Sun Ce watched the Taoist couple walk away and turned around: "Mother, it's time to go back. The ship cannot be hidden for too long."
His only mission assigned by His Majesty is to protect the safety of Emperor Wa, and he is always ready to wait for orders from Emperor Wa.
Nuwa glanced at the aura inside the statue, sighed, left the town and returned to the ship.
With an order, thousands of people entered the ship. Just when the transport ship gradually became invisible and only half of the cargo was moved, someone suddenly came to report.
Han Ziwei's expression immediately changed and he gave the order: "Clear the traces quickly, and those who haven't had time to carry them should be covered with straw in the woods."
After a while, a group of officials came. Amidst the sound of gongs and drums, they stood at the gate of the town and shouted: "Guhan Town, it's time for you to pay taxes."
"Paying taxes again? We don't pay them just once in the spring. We haven't even harvested yet," someone asked.
The tax collector kept a straight face and said nothing. This was because he had not yet seen the camp behind the town, otherwise he would not be able to tell what was going on.
"This is a new tax to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday. The big families in this county haven't said anything. Why, do you have any objections?" The tax collector glanced at Han Ziwei with a dark face, as if he would turn his back and take someone else if he didn't pay.
I can’t believe that this tax collector always has this look on his face no matter where he goes.
Han Ziwei secretly cursed this kind of pertinence everywhere. He remembered His Majesty's instructions and said with a smile: "Of course I have to pay it. How much will it be this time?"
The tax collector glanced at the town's market, his eyes swept over some girls who were shopping together, and then looked at the beautiful woman behind Han Ziwei. He flashed a hint of greed and winked at his tax collector.
The tax collector knew that he was trying to make things difficult, so he said in a joking voice: "I heard that you bought another group of girls. You are really rich. I will pay you ten kilograms of grain per family..."
"Use food? Can't we use money? The town has a large population and there is really no surplus food. If the price of food is the same as last time, we are willing to pay more..." Han Ziwei smiled flatteringly, stuffed the guy with money, and whispered: "
This one is for you and all the officers to share, and the other is for your superiors, just for your convenience."
The tax collector weighed the weight in his sleeves and felt satisfied. He whispered to the tax collector for a while. When he looked back, his smile became more genuine: "It's okay, but the price of food has increased recently, so it will have to be raised by 10%."
"Easy to say, easy to say..."
After even coaxing and asking these gangsters to be sent away, Han Ziwei's face changed from flattery to a cold look: "There is something wrong with this tax collector..."
"Gongsun Ruo, take people over to monitor his whereabouts and observe the families who are in contact with him. No matter which family is behind it, in half a month, they will be wiped out in the name of bandits. You can't wait until the next time to collect taxes.
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A real person agreed and led the three magicians to join the tax collection team from a distance. Han Ziwei paced back and forth, gave his junior sister a reassuring look, and called another real person: "Xu Yan, you can follow me to avoid anything.
Accident."
"Now that there are more women in the town, it is different from the past. When outsiders come in the future, the magician must notify them in time, and women from all families should not go out... It is not that they are not allowed to show their faces, but it is just to reduce trouble. When there are no outsiders, everything will be business as usual."
The men and women nearby looked at each other and had no objections. It was estimated that some rich family was jealous and couldn't help but take action. However, they were not a new family in the country who just let their flesh and blood be eaten. They were an organization with the goal of seizing power.
He is not afraid to use force to physically eliminate the buds of hostility.
Maybe before today, there was still a conservative mentality of avoiding, but with the arrival of His Majesty Emperor Wa to support and to respond to His Majesty Wu's instructions, the ambiguity in the future has been swept away.
The world is still this world, but everyone has a clear goal in mind, and there is no hesitation anymore.
Every reincarnated person has died once, and he has no luck in the evolution of the world. He knows that now is a race against time, and in the remaining ninety-eight years, he can run as far as he can.
In these moods, traces of white air gathered in the ancestral hall, and the carp breathed in the air, and its scales continued to increase and deepen.
