"Humph, you idiot, you are talking arrogantly! Even if you Demon Hunter Guards are highly skilled in martial arts, just a few hundred of you still want to collect tax money from the homes of millions of people?
Do you think those unruly people are easy to deal with? If you don’t take advantage of the peak autumn harvest season to bring the grain back by boat, as long as it is dried and put into their homes, you will never receive any more grain!”
The county magistrate yelled, no matter how good your Demon Hunting Guard is, how can you kill millions of people?
"The county magistrate is right. No matter how good your demon hunting guards are at fighting, can you still kill millions of people?
Not to mention anything else, even if I give you food for hundreds of thousands of families, you still won’t come back? Captain Zuo, you have to think twice before you act!”
The master tried to persuade me that some things cannot be solved by force alone.
"You two don't have to worry about it, our young master has already got a clever plan to deal with it. You just need to eat well and sleep well, and then help us check the tax bank!"
Zuo Feng said confidently that he had already received the clever tips from the young master, and he had already expected these problems. It is really stupid people who do stupid things. Since ancient times, they don’t understand the principle of forcing a cow’s head to drink water.
It’s not enough to pay the yamen servants, so why are you still doing this useless work?
Zuo was successful in enlarging his breasts and gave orders to more than a thousand people:
"A thousand of us went to a thousand villages and told the people that if anyone rushes to exchange the grain into tax money before the Ghost Festival, it will be delivered to you.
Come on up, all taxes will be halved!
Any government official who dares to come out to cause trouble will be killed on the spot!"
Everyone agreed in unison, and the ten teams were divided according to towns, with the team leader sitting in the center and commanding them. Each of them took the county government's roster and rushed towards the major towns.
If you encounter a government official along the way, you will hit him or you will cut off your hands and feet with one slap. This is not only to kill chickens and scare monkeys, but more importantly, to announce to the people:
Cangbei County has been taken over by our Demon Hunting Guards! Thousands of Soul Refining Masters flying in the air are eye-catching in the first place. In addition, they attack government officials whenever they see them, which makes the people applaud and applaud.
One after another came forward to inquire about the situation, and the Soul Refining Masters handed out the written notices and posted them in the most conspicuous places.
When they heard that the Demon Hunting Guards had come out to take over the county government and that the taxes were halved, everyone immediately became interested and went back to the village with notices to inform them.
The Soul Refining Masters followed them in, and specially selected the reputable landlords in the town to start. Let them take the lead, and things would be easier to handle.
Zuo Feng led a hundred people to a small town called Blackwater Town, and asked the Demon Hunting Guards to split up and bring all the dozens of village security guards under his jurisdiction over, and specially chose to hold the meeting in the Tutu Mountain Temple.
The Soul Refining Masters flew in the air, taking an ordinary person with them, and they went back and forth for just a few hours. After dozens of Baozheng and the big landowners in the town had gathered, Zuo Feng slowly walked in.
The guards had never seen someone who could fly into the sky and escape from the earth. When they saw more than a hundred people saluting Zuo Feng in the dark, they immediately panicked and knelt down to Zuo Feng and shouted:
"immortal."
Zuo Feng laughed, waved his hands to everyone so that they didn't have to pay such a big gift, and explained with a smile:
"I'm just a squad leader of the Demon Hunting Guards' Dian Cang team, and I'm far from a god."
"What is a person who can fly into the sky and escape from the earth but a god? Which mortal can fly like a bird?"
Some big landowners asked enviously. Now that they had no worries about food and clothing, and they were getting older, they began to be obsessed with the way of cultivating immortals. Unfortunately, there was no famous teacher to lead the way, and they never got the point.
Nowadays, seeing so many masters flying into the sky and escaping from the earth, how can anyone not be curious?
"In our world of cultivation, only those who have reached the realm of God King and Immortal Lord can be called gods. We are more than two hundred years old and are still only in the semi-saint realm. We have no chance of meeting gods in this life!"
Zuo Feng sighed with emotion, but then he thought, as long as he handles this matter well, the young master will reward him with a holy medicine.
