Chapter 418： Your Highness, please forgive me

Chapter 418 Your Highness, please forgive me

Seeing the fat middle-aged man approaching, the sharp sword in Lin Jinxiao's hand reached his neck which was almost unrecognizable.

The fat boss was startled with fright, standing on the spot and not daring to move another half step.

"Say, who taught you the method of collecting rent?"

Lin Jinxiao was furious, causing everyone to tremble suddenly.

The thick neck of the middle-aged man touched the blade, and he immediately wiped blood.

He knelt down on the ground limply, and replied tremblingly: "Diandian. It is also a method handed down by the Qi family and the Liangdao Yamen."

After saying the last few words, he half-raised his head in trepidation and secretly glanced at Lin Jinxiao, then quickly buried his head while covering his injured neck.

Lin Jinxiao clenched his fist tightly, waved to the sergeant behind him and said, "Take it."

"Your Highness, Your Highness, why did you arrest the grassroots? The grassroots are innocent."

The middle-aged fat man was escorted away, and after being dragged a long distance, he was still screaming for grievances.

Lin Jinxiao put away the Tianzi Sword, looked to the northwest, and pulled Chu Nanzhi to the carriage: "Let's go to the Liangdao Yamen first, and then return to Tong'an Village."

Chu Nanzhi nodded hesitantly, looking at his extremely gloomy face, felt a little uncomfortable.

Since he took office, he has tried his best to maintain people's livelihood, but these low-level officials have tried their best to fill their own pockets, which is really hard for him.

But after thinking about it, he took back all the official land and rented it out to the common people at a rent rate of 30.1 tax.

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The wheels turned again and headed towards the Liangdao Yamen.

Arriving at the gate of the mansion, just as Lin Jinxiao led Chu Nanzhi into the door, he saw an official wearing thick-soled official boots that were about an inch thick, holding his breath and sinking into his dantian. He was fully prepared and walked toward the grain-filled store more than ten meters away. Gu Hu rushed forward with all his strength.

Accompanied by a cry, the man rushed in front of Gu Hu hysterically, kicked desperately, and the food was splashed down.

After that, the official happily waved his hand at his subordinate: "Shanghai."

The Jiaogu people standing next to them had a dark face, full of suffering.

"Wang Shuishi has great strength and prestige."

Lin Jinxiao walked slowly towards the yard, his cold eyes fixed on the newly made thick-soled official boots on the soles of the tax ambassador's feet.

Such a funny scene made Chu Nanzhi burst into laughter: "It's autumn season, neither cold nor hot, and the tax envoy even put on winter boots, which is really rare."

This official does not look as strong as the strong man in the west of the city, but wearing such thick boots, no matter how hard he exerts himself, his feet will not be hurt.

Wang Tax Envoy saw that it was Lin Jinxiao, and the man-eating eyes frightened him, so he hurriedly knelt down to pay respects and said: "Your Majesty, see His Highness King Pingning."

"How dare you."

Lin Jinxiao leaned down, his eyes paused, and he said darkly: "I'm afraid it's the official who should kneel down for you."

Yu Guang slanted over, looked at the grains scattered on the ground, and immediately ordered someone to pick them up and weigh them, and it turned out to be nearly twenty catties.

The tax envoy panicked and hurriedly explained: "Your Highness, please allow me to quibble, ah bah, allow me to explain that the tax grains collected every year are often lost during storage and transportation. In order to avoid being handed over to the court and There is a shortage of grain in the official storehouse, so this method of kicking dendrobium is adopted everywhere."

"Is that true, is the tax envoy Wang deceiving me that he doesn't know the way of grain? The rice grown in your family can lose twenty catties per dendrobium after drying? I would like to ask the tax envoy Wang how incompetent he is. Can the granary lose twenty catties of a dendrobium of grain?"

Lin Jinxiao picked up a handful of grains, and saw that the grains were plump, golden and crisp, all of which were selected high-quality grains.

Now it is a time of famine, and the people still dare not slack off. It is really distressing to hand over the grain that has been cultivated for a year to the government, and it is so squeezed by the officials.

