The trade route is cut off

After leaving Sili Xiaowei Yamen, Li Fan could feel that there were many tails behind him, following him covertly and covertly, even without searching with his spiritual sense.

This is just as he expected. After all, in Changsi City, the capital of Gyeonggi Province, every stranger who comes in has to register and pay taxes. You are still a Nascent Soul monk who comes here, and you go to Si Li Xiaowei Yamen.

How could he not attract attention in a place with good ventilation from all sides, where he was surrounded by eyeliners inside and out, and he even took the initiative to declare his wealth, and even asked to visit him by name and name, so he could sit alone in Gyeonggi Province?

Therefore, it is estimated that early this morning, the "Tingwei left and right supervisors enshrined Li Er" went into the city to meet with the Sili school captain Wen Zhang. The two were still at the juncture of the new king's succession. They discussed the assassination of the former king all night.

It must have been written in the Di newspaper a long time ago, submitted to both inside and outside Liguo Imperial City, and sent to the desks of all the powerful feudal lords for preview, right?

Li Fan also laughed and didn't care. It would be better to say that it was part of his plan to alert the snake. He didn't go looking for clues in the smelly ditch, but started wandering around Changsi City with a bunch of tails.

In fact, Wen Zhang did not deceive anyone. Well, he actually bullied the original stupid Qing. He didn't know the seriousness of the internal struggle in Li You, and deliberately concealed many secrets involving Li You. The mastermind of the two cases was also

He hid a lot of information without mentioning it, and pointed out a wrong way to the sewer directly to Li Er like a fool.

But this was not a trick. On the contrary, Wen Zhang actually wanted to give Li Er a hand.

After all, compared to pursuing the truth, it is human nature to avoid taboos to protect oneself. And if 'Li Er', a Nascent Soul master from other places, is really like a headless chicken, he will be searching everywhere, not to mention being involved in the Liqiu Palace.

The strange fight damaged the harmony inside and outside Changsi City. Even if the fight damaged the flowers and plants on the roadside, I'm sure he, the Sili Colonel, would also be implicated.

But fortunately, this guy is still polite. Although he is a martial artist who eats with a knife and a master in the Yuanying realm, he has been in a place like Sanyuan. Unlike those rice bags from the Nangong family, he knows what is good and what is good.

And he knew that when he entered the city, the first thing he did was to pay a visit to the police chief of the royal capital, which could be regarded as giving him face, so Wen Zhang planned to help this guy and gave him some good suggestions seriously.

If Li Er really followed Wen Zhang's instructions and went to the west of the city along the smelly ditch of Yong'an Canal to check the dyeing workshop, although he would not be able to catch the real culprit, he would definitely be able to catch something.

After all, the area of ​​Yong'an Canal, south of the West Market, is the "Kowloon Walled City" where three religions and nine streams are entrenched, and fish and dragons are mixed together. At the beginning, Lu Jian and his religious sect opened in the square to plot a rebellion, and the Luo Jiao Shatang Village were also hiding in the ditch.

There are quite a lot of serious "immortal thieves" who are hiding to survive and carrying cases of human lives on their backs.

So if 'Li Er' is really a thief sent by the Six Gates, if he goes in and wanders around, he can always catch a few fugitive criminals, right? It would be better if the witness is beaten to death, and he insists that this is Heilian

The remnants of the sect have harmed the leader of Li Kingdom. Then Wen Zhang will definitely cooperate!

When the time comes, you cut off the head and I put the official seal on it. Everyone shirks the responsibility and takes the body directly to Sanyuan to receive the reward. If there is no evidence of death, it doesn't matter if it's six doors or Li Guochao, both sides

Now that we can do business, wouldn’t it be wonderful?

So Wen Zhang kept Li Fan chatting all night, and gave him a lot of information, hinting at several places in the market where 'immortal thieves' might be hiding. This was clearly based on the idea of ​​killing someone with a borrowed knife.

Maybe this insidious and shrewd guy can also see that 'Li Er' is not a six-door worshiper, but so what? Maybe he is from the palace, who specially arranged this person to settle this matter?

In short, the former monarch has already died, so there is no need to waste time, energy and financial budget on dead people. As long as this matter can be done well, the eyes of the adults above can be clear, and everyone can happily welcome His Majesty to the throne.

That’s it.

But how could Li Fan let these people get their wish?

He mobilized a large number of people and came here to chat with an old guy like Wen Zhang, not just to serve as a spearman for these people and maintain harmony inside and outside the imperial city!

