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Chapter 193

stomping on...

The sound of horseshoes was particularly loud at night. In the night, the three riders came to Daiyu Mountain, and when they left Daiyuyukou, they were no longer in Lantian.

At this moment, Song Sanniang looked in the direction of Xiaoyangyu with nostalgia.

I don't know if it's the mountain, the grave on the mountain, or the man on the mountain.

Maybe both.

Whoohoo!
Song Sanniang was in a daze, when a series of torches suddenly lit up in front of the valley entrance, and roadblocks were also placed in the valley entrance, refusing horses, Song Sanniang was taken aback, at this time someone shouted: "I am Daiyu Guarding Li Debao, the front is Miss Song."

"Miss."

The servant girl looked at Song Sanniang after hearing this, Song Sanniang frowned slightly at this moment, is he awake?

This was Song Sanniang's first thought, and then she thought: Is he going to stop me?Then do I want to go back?

No, I can't go back. Sister Yumei's revenge has not been avenged. I can't live in Lantian with peace of mind. One ear must die!

Song Sanniang looked at the man under the torch in front of her thinking, and said, "Battle Commander Li Debao, let me go, I have something important to do."

Li Debao shook his head and said, "Miss Song, I'm sorry, the order I accepted is to keep you here until someone else takes over."

"Others? Your brigade commander is coming?"

Song Sanniang frowned, Li Debao shook his head and said, "I don't know, I just know that I want to stop you, Miss Song, please wait a moment, someone should be coming soon."

After hearing Li Debao's words and seeing Li Debao's stubborn appearance, Song Sanniang pondered for a long time and said, "Forget it, if that's the case, I'll just wait."

"dismount."

Song Sanniang said to the maids, and at the same time, she made up her mind secretly how to persuade Li Chaosheng to let them go, and even if she failed this time, she will go next time, one ear will not die, Luo Yumei's revenge has not been avenged, and she will never stop day.

Song Sanniang waited for about a quarter of an hour, and heard the sound of galloping horseshoes in the distance, and saw a figure chasing after him. Song Sanniang turned out to be Shi Xiaolei, and Li Chaosheng turned out to be the future.

Song Sanniang couldn't help feeling mixed feelings, Shi Xiaolei couldn't stop her, she should be able to go, Li Chaosheng stopped her in the future, is it because he has no place in his heart?
That's right, it's always been my unrequited love, and tonight, I also felt that I might not be able to come back here, so I finally indulged and gave myself to him. In his eyes, I should be a slutty woman.

Thinking of Song Sanniang a little lost, will he remember that there was once a woman named Song Ying?
At this time Shi Xiaolei chased after him, jumped off the horse and cupped his hands, "Miss Song."

Song Sanniang cupped her hands and said, "Brother Xiaolei."

"My brigade commander asked me to give Miss Song a ride, and there is a gift for me."

Song Sanniang was taken aback when she heard the words, then looked at Shi Xiaolei and said, "Does he have anything else to say?"

Shi Xiaolei shook his head and said: "The brigade commander didn't say much, but he hesitated when I came, whether I should come by myself, and finally chose not to come."

After hearing this, Song Sanniang understood, and Li Chaosheng was also afraid that he would stop him when he came, but he didn't want to let himself live in guilt for the rest of his life. Thinking of this, Song Sanniang smiled and said: "I see, your family's traveler What did you give me?"

After hearing this, Shi Xiaolei took out the Desert Eagle, Song Sanniang was taken aback for a moment, she thought that Li Chaosheng would give her a bracelet, or something from Jinchaizi's daughter's house to keep in mind, but she never expected that Li Chaosheng would give her Give her the baby you always carry with you.

She has seen this gun before, and she has also seen Li Chaosheng shoot it before. Knowing the power of this gun, Shi Xiaolei handed the gun to Song Sanniang and said: "Miss Song, please keep it, this is our brigade commander's self-defense. It is very powerful. , Continuous shooting within 30 meters, even the first-class powerhouses are in danger of death."

Miss Song looked at the gun after hearing this, and wanted to say that you take it back and leave it for your brigade commander to defend himself. He has such a big foundation and there must be many people who want to kill him in the future, but after thinking about it, this kind of weapon is full of guards There are ten of them, and with Li Chaosheng's wisdom, it is really not easy to kill him, and Li Chaosheng's martial arts are also very powerful.

Thinking of this, Song Sanniang no longer hesitated, took the gun and said, "Thank you for your brigade commander's kindness, I will take it."

