The capital of Kang State was formerly known as Samarkand, and was named Kangju City at that time. The soldiers of Chengying Camp set out at the Mao hour and urged the pack horses to go quickly. Shortly after noon, they arrived at Kangju.

When Zhao Xingde had just set foot in Kangju, he seemed to think he had returned to Bianliang. Because of the little rain in autumn and summer, he introduced two ice and snow melting water outside the city into the city. Clear streams could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, front and behind the courtyards. There were hundreds of thousands of residents in the city, and the market was full of bustling crowds, with faces no different from the Central Plains. Bargaining in Chinese, men often woolen robes suitable for cold protection, and woolen jade, daggers and other toys hanging on their belts. A woman wrapped her head with brocade placards embroidered with decorations such as flowers and birds, which was more beautiful than the Central Plains.

The Xia Kingdom army was good at fighting in the field and rarely entered the city to camp. Chengying Camp lived in the west of Kangju City. This was also the first place to be reclaimed by the immigrants in Guandong. There were many Central Plains-style Taichi pavilions around the inn, and many small fields with fruits and flowers planted in it. In late autumn, the edges of the vegetable garden were densely filled with chrysanthemums, and the fragrant wind could not be blown away. Although there were not as many precious varieties as Chang'an, there were more unrestrained arrogance. In the pavilions, people occasionally saw tourists enjoying chrysanthemums, which made people feel like they were in the suburbs of Chang'an.

The captain Duan Huaixian went to the road to get the documentary and military newspaper. The three marching Sima fought for half a day to see the head town in the river, so he persuaded Zhao De to go with them. Along the way, Jin Changtai praised: "The city run by the autonomous chamber of commerce is indeed more prosperous and lively than ordinary towns."

Zhao Xingde nodded and sighed: "The wealth in the entire river is probably gathered here."

"This may not be." Sima Junfang smiled, "The people who spend a lot of money in Kangju City are mostly passing gods of wealth. The more rural the land is, the more wealthy the family is." The four of them laughed and came to a tall pavilion, with many serious and rushing merchants coming in and out of it.

"This is the ticket market, go in and take a look." Jin Changtai walked in first, and Zhao Xingde was curious about it, so he followed him in.

"I didn't expect that these tax invoices could be bought and sold." Zhao Xingde sighed. He saw countless blackboards hanging around the market hall, with gold, silver, copper, iron, salt, sugar, silk, cloth, wheat, millet, tea, etc., which were written on the blackboards. The guys behind the counter were busy greeting guests. This place was a place that specialized in buying and selling tax invoices and redeeming tax invoices.

Jin Changtai also took out a tax invoice passed by Xia Kingdom from his arms. Zhao Xingde borrowed it from him and looked carefully. He couldn't see anything strange. There were complex patterns on both sides of the front, "Ten Guans of Money" and the seal of the Prime Minister's Mansion on the front, and the seal of the official script "Two pieces of silk in the treasury, two stones of wheat, one tael of silver" in the back, and the seal of the treasury in the treasury in the small words. The tariffs on merchants in the Xia Kingdom were one out of ten. If you hold such a tax invoice, you can offset the tariffs that should be paid for by 100 coins. Many traders who trade goods are unwilling to bring more goods in vain when they are trafficking, so they bought tax invoices from the Prime Minister's Mansion in advance.

Sima Junfang and Huang Zongdao were not clear about this, but Jin Changtai smiled and said, "Fortunately, I am here today, so I will let you know more." His family opened a large business and would inherit the family business in the future, so he was very clear about these tricks.

Seeing that all three of them were listening attentively, Jin Changtai cleared his throat and said proudly: "In addition to tax deduction, this tax invoice was later based on the accumulated materials, increasing the issuance of tax invoices. The holders of tax invoices can go to a specific treasury to exchange for the materials indicated on the back of the tax invoice. Such tax invoices are in our territory. If the best credit jackson, although the price of endorsement materials is higher than the market price, the endorsement of the treasury in the credit of the treasury is absolutely safe."

Every few years after the national treasury, merchants will be notified to exchange tax invoices. Sometimes, the front of the tax invoice is the same as the denomination of the money remains unchanged, but the materials worth the money on the back will be replaced. For example, the materials endorsed by a thirty-calorie tax invoice were originally one or two gold liang of gold liang of ten stones of silk, but after replacement it turned into five silver liang of silver liang of wheat zhenshi of ten stones of silk.

