui Xi, who was on duty at the North Gate today, is not someone to be trifled with. He is used to running amok in the city. A few days ago, the Gu family's caravan left the city. Originally, there was no need to pay for leaving the city, but Cui Xi was stunned.
He scraped off a layer of oil, and he was particularly proud of it - the Gu family is nothing, a dragon has to be coiled up in Daizhou City, and a tiger has to lie down in Daizhou City. Even the Gu family's caravan dared to scrape the oil, this
Cui Xi's courage is getting bigger and bigger.
Because cents are commercial taxes and there is no standard, so each school charges different cents, and it all depends on mood. It just so happened that Cui Xi was not in a good mood today because he lost the bet. Every gambler has one shortcoming, no.
He likes to risk his life when it comes to money, and he is very poor. In addition, his backer is his brother-in-law, the steward of the Fenyang Marquis Mansion, so he acts even more unscrupulously.
Zhang Xiaowu raised his head, looked at the gatekeeper, then looked inside the city, and shook his head.
Ruan Qingwen smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that the general of Daizhou and the magistrate of Daizhou do not welcome you."
Zhang Xiaowu said: "It's not that they don't welcome me, but they look down on my background. I am a commoner, and they are descendants of the gentry."
Ruan Qingwen said: "We are all human beings. They all have the same head and torso. Who has more than the other?"
Zhang Xiaowu is a third-grade military general, and Fenyang Hou Mingren, the defender of Daizhou, is only a third-grade military general. According to the rules, Fenyang Hou should line up to greet him. However, not only Fenyang Hou did not greet him, but even the magistrate of Daizhou County and the magistrate of Daizhou Prefecture.
He was not welcomed, which shows that he was simultaneously marginalized by the officialdom of the Holy Han.
Since you are ostracizing me, I don’t have to be polite to you. I should use national law, use national law, and use family law instead.
Zhang Xiaowu knew that the Fenyang Marquis had always looked down on the common people, so he wanted to touch this nail to see if it was harder than the hammer or the nail. He motioned Bao Yin to come forward with his eyes, and Bao Yin immediately rode forward and cursed: "You're blind.
With your dog eyes, you can't see such a big flag, but you actually blocked the ghost guards?"
"Regardless of whether you are a ghost guard or a hairy guard, let me tell you, I am still the general of the Fenyang Marquis. Do you dare to touch me?" Cui Xi, the gatekeeper, cocked his neck and raised his chin, saying arrogantly.
Bao Yin turned around and looked, Zhang Xiaowu nodded, Bao Yin slapped him with a big mouth, Cui Xi only felt a buzzing sound, and then the sky turned dark and the ground darkened, and he fell to the ground. Everyone was in an uproar, and the rural soldiers guarding the gate immediately surrounded him.
, but seeing the ghost guard's strong horse and his eyes full of fear, he couldn't help but take a step back.
Cui Xi was helped up, and one side of his face suddenly became red and swollen. However, instead of restraining himself, he jumped up and cursed: "You bitch! If you dare to beat me, I will have your ancestral graves dug and your ancestral hall burned.
Your mother-in-law..."
When Zhang Xiaowu saw him spitting dirty words, he became furious and sneered: "Kill him."
Jas on the side immediately pulled out his dagger and threw it at the officer's face. He only heard an "ah" sound. The dagger was directly pierced into the left eye socket of the officer. The dagger was stuck on the brow bone.
I'm afraid that the knife will penetrate directly through the eyeball and stab into the brain.
Cui Xi was rolling on the ground in pain, but Jia Si suddenly rushed forward on his horse, picked up the mace in his hand, and smashed the man's head to pieces.
The brain, the skull, the blood, and the flesh were like a smashed watermelon, splattering in all directions.