Chapter 4062: Incident

Chen Xi's words are very casual, and Chen Xi is indeed relatively weak in this regard, but no matter who is in charge, it is impossible to take Chen Xi's opinion as a reference opinion.

Even if Chen Xi’s opinions are full of weakness, Li You, Liu Ye and others must consider Chen Xi’s feelings when dealing with them. It’s really annoying, Chen Xi is picking up her son, and that’s the same for all of them. trouble.

"Nanpi's development is actually quite good." Although Liu Bei came to Bohai Prefect Sun Yong, he saw the people coming and going at the entrance of Nanpi City, and the large number of carriages carrying various materials. Liu Bei's mood is still very good.

"Of course, Nanpi was built well when Ju Gong and He were still alive, and I personally came back that year." Chen Xi recalled that she was playing chess at Nanpi City, and she couldn't help but smile, but the past was like smoke. They have been dead for many years.

"Let's go, go and see what Sun Yong wants to do." Liu Bei recalled the time when he couldn't help but shook his head. Chen Xi took advantage of the chaos to hold down Nanpi in the north of Jizhou. conflict.

The Zhen family was also subdued by Chen Xi at that time. It can be said that that was the starting point for the hegemony. Now that I think about it, time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed.

The gate of Nanpi City is no different from when Chen Xi came. It is still a few guards standing there to collect the city tax. This is also a considerable part of the income of the local counties, but if you remember correctly, Chen Xi has gradually The city gate tax has been abolished in the county government.

To a certain extent, the prosperity of trade and commerce can replace this stuff, and the city gate tax is really unfriendly to the people who go to work in the city. If you earn 30 cents a day, you have to pay two to four cents. Wen's city gate tax, isn't this cheating?

As for the city gate tax is only paid by merchants with large items, just listen to this. Now that the city gate tax is collected, all cards are set up. Passing by individuals, it is easy to collect them. Let alone ancient times, modern times belong to A very normal situation.

Therefore, even if some local officials at the time suggested that people who were working in the county city could enter the county city with a voucher and do not charge the city gate tax or something, Chen Xi decisively began to abolish this stuff. You all said that they were in the county city. People who work part-time can hold the voucher and refuse to accept it. Isn’t it obvious that it was accepted before? What else is there to say, compulsorily abolish this tax.

"It's still collecting city gate tax." Chen Xi said with some sorrow as he watched this scene.

"I remember your request was to be abolished this year, right?" Liu Bei asked suddenly.

"The proposal of last year's meeting of the DPRK requires that it be abolished this year. In principle, the state and county governments cannot continue to renew this tax." Chen Xi nodded.

"Is this nobody cares?" Liu Bei frowned.

"It's not that nobody cares, it's just that it has been delayed without completely solving it, and the old case is continued." Chen Xi thought for a while to explain, "But if there is still a city gate tax by the end of the year, then someone should take care of it, and now it won't. Someone is staring at this."

The frame continues to go inside. Because of the city gate tax, the speed of entering the city is not fast. It took a while to queue up to Liu Bei and Chen Xi. At this time, the driver was Liu Bei's guard, an experienced veteran.

"Large frame, thirty wen." The soldier guarding the gate didn't even mean to check, just glanced at it, and then directly offered a price.

Although this price was a bit high, when the city gate tax was collected, it was not too much. The guard paid the money directly and prepared to enter the city.

"I'm talking about the frame." After Liu Bei's **** paid the money and prepared to leave, the lackluster city defender directly stopped the frame. "Get off the car and accept the inspection. There are four taxes for one person."

Chen Xi scratched his head and didn't dare to look at Liu Bei's expression. He estimated that Liu Bei was really angry at this time. The city gate tax for a person is as high as four liters. In Liu Bei's words, you are afraid that you don't want to die.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that the guards driving the car looked ugly, and some didn't want to pay, the guards of Nanpi immediately surrounded them, and the six guards looked like they wanted to take advantage.

The city gate official itself is a good job. As long as he has good eyesight, finds good targets, and blackmails some, no one is in charge. It is because of this that Chen Xi wants to abolish the city gate tax. The kind of money that cannot be verified can only rely on personal moral quality, and personal morality is not reliable most of the time.

"The city gate tax has already begun to be abolished." Chen Xi did not stop, and Liu Bei got off the frame directly, standing in front of the soldier who collected the city gate tax on the opposite side, and asked indifferently.

"It was abolished at the end of the year, and it has to be paid now, at least on our side in Nanpi." The tax collectors faintly surrounded Liu Bei. From Liu Bei's attitude, they felt a little bad. After all, they ushered at the door. Sent, it's impossible without any eyesight.

