Yipin Tianxia

Tea is a commodity monopolized by the government.

Therefore, tea farmers must report their tea fields to the government, and then report their annual production truthfully. When tea merchants come to conduct transactions, the government will draw taxes from them.

On the bright side, it should be very safe.But as long as there is a heart, there will always be someone who can take advantage of the loopholes.

The first loophole is in the fried tea.

Tea must be roasted before drinking, but whether the roasting is good or not is not only related to the quality of tea, but also related to a more important thing-yield.

It is obvious that three taels of tea are fried, but it is insisted that only one tael is fried. Anyway, this is a technical job, and it is not easy to check, so the remaining two taels can be ignorant?Not to mention moldy ones that grow in the air, and ones that are damaged during transportation, you can deduct a few taels from a catty of tea.

If you are more courageous, you can take the idea of ​​tea fields.

Those mature tea fields in Xianyuan Mountain have been carved up by people, but what about the surrounding areas?Anyway, they are all around Xianyuan Mountain, and they also occupy the aura here, so why can't they plant tea trees and use them as tea leaves from Xianyuan Mountain?

Then these surrounding tea fields are probably not on the boundary of Xianyuan Mountain, so they cannot enter the government of Xianyuan Mountain, and become private fields that do not need to be taxed.

Of course, with so much tea left over, they can’t turn it into money and roll it back by themselves, so someone needs to collect this part of private tea and send it secretly to all parts of the country.If it is sold together with official tea, it will be perfect.

Anyway, the tea leaves are not like silver, they are still stamped, how did it flow out, who can find out?

"They are so brave!"

Mu Shaoqin really didn't expect that these officials would be so bold in their corruption.This is really a one-stop production, supply and marketing, and a large amount of money that should have entered the national treasury just flowed into private pockets.

When Ouyang Kang first heard about it, he was also very shocked.

According to Bao Yiqing's confession, big tea merchants like them, who are famous in various villages, actually have no shit business in other provinces?It's all under the cover of some other business, selling private tea.As long as you donate enough money to the government, the journey will be smooth and you don't have to worry about it.

And according to him, silver on this line.They also don't earn the most.Those who earn the most are a few big tea merchants designated by the government. Because they have tea introductions, they can resell tea from north to south more conveniently and make huge profits.

The tea fields around Xianyuan Mountain are basically the sites of high-ranking officials and dignitaries.All the servants at home pretended to be refugees to reclaim the unowned wasteland as an excuse to hang there, so their distribution of spoils was even more hidden.

Throughout Lingzhou.In addition to the benefits of officials who directly manage the tea, some ordinary officials can also drink soup.Especially in spring and autumn every year, local officials will more or less issue an extra sum of money, that is, tea silver.

It's in Yilingzhou, and over the years, even everyone knows that the tea tax is in shortfall.But no one will report it upwards.

It wasn't until a stupefied young censor named Fang Ninghai came back to observe his filial piety that nothing happened.

Fang Ninghai said this earlier.The family is poor, and he is a scholar who his father tightened his belt to confess.Therefore, the child was a little dazed in reading, and even though he was in the tea country, he didn't know the darkness of the tea ceremony at all.

Later, because of his outstanding talent, he went to Beijing to study with his relatives when he was a teenager, and he didn't know the root of the tea tax in Lingzhou.

until that year.For his father's cemetery, he desperately fell for the queen mother.Speak up for righteousness and good fortune, and then he came into the eyes of the emperor, who rewarded him and asked him to return to his hometown to observe his filial piety.

But before leaving, the emperor can't just give money, he has to encourage the young people a few words.So I said, when you go back to your hometown, if you see anything unfair, remember to report it to me.

Gao Xian just said it casually, but he didn't expect this nerd to take it seriously.

Half a year after returning to his hometown to observe filial piety, it happened that spring tea was on the market. The local officials wanted to make friends with a Beijing official, so they gave him a tea silver to him who was keeping filial piety at home.

This can bring out the nerd's inquisitive temper.

Okay, why are you giving me money?Why are there silver points for selling tea?Is this something that all Lingzhou officials can share?Does the emperor know?Will it affect the court's tea tax?

The local officials couldn't bear it anymore, so they had to say that the master made a mistake and the money was not for him.

Then Fang Ninghai had a new question again, he wanted to ask it further, but someone ran to his father's grave to break ground.

This is disrespectful!

Fang Ninghai had no choice but to go back to guard his father's grave, but he was filled with righteous indignation, dressed in white, and scolded him at his father's grave, saying that corrupt officials would retaliate against him, and that when he returned to the capital, he would sue the emperor. The words and so on.

However, after the local government invited several relatives of the Fang family to the yamen to "assist in the investigation" of some old cases, Fang Ninghai kept his mouth shut and did nothing but keep his filial piety, and even stayed behind closed doors.

As for how he passed the news to the emperor, this question has yet to be verified after meeting.However, the fig leaf of the Lingzhou tea tax was torn off.

How to do?

Now it has become a difficult problem for Ouyang Kang.

Before returning to his hometown, Ouyang Kang thought that he would encounter a lot of corrupt people, but he never thought that it would be such a chronic disease that would almost wipe out the entire Lingzhou.

Fortunately, the emperor also said to find out the shortfall, and let Ouyang Kang take back his own 5000 taels of silver. Ouyang Kang now feels that he would rather ask the emperor for 5000 taels. Can you throw this hot potato back?

Mu Shaoqin was also a bit out of control, killing the chief offender was easy to say, but the question was, was the chief criminal so easy to be killed?With the Tong Chaoyi and a Shangfang sword given by the emperor, if they really want to kill them, it is a question of whether they can escape with their bodies intact. Which chicken do you want to kill?

