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Chapter 250 The Roof
Jiang Yan went out to the county government today to do business, but unexpectedly saw a private salt dealer, and was very angry.

He turned his head and saw Fei Boren, the leader of the fast class, standing at a street corner not far away, and hurriedly shouted: "Boss Fei! Come here, and take down this private salt dealer!"

I didn't want to, but I saw Fei Boren lowered his head, and as if he didn't hear him, he led the people into an alley.

"Head Feiban..."

Jiang Wei was taken aback for a moment, thinking that Fei Boren had clearly seen him, but he just left like this?

Angry, he pointed at the private salt dealer and said, "Don't run away, wait here!"

With that said, he turned and ran towards the county government office.

……

Tang Ergeng looked at Jiang Yan's back and grinned.

He is not afraid.The reason why he came here to sell salt was that his family Wu Xunjian received news from Qingfu County Captain that he could sell salt in Qingfu.

Inspection inspector Wu has already said, try to sell a few loads first, if nothing happens, open another shop next to the official salt shop, and sell salt blatantly.

"The last ten catties! Who wants to buy it?"

"Brother, I didn't bring any money today, so will I sell it tomorrow?"

"Come on!" Tang Ergeng laughed loudly, raised his hand and said, "Did you see that shop? I'll sell it there in a few days."

……

Yu Dechen saw this scene in his eyes, shook his head, and continued to walk towards the county government.

After walking for a while, Yu Dechen stopped when he saw the middle-aged literati rushing into the county government office angrily, thinking that it would be good for those ordinary people to buy more cheap salt, so he stood there and waited, planning to send all the government officials to the government office later. Beat up.

But after waiting for a long time, he didn't see that person come out again.

"So it's because of his sharp tongue." Yu Dechen murmured.

He walked around behind the county office.

There were not many people in the alley, and I saw a young girl in men's clothes coming out of the alley with two healthy women.

Because this girl also wore a sword on her body, Yu Dechen couldn't help but look at her more.

She is not pretty, with a square face and a flat nose.But his back is straight, and his gait is calm when he walks, with a faint sense of excellence.

When I got off Zhongnan Mountain, I saw a lot of shy people in the market, such a figure seemed outstanding.

Yu Dechen remembered that Li Xia walked like this.

He took a closer look, and saw that the girl's hair was tied back, swaying gently in the wind, quite sassy.

The two passed by each other, Yu Dechen circled the county government office, almost finished his checkpoints, and came back again, seeing the young girl talking to an old woman.

"Save the old lady's house, accept this basket of eggs, the old lady feels uneasy..."

"Alright then." The young girl responded generously and said goodbye to the old woman.But he said to the healthy woman behind him: "Send two catties of rice to her home later."

"Eldest sister, it's better to give her the money directly."

"No, that's not how it works in the world..."

Yu Dechen walked past them again, thinking that these people's sophistication is really troublesome...

~~
Han Qi'an took Yang Xiu and Zhang Daikun's mother and son to Xuzhou, and Qingfu only left a few servants to watch Zhang Xuan.

This afternoon, these servants stood in front of Li Xia with bruised noses and swollen faces...

"Beating by a Taoist priest?"

"Yes, the villains are chasing Mrs. Zhang. They rush out of a Taoist priest and hit us."

Li Xia thought for a while, and suddenly became suspicious of Yu Dechen.

"Go to the eastern camp and find Liu Jinsuo and Hu Hu, and ask them to bring thirty masters."

"Yes."

There was another voice over there: "County lieutenant, the owner of the house is here."

"You guys go down first, and ask the landlord to come in."

……

Fang Yankai sat down opposite Li Xia, and said slowly, "There are people in the county who are selling salt, does County Lieutenant Li know?"

"Is there such a thing?"

Fang Yankai looked at Li Xia's face, and said with a wry smile, "You don't know how to act, so you don't have to pretend to me. You know about this, and you ordered it not to be inspected by the government officials?"

"What is the house owner talking about? Private salt must be inspected."

"Stop pretending. You took Wu Tong's favor?"

"No, private salt must be inspected."

The bitterness on Fang Yankai's face grew stronger, and he said, "Feiyu, do you know how much work I have spent in inspecting private salt during the past two years in office?"

"Yes, I would like to follow the example of the landlord book."

"There is no one else here, you and I can say a few words from our hearts, okay?"

