fast and ferocious

Chapter 47 A Good Show ([-]) Second Watch
Cai Youkun looked at Jiang Yidong anxiously, and Jiang Yidong hurriedly got up and replied, "My lord, the salt merchants have to pay a lot of taxes every year, and this year's salt tax has been levied early..."

"Why did you sign early?" Prince Xiang walked slowly to Jiang Yidong's side, squinting his eyes and asked.

Jiang Yidong's forehead was covered with sweat, but he had no choice but to answer. He lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness also knows, Your Majesty..."

"I'm old and deaf!"

Jiang Yidong took a deep breath and said: "The emperor wants to clear up the deficits everywhere this year, and the minister has no way..."

"Why didn't I understand? Are you saying that you demolished the east wall and repaired the west wall? At the end of that year, the imperial court asked you to pay the salt tax, so what should you do?"

Jiang Yidong had already prepared this kind of answer. He was not afraid that Prince Xiang would ask, or that Prince Xiang would not ask!
Jiang Yidong cleared his throat and was about to speak, but Prince Xiang looked at Chen Qi and asked, "Apart from the salt tax, what other taxes have you paid?"

Chen Qi got up, did not dare to lift his head, and replied: "Return, there is also the road and bridge tax for salt trucks and salt boats."

"How big is your deficit?" Lord Xiang asked Jiang Yidong with squinted eyes: "You, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River, govern the most fertile territory, but you told me today that you also need to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and even live on your own. Promulgating local decrees to increase taxes, you are not afraid of stirring up civil uprisings? Have you failed the emperor's love for the people?!"

Jiang Yidong was startled, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "My lord is clearly aware! It's really a deficit left by the previous..."

"Nonsense! You have served as the governor of Jiangnan for more than six years, how big a gap you can't fill up to this day?!"

"Although Jiangnan is rich and prosperous, there are also years of disasters. The prince can go to the Ministry of Households to check. In Jiangnan Province, no matter in good years or disaster years, the tax money and grain turned over to the treasury have never been short..."

"This is the duty of a courtier, but you take it as credit!"

"I dare not!"

"Don't you dare? Why don't you dare?!" Prince Xiang slapped the table hard, causing the dishes on the table to tremble.

All the officials and salt merchants panicked and left their seats and knelt down, the empty bowls and plates on the table fell all over the floor with a clatter, only Xie Yu sat with his usual expression, very abrupt.

Chen Qi also knelt down on the ground. He knew clearly that it was Prince Xiang beating the mule and startling the horse, but his face turned pale with fright.

At this time, Dexi's male duck voice suddenly shouted: "Chen Qi, please donate 15 taels! Do you have any objections?"

Chen Qi collapsed on the ground as if he had been cramped, and replied with a pale and fat face, "No objection."

Prince Xiang looked at Jiang Yidong who was kneeling at his feet with a cold face, and then glanced at the group of salt merchants kneeling on the ground. Xi trotted all the way to the side of the man, asked a few words in a low voice, and then ran back to report: "Go back to the lord, that man wants to go to the toilet."

"Go! A living person can be suffocated by urine! Anyone else, go if you want, and let's continue eating when you come back!" After finishing speaking, Dexi waited for Prince Xiang to sit on the chair.

Jiang Yidong didn't dare to get up, and the prince didn't let him.

Others didn't dare to get up, and the governor of Jiangnan was still kneeling.

The person who wanted to go to the toilet stumbled up and ran straight to the direction pointed by the guard. Afterwards, people got up one after another and ran in the same direction.

Prince Xiang neither called out the kneeling people nor stopped those who went to the toilet, Dexi and Dequan waited on him, and only Prince Xiang and Xie Yu ate at the five-table feast.

Fan Shoukang, governor of the River Channel, knelt there, still wondering: Why should I kneel?
Since yesterday, the governor of Jiangnan has followed what he has done. He knelt down once yesterday, so why doesn't he have a long memory today?
Fan Shoukang looked up at Xie Yu, didn't he kneel down?He plucked up the courage to raise his upper body slightly, and Prince Xiang looked over with a look, and he immediately fell down on the ground again, flustered!
Lin Huai, who was standing on the corridor, asked Qin Wubing in a low voice: "Isn't your lord afraid that those salt merchants will take advantage of it and run away?"

Qin Wubing turned his head and asked in disgust: "How did you manage to survive on the battlefield? I think you need brains to fight, right? It's difficult for mosquitoes to get in and out of this temple, let alone people! They can run Where are you going?"

Lin Huai chuckled and said, "Look at Governor Jiang's big butt, it's shaking!"

Qin Wubing narrowed his eyes and said, "The best show is yet to come!"

Jiang Yidong was shaking, his whole body was shaking, Prince Xiang said: "What else are you afraid of?!" He knew that he had been fooled!There is no mercy, let alone let the past go, Prince Xiang just used him to gather these salt merchants together, and then used him to get the money from the salt merchants. The prince knows all about what he did!

At this moment, Jiang Yidong only thinks about how to evoke those dusty memories of Prince Xiang. The two of them fought side by side...

Cai Youkun didn't know that the general situation was over at this moment, seeing that the salt merchants had almost gone to the toilet, and the prince didn't get annoyed to stop him, he knelt there and began to restless, his eyes wandering around, if he was also like Qin Wubing at this moment, staring at Looking at Jiang Yidong, maybe he can understand the current situation.

The salt merchants tossed about for about a quarter of an hour, and they all came back one after another and knelt down consciously, only the one who went out the first hadn't come back yet.

Prince Xiang had almost eaten, he glanced at the vacant seats, and immediately several guards ran to look for them.

After a stick of incense, the personal guard ran back and reported: "I have searched everywhere, but I have not seen this person."

Cai Youkun lowered his head and smiled in satisfaction.

Prince Xiang let out an oh, and shouted with a smile: "I'm sick!"

"There is no disease!" Qin Wubing rolled his eyes and stood up.

"Find it out as soon as possible, the dishes are cold!" Prince Xiang said lightly.

"Can you let the two of them assist?" Qin Wubing dragged out Lin Huai and Guo Yi.

Prince Xiang waved his hand, and the three turned their heads and left.

Cai Youkun felt like his little heart was going to pop out of his throat!Why does this little catcher appear everywhere!He suddenly had an ominous premonition...

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The latrine is not in this courtyard. You have to go out of the Zhandai Gate and walk to the right to the wall and then to the right, all the way to the end, the place is extremely secluded.

The three of them left Zhandai Gate, but Qin Wubing did not leave. He stood outside Zhandai Gate, first looked inside, then looked outside, and then looked at the sides.

Lin Huai asked puzzledly: "What are you looking at? The man may have jumped over the wall and escaped. He should go to the wall and look for traces."

Guo Yi shook his head and said: "One sentry at five steps inside the wall and outside the wall. If he is alone, even if he has the ability to avoid the guards inside the wall, or climb over the high wall, he will be arrested."

"Is it useful for him to run?" Qin Wubing asked: "Who are the people sitting inside today? How can the prince not know? If he doesn't run away, he will lose some money. If he runs away, the whole family may be involved! He Not out of my mind."

"Then where can he go? It's the prince's kindness to let him go to the toilet. How dare he delay for so long. I'm afraid I won't be able to forgive him if I get him back..."

"So, he didn't come back voluntarily! It should be... killed!" Qin Wubing raised his eyebrows and said.

(End of this chapter)