After hearing this, Shi Xiaolei said: "I'll teach you how to use it, this is the crosshair..."

After some teaching, he gave Song Sanniang a box of ammunition from Li Chaosheng, and Shi Xiaolei was about to leave after talking about it. At this time, Song Sanniang said: "Wait, I have something, help me bring it to your brigade commander."

Shi Xiaolei looked at Song Sanniang, and Song Sanniang said at this moment: "I don't have anything valuable, so I'll give him a special gift."

Thinking about it, Song Sanniang took out the knife, cut off a strand of hair and said, "Give it to him, I'm leaving."

At this time Li Debao looked at Shi Xiaolei, Shi Xiaolei nodded, and followed the roadblock to remove it, Song Sanniang rode on Juechen, followed by two little maids, guarding the left and right, the three of them left Lantian, the road was far away, high mountains and dense forests , I don't know when we will meet again.

Shi Xiaolei watched the three leave, and sighed, his brigade commander was also twisted, he didn't come here, if he came, he might stay, thinking about it, he made up a picture in Shi Xiaolei's mind.

Song Sanniang was about to leave on horseback, but Li Chaosheng yelled from behind: "Can I not leave?"

Song Sanniang said without turning her head, "If you don't leave, will you support me?"

Li Chaosheng said: "I support you!"

Then live happily together, hey, why is there such a strange thing in my mind...

In Xiaoyangyu, Li Chaosheng moved his tired body, looked at Shi Xiaolei and said, "So, I gave her a gun, and she gave me a handful of hair?"

"Ah... it's the hair brigade commander."

Shi Xiaolei has black hair, Li Chaosheng shook his head after hearing this: "Okay, even if it's hair, what do you mean? Does it mean her hair quality is good?"

Shi Xiaolei scratched his head at this time and said: "How do I know, why don't I call Fatty Guo over, he reads a lot and knows a lot."

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Okay, let's go."

Soon Guo Bao and Fatty Guo were dragged out by Shi Xiaolei from the warm bed. Fatty Guo came to the room cursing, and when he saw Li Chaosheng cheered up, he said, "I've seen my boss."

"Sorry for disturbing your sleep."

Fatty Guo said at this time: "It's okay, why is my boss looking for me?"

Li Chaosheng touched his chin and looked at Fatty Guo and said, "I want to ask you something, what does it mean for a woman to give you a pinch of hair?"

"Ok?"

Fatty Guo was stunned, and looked at Shi Xiaolei at the side, Shi Xiaolei said with a dark face at this time: "It's said to be hair."

Fatty Guo said after hearing this, "Is it hair or hair?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Fatty Guo and said, "Is there a difference?"

"The difference is huge. This hair is a general concept, including hair, eye hair, beard, armpit hair, and..."

"hair."

At this moment, Shi Xiaolei gave an accurate answer, and after hearing this, Guo Bao said: "Who gave it, it's because someone has taken a fancy to our brigade commander."

"how to say."

Shi Xiaolei's heart of gossip rose, at this time Guo Bao said: "hair, we also call it Qingsi, according to the marriage customs of our Han people, when we get married, we need to cut a strand of hair from each head of the man and woman, and then tie a knot, which is called knot. Fa, we have a word to make a husband and wife, which comes from here."

"When a woman is willing to cut a lock of hair to a man, it is the woman expressing her love. It can be regarded as a token of love. The great man Su Wu once had such a poem: knot hair as a husband and wife, and there is no doubt about love. Chang, whose girl is this, marry her if she is not ugly."

Guo Bao said to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng understood after hearing this, it turned out to be like this, thinking of Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said: "Okay, it's getting late, you go back to sleep."

"Yes."

The two looked at each other and left. When they reached the door, Li Chaosheng heard Guo Bao ask Shi Xiaolei: "Who the hell gave the owner hair."

Li Chaosheng looked at the lock of hair on the table at this moment: "Tie hair as husband and wife, there is no doubt about love and affection."

……

There was nothing to say all night, and in the morning of the next day, facing the morning glow, Li Chaosheng practiced his sword on the mountain. After some manipulations, sweating profusely, Li Chaosheng washed his face and ate a meal in Xiaoyangyu.

