"On the surface, we have suffered by paying three times the tax to the government … otherwise, although we were thirty taxes before, why did he go to town … exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes can be a dime a dozen directly … if these exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes are counted, I have to hand over the money to reach an astonishing five taxes and one … one day’s hard work can’t even keep the family fed and clothed …"
"Now our business tax is as high as ten taxes, but all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been cancelled … so we are willing to pay taxes according to ten taxes …"
Seeing the incredible expression on Zhang Yan’s face in front of him, the vegetable vendor continued: "Girl, don’t believe it … Did you see this scar mark on my arm because you didn’t want to pay those numerous taxes and miscellaneous fees, and it was cut by your official knife …"
"Now the tax is high, but once the tax was more important because the government stipulated that these tax officials were polite when they saw us. If there was no silver at that time, it would be fine. I have never seen an official beating people again."
"I heard that all this was executed after the governor of Shanshan, David … Thanks to David, a few days ago, I specially took out half a silver to make a longevity memorial tablet for David, burning incense every day and wishing David a long life …"
"David, are you really so good …" I heard that Zhang Yan was shocked and didn’t know what words came to represent the consciousness of the vegetable vendor at the bottom of the people.
"Of course, we won’t save money from the limited rations to give David a memorial tablet of immortality … It seems to us that we should be the emperor in the big dynasty and we should be David … we poor people have a chance to live and die if David sits in the sky."
If it’s before the conversation, Zhang Yan will be very angry after hearing this sentence, because the words "the vegetable vendor is against the truth" in front of him are absolutely obvious.
But the fact that Zhang Yan can respond is the default …
Because I can’t find a flaw in the answer from the other side …
More importantly, the voice of vegetable vendors has represented many people in the dynasty to a certain extent.
Thought of here, Zhang Yan’s heart is like a huge wave in the sea, which instantly rolls up.
Zhang Yan, the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, can hold back from talking, but Princess Le ‘an, the daughter of the Zhu family, can’t stand this kind of belittling of Emperor Chongzhen.
As soon as the vegetable vendor finished speaking, Princess Le ‘an retorted with a full face of anger: "You’re talking nonsense. You’re not afraid of being cut off by the government …"
Chapter five hundred and thirteen Zhang Yan shocked
After Princess Le ‘an finished speaking, everyone around Zhang Yan’s face changed at this moment. With one exception, they were angry with Princess Le ‘an.
Princess Le ‘an didn’t realize it was not good before she saw it. She still planned to continue talking. When she went, Zhang Yan had to take the lead and said, "Le ‘an, what are you talking about? Don’t shut up for me …"
With that, Le An Gongzhu will be directly pulled out of the crowd regardless of the incredible expression on Le An’s face.
Dozens of plainclothes warp and weft around the guards followed closely, gathering more and more people …
I don’t know how long it took before the gate of the big city appeared in front of two people.
Zhang Yan, who was still in an endless stream around him, directly pulled Princess Lean out of the big city and came to a wasteland where there was almost no figure.
At this time, Princess Le ‘an, who was already exhausted and panting, finally found the opportunity to speak.
Before looking at the same face red, Zhang Yan directly asks, "Huang Sao, don’t you also think that we should let Wei Zheng come to be emperor … He is more suitable to be emperor than brother …"
Zhang Yan shook his head and replied, "I don’t know who is more suitable to be emperor. I know that if I hadn’t dragged you away from the crowd at that time, you would have been beaten black and blue by the people in the big city … didn’t you see the people around you change their faces quickly after that sentence?"
"Now I finally admit that Wei Zheng, although it was less than two years since the governor’s office in Shanshan, has won the hearts and minds of all the people in Shanshan and Shaanxi provinces, otherwise these people will not recognize that the governor of Shanshan recognizes Wei Zheng and ignores the court and ignores your brother …"
"Wei Zheng, this is a big mistake. Isn’t this Wei Zheng really trying to rebel and overthrow our Zhujiajian so hard to build a big dynasty …" After listening to Zhang Yan’s words, Princess Lean was directly replaced by anger and shouted at Zhang Yan.
Le’ an asked a series of questions. What Zhang Yan can do is silence.
At this moment, the plainclothes guards who went out of the city with the two men suddenly came along, which broke the embarrassing atmosphere of the two men very timely. "You two ladies have been out for an hour and a half … Do you want to go back to the governor’s office for lunch now …"
Before Zhang Yan came to answer, Princess Le ‘an, who was holding a mouthful of anger in her heart, answered first, "No, I won’t go back … I don’t believe that all the people’s news about Wei Zheng is true … I must find a place where Wei Zheng is not as good as his brother, so that Wei Zheng can know that he can never be an emperor …"
Then directly to the side of a face of stunned Zhang Yan said, "Huang Sao, let’s find a way to eat nearby. I’m going to take a look outside the city this afternoon to see if the ordinary people outside the city are as good as the people in the big city …"
Facing the firm expression on Princess Le ‘an’s face, Zhang Yan can silently agree.
After a short meditation, he asked the guard waiting for his decision, "Do you think you can find us a restaurant nearby, little general? We don’t want to go back to the governor’s office yet."
After glancing around, even people rarely see the wasteland, the bodyguard looked hard to answer, "Miss, as you can see … there is no restaurant here except wasteland. If the two ladies really don’t want to go back, we can take you to the wasteland in front to find a villager to eat casually."