Yes, he came to Taiping Temple in Dayefang, Changsicheng.

We all know that Taipingguan was behind the black lotus cultivators who broke into Mozhu Mountain, so what else is there to do? For the sake of the temple owner, spare Taipingyuan’s life.

If you don't die, just rush in from the main gate and beat him up, forcing the remnants of the Black Lotus Sect out.

Yes, 'strong' means being able to do whatever you want and do whatever you want.

I want to ask those trash guys in Taipingguan, can anyone stop them?

This time I went around a little bit more. To be honest, I wanted to hide my clone so that I could do things more easily. Anyway, when asked later, how did you know that the Taiping Temple was behind the Black Lotus Sect? Then Li Fan answered, it was all because of Captain Sili and Laozi last night.

As he said, you guys asked him.

Yes, what's wrong with this guy? This kind of cruel official will be killed with a stick if he gets in the way. Li Fan didn't pull his head off. He was already caring about the overall situation and keeping a wide berth, okay?

However, before rushing into Taipingguan and starting the fight, Li Fan had to wait a little longer. To scare the snake away, he had to give the snake a chance to move.

So now Li Fan did not go straight into the city square to arrest people, but pretended to wander to the west of the city for a while, then went shopping in the West Market, drank tea and listened to music, and used the gold hairpins and baht that the Taifu Mansion had sent to pay the bills.

I'm just here to travel at public expense, and I won't give up until my little case-handling funds are wasted.

The spies who followed him were not surprised. Before sending people to handle the case, they would visit nearby places to get some information. This was a normal operation, so they also followed him to spend money in the restaurant, drink tea and listen to music, and take turns to keep an eye on people.

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But when Li Fan sat in the restaurant and stared at the West Market for a while, he realized that something seemed a little wrong. He didn't care about pretending, so he threw out several gold bahts and started looking for someone to inquire about the situation.

He was not asking about fairy thieves and assassins, or where the Black Lotus Sect's demonic ways were. He was asking about the population of Changsi City, why was it so small?

The last time Li Fan came to Changsicheng was, ahem, five or six years ago.

At that time, the market was crowded with people, and many people passed by him. The road was busy and congested. If you were dazzled by the dazzling array of goods, you would accidentally get crushed by the ruts. If you still

If you use the Invisibility Technique, your shoes will often be stepped on.

But it has only been a few years, and it has already become a desolate scene in a literal sense. There are only a few people in front of the door, and the commercial buildings in the West Market are depressed.

What the hell? How did Li You build the palace? How many years could he turn Changsicheng into such a horrible state? And Mozhushan actually doesn’t care about such troubles in Changsicheng?

So Li Fan chatted and asked the shopkeeper of the restaurant, the waiter serving the dishes, the actor playing the piano, the old man begging, and even the spies drinking tea at the next table, and he roughly understood what he had learned from the country in recent years.

What happened.

How should I put it? The poor livelihood of the people in Changsi City cannot be entirely blamed on Li You, but the role this guy played from the side should not be said to be the culprit, but it can also be said to have made things worse.

Well, the king just wants to live in a new house, and he just wants to eat, drink, have fun and enjoy himself for a few years. So what? The noble lords of the twelve kingdoms, one person is less than ten thousand people, and they don’t even have this little money.

Big question! And to a certain extent, civil engineering can also be regarded as stimulating domestic demand and promoting the development of the tertiary industry!

If it were a time of peace, and the leader of a country would lead his princes, ministers, civil and military officials to indulge in pleasure and not mess with the people, the country would not be defeated.

But as I have said many times, these are troubled times.

Therefore, the biggest problem that Changsicheng encountered was not the inaction and greed of pleasure of the king, nor even the general pattern of court corruption, corpses, land annexation, etc., but a purer, more direct, and more painful blow.

The trade routes in Changsi City were cut off.

Kunlun in the west, Kun Kingdom in the north, and Xun Kingdom in the east. The trade routes on three sides were cut off due to the impact of the war. The business groups that brought countless goods to Changsi City disappeared, and there was a serious shortage of capital flow and logistics chain.

Mozhu Mountain in the south has recently been fully armed and has shifted to strategic defense. The main energy and financial resources of the viewer are all on organizing farming, preparing for war in the north, and destroying mountains and temples. The monks of Mozhu Mountain themselves also

It required a large amount of supplies to produce spells and magic weapons to prepare for war. Since resources could not be purchased in Changsi City, even the trade route from the Mozhu Mountain in the south was quickly cut off.

This would be a devastating blow to Changsi City, a large city with a population of 2.4 million.

