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Chapter 367 Lawless
"Okay, let's go!" Mu Jiaojiao said quickly.

Cui Pu was full of dissatisfaction. "you……"

"Do you want me to pack your luggage for you?" Mu Jiaojiao smiled slightly at him, "However, just go there once, and the round trip will take at most one day, so you don't need to bring luggage? I think I'd better prepare some food for you really."

Cui Pu stared blankly at her. "Aren't you angry?"

"Isn't that your temper? If I wanted to be angry, I should have been pissed off by you long ago." Mu Jiaojiao shook his head and said, "The elders say that if you marry a chicken, you will marry a dog. Now that you are married, No matter what you want to do, I can only do it with you. Anyway, the worst result is that you lose your job. Let’s drag our family back to Chang’an and continue to open a medical clinic to sell medicine. This life is not impossible. I It doesn't matter!"

"You... are really my good wife!" Cui Pu was overjoyed, and quickly hugged her tightly.

Mu Jiaojiao quickly pushed him: "Be careful, be careful of the child!"

"Yes, yes, there is still a child!" Cui Pu quickly relaxed his arms, but still couldn't help hugging her and kissing her several times, before saying, "I knew that you are my good wife. No matter what I do, you They will all support me!"

"Stop talking nonsense, you'd better go to Tianchang County to have a look!" He didn't know how many words like this had been said over the years, and Mu Jiaojiao was tired of hearing it, so he urged him directly.

Cui Pu also knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't allow any further delay, so he nodded quickly: "Okay, I'll go right away. You stay at home and take care of your baby. No matter what news you hear, don't get excited, I'm sure I'll be fine!"

"Don't worry. This Yangzhou is your territory after all. If anyone tells you that something happened to you here, I'd be a fool to believe it." Mu Jiaojiao shook his head with a smile.

Cui Pu felt relieved.But he still told her a lot of things, and then he took his horse and rode towards Tianchang County.

A group of people hurried on, and arrived in Tianchang County in just over an hour.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Cui Pu saw a long queue of people who had come to hand in grain at the gate of the county government office.When Cui Pu was here in the past, what he saw was the common people pushing carts and carrying burdens, talking happily about the harvest of the year.But now, the people in the team are all downcast, their faces are full of worries, and none of them are even interested in talking.

It seems that the situation here is already very serious.

Cui Pu's heart sank, he rode his horse and whipped again, and drove quickly to the gate of the county government office.

When he was about to reach the Tianchang county government office, he dismounted from his horse, threw back the rein, and quickly walked into the crowd.

Just in time, I saw another commoner coming out with an empty basket, and immediately people surrounded him and asked, "How is it?"

The man shook his head and sighed, "It's not enough, it's still ten stones away."

"Ten stones!"

There was a burst of exclamation from the crowd.

One stone is equal to ten buckets, which is equal to one hundred liters.Ten stones of grain is one thousand liters, which is almost a year and a half of food for an ordinary family!How much rations the common people can save through hard work in a year, and now they have deprived most of them.Where are they asking for food?It is simply taking food from other people's mouths and forcing people to die!
Not to mention the panic among the people, even Cui Pu couldn't help being furious when he heard this.

But before the voice over there fell, a man with a ferocious face came over and yelled angrily: "What's the noise, what's the noise? I don't know if there are noble people resting over there? When it comes to the nobleman, the nobleman is in a bad mood, and you don’t even know how to die! Shut up, all of you!"

The people quickly shut up.Only then did the man snort softly, picked up the roster again and read: "Liu Qi of Liu Family Village, it's your turn!"

The person whose name was called resigned to his fate and pushed the cart forward.After struggling to unload all the grain from the car, he smiled apologetically to the person sitting on the recliner in front of him, "Master, this is the tax my family should pay this year. It's a total of twelve shi. Please count it."

The man didn't even raise his eyelids, he just said slowly: "Isn't your Liujia Village the first place to grow sweet potatoes? And it is said that the sweet potato production in your village is the highest in Yangzhou every year. But why? Up to now, the food you have handed over is only this little?"

"If you go back to the official, the amount of grain to be paid per mu of land has been stipulated by the government long ago, and we also follow the rules." Liu Qi whispered.

