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Wang Mazi looked kind, and spoke quite emotionally.

"Now that you have farms, you must know how to be grateful! If there is no court, no government, can you still farm here? You have become the ghosts of the gold thief!"

The surrounding people listened numbly to Wang Mazi's words.

Li Baozheng on the side had a smile on his face, and he echoed, "Official Wang is right! If there is no government, no magistrate, we would have long been the ghosts of gold thieves!"

"Everyone should remember, be grateful!"

"But we don't have a hundred catties of grain!" Zheng Xi said again.

Wang Mazi was not angry either, and walked over, looked at Zheng Xi with a smile on his face, then at his sister, and touched Zheng Xi's face with his hand: "How old is it?"

Zheng Ling shrank her head, timidly hid behind her elder brother, and whispered, "13 years old."

"Oh, Cardamom Age, good! Good!"

Wang Mazi said to Zheng Xi again: "You can think of a way, one hundred catties is not too much, think of a way, when the court drives away the gold thieves, everyone won't have to pay so much tax."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Zheng Xi.

Liu Chunsan whispered in Zheng Xi's ear, "If you don't pay, I'll sell your sister to a kiln in the county. You can figure it out yourself!"

"Everyone, hurry up and start paying food, the soldiers on the northern line are waiting!"

Zhao Ning, who came to the entrance of the village, had a panoramic view of this scene.

Chapter 287 The Business of Mr. Zhao ([-]rd update)

Zhao Ning stood at the entrance of the village, the anger in his heart was like a volcano about to erupt.

However, even though he was furious, he didn't show it. Instead, his expression was normal, and he even looked there with a smile on his face.

Obviously, Wang Mazi also discovered Zhao Ning's group, and asked Liu Chunsan, "Who is that?"

"I don't know." Liu Chunsan shook his head, "He's from another place."

Wang Mazi carefully looked at Zhao Ning and his group, and led them over.

As soon as he walked over, the guards around Zhao Ning came forward and surrounded Zhao Ning's three floors outside.

"This official, my lord, Wang Song, dare to ask the official's name?"

Zhao Ning also had a smile on his face and said, "I'm Zhao Ning."

Wang Mazi began to search for a person named Zhao Ning in Julu County, but there seemed to be no one.

"Officer Zhao is from another place?"

"Passing by."

"Why are you passing by?"

"Here's an excuse to drink water."

"Please!"

Zhao Ning ordered people to go to the wellhead to fetch water.

Wang Mazi also brought more than 100 people, some of them were collecting taxes from door to door, and some followed him.

"Where is Officer Zhao from?"

"People from Gyeonggi Road."

"Where are you from on Gyeonggi Road?"

"Chanzhou."

"Oh, it turns out that you are from Chanzhou, what are you doing here?"

"Do some business at home, go to the north to discuss some business."

"Oh? North?"

Zhao Ning smiled and said, "Zhaozhou."

"Zhaozhou?"

"Zhaozhou."

"But talk about..."

"That's right, it's about the deal."

Wang Mazi laughed loudly and said, "Officer Zhao, come here, if you don't mind, why don't you come and sit for a while?"

Jing Chao said: "My family's officials don't like people getting too close."

Wang Mazi still kept smiling, and said to the people around him, "Everyone step aside."

Everyone around stepped aside, and Wang Mazi continued, "Please."

Zhao Ning stepped forward, and Jing Chao followed him.

Zhao Ning sat down under the big tree.

He really wanted to slap this Wang Mazi to death.

But he didn't do it right away.

The reason is actually very simple.

What is Wang Mazi?

Seeing that he is very majestic and arrogant now, in fact, he is just a dog of the people above.

Can a fly swatted to death change the overall situation?

After seeing the scene just now, Zhao Ning's first reaction was not to think that Julu is a dark place, but to think, how many places in Hebei and Hedong are this kind of scene happening now?

The imperial court promulgated tax exemptions, how many places have fallen?

How many places are extorting money from the people under the pretext of raising military rations?

Is it a special case in Julu County, or is most of Hebei West Road frantically searching for people's fat and people's cream?