Time flies, only two months have passed on the ground, and twenty years have passed since the ground.
The name of this ancient Han town in Binzhou has not changed, but it is no longer a small town in the past, but has become a small town.
In the past twenty years, several wealthy families who had wanted to reach out here were wiped out by "mountain bandits". Even several county magistrates were demoted due to negative reviews, making the once lucrative positions become unavoidable for everyone.
Although he was in a bad position, a new county magistrate who had just become an official from another state asked himself to be transferred here.
The county magistrate was ridiculed by his colleagues at first, thinking that the outsider had fallen into a trap because he didn't know the inside story. However, after arriving, he served for three consecutive terms without going on a business trip, and everyone who laughed at him immediately regretted it.
No one would have thought that this county magistrate was one of the Han people who was outstanding in literary talent and governance. He passed the exam and became an official. He came specifically to protect the safety of this place - because the foundation of the Han people is here.
After the transfer, Han people were recommended to work here, and the county gradually came under the control of the Han people.
Then, it penetrated into several surrounding counties.
Although the Hunan Dynasty nominally unified the world, in the agricultural society, many remote areas and areas close to mountainous areas were poorly controlled, and they were even primitive forest areas.
There is an opportunity for development. As early as twenty years ago, the Han people in each state decided to establish an organization and divide it into several blocks to establish the system.
While the Han settlements in each area thrived, they maintained close contact in private and supported each other. Some even reached out to the officialdom of the imperial court to help each other.
But on the surface, they don't know each other, and they even fight with each other, so as not to leave the situation in the hands of outsiders.
However, we soon discovered the limitations of the Han people in the officialdom. No matter how outstanding the Han civil servants were, they could only reach the county level here.
The counties here still have adjutants like county magistrates, and there are only a handful of them. Even the county magistrates only have six or seven, and most of them can only be county-level adjutants - which is the level that can be achieved by accumulating achievements in affairs.
To get to the county magistrate level, you need literary talent and family background to provide support, but to the county level, it depends even more on luck.
As we all know, the luck of the Han people in this world is very bad. Now everyone knows that the development within the system has hit the ceiling. If you want to cross Lianzhou County, you don't have to think about it, you can only count on rebellion.
Xing's country system expanded rapidly, and the situation gradually changed. As the new generation of Han people multiplied and grew, the brewing dragon spirit gradually grew stronger.
"Binzhou, Yunzhou, Cizhou, there is a faint kingly aura"
This was finally discovered by the Tuxiang Dynasty, although they only thought that this was a new dragon born naturally when the world was about to collapse.
Perhaps it was the instinct of the dynasty. After hearing the report, the emperor immediately ordered the relevant parties to go to the local area for secret investigation and surveillance. In the eyes of the big bosses at that time, even the refugee uprising was just a preliminary sign. At best, it could be launched hastily to put out the fire.
They may change their plans gradually, or they may have fifty or sixty years of life left, but they don't need to consider it in the future.
But in this atmosphere, more than a dozen urgent reports were sent from various states to the capital city of Xiangyin, gradually exposing an organization to the civil and military forces of the court.
At the small court meeting, a middle-aged man in imperial robes threw these dozen secret reports in front of the prime minister, with a pale face: "Who can tell me what is going on with this organization that calls itself Fuhan Society?"
"When did these rebellious people control one-tenth of the entire southern commerce and have their own armed guards? I, the emperor, don't even know about it?"
"No one in the local area has heard anything about it. Is it possible that bribes paid off all of you?"
"Your Majesty, please calm down. I will investigate this private association immediately." The gray-haired Prime Minister bowed and said, secretly complaining that it was bad luck. He was about to retire and this incident happened. It is certain that his reputation will be tarnished in the future.
"What about private associations? These are traitors with disloyal intentions. They are going to rebel within a month. I want to know all the reasons behind this traitor, and then
The emperor clenched his hand into a fist and smashed it on the desks: "Cut this Fuhan Society off for me. The whole place will be ruined, right? Then mobilize the imperial army to conquer."
