Yang Kai felt that it was right to be the county magistrate in Wuyi. Although he had almost made a mistake and was doomed, he was at least safe. Not only did he pass this hurdle, he also flattered Chengde's master, the Li clan. This was several levels higher than his climb to the second son of Wang. Even Cao Xin, the uncle of Wang's second son of Wang Mingyi, was just the governor of a state under the command of the governor of Chengde.

The opportunity was already in front of him. Whether he could seize it depends on his ability. So, since then, he began to spare no effort to curry favor with him.

Gongsun Changming left Wuyi and was about to go to Li Anguo in Zhenzhou. He personally sent him to the border of Wuyi, and he was crying and wiping his tears to express his reluctance. After sending Gongsun Changming away, he turned around and ran to Li Ze's village every now and then.

Of course, you must have a standard to curry favor with people. Yang Kai is still very accomplished in this regard. After coming once, he remembered the words of his mother who was devoted to the Buddha from Li Ze's inadvertent sutra. When he came again, he would always bring some things related to Buddhism, either some Buddhist scriptures that he had found from some unknown places, or some rare Buddhist ornaments, pendants, and Buddhist beads made of rare materials, etc.

It is not necessarily true that these things are valuable, but this makes Mrs. Wang happy. When her mother likes them, Li Ze can only pinch his nose and treat this clingy guy with kind words every time.

Although this guy is very annoying, Li Ze has to thank him from another perspective. Mrs. Wang probably thought that these things were all found by Li Ze for painstaking efforts, so over the past few days, she has gradually smiled at him and said more and more. She occasionally asked Li Ze about her well-being.

To be honest, Li Ze never knew what maternal love was in his previous life. In this life, he finally had a mother, but he was still in this state before, which really disappointed him. Now he finally felt a trace of maternal love, and his heart was really warm and very nervous.

Whether in the previous life or this life, he himself knew very well that what he lacked was love.

I was really too careless. In the past, I was slaughtering tigers and traveling around the world, but if I wanted to find these things, I would naturally find them. I would blame myself for not having this intention. This Yang Kai really gave me a clear way to communicate the relationship between mother and son. With this connection, no matter how hard I work, I will always make the relationship between mother and son in this life true.

Didn’t the world say that if you want to make up for the shortcomings?

"Mr. Yang County Magistrate, Is there anything difficult to solve when you look sad?" Li Ze looked at Yang Kai and asked with a smile. In the past, Yang Kai could still take advantage of an excuse when he came to his house, but this time he came, there was no excuse. When he saw that he was obviously asking for something to come to the door. Thinking about how he made Wang Mingyi and Yang Kai mistakenly think that they had something to do with Zhenzhou, Li Ze had a headache.

Of course there are relationships, and they are very special. The problem is that this relationship is not the kind of relationship that Yang Kai imagined.

"Young Master is as wise as a torch!" Yang Kai took the tea bowl in his hand, "Yang Kai really asked the young master for something."

"Oh, what's the matter? Let's hear it, but County Magistrate Yang, I may not be able to do your business!" Li Ze said with a smile.

"There is nothing else to do about this matter, but it's just a matter of young master, just a matter of one sentence." Yang Kai said quickly.

"What's up?"

"Young Master, Wuyi is originally a county, and the whole county has only 2,000 households. Yang Kai has worked hard to complete the autumn fu this year, but the day before yesterday, Yizhou issued another order to increase the tax on bans. The small Wuyi actually spread 20,000 guan!" Yang Kai said with a sad face.

"There are bandits in Yizhou? I haven't heard of it!" Li Ze said in surprise.

"This is not what Yizhou means, but the order from Zhenzhou." Yang Kai sighed: "If it is Yizhou alone, I will ask Wang Biejia to collect less, but Wang Biejia will have no way to deal with it. It is said that it is to quell the bandit tax. In fact, this is to be prepared to fight. The people from above said that after the spring sowing next year, war will begin with Lu Long."

Li Ze thought that Gongsun Changming really had a solution. Not long after he went to Zhenzhou, he helped his son make up his mind to form an alliance with Hedong and deal with Lu Long? The tax increase was to prepare for this war.

Of course, the old man refused to use his old man to fight this war, and in the end he had to pay for the expenses. All the people in Chengde and all over the country had to pay for this war.

"It costs ten tons to spread a household equally, and this is indeed not a small amount of money." Li Ze pondered.

"My young master, this is a small amount of money. Most people, even if you let him be a pants, you can't get ten coins at one time!" Yang Kai looked at Li Ze's appearance, looking like he didn't eat meat, and he felt angry. It turns out that you, Mr. Li, don't think ten coins are much money, but this does not mean those ordinary people!

