My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 19 The Hu Cavalry is Attacking!

"To be honest with you, General Huang, I picked up this golden Buddha on the road while I was doing business. I waited for a long time but the owner did not come to claim it. Since I am responsible for leading the caravan, I can only carry this golden Buddha with me."

"Today, I have seen the general's upright character. He must be a very honest person. To restore my reputation, this golden Buddha should be handed over to the general for safekeeping and will be handed over to the owner later."

Lu Yi holds the golden Buddha in his hand, as if he has transformed into the Little Red Flower team member who returned lost items in his previous life.

Huang Yi took the golden Buddha with a smile on his face and swore an oath like a law-abiding border general of the Han Dynasty.

"In that case, I will keep this golden Buddha for safekeeping and will definitely return it to the owner intact."

Huang Yi hinted at something with an unfathomable smile on his face, and Lu Yi nodded affirmatively without exposing him.

"That's great. Thank you, General Huang, for helping me solve my problem. Now I can rest assured."

"General Huang guards the border day and night, and the soldiers are also on the alert. It must be very hard. To express my gratitude, I am willing to pay double the tax to defend the border against the Huns, to show my sincere desire to repay my country!"

The so-called anti-Hungarian tax was just Huang Yi's private tax made up in a fancy way. Both sides were smart people. Lu Yi's implication was to give Huang Yi more benefits in the hope of getting Huang Yi to show mercy.

"Oh? So you are a patriotic businessman? I have misunderstood you!" Huang Yi looked at Lu Yi in surprise and immediately ordered his men to put away their swords.

"Since he is a patriotic businessman, the tariffs should be taken into consideration!" Huang Yi then instructed the assistant clerk, "Check it again carefully, don't let down Shopkeeper Lu's patriotism."

"Yes!" The assistant official had worked under Huang Yi for several years, so how could he not know what he meant? He rolled his eyes a few times, immediately tore off the paper he had recorded on, crumpled it into a ball and threw it behind him, then continued to write and read aloud.

"The Lu family caravan has three carts with goods worth more than 100,000 coins..."

Lu Yi now finally understood why the civil servant of the Han Dynasty was called a clerk, a term that obviously carries a derogatory meaning.

His writing is like a knife, killing people without leaving their mark!

It was just that just now the sword and pen were swung towards himself, but now the sword and pen are turning around and hitting the Eastern Han court hard.

After a round of golden bullet attacks, the tariff that Lu Yi had to pay suddenly dropped from an extremely high tax of nearly 200 million coins to less than coins.

Not only were the tariffs that should have been paid to the court reduced, but many tax items that were artificially created by Huang Yi were also exempted.

Including the golden Buddha that Lu Yi gave to Huang Yi, his caravan's million-dollar cargo paid a total of about 100,000 coins in customs duties.

The eleventh tax is already a relatively normal tax rate range, which Lu Yi can barely accept.

Historically, after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, it took him a lot of effort to successfully adjust the extremely high commercial taxes in various places to this range.

However, out of the 100,000 coins that Lu Yi received, only less than 10,000 coins actually entered the imperial treasury.

Even Lu Yi could not predict how much of the ten thousand coins would actually enter the imperial treasury.

A customs tax collection that was supposed to be related to national sovereignty ended up being a private transaction. This also indirectly proves why Zhang Jue was able to gain a response from the world with just a call five years later.

After the deal was done... oh no, the taxes were paid, Huang Yi had already developed a deep personal friendship with Lu Yi, whom he had just met.

Therefore, Lv Yi's old friend, General Huang Yi, not only enthusiastically sent Lv's caravan out of the Great Wall, but also considerately stated that as long as the customs taxes were prepaid in advance, no matter how much goods he brought back, he could still pay according to the current standards.

Lu Yi thought about it and immediately agreed to pay the customs tax in advance. Seeing Lu Yi's understanding, Huang Yi addressed him more affectionately, from "patriotic businessman" to "Brother Lu".

Lu Yi was worried that if he delayed any further, Huang Yi might even claim that he was his long-lost half-brother. So, he ignored Huang Yi's enthusiastic requests to stay overnight and resolutely stepped into the desolate and vast northern grassland.

"Brother, why do you associate with such a corrupt official? If I were to follow my temper, I would probably nail this thief to death right here on the city gate!"

Ten miles away from the pass, Lu Bu was still furious and rarely complained to Lu Yi.

Cheng Lian, Song Xian, Wei Xu and others also agreed with this, and felt greatly upset.

Since they began to enjoy the world of martial arts, they have never suffered such humiliation.

"My brother is brave and it will be easy for him to kill the guard. But if we make a big fuss like this, even if we break through the pass, what will we do when we come back? The hundreds of thousands of Hun troops can't enter the Great Wall. How can only a few of us do it?" Lu Yi glanced at Lu Bu and taught him a lesson.

"Brother, you are right. I was the one who lacked some thought!"

Lu Bu didn't dare to contradict his brother and could only take the initiative to admit his mistake. However, Lu Yi understood him very well and knew that he was full of anger, and he would not be able to sleep well tonight if he didn't vent it.

"The second brother is too reckless and impulsive. He feels good at the time, but he doesn't consider the mess afterwards. He is still too young and inexperienced. He has not experienced many things. He should be able to improve a little bit after he has more experience, right?"

Lu Yi sighed in his heart and was about to say something to comfort Lu Bu when he was suddenly startled by a cloud of dust rising in the distance and he quickly looked over there.

Although there are many winds and frosts outside the Great Wall, the sudden appearance of smoke and dust is definitely not naturally produced.

The subsequent development of events was exactly as Lu Yi had expected.

Dozens of fully armed cavalry suddenly rushed out from the dust several miles away.

These light cavalry were all dressed like Huns and had superb horsemanship. They roared and screamed in a ghostly manner while performing various difficult movements on horseback.

After they discovered the trace of the caravan, they immediately rushed towards the caravan excitedly waving their sabers, obviously with bad intentions.

"Enemy attack!"

"Is it a horse bandit?"

"Or a foreign race?"

"Or maybe both?"

Although Lu Yi was still unclear about their identities, he was very aware of their naked and undisguised greed and murderous intent.

"We have only been out of the border for ten miles, and these Hu people dare to attack us so close to the Great Wall?" Zhang Jia was so frightened that he almost fell off the cart and shouted in disbelief.

"I thought I could release the cavalry later since we had just come out of the pass, but I was careless!" Lu Yi looked at the Hu people who were constantly running out of the smoke with a serious expression on his face.

He also underestimated the fearlessness of these Hu people. They relied on their riding and archery to move like the wind, and did not take the Great Wall seriously at all. They were like a pack of greedy wolves. As soon as they found their prey, they would go up and take a bite. They were extremely cunning.

(End of this chapter)