He also asked Luoheita, the guardian of Xiaoyangyu, how the land reclamation work in Xiaoyangyu is now. After hearing this, Luo Heita said: "The land reclamation work is very smooth now, and many victims of the disaster have built houses near Xiaoyangyu. If things go on like this, Xiaoyangyu New villages may form nearby."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng expressed his encouragement. As long as these houses are not built in the valley, hindering traffic, and one mile away from the mountain village, they are allowed to build houses. This is a good phenomenon. The people and the army are stationed together. Family, if things go on like this, who still thinks Xiaoyangyu are bandits?
Li Chaosheng felt that this phenomenon was very good, and expressed his encouragement to Luo Heita, but he emphasized that military discipline must be strict, and it is absolutely not allowed to use civilians for a single stitch. The three major disciplines and the eight precautions are all memorized by himself. Bandit style, he was the first to clean them up.

Luo Heita smiled and said: "No, we have learned it now, don't worry, Brigadier."

Li Chaosheng patted Luo Heita's shoulder with a smile and said: "You kid likes to cock your tail, I want to keep an eye on you all the time, that's enough, go to morning exercises, don't be lazy with me."

"Yes."

Luo Heita saluted, and then went to do morning exercises. After breakfast, Li Chaosheng led people to inspect other valleys. The land reclamation work was in full swing.

Qingfeng is a great talent. He was recently appointed by Li Chaosheng to be the director of the water conservancy department. Recently, he is leading everyone to build canals for the various mountains.

Now Lantian County is not under the management of Li Chaosheng, but the major valleys in Lantian are under the management of Li Chaosheng. These valleys must be irrigated after the farmland is reclaimed, so the construction of canals and reservoirs began.

The Liuda Mountain Valley covers a very wide area, and tens of thousands of acres of farmland have been developed. The reason why these farmlands were not opened before was mainly because the bandits in the various valleys killed people. Now the bandits are opening up wasteland. The land reclamation project has been greatly accelerated.

In the first year of wasteland reclamation, there is a saying in Lantian that crops cannot be planted, and they have to be left for a year. The main reason is that there are various rhizomes in the land, which affect the growth of crops that are not very tenacious.

But Li Chaosheng couldn't wait for this, he had to grow more food this year, because there would be a food shortage this year, a food shortage that was more terrifying than last year.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng suggested that all land reclamation workers dig deep and cut the weeds and roots. On the other hand, Li Chaosheng bought a lot of sweet potato seeds, potato seeds, and corn seeds in modern times.

After land reclamation, they are all planted, especially sweet potatoes, which are extremely tenacious in life, and their yields are ridiculously high, even higher than potatoes.

So under Li Chaosheng's suggestion, Liudayukou, not only the farmland, but also the roadsides, where seedlings can be planted, will be planted with seedlings, and a ration of food will be planted, and one more person may be able to live .

And the goodness of sweet potatoes is not only the large yield, but the key point is that the leaves of sweet potatoes can be eaten as vegetables. Planting sweet potatoes saves vegetables. This year Liudayukou is the year of sweet potatoes.

In mid-April, with God's grace in Lantian, there was a heavy rain, which immediately made everyone in Lantian busy. Spring rain is as expensive as oil. Looking at the rain from the sky, whether it is the landlord's old fortune or the tenant farmer's household, they all grinned. , this year is off to a good start.

It rained for a day and completely watered the farmland. Everyone is in a good mood. It seems that this year may be a good year. Everyone is in a beautiful mood. Li Chaosheng is more beautiful than everyone, because this rain not only helped him water the farmland Yes, and also helped him store half of the water in the reservoir, which can be regarded as a windfall.

In addition to the snow water stored by the big guys last winter, the pond is full of water. With this water, Li Chaosheng has a little bit of confidence in his heart. This god gave the common people a glimmer of life.

However, this glimmer of life is only for those who are prepared, because throughout Shaanxi, officials do not act, there are very few canals and reservoirs that can be used, and few have the idea of ​​storing water, and then let this precious rainwater go to waste drain.

However, this rain gave Lantian County a good start. The farmers who had been in trouble all winter finally started to work. Everyone started to get busy, and the farmers started to go to the fields.

At this time, Li Chaosheng was also inspecting Liudayukou to check how his crops were doing. At this time in Qingyu, Li Chaosheng was barefoot and was busy working in the farmland with everyone.

The dusty days of the past are gone, and the soil on the ground is soaked, and there will be a creaking sound when you step on it, which makes you feel happy.

In the past, Li Chaosheng didn't like rainy days very much, but after coming to this world at the end of Ming Dynasty, Li Chaosheng has a special feeling for rain. It is the water of life, the water of hope. Millions of people in Lantian are waiting for this The rain helps.