"How big is the gap?" Li Ze asked.

Yang Kai sighed: "I have sent tax officials to the village to collect them. Now the money is only 2,000 guan. The gap is too large. Young Master, I dare not destroy too much. You may not know the news. Shiyi, under the rule of the Henghai Army Jiedu, is the county next to us, a remote place similar to our Wuyi. Now it has become a mess. The government has been too much, and the people have gathered to riot."

"Ah? There is something else?" Li Ze widened his eyes. In this winter, his men were devoted to his business with Wang Mingyi and went to Lu Long to make a quick money, but the other end of Heng Haijun was in Maodong. Unexpectedly, something big happened there.

"Yes, the specific situation is not clear, but the riots in Shiyi are already a foregone conclusion. I am very worried!" Yang Kai looked worried.

"Are you afraid of forcibly levying and forcing Wuyi to follow in Shiyi's footsteps?" Li Ze asked.

"It's not just that." Yang Kai said: "Wuyi is really poor. If it's all as rich as the Gongzi, the village, I don't have to worry. If you really have to get these 20,000 yuan, then I don't know how many families will not be able to live this year. Next spring, people will definitely starve to death. Although Yang Kai is not a good official, he can't do such a thing. This is one, and the second is that I am very worried about the mobs in Shiyi. Don't look at them making fun of it, but once the army goes, they will definitely lose. I'm afraid they will rush into Daqingshan and then come to us! Young Master, think about it, we are forcing taxes here, and these mobs over there, if we contact these two ends, will the chaos extend to us? I, the county magistrate, have such a disaster, but before I become a year, how can the governor Cao spare me?"

After hearing Yang Kai's words, Li Ze looked at this guy with some admiration.

As Yang Kai said, this man is not a good official, nor is he a capable official, but just seeing that he can't bear to scrape the ground to complete the tasks assigned by his superiors is enough to make Li Ze treat him differently. This guy also wants to make money, but his goal of getting rich was aimed at ordinary people like Yixingtang from the beginning. It seems that this man still has some bottom line in his heart.

In this era, if you have such thoughts, Li Ze thinks that he has a great conscience.

"There are more than two thousand households in Wuyi, right?" Li Ze asked.

After hearing this, Yang Kai felt a little embarrassed. In fact, there were more than 2,000 households in Wuyi, but the county’s registered and borrowed were only 2,000 households. Just like Li Ze’s farm, more than 200 tenants were not on the booklet. In Wuyi, there are several cases like Li Ze in the situation.

Looking at Yang Kai’s unspeakableness, Li Ze smiled and said, “This time, the tax collection in Zhenzhou is actually related to not only Chengde, but also the long-term stability of the entire country, so it is impossible for me to talk about it.”

Seeing Yang Kai showing a disappointed look, Li Ze continued: "But I understand the difficulties of County Magistrate Yang. Let's do this, I will give you five thousand guan here."

"How dare you ask the young master to pay?" Yang Kai was overjoyed, but his hands were swaying and his mouth was refusing.

"This is also for the sake of accomplishing virtue." Li Ze said lightly: "The five thousand guan is already one-quarter. Since I have even left, the other companies in Wuyi must also express their opinions."

Yang Kai took a deep breath and nodded repeatedly. He thought to himself that if you even Mr. Li, you have left, and I would dare to destroy the other families. If you really want to fight, there will be Mr. Wang, who is the second son of Wang, who is responsible for him. Mr. Wang, knows the details of the here, and those families are just in Yizhou, so I can still go beyond Mr. Li in front of me.

Li Ze inexplicably lost 5,000 guan, and he still felt a little distressed, but when he thought about it, this was also a contribution to my career, so he felt a little balanced. Even if he paid for his dream of a small landlord, he would ask the old man to build more weapons, armor, feather arrows, and recruit more troops, which would always add some strength.

"As for the possibility of a mob in Shiyi in Daqingshan, let me do it!" Li Ze said: "I wonder how many iron armor there is in the arsenal of the county, can I lend it to me for use?"

"Ah?" Yang Kai was shocked." Leave it to the young master? The young master's body of a thousand gold..."

Li Ze interrupted him: "It's just a group of mobs. My escorts in the village are enough to deal with them. How much iron armor do you have?"

"Twenty!" Yang Kai was a little shy.

"Only twenty?" Li Ze couldn't believe his ears. The arsenal of a county actually had only twenty pairs of iron armor?

"It's really only twenty!" Yang Kai swears, "Young Master, the armor is not like anything else, who dares to have an idea?"
Chapter completed!