After being crossed, I have reached the pinnacle of my life

Liu Lin instinctively felt that something was wrong with Jiang Zhou.

The Jiang Zhou he had seen before had floating eyes, revealing a desire for money. Although he looked a little clever, he was more often clever, childish and easy to deceive, and a little taken for granted.

The Jiang Zhou in front of him was different.

His eyes are clear and firm, and he is very restrained.

If it were Jiang Zhou from before, he would probably jump up when he was provoked.

He wanted to provoke Jiang Zhou, let Jiang Zhou do it, and he found a reason to put him in the prison. After entering the prison, was he afraid that Jiang Zhou would not compromise?

As a result, Jiang Zhou didn't move.

Liu Lin rolled his eyes, and decided that he would also stand still—sooner or later, the wood would be his, right?As for Jiang Zhou, he always had to find a way to deal with him.

He is a person who can bend and stretch, otherwise he would not please his brother-in-law, so he just glanced at Jiang Zhou and stopped talking, and only said to Li and Han: "It's a waste of time to ask you to do something, I want you What's the use of these two trash!"

He flicked his sleeves and left, leaving Li Han and Lu Yi looking at each other in dismay, bluffing and then walking away in despair.

Jiang Zhou didn't say anything. He was surprised to meet Liu Lin. If there was a conflict at the moment, he would be at a disadvantage. He was too passive. Why not lie down and think carefully about how to deal with him.

After leaving Jiaojiamuhang, he went to Fengtai Teahouse on the way.

Lu Dexing was still sitting on the small bench basking in the sun, when he saw Jiang Zhou coming, he quickly stood up: "You are here."

Jiang Zhou smiled, walked in with him, and took a look at the teahouse. Even though it was Chinese New Year, there were still many people walking outside, and there were also people in twos and threes drinking tea inside, which was more lively than when Jiang Zhou first came.

Lu Dexing brought him a cup of hot tea and two plates of delicate and unique dim sum: "Try my new dim sum?"

Seeing Jiang Zhou take a sip, Lu Dexing opened his mouth, with a somewhat happy tone: "I was just a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and I always feel that my teahouse is like this, thanks to your ideas , although it is not a big profit now, at least it is not as bad as before."

Jiang Zhou smiled and remained silent.

Lu Dexing suddenly sighed again: "To be honest, if it wasn't for the foundation of my ancestors, I would not be able to open this teahouse long ago. Until now, I still think, maybe I will take the money to open the teahouse and go to It’s more profitable to be a small stall than this, and I don’t know how long my teahouse can last.”

His tone was rather melancholy, but Jiang Zhou was not easy to answer, so he changed his words to talk about another matter: "Lu Dalang told me that a lot of things have happened in the government office recently?"

Who knew that Lu Dexing looked puzzled: "What's the matter?"

Jiang Zhou was surprised: "It is said that there is a business tax. Whether it is a stall owner or a tea house like you, the whole village like Lu Dalang has to pay the tax. Our area has notified."

Unexpectedly, Lu Dexing was even more confused: "Who said this? Our town has not received the news?"

Jiang Zhou's expression became serious: "Really?"

Lu Dexing nodded: "If there is any news from the government office, we must be the first to know about it, especially the news about tax collection. To tell you the truth, I have several friends who have connections, and we will definitely inquire about such news in advance. Well, anyway, they haven’t received such news recently.”

Jiang Zhou was surprised by the news he heard. He lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly had a guess: "Do you think someone is on vacation? And the government doesn't know about it?"

Lu Dexing frowned: "But it's very risky? If you collect taxes behind the government's back and let the government find out later, what should you do? This is a crime of beheading!"

Jiang Zhou suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "What if the person who collects taxes behind the government's back is a relative outside the staff?"

He suddenly thought of Liu Lin. Since Liu Lin could ask Li Han and the others to come out to help him buy wood, he would naturally let them collect taxes—Lu Dalang often dealt with people around him, and he had visited the government office many times. Since the tax collection was mentioned, it must be the tax collector who convinced him.

