Except for the city lord's mansion, which can be repaired every few years, most of the houses in Beicheng are dilapidated.

Many roofs are covered with patches, and glutinous rice juice mixed with straw is constantly sprayed on the roofs.

Maybe it's because of the strong wind here? Some houses still have stones hanging on them? Just to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.

Originally, King Tan was afraid that the officials in Northern Xinjiang would bully him and prevent him from taking over matters related to the three cities in Northern Xinjiang.

For this reason, he even led the housekeeper and Lan Ruyu to rehearse many times in private? In order to be able to deal with emergencies in time, but he ignored the helpless wry smiles of Lan Ruyu and the housekeeper.

I heard that the vassal king who took over Beicheng came over? After checking the tokens and imperial edicts, the steward of the City Lord's Mansion handed over the City Lord's Mansion without saying a word, and gave it to King Tan along with the annual income and expenditure account book of the City Lord's Mansion.

Because the location of the fiefdom was not good, the emperor generously allocated three cities to King Tan.

And the magistrates of the three cities and prefectures rushed over immediately to pay their respects to King Tao.

They were all sent to northern Xinjiang because their families were poor and they themselves were a bit stubborn and didn't know how to work.

It is said that local officials are replaced every three years, but the prerequisite is that there must be someone at the top.

It seems like the four of them have been squatting here for many years~

King Xin originally imagined that everyone would work together to exclude him, which did not happen.

These four local officials were like handing over a hot potato, handing over all their tax account books and other things to King Tan.

King Tao first opened the account books of Beicheng, because Beicheng was the richest among the three cities. However, he saw on the first page of the account book that it was written that the butcher shop paid half a live sheep this month, and the rice shop paid

King Tan closed the account book with a bang and returned half of the sheep. Can you explain to him how this half of the sheep survived?

Seeing the bad look on King Tao's face, Beicheng officials quickly explained, "Because these taxes in Beicheng are cumulative, for example, if the butcher shop's business is good in a certain month, it will pay half a sheep. When the business is not good, it may be a

A sheep head, a sheep leg, until a whole sheep is collected, the yamen will bring back a whole live sheep and find a suitable opportunity to sell it."

King Tan's face turned red, and it took him a long time to say, "Why don't you just let people pay the money directly?"

Several officials exchanged helpless looks with each other. They originally hoped that this fiefdom would have a reliable vassal king, but now this man is obviously a fool who doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, and hasn't even inquired about the situation in Northern Xinjiang clearly.

What should they do now? Just looking at his appearance, King Tan, who has obviously never endured hardship, does not look like a wise master.

In the end, Zhizhou clarified King Xi's doubts. It turned out that northern Xinjiang was so poor that even banks could not open here. People rarely used money on weekdays and mostly bartered.

Therefore, most of the yamen's taxes are from these things.

After talking for a while, they saw that King Tao was about to cry. The four officials exchanged looks with each other and then left. They decided to leave a private space and let King Tao cry for a while longer.

King Tao looked at the backs of several officials with tears in his eyes, only to find that most of their robes were worn out, and even the official boots under their feet were badly worn, and the soles had been thoughtfully replenished.

Old shoes with new soles look sad.
Chapter completed!