Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 247
Bypassing Zhangye City, Hu Bayi didn't let the men go into the city to rest, but urged the caravan to go on, heading directly to Wuwei City.

As soon as he entered the border of Liangzhou, Hu Bayi cheered up the guys. Liangzhou was not Longyou under the rule of King Jianning, and the law and order here was not very good.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered Liangzhou, Hu Bayi encountered two gangs of horse bandits. Hu Bayi personally negotiated and left some money to buy roads before the caravan could move on.

"It will be great when King Jianning can occupy Liangzhou." Hu Bayi thought, as long as it is an area controlled by King Jianning, there will never be any security issues.

Whenever King Jianning occupies a place, the first thing he does is to suppress bandits and bandits.

From Jiuquan to Zhangye, there used to be dozens of horse bandit groups, large and small. These bandits set up camps on the mountain, were familiar with the surrounding terrain, and would flee to the mountain immediately as soon as the army was dispatched.

Just after Li Yan took control of Jiuquan and Zhangye, these horse bandits still looted the caravan unscrupulously.

This made the players of the general very happy. The contribution points of the horse bandits are the same as those of the enemy troops on the battlefield. Killing the horse bandits can also improve the general's professional level.

So in Jiuquan and Zhangye, a vigorous campaign to suppress bandits was launched.

This time in the suppression of bandits, the players can be said to be the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers.

Some players pretended to be caravans and deliberately traded back and forth between Jiuquan and Zhangye City. When the horse bandits appeared, they were eaten by these players in turn.

Some players simply formed a group into the mountains, simply hunted down the traces of the horse bandits in the mountains, and when they found the horse bandits' stronghold, they came to kill the grass and roots.

There are also players who pretend to be horse bandits themselves, mix into the circle of horse bandits, and then trap and kill other horse bandits.

These dozens of bandit gangs were not enough for the players to bite their teeth in the end.

But when he got near Wuwei City, many bandits still set up a trap to intercept him, and Hubayi paid a lot of tolls before he came to Wuwei City.

Wuwei City, which used to look majestic and tall, does not know why it looks much lower now.

And the shacks in the slums surrounding Wuwei City seemed so eye-catching.

In Zhangye and Jiuquan, the poor have been properly resettled, either working in workshops or allocated land for farming.

In Jiuquan City, even an idler can't see it. Everyone is busy, with longing for a better life in the future on their faces.

When he arrived at the gate of Wuwei City, what Hubayi saw were numb common people, beggars dragging their mutilated bodies to beg.

I knew I would never come to Wuwei.

Some things are really no better than ignorance, one is startled, the things that are easily available in Longyou are so precious in Wuwei.

There was still a long queue at the gate of the city. Hubayi's staff went to inquire about it, and came back and said to Hubayi: "I heard that the Jiedushi has raised the tax for merchants and is still checking out contraband, so those who enter the city It's just that slow."

"The tax is raised again? How much is the tax now?"

"I heard it's three out of ten draws!"

Three out of ten!Hubayi gasped, why didn't the Jiedu envoy's mansion go to grab it?

The merchants in Datang were broadly divided into those who set up shop to do business, and those who transported and sold goods.

Naturally, there are tax collectors who come to the merchants to collect taxes every month, and these merchants who travel north will be charged a certain percentage of the total value of the goods every time they enter the city.

In the past, it was [-] yuan, that is, [-] yuan of goods would be taxed as [-] yuan. I didn't expect Hexi to be so black-hearted, and it changed from [-] yuan to [-] yuan.

Hubayi once again regretted coming to Wuwei City. He knew that he bought dyed cloth in Jiuquan and went back. Why did he come to Wuwei City to buy silk?

But he was already at the bottom of the city, and he was unwilling to go in and buy some silk, so Hubayi had to wait in line to enter the city.

At noon under the scorching sun, we finally got to Hubayi.

Hubayi was a little puzzled. In the past, the goods were inspected at the gate of the city. Why did the tax collectors let them enter the city first, and then closed the gate behind them before starting to inspect the goods?
Ten tax collectors with knives opened Hubay's truck like tigers and wolves, and one tax collector even cut open the goods that Hubay had tied up with a knife.

Hubayi frowned again, when he was in Jiuquan City, he also collected taxes from merchants, but the tax collectors were polite, and the taxes were collected according to the standard. After paying the tax, he politely handed over the tax payment receipt to Hubayi hand.

But the tax collectors in Wuwei City are worse than bandits. Hubayi saw a tax collector secretly stuffing a few gadgets into his sleeves, which was almost the same as Ming Qiang.

This is not Longyou, this is not Longyou, Hu Bayi can only say this to himself.

After the tax collector opened the last box and turned out a cart full of Jiuquan blue dyed cloth, the leading tax collector showed a smile on his face.

The tax collector's expression changed instantly, and he shouted, "Horse bandits have been haunting you frequently recently. I think you are acting suspiciously. Are you a horse bandit who came to Wuwei to sell stolen goods? Get me!"

After finishing speaking, these tax collectors with knives surrounded Hubayi, and captured Hubayi unexpectedly.

Then this group of wolf-like tax collectors unloaded all the valuable goods in the caravan, and the leading tax collector said: "These are stolen goods, seize them!"

Just when Hubayi wanted to defend himself, a tax collector hit the back of his head with the back of a knife, and he fainted instantly.

The guys wanted to take back Hubayi and the goods, but the wolf-like tax collectors drew their weapons, and a group of cavalry on horseback rushed over at the gate of the city, and the guys had to run for their lives in all directions.

After the tax collectors and sergeants escorted Hubayi away, and then dragged Hubayi's goods to the governor's mansion, the leading tax collector signaled his subordinates to open the city gate and let a group of merchants come in.

When Hubayi woke up again, he was already in the cell, and the entire cell was full of businessmen like him, all of whom were framed by tax collectors as bandits and captured.

Hu Bayi was startled and frightened, regretting even more why he had to come to Wuwei.

Hu Bayi began to cry, and suddenly a voice sounded behind him: "Isn't this Hu Lang? You were also arrested?"

Hu Bayi looked up, isn't this his old friend Huang Erlang?
It has been several months since the last time we met at Liulin Station, and I didn't expect to meet again in the prison of Wuwei City.

When the two met in the prison cell, their eyes were filled with tears. After weeping for a while holding each other's heads, Huang Erlang said:

"It's also my fault for being greedy. I insisted on coming to Wuwei City to buy some silk. Now all the goods in the caravan have been confiscated, and everyone has been detained."

"Huang Lang, how can I get out?"

"Wait for your family to come over with the money to redeem yourself. The few Wuwei local businessmen in front, the family members took the money to redeem, and they went out soon. I have a few loyal guys outside, and they will definitely raise money to rescue me. of."

The robbed goods were immediately rewarded by Fang Guan to the Chishui Army. For a while, the entire market in Wuwei City was filled with family members of the Chishui Army selling goods.

Xue Hu's eyes lit up when he was visiting the market, and he saw an opportunity to approach the officers of the Chishui Army in the market.

(End of this chapter)