A Mongolian on horseback in front looked back at the two people behind him.
The middle-aged man sitting on the cart smiled and tried to please the Mongolian in front of him.
The Mongolians only glanced at it, then withdrew their gaze, urged their horses, and followed the movement of people towards the city gate.
"Watch your mouth and don't talk nonsense. We are just businessmen here to do business. We can't afford to offend any Mongolians." The middle-aged man taught his son a lesson.
The young man looked down on his father's cautious appearance and couldn't help but retort: "Didn't the Tumut tribe say that they have been conquered by the tiger-character flag?"
"Just listen to this, who knows whether it is true or not." said the middle-aged man.
The young man raised his finger and pointed in front, saying: "My son thinks it must be true. Dad, look at the front. Do the guards in front of the city gate look like the people with the Tiger Flag?"
The Tiger-Character Flag convoy not only comes to the grasslands, but also often appears in the Ming Dynasty. The guards of the convoy are all Tiger-Character Flag soldiers, dressed similarly to the guards in front of Qingcheng City.
The middle-aged man looked in the direction of the young man's finger, squinted his eyes, and said after a while: "It's really similar."
"It seems that the Tiger Character Banner conquered the Tumut tribe is true. I never thought that we Han people could also conquer the Mongols, or a large and powerful tribe like the Tumut tribe." The young man said proudly.
Almost no one living in the north of the Ming Dynasty, especially those living in the border areas, knew how powerful the Tumote tribe was, and many people in the border areas had been harassed by the Tumote tribe's cavalry.
Such a powerful tribe, but even the country's capital fell into the hands of Tiger Flag.
This made the young man, who was also a businessman of the Ming Dynasty like Hu Ziqi, feel a sense of pride from the bottom of his heart.
"Don't be too happy too early. A large and powerful tribe like the Tumut tribe can't be conquered so easily, let alone by a company from the Ming Dynasty." The middle-aged man is not like his son. So be optimistic about the Tiger Flag.
The older the person is, the more he understands how powerful the Tumut tribe is, so he does not believe that the Tiger-Character Banner can conquer the Tumut tribe, thinking it is a rumor that has been deliberately spread.
"Dad, the soldiers of the Tiger Flag have become the guards of Qingcheng. If the Tumut tribe had not been conquered, how could there be soldiers of the Tiger Flag guarding the city gate?" said the young man.
He was more willing to believe that the Tiger Character Banner had conquered the Tumote tribe.
"Stop talking nonsense and drive forward. Whoever guards the city gate has nothing to do with us. Only when the business is done can we make money." The middle-aged man did not want to argue with his son. He was more concerned about whether the goods he brought could be sold smoothly.
The flow of people in front of the city gate moved forward little by little.
When the Mongols in front of the father and son entered the city, it was finally their turn.
"Master Jun, we are here to do business in Qingcheng. We need to enter the city. Please make it easier for you." The middle-aged man had already got off the cart and took out a few pieces of silver from his arms and secretly handed it to the guard in front of him. plug.
The guard pushed back the middle-aged man's extended hand, stretched his head to look behind the middle-aged man, and asked, "Are these large cars behind you with you?"
"Yes, yes, together, we came all the way from Xinpingbao." The middle-aged man nodded and bowed.
The guard turned around and said to the other guard behind him: "These large cars are caravans from the Ming Dynasty. Bring them a sign."
After hearing this, the guard behind turned around and walked towards the wooden table not far away.
The guard took out something from the basket on the wooden table, returned to the previous guard, and handed the thing in his hand over.
The guard took the bamboo sign, handed it to the middle-aged man in front of him, and said: "Take this sign and go directly to the tax office after entering the city. Only after registration can the goods be sold. Okay, let's go into the city!"
He waved his hand and signaled the middle-aged man in front of him to enter the city.
"Master Jun, can I ask what this tax yamen does!" The middle-aged man pushed the broken silver in his hand into the guard's hand again, and this time he put in an extra tael of silver.
The guard pushed the middle-aged man's hand away with his hand and said: "The tax yamen is the place where taxes are collected. People like you who come to Qingcheng to do business need to pay taxes. Please wait until you go to the tax yamen and ask the person who handles the details. .”
"I understand." The middle-aged man nodded, and then said, "I drink tea in honor of the military master, and I ask the military master to accept it." TV first @@@
With that said, he lowered the silver in his hand again.
The guard waved his hand and said: "You don't have to pay the city gate fee to enter and exit the city gate. You don't need to give me money. As long as you pay taxes honestly, no one in the city will dare to trouble you. Okay, don't be stuck here. Hurry and enter the city."
After speaking, he did not forget to glance at the military judge standing not far away.
Garrisoning at the city gate can easily lead to the situation of trying to take advantage of others. In order to prevent this from happening, there are special military judges here to keep an eye on the soldiers stationed at the city gate.
The middle-aged man took back the hand holding the silver in a nonchalant manner.
After traveling all over the country for so many years, this was the first time he saw an official who did not accept benefits.
After sitting back on the side of the cart, the young man driving the cart on the other side waved his whip, driving the animals to pull the cart, and moved forward slowly.
One cart after another soon passed through the city gate and entered Qingcheng.
"Dad, where are we going?" the young man asked the middle-aged man in the car.
The middle-aged man looked left and right, and then said: "Let's go forward along the road. Go to the front and ask someone where the tax office is."
"You really went to that tax office!" The young man curled his lips and said, "We have never paid commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty, so we can't come to the grassland to pay commercial taxes!"
Businessmen like them often travel around the world, but they have never paid business taxes to the court seriously. Not paying taxes is a normal thing, but paying taxes is abnormal.
"Go if you are told. What nonsense." The middle-aged man scolded his son.
He is well-informed and knows very well that in other people's territory, you must obey other people's orders, otherwise, your life may be lost.
A Ming businessman like him who came to do business on the grassland would die in vain if he really died on the grassland. No one would seek justice for him.
Several large carts walked forward for several hundred steps, far away from the city gate, and then stopped.
The young man jumped out of the carriage and asked a Han man standing on the roadside, "Excuse me, where is the tax office?"
The Han man first looked at the young people and several large cars in front of him, then raised his hand and pointed in the direction behind him, saying: "Go forward until you see an empty field. There are many people gathered around. The tax office is here." Over there."
"Thank you." The young man bowed his hands politely and then returned to the cart.
