Crown Sword

A lot of people have gathered on the dam, surrounded by a distant circle, holding farm tools in hand, all of them look nervous.Uncle Wu'an and Feng Gong are not low in status, they are standing in front at this moment, while Yancai and Chang'an are following behind.

Confronting them was a man who was eight feet tall, wearing a Xianbei uniform, wearing iron earrings, braided hair, and a scar across the bridge of his nose. He looked very arrogant. After him, there were many people with knives There are many pawns, so it's not easy to mess with them.When Chao Chen and Gong Yangyue came, they heard from a few people whispering in private that his name was Liu Zhi, and he was the clan member of Liu Luochen, the current head of the southern part of the Dugu Department. live.

The work of fishing for oil and water is nothing more than tax collection.

On behalf of the national tax system, the rent adjustments of tributes and herdsmen and farmers accounted for the majority, and because unlike the southern mint circulation, more goods were used instead of money, which was converted into cloth and grain for payment.Under the rent system, households are the fixed income, but the number of people in each household is not fixed. It can be three to five households, or three to fifty-one households. There is a lot to be done in this.

Liu Zhi took the horsewhip, pointed at Feng Gong and the others' noses and scolded: "How dare you call someone, believe it or not, and send you all to work as coolies? Why are you staring, old man, have you paid enough rent for this year?"

"When did we not hand it in? Your people came to collect it two months ago!" Uncle Wu'an was obviously tougher than the old man.

"Are your ears stuffed with shit? How are you obedient? Did I say that you didn't hand in? I mean, you didn't leak enough." Liu Zhi waved his hand and asked the runner to bring the booklet, but he didn't know how to read it either. Randomly fiddled with it twice, then turned to make things difficult on purpose, "You guys, dozens of people count as a household, but you will make up your mind, I want you to spit out everything you eat today!"

Yan Cai stepped forward out of righteousness and stood in front: "Liu Zhi!"

Liu Zhimi glanced sideways, and said with a smirk: "It turned out to be Mr. Xiaoyan. When did you come back to Shengle? Why didn't you go with the motorcade? This is the territory of my Dugu family, so I have to do my best to be a landlord, right?" !" He cupped his stomach and laughed, but he didn't back away, instead he stepped forward provocatively, "Why, Young Master Yan wants to protect them, forgive me, this is not a walking platform, be careful not to cause trouble!"

It wasn't the Nannan adults who came here personally, it's just that a pawn dared to stick his nose in the face. Looking at the sarcasm and innuendo in the content, Chao Chen only thought about the assassination by the Wuding River, and he must have something to do with the Dugu tribe.

Yan Cai did not abuse him, but only smiled disdainfully: "They are all good people under His Majesty's rule and are protected by the imperial court. What have we to do with you and me? I know it in my heart!"

"Shame on you, right?" Liu Zhi trembled angrily, swiped the long whip, and threw it at the person's face. Chang An ran and shouted, but fortunately, Yan was good at kung fu, so he held the whip head with one hand, and two People face off.

Liu Zhi couldn't move, his blushing face was very embarrassing, he just looked to the left and right: "What are you doing!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan let go, and immediately fell on his back.The errand runner quickly helped someone up, Liu Zhi raised his hand and slapped the face, he wished he could kill the Yan family, but he didn't have that ability, so he could only roll up his sleeves, find fault with others from a distance, and said to Feng Gong: "Be good! Pay the rent, and everyone will live in peace!"

In any case, people under the eaves had to bow their heads. Yan was able to save him for a while, but not for the rest of his life.Chang An sighed, and whispered, "How much do I have to pay?"

Liu Zhi compared the numbers, and everyone gasped when they saw it.

It is not yet the autumn harvest, so there is no way to produce that much surplus food, let alone the silkworms and hemp that are raised outside the Great Wall, and the clothes are all made of wool, so there is no surplus cloth.

Shuang Li touched it quietly, and pinched Chang An's hand: "Are you confused, this is also for you?"

"No, no."

"What's going on?" Cui Tanfeng was much more sensible, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Chang is working under Yan Shangshu, even if he is a small subordinate, he shouldn't be unable to say a word, this guy doesn't look like that Official officials dare to be so presumptuous, and it doesn't happen once or twice, so is there no one to care about?"