The man glared at him immediately: "What do you mean by that? Are you calling us unruly? Do you still want to say that we are using public services for private purposes and deliberately exploiting your rations?"

Is not it?You are doing such a thing right now, okay?

The people all yelled in their hearts, but none of them dared to speak out.Liu Qi also quickly laughed along with him: "I don't dare, I don't mean that! Please forgive me, the little one, a poor man who has never studied and can't speak, made you angry. That’s wrong, I’ll admit my mistake to you!”

As he spoke, he slapped himself across the face a few times.

That talent was finally satisfied, and he closed his eyes again: "Forget it, for the sake of your attitude of admitting your mistakes, I won't argue with you any more. You stand aside first, and I'll ask someone to look at the paper you handed in." Do you have twelve stones for grain?"

Liu Qi quickly stepped aside.Then I saw two tall and thick men walking over with a large scale.It's just that they didn't weigh the food directly, but kicked it when they came up!

After kicking more than a dozen baskets to the side, most of the food in the baskets was poured out, and then they slowly picked up one basket and began to weigh it.While weighing, shouted: "The first basket, three liters! The second basket, two and a half liters! The third basket..."

As the numbers were read one by one, Cui Pu's heart sank heavily, not to mention Liu Qi's complexion became more and more ugly.

After all the twelve baskets had been weighed, the person in charge of the record did the math and said, "It's 36 liters in total, less than four stones!"

The person on the reclining chair slowly opened his eyes again: "Isn't it the agreed twelve stones? Why is it so low now? You are not honest as a farmer. Look at how short you are! If you If you go to sell vegetables, I don’t know how many people will be cheated by you!”

Liu Qi fell to his knees with a plop: "Officer, no! The little one specially pushed twelve baskets over this time, and each basket contained a stone of grain, adding up to exactly twelve stones! It may be as much as seven or eight stones!"

"What, do you mean that we have wronged you? Or is it that our scales are not accurate?" The man sneered.

He can really talk.Liu Qi is an ordinary citizen, dare to say that the officials wronged him?It's not like he doesn't want to live anymore!As for the scale being inaccurate, that's even more of a joke.There was indeed only a little food in the basket, because the big head had already been kicked out by them, and now it was lying on the ground!How much weight can they weigh at the bottom of the basket?
Liu Qi moved his lips, but he didn't know what to say.

The man waved his hand again, and said with a benevolent face: "Forget it, I'm busy, I don't care about you as a troublemaker. I'll give you another chance, go back quickly and pull another cart of grain, and fill the gap. If it is completed, we will act as if nothing happened!"

Liu Qi opened his mouth and was about to speak when the man glared at him again: "What, you want to rebel?"

Liu Qi immediately drooped his head.

The label of rebellion has been buckled, how dare he refute?
Seeing him obediently pushing the cart away, the man snorted again: "It's really a poor mountain and a bad river, and I have seen it by coming to this place today!"

This person is too shameless!Such exploitation of the blood and sweat of the common people, but also unrelenting words, put countless big hats on people's heads for life.

The people couldn't help humming in a low voice, and Cui Pu was also furious.

And Liu Qicai just walked a few steps away, when he heard this, he immediately turned around: "I'm not a villain!"

"Yo, do you really want to rebel?" The man jumped up immediately and strode up to Liu Qi, with a smirk on his face that made people tremble with fear.

There was also a trace of fear in Liu Qi's eyes.But right away, he still held his head up: "Cui Xianzun... No, Cui Zhifu said that we are all honest people and are the cornerstone for the New Tang Dynasty to stand firm. Over the years, we have contributed a lot to the New Tang Dynasty , even saints have to thank us!"

"Ha, Prefect Cui? Does he care what he says? Believe it or not, I'll beat you to death here as a troublemaker, and no one dares to say anything! And your prefect Cui...hehe, he is If you know it, you can only sigh at most. There are thousands of tricksters like you in the world, and it is not a pity to die!"

"You nonsense! Prefect Cui is not like this. He cares about us people the most. No matter what happens to us, he will be the first to stand up for us. If he knows what you are doing, then he will never Stand by and watch!"

"It's ridiculous. At this point, you're still wishful thinking! Okay, I'll let you, you gangsters, take a good look and see if your Prefect Cui will come out for you this time!"

The man sneered, stretched his hand back, and someone immediately brought a three-foot-long wooden stick.The steel wires wrapped in strips can also be clearly seen on the stick, reflecting a harsh cold light in the sun.

When this thing hits a person, it hurts much more than an ordinary stick!
Seeing this, Liu Qi flinched.

When the man noticed his reaction, he twitched the corners of his lips and deliberately swayed the stick back and forth: "Now, as long as you kneel down and slap yourself ten times, and say 'I was wrong, grandpa, please let go of your grandson' a hundred times, Grandpa, I will let you go, or just pretend nothing happened, how about it?"

Liu Qi's eyes flickered a few times, but in the end he chose to raise his head again: "I don't! Prefect Cui will definitely come to help us out, definitely!"

"Okay, you don't have to drink a toast, you don't have to drink fine wine, it seems that if you don't teach you a lesson today, you don't know who is your real master!" The man's eyes turned cold immediately, he swung his stick and hit him.

The fierce offensive brought with it the sound of whistling wind, which made people's faces ache.Liu Qi closed his eyes subconsciously.

However, the offensive stopped suddenly, and the expected pain did not happen.

He slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw the person standing in front of him, he immediately shouted happily: "Prefect Cui!"

Cui Pu grabbed the stick and looked coldly at the domineering man in front of him: "This mansion is here. Now, tell me, who is their master in this place?"

That person had seen Cui Pu in Wei's Restaurant that day, but he only had a glance from a distance.In his capacity, he is not qualified to sit down and drink with Cui Pu.So now he recognized the identity of the person in front of him at a glance.

His heart froze, and he quickly raised his smiling face: "Prefect Cui, why are you here? Even if you are here, you shouldn't have come to this place! The sun is hot outside, and the sun is poisonous. What if you are exposed to the sun? Our food chief is in the county government office, why don't you go in and sit and talk with him?"

While talking, he quietly winked at the people around him, and immediately someone ran into the county office.

Cui Pu found out, but he just smiled lightly, and said: "This mansion just had a sudden whim, and came to see how the grain collection is progressing. But I didn't expect that this mansion has just arrived here, and I saw your love for my son. The people are beating and cursing, what's going on? You collect the grain as soon as you collect it, why do you fight with the people?"

As he said that, he looked at Liu Qi's face again: "Why, you guys had already had a fight before I came here?"

The man's face turned pale, and he quickly laughed again: "Prefect, you are really blaming us! In fact, it is this unscrupulous man who fills up the best with the second, and fills the most with less. He obviously only has less than half a stone of food, but he also Dare to pretend to be a stone to pay a job! We came down to collect grain on behalf of the saints, and we must strictly control the quantity and quality of the grain. If we find something wrong, we will naturally punish it severely. Otherwise, if others follow suit, then it’s okay ? Those nobles in Chang’an City, as well as the soldiers who are going abroad are all waiting for these rice grains to fill their stomachs!”

Not bad, really good.One set of face-to-face and another set of back-face, this man really learned Li Linfu's skills.It's a pity that the technology is still a bit weak, not perfect enough.

Cui Pu smiled slightly: "Is that so? But when the government was here as the county magistrate, why didn't we encounter such a thing? Every time the government handed over the rice grain, it was never said that the weight and weight The quality is not right."

"Isn't that in the past? People's hearts always change..." the man said, looking around, and it was clear that he was about to lose his composure.

After a short meeting, as expected, Wan Tianci and his party ran out of the government office in a hurry.

"Prefect Cui, you're here! I haven't seen you these days, I'm thinking too hard! Come on, let's go in and sit down, and ask the cook from the county government to sit down and serve us wine with good food! We are all people of status, why stand here and worry about these trivial matters? Wanjiu and them are enough for the affairs here, and they will take care of everything properly!" Wan Tianci stepped forward Come on, if you pull Cui Pu, you want to drag him away.

This behavior is called simple and rude.

As long as he followed him in, wasn't he announcing to the people that he, Cui Pu, had joined forces with this person, and the people quickly accepted the reality and honestly endured this harsh exploitation?
Cui Pu shook him off with a sneer: "You can go to Wanliangchang by yourself! Our government is standing here today, and we can take a good look at how the people in Tianchang County have cheated, cheated and evaded taxes! As long as one case is found, This government will definitely punish you severely!"

(End of this chapter)