You must know that after years of operation in Liguo, land annexation has indeed become serious. Most of the millions of people living in the southwest corner are officials, soldiers, scholars, merchants, servants, and craftsmen who serve the princes and nobles.

They are huge

Most of them don't have their own land. The vast and high-quality land outside Changsi City is completely the property of the clan. The Guo family alone has more than 40 waterwheels and mills, but the Liguo people in the city have no place to stand.

, this is the reality of society.

But no matter what, relying on the status of Liguo's capital and the advantages of Nanguo's trade center, the common people in the city can work for dignitaries, purchase and resell goods from various places, work as middlemen to earn the difference, and provide travel, accommodation, security and repair services.

Supply and other service industry activities, you can also engage in financial services, exchange gold and silver in pawnshops and give interest, no matter what, your life will definitely be richer and easier than that of farmers cultivating fields in border areas.

But now that trade routes are cut off in all directions, and there is a serious shortage of funds and goods, this has naturally led to the collapse of the economy and cut off the means for most people to make a living.

What's even worse is that if the trade route is cut off temporarily, after so many years of savings and development, Changsi City is the center of Liguo after all, and the viewer will not let so many people go hungry, right? Times are tight, right?

A little bit can still be maintained.

But at this time, I want to explain the ‘obligations’ of the people of Liguo, or the people of Immortal Palace, and all mortals in the world.

One is called taxation, and the other is called corvee.

This is a rule that has been set since the Immortal Lord period. After all, it was a brutal racial war at that time. The qualified cultivators went out to conquer the demon clan and expand the territory. Those mortals who could not cultivate had to do nothing and needed to produce and work.

Responsible for maintaining the logistics of the four vassals and eight vassals of Immortal Palace and the twelve armies.

Specifically, taxes are the direct payment of money and food. For example, the official taxes stipulated by the state and still in use today include oral tax, calculation tax, household tax, mountain and forest tax, donation fee, land rent, capital calculation, city tax, and baht rent.

Tariffs, etc., and there are even more miscellaneous taxes and donations imposed by local governments. Needless to say, Li Guo, especially in a place with developed industry and commerce like Changsicheng, has the most tax items.

Corvee service is to provide physical labor for garrison work, build city walls and water conservancy, make ordnance and armor, inspect inland Zhouxian County, transport money, food and military equipment to the front line for rotational border garrison.

It is also known that the civil engineering works for the overhaul of Liqiu Palace were all allocated in the form of corvee labor. Naturally, the majority of the project funds were earned by the eunuchs who were the contractors. The people of Changsi City were only allocated voluntary labor. They did not want to

If you work as a coolie carrying bricks in front of your home, you have to go to the front line to deliver military rations. And this kind of thing will definitely not be distributed to a wealthy family like the Guo family. In the end, it will be all distributed to the people in the southwest city.

Originally, business travel was cut off and there was no income, but now he had to work voluntarily for the king, and he was exhausted all day long without even having enough to eat. Naturally, the people were filled with complaints and anger.

And don’t forget, there was also the problem of excessive issuance of Shengang money during the same period.

The Immortal Palace Shen Gang money system has already collapsed. Sanyuan has lost the ability to manage local areas, and the right to mint money has naturally been controlled by local powerful men. Not only are the clans of the twelve countries annexing land and plundering the assets of merchants and citizens,

The proliferation of private money has become a common problem faced by the twelve countries.

Of course, not only the Sanyuan and Nangong families were exchanging bad money for new money, but the imperial courts of the twelve countries, local lords, and even private banks in Changsi City were all minting coins on a large scale, and they were exchanging bad money for good money.

Li Fan has seen counterfeit Shengang coins before. The difference was only in the content of Shengang's gold energy, but it was still full of copper. The mortal eye could not tell the difference. But now, let alone Shen'gang's gold energy, even the copper coins are different.

The texture of the food is beginning to look unreliable.

The same goes for Li You, a second-rate idiot. Originally, the country was financially tight and could not make ends meet, but for the big house in Li Qiu Palace, new clothes, rewards from the Imperial Army, and the huge expenses for the polo banquet, this guy also worked hard. He actually did it.

Listening to the advice of the idiots in the inner court, the inner money was heavily minted, and one penny was minted into two pence for use. Selling officials and conferring titles was a common way to make money...

The leaders of the country have all taken the lead and made a lot of mistakes, so you can imagine the behavior of the nobles below. The Guo family took the lead, and private companies were rampant, and land was annexed and plundered.
To be continued...