Li Mu looked back and saw that there were a few more people behind him. The leader was a short man with a sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks that looked like a rat, his eyes dripping, and his savage spirit was evident. Behind him, there were several tolerances wearing black slanted long clothes, which were slightly different from the clothes of the yamen runners in Luoyang, Chang'an and Luoyang. Each of them wore bright long swords around their waists, with fierce eyes, as if they were about to draw their swords to chop people when they were disagreeing.

When the mouse spirit spoke to Ada's father, his eyes were aimed at Li Mu. He could see from a distance that Li Mu's clothes were silk. When he walked over, he heard Li Mu's generous words again. Looking at his age and Zhen Yu standing next to him, he naturally regarded him as a rich man who was greedy for the beauty of Miao women.

The mouse spirit has been a policeman for many years and knows the temperament and character of these rich children. They must not lose face in front of women. For the four words "heroes save beauty", they are willing to pay for as much money. They are the best fat sheep. If they don't slaughter them, they are simply sorry for their work.

However, slaughtering fat sheep also requires means. If you can't get it, you need money. Isn't it robbed? A gentleman loves money and gets it well. Although the mouse spirit is not worthy of the word "gentleman", he has never eaten pork and has never seen a pig run away? He has heard of this sentence.

Moreover, Li Mu is a Han man. Judging from his clothes and dress, his family must be rich. In the Xuzhou area, there are few Han people and many Miao people. The rich Han people have connections with each other. He is also afraid that he will be harsh and cause trouble. So he still makes a roundabout tactic and asks Li Mu to voluntarily take out the money. In this way, even if he gets into trouble, he will have a way out.

"Ada, it's time to pay taxes. Last year you owe money. I've been entitled to it for many years. This spring, you paid the tax from last winter and the tax from spring in summer. Now you still owe me the tax from summer and the tax from autumn. I just calculated it, it's not much, not much, four thousand nine hundred and eighty cents."

As he spoke, the mouse spirit took out twenty big sons from his arms, patted them in the hands of Ada's father, and wanted to get his ingot: "Come on, give it to me, let's have two."

Dad Ada did not take his copper coins, nor did he let go of the ingot, and grabbed the rat spirit tightly. The mouse spirit's small body was not a match for the Miao man. No matter how he broke it, he could not break away from Dad Ada's fingers and could not get the ingot."

As so many people watched, the rat spirit couldn't hold its face anymore, and said in anger: "Ada, what do you want to do?! Don't give you a shame, do you want to rebel?!" As his voice fell, a group of yamen runners behind him pulled out their swords and forced forward one step, the meaning was obvious.

When Dad Ada saw the viciousness of these people, he showed a struggle in his eyes. Gradually, he let go of his hand, but did not receive the copper coins handed over by the mouse spirit. He sighed and said, "Sir, you know, I don't owe you taxes. If you have to say this, I can't do anything about it. I'll give you this ingot, and I don't want copper coins either. We both hope to be proud and not cause trouble for me in the future."

After hearing this, Li Mu probably had a preliminary impression. This should be the case. The city order falsely accused the inn shopkeeper and said that he owed taxes, but in fact, the inn shopkeeper did not owe him. Today, he came to find fault again, and the inn boss had no choice but to use the money to eliminate the disaster.

In fact, both of them were the same, but Li Mu still subconsciously believed in the inn shopkeeper. There was no way, who made this city ruling look too much like a villain in a TV series. The tone of his speech was also disgusting.

The mouse spirit did not disappoint the character Li Mu established for him. He was here to find fault, so how could he be sent away by Ada's father in a few words? If that were the case, he would not be able to mess around in this market in the future, and other merchants would no longer be afraid of him.

The mouse spirit put away the money, sneered, and said, "What I told you just now is just capital. I am responsible for you. You have to give it to me for the money of this interest!"

When Dad Ada heard this, he couldn't help it and said with a blushing face: "Mr. Shi Ling, are you too much? I don't owe you taxes. You came to collect taxes that day, but I didn't pay it. Before the sun set, I lent it to you, but you said I missed the time and didn't collect it. In this way, I owe the taxes. Later in the spring, I paid them all together. You said I owe taxes and still carried interest. You are trying to force people to death!"