Go back to the capital with a pick?That would be too incompetent.Ouyang Kang won't have to come out to mess around in the future, he'll be a complete loser.

Of course, soft rice is probably not tasty anymore.After all, he is the son-in-law of Prince Ping's Mansion, and he stumbled here. Can Prince Ping's Mansion have a good face?

But Ouyang Kang came up with a plan to deal with it, but when he told the father-in-law about the plan in secret, Mu Shaoqin was a little surprised.

"It's not impossible. It's just..."

Ouyang Kang spread his hands, and he was very single, "I thought about it a long time ago. Dad, you have taken care of yourself these two days. When little doctor Zou comes, you will take your mother and daughter-in-law and leave quickly. I am left alone, no matter what It's better to make a fuss than to fold here with the whole family."

Mu Shaoqin glanced at him angrily, "The courage of a man!"

Ouyang Kang pouted secretly.My heart said that I am also in a hurry?Otherwise, who would want to do such a mind-boggling thing?Why don't you come up with another plan?

Mu Shaoqin really couldn't figure it out for a while, "Don't worry, isn't there still two days left? Let me think again."

Then think about it slowly, Ouyang Kang went to buy hawthorn pills.

His daughter-in-law eats so much meat at night, he is afraid that she will have indigestion!The tea tax is important, and so is the daughter-in-law.When I can be nice to her.Be nicer to her.

Alas, young master Ouyang felt inexplicably sad when he thought of this.These days, it's not easy to be an upright official.

After a busy day, Ouyang Kang had to serve his father-in-law to take medicine at night, so he tossed twice in the night.In the morning, I just snooze a little bit, and wake up as soon as I wake up.It's already three poles in the sun.

When I got up, I felt a little cool on my body. When I opened the window, I realized that it was raining again in the morning.

Feeling a little thinner, I just took advantage of this excuse to go to my daughter-in-law to get thick clothes, and wanted to ask my father-in-law if he would like to coax the mother-in-law over here by the way.But I heard that people have already gone to find their daughter-in-law.

Ouyang Kang laughed secretly, and didn't go to bother him.Very interesting, I went downstairs to find my daughter-in-law for food.

Yesterday, I heard the mother and daughter talking lively about food. Since the father passed by, his young daughter-in-law is so knowledgeable, she must avoid getting delicious food.

Ouyang Kang thought well at first, but missed an accident.

It is true that Nianfu is busy in the temporarily rented kitchen, but there is also a man here, talking and laughing with his wife.

"...The beef is also lucky to have met you. If it were me, at most it would be stewed in water and eaten like that."

"Actually, it's not impossible to stew with clear water. As long as you add some radish at the end, it's also delicious. It's just that the beef is too old, and you have to put some hawthorn in it to make it rotten. I'm afraid that the clear stew will look a little sour, so let's marinate it first." In order to get the taste, put the sauce on it and slice it thin before eating, it will be easy to eat.”

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Ouyang Kang was shocked when he heard this, and rushed forward in two or three steps, "Nanfu, what are you doing? Don't you know that beef is not edible?"

Knowing people, knowing face but not knowing heart, why did that surname Long come to coax his innocent, kind, and gluttonous little daughter-in-law?

Nianfu was startled by him, and almost knocked over the pot, and suddenly became annoyed, "What's the matter with you? You yelled without asking clearly. Uncle Long bought it and reported it to the government. Serious old and dead beef, kindly share it with us for a taste, why don't you ask the indiscriminately and wrongly wrong people?"

Uh... Ouyang Kang was so overwhelmed that he couldn't speak, and then he glanced at Ji Longfeng, who had his hands behind his back and was smiling like a smile, and felt ashamed. He blushed and apologized, "Uncle Long , I'm sorry, I made a mistake."

Ji Longfeng smiled generously, "It's okay, I can steal some teachers from your wife's cooking. But judging by her cooking skills, she doesn't look like an ordinary family. Who is the respected teacher?"

Ouyang Kang glanced at the slightly embarrassed daughter-in-law, and quickly smoothed things over, "Because my daughter-in-law likes to cook and order food since she was a child, it is also fate to meet an expert who does not want to be named."

No matter how the family pretends to be, the aura of wealth and nobility cannot be erased.Rather than lying and deceiving people, it is better to just be so vague.Long Shan looked like a smart person, so he probably wouldn't ask questions, right?

Ji Longfeng stopped asking about Nianfu, but teased Ouyang Kang, "I don't know how many lives you have cultivated such a good wife, but you should cherish it. That's all, you young couple are talking, I'll go back to my room first "If you think it's convenient, brother Ouyang, remember to accompany me to see the tea leaves."

He walked away talking and laughing, and Ouyang Kang came to the side of his wife, "What's delicious in the morning..."

"Eat your head!" Nianfu squinted at him displeased, "It's all your fault, what kind of hawthorn pills did you give us last night, which made my mother and I so hungry that we couldn't sleep early in the morning, and we had to get up early to get food. Here, This is what's left, eat it or not."

Ouyang Kang looked at the bowl of noodles left in the pot, and quickly picked it up, "I'll eat it, of course I want to eat it."

Even if it's a mess, he has to enjoy it.

Just one bite, Ouyang Kang looked a little weird, "You guys eat this in the morning?"

Nianfu looked natural, "Why, don't you think it's delicious?"

The hot and sour taste is served this morning, will it be too heavy?

Ouyang Kang really felt that if it wasn't his daughter-in-law who was messing with him, it was because her recent taste was really weird. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)