My Fresh Food Supermarket Tong Daming

Chapter 51 Broken, a sheep in the mouth of a tiger?
"Donkey, don't fucking go to sleep! The county lord called us to accompany him to Shanghe Village and Xiahe Village to collect the autumn tax."

Just after dawn, Zhao Tou kicked open the gate of his subordinate's house, and pulled the donkey that was still in his dream up.

"Ah??" The donkey who was forced to start the machine looked confused, what's going on?Didn’t the autumn tax in previous years have to wait until the beginning of the next year before the brothers would go to those who hadn’t paid it in full?

Just after the autumn harvest this year, are you going to call for payment?
You must know that at this time, many people can barely make up for the summer tax. Wouldn't it kill them to ask them to pay the autumn tax before they can breathe a sigh of relief? !

Zhao Tou also looked helpless. The two of them came back too late last night and didn't know about the tax collection in advance. The county magistrate who hadn't slept all night this morning sent someone to notify him and asked them to accompany them to collect taxes.

What a ghost, I have never seen the county lord collect taxes in person in this life.
It didn't take much thinking to understand that the county lord must use this as an excuse to contact the immortal.

If someone chooses to kill him, he doesn't want to step into that land again in his life, but it's a pity that his fate is inevitable, so Zhao Tou has no choice but to go out and accompany the county magistrate.

When the two hurriedly felt that the county magistrate was ready, he ordered to leave immediately when he saw the two coming.

The first stop is the nearest Shanghe Village.

"Li Jiashou, let's pay this year's autumn tax."

As soon as Li Zheng opened the door early in the morning, he saw a lot of old people standing in front of his house, all of them were holding a big bag of newly planted rice, with no regrets on their faces.

According to the deadline of the autumn tax in previous years, the villagers could not be seen queuing up to pay the tax, but this year, because of the appearance of Zhou Ze, many villagers more or less exchanged some snowflake noodles and round-grained rice during this period of time.

With surplus food at home, they naturally wanted to pay the autumn tax as soon as possible. Every year, servants from the province came to the door to urge the payment, causing panic.

Seeing everyone's initiative, Li Zheng couldn't help sighing in his heart. It didn't take long for the Immortal Chang to bring such a big change to their village. If everyone was paying taxes in the past, everyone's face would be ashen. Talking and laughing?
Then he yelled and started collecting grain.

According to the usual practice, 5 liters, 3, 5 scoops of grain are levied per acre in official land, while the private land in their villages is reduced by 2 liters, and 3 liters, 3, 5 scoops are collected per mu. After conversion, it is 0.0335 shi per mu, which is roughly according to the Ming system. It is about 5 catties, and if it is replaced by a modern weight, it is about 6 catties.

When Zhao Tou arrived at Shanghe Village in a carriage with the magistrate, he happened to see this bustling tax collection scene.

This made the county magistrate very pleased.

"Dare to ask the old man, I see that everyone looks happy, but what happy event happened in the village?" The county magistrate got off the carriage and came to the entrance of the village, saluted respectfully and asked knowingly.

At the same time, my heart was faintly nervous, maybe the immortal elder was watching them at the moment, so there should be no disrespect.

Seeing that the visitor was very imposing, and he was accompanied by the head of the county, he must have a very noble status, Li Zheng quickly turned around and said respectfully: "So that this master knows that there is no happy event in the village, just because the rice is newly harvested by everyone. One after another, they come here to pay the autumn tax voluntarily.”

"Okay, okay, you Shanghe Village is really a model!" The county magistrate praised the villagers and then said:

"To be honest, I am the magistrate of Miyun County, and I made a special trip here today to inspect the autumn tax."

Hearing that the person in front of him turned out to be the county magistrate, the villagers bowed deeply and felt very absurd in their hearts.

For the first time after living for decades, I saw the county lord personally come to their village to collect the autumn tax.

Hearing the county magistrate's words, Li Zheng quickly replied: "Master County, please wait a moment, I will let the villagers speed up the tax payment."

The county magistrate looked carefully at the villagers in front of him, and at the same time said in his mouth that everyone should not worry, then asked in a casual tone:
"Li Jiashou, I think the people who come to pay taxes are all old and young, women and children. What about the young and old in your village?"

The county magistrate was overjoyed to see Li Zheng hesitating and unable to answer. This Shanghe village is really tricky.

The immortal is either in the village, or Shanghe Village is somewhat related to the immortal.

He has been an official for so many years, and he has never seen any village where the villagers pay the autumn tax in advance, not even in the richest village, let alone the villagers pay the tax with a happy face, which is impossible anywhere in Ming Dynasty!

Hearing that the county magistrate was actually concerned about the whereabouts of the young and strong, and thinking of the county magistrate's respect and the tension hidden in his eyes, Li Zheng had some guesses in his heart.

The county magistrate is probably here for the fairy!

In desperation, Li Zheng had no choice but to say that Xiahe Village was flooded, and the young and strong went to help early in the morning.

He didn't mention a word about Zhou Ze.

But having this message is enough.

The county magistrate knew that the immortal was in Xiahe Village after a little thought in his mind!
Then he chatted with Li Zheng for a few more words, and then he couldn't wait to drive towards Xiahe Village.

"The county magistrate really came here for the head of the fairy." Li Zheng looked at the county magistrate in the distance and felt a little puzzled. Who on earth dared to tell the news about the head of the fairy, and was not afraid of being punished?
When the county magistrate arrived at Xiahe Village, he was completely dumbfounded and extremely excited when he saw the dark blue relief tents that he had never seen before.

Even the place where the villagers live is so luxurious.
He was right, it seemed that the Immortal was in Xiahe Village.

Seeing a carriage appear, Xia Changshou thought it was Housekeeper Mu who had returned, and wondered why he didn't see the blue brick, but when he saw the driver clearly, his expression changed drastically.

It turned out to be Catcher Zhao from the county!
It's broken, but he knew that the villagers under the leadership of the immortal leader killed Xiaoqi Jinyiwei yesterday, but he never expected that the police would come to the door without even passing a day.

But he changed his mind immediately, and denied this idea. If the news is exposed, it should be a large number of Jinyiwei who came!
It can't be just these two people.

It's a pity that the fairy has just returned to the sky and is not in the village.

He calmly gathered the young and strong men, and made up his mind that if something went wrong for a while, he would let the comers stay completely.

"Xia Jiashou, the county lord heard that Xiahe Village was hit by a disaster, so he came to visit him specially." As soon as the carriage stopped, Zhao Butou bowed to Xia Changshou.

Seeing this scene, Xia Changshou couldn't help squinting his eyes, his brain spinning quickly.

You must know that Xiahe Village is one of the poorest villages in the county, and their attitude is extremely bad every time a servant comes to urge them to pay.

But at this time, the leader of the guards would be so respectful to him, not to mention that he had heard that the county magistrate had also come.

Also came to visit them specially
Thinking of this, Xia Changshou couldn't help staring at Zhao Butou. When he noticed the fear and dodge in Zhao Butou's eyes, he took a deep breath and shouted loudly behind him:

"Ergou, surround them all, don't let one go!"

Presumably this person was scheduled to watch the whole scene yesterday, otherwise there would not be such a fearful look.

Thinking that the murder of Jin Yiwei had been exposed, Xia Changshou ignored everything else, and ordered the villagers to surround Zhao Butou and the others.

The magistrate in the carriage?

Then just stay together!
(End of this chapter)