"I dare not take this!" The mouse spirit snorted and bowed to the east, saying, "We are following the new tax law formulated by Zhulu Marquis Zhulu. If it expires, you have to be reasonable. Go to Chang'an to find the Marquis to reason, and you can't tell us the little ones. If you think about it today, you will pay the interest you owe, not much, 1,200 yuan. If you don't pay it today, you have to continue to owe it! If you can't pay it all before the New Year, don't blame me for being ruthless and ruthless. If you take your shop for a price and sell it, it will be famine!"

Li Mu's eyes were about to bulge out, and he asked in surprise: "You, who did the new policy?"

The mouse spirit glanced at Li Mu, bowed his hand, and said, "This young master is a Han Chinese, don't you know the name of Zhulu Hou?"

"I know." Li Mu said in a circle: "But I have never heard of Zhulu Hou's new policy in Xuzhou. What does the tax revenue here have to do with him."

"It turns out that the young master doesn't know." The mouse spirit is neither humble nor arrogant, but he doesn't explain. Li Mu knew what he meant, so he took out another ingot and handed it to him, saying, "This money is considered to help the shopkeeper pay back the money. It's unnecessary. Just treat it as a reward for questioning. You have to explain it to me."

Another ingot!

The mouse spirit was shocked. If there were many people who took out any ingots in the Xuzhou area, there might be many people who took out any ingots, but there were very few people like Li Mu. And judging from his appearance, it seemed that he did not carry change. The smallest silver was probably the ingots of five taels.

Fortunately, I didn't offend him just now. I can't afford to offend such a person.

The mouse spirit was glad for himself and his attitude became more and more respectful. He took the money over, changed his face to a smile, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Thank you," and looked at Daddy Ada again, and said, "You are lucky. If you have a young master stand up for you, this time, you will give your face to your son. The tax you owe will be cleared. When you collect taxes in winter, pay it early."

Ada was embarrassed and angry, so he turned his head aside. Li Mu was too lazy to see the mouse spirit's face, and also helped Ada to relieve him, saying, "I took the reward from my master, quickly explain the matter clearly. What happened to Zhuluhou?"

"Young Master, you don't know anything." These things are not a secret among the Han people in Xuzhou. There is nothing to avoid. They talked freely: "The Marquis promoted the new tax law before the New Year and specially sent a censor to our Xuzhou. We are all tasked with urging tax collection. If we don't have enough hands, we will be beaten!"

"There is this matter!" Li Mu was completely confused. He listened to the rat spirit's words and he almost believed it. Could it be that the supervisor and censor sent when he was sleepwalking?

No! The censors are all Wei Zheng's younger brothers, so I can't help them. Also, the title of Zhulu Marquis is no longer needed. Now I am the Marquis of Luoyang. If it is really something I do, this guy must call him Marquis of Luoyang.

"What's your censor's name?"

"I don't know the name of the Censor. I only know that he is from the Boling Cui family and a son of a wealthy family."

"Boling Cui Family..." A name popped up in Li Mu's head: Cui Yuyan!

It’s not that coincidental! Didn’t he be exiled? Why did he come here to be the censor? Who appointed him?

Seeing his expression changing, the mouse spirit felt a little uneasy and whispered: "If there is nothing else, the young master is in his business--"

"Let's go, let's go," Li Mu was very upset. Such a small person was not worthy of his concern, and he could be killed at any time.

"Hey, if you need it, come to the market entrance to find me at any time. You can do your best." After the mouse spirit finished speaking, he glanced at Ada's father and Zhenyu, and took his people away.

Seeing the mouse spirit walking away, Zhen Yu glared at Li Mu and said, "See, you Han family are so bad!"

Li Mu was still confused, but it did not affect his quarrel with Zhen Yu: "To put it bluntly, they are bad, and not me are bad. I will help you to help you, without turning the tables."

Zhen Yu was so angry that she didn't know how to say anything to refute, so she had to stamp her feet and said, "It's just bad, Ignore you!"

After saying that, he entered the inn by himself.

Dad Ada was a little lost, but he still had basic rationality. He didn't transfer Li Mu to the pile of bad guys, saluted and said, "Thank you for your kind help, but I don't know how to repay the guests."