"Take care, how do you manage it?" Chang An answered him in a low voice with a worried expression on his face, "You guys don't know something, this is the default rule. When the country was first established, the tribal forces were huge. In addition to the years of war in the north, there were no officials in the dynasty. Salary, excluding rewards, all surplus depends on rent adjustment and taxation, which is naturally squeezed downward."

"This... this is already a tacit understanding."

Shuang Li opened his mouth wide and grunted: "Isn't this Ming Qiang?"

Qiao Min was also shocked by it. It was the first time he saw that there was no salary for a hundred officials.Cui Tanfeng looked at the villagers on the dam one by one, and gradually understood why Wu'an and others would sigh in front of Zhaojun's tomb that day, unforgettable Hanguan, so sorry to go back!This is not the life of a human being. He clearly treats human beings like animals and punishes them to death!

Seeing the two big and one small talking non-stop, Liu Zhi couldn't hear clearly but scratched his ears and cheeks to know, and immediately yelled: "What are you talking about? Carefully bald your lips."

"Say you're a pig." Shuang Li snorted.

Yancai took advantage of the situation to stand in front of him, he lived in Dai Kingdom for a long time, and he didn't know these truths there, but he just had a sense of loyalty in his heart. What's more, it's because of him that the Dugu family came forward to make things difficult.

Chang An was terrified, and pulled him back, with a sad face, as if saying that it was useless to argue, don't take the risk of getting ahead, and let the Yan family fall into the trap and be impeached.

Philosophy...

Only then did Yan hold back: "Give it a little more time."

Liu Zhi saw that he was making concessions, he was more kind and deceitful, he stretched out his index finger and shook it, and said with a smile: "No!"

"Ok?"

"Why, you still want to do something?" Liu Zhi jumped up immediately, "Mr. Yan, don't think that I can't catch your braids because of your eloquence. These Jin people staying here are afraid that they will bring disaster. I will ask my uncle to report the truth to His Majesty, and let him make a decision, it is best to move all of them to the bitter cold north, and don't stand in the latrine without shitting!"

At this time, a beautiful female voice came from the slope: "This is our root, we will not leave here!" After speaking, followed by a cry of pain, Liu Zhi's dog legs rolled down, and he crawled to his house with all his hands and feet. The master came up and cried: "Master, this bitch beats people too hard."

Chang An turned around, almost suffocating: "Mother, mother?"

I saw a woman in Han clothes with neatly combed hair moving her knuckles. There were two feed buckets on the left and the right, and it looked like the road was uneven.

Liu Zhi embarrassed himself, kicked the dog's leg, and said viciously at Chang An: "Well, you Chang Daguan, you are rebelling! You aliens, if you really have no good intentions, arrest them all, arrest them!"

"No, it's all my fault." Chang An panicked, not knowing whether to protect his mother, Sun, or to stop Liu Zhi's people.

Yan Cai was about to stand out, Liu Zhi was not stupid, he found an excuse to scold: "I am not from the government office, but they are, and they all follow orders! What's more, you are in the Taishang Shufu, but you can't control this Yunzhong Shengle City!"

The word "ordered" was very heavy, as if the old man who wanted to move out of the Dugu Department was overwhelmed. Although the Yan family was ordered to support Gu and was a hero for the country, it was only one of them. Now the foundation of the little emperor is not stable, and he still needs to rely on him. The power of the tribe defends the capital, even if Yanfeng is here, it is not easy to face it head-on.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's money is like killing their parents. No matter how small Liu Zhi is, what he does is fighting for the interests of the entire Dugu clan.

Yancai cast a trap, and Liu Zhi took advantage of the situation.

Sun threw down the pick and bucket and went down the mountain ridge. Chang An broke out in a cold sweat, hurried over to block him, and pushed the man towards home: "Mother, you go back to the house quickly, leave this place to me, leave it to me!"

"Leave it to you? I don't know what it looks like yet, why did I give birth to such a coward like you!" Sun glared angrily.

"Forget it, leave it to them, the people don't fight with the officials, and we will suffer in the end. If we really forcefully evict, the gain will not be worth the loss." Feng Gong looked gloomy, and called Yan Cai back, as if there was something hard to say.