Lu Dalang is naturally suspicious, and he can only be convinced by the servants of the government office, those familiar faces he is used to.

Most of the people who can do this are Li Han and the others.

Although Qiu Yuanwai left, the rest of the team didn't leave, it was still the same old way, the exchanged Liu Yuanwai didn't bring his own people, he used the same set of the rest of the team, but he just came, so I don't think he can care what to live.

If Liu Lin really did it, Jiang Zhou would no longer have to think about digging into his private affairs.

His eyes lit up instantly: "Thank you! You helped me a lot!"

Lu Dexing: "???"

Jiang Zhou rushed away excitedly, leaving Lu Dexing looking at the teahouse and sighing.

In fact, what he told Jiang Zhou was not a lie. He is just lingering with this teahouse. The idea Jiang Zhou came up with last time solved the urgent need. If it were someone else with pursuit and courage, he might be brought back to life, but He can't, he's old and can't afford it.

He didn't marry a wife, and naturally he didn't have a son, so he spent most of his life in this teahouse.

……

Jiang Zhou deliberately went to look for old head Yu: "Old Yu, have you received the news that you will have to pay taxes in the future?"

Old Yu shook his head: "What's that? I've only heard of land tax, but I haven't heard that there is a tax on the ferry."

So Jiang Zhou further confirmed his conjecture.

There are people coming and going here in Old Yutou, and he always likes to exchange information with others, and he can't avoid the rest of the government office. Therefore, most of the tax collectors avoid him. I will only think that the old Yutou industry is special so no tax is charged.

It has to be said that this Liu Lin is still a bit intelligent.

Then he went to find Lu Dalang again.

"You mean, this tax is not collected by Liu Yuanwai at all?" Lu Dalang was dumbfounded: "How dare they?"

Jiang Zhou said: "Actually, if you think about it carefully, there are loopholes in this matter. Liu Yuanwai has only just taken office not long ago, so he wouldn't make such a drastic tax change."

Taxes have always accounted for a large part of fiscal revenue, and there is no order from above, so they will not be changed easily. They thought that Liu Yuanwai had just been transferred from the frontier, and they didn't understand the tax gap between the two sides, but they didn't expect it to happen. Someone is playing tricks in the middle.

Jiang Zhou told him about his encounter with Liu Lin, and at the same time said: "To tell you the truth, I once had a story with him."

"Oh?"

Jiang Zhou told him everything about the traverser, omitting the part where he lost consciousness.

Lu Dalang was stunned. He always thought that Jiang Zhou was restrained and calm, and he had made great achievements in business and was a man of pride. It was a business failure.

Who knew that there was such a relationship among them, and what's even more coincidental is that Liu Lin came back.

I have to say that he is really brave and fearless.

Lu Dalang pondered for a long time: "What are you going to do?"

Jiang Zhou shook his head: "This is not a matter that I can solve alone. First of all, we don't know Liu Yuanwai's character. If this matter is exposed so hastily, and Liu Yuanwai and Liu Lin are colluding together, this matter is right. It's not good for us."

He remembered something again, and continued: "What's more, I remember that you haven't collected the business tax for the first time, have you?"

"Yes." Lu Dalang nodded, "They said that they will come down to collect it in person on the seventh day of the lunar new year."

That's right, on weekdays, the land tax is handed over to the village chief, and then the village chiefs of each village hand it over to the government office. It has never been said that the government government came down to collect it in person. They were all required to collect commercial tax at that time. I was shocked, I didn't even think of this layer.

Jiang Zhou smiled: "Don't worry, you might as well wait until he collects the tax."

……

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Li Han came with Lu Yi as expected.

Jiang Zhou deliberately stayed at Lu Dalang's house, but he never showed up, just waiting to see how they collected taxes.

