"We are just passers-by..." The man obviously didn't want to answer, but asked again: "Weng Weng, how much pension did the court give after your son died?"

"My kid is just a soldier, how much pension can he have?"

Several large-scale wars occurred in the Bashu area during the reign of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi, but it gradually settled by the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song.

There were many imperial soldiers stationed in the past, but now there are only a few camps of imperial soldiers. Generally, there is one battalion in Chengdu Prefecture, and Zizhou and Suizhou in the east of Chengdu Prefecture each have one battalion. After all, this is the core area of ​​the Bashu area, and there are really not many officers and soldiers in the third battalion.

Then there was a battalion in Yazhou, which also showed that during the Song Dynasty, the various foreign tribes in the western part of Bashu were relatively stable and self-supporting.

The rest is in the southern region. Jiazhou and Luzhou are generally stationed in one battalion, but in Rongzhou, there are often three battalions of imprisonment troops stationed.

This is the case with the injunction, and there are often two types of combat troops in the Bashu area.

First, the combat-type wing soldiers, including the wing soldiers with criminals, just like the prison army escorted by Lin Chong in Cangzhou as described in Water Margin. This prison army is a type of wing soldiers.

Its main functions are farming and river management. This treatment is very poor. There are only four pieces of silk every year and only one stone and five dou of brown rice per month, which cannot even maintain food and clothing. However, some of them have good performance and strong bodies. They have three functions: guarding the place, such as catching thieves and preventing theft, tying them into bans, or directly using them to prepare for battle, and their treatment will also be slightly improved. In addition to the above treatment, there is also some monthly money per month.

The other is what Lao Han Li mentioned, including Guangnan, followed by Jinghu area and then Bashu area.

After all, in most areas, the weather is hot or the mountains are high or the water is far away, so most of the banish soldiers from the north are not suitable. In addition, they can save costs for the imperial court. However, it is very early for these areas to install local soldiers, and it has nothing to do with Wang Ju. It is just that Wang Ju clarifies and expands them, and it is also recommended to increase the treatment slightly.

Not only the local soldiers, but also the archers in the north, the foreign soldiers in the northwest, and the formal border soldiers gradually established under the suggestion of Wang Ju in recent years. They are all combat-type troops, and the local soldiers are treated the worst, and there is only a little treatment. Who would be willing to go to the battlefield to fight bravely to the enemy?

It seems that Old Man Li’s child is the former type of soldier.

As a local soldier, where can I get much pension?

But the man frowned and asked again: "Weng Weng, how old is your grandson?"

"Five years old."

"Five years old, the future is very difficult."

"No," Old Man Li's wife began to wipe her tears from the side.

At this time, a man behind him came over and whispered.

The man rode back to the carriage behind, and said a few words to the people inside the car through the curtain of the car, then took out a gold bracelet, came to Old Man Li again and said, "This is my wife's wish for your grandson."

This is the average person. He may not know it, but he thought it was copper, but Old Man Li knew it. How much does such a big gold bracelet cost? He quickly shook his hand.

"Weng Weng, I don't lack money. It is also a fate to meet on this road. Please accept it."

"What kind of fate is this? I won't accept it if I have a small one."

"Don't be polite to our Dalang." A big man next to him said.

Old Man Li could not help these people, so he had to watch the man put the bracelet on his grandson's wrist in panic and inexplicably.

However, the man seemed to have something to do. Although he was riding on the horse and continued to set off with him and his party. He kept frowning, as if he had encountered something very difficult, and kept looking silently in the distance.

Not far from the avenue are two Tushan Mountains. The vegetation on the Tushan Mountain is densely packed, and the field in front of the county town is on the side, but it is very close to the county town. As long as you raise your eyes slightly, you can see the city gate not far behind Tushan Mountain.

Before he arrived at the venue, several officials who were like wolves and tigers came over and lifted up Old Man Li's donkey cart roughly and counted the number of silk in the cart.

Because he was speaking the authentic local dialect, the big man couldn't understand it, so he had to watch Old Man Li argue with them.

Suddenly, Old Man Li knelt down.

The man whispered, and the man beside him called Shi Tuo walked forward and asked, "Weng Weng, what happened?"

"Dalang, please comment. We have paid the tax and tax. I have Zhuchao to testify. They want us to trade tax and tax."

In fact, Old Man Li's business also has a bit of a hoarding effect, but what he earns is the difference between the two places. How much will the difference be?

If there are too many miscellaneous taxes, how can you make money?

"Shi Tuo" said: "You don't have to pay this tax."

"What do you barbarians know!" a clerk shouted dissatisfiedly.

It’s not that they are afraid of Dali people, but that they look at the industry. There are many people, and they are all riding horses and wearing swords on them. It seems that they are not easy to mess with and dare not go too far.

After saying that, he vented his anger on Old Man Li, pushed Old Man Li to the ground, and forcibly moved silk from the car.

Shi Tuo then asked again: "Brother, let's bring some silver to the city, should we pay taxes?"

"What you want to pay, what you want to pay," several clerks immediately came to their spirits.

Shi Tuo whistled, and the two men behind him led a horse, and there was a backpack immediately. The two untied the backpack, exposed the two hulls, and opened the hulls, which were filled with white silver ingots, which looked pretty good.

