Liu Xin and Pang De returned to the government office and continued drinking. While drinking, they discussed the next countermeasures and details.
The other party has made it clear that the person who came here is evil, and they will definitely investigate. Once the problem is really found, what awaits them will be the outcome of confiscating their homes and beheading them.
As for resistance? Haha, what are you resisting with?
You send people to assassinate people? Okay, two third-level masters and a group of guards with high martial arts skills. What kind of assassins can you recruit to successfully assassinate?
Send troops to encircle and suppress? That's even more impossible. Can your mere 2,000 local troops defeat more than 20,000 elite imperial troops?
And regardless of whether you can win or not, assassinating the prince or the imperial minister is a serious crime of genocide and the death of nine tribes.
They dominate the local area, covering the sky with one hand, and they are arrogant. All ordinary people have to rely on them to make a living. They can be said to be the gods of the local area.
They are unattainable existences in the eyes of ordinary people, but similarly, the identity of the team in front of them is also an unattainable level for them.
For Wang Fugui and others, this team is a dimensionality reduction attack.
While he was drinking, the prefect suddenly asked,
"Old Pang, get rid of that general of yours, Zhao Long, tomorrow. This guy is a gangster and has always been worried about you and me embezzling money.
In the past, for the sake of his father's filial piety to us, I had always been tolerant to him and just ignored him. He couldn't get the evidence anyway.
But today, he is still unwilling to kneel down to the imperial envoys. This is critical and will make all of us lose our heads. Keeping such a person will sooner or later be a serious problem.
Regardless of the severity or the occasion, after the imperial team has left, send him out to suppress the bandits, and let him die in the hands of the bandits. "
"Well, I understand. I have wanted to kill him for a long time, but you must not let me."
Pound said nonchalantly.
"His father is very filial, and I don't want to lose his wealth. By the way, be careful that this gangster doesn't hesitate to complain in front of their highnesses. Send someone to his house to keep an eye on him."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
…
Posthouse.
After Wang Fugui and others all entered, they went back to their respective rooms to wash up.
After all, we have been bathing in sand along the way, and no one can stand it.
After taking a shower, Wang Fugui put on his clothes comfortably. At this time, there was a knock on the door at the right time.
"Come in, everyone."
Wang Fugui replied calmly.
The door was opened and a group of people filed in.
The leaders were Chai Yuan and Nian An, followed by Zhao Tao and other guards, as well as a porter dressed as a hawker.
"Your Highness, people have brought it."
Zhao Tao clasped his hands and said, turning sideways at the same time.
The traveler lowered his eyebrows and looked humble, but his eyes were extremely sharp. He first saluted with clasped palms.
"Meet the chief helmsman."
"Well, where are the things?"
"The villain brought it."
The porter picked up the small baggage he was carrying, opened it, took out six notebooks from it, and placed them on the table.
"Chief Chief, this is the tax ledger of Wuwei County in the past six years. The villain stole it from the concubine's bedroom of the prefect of Yamen."
"Oh? How did you get the prefect's concubine?"
Wang Fugui said in surprise.
The porter was also shocked and said,
"The villain just stole something, there is no need to deal with the concubine."
Wang Fugui nodded,
"Oh, I thought you were..."
boom!
Nian An slapped the table, interrupting Wang Fugui's bold imagination.
"Thank you for your hard work. Follow me as a bodyguard from now on. Don't stay here. When you came in, the prefect's people had already seen your face. Even if I killed the prefect, his intricate forces are still there. You It’s not safe to stay here.”33
Feeling Wang Fugui's attentive care, the traveler also benefited greatly, hugged his hands and said,
"It all depends on the chief helmsman, and I am willing to do my best for you."
It is precisely because Wang Fugui is careful enough and cares enough about his subordinates that his people are willing to sacrifice their lives for him.
"Zhao Tao, go make arrangements for him later."
"Your Highness, don't worry."
Wang Fugui opened the account book and looked at it one by one. It took him a full two-quarters of an hour to finish flipping through it.
Then, he threw the notebook on the table and sneered,
"This Wuwei County is quite wealthy. Although it is not rich in grain and grass, it does have a lot of business taxes."
Chai Yuan sneered and said,
"You know they will definitely be causing trouble behind your back, how about that? Are you greedy enough?"
Wang Fugui smiled slightly and began to settle accounts.
"According to the records in the account books, the head tax and commercial tax collected by Wuwei County every year is just over one hundred thousand taels of silver, and the grain is fifty thousand shi. After all, it is not a grain-producing place, so it is understandable.
Then this tax, it stands to reason, is shared equally between the imperial court and Wuwei. That is to say, they need to pay 50,000 taels of silver and 25,000 shi of grain to the imperial court every year, and the other half belongs to Duke Wuwei.
But before I came, I looked through the tax books handed over by Wuwei County every year at the Ministry of Household Affairs and found that they only turned in 10,000 taels of silver and 5,000 shi of grain every year.
In other words, 90,000 taels of silver and 45,000 stones of grain and grass are intercepted privately every year.
According to the account books of the imperial court, the amount given to Duke Wu Wei every year should be 10,000 taels of silver and 5,000 grains. In other words, they embezzled 80,000 taels of silver and 40,000 stones of grain and grass every year.
Tsk tsk tsk, it’s so dark.
If nothing else happens, tomorrow they will give us six years' share, which is 60,000 taels of silver and 30,000 shi of grain. I'm afraid they have already prepared this amount and are waiting for us to come. "
boom!
Another sound of slapping the table came, and Nian An gritted his teeth and said,
"These dog officials embezzled so much tax money, I'm going to kill them!"
"Oh, alas, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive."
Wang Fugui grabbed her and said,
"They don't just embezzle. They don't only use taxation to make money. There are many ways to plunder people's wealth and wealth, such as kicking people's heads, cutting off fire, accepting bribes, expropriating taxes and so on.
On the contrary, tax manipulation is the riskiest item. "
"Then we have to kill them both. In the past six years, they don't know how much money they have embezzled from my family, and they don't know how many people they have exploited."
Nian'an was indignant.
Wang Fugui added fuel to Nian'an's anger.
"It's not just the past six years. Hasn't there been any manipulation before? Duke Wuwei has been away fighting all year round. How can he have time to manage the taxation here? It's too easy for them to give less money."
"Humph, these dog officers, my father is fighting outside, and the soldiers are fighting hard outside, is it just to protect them and let them bully the people like this? I'm so angry!"
Nian An's pretty face turned pale with anger. It must be said that her angry look was a little more human and a little more pyrotechnic than her usual cold look.
It looks even cuter.
Some people died, but not completely...
