"If you're not a family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are." Gu Yucheng sighed, holding the tax books and account books of Ju Rangdao.
Everyone knows that there is a huge tax pit in Jujang Road, but when you actually look at it, it really makes you tremble physically and mentally.
Not to mention other things, just the monks who need to be supported by the governor's mansion have been owed wages for twenty years. In the past twenty years, apart from the expenses for food, it can be said that these monks have spent nothing on cultivation. .
What is pitiful is that these monks actually endured this for twenty years. Thinking about it, at least in this official residence, they don't have to be taxed as heavily as the casual cultivators outside. These monks have no family power or gang support behind them, so they really have no other choice but to endure it silently.
Looking at the scene in front of him, the anger Gu Yucheng had in Fuyang County was much weaker.
Susukino hesitated and finally said, "Junhou, what do you mean by the Northern Governor...?"
Gu Yucheng put down the account book, his expression slightly irritated, "Don't think about it. Jujang Road will not be in our hands."
"I introduced Xu Fanying to Bei Fuzhen, and Bei Fuzhen turned around and brought the Changchun Society to Bai Zimo. Xu's Changchun Society is now dealing with Bai Zimo. But facing Zhishanmen and Pihou behind Tonglu Mountain Gate, Bei Fuyu plans to take a look at it slowly."
"He said that he wanted to wrong me for a while, and that he would first send monks to rectify Jurangdao. In fact, he came to empty out all the positions in Jurangdao, so that I could only have a name. Ha. Come to think of it, I won't be in Ningding, Beifu You won't take me seriously for a moment." Gu Yucheng laughed at himself.
"Gongyuhui received the support of Bei Fuyu and intensified its crackdown on the beggar gang. Tonglu Mountain and Jinsuo Road were monitored and controlled by Xu Fanying. As for the taxes on Juyang Road, less than half of Tonglu Mountain and more than half of taxes were paid. Give it to Beifu." Gu Yucheng looked very ugly when he told the result.
What Bei Fuyu did was equivalent to destroying Noga's kindness.
Zheng Ang was originally sent to promise to exempt Jijang Road from taxes, but now he has taken it for himself.
Gu Yucheng made meritorious deeds on Dongning Island, but ended up in this situation again.
In the final analysis, the realm is still low and the power is too weak.
Although Susukino Rang was not decadent, he forced himself to say, "We, like the Sha family, have lost our place in Juyang Road..."
Gu Yucheng's eyes were slightly twitching, "Bei Fuyu thinks that my level is too low and I can't make any waves, so that's why... But if we retreat today, will we return tomorrow or not? - This Ju Rangdao, you can't leave nothing behind. Give me one."
Susukino looked at Gu Yucheng nervously: "Junhou."
Gu Yucheng shook his head, "Ju Rangdao, everyone in the world, including everyone, is looking at us more or less. How is Jiang Yongshou prepared?"
Susukino held the long sword at his waist firmly and said, "I will ask Jiang Yongshou to come over."
Before Susukino could take action, Jiang Yongshou had been dragged in by Qin officials.
Gu Yucheng saw that the Qin official was holding a bronze sword no larger than a palm, and asked tentatively, "Senior, is there anything you are not satisfied with?"
Qin Li pursed his lips slightly and said, "That's not true either. Gu Yucheng, since you can endure being left out in Nanjun, why do you have to fight to the death today?"
Gu Yucheng frowned slightly. ——The Qin official is not a monk from the Demon Kingdom? How well does he know himself?
The Qin official let go of Jiang Yongshou and asked coldly, "Do you want to use the spiritual jade to recruit the monks and trade with the Sha family to squeeze out the monks sent by Beifuzhen? - You can really make Beifuzhen lose face by doing this. , it’s not impossible. But it’s just a battle of wills!”
"I thought you were really talented and talented. I didn't expect that you were only limited to "face". You are so stupid." Qin Li's words were cold enough and bone-piercing.
Gu Yucheng frowned.
Qin Li walked up to Gu Yucheng, took out a smoking pot, stuffed tobacco into the pot head, sat down at the wooden table and lit the tobacco. Holding a bronze knife, he was carving something.