Uncle Wu'an's lips fluttered: "But it's been so many years, and I still have to endure... hey!" Then, he stopped refuting, and walked away as if he was angry.Yan Cai didn't understand very much, and was dragged aside in embarrassment.

"You're obedient!" Liu Zhi triumphantly waved his whip and ordered people to move things.

The subordinates were not serious, they smashed all the way, one of them was the same woman with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, who was grabbing food, probably got an order before coming, and without mercy, he immediately raised his elbow and knocked the woman to the ground.This woman is also a bloody person, she immediately opened her mouth and bit back, Liu Zhi watched from the sidelines, felt very prestige, and stepped forward waving his whip.

"Momochiji, what are you eating?"

"Master, I'm coming!" Mud Legs would misunderstand, and slapped the old woman first, causing blood to vomit from the mouth, and the only few teeth that were left fell out.

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Chao Chen rushed over and squeezed through the crowd to look down from the dam. Just in time to see this scene, he couldn't bear to turn his face away, hoping that Gong Yangyue would do it, but he understood that the devil and the hero are different after all, and he has no right to arrange others.

So, he pulled out his dagger and rushed forward by himself.

At this time, just seeing the red dress flicker, the general will block the front, tightly strangled Chao Chen's wrist, and Chao Chen shook it vigorously: "A gentleman should look up to the world and be ashamed of the world, chivalry is the first, I can't just sit idly by, As far as these people's boxing skills are concerned, I am not afraid!"

Gong Yangyue's eyes fell on Yancai: "You all don't understand Yanfeng's true status in the Dai Kingdom. Although he is only a minister of the stage now, he is the humerus minister of the Dai King. Back then, the Qin State attacked the Dai State. , Fu Jian's "Killer" assassinated the palace at night, it was Yanfeng who sent the king away overnight, seduced the enemy with his body, and defended Yunzhong, and he was also the one who later, wisely argued that Fu Jian brought the young emperor back from Chang'an. Said that if there is no him, the present acting king would still be a hostage in Qin, or he would have died in a conspiracy!"

Chao Chen's eyes flickered, and he continued: "Back then, Liu Kuren, the head of the Dugu family, did not dare to belittle Yan Feng, who was only a long history. He smashed his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach, he didn't do anything, just because he was waiting."

"Wait for what?"

"He's waiting for me to make a move." Gong Yangyue hissed, "What you said earlier was indeed a temptation." He looked at Chao Chen, with no joke on his face, and his eyes were cloudy and dull, "Chao Chen , do you want to know, what is it that Seventeen is begging me for?"

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The old man was beaten, and there was a commotion in the crowd. The men, women, and children who had taken the guy before were all about to go on a rampage. Shuang Li stomped his feet, poured out some disgusting things from the cloth bag, and cursed: "Auntie is mad at you!" I'm sick, I really want to push his head into the cesspit!"

"Don't act recklessly." Cui Tanfeng urged, but her hand quietly filled the hidden weapon with some tickling powder.

Shuang Li smirked: "Old Phoenix, I found that you are really weak." She cast a look at Qiao Min, leaned over to touch him, and the latter bounced away habitually. Li Dong hides in Tibet.The little girl took advantage of the situation and chased after him, and hit Liu Zhi in the face with the powder after several dog legs.

"soy Mujer!"

Liu Zhi went to stretch out his hand to grab it, but he failed to catch it. The medicine powder stained his skin, which became red and swollen. It was so itchy that he jumped up and down and scratched wildly. blind."

"What are you doing?"

"My lord, please forgive my life. Forgive me for my unintentional mistakes. This, this is a medicine for livestock. It's a girl who is blind. She can't tell the difference between animals and people."

Bashang suddenly burst into laughter, Liu Zhi blushed like blood: "Don't you think of a way to stop itching for me?"

"I'll think about it, I think... I have it, it can cure all diseases!" She rolled her eyes and saw the two big buckets of cow and sheep manure beside her, she stretched out her hand to push Cui Tanfeng away, and called Qiao Min to lift her foot, Whole bucket after bucket was poured down on him.Hearing a crash, everyone around dispersed, covering their noses with their hands, unable to bear to smell the feces.

