I did evil in the feudal land, but I was called a virtuous king

"I think you're angry."

Liu Yiyi came back to her senses, showing a not-so-kind smile: "My lord, seeing me smiling so happily, does he seem angry?"

"picture."

Liu Yiyi turned her head and walked towards the back room.

Li An followed behind and said to himself: "Yiyi, you don't really have a crush on me, do you? I'm greedy for money and lustful, and I don't have the slightest advantage in my body. How can you, a big girl with yellow flowers, blindly fall in love with me?"

"It turns out that the prince still knows that he is greedy for money and lustful?"

"Cough~" Li An coughed, "I'm the prince, save me some face, just complain in my heart."

"Did I say it out loud?" Liu Yiyi pretended to be surprised.

"Yiyi, you really have learned badly."

Li An continued to tease Liu Yiyi, but he didn't notice that Liu Yiyi, who was walking in front, had flushed cheeks and complicated eyes.

After dinner, Li An called Wang Hu and Liu Qing to his room.

Liu Qing still had a paralyzed face, but Wang Hu had a lot more smiles on his face recently.

Li An noticed that Wang Hu was wearing a new set of clothes.

"Wang Hu, have you changed your clothes very diligently recently? You pay so much attention to dressing up, how much do I pay you for the army? You don't wear a heavy set every day."

Hearing this, Wang Hu grinned, and stretched out his hand to grab the back of his head, "My lord, don't make fun of me, my mother made this dress for me, it was her mother who accidentally bought a few feet of cloth, Afraid of wasting it, I also made a few for me."

"That Little Bean Sprout's mother is really careless." Li An had a meaningful smile on his face.

With Wang Hu's body size, his clothes are enough for Xiao Bean Sprout and her mother to sew a set each. Even if he bought a few extra feet of cloth, it wouldn't be so much, right?

This excuse can also fool Wang Hu, an honest cub.

"Wang Hu, don't forget me when the time comes to drink the wedding wine." Li An said.

Wang Hu: "???"

"Drink the wedding wine, whose wedding wine will you drink? Your lord, are you getting married?"

Said, Wang Hu subconsciously looked at Liu Yiyi.

Liu Yiyi gave Wang Hu a blank stare, imitating Li An's tone and said: "Vice Commander Wang, pay attention to reviewing the questions."

Wang Hu was even more confused.

"Okay, let's not talk about this." Li An waved his hand, "Get ready, I will go to Yuyi Pass with me some other day."

"Why go to Yuyi Pass?" Wang Hu was puzzled.

"My lord let go, we just follow." Liu Qing said lightly.

"Oh." Wang Hu nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, that's all I want to talk about today, you all go get ready."

After Liu Qing and Wang Hu left, Li An smiled and looked at Liu Yiyi: "Yiyi, you can also help me make clothes. Your prince is so pitiful. He has been in Qingshui County for so long, and he doesn't have any new clothes to wear."

Originally, she was just teasing Liu Yiyi casually, but after hearing this, Liu Yiyi stretched out her white arms from behind and hugged Li An.

Feeling the soft touch behind him, Li An froze for a moment: "Yiyi, why are you eating my tofu?"

Liu Yiyi's beautiful eyes turned Li An's eyes white: "My lord asked me to make clothes for you, of course I have to measure the size first."

Chapter 37

"Isn't it necessary to use a soft ruler to measure the size?"

"I don't have a tape measure, so I can remember it too."

"I don't believe it, I think you just want to eat my tofu."

"My lord said yes." Liu Yiyi replied nonchalantly, and after the measurement was finished, she gave Li An a faint salute, then turned and left.

The next day, Li An was carefully watering his watermelon seedlings with a shower in the small vegetable garden behind the Ping An Bank.

The watermelon seedlings are growing well, and it would be great if they can successfully produce watermelons.

Liu Yiyi didn't follow behind Li An's ass today, she was currently in her room, cutting out the high-quality cloth she bought, and sewing it stitch by stitch.

Very serious and careful.

