Bright Moon Breeze (62) (Bright Moon Breeze (62) only this day...)
Bright Moon and Breeze(62)
I just entered Henan on this day and rested in an inn in a small town.
There is no need to build a second floor for an inn in a rural area. It is just an ordinary farmer's courtyard with a wider courtyard and one room next to another.
During this trip, I realized that it was necessary to carry a bedroll with me. Really! It was such a terrible place to live in! There was no way to cover yourself with it.
This time, I brought more than 200 people with me, but the 200 people left in three groups. Several groups pretended to be businessmen, and the carriages were pulling bedding rolls and other things, but the guards were relatively tight. I encountered three groups of detectives along the way.
, But no team came over. Chen Kai asked in a low voice: "Why don't you take the bait?"
Lin Yutong laughed, the ruts where the carriage went were left there. There must not be heavy objects on the carriage, and there are so many people in the group. If it weren't for valuable goods, they wouldn't be able to get started.
As soon as I entered the town, I noticed someone looking at me vaguely. Then I might as well move in. I'll see if anyone with a bad eye walks in tonight.
Living outside, you don’t need the people on their stoves to eat. Among the eunuchs selected by Chen Fa, there are some who can cook. Besides, there are Chen Kai and Chen En to help, so the food is easy to prepare. Even though the meals for dozens of people are the same,
It's stewed in a pot, but it has enough flavor.
After eating and drinking, we rested early and waited to see if any uninvited guests would approach during the night.
After a while, the door to the backyard rang quietly, and Lin Yutong opened his eyes. Chen Kai and Chen En were lying naked, and this time they also looked out the window.
Outside, Chen Fa and several eunuchs were taking a rest.
At this moment, Lin Yutong could hear a rustling sound, which probably alerted them.
Lin Yutong asked Chen Kai to go out, "Tell them to just watch and don't move."
yes!
Looking out from the crack in the window, the moon is bright and white at night, and you can almost see clearly what is going on in the yard. Several people are in the yard, not moving their things, but there are trolleys parked in the yard, with bags of cloth one after another.
He moved the things on the trolley, and then pulled it towards the back door. Looking at the figures, they were the owner of the inn. In a small town, small inns can't make much money. The owner is the shopkeeper and the head of the house, and his two sons are the waiters.
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cook.
Now, it looks like the family's food is being shipped out.
What's the point?
Chen En whispered: "Do they know that the town is going to be unstable?"
Hmm! It's possible. But it's already this hour, and the women at home are still at home, so there should be nothing to do tonight. Just leave one person to keep an eye on it, and the rest should go to sleep! Don't be in a hurry to leave tomorrow, take a look at this
What happened.
Lin Yutong fell asleep when he said he was asleep. He got up early and asked Chen Fa if anything was strange. Chen Fa shook his head and said, "I just pulled a car with my things. When it was almost dawn, I pretended to relieve myself and went to the back door.
Found this on the ground..."
Lin Yutong took it in his hand and asked, "Sorghum?"
Yes! What was transported last night was food.
As they were talking here, there was a knock on the door, and it was Yu Hengshui who came in, "My people are staying at a villager's house, diagonally across the street. They also sneaked out to bring food last night. They followed them and went to give them to a farmer."
Send them to temples outside the city..."
In the temple? "Are there many people sending gifts?"
There are many! Some pull a cart and carry it in a basket, and some poor families carry it in bowls.
What kind of method is this? It's very abnormal! There is definitely something wrong with gathering grain like this.
"I'm not leaving today, so I just said it's cloudy and I'm afraid it'll rain on the way. We went out together to find out what specialties there are. I want to buy one or two and find out what's weird in this temple!"
yes!
After dinner, Lin Yutong didn't go out. Chen Kai went out to find the shopkeeper's wife, "...I accidentally got a hole in my clothes, please ask my sister-in-law to sew it up..." After saying that, he took out some money and said, "I
My hands are too clumsy to do this delicate work."
The daughter-in-law saw that Chen Kai's hands were indeed full of calluses. She wiped her hands on her apron and said, "I just want the stitches to be finer and neater... I don't know how to embroider..."
No need to embroider, just sew.
The daughter-in-law went into the house and called Chen Kai embarrassedly, "Sit down inside?"
Chen Kai then followed in, and the wife was talking to each other. His nose moved, and there was a smell of incense in the room, but there was no shrine-like thing. Where did this smell of incense come from?
,
She said deliberately: "Is there a fire somewhere? Why does it look like something is burning?"
The daughter-in-law quickly glanced in the direction of the cabinet and said, "No! No!"
Chen Kai laughed, "Maybe I heard it wrong." She wandered around the room, looked out the window, and waved to Chen En.
After a short while, Chen En called out in the yard: "Auntie, sister-in-law... the baskets you compiled are excellent. My master likes them. Can I sell them?"
Sell! Sell!
The daughter-in-law put down her work and stood up, then she remembered that she still had needle and thread in her hand.
Chen Kai hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, show it to my master first, don't worry about this..."
The wife went there quickly. Chen opened the cabinet and found a hole in the cabinet against the wall. In the hole in the earthen wall, there was a small Buddha statue, which was a little different from ordinary Buddha statues. In front of the Buddha statue
, lit an incense candle, burning very slowly, with only a little bit of red light flickering. She quickly closed it, pretending that she didn't know anything. Then she followed the little wife out, waiting for the basket to buy something.