Only then did Liu Zhi realize that he was being teased, and he was so angry that his molars were gnashing loudly. He didn't care about grooming, so he took a whip and said, "Peel off the skin of this stinky girl!"

Shuang Li escaped, but his lightness skills improved significantly during the chase with Qiao Min, and he couldn't catch it either side or side.Liu Zhi looked restless and impatient, he didn't see the figure clearly, but the tip of his eyes caught the orb she was wearing, and he opened his eyes immediately when he saw Qian Qian: "What a treasure! Take that thing from her for me, no, no, no, I will do it yourself!"

As soon as the words fell, he really drew a knife from the side and slashed over.

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"what's up?"

Intuition tells Chao Chen that Qiao Min's request is not easy. As the Seven Swords Guards, he may not represent himself, but the Goguryeo royal family, and the destination is the country of Dai. This request spans two countries. I'm afraid it's a big deal.

At this time, Shuang Li's exclamation came from below, and they both turned their heads together, only to see that girl running around in disorder, and seeing Liu Zhi's miserable appearance, one could know what happened without even thinking about it.

But the habits of the south cannot wait for the north. It is not enough to be able to convince the people on the grassland. It can even be said to be first-class in brute force.If the double carps underestimate the enemy, they will suffer.

Sure enough, in an instant, Shuang Li tripped and was immediately overtaken by others.

Seeing that something was wrong, Qiao Min swiftly struck out with his sword, and Gong Yangyue shouted condescendingly: "Seventeen, put away your sword!" As long as he asks Dai, he can't take action against anyone in Dai. cause unnecessary trouble.As soon as Gongyangyue finished speaking, she drew her sword and jumped out.

"Ram Moon!"

Chao Chen chased after him unconsciously, and as soon as the red shadow fell, his heart felt empty.He hurriedly turned his gaze to Yancai, who breathed a sigh of relief, but there was still no smile on his face.If the first month of the ram is what he expects, why is he so sad? Could it be that his temptation is not for himself, but for others?

"Who are you?" The knife in Liu Zhi's hand was blocked, and he remained motionless.

Gong Yangyue thought he was dirty, so he refused to throw a punch, raised his leg and kicked the cart, turned like a spinning top, and then used the shaft of the cart to beat cattle across the mountain, knocking people away, then clapped his hands, and said proudly: " Beat your man!"

Liu Zhi had a mouthful of old blood in his throat: "Okay, very good, you and that stinky girl are in the same group! You bitch!" He is not stupid. A Jianghu man came, worried that he had no chance, and wanted to vent his anger immediately, so he pulled out all the followers on the left and right: "What are you doing in a daze? Give it to me! If you kill me, I will bear it!"

"I'm afraid you can't stand it." Yan Cai sneered.

The doglegs swarmed up, Shuang Li was surprised, Qiao Min frowned, Chao Chen stumbled and rushed over, everyone on the dam was dumbfounded, Chang An even pinched the corner of his clothes with sweaty hands, worried about the current development.

Liu Zhi yelled happily: "He beat me up, it's a personal grievance, Mr. Xiaoyan, I'm afraid you can't control it!"

At this time, a domineering female voice came from outside the village: "Who dares to make a mistake!"

The crowd moved away to the two sides independently, and there was a woman in gorgeous clothes wearing a gold crown standing not far away, with raised eyebrows and raised eyes, not angry and arrogant, as soon as the car was driven by the attendant, she stopped fifty steps away, bowed her head and waited quietly. .The woman walked up to Liu Zhi, looked back and forth, raised her hand and slapped him in full view: "He can't control it, so I can do it? Oh, what are you, dare to hit my son?"

Liu Zhi frightened off the whip while trembling, everyone in the room was dumbfounded, Chao Chen didn't even stop, and slammed his head on Gong Yangyue's back, I don't know if it was because of her aura or because of her shocking words.Only Gongyang Yueqi was calm, not surprised, he turned his face to look at Yancai, who smiled apologetically, and immediately bowed to salute——

"Yan Cai sees Your Highness the Princess, sees... the Young Master!"

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In this way, in fact, Lao Yue is also a favorite of the group...