Guji Guji, the people of the Construction Corps sprinkled the chemical fertilizer that Li Chaosheng bought on the land that had just been reclaimed. The fertilizer began to melt when it encountered water and soaked into the ground. The land that was reclaimed in the early days is a big ridge that can't be seen at a glance, which saves the loss caused by the field, and the victims are getting fixed food, so they have no objections.

More than a dozen plows set off together, and the farmer supported the plow, while the old cow walked slowly in front, and then plowed out furrows.

Then the farmer sprinkled sweet potato seedlings, potato seeds, corn seeds, etc. into the ground. When the farmer watched the seeds being planted in the ground one by one, the wrinkles on his face would bloom like chrysanthemums. Joy comes from the heart.

Who doesn't love the land?

Seeing the big guys working hard, Li Chaosheng followed after busy for a while, then got up, said hello to Li Chaohu, and rode on his horse to inspect the next valley. All the people in the valley were working, and no one was lazy.

Because the victims who have just experienced the famine know that every grain is not easy. The king of the cottage is so kind to take him in and give him a bite to eat. If he doesn't work hard, is he worthy of the king of the cottage?

The victims were all grateful. The cottage king saved his life, so he had to work hard for the cottage king, and the cottage king gave him the land.

It is the land given by the Shanzhai King after he reclaimed [-] acres of wasteland. This is his own land, and the big guy cherishes it very much. Moreover, the Shanzhai King said that as long as they are in one day, this land will be theirs. Who dares to grab it? who to kill.

So the victims began to support the Shanzhai King, hoping that the Shanzhai King would survive forever, because if the Shanzhai King was there, they would have land, and if the Shanzhai King was not there, their land would be gone.

They are willing to help the Shanzhai King for the sake of the land, and after such a long time of contact, the Shanzhai King is really nice, not arrogant, he gives money for buying things, and often helps the poor.

To say they are bandits is really unfair to them. After all, they do better than the government. You look at what bullshit the government is doing, and then look at the king of the mountain. Who is the official and who is the bandit these days? It's so blurry.

And gradually not only the victims, but also the nearby people found that these new kings in the valley were good people, and they never robbed them. When they met them on the road, they would take the initiative to take a detour for fear of scaring them, and there were many farmers on the mountain. Land, the King of the Mountain is really giving food.

He gave more than the landlord's house. Is this still the king of the mountain?
And the kings of the mountain also said that as long as they are in one day, they can provide some opportunities for the people to farm. The people are very happy, this is an additional opportunity for income, and the food at home can also be richer, so that they will not starve to death. These mountain kings are just like living Bodhisattvas.

So the people gradually supported the King of the Mountain, the King of the Mountain who had nothing to do with Minqiu, is that still a bandit?

This question has put a question mark in the hearts of Lantian people, and these mountain kings not only do not rob the people, but also give them food. Are they bandits?

The common people are shaken, and they have seen people's hearts for a long time. Now the common people no longer resist these six mountains, and they will become support and love in the near future. At that time, who is the official and who is the bandit? Who can tell? ?

When the government and army want to suppress bandits, the first resistance they will encounter is not the bandits, but the people. They will not be afraid of one commoner, nor will they be afraid of ten. When the thousand, 1, or 20 people in Lantian are not allowed to suppress the bandits , Do the officers and soldiers really dare to do it?

People in the world are not fools. When the court cannot give them shelter, they will find their own shelter. The whitewashing of the Six Great Mountains is one of Li Chaosheng's current work directions.

These days I have read many works of great men and thought a lot about why the Eight Routes can’t be suppressed, because the Eight Routes represent the interests of the peasants and oppose exploitation and oppression, so the common people will spontaneously protect their allies.

So when the army is really deeply rooted at the grassroots level, they are really as solid as a rock. Who dares to move, isn't it afraid of stirring up civil uprisings?Aren't you afraid of being scolded to death by everyone in the world?
No one is afraid, not to mention the ministers, even the high-ranking Ninth Five-Year Lord, dare to send troops to wipe out a county, of course, the Tartars dare, those beasts are not humans, they dare.

The spring plowing was in full swing, and everyone was working hard, but Li Chaosheng was thinking that it would be difficult to turn the tide by relying on the strength of a single county, and he should continue to expand his power.

So don't be satisfied with Lantian, you should look at the nearest big city, Xi'an, as the economic and political center of Shaanxi, you should have your own reporting system, otherwise you will be blind.

The best way to install a spy system in Xi'an is to find someone from the government, but we have no connections, so now we can only start with business. Since ancient times, government and business have colluded. Sometimes we also learn from those big businessmen and use money to influence policies.

