The old man immediately looked at Fan Chunren with contempt, "Who is here for that little salary? I am here to gain knowledge."

"knowledge?"

"Now the imperial court attaches great importance to legal studies, medicine, and arithmetic. This is a good thing! I also want to compare with others."

"???"

Fan Chunren and Qian Yi couldn't help but look at each other.

Are these studies so popular?

Why didn't you know this before?

Weird!

It turns out that some of the officials in the Song Dynasty, who lived a comfortable life and did not have to work, were obsessed with poetry and songs, but many others studied other subjects. For example, many officials in the Song Dynasty were good at everything because they had too much free time.

, you have to find some interest.

However, because these knowledges are not mainstream knowledge, those who study these knowledges are limited to very small and closed groups among close friends.

Business Law specializes in these subjects, which arouses strong interest among this group of people.

In particular, they are very interested in this exam. Scholars like to compete. They also want to take the exam to see where they rank in this area of ​​knowledge.

Whether you go to the academy or not is another matter, but you must take the exam.

This is really unexpected.

At this moment, Fan Chunren saw a familiar figure and immediately hurried over with Qian Yi.

"Chunren has met Uncle Ouyang."

"Mr. Ouyang."

It's not who Ouyang Xiu is.

Now he was dressed in commoner clothes. When he saw the two of them, he just smiled and said: "You are here too! Don't call me husband, I am just a commoner now."

Qian Yi nodded.

Fan Chunren asked: "Why does Uncle Ouyang have time to come here today?"

Ouyang Xiu was slightly startled and said, "Let me see how he passed the agricultural exam."

Fan Chunren blinked and said hurriedly: "I almost forgot that Uncle Ouyang is proficient in cultivation and planting techniques."

"A little dabbling, a little dabbling!"

Ouyang Xiu chuckled: "That's why I also want to come and see it."

At this time, a swordsman and penman quickly walked into the courtyard and whispered in front of Qian Yi: "Reporting to the president, the white tiger mountain bandit Zhentianhu has been captured."

Ouyang Xiu was stunned for a moment and said: "Zhentian Tiger?"

Qian Yi asked hurriedly: "Does Mr. Ouyang know this person?"

Ouyang Xiu said with emotion: "How could I not realize that this bandit has been entrenched in Baihu Mountain and is very cunning. The government has encircled and suppressed it several times, but all ended in failure, and the losses were not small!"

Then he asked the swordsman and penman: "Who was he captured?"

The swordsman and pen official said: "Taxation Department."

Ouyang Xiu was surprised, "Tax...Taxation Department?"

The swordsman and pen official nodded and said: "It seems that it is because the Zhