Martial arts long journey

Chapter 388
"Clang!"

Putting the cleaned Qingshuang long sword back into the scabbard, the young man slowly raised his head, and continued to speak in a faint voice: "Hua Mingde, I still don't understand the small thoughts in your heart. ? Don't you just want to completely control this Laizhou Prefecture in the hands of your Hua family?
It's a pity that you are not ignorant of the rules of our Punishment Department. Anyone who is appointed as a criminal officer must not serve as the state capital where his family is located.

Besides, you are only at the pinnacle of the Gang Qi Realm now, even if the strength of our Tai'an City Punishment Department is greatly compromised, it is not the turn of the Gang Qi Realm to take up the position of criminal officer!
Not to mention that it's not the Tai'an city that sent criminal judges to come to serve, but our Laizhou Prefecture has been assigned to the new law envoy. You, Hua Mingde, don't understand what the law envoy is! "

The Hua Mingde that this young man said was the middle-aged man with a scar on his face sitting opposite him.

Hua Mingde can be said to be the one with the highest level of martial arts among the five criminals present, he has already half-stepped into the realm of Zhou Tian's martial arts.

Moreover, the power behind Hua Mingde is not simple. Behind him stands the Hua family, the largest martial arts family in Laizhou Prefecture. The ancestor of the Hua family is a powerful giant in the realm of martial arts.

Relying on the shadow of the Hua family, even if Tai'an City sent the criminal judge to sit in the Laizhou Prefecture, he would give a little respect to the Shanghua family and Hua Mingde before he was alive.

Under the current situation that the strength of the Tai'an City Code and Criminal Division has been greatly reduced, and there are not enough criminal officers to be dispatched.

Hua Mingde even vaguely became the controller of the Department of Punishment of Laizhou Prefecture. Except that he did not mention the identity of the criminal officer on the surface, his power in the dark is not bad.

Looking at the division of the Dianju Department of Laizhou Prefecture, only the young man who wiped the Qingshuang long sword just now has the qualifications and strength to wrestle with Hua Mingde's wrist.

"Snapped!"

Hua Mingde slapped the table next to him hard, and said with a cold snort, "Fan Liangji, don't talk about it here, it's not like you don't know what mine is.

Because there was no mention of the prison officer in this short period of time, we only paid [-]% of the taxes in the entire Laizhou Prefecture, and the remaining [-]% was intercepted by me in the Laizhou Prefecture, and each of them was divided into the hands of our brothers. .

Although you objected to this matter at the beginning, you still took what you should have. Now you want to pretend that nothing happened and retreat from it, aren't you a little too whimsical? "

When Hua Mingde named his name, Fan Liangji's complexion faintly changed. After Hua Mingde's disdainful voice fell, his face became as dark and ugly as the bottom of a pot. .

Although Fan Liangji was a dozen or so years younger than Hua Mingde, there was almost no difference in martial arts between the two of them.

Therefore, Fan Liangji has never been very fond of Hua Mingde, who is nearly half a century old, but his martial arts cultivation level is no more than his peers.

If Hua Mingde dared to taunt him like this at any other time, he would have pulled out the long green frost sword in his hand long ago.

However, at this moment, even though Fan Liangji was humiliated by Hua Mingde's words, he still forcibly endured it.

Because what Hua Mingde said was the truth, there was no room for him, Fan Liangji, to refute.

Unlike Hua Mingde, who was leaning on the Hua family in Laizhou Prefecture, Fan Liangji was just an ordinary casual martial artist before he joined the Tai'an City Punishment Department, and there was no big force behind him.

This made Fan Liangji consume almost all of the resources and money in his martial arts practice from the salary issued by the Department of Punishment of Tai'an City, and he had no other source of money at all.

Although the Zhongzhou Iron Blood Guard's treatment is very generous, but who doesn't want the more money in their hands the better?

In particular, Fan Liangji is now in the realm of half-step Zhoutian martial arts, and needs to spend a lot of money to buy resources for practicing martial arts.

So when Hua Mingde seized the taxes from the Laizhou government, Fan Liangji didn't report it to Tai'an City's Department of Punishment. Instead, he silently accepted the portion that was assigned to him.

The Iron Blood Guards of Zhongzhou are not those traditional martial arts strengths, but exist between the court temples and the Jianghu martial arts.

The Metro Bloodguard, which controls the entire Zhongzhou, is naturally qualified to collect taxes on the land of Zhongzhou, and among these taxes, commercial taxes are the most generous.

Laizhou prefecture is located between the two countries and three regions, among which there is a steady stream of caravans passing through the land of Zhongzhou and the Northern Qi and Eastern Jin Dynasties, so the tax of Laizhou prefecture is naturally not a small sum.

Normally, the tax revenues in state capitals such as Laizhou Prefecture will be collected by the punishment divisions in each state capital, and then handed over to the subordinate punishment officers, and collected in the supervisory offices of the major cities. Inside.

After the Supervisory Offices of the major giant cities kept some of them, the rest were handed over to the Iron Blood Guard headquarters in the Iron Blood Giant City.

Except for the Supervisory Office among the twelve giant cities, other places will absolutely not allow a single bit of tax revenue to be withheld.

Of course, the city formed separately by the law envoy will also have the right and qualification to retain taxes.

Now the five criminals in the Laizhou mansion dared to deceive the upper and lower to withhold the taxes from the Laizhou mansion, which already violated the laws of the land of Zhongzhou.

Once this matter is known to Tai'an City's Department of Punishment, even if the five of them will not be executed on the spot, they will definitely be skinned because of it.

It was precisely because of this that Fan Liangji forcibly endured Hua Mingde's ridicule. After all, the five of them had a relationship between one honor and the other, so why did he have to talk to Hua Mingde just because of a few words? What about infighting?

Forcibly calming down his ugly face, Fan Liangji tightly shook the Qingshuang long sword in his hand, then slowly let go and sighed, "Then what are you going to do now?"

"What should I do? There are only two roads!"

There was a hint of coldness in the corner of his mouth, Hua Mingde sneered indifferently and said: "Either make up the withheld tax and find a way to cover up this matter, or continue to withhold it, do you have other ideas? ?!"

"Crack!"

Hearing Hua Mingde's words in his ears, Fan Liangji's heart suddenly felt astonished. The long sword he was holding suddenly fell from his hand and sank into the floor with the scabbard. .

Immediately afterwards, Fan Liangji didn't even bother to pull out the long sword from the floor, and with a horrified expression, he directly said in a low voice: "Have you eaten the guts of the ambitious leopard?"

(End of this chapter)