After thinking about this, Li Chaosheng first calculated his own capital and robbed Fan's family of more than 20 taels, including several large valleys. In addition to what he had before, Li Chaosheng now has 35 taels of silver in his hand .

With so much money, Li Chaosheng may be boasting that he is the richest man in Shaanxi, but the richest man in Lantian must not have run away. After thinking about it, Li Chaosheng directly ordered to form a caravan to go to Xi'an to do business.

First of all, the talents in business. Li Chaosheng selected among a bunch of people, and finally chose the old-fashioned tea shop. The old-fashioned has been in business for so many years, he is very proficient in business, and he has been a spy for so many years. He is definitely a talent.

So the old-fashioned shopkeeper in the future, and then the security force, Li Chaosheng drew a company from the security army, led by company commander Wang Twelve.

Wang Twelve is a character, there is no problem with loyalty, he is also very shrewd, and he is not deadly in battle. He has won the first-class battle medal in the Qingyu Defense War and the second-class battle medal in the Lantian United War.

Wang Twelve brought him here to work as a security guard, and then collected some mountain goods in the mountains, preparing to go to Xi'an to see the situation.

In this line, everyone disguised themselves as a caravan, followed by ten members of the security squad, all of whom were armed with firearms, but the firearms were sent to the modern world by Li Chaosheng in advance.

Including some weapons, everyone just brought a few short knives and sticks. Of course, during the battle, as long as Li Chaosheng is given a little time, he can take the weapons and use them. At this time, the time and space let Li Chaosheng use it as a storage space.

The caravan gathered, Shi Xiaolei looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Brigade Commander, should we name the caravan?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng glanced at Shi Xiaolei and said, "Remember to call my boss when you go out."

"Yes Yes."

Hearing this, Shi Xiaolei said that it was a slip of the tongue just now, and followed Li Chaosheng to ponder, the caravan needs to have a name, and the name must be louder, a name that can definitely make a fortune.

Li Chaosheng thought for a while, he should be a seller, in that case, why not call it: Taobao Caravan!
"Taobao Caravan? Why is the name so weird?"

Shi Xiaolei muttered after hearing the name, while Guo Bao also frowned and said, "What do you mean by Taobao?"

"Literally, it's a treasure change."

Li Chaosheng said, after hearing this, Guo Bao smacked his lips and said: "It's reasonable."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng made a final decision and said, "Okay, let's call it the Taobao Caravan. Remember, this trip cheers me up. Xi'an is a big city, so don't show your timidity to me."

"Yes!"

Everyone responded, Li Chaosheng looked at the guards after hearing this, and said, "Big guy, don't hold yourself tight, try to relax, don't act like a military escort."

After hearing this, everyone nodded quickly.

The caravan was formed in late April and officially marched to Xi'an in early May.

The caravan consisted of 1 vehicles, all of which were full of goods. It cost Li Chaosheng about 2000 taels in total. These goods were transported to Xi’an Prefecture, and they could be sold for about [-] taels. This trip hardly made any money. , because Li Chaosheng only paid a slightly lower price than the market when he collected it, and he couldn't sell it at a sky-high price in Xi'an.

But this is not important, this time Li Chaosheng is mainly taking the big guys to take root in Xi'an. Only by contacting the people in the government can we get first-hand official news.

The cart departed from Tanggou Town, passed through Chang'an County, and entered Xi'an City. This road was a small road in the countryside.

As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, build roads first.

Along the way, due to the large convoy, when they arrived in Chang'an County, they attracted the attention of the bandits here, but they didn't dare to make a move when they saw that the guards were all tall and strong with sharp eyes.

The bandits in Chang'an County are not as aggressive as the bandits in Lantian, mainly because there is a Chang'an guard here. Once the bandit team grows bigger, the Chang'an guard will suppress the bandits. Suppressing bandits is a good job. After all, bandits are very Fat.

Chang'an guards can't rob the common people openly, they raise bandits secretly, just like raising pigs, let the bandits rob the common people, and then turn to him to rob the bandits.

When the cart got on the official road, there were people coming and going on the official road at this time, most of them were doing small businesses. The government did not collect business tax, and the people with smart minds did some small business by themselves.

The common people are pushing wheelbarrows, oh, the common people here are called rooster carts, passing through the official roads, and occasionally there are donkey carts, but when they see Li Chaosheng's huge convoy, they all get out of the way.

