Realizing This Is Wuxia World After Cultivating For 300 Years
Chapter 104
Banquet Smelling Wine and Meat, There are Frozen Bones on the Road (3)
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"Of course, of course." Ren Yuankui nodded repeatedly, then lowered his voice and asked, “What did Supervisor Shen say? Has it been decided?”
"I'm waiting for you to ask." Wei Xiong took a sip of wine and said with a smile, “30% of the 10-year tax on 12 Fengzhou counties. Lu County is rich and prosperous, so we want an additional 20% from there. How about that?!
“This...” Eyebrow Ren Yuankui twitched upon hearing this. He smiled bitterly and said, “You know that in order to gain the support of the Ye and Jiang families, I have given 40% of Fengzhou's taxes to them. If I give 30% more.. ”.
“Hehe, Governor Ren, don't hide from me.” Wei Xiong sneered and said, “I can't believe you won't raise taxes after you take office. What we are charging now is just the current tax rate!
"Even if you give 100%, as long as you become the Governor of Fengzhou and double that hick tax rate, won't you get it all back?"
“If the tax is too high. I fear the officials will direct the people to revolt!” Ren Yuankui still had a bitter expression.
"West, are you pretending to be a loving parent now?" Wei Xiong scolded jokingly, “There are people who starve to death by the roadside every day in your county town. I don't see anyone rebelling.”
“This, hehe...” Ren Yuankui fell silent. In fact, under his rule, to ensure the expenditure of soldiers, many citizens were already starving to death.
“When I came, Supervisor Shen already told me.” Wei Xiong continued with another killing move. “If we cannot reach an agreement here, we should ask the Governor of Lu.” County
“You want to ask Cui Heng ?!” Ren Yuankui's eyes widened upon hearing that. He stood up and said, “How can you look for him? That person enforced government orders in the various districts under his rule and forcefully bought assets from various large factions at a price of 10% of the market price. If he becomes a State Supervisor, we won't have fun.” “In addition, he even destroyed Wang and Xie's alliance army and captured Wang Qinghe and Xie Beixing. He had offended the Wang Family of Langya and the Xie Family of Pingshan thoroughly. How can we let him be the State Supervisor? No, obviously not.”
After the destruction of Wang and Xie's allied forces, the various counties in Fengzhou had sent spies to investigate and find out the truth. The result was that Governor Cui Heng had used his great divine power to kill all the soldiers of Wang and Xie's allied forces, and there were also rivers and lakes as evidence. However, not many people believe this.
This is because it's too hard to believe. It was truly a challenge to one's common sense. At best, they were a little skeptical. Most people thought that they had used the terrain to set traps first and drown the soldiers.
Unless one personally experienced or saw it with one's own eyes, it was extremely difficult to truly believe such an outrageous thing.
“...” Ren Yuankui's expression keeps changing. For a moment, many thoughts flashed through his mind. He took a deep breath and gritted his teeth. "Well, I'll do it!"
A large banquet was held at the Luo'an County Governor's Office.
However, the streets outside were filled with a cold wind. The door of the house was tightly shut, and many beggars hid in the alleys to escape the cold wind. Everyone shivered in the cold.
It was already night time when Hui Shi arrived. The road was empty and quiet. It was dark and he could hear the barking of the dog. He turned to see a beggar fighting with a dog to get a bone.
Not far from the beggar lay a child who seemed to be less than ten years old. His body was stiff and not moving. It was clear that he had been dead for some time.
"This is the county town?" Hui Shi frowned slightly. Before he had come to Luo'an County, he had heard that this was the most powerful county besides Changfeng County. He didn't expect it to look like this.
However, he did not care about such things for the time being. Therefore, he immediately walked towards the governor's office.
There were two bailiffs in front of the Governor's official office.
When they saw Hui Shi walking over, their eyes twinkled and they muttered, “Haha, there is actually someone who is not afraid of death and dares to walk in front of the Prefectural Governor's house at night. We have money to buy wine now!”
Hence, the two balifves immediately stepped forward and stopped Hui Shi. They shouted firmly, “Stop! Where did this unruly commoner come from? How dare you barge into the Governor's House at night?!”
“I am an envoy sent by Governor Lu, Cui Heng, to send a letter to Governor Luo'an.” Hui Shi's anger had increased tremendously lately. He explained patiently, “I am not a difficult person to manage, nor am I here to enter the Governor's House at night. Please let me pass.”
“Omong empty what Governor of Lu County? I've never heard of him! I think you just want to barge into the Governor's House at night! How do the two police officers understand human language? They immediately reached out and sneered, "Five taels of silver, or go to jail!"
"Oh?" Hui Shi suddenly smirked. "What is it?!"