Yi Feng heard the shouting downstairs and looked at the young man. The man waved his hand and signaled that he didn't know what was going on.

When I walked downstairs, I happened to see several young men wearing black mattresses and soap boots coming in from outside. The leaders were all in their twenties, all with neatly trimmed beards and horizontal knives on their waists. The seven or eight men dressed in officers behind me were also wearing horizontal knives. As soon as I came in, I glanced at the people in the lobby of the inn with sharp eyes. The shopkeepers in the inn looked a little uneasy when they saw them, and quickly raised a smile and went forward. Several flag guards sitting in a corner were obviously alert and put their hands on their waists.

The leader was leading the way to the crowd of sexual servants. Liu Wenqi, the leader, spoke angry at Bai Zhi behind him, and sat down directly at a table in the hall.

Wei Zheng saw this and had almost guessed the identity of the other party. He could wear soap clothes, soap boots, and swords and swords. If he didn't ask, he would definitely be a local local snake. This place is so close to Youzhou City, and these people are very likely to be servants in Youzhou City. Before Liu Wenqian asked, Wei Zheng took the initiative to go forward, took out a piece of silver tin, and handed it on five liang, and smiled and said, "My surname is Wei, native of Julu, I came back from a deserter and sold some horses." He pointed to Xu Deyan, who was sitting on the side: "This is in the uncle Xu Wulang, who is in charge." He also said that Wang Bao was the head of the guard, Yi Feng was a cousin, and the others were all Wei guys.

Liu Wenqi took the ingot of silver and weighed it in his hand, and quietly saw that the silver was of excellent quality. A ingot of five taels of silver could be exchanged for at least 8,000 Wuzhu meat good copper coins. If it were exchanged for those old coins with a different color, it could be exchanged for about 10,000. If it were ordinary, this amount of tea would be a lot, and it was even a bit rich. But now Liu Wenqi could not afford this little money. Now he wanted to pull some hairs when he passed by. When he was outside just now, he had already seen that the caravan was not crowded, but there were more than 100 good horses and many large and small packages. It seemed that the ones brought were rare things in the wilderness. He still treated the horses.

He was familiar with it. Those horses were even more majestic than the iron-hoofed horse he bought for forty cents a few days ago. Such horses were completely at the level of war horses. They were even not just for free in the pastures, but should have undergone strict training. In the past six months, he had known that many war horses were traveling south in Huaihuang. Most of them were iron-le war horses seized by the Huaihuang army to the north. It was rare to sell these horses to the south. It was extremely profitable. Those rich families were willing to buy one or two such war horses at high prices. Whether riding or pulling a cart, they were very respectful.

I heard that such a good horse can be sold at least 120 stakes, but after entering the Central Plains or Jianghuai, it can even be sold at a high price of 15 or even 200 stakes.

Liu Wenqi put away the ingot of silver and said politely: "The situation in the north has not been peaceful recently. Someone is ordered by the above. Here, the customs duties are imposed on the above. Whether it is going north or south. Those carrying goods worth more than 10,000 yuan will be taxed at twenty per thousand coins, and all bamboo, wood, tea, paint, horses and cattle will be taxed at ten per thousand coins. I think you sell good horses, each price is more than 100 cents. If you are the one who is the one who is the one who is more than 100 cents, you will calculate it according to ten per thousand coins. One hundred cents will be wiped off, and it will not calculate the other goods you carry. You should pay one thousand cents of tariffs."

"Tariff? One thousand guan?" Wei Zheng was stunned when he heard Liu Wenqi's lion's mouth. "I often go this path. I have never heard of the imperial court setting up checkpoints here to collect taxes, not to mention that it is actually a tax of ten taxes. Is this official, a bit misunderstood?" While saying that, Wei Zheng took out another silver volt, and this time he sent it to him.