The status of big businessmen is still very high among the people, and most people know that these big businessmen have a wealth of wealth, so they dare not mess with them.

Li Chaosheng was riding on a horse at this time, walking all the way, and suddenly saw someone selling plums on the side of the road.

Li Chaosheng couldn't help feeling thirsty, so he asked Gu Zi to go to buy some, but Gu Zi soon came back downcast.

Li Chaosheng curiously asked how they sell plums?

Gu Zi replied, "Barter."

Li Chaosheng was stunned. When a country's legal currency can no longer buy things, what does this mean?
This means that the people have lost trust in the country, which is a very dangerous signal for a dynasty.

Moreover, the use of copper coins is also a great hindrance to the commercial development of the common people. After all, money was invented to facilitate transactions. If it is not used now, it is not a retrogression.

At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao beside him and said, "Why don't the common people use copper coins?"

After hearing this, Guo Bao said: "The first is that the price of grain has risen too much this year, and the copper coins can't keep up. The common people don't know how to set prices with copper coins. It's better to exchange goods for goods directly."

"Secondly, copper coins are getting more and more counterfeit now. Now, iron accounts for [-]% of a copper coin. Where there are still copper coins, they are all iron coins. Of course, the people don't want to accept this kind of iron coins, so they simply don't use them."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng felt that the situation was very serious. If the currency is not used, the financial system will easily collapse. It will do too much damage to a country. This should be recorded in a small notebook and will be changed in the future.

After all, Li Chaosheng didn't eat that plum, but if he didn't eat it, he didn't eat it. He ate the good ones in Xi'an city.

Continue to move forward, and the convoys of rich families slowly appear in front of them. These convoys use mules and donkeys.

People from Shaanxi Few people in Shaanxi raise horses. It’s not that they can’t raise horses. It’s just that it’s not safe to raise horses. There are many wars these days. Whenever there is a war, the imperial court will come down to collect horses. If they see horses, they will take them away and requisition them. Moreover, the bandits also want horses. See When they arrived, they came to grab them. As time passed, everyone stopped raising horses.

Poor families raise donkeys, while rich families raise big green mules.

Raising donkeys and raising mules, the government doesn't expropriate them, and let cavalry ride donkeys to fight, who can catch up with them?

And Li Chaosheng also learned from his experience when he went out this time. The carts were pulled by mules, and almost all the accompanying people rode mules. Only Li Chaosheng had a status, and he rode a horse, but it was not a good horse, so he was always ready. It was expropriated by the imperial court.

After walking for a while, we will arrive at the Chan River. The Chan River is the largest tributary of the Ba River. It originates from Li Chaosheng's Lantian and is formed by the confluence of Tangyu River and Daiyu River in Tanggou Town.

There was a wooden bridge over the river. At this time, there were a dozen soldiers standing there at both ends of the wooden bridge, staring, holding weapons to collect tolls.

And the collection is very organized, no money is charged for crossing the river alone empty-handed, money is charged for those who bring things, and money is also charged for those who cross the river with two or more people. Beggars do not charge money, but the rich must charge money.

Is this here to kill the rich and help the poor?

Blocking the bridge to collect money, if it wasn't for wearing official clothes, Li Chaosheng would have thought he had encountered a bandit, but the old man looked aside and frowned and said, "I didn't collect money when I walked here a few days ago. Is it too much?"

Shi Xiaolei frowned at this time and said: "Boss, just these two soldiers dare to stop us, should we all be punished?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng glanced at Shi Xiaolei and said: "No, we businessmen, why don't you keep talking about that bandit, don't kill people at every turn."

After hearing this, Shi Xiaolei shrugged and said, "Got it."

Li Chaosheng said with a smile at this moment: "That's enough, don't make mutterings. Since you are going from here, follow the rules and go over to ask."

Li Chaosheng came over with the convoy. Seeing that there was a big job here, several officers and soldiers stood up quickly: "Stop, the carts cross the bridge, and each cart costs two taels of silver."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "Gentlemen, there was no toll on this bridge before. Who told you to charge here?"

The soldier saw that Li Chaosheng was dressed in gorgeous clothes and was riding a horse. He should be a respectable person, and he couldn't afford to offend him, so he cupped his hands and said, "Don't blame me, my lord, this is all our Master Hong's will."

"Master Hong? Which Master Hong?"

Li Chaosheng frowned, at this moment the soldier said: "Supervising grain and participating in politics, Hong Chengchou, Master Hong!"

(End of this chapter)