I don’t want to go back. Princess Le ‘an once again rushed to answer, "Tunmin will be Tunmin … just go and see if the Tunmin in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces are richer than the ordinary people in Zhili."
Seeing that Wei Zheng and Princess Zhang Yan’s face seemed to be in a tight position, she could put on a wry smile and answer to the bodyguard, "In that case, it would be troublesome for this little general …"
Soon a wasteland village with almost 1000 people gathered appeared in front of everyone.
When the plainclothes guards entered the wasteland village before preparation, Princess Lean directly stepped forward and said, "Don’t go in first … You went in first. Everything we saw was fake … You all told me where to eat behind us …"
Princess Lean ordered plainclothes guards to retreat with a full face of nai.
Then Princess Le ‘an walked into the wasteland village as if she had won the battle.
Maybe it’s time for lunch, and now it’s winter, and there are less than ten days left before the Chinese New Year, and there are hardly any villagers in Zhuangtu Road.
And this is just convenient for Princess Le ‘an to observe this wasteland village.
Soon a room with a very simple appearance appeared in front of Princess Le ‘an.
In order to see what you want to see, this seems to be the target chosen by Princess Cheng Le ‘an, the poorest villager in the whole village.
"This is the people … we will eat here at noon today …"
With that, Princess Lean walked to the humble room in front of her.
It can be said for sure that this house made of loess and weeds in front of us is a humble one that Princess Le ‘an has never seen before.
However, although the surface is simple, the low courtyard has been cleaned completely.
In addition to the three earthen houses directly opposite the gate, there are several wooden fences on both sides to house cattle and sheep … Although it is far away, Princess Lean still hears the sound of cattle and sheep pens constantly ringing.
Seeing this, Princess Le ‘an was just very confident, and her face flashed with a hesitant expression, because if the people here are really poor and can’t even eat enough, how can they have the money to raise cattle?
But now that you have come in, there is no reason to leave again.
Princess Lean ordered plainclothes guards to directly knock on the earthen house with the door closed, and said about the identity and purpose of Zhang Yan and Lean.
The owner of the house was still confused just now, and his facial expression directly showed a heartfelt excited expression.
The wife, who was cooking in the house, shouted, "Stop cooking, son … We have guests coming to our house at noon today … The Governor, Mrs. David, has come to our house. Come out and meet Mrs. David with me …"
Princess Le ‘an stared at the owner’s wife and two children with a stunned face, just like seeing the gods. She knelt down directly in front of Zhang Yan and Le ‘an and knocked three heads.
Finally, the excited four people were lifted from the ground, and Princess Lean directly said what she had come for.
When two people learned the news that the future wife of the prince was going to have lunch at his home, the excitement and laughter of the husband and wife became stronger.
Without thinking, he shouted at his wife, "What are you still doing? Mrs. Marshal respects that we only come to our house for lunch. This is a blessing for generations of our Zhou family … The trotters grabbed a sheep from the sheepfold and asked several generals to help kill it. I stewed mutton for the two ladies at noon today, and then took out the pork department that I bought in the city today. What good things have been done?"
After that, I didn’t consider Zhang Yan’s blocking and rushed directly to the sheepfold …
Couples and several plainclothes guards helped them prepare lunch as quickly as possible. Lean was not idle and went directly to the owner who was chopping mutton and asked
"The old man, as far as I know, when you came here for a year … but you actually saw a cow and seven sheep in the sheepfold … I really want to know how you accumulated so many possessions in a year … you know that these cattle and sheep alone are worth more than two hundred taels of silver …"
Without thinking, the middle-aged host replied, "It’s thanks to David Shuai that we can save so many ministries … If it weren’t for David Shuai, our family might have starved to death a year ago, where would we live such a good life a year …"
"Madam … these cattle and sheep are what you see … In addition to these cattle and sheep, there are twenty loads of grain piled up in my granary … these grains are all left after I pay the grain tax and sell some of them …"
"But this year is the best year I have lived for decades …"
"There is not only food but also silver in hand … you can buy whatever you want, and you don’t need to consider the problem of starving your family in the new year …"
"Because those cattle and sheep are all distributed to everyone by Governor David … it will take three years to pay off the silver needed to buy these cattle and sheep, and these cattle and sheep are our own …"
"I got a total of six sheep from the Governor’s Office. I got two lambs in the past year … It won’t be a problem to raise this sheep into more than ten in two years …"
"When the time comes, I can just take out six or seven sheep and pay off the sheep silver I bought from the Governor’s Office …"
"If the cow is lucky enough to be a cowboy, the light cowboy can offset that I owe the Governor’s Office to buy Niuyin. Even if there is no cowboy, it will be enough to pay off when we plow the cows and harvest food for three years. We owe the Governor’s Office to buy Niuyin …"
"So I said that everything in my family was given to us by Governor David."
"Two ladies, you can have lunch at most half an hour after you go to rest. My mother-in-law cooks, but it’s well-known and delicious. The two ladies must taste my mother-in-law’s craft. Otherwise, if the villagers in Tun know that the two ladies don’t have enough to eat at home, there will be no way for me to live in Tun. The villagers can drown our family by spitting stars.
Chapter five hundred and fourteen Big hidden trouble
Facing the news that shocked her one after another, facing the high prestige of Weizheng, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, Princess Le ‘an felt very uncomfortable as if she had blocked her anger.
Just when his idea of continuing to find fault with Wei Zheng was about to dissipate, the children of his master’s family who were less than ten years old suddenly appeared in Princess Le ‘an’s field of vision.