"Who ordered the four articles for one person." Liu Bei was also unambiguous. "I remember that the city gate tax is not levied on ordinary people in principle. How can one person have four articles for one person?"

In a big city like Nanpi, where tens of thousands of people go in and out every day, what does it mean for four cents? This is the same as scraping land. Is it crazy?

The soldier guarding the city was suppressed by Liu Bei's momentum, and he was a little at a loss. Don't think Liu Bei was very benevolent, but he was really angry. Just like a lion, it was very scary.

"Go and call your gate officer over here." Liu Bei said directly to the guards with a dark face. The ferocity of the momentum directly caused the guards to panic.

Liu Bei didn’t know these soldiers and didn’t have any impression of them. This is unreasonable. According to Liu Bei’s ability to control the army, it’s normal to meet soldiers and not know them, but a group of people don’t even have an impression. This is too ridiculous. So Liu Bei directly asked these goods to find their boss.

Liu Bei still didn’t believe that he didn’t know him, who was clearly led by a retired team, as the city gate officer. If he didn’t know him, Liu Bei turned his head and didn’t enter the city. He just brought troops from Leling. This means that Nanpi's traces of Liu Bei have been dealt with.

Chen Xi didn't realize the problem in this respect, because Chen Xi knew these soldiers and he still didn't know him, so I didn't find it strange, but Liu Bei was different. Liu Bei didn't need to know him, but Liu Bei shouldn't have no impression.

Not long after Liu Bei was stuck at the gate of the city, the city gate official came. Liu Bei looked at the city gate official. He was a little strange. At that moment, Liu Bei's face was as dark as the bottom of the pot. The city gate official was an official, even the lowest level. Officer, that's also an official.

The city gate officials in big cities like Nanpi were all appointed by the centurion after he was discharged from the army, and the centurion was not Liu Beichu. He knew Liu Bei for every centurion in the Han Dynasty.

It can be said that apart from the newly added centurions under the command of the three princes, one of the other centurions is counted as one, and Liu Bei knows it. This is the basis for Liu Bei to rule this country.

However, Liu Bei reluctantly had an impression of the city gate official. After a long time, he met someone, and the city gate official on the other side was walking by in a fierce manner, and he felt his legs weak when he walked. Liu Bei knew him or not. He didn't know, but he knew Liu Bei.

"Sun Chang, come over here!" Liu Bei confronted the person after a long while, and cursed directly at Sun Chang who didn't want to come over with his soft legs. The climber came directly.

Liu Bei only had an impression of this person, because when another centurion retired from the army, he saw Sun Chang next to him. The two were fellow villagers. Liu Bei also had a chat. It was a good impression.

"I have seen Taiwei, Taiwei Ankang." Sun Chang directly knelt on the ground and gave Liu Bei a salute.

"You get me up, what's the matter with Nanpi? Why is the city gate tax so high." Liu Bei looked at Sun Chang and asked directly. When a group of people around heard Sun Chang calling Taiwei, they all knew who it was. Onlookers, some rushed to run, in short, there was a chaos at the gate of the city.

"This is determined by the county guard. He said that we will rebuild the Yellow River Ferry in Nanpi next year, but now we have a large amount of money missing. The city gate tax is about to be abolished and another lump sum will be levied at the end." Sun Chang hurriedly took what he knew. speak out.

"Is the Yellow River Ferry built locally?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi and asked.

"The plan should be for this year. Next year, Changan will send professionals to repair it. The local government will not be responsible for it. On the one hand, it is the technical team, and on the other hand, if it is the local repair, the locality always likes to collect some money for crossing the bridge." Chen Ximian Replied without expression.

Sun Chang buried his head very low at this time and did not dare to say one more word.

"Who was the city gate official before you?" Liu Bei asked Sun Chang, "I remember that you went back to Nanpi with Ding Quan. According to your merits, Ding Quan should be the city gate official."

Sun Chang nodded and explained, "Ge Ding came back to be a city gate official. He had been a city gate official for three or four years, but the year before last he went to the Yellow River to fish for big carp. He encountered an undercurrent and capsized the boat. Only one of the three accompanying him escaped. ."

"Let me call out the person who escaped, and how many veterans Nanpi has died in these years." Liu Beiming's expression is very calm, but even the nervous Chen Xi can feel the calmness. anger.

"I'm going to call." Sun Chang wanted to run, but was held down by Liu Bei, so he had to ask others to call the guy who had not died.

"How many veterans have died in Nanpi in the past few years." Liu Bei held down Sun Chang's expression and asked the previous question again, but Sun Chang opened his mouth. He couldn't answer this question because he really hadn't paid attention to it before. .

But when Liu Bei brought it up, Sun Chang recalled it, his face turned blue, not paying attention doesn't mean it doesn't exist, since it exists, there must be traces, just like now.