If you don’t become a god king and immortal, it would be nice to be a true god and true saint who can live five to six hundred years.
His mood instantly improved, and he waved his hand towards everyone, beckoning everyone to sit down.
"More than two hundred
You are still so young at 80 years old, you are a real god! If I were seventy or eighty years old and you were still young, I would be content to live to be a hundred years old!"
The big landowner with gray hair on both sides sighed sincerely, but it was a pity that with his physical condition, it would be difficult for him to live to his seventies.
"Old man, you only saw thieves eating meat, not being beaten! Don't look at us monks who are over two hundred years old and still look like young people. In fact, half of these two hundred years have been spent cultivating, and the other half
Time is fighting with monsters, and I can't even get a full night's sleep all year round.
Besides, how powerful those monsters are! After two hundred years, I am the only one who has survived among the ten friends who joined the Demon Hunters with me. Do you still want to join the Demon Hunters and become a god or an immortal?"
Zuo Feng retorted with a smile. When the big landowner heard that he had to practice every day and fight with fierce monsters, he was so frightened that he quickly shook his head and refused:
"God, you are the old man. I am only sixty years old this year, much younger than you!"
The rest of the Baozhengs were only forty or fifty years old. Seeing that the big landowners all called themselves juniors, they quickly called themselves juniors.
Zuo Feng smiled and did not refute. Based on their age, these people are not even his grandchildren.
Zuo Feng slowly walked to the gate of the mountain temple, looked at the golden rice fields at the foot of the mountain, and said leisurely:
"I remember when I first joined the Demon Hunting Guard in my twenties, your entire Cangbei County was a desert battlefield. At that time, ten of my friends and I killed the first Warcraft in our lives, the Firemang Bull.
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I remember there was a twenty-year-old girl among them. She was tall, fair and delicate, and had two big dimples in her smile, which was very contagious. I still remember the way she smiled."
Everyone looked at Zuo Feng with a knowing smile and thought he was interested in the girl, so they quickly asked:
"Girls with dimples are usually beautiful. Will you two finally get married and become a pair of gods?"
"I have only seen those two dimples once, because in the process of hunting the Liuhuo Mangniu, she was burned by the iron juice of the Liuhuo Mangniu that splashed on her face in order to save our lives.
From then on, she lived her life wearing a mask, and I never saw those two big dimples again."
Zuo Feng said calmly, with a calm tone, but the melancholy and sadness in it filled the entire mountain temple. Even the two followers following Zuo Feng widened their eyes in surprise. No wonder Captain Zuo is still unmarried.
"You have so many experts in the Demon Hunting Guards, and there are many exotic flowers, plants, materials, and treasures on the Warcraft Mountains. Can't you still cure a burn?"
The big landowner asked in surprise, isn't it said that all gods are omnipotent?
"There are many exotic flowers and herbs that can cure burns. It's a pity that she didn't find them until she was about to die. Strange flowers and herbs grow on the sacred mountain. How could she, a little body-training warlock, pick them?
The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, and the universe is vast. Only the Xuanjie Holy Mountain can grow strange flowers and rare herbs. She has not even broken through the Hongjie Mountains. How can she see the strange flowers and rare herbs?
When she was in her forties or fifties, she was eaten by a high-level monster. I didn't even see the bones, and finally found this in the monster's feces."
Zuo Feng took out a golden mask from his jade storage, but it was already deformed.
Everyone was silent. This was eaten alive by the monster. Not even the bones and dregs were left. Only the indigestible gold mask remained, with the teeth marks on it clearly visible.
Zuo Feng walked back slowly, the melancholy on his face disappeared instantly, and said to the confused Baozheng and the landlord:
"Do you know how you got the fertile fields you are growing now? It's the lives and blood of thousands of dimpled girls and thousands of Demon Hunting Guardsmen.
Taken back from the hands of Warcraft.
How many orphans and widows do we have in our Demon Hunters waiting for the rice to fall?