The national treasury has no special preference for selecting materials. It has always been a new batch of tax invoices that have been added to the treasury reserves, allowing the public to share the burden of national treasury reserves, and also allowing merchants across the country to get enough easy-to-carry tax invoices to trade with each other. Tax invoices are mainly exchanged among merchants, especially in the coupon market. The people of Xia Kingdom still use more gold, silver, copper coins, or small amounts of money issued by a large commercial bank with a reputation like Fuhaixing.

However, if the actual price of a tax invoice endorsement material is much higher than its frontal value as the denomination, merchants will go to the treasury to exchange the materials and then sell them for profit. If the actual price of a tax invoice endorsement material is much lower than its frontal value as the denomination, merchants will refuse to use such taxes and use such taxes as possible to pay taxes. Therefore, the proportion of reserved materials printed behind the tax invoice is extremely sophisticated, and the price increase and decrease between each other must be mostly offset, and the small fluctuations are not enough to make merchants profit from it. The officials in the treasury have worked hard and every last period of time, they have to ask several major masters who are proficient in calculations to help plan.

In the ticket market, in addition to the tax receipts hidden in the national treasury, merchants' main trading partners are jackal, cotton, and wheat of various goods, whether they are in warehouses, those grown in the ground, or even those that have not yet been sown. In this way, the prices of various materials in the ticket exchange and the exchange rate of other materials are also one of the important basis for adjusting the proportion of materials stored behind the tax receipts.

Jin Changtai talked endlessly. Except for Zhao Xingde's understanding, Sima Junfang and Huang Zongdao were confused and dumbfounded. They only accompanied Jin Changtai to look over a blackboard and a blackboard, but in the end they didn't see the reason.

After leaving the ticket market, the four of them bought some local specialty jerky candied meat and candied fruits as dry food, and rushed back to the camp before sunset.

At dusk, the captain Duan Huaixian returned to the official post and immediately summoned the centurion and the marching Sima to participate in the military convention.

"The General's Mansion has military service, and we happen to be here." Duan Huaixian put a volume of military books on the table and signaled everyone to read it.

General Wang Tongdeng unfolded his letter, and several officers leaned over to look at it, "Is there a secret vulture nest of the Hassan faction nearby?" Sima Junfang exclaimed in a low voice. Several officers who knew the situation in the river frowned.

"What is the Hassan Sect?" Zhao Xingde asked in confusion.

Sima Junfang glanced at him and said slowly: "The Hassan Sect is heretical even in the eyes of the believers who believe in the same god as them. However, they are cruel and often use assassination as a means to coerce princes and nobles from all over the country."

"So that's it," Zhao Xingde nodded, "Can this sect actually rely on assassins?"

"That's right," Sima Junfang nodded. Sima himself was responsible for explaining the enemy's situation to the officers, so he explained what he knew in detail. "The so-called Vulture Nest is the secret place where the Hassan School trained assassins. He often chose to secretly build a garden palace like a fairyland. He used gold, silver and jewelry obtained from robbing the past business trips to bring the place to a magnificent decoration. There were tubes circulating fine wine, honey, and milk everywhere in the palace. There were beautiful girls controlled by the Hassan School. This sect preached at the foot of the mountain, and often confused the young people and said that dying for the leader can ascend to heaven."

Although the officers had heard of the infamous name of the Hassan Sect for a long time, they knew that there were still a few people in the investigation, so they listened quietly. Sima Junfang continued: "Just when these young people were skeptical, the Hassan Sect put down their drugs in their water, and carried them into the garden of the vulture nest, allowing them to enjoy themselves. These young people were extremely comfortable and thought that this was the heaven that the sect called. They were fascinated again, and after they woke up, they returned to the world. So the leaders of the Hassan Sect called them again to see them and asked them if they had really seen heaven. These young people were simple-minded and often said they had seen it. So the leaders of the Hassan Sect sent them to assassinate, saying that as long as they sacrificed for the sect, they could enter heaven after death. In order to return to heaven to enjoy themselves, these young people were desperate when they assassinate, but wanted to die early, so they often succeed."
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