Three days later, Li An wore the new clothes Liu Yiyi sewed for him, and went out with Liu Yiyi, Liu Qing and Wang Hu.

Li An and Liu Yiyi were sitting in the carriage, while Wang Hu drove the carriage with a few personal guards while guarding the surroundings.

And Liu Qing drove a carriage behind Li An's carriage, and Liu Qing's carriage was loaded with some porcelain.

After a bumpy journey, everyone arrived at Yuyi Pass at noon.

"Stop." As soon as they reached the gate, Li An and his party were stopped by a soldier, "What are you doing?"

"My lord, we are merchants from Suzhou, and we want to bring some porcelain to Nanling Country to sell." Wang Hu accompanied him with a smiling face.

The soldier gave Wang Hu a cold look and waved his hand, and several soldiers walked towards Liu Qing's carriage.

Brutally lifted the thatch that covered the porcelain, and poked at the car with a long gun.

"Wow, wow~" The sound of porcelain being poked into pieces continued to come, and Liu Qing's face darkened.

After a while, the soldier finally finished the inspection, walked back quickly, and whispered something in the ear of the soldier who stopped Wang Hu.

The latter nodded, and stretched out his hand towards Wang Hu: "The tariff is 50 taels!"

"Ah? 50 taels?" Wang Hu's eyes widened. It's too dark. They bought these porcelains at the second-hand goods market in the county town. It didn't cost 50 taels for the whole cart.

"Huh?" The soldier frowned: "If you don't pay the customs, get out of here, and don't block the way here."

"Do you dare to talk to me like that?" Wang Hu's petulant temper came up in an instant.

Upon hearing this, all the soldiers at the pass surrounded Wang Hu.

At this time, Li An in the carriage said: "Old Wang, give me the money."

"Yes, master." After Li An had spoken, Wang Hu had no choice but to angrily take out 50 taels of silver and hand it over.

After receiving the money, the soldier gave Wang Hu a disdainful look, pointed to a long queue of convoys and said, "Go and line up over there, and exit the customs one by one."

Wang Hu had no choice but to hold back his anger, and drove the carriage to the back of the long queue.

After that, there was endless waiting. The scorching sun above the head made Wang Hu and others sweat profusely and mouth dry.

"Ma De, why doesn't this team move?" Wang Hu cursed.

At this time, a man with the appearance of a businessman approached Li An's carriage.

Wang Hu and his personal guards instantly took out their swords and looked at the man threateningly: "What are you doing?"

The man quickly spread his hands to indicate that he had no malicious intentions: "I have no malicious intentions, I just want to chat with your master."

Wang Hu was still full of vigilance. At this moment, Li An's voice came from the carriage: "Old Wang, let him come here."

"Yes, sir."

The man walked quickly to Li An's carriage, with a philistine look on his face, "Master, the villain's name is Zhou Qiang, may I ask whether this is the first time for the master to go out as a merchant?"

Li An lifted the curtain of the carriage: "How did you see that?"

Zhou Qiang smiled, and said immediately: "If it wasn't the first time I came out, I wouldn't have paid the customs duties at the gate, and I wouldn't have waited obediently here."

"Oh?" Li An looked at Zhou Qiang with interest: "Is there a way here?"

"That's natural." Zhou Qiang smiled even more happily, "I can let you guys go out, master."

"What should I do?" Li An asked with a smile.

Zhou Qiang rubbed his fingers and asked for it, and Li An understood it instantly.

"How much money do you want?" Li An asked directly.

Zhou Qiang stretched out a finger: "Ten taels of silver."

"Twelve taels?" Li An frowned slightly.

"Master, these ten taels of silver are really not much. The main thing is to use the silver to manage the guards." Zhou Qiang still had a smile on his face.

"Yiyi, give him the money." Li An said to Liu Yiyi.

Hearing this, Liu Yiyi took out ten taels of silver from the money bag and handed it to Zhou Qiang.

Zhou Qiang bit the silver with his teeth, and after confirming that it was real, he walked towards the guards.

