Chapter 756: Harsh government is as fierce as a tiger
Zhang Gensheng and Zhang Xiaoshun secretly admired him after hearing this. Lord Xi was indeed not simple. He had already figured out that someone was behind the scenes to instruct the wild beasts to surround the village. Unfortunately, the person behind the scenes did not show up that day. They were quite cautious. Otherwise, Lord Xi might be able to help them.
Except that person.
"Actually, our ancestors and grandchildren came here because of this matter." Zhang Gensheng bowed deeply: "The traitor behind the murder of our village is still lurking in the secret and watching our village, ready to take action again at any time."
"You want me to take action and get rid of the person behind the scenes?" Xi Qianye said calmly.
"If Mr. Xi can help our village get rid of this serious problem, our village will be grateful. Everyone from top to bottom will be grateful, but no one dares to disobey what he says.
Zhang Gensheng knelt on the ground and kowtowed neatly, his eyes full of pleading. Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoshun also knelt on the ground quickly, his eyes full of hope. If the traitor who intended to murder their village was not killed, it would be difficult for their village to be peaceful.
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"If I just do it casually, it won't be a big deal to help you get rid of the hidden dangers. Unfortunately, that man is already hiding in the mountains. It's not easy to find him."
Xi Qianye said calmly.
Mu Zhen spiritual soil is different from other places. It not only suppresses the monk's body, the gravity is a thousand times higher, but also suppresses the monk's mental power. Even the monks in the Half-Emperor realm can only cover a radius of ten miles in the Mu Zhen spiritual soil.
.Xi Qianye's mental power is stronger than that of ordinary Half-Emperor monks, but it can only cover a radius of thirty miles.
It can be said that as long as that person does not appear, it is quite difficult to find him.
Zhang Gensheng and Zhang Xiaoshun turned pale when they heard this. They were in the light and the traitor was in the dark, so they were indeed very passive.
"Master Xi, I heard from Xiao Shun'er that you plan to go to the city of Mortis, a city-state of the Kuza tribe. I wonder if you can bring a few people from our village with you." Zhang Gensheng asked cautiously.
When Xi Qianye heard this, he looked at him meaningfully and said, "The person behind the scenes is eyeing your village, so he should have something to ask for, right?"
Obviously, the purpose of Village Chief Zhang from the beginning was to follow him to Mortis, the city-state of the Kuza tribe. As for the idea of finding out the person behind the scenes and getting rid of it, it was a bit unrealistic after all.
Upon hearing this, Village Chief Zhang trembled, with a bit of fear in his eyes, but in the end he still gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Xi, that traitor targeted our village because of a treasure."
"Oh, what kind of treasure? Your poor village will also have treasures?"
Standing on Xi Qianye's shoulder, Hu Sanyin's eyes lit up when he heard about the treasure, but soon looked at Village Chief Zhang with doubts. In a broken village, it is difficult to live a normal life and eat, and can only struggle hard in the mountains.
They were struggling to survive, and no one believed them if they said they had any treasures.
After living in the village for a few days, Xi Qianye found a talking bird on his shoulder. People in the village had long been accustomed to it. Village Chief Zhang smiled bitterly and said: "Master Hu, it's a long story. This matter has to start from one person."
Speaking of it a month ago..."
Zhang Xiaoshun looked at the strange bird on Xi Qianye's shoulder strangely. One of the birds was named Tiger, which was really strange.
It turned out that a month ago, Zhang Gensheng led the village hunters to hunt in the mountains to prepare food for the winter. As a result, they failed to hunt the wild beasts, but unexpectedly picked up a blood-red stone in a deep valley. Although Zhang Gensheng did not know the blood-red stone
What the stone is, but with a sophisticated eye, you can tell that it is not simple.
So he took the blood-red stone to the city-state of the Kuza tribe to be identified by a professional treasure appraiser. The final identification result was blood smoke stone. This type of blood smoke stone has no practical value to human monks, but it is
It is the treasure of the beast tamer. If the beast tamer possesses a piece of blood smoke stone, the ability of taming the beast will be greatly improved, and it will be easier to attract powerful wild beasts to take the bait.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Gensheng and the others were targeted by an animal trainer living in the Kuza tribal city-state. The animal trainer had a despicable character. Seeing that Zhang Gensheng and the others were just people from a small village, he was unwilling to spend a lot of money to buy them.
, trying to spend a little money to buy the blood smoke stone.
Zhang Gensheng and the others are not stupid, how can they agree? Although the blood smoke stone is useless to ordinary monks, it is a treasure among animal trainers, and it is quite rare. If you find the right buyer, a piece of blood smoke stone can be sold for quite a lot of money.
High price.
"It turns out to be just a piece of blood smoke stone."
Hu Sanyin shook his head with some disappointment when he heard this. The kind of stone desolate beasts he liked the most, but as the nine ancient evils, he naturally looked down on the things that ordinary desolate beasts liked.
"It's a crime to have a jade in your possession." Xi Qianye said calmly.
Zhang Gensheng smiled bitterly when he heard this and said: "Sir, we are not greedy for money. If it were any other time, the blood smoke stone would have been taken away by the animal trainer, and there would be no need to form a deadly feud. But now the situation in our village is not as good as before.
The taxes that have been owed for three years have not been paid. If we fail to pay the taxes again, everyone in our village will go to jail and be captured as slave labor."
The so-called tax is an obligatory expenditure that all members of the federal state should pay.
In fact, although it is said to be an obligation, it is also a mandatory collection of money. If anyone fails to pay, he will be imprisoned.
For the human race in Muzhen Spiritual Land, the smallest group living unit is the village. Above the village is the Walled City, and above the Walled City are the tribes.
Of course, there are also differences between tribes and tribes.
Small tribes depend on larger tribes for survival, and large tribes depend on larger tribes for survival.
A village like Zhang Gensheng's is attached to a small tribe and must accept the jurisdiction and rule of that small tribe. At the same time, it must pay a certain amount of taxes regularly. It is called a tax, but in fact it is most appropriately called a protection fee. It is extremely overbearing and unreasonable, and is inconsistent with
There is no difference between robbery and robbery. If the village cannot pay the protection fee, the end will often be extremely miserable. This is the so-called power society.
Zhang Gensheng's village lives in a harsh and cold place, and it has been very difficult in recent years. Sometimes his stomach is full, and he has no money left to pay taxes.
So it's not that Zhang Gensheng's village is greedy for money. They are desperate and have no other option. They regard the blood smoke stone as the only life-saving straw. If they sell the blood smoke stone, maybe they will have money to pay taxes and not be taxed.
Captured and used as slave labor, they will live in darkness for the rest of their lives, never getting ahead.
"So, are you planning to go to the city-state of Mortis and sell the Blood Smoke Stone?" Xi Qianye said calmly.
"Master Xi, our village is also desperate. Compared with the traitor hiding in the dark, the laws of the Federation are actually more terrifying."
Zhang Gensheng said with a wry smile that harsh government is as fierce as a tiger. Living in a world of power, the people at the bottom will always have the most difficult time.