Looking at the figure of the tax collector, I'm afraid he can't kick twenty catties of grain with one kick.

He stared at the farmer whose clothes were covered with patches beside him, and asked solemnly, "How many times has this dog kicked Dendrobium today?"

The farmer replied submissively: "Report to my lord, this grain king's tax envoy kicked three times."

"Okay, you can kick him as he kicked Dendrobium just now, if you miss one kick, I won't let you take home the extra food today."

After Lin Jinxiao finished speaking, the farmer was stunned.

According to the kicking method of tax officials, I can't kick people out of power even if I go down with three kicks.

The tax envoy was so frightened that he was sweating profusely on his forehead: "Your Highness, please forgive me. This way of getting down to the government is also the experience I got from the old mistress of the Qi family."

"Excuse me?"

When Lin Jinxiao heard that it was the method of the old Qi family, he became even more angry, and said harshly:

"The counties in Pingning Prefecture are the areas with heavy output of the imperial court. Now it is suffering from drought. The official has issued repeated orders not to fish and meat the common people. But you and the others ignored the ban and used this despicable method of adding taxation to squeeze the common people. Regardless, what's the use of keeping you?"

After finishing speaking, he roared at the farmer: "Kick."

Two sergeants took advantage of the situation and escorted the tax collector.

The farmers are full of timidity and dare not do anything.

The petty officials standing next to them lost all their previous aura of showing off their power, and all of them showed fear and cowardice.

Lin Jinxiao said again: "Think about your family, who have been looking forward to this little food for a year, but they are squeezed everywhere; think about this year, there is no rain throughout the year, and the yield per mu is only more than a hundred catties. But you don't care about the remaining rations and you have to pay rent according to the years of the harvest, and you will be exploited by these dogs in the end; think about your wife, children and parents, how can they survive when the little rations left are encroached on like this? "

Hearing this, the farmer became furious and kicked towards the tax collector with all his might.

The tax envoy spewed out a mouthful of hot blood, and the officials beside him were all dumbfounded.

"Kick again."

Lin Jinxiao personally supervised the farmer kicking the tax collector three times.

The tax caused the pain to pass out directly.

Lin Jinxiao frowned slightly, looked at the group of petty officials coldly, and shouted sharply: "From now on, if anyone dares to do such a despicable act and fill their own pockets, the tax collector Wang Rong will be the end of you."

The petty officials with livid faces knelt down on the ground in fear and fear, not daring to breathe again.

Lin Jinxiao called Zhang Yu, the commander of the army: "You go to the county captain's mansion quickly, order Dian Shi Li Ce, and school captain Chen Chuan to arrest the tyrants who cheated grain in the whole county, and send people to supervise and investigate the granary officials in each district. , Immediately arrested and imprisoned."

Paused, then added: "Let the county magistrate, Sun Wucai, draft an official document to convey this meaning to the counties in Pingning Prefecture."

Immediately ordered people to arrest the tax collector and parade him through the streets for three days before being sent to prison.

For a while, people in the Liangdao Yamen in the west of the city were panicked.

Chu Nanzhi didn't expect such a bad thing to happen in a place like Luyan Port, no wonder the group of villagers invited by her restaurant were all worried about renting children.

Being so squeezed by the government and the tyrants, it is natural that they cannot afford the rent and taxes.

Ms. Zhang's sudden death had already made her feel very sad. Thinking that the Qi family was going to go to Tong'an Village to get someone today, she was thinking about Zhang's two daughters, and she hurried Lin Jinxiao to Tong'an Village.

The Qi family also felt a little scared when they heard the news that Lin Jinxiao punished the grain official in the county and was close to the noble gentry.

Thinking of her grandson Qi Mochen who had already gone to Tong'an Village, the old mistress Zheng and a pair of daughters were sitting in the living room. Invite the governor of Tang Dynasty to rush to Tong'an Village."

The servants sensed that the situation was not good, and left the mansion in a hurry.

(end of this chapter)