"We just listened to the orders, and what we said, how we did it. Of course, since the shopkeeper Wei is so easy to talk to, I can discuss the matter. Otherwise, your group of horses will be calculated at the price of forty pieces of silk, and you will pay the tariff of four hundred pieces of silk for ten taxes." Liu Wenqi saw that Wei Zheng was not bad in appearance and his surname was Wei, but he came from Julu, so he estimated that it was likely to be related to the Wei family of Julu. The Wei family of Julu is a large clan in Hebei, a high-ranking clan. He used to be a prominent family in the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi. Even after entering the Sui Dynasty, many clans still entered Guanzhong and became officials. Moreover, it is definitely not easy for those who can sell hundreds of war horses from Huaihuang to privately set up checkpoints under the banner of Youzhou Prefecture, but in fact he didn't want to make things bigger. Therefore, he took the initiative to borrow a ladder to lower the wall and broke the tariff in half.

Nowadays, the price of silk in the Central Plains is very cheap. Pili silk is like ten stones of millet, while five stones of millet is worth three stones of rice. The current price of rice in Qingqi is ten cents per bucket, the price of millet is six cents per bucket, and one stone of millet is thirty cents per stone, and ten stone of millet is only six hundred cents. However, in Guanzhong, the price of rice has risen to twenty cents per bucket, and the price of silk has also reached a thousand to thousand two hundred cents per bucket. Hebei region should be the origin of silk weaving, so the price of silk is slightly cheaper, but it is basically stable at about ten thousand cents per bucket.

Forty pieces of silk are four hundred guan. Compared to the opening of one thousand guan at the beginning, this is already a 40% discount.

However, four hundred guan is still not a small number. Yi Feng couldn't help but frown. He had already judged from the other party that he could easily discount the tariff by 40% so easily that the tax would definitely not be established by the court, or even unlikely to be established by the Youzhou General Administration. Otherwise, no official would dare to change the tax of one thousand guan to four hundred guan. He estimated that it was very likely that these people set up private checkpoints. Because as far as he knew, the Sui Dynasty was a dynasty with very few taxes.

Originally, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, whether in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to frequent wars, each dynasty had a variety of taxes, and was able to seize them only to maintain the government. However, after the Sui Dynasty unified the world, especially after pacifying the Southern Chen Dynasty, Emperor Yang Jian implemented the equal-field system and granted land three times in the world. After determining the system of renting and placing mediocre responsibilities, many of the original commercial taxes were also abolished or reduced.

The current commercial tax in the Sui Dynasty includes two types: customs tax and municipal tax. The municipal tax is the tax collected by the court on merchants in various cities, and the tariff is the tariff collected by the court at some passes and Hejin ferries in various places. However, these checkpoints are rare, generally in frontiers or important passes. In Hejin, the first is defense. The second is tax collection. From Huaihuang to Youzhou, Daning Pass is a formal tax collection gate, and the Jundu Pass is also a formal tax collection gate. There should be no checkpoint here. This is neither a pass nor a Hejin ferry. As long as merchants do not enter the city, they do not need to pay money at all.

It is said that the commercial tax accounted for a very small part of the imperial taxes at this time. The commercial tax of the imperial court was very single. In the early days of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was also transaction tax. The transaction amount was 10,000 yuan, and the seller was 300 yuan, and the buyer was 100 yuan, and the total tax rate was 100 yuan. However, it was abolished shortly after the founding of the Sui Dynasty. At the same time, various mineral taxes were abolished. Private people could start mining, and there were basically no taxes, and gold, silver and copper were completely allowed to be mined. Even the special taxes levied on salt, tea, wine, iron, etc. were now not taxed except for the preparation for war to implement a wine monopoly system. In other words, this policy is extremely relaxed compared to the salt, iron monopoly of salt, iron and salt, tea, wine and wine monopoly in the middle and late Tang dynasties, and the salt, tea, wine and wine monopoly in the middle and late Tang dynasties, where even houses had to be taxed, it is extremely relaxed.

The two major commercial taxes retained by the Sui Dynasty were also much lower than before. Although there were tariffs, it was impossible to set up checkpoints everywhere. Sometimes there was not necessarily a tax checkpoint in a state. Yi Feng and his team passed the army and entered Youzhou and paid tax once, but their group had more than 30 people and more than 100 horses. They only calculated based on the heads, and each person only collected ten cents, and only paid three hundred cents in total. This cannot even be called tariffs, but should be called customs clearance fees. Now this group of people has not even stated their identity, and they dared to call for eleven tariffs as soon as they came up, which is even more cruel than the original Tiger Alliance blocking the road. Therefore, Yi Feng has almost confirmed that although these guys are not Green Forest Bandits, they are definitely servants in the public ranks.