This middle-aged emperor has been on the throne for fifteen years. Apart from the usual disaster relief and flood control, he has basically done nothing major. But the more this happens, the more power he accumulates. Once he gets angry, it becomes more frightening. No one dares to argue.
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However, the Minister of Household Affairs was involved in affairs and had to carefully remind him: "This... the national treasury may not be able to support it..."
"The homes and properties of Fuhan Society were confiscated and all the men were demoted into slaves and the women were demoted into prostitutes. Let the world know that the iron fist of our imperial court has not relaxed yet."
The emperor glanced at the ministers and sneered: "Don't think that I am a foolish king. The world has been suffering from drought and drought for a long time, and the landlords of various families are gathering strange goods, and the people are living in poverty... If you don't tell me this, I don't know about it?"
Hearing these heart-wrenching words, all the important officials in the palace were dripping with sweat and did not dare to speak.
"Look at this situation, the secret association is invisible under the nose. If I hadn't checked the king's energy, I gradually realized that the association's destiny was brewing, and I was still hiding it in this dark drum."
"If I continue, I will sleep in the palace and I won't know when the troops will come to the city."
"Now this situation will be overturned if you hesitate even a little bit. If I don't want the country to be ruined in my hands, I would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go..." The emperor roared angrily and swept away the memorial on the copy: "This is
In the southern states, as long as there is a loyal official Chajue reporting, the current situation will not be the same."
"It's either incompetence or bullying - I'll judge them all and I won't let anyone go."
Listening to this crazy roar, officials from several states were being punished at once. All the ministers looked at each other, feeling that the emperor was angry and did not dare to speak or respond to the edict.
"I am not just angry." The emperor saw this situation and knew what his ministers were thinking, so he calmed down and said, "Fuhan Society shocked me. It is spread across several states and has thousands of merchants and shops - this is an unexpected disaster."
"But then I thought about it, what the imperial court lacks in handling affairs and rectifying the administration is food and money. This is different from the uprising of the small people. The uprising of the small people means that the people are in dire straits and have no food to eat when they are hungry. The imperial court suppresses it and has to appease it. The national treasury is
It’s too bad to call.”
"But the Fuhan Society has a huge amount of money." The emperor smiled lightly: "If you destroy it, you can get at least millions of taels of silver. With it, many things for the court can be done."
All the ministers came here, almost all of them were extremely humane. After hearing this, they still had opinions. They knelt down and shouted together: "Your Majesty's words are wise. They will surely sweep away the rebels and revive the Hunan Dynasty."
The emperor was noncommittal and waved his troops to go down to investigate. He called four or five generals into the palace and asked, "How many troops can be mobilized near the imperial capital now?"
"The forbidden army is one hundred thousand, and together with the armies of the five neighboring states, there should be four hundred thousand. If we don't count..." the general stopped and did not dare to continue.
"I don't care about empty quotas, right?" The emperor glanced at several generals and felt a little cold in his heart: "I won't argue with you about eating empty pay and drinking soldiers' blood, but at this time, there must be available soldiers. Go back and sort out the situation.
Give me a report...remember, it's a secret report."
"Yes... I'm going to leave." Several generals quickly got up to say goodbye.
The palace was empty again, and the emperor was silent for a while. He turned to look at the portrait of Taizu hanging on the wall, with a hint of sinisterness in his eyes: "Something is wrong... The late emperor reigned for the last seven years, and I have been on the throne for fifteen years.
In the past twenty-two years of national sacrifices, there has been no feedback from Heavenly Patriarch. If others don’t know, how can I, the emperor who is presiding over the sacrifices, not know?”
"But you must never talk to others about this change in destiny...and the words left by Taizu are too ridiculous. We are not living people, and even this world is just evolution?"
While sighing, the middle-aged emperor became firm and turned around to leave the palace passed down from his ancestors. The autumn wind blew through the courtyard, and the curtains revealed the coolness of the evening.