"it is good."

"Do you know that [-]% of my tax in the Song Dynasty is salt tax, and selling salt is a felony of beheading..."

Li Xia interrupted: "Since the house owner knows that Wu Tong is selling salt, how about you and I report him together?"

Fang Yankai was taken aback.

"Is the landlord not willing? Why?"

Fang Fangkai didn't answer, his expression was a little sad.

Li Xia asked again: "Are you inspecting private salt for the sake of Da Song Sheji? Or for personal political achievements?"

"Since I took office, I have not only inspected smuggled salt, but also opened up wasteland and seized thieves, so that people's livelihood is stable and taxes are sufficient. Should it?"

"Yes. You are indeed worthy of the court and the people."

Fang Yankai didn't know why the topic fell here again, and asked, "Why didn't you check for private salt?"

"I never said no investigation."

"you……"

"I will investigate private salt. Although the salt tax is turned over to the imperial court, and there are layers of greed for ink, I don't know how much of it will be implemented in the end. If it can be directly used to train a strong army, I don't know if it can protect Sichuan and Shu? This year defeated the Mongolian army. Are they not coming next year?"

Fang Yankai closed his eyes and sighed.

"You understand the truth, so I don't need to say more." Li Xia said: "In addition, the three of us county magistrates are very clear that when the imperial court appoints me, magistrate Jiang and I will probably be promoted. I don't know if you can be promoted, but Recently, I feel that you are suffering. Of course, it is impossible for the court to demote you, people are afraid of comparison.

Salt tax and promotion are both the same principle, even Dasong Sheji is the same principle, if you say 'If you don't have the original, you will perish, and the original will be chaotic', I don't intend to do things in a framework that is about to rot, how about you?You should think clearly about what to do in the future... It's not that I'm forcing you, if you want to transfer, I can also take care of it for you. "

Fang Yankai said: "I understand...I understand...whether it is to obey the rules or not to obey the rules."

"It is to let the homeowner choose to change or remain the same. If it changes, it will succeed, and if it does not change, it will die."

"Change leads to chaos."

"You consider..."

~~
At night, Yu Dechen changed into black clothes, covered his face, and lay down on the eaves of the county government office.

He saw the girl he saw in the evening again, sitting in the courtyard talking to a little boy.

"Strange, why didn't father scold you a word after he came back?"

"Why is he scolding me?"

"You are deviant all the time, you should be scolded."

"Father is afraid of me."

"Huh? Stop talking nonsense."

"Really, my father is afraid of Brother Li. The more I learn from him, the less my father dares to teach me a lesson. Don't you feel it?"

"Actually, I felt it, I tried it, and I was beaten up, so I say you are talking nonsense."

"That's because you only learned the shape, but didn't learn the spirit..."

"Sister, there seems to be someone on the roof."

"Have it?"

Yu Dechen leaned down, feeling a little helpless, thinking that he was originally a cultivator of immortality, and it was his first time as an assassin, so he was still inexperienced.

Fortunately, the little boy in the yard said again: "It seems that I misread."

"Can you just endorse me honestly..."

Suddenly, Yu Dechen heard a big movement from the front office, followed by footsteps.

After a while, another little girl came to the back office.

"Second sister is back, where is County Lieutenant Li?"

"Brother Li took someone out to run errands."

"what happened?"

"I don't know, aren't you cold in the yard?"

"Be brighter outside..."

After hearing this, Yu Dechen frowned, retreated from the eaves, jumped back outside, quickly ran across the alley, and looked against the wall, only to see Li Xia leading people towards the south of the city.

~~
In the yard, Jiang Cang looked up at the roof again, pretending to dismiss the two sisters casually, and yawning all the way into the study.

He looked around, shrunk his neck, and tiptoed to Jiang Chun's side.

Jiang Chun stared at his son with displeasure.

But Jiang Cang whispered in his ear: "Father, there seems to be a thief on the roof. The boy didn't dare to disturb him, so he deliberately pretended not to know, and called the subordinates to catch him. It's approaching the New Year's Eve, and there are many thieves... "

"Stupid boy, which thief dares to come to the county government to steal things?"

Jiang Cang was right when he thought about it, but just as he was wondering if he had read it wrong, he suddenly realized that Jiang Chun had also whispered it in his ear.

The father and son looked at each other, with fear in their eyes...

(End of this chapter)