Zhou Qiang and the guard guard whispered a few words, and immediately took out a few taels of silver and put them in the guard guard's hands.

Zhou Qiang nodded and bowed, and the soldiers guarding the gate impatiently waved their hands to signal to pass.

Zhou Qiang immediately ran back to Li An's carriage, took the initiative to help Li An lead the horse, and at the same time said to Li An in the carriage behind.

"Master, in fact, I didn't earn much money from you, I only earned two taels from you, and the other eight taels were given to the officials.

If you don't give them tolls, you'll have to wait here for ten days and half a month! "

Upon hearing this, Wang Hu became angry instantly: "Have you charged tolls? Are they soldiers or bandits?"

"This strong man doesn't dare to talk nonsense. If someone listens to it, he will die." Zhou Qiang quickly reminded Wang Hu.

Because they had already collected the money, the soldiers guarding the gate did not stop Li An's carriage this time, and the carriage entered a long, narrow and winding path.

After walking a few steps, they encountered a group of soldiers who stopped Li An's carriage and were about to inspect the goods with their spears in hand.

Seeing this, Zhou Qiang quickly said: "Master, Lord, we have already experienced it outside. All the porcelain we pull on the cart will be broken after a few more inspections."

The soldier gave Zhou Qiang a cold look, and pushed him away: "I don't care if you have checked outside, our rule here is to check every five steps, what if there are court criminals hidden in the car?"

Seeing that the soldiers insisted on searching the carriages carrying goods, Zhou Qiang had no choice but to take out a tael of silver and put it in the hands of the leading soldier.

"Officer, it's convenient."

The goal was achieved, and the soldier showed a satisfied smile, and waved his hand to indicate that the team could move on.

Zhou Qiang complained to Li An while walking: "Master, you have to give me this tael of silver later, or I will make this trip in vain."

Li An smiled, handed over a tael of silver, and immediately said to Wang Hu: "You will pay for the places that need to be managed later."

"Yes, sir."

After walking a few steps, I met another man who looked like an accountant. The man was sitting in front of the table, and the shiny abacus on the table was particularly conspicuous.

"Stop, pay the customs duty." The accountant said coldly.

"Why do we still have to pay customs duties? We paid them when we first entered the customs." Wang Hu said dissatisfied.

The accountant gave Wang Hu a cold look, "The customs duties are all paid by me. How do I know who you paid them to before? In short, if you don't pay the customs duties, you will return to me."

Wang Hu really wanted to chop up the accountant with a knife, but when he thought of Li An's plan, he still opened the money bag dissatisfied: "How much money."

"100 taels!"

This directly doubled again, and Wang Hu was so angry that his teeth itch.

After paying the money, the team was able to continue walking.

But not far away, there were actually a few carriages transporting goods parked in the middle of the road, and in front of the team, a few soldiers were collecting bribes again!

"This Yuyi Pass is really a goose passing a plucking beast and leaving its skin!" Li An sneered.

"Isn't that what it is?" Zhou Qiang echoed: "This is not to leave a piece of skin here, after passing here, I guess there will be only bone dregs left!"

Chapter 38

"It stands to reason that the soldiers at Yuyiguan are extorting merchants like this, and there should be very few merchants willing to pass here again, but this business route is still very popular." Li An asked casually.

"Master, you don't know that. These people only dare to do this to us small merchants. Those merchants who are really rich and powerful, they all treat them as their own fathers."

"Those big merchants are people with backgrounds in the capital, and these officers and soldiers can't afford to mess with them."

"These small merchants are the ones who suffer. They didn't make much money in one trip, and they were all blackmailed by these soldiers."

After listening to Zhou Qiang's words, Li An got a general understanding, poked his head out and looked around, but didn't find the unimpeded big merchants the man said.

"I see that everyone has been stopped. Why don't you see the big merchant you mentioned?"

"My lord, if you had come earlier, you would have seen it. Now because of the Nanjiang King, those big merchants dare not run this business route. There is no oil and water given by the big merchants, so the soldiers of Yuyi Pass blackmailed, It got even worse."