"You are here to set up customs and collect taxes, but do you have any court documents?" Yi Feng blocked Wei Zheng who was preparing to pay. He was not unable to afford the hundreds of stagnants of money, nor was he reluctant to give up. Instead, this road is two necessary roads to Huaihuang going south, which is also very important for Huaihuang. If this group of people blocked the road and charged here without any scruples, it would be a cancer for Huaihuang's trade. Since he encountered it, he would definitely have to take care of it.

"What do you mean?" Liu Wen raised his face and glared at Yi Feng.

"There is no tariff in this dynasty, let alone one ten taxes, even if there is twenty thousand taxes, there is no such tariff. My Emperor of Sui is kind and loving to the people. He had already cancelled the customs clearance tax at the beginning of his establishment. Although Hejin also set up a high level of checkpoints in the pass, it is more about smuggling illegally. As for the pass, it is just a little money for passing caravans, each person is only 10 cents at most. I went south by the desert, passed through the infinite gate, the army, and the army was closed for three formal checkpoints of the imperial court. Each checkpoint was paid for ten cents, and there was no difference." After saying that, Yi Feng said coldly to Liu Wenqi and said, "Take your people away quickly, I just think that what happened just now is just a joke."

Liu Wenqi was frightened by Yi Feng's aura and could not refute it for a long time. After taking two steps, he came back to his senses. He was immediately angry and took two steps forward and shouted: "Troubled and tyrant businessman, I think you are clearly a spy spy spy of the Turks. Brothers, take down all these spies who sneaked into my Great Sui territory under the name of horse peddling!"

A group of Youzhou's Pinzi Bai Zhizhi and other sexual soldiers drew their swords and shouted. Although these people were not officials, they were all local snakes in Youzhou Prefecture. At this time, they saw that the matter was getting worse, but instead they became ruthless. They directly took the hat of Yi Feng and other spies, and then they were about to take them down and then throw them into the prison. Then they would arrange a few prisoners to give these guys some secrets and kill them suddenly. The matter would be decisive. After they were done, the more than one hundred high-quality horses would become theirs. This was a gift worth tens of thousands of yuan. The wealth was moved by people. Birds died for food and humans died for money.

When Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin and other groups of flag guards heard Liu Wenqi and others draw their swords, they immediately whistled and came out from all over the place.

Before Liu Wenqi and others could figure out the situation, they could only hear the sudden sound of each other's screams outside. After a ping-pong sound, the noisy outside suddenly became quiet.

This kind of tranquility made more than ten people standing in the hall uneasy.

Kicked to the iron plate!

In the silence, a steady and powerful footsteps sounded. Cheng Mingzhen and Li Wenxiang entered the lobby.

"Everyone outside is done." Cheng Mingzhen reported. Li Wenxiang grinned and smiled, "They are all silver-like wax gun tips, which are too unbearable, and they shout so loudly. They are all cowards when they move. They don't even need to pull out their swords. They are all knocked to the ground in a few strokes. They throw their swords and sticks all over and beg for mercy. There are more than a dozen here, and maybe some can be beaten."

In the lobby, the atmosphere became a little weird for a moment.

Liu Wenqi and others were all picking up the knife in their hands, but they didn't dare to move. On the contrary, Yi Feng, Wei Zheng and several others sat leisurely in the hall, not taking Liu Wenqi and others seriously. Liu Wenqi held the unsheathed knife in his hand, and he was not going forward at this time. He was not going back. Sweat was pouring out on his head, and his clothes were already wet with sweat. He was already a little regretful at this time. These people were not ordinary people at first sight, and they should not be greedy.

"You can leave." Yi Feng picked up a cup of freshly brewed tea, took a sip, and then said without turning his head.