"Oh, what are you saying to repay me? I just have a few stinky money. I didn't count it just now, I still have it here, you can take it-" Li Mu wanted to pay the money again, but was stopped by Ada's father: "If the guest takes the money again, it will humiliate me Ada. As long as the guest doesn't dislike him, as long as he comes here in the future, he will stay as long as he wants."

"Oh, okay," Li Mu took back his wallet, thought for a while, and asked, "Shopkeeper, your taxes are quite high, you need so much money for five taels of silver? There is no such high tax in the Central Plains!"

"The Lord Zhulu!" When Li Mu talked about this, he touched Ada's father's sensitive nerves. Li Mu was sprayed with a spit on his face, and was embarrassed to wipe it off, so he could only continue to smile. He heard Ada's father say: "Customer, the original government orders of the court did not collect taxes for Miao people. Later, the local officials took the initiative to pay taxes and collected a cent every day. We endured it, after all, not much. But since this year, after the arrival of the Censor Cui, the taxes were changed. From one penny a day to ten cents a day, it was ten times more. From collecting one penny a day after the autumn harvest every year, it was changed to collect one quarter every quarter. When the Qinghuang was not accepted, the taxes were not reduced at all. We couldn't survive every day!"

"Miao Village found the county and wanted to ask the master to be tolerant, but the master said that this matter was not decided by him, only Zhulu Hou and His Majesty in Chang'an City had the final say. The master also said that last year the imperial court fought with the Turks, consuming a lot of money and grain, so the taxes would continue to increase in the next three years. All the people in my business are still doing this, and the families in the village are even more difficult. Every household is selling their own money and paying them to the court with hungry children. If this continues, the Miao people in Jiuxiang Shibawu will probably really not survive. At that time..."

Dad Ada didn't say it, but Li Mu could also guess what else could happen when he couldn't survive? The officials forced the people to rebel?

It's still simple to think about it.

Li Mu sighed in his heart. The situation in Miaojiang was worse than he thought. What made him even more unacceptable was that these local officials actually used his name. What's this called?

Li Mu never regarded himself as a good person. He did many ridiculous things, and he also recognized them. However, the things he had never done were still attached to him, which touched his bottom line a bit.

There is also the Censor Cui, who must figure out who he is. If he is Cui Yuyan, then he must understand how Cui Yuyan, who was exiled, became the Censor, and who gave him the official position. If it wasn't for Cui Yuyan, then he must also see what the Censor Cui is. If it were Wei Zheng's subordinate, he would arrest Censor Cui, press it to Liangyi Hall, and make the matter clear and clear.

If neither of them were, before he left Xuzhou, he would cut this Censor Cui into pieces and chop it into Minjiang River and feed it to the turtle!

"guest?"

When Dad Ada saw that Li Mu suddenly became ecstatic, he asked in a low voice. Li Mu recovered and squeezed out a smile. "Look at me, what are the things that are random? What does the officials have to do with us ordinary people? The shopkeeper, I'm so hungry that I'm so hungry."

"Hey!" Ada's father did not doubt that he was there, and took Li Mu to the room, ordered the clerk to bring the hot water for washing and cooking. The inn was not big, he was the shopkeeper and also served as a chef.

After washing his feet, he fell on the bed, and Li Mu's head was in a mess.

He was wondering whether the Censor Cui was Cui Yuyan. His intuition told him that it was probably him. But if it was, it would be necessary to see Censor Cui himself to confirm.

"Cui Yuyan, Cui Yuzheng..." Li Mu gritted his teeth: "There is no good thing in the surname Cui. If you fall into my hands, you will be castrated."

Li Mu was getting angry here, and suddenly heard a noise outside. Then he heard the shopkeeper shouting: "Don't beat, don't beat, don't beat, don't you see the things hanging around your neck? This is not an ordinary Pixiu, this is the one raised by the saint, find some bamboo shoots!"

"Pi Xiu? Could it be Pang Da?"

Li Mu sat up suddenly. Before he could open the door, the door was smashed with a 'bang'. A 'rooster mountain' as big as a calf squeezed in. Before Li Mu opened his mouth, he was pressed down at the bottom of therooster mountain.
Chapter completed!