Dry tobacco was introduced from overseas during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Even though pharmacists had long pointed out that long-term smoking was not beneficial, dry tobacco was still spread throughout the wilderness.
Qin Li took a deep breath and chanted several times with satisfaction, "Wonderful. - Ouch! Ouch!"
Gu Yucheng swept away the choking smoke and made up his mind, "Xu Fanying has abandoned me, and Bei Fuyu is also wary of me. Didn't Senior say that the age of great strife can't wait? Why now - cough cough!"
After the Qin official took two puffs of smoke, he squinted his eyes and said, "It's a shame for you that Bei Fuyu abandoned you. No one you come into contact with is you."
Can call the shots.
People will always have emotions and desires, and dissatisfaction with the status quo, even if it is a small problem, will become a poison that eats away the reason in the heart if time goes by. "
"This is a human being, driven by lust and ignorant of reason." Qin Li stood up and said, "Think about it, will the gang behind you allow you to take risks like this?"
Gu Yucheng thought of Zhang Shouhong and the Beggar Clan.
In fact, what made Gu Yucheng so irrational was not that he was embarrassed in front of Yu Cang Shuliang, but that he had used Gong Yuhui's acting to fool Xu Fanying. Now he is being used by Xu Fanying, and he has really become a sword in front of the Beggar Clan. new
At this point, Gu Yucheng became angry.
After being scolded by Qin officials, Gu Yucheng immediately calmed down.
"How did senior know that there was someone behind me?" Gu Yucheng asked his first question.
Qin Li's brows were filled with joy and his eyes were filled with light. "I guessed it. - Haha, don't be surprised."
Qin Li staggered out of the door, collecting his cigarette pot as he walked.
After the Qin officials left, Gu Yucheng came to the wooden table and looked at the domineering and strangely placed four characters on the wooden table: "More humiliation means longevity."
Gu Yucheng murmured again and again, looking at Susukino Rang, "If you insult more, you will live longer. What does this mean?"
Jiang Yongshou smacked his lips and recalled from the stimulation brought by the Qin official: "I saw Zhuangzi's scriptures in Kuxian Palace. Zhuangzi believed that wealth brings many troubles and longevity brings many humiliations. According to the annotation, this is Zhuangzi The analysis of real things is what Taoism calls "contentment, knowing to stop, knowing the constant"."
"In other words, don't focus on longevity, let alone be obsessed with wealth?" Susukino asked doubtfully, "If that's the case, longevity is the result of humiliation? What does it mean?"
Gu Yucheng laughed, "Misfortune and fortune depend on each other, and yin and yang intertwine. If you live for a long time, you will suffer more humiliation. Then, only those who can endure humiliation can live for a long time, right? If they are like Wang Lang and Wang Situ in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, , wouldn’t it be a pity to be scolded to death by Zhuge Wuhou if he couldn’t even take a breath?”
"More humiliation will lead to longevity, less humiliation will lead to fighting, and constant fighting will lead to defeat and chaos." Gu Yucheng sighed, "Senior Qin Li, he is really a wonderful person."
Susukino Rang and Jiang Yongshou looked at each other and knew that Gu Yucheng had given up his plan against Bei Fuzhen.
It doesn't matter to either of them, they are willing to go to the dark side with Gu Yucheng, no matter what Gu Yucheng chooses.
Gu Yucheng turned to Susukino Rang and said, "Even if you don't have to face Beifuzun Zhenmang, you still have to pay the fees owed to the handyman monks. Everyone is grateful for my kindness, so why worry about no one paying my respects?"
Susukino let out a sigh, "That's a lot of money. And it's owed by Tan Chulin! Even if the prince doesn't recognize it, it doesn't matter. Even if we start paying salaries now, those monks will be very grateful to us."
Gu Yucheng shook his head and said, "I know this kind of thing, but if you send Buddha to the West, a good person must do it to the end!"
Susukino nodded helplessly and took Jiang Yongshou to prepare the spiritual jade for payment.
Gu Yucheng planned to visit Qin officials.
There are many mysteries about this old man. Since I am willing to wake myself up, I think I am kind to myself.
Unfortunately, just when Gu Yucheng was about to visit the official Qin, he heard that the official Qin and Cang Shuliang had a quarrel.
