"I am willing to accept my humble position," Xu Ze answered readily.

Pei Xiaoer was naturally very happy and was about to speak. A reckless body bumped into Pei Xiaoer's arms. Pei Xiaoer quickly helped him up, but it turned out to be a girl dressed in men's clothing and as gentle as jade.

The girl was also very polite and said in a low voice with some embarrassment. "I'm sorry." Pei Xiaoer waved his hand, pointed to a man in front of him who was looking this way with a smile and said, "Just go slower next time. That's your husband."

Well, where is he waiting for you? Come on."

The woman said nothing, bowed, turned and left.

Faintly, Pei Xiaoer heard the woman's voice, "Brother Tao, slow down..."

"By the way, where are we talking about?" Pei Xiaoer turned to Xu Ze and asked.

Xu Ze was a little helpless, so he had to say it again, "I am willing to be a tax collector and collect taxes for the general."

"Well, good," Pei Xiaoer said happily, "You can find whoever you need by yourself, but you have to pay attention to one thing. Don't use corvees like before. I have already explained to those gentry that from now on we will no longer rule

Collection of corvee. Do you understand?"

Xu Ze asked hesitantly: "General, if you do not need to do corvee work but switch to employment, it will cost a lot of money."

"I know, so you have to control the number of people you recruit. It's best not to exceed twenty people. I don't want to charge one tael of silver in taxes and spend two taels of silver to collect it." Pei Xiaoer warned.

Xu Ze had a grimace on his face and opened his mouth. He wanted to say something but didn't say it.

"Forget it, let me give you a trick. You can find a fixed place, arrange for two or three people to guard it, notify all shops and landowners, and pay the tax to this place. Then the remaining people can go and find out who

If you don’t pay taxes, who will pay less taxes?” Speaking of which,

Pei Xiaoer slapped his forehead suddenly, "By the way, this tax collection department only has the power to collect taxes and inspect taxes.

For other things, for example, if someone refuses to pay taxes, you can't deal with it yourself. You must get the consent of the Yamen before you can inspect it, sell off the property, etc. Even if you don't have money and can't pay, you will be beaten, sold off, etc. to pay off the debt. If

If you really can't pay the tax, let him owe it until he has money. Again, we just want money, not our lives."

Pei Xiaoer is very worried that the tax collection department he established will eventually turn into a human trafficking organization. In this era, or in the entire ancient times, is there still little practice of using people to pay debts?

The most famous one is that Yang Bailao refused to repay the money he owed, and Huang Shiren used his daughter Xi'er to pay off the debt. As a result, some people asked why Xi'er didn't marry Huang Shiren? Come on, Xi'er was not blessed in the past. It was probably after being played with.

Sold directly to brothels.

"Yes, I understand the humble position." Xu Ze agreed with a wry smile. He felt that this job was not easy to do. If you don't allow it, how can you deal with those unruly people?

"Well, let's go and take a look around." Pei Xiaoer was full of interest in the ancient county.

In the evening, Zhao Huaiyu was in Mr. Zhao's study room. There were still the same few people discussing yesterday, but the scattered porcelain pieces and the figure kneeling in the center showed that the atmosphere was not very good.

"Didn't dad ask you yesterday to give some money to those who have offended you?" Zhao Junlin looked at this younger brother helplessly. Although he knew that this younger brother was a bit unreasonable, he still underestimated him.

"I sent someone to give that person ten taels of silver yesterday. I didn't expect that this damn bastard would be so dishonest. He even took the money and even complained." Zhao Junan was kneeling on the ground angrily.

"Shut up, you've broken someone's leg, are you still reasonable?" Zhao Junlin stopped Zhao Junan, glanced at Mr. Zhao who was closing his eyes to rest, and winked at Zhao Junan, signaling him not to irritate his father anymore.

"Today, the military judge named Guo sentenced us to compensate the other party one thousand taels of silver? He also fined us five thousand taels?" Mr. Zhao suddenly asked.

"Yes, that bitch didn't expect the sentence to be so harsh? Six thousand taels, that tenant's life is not even worth that price." Zhao Junan cursed bitterly.

"Shut up," Zhao Junlin and Mr. Zhao spoke together.

"Dad, do you think we should give this money or not?" Zhao Junlin, the eldest son, asked his father carefully.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao actually laughed, "Here, why not? Give him as much as he wants." Mr. Zhao looked at his eldest son, "I remember, that girl Xinlan is seventeen this year, right?"

Zhao Junlin didn't expect his old man's reaction, so he thought he was just too angry, "Dad, are you okay? It's only six thousand taels of silver, which is nothing to my family. What are you doing?"

Mr. Zhao laughed angrily at his eldest son's expression, "Your father, I'm fine, I finally understand. What is clearing up unjust cases? What is making decisions for the people? I just want to take the opportunity to make some money. Everything, including the court trial

The cases are all appearances and excuses. The ultimate goal is this fine."

The two Zhao brothers were stunned when they heard this, "Dad, do you think that Pei Xiaoer did this just to make some money? Why didn't he just force him? And didn't he also take away the money we gave him last night?

?”

"This is the cleverness of Pei Xiaoer. On the one hand, he wants your money, and on the other hand, he still convinces you. Didn't you see the people watching today that they wanted to build a shrine for Pei Xiaoer?"

Zhao Junlin recalled the scene in the court today. There was hope in the eyes of the people. He would never forget the scene of hundreds of people kneeling together in his life. Some people even burst into tears with excitement, saying that God has opened his eyes.

The scene. What's more, they even shouted "Long Live". Even those who were beheaded by the rebels were convinced.

It turned out that there was such an ulterior purpose behind all this. Zhao Junlin turned to look at his father, "Dad, do you want us to make Pei Xiaoer's ugly face public?"

"Stupid!" Mr. Zhao did not expect that his eldest son, whom he had always been optimistic about, would draw such stupid attention. "Not to mention that the people would not believe it, but even if they really believed it, how many would mind? Is it possible for Pei Xiaoer to do this?

No benefit at all to the people?

Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about the tenant whose leg was broken by Jun An. If it weren’t for Pei Xiaoer, he would have been able to get a thousand taels of silver for free? Besides, what’s the benefit to us?” Mr. Zhao

He didn't leave any favors for his eldest son.

"Dad, what do you keep telling me to do?" Zhao Junlin didn't dare to speak at all.

"What Pei Xiaoer did seems to be the work of a heroic person. I have a premonition that this Pei Xiaoer's future may be limitless. I heard that Pei Xiaoer is very young and has not yet married. If we can
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