Liu Wenqi felt that he had been rolling in the water for a long time, and finally caught a life-saving straw. He breathed a sigh of relief. He put the knife in the sheath, walked a few steps back, and felt a little embarrassed. Finally, he was encouraging the courage to turn around and hug Yi Feng, "Catch money from Youzhou Prefecture in Liu Wenqi. I will say goodbye to you today, and I will meet again in the future. Goodbye." Leave a scene, and Liu Wenqi turned around and wanted to leave.

"Let's go!" Yi Feng shouted, Liu Wenqi's face changed rapidly, and his regretful heart was almost blue. He thought that the people he said just now had changed their minds, and even the people next to him were all complaining secretly.

"Who is Liu Wenjing?" Unexpectedly, Yi Feng asked an unexpected question.

"If you are talking about Liu Wenjing, the third officer of the Weifu Mansion, you are the brother." When Liu Wenqi talked about his brother, his courage also strengthened a little.

"Is Liu Wenjing still the personal guard in the personal guard office?" Yi Feng whispered to himself, then looked up and said to Liu Wen: "I have robbed Liu Wenjing once, but I never thought that his brothers are robbing me once. You go, I hope you don't act so boldly again in the future, otherwise the people you meet will not be as easy to talk to as I do."

Liu Wenqi's face was no longer bloody at this time. After hearing this, he hurriedly left in a panic. After taking his people out of the inn with him hundreds of steps, he felt that he had a smooth breath again.

"Liu Erlang, we just retreated like this. Maybe these people were just bluffing just now." A few Pinzi, who finally recovered at this time, but still wanted to save face. They didn't even know who the other party was, so they retreated in such a mess. After they went back, if it was spread, they would be very embarrassed today.

"We were in trouble today and never expected to meet this person. But we were lucky enough. This person was in a good mood and did not want to make things difficult for us. If we can get out smoothly, let's burn a few high incense when we go back." Liu Wenqi said with lingering fear.

When Yi Feng mentioned that he had robbed his brother just now, he immediately realized who he met today. His brother had been robbed once in his life. After that robbery, the eldest brother had told him carefully. The person who robbed the brother was named Yi Sanlang at that time, and now Yi Shuai Huaihuang. At that time, the eldest brother went to Hedong to do business. Once, he had a conflict with several passers-by while staying in the hotel. As a result, they were robbed halfway through the road. The person who robbed them was the ones who had conflicted with them in the store and then used the power of the government to catch the other party. No one expected that after these people were taken away by the official, they immediately fled halfway, and then waited for them to arrive halfway, then looted them all, leaving only a pair of calf shorts for them, and left them with a long stretch.

That incident was a deep memory for Liu Wenjing. Before he came to Youzhou, his elder brother told him about this incident, so that he must be careful and low-key when he is away.

Unexpectedly, he actually met Yi Sanlang today. Thinking that he wanted to blackmail Yi Feng, he couldn't help but sweat. When his elder brother met Yi Feng, Yi Feng was just a horse thief in Yanshan. Now, Yi Feng is already the general manager of Wuzhou and the emperor's grandson who is tragic among the people. If Yi Feng really wants to worry about it, it is a question whether they can walk out of the inn alive today.

"Do you know who that person is?"

"A person we can never afford to offend, let's go. I'll treat you to the Zhang family restaurant in front. Everyone eats pork head meat and drinks, drink it happily, and suppress your shock." Liu Wenqi swung his whip, turned over the horse, grabbed the horse's belly, and galloped. Now he just hopes that the farther away from that person, he can't afford to offend him and can only hide far away.

In the inn, Wang Bao looked at Liu Wenqi and his crowd who were walking away in a mess and said disdainfully, "These city foxes and club rats just let them go, isn't it too cheap for them?"

"Forget it, these people are from Youzhou Prefecture after all, so we don't want to intervene too much, and we don't have time to make trouble this time." Yi Feng shook his hand. However, he was thinking in his heart that Liu Wenqi's eldest brother Liu Wenjing. This guy is a talent. Maybe after entering Beijing this time, he can talk to this guy and see if he can use it. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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