How many gray-haired elderly people are there waiting for someone to support them?
The imperial court and the Xuanyuan royal family collected 50% of the tax money lying in the mansion's courtyard, and used it to live and drink, to raise the emperor's relatives, and to raise wild species for His Majesty the Emperor Wu.
But the orphaned mother of our hero of the Demon Hunting Guard only
If you can wait for the rice to be cooked, tell me, if we, the living Demon Hunters, don't make decisions for orphans and widows, who will make decisions for them?"
Zuo Feng pointed in the direction of the county government office and angrily said:
"A small county government collected 50% of your tax money, but in the end it couldn't make ends meet and had to borrow money from banks to pay for food and wages!
They themselves can't afford a salary, how can our orphans and widows of the Demon Hunter Guards hope to earn a salary in the future?
So this time our Demon Hunting Guards came down the mountain to take over the corrupt and corrupt county government. Since the Xuanyuan royal family can't control these corrupt officials, then we, the Demon Hunting Guards, will take charge of it.
Dear fellow citizens, listen up, our young master of the Demon Hunting Guards has issued an order that within one year, the 700,000 Demon Hunting Guards members will fully take over the power to collect taxes and money from the state and county governments.
From now on, as long as it is fertile land conquered by our demon hunting guards, all taxes will be halved. Which government servant dares to cause trouble? You just need to use this firework
If you sound the alarm, we, the Demon Hunting Guards, promise to arrive within a quarter of an hour, and you won’t be responsible for the rest.”
"The tax will be halved? Are you telling the truth, sir?"
The big landowners and Baozheng stood up in shock. This is a great thing! This year happens to be a good year. If I keep an extra 25%, I can survive at least two years of minor disasters!
"How can the order issued by our young master of the Demon Hunting Guard be false? Besides, the two and a half percent of the tax money we collect does not all go to the Demon Hunting Guard for food and salary. We take 10% of it ourselves, and the remaining 10% is used to relieve the bandits.
Half of the hungry people were used to build river embankments.
Rebuild those rotten fields that have been in disrepair and use them to house the homeless and hungry people. From now on, you will no longer have to worry about the food you have worked so hard to grow being stolen by them."
Zuo Feng smiled and continued to announce the good news. When he heard that the Demon Hunting Guards came forward to appease the hungry bandits, several large landowners who had been victimized all year round immediately clapped their hands and applauded. The excitement of meeting a close friend instantly filled their chests, and he said excitedly:
"These bandits and hungry people were unable to pay taxes and were forced to hide in the mountains to find wild fruits and wild animals to fill their stomachs. I have already expressed my opinion to the county magistrate and the master.
Just relying on force to drive them away will not solve the problem. If you beat them to hide, they will come again after you leave. If you just rely on increasing government officials to maintain order, you will not be able to eliminate the returning bandits and hungry people. Instead, you will have tens of thousands more government officials in vain. This is not stealing the chicken but losing the money.
Rice?
Build river embankments and canals to provide disaster relief, your young master is a very knowledgeable person!"
"Of course, our young master has both civil and military skills, is familiar with history books, and is a commoner. He has seen big things since he was a child, how can he not be an expert?"
Zuo Feng said proudly that Ye Congwen's clever tip was just the right medicine for him and only pinched the imperial court. The moment he saw the clever tip, he knew that the Demon Hunter Guards would win.
Next, as long as the Xuanyuan royal family's counterattack is resisted, the entire Daxia Dynasty, except for the imperial capital and the thirty-six county princes' palaces, which were conquered by the emperor, all state and county capitals will fall into the hands of the Demon Hunting Guards.
"By the way, who is your young master?"
"This is being kept secret for now. When the time comes, he will reveal his true identity to the world. Anyway, with his incredible cultivation speed, everyone here can see it!
From now on, please spread the good news of halved tax collection to the ears of every villager. The tax preferential period for our Demon Hunters is only one month. There is a payment point in each village. Starting from today, thirty
The collection will be reduced by half for a few days. After this discount period, the original price will be restored!"