Moreover, judging from Wang Mazi's words and deeds, these local officials and gentry are extremely skillful in their work, and they don't seem to be aggressively robbing.

If you rob directly, you will leave too many excuses, what should the people do if they go to the Daming Mansion to sue the officials?

Therefore, it is necessary to set up a name cleverly, while searching for the people's fat and people's anointing, while making the people have nothing to say.

Of course, with the deployment of force, both kindness and might will be applied.

For example, Liu Chunsan and Zhao Ning are Wang Mazi's lackeys at first glance. He usually does the dirty work and is the villain.

Another example is that Li Baozheng, who can be seen as a peacemaker.

For example, how much food has to be paid now, and the people complain. Liu Chunsan only picks out young and strong people to frighten others, and Li Baozheng comes out to be a peacemaker.

In the end, Wang Mazi came out to explain the reason by himself, and then scolded Liu Chunsan, and even kicked him a few times to let the people vent their anger.

However, turning around and going back, Liu Chunsan continued to eat and drink.

The official behind this incident should be the magistrate of Julu County. If the common people go to Daming Mansion to sue the official, there is no valid reason.

How to sue?

If you can't sue, can your family survive?

Therefore, in the end, I could only swallow my breath and linger on.

Since ancient times, officials have been like mountains, pressing on the heads of the people.

People are afraid of officials, just like sheep are afraid of wolves.

"I don't know what business Mr. Zhao is doing?"

Zhao Ning whispered: "Tea tea."

Wang Mazi's eyes glowed.

tea!

This is a big deal!

In the Song Dynasty, tea was not popular, and it was only available in the south, and it was operated by the government. Only tea can be sold, otherwise you will be imprisoned, and severe cases will be beheaded.

why?

Because tea is a national strategic material, it is to be exported to other countries to implement strategic constraints.

The staple food of nomads such as the Khitan and Xixia is meat, including the Uighurs in the northwest and the Qinghai region, who eat a lot of meat.

Eating meat is prone to constipation, and tea is needed to clean the intestines.

So these nomads are very fond of tea.

On the contrary, their demand for iron imports was rather weak.

Both Liao and Jin are rich in iron ore resources.

The biggest cognitive mistake of later generations about ancient nomads is that nomads do not know how to smelt iron.

In fact, the Huns had already mastered iron-smelting technology.

The later Turkic people were "forging slaves" of the Rouran people, which means that the Turkic people smelted iron for Rouran.

The word Khitan means "镔铁" in the Khitan language.

Liao's iron smelting industry is more developed than that of Song Dynasty, and it consumes less and is more sophisticated, so there is no need to import iron at all.

Therefore, when Zhao Ning said that he was a tea merchant, Wang Mazi looked straight at him.

The gentry in the north may not be able to drink tea even if they have money, only officials provide it specially.

Wang Mazi's attitude became even better. He said, "I don't know how many tea leaves Mr. Zhao has?"

"a lot of."

"How much is a lot?"

Zhao Ning stretched out a finger.

"One thousand pounds?"

Zhao Ning shook his head.

Wang Mazi's eyeballs almost popped out: "Ten thousand catties?"

"One hundred thousand catties."

Wang Mazi's jaw almost dropped.

The worst tea leaves in the north cost 20 Wen a catty, and the highest one could cost 500 Wen a catty.

One hundred thousand catties?

"What tea?"

"There are all kinds of tea."

"How much?"

"From fifty to five hundred wen, everything."

"Available?"

Zhao Ning said with a smile: "Mr. Wang is joking. How can you carry such a precious thing with you? When I go north, I just talk about business."

"Official Zhao is willing to do tea business in Julu?"

"Can it be done?"

"It can be done!" Wang Mazi lowered his voice and whispered, "I'm not afraid to tell you that the sheep from the north cost 50 bucks each, and there are still people buying them. The magistrate and the rich man are not short of money, but you have to have the goods."

Zhao Ning pretended to hesitate.

Wang Mazi continued: "Is it possible?"

"Understand!"

"Did Officer Zhao agree?"

Zhao Ning smiled and said, "Can you introduce me to the magistrate of Julu County?"

"Official Zhao wants to avoid talking with the county magistrate?"