Several clerks immediately walked over greedily and carried the two wings of money to the side of the venue. As for the previous big man who was dismounting and helping Old Man Li, the few people would still be able to watch and manage.

They began to weigh the weight again. Logically speaking, gold and silver in the Song Dynasty had very little effect in currency, and most of the time it was still commodities, so the market would also be taxed. This formed a difference. For example, the silver price in Beijing was equivalent to two thousand cents per tael, but in some silver production areas in Guangnan, it was only equivalent to one thousand cents.

However, because they are expensive and easy to carry and hide, just like this pedestrian, if they put the silver under the seat of the carriage, would these clerks push the women on the carriage and forcefully look through the seat?

Therefore, the tax ratio of gold and silver in the Song Dynasty was very small, almost insignificant, and even if there were, most of them were in the pockets of clerks.

And even Old Man Li saw that this group of people was not simple, so who was stupid to pay the money to "enter the city fee"?

But several clerks blinded the light of Yinzi, and they didn't even think of the details here.

Several people were calling money, and suddenly one of them took out a locked box and asked "Shi Tuo", "What is the stuff in this box?"

"The things in this box are very expensive, I advise you not to open them and look at them."

In theory, several people also have the right to force Shi Tuo to open it, but several people looked at each other. What is more expensive than silver?

Where is gold!

Jinzi also had to pay the tax on entering the city, but after a few people looked at each other, they tacitly put the small box back into the box.

The leader whispered to the other person, and the other quickly rode on the donkey and ran to the county town behind. The leader turned around and said to Shituo: "Please wait a moment. We don't understand silver and are afraid of making mistakes, so we sent someone to the city to ask someone to identify him. I feel wronged."

"Okay. Let's wait."

The leader felt something was wrong, but the expression of the man was always very calm, and only the two of them were talking beside the old man, which made him feel relieved.

The group continued to wait, and several clerks continued to collect taxes.

The man was continuing to ask Old Man Li: "Are you hurt?"

Old Man Li held his waist and said, "It hurts here."

"I will help you get into the car, I will give you justice later," the man finally showed anger in his eyes. He had witnessed that just now. It was not called pushing, it was like beating someone. It seemed that he had hurt the old man's waist.

The two of them helped the old man onto the donkey cart. At this time, the curtain of the cart finally opened and a very bright young woman walked out, but her face was pale and sick.

The man walked over and asked with concern: "My grandma Qiong, why are you coming down?"

Yes, this group is Wang Ju and his guards.

Originally, Wang Ju planned to go to Meizhou to see Mount Emei, so there was no need to be so anxious to come back this time. The court asked him to serve as the chief political affairs, which made him very happy, but also puzzled him. Therefore, people had to ask the capital for some information first. So it doesn't matter if you are slower, but you don't need to be too fast.

However, Qiong Niang was sick in Yazhou and was very ill. Wang Ju quickly moved to Chengdu Prefecture to invite a doctor from Gao Ming to treat Qiong Niang.

So I set out directly from Qiongzhou to Chengdu and happened to encounter this out.

The man named Shituo was named Zhang Nantuo, whose courtesy name was Shituo. He was one of the three disciples brought back from Dali by Wang Ju.

Qiong Niang said, "Official, I just come down and take a look."

Both of them were talking authentic official words, but the voice was very small. Several clerks did not hear it. Instead, they looked at Qiong Niang's pretty appearance, and the few of them whistled like teasing.

"Go back." Wang Ju's eyes flashed with anger again, and he helped Qiong Niang back into the car.

Those clerks didn't know their tragic fate. When they saw Qiong Niang getting in the car, they were still talking in dialect. What they said was a little far away. Wang Ju couldn't hear it clearly. However, even if they were close, they might not understand it. But looking at their expressions, they could know that they were talking dirty words.

Yelong Meesheng held the hilt of the knife angrily.

Wang Ju whispered: "Mei Sheng, don't be impulsive."

"Young Guardian, they must send someone back and call on the officers and soldiers."

"It's okay. Although Yizheng's magistrate is not very clear about the origin of the magistrate, I still know the distribution of the entire Qiongzhou troops. They are mainly stationed in the Linqiong County, followed by Huojing and Pujiang. As for Yizheng County, even if there are officers and soldiers, there will not be many, and they are just ordinary vans."

"That's good." Yelong Meesheng breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "These turtle sons are probably not saying good things."

"Well, it's possible, maybe I'm talking about how much gold or how much precious jewelry I have in that box... In addition, each of us has a luggage immediately, whether there are other items, maybe we're still considering the value of the jewelry on Qiong Niang, or even how much money can Qiong Niang sell."

"They dare!"

"The Shi Tuo went up to negotiate. They thought we were from Dali, and Dali was taken down by me again. Why don't you dare?"

"Young Insurance..."

"So try to make a bigger difference this time... Otherwise, if it continues to develop, it will ruin my big deal."

The big thing Wang Ju mentioned not only refers to the slander of him, but also the hearts of Dali.

Of course, this is the greed of these clerks, but if it is spread and used by those who are interested, it will be a big deal.

So what if Wang Ju went to the East Mansion? After all, this is a place far away from the emperor.

The sun gradually turned westward and people came.

A large group of people, more than forty people. From a distance, they were indeed dressed as soldiers, but they all held weapons in their hands... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!