When dealing with merchants like Lu Dalang, the expressions of Li Han and Lu Yi were quite stable, not as high-spirited as they were with Jiang Zhou that day, especially since Lu Dalang gave the money boldly and decisively, it can almost be said to be smiling.

Jiang Zhou and Lu Dalang looked at each other, watching them leave Lu Dalang's house.

……

On the second day, when it was not dawn, Liu Chengfeng was still cozying up to his wife in bed, but was interrupted by the yamen servant who broke in: "My lord! Something serious happened!"

Liu Chengfeng was stunned for a moment: "What's the matter? I'm in a hurry!"

The yamen servant was anxious and turned around: "My lord, the merchants in the village below said they want to sue you!"

Madam Liu was taken aback when she heard this: "What's the matter? You didn't do anything, how could you offend the merchants down there? Why did you suddenly say you were going to sue or come here?"

Liu Chengfeng could only comfort her: "Don't worry, there is no Shangguan who would sue him, there must be some misunderstanding, I'll go and have a look."

After being promoted to the hall, Liu Chengfeng glanced at the merchants kneeling underneath: "Tell me, what's going on?"

Lu Dalang was at the front, and he bowed: "I would like to report to you, I don't know if you know, but a few days ago, the government sent someone to collect the business tax?"

Liu Chengfeng frowned: "Nonsense, the government has never asked anyone to collect commercial taxes."

As soon as he said that, the people below whispered, and there was some dissatisfaction in their words. One of them said: "Could it be that the non-members don't want to admit it? We are all in business, and all of us have paid business taxes. The people in your yamen People came to collect it in person, why don’t they recognize it now?”

"That's right, why don't you recognize it!"

"If you want me to say, what's the use of going to this government office to sue this official? Why don't we spend money and ask someone to go to the higher-level official!"

There was a lot of noise in the audience, but fortunately Liu Chengfeng was not the kind of person who didn't experience anything, he just frowned and stopped everyone: "You said that people from the yamen went down to collect business taxes, then point them out."

They also came prepared, glanced around, and said in a hurry: "It's not here."

"Those two people with sharp mouths and monkey cheeks are not among these yamen servants."

Liu Chengfeng turned sideways and asked the master: "Are all the yamen servants here?"

The master whispered: "Not here, some of you are taking a rest today."

Liu Chengfeng patted the gavel: "Well, there are a few yamen servants who are not on duty today, I will summon them in, and you will recognize them later."

After a while, several yamen servants who were resting in rotation were called in, and Li Han and Lu Yi happened to be among them.

Those merchants all exploded: "It's the two of them!"

Li Han and Lu Yi felt something was wrong on the way here, but the person who summoned him was ordered to silence. They asked for a long time but did not get any effective information, and they were worried. Unexpectedly, they saw a bunch of people , They are all big acquaintances, I just met yesterday.

They knew right away that something was out.

The two looked at each other, and knelt down with a plop: "My lord! You are wronged!"

Liu Chengfeng stared straight at his eyes.

He came from a background in judging cases, and what he is best at is observing words and expressions. Now, seeing the panicked expressions of the two, how can he not know that there is indeed something hidden in it?

He could only take a deep breath, and frightened the two of them first: "You are so courageous, you dare to collect taxes on behalf of the government!"

Li Han knelt tremblingly: "My lord, I am really wronged! How dare we!"

The two wanted to quibble, but they were startled by a bag of things thrown out by the yamen servant.

It was a bag of broken silver and a deposit receipt from a bank.

It turned out that when the yamen servant went to summon people just now, Liu Chengfeng asked people to search the place where the yamen servant lived, and told them to bring everything that was not right.

Li Han and Lu Yi lived together, and the bag on the ground was found from where they lived.

Liu Chengfeng hated it extremely: "What else do you have to say?!"

Li Han has always liked to bluff, and he is also the master who is harsh and indifferent. Now he is covered in cold sweat, limp on the ground, speechless.

Only Lu Yi, who was taciturn, said, "My lord, I have something to say!"

The author has something to say: the little one has something to say——

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