It was piled up and put on the car. Chen Kaicai said: "What kind of gods and Buddhas do you believe in?"
What gods and Buddhas?
never seen it!
As a result, Chen Fa and Wang Baihu came back and inquired: "It is said to be the Wenxiang Sect."
Wenxiangjiao, why does Lin Yutong feel so familiar?
"It's a branch of the White Lotus Sect..."
White Lotus Sect?
This one seems more familiar, and I feel disgusted in my heart!
Putting away this thought, she frowned so hard that she could kill a mosquito, "Where did the scent-smelling sect originate? How long has it been there?"
"It's been a few years!" Chen Fa knew this. "This sect was founded by a man named Wang Sen. According to him, he saved a fox. In order to repay his kindness, the fox cut off his own tail and gave it to him.
It turned out that the tail had a strange fragrance, so I found it easy to find and founded the Smell Smell Sect."
Is it big?
"Big!" Chen Fa whispered, "There are followers in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places."
"The court doesn't care?"
"Obviously! Wang Sen was arrested by the imperial court in the 23rd year of Wanli. He was sentenced to death at that time. However, he bribed an unknown official and secretly let him go. Later, he was active in the capital.
In the forty-second year of Wanli, he was arrested again. It must have been because he was a prisoner on death row, but he was never executed and remained in prison. It was not until the year before last, in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, that he died of illness in prison.
. Later, this religion was always taken over by his son and a man named Xu Hongru... I don’t know when it started, but it has developed into this..."
The people provided all the food at home!
What does a cult do with so much food?
If I hadn't wanted to do the opposite, I would have seen a ghost!
"Do you know where this Xu Hongru is?"
"Shandong!"
So far?
yes!
I want to turn around and fight back, but I'm afraid it will delay things in Sichuan! But for such a large-scale mission, and the collection of grain, I am afraid that it is being collected from Zhili all the way to Henan. But the court seems to be blind,
I can't see anything! What do these local officials do for a living? They just get their salaries and sit in the yamen and enjoy the blessings! Do you know that the world outside is such a mess?
She wrote a letter and had to send it back to the palace immediately. Fourth Master asked people to keep an eye on this matter, so don't let these people contradict her.
Now that you know what's going on, there's no need to stay. Let's go! Let's go to Sichuan first and settle the matter in Sichuan. Then we can go to Shandong when we come back!
However, she still carries a small notebook with her. Big things need to be mentioned to Fourth Master. These are things that need to be taken care of or done immediately. There are also countless small things that need to be recorded in the small notebook, and they will be dealt with one by one in the future.
of.
Starting from the town, we had to enter the county seat before it was too dark.
As a result, there were still money collectors at the gate of the city. There was no charge for leaving the city, but when entering the city, each person received a copper coin.
Who gave permission to collect these damn taxes?
The imperial court has already exempted all kinds of taxes. Who gives them the right to collect taxes?
In the inn at night, Lin Yutong wrote down a big word in his notebook - tax!
Taxes have to be collected separately, and it is best for local governments not to interfere in tax collection! Local officials supervise the tax collectors of the imperial court, but each locality cannot collect taxes on its own. Some taxes are really not collected by the imperial court.
"Who is this county magistrate? What is his origin?"
Chen Fa felt like a kaleidoscope in his stomach, "The county magistrate's surname is Bai. The county magistrate I bought for five thousand taels was once a student supervisor..."
The identity of the supervisor was also purchased.
Early the next morning, don’t rush to leave, let’s go to the county government office first!
As soon as the results came out, I saw the door of the inn, noisy and crowded with people.
Several people dressed as officers were stopping a girl in red. There were several boxes at the girl's feet and a long|gun in her hand. However, this long|lance was slightly lighter than the weapon. It was a
It is made of a tough white pole with a faded red tassel on the top.
You can tell at a glance that this is a showman's show!
The guard wanted to collect ten copper coins, but the girl held down the box and said, "It's not open yet. I'll give it to you when it is open."
That won't work! If you want to make a living here, take these ten dollars first! Whether you can make money or not is up to you, but as long as you make a living, these ten dollars cannot be less.
This girl is also stubborn, "Then I won't do this business today, is that okay?"
That won't work either. "They took over our place, disrupted the order, and left three copper coins behind, otherwise they wouldn't be able to leave! But let's talk in the yamen."
As he was about to take action, Lin Yutong held him back, "Master, I came from the capital, and the emperor has said that I will be exempted from all miscellaneous taxes! Who gave you the right to collect these taxes?"
Oops! There are some uneven packages! The one at the head laughed and said, "The emperor said that? We don't know who the emperor is! We know that we have parents, and we have to listen to what the parents say, right? Don't listen to the parents.
Yes, this is rebellion!"
"Bold!" Chen Fa scolded him directly, "You parents, this is a real crime of arrogance."
We don’t understand what is overstepping and not overstepping, we just know that this is what our county magistrate said!
Lin Yutong threw a sign to Wang Baihu, "Go and do some work!"
yes!
No one could see clearly what the brand was, but in just one cup of tea, the county magistrate was lifted out of his bed and brought over.
Lin Yutong asked, "Didn't you receive the Emperor's decree to waive miscellaneous taxes?"
Received...received?
Just get it! Lin Yutong snorted, "Cut it!"
Wang Baihu raised his knife and cut off the head of the county magistrate on the busy street. After a brief period of shock and fear, someone shouted "Hello", followed by "Hello" and "Hello" in succession...
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