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Chapter 1740 Sharpening the Knife and Raising the Wool ([-])
"...Humph!" Shu Qianhu slapped his palm on the table, "What a mainstay, I promised you, have you paid enough taxes?"

The county lord's heart skipped a beat, and he was sweating.

But every landlord has a little bit of hidden land. This is common sense. It is easy to check the hidden land of small landlords, but it is extremely difficult to find out the hidden land of gentry clans like them. But listening to Shu Qianhu, it seems that he has already figured it out. After knowing how much land these families have, and then combining the taxes they pay each year, the difference between them is the hidden tax. If this is revealed, my career will come to an end.

There is no way to pursue the tax in the early years, but if the tax gap in the past few years of my tenure is too large, it is really hard to die. The court is short of money, but the big landlord is trying to evade taxes. As a local official, he does not pursue taxes for the court. Well, if this charge is deducted, if you are unlucky, the whole family will suffer.

The more he thought about it, the more frightening he became, and the county lord felt that the clothes on his back were going to be wet with sweat.

The county lord naturally didn't expect that Qi Ke would bring out Yin Tian's evidence, and Shu Ying would not beat drums and drums to declare that Qi Zhuang's intelligence ability is terrible, so now talking about this, all the men present thought that It was done by Qianhusuo himself.

These elders fell silent again. They spoke with such certainty that they dared not bet on whether the Qianhusuo had a full grasp of the land they owned. It will inevitably take a bloodbath to settle things.

All the reasons for their previous opposition are not worth mentioning in front of the topic of taxation.

"Master Qianhu must have found out."

"It's easy to say, we don't have any solid evidence, and we don't have such confidence." Shu Ying said with a straight face, it seemed that he was the one full of justice, "It's like the first one thirty miles away from the county. A refugee camp, the land looks like a wild forest that no one cares about, but it is actually the land occupied by the branch of the Wen family who became a Jinshi. Are they all married to you?"

"Is there any problem with that piece of land?" The county lord asked very politely.

"The Wen family's land can't be found in the yamen." Shu Qianhu glanced at the county magistrate, "That is to say, the land is in the county in name, but in fact they raise chickens and ducks in the forest. As for the pigs, the houses next to them look like dilapidated adobe houses, and the adobe foundation is covered with blue bricks."

"Heh!" The county lord looked at the people next to him in disbelief, "Do you have any comments?"

"That is the land occupied by the Wen family. It has nothing to do with us. We don't know it at all."

Lord Xianzun and Lord Qianhu spoke in unison.

"...Really?" But one was dubious.

"Really?" A face was full of sarcasm, "I advise you to think carefully before answering, Wen Jinshi's family has a Zhuangzi over there that has been in business for more than 80 years, and the wild land connected to Zhuangzi has been eroded and occupied by them bit by bit. For more than 30 years, a kind of local flower pig has been raised, which is a delicacy on the table of each of your families. Now you tell me that you don’t know about the Wen family, so it’s not justified.”

Master Qianhu revealed the secret mercilessly, and these elders also fell silent again.

"Ah, there is such a thing!" The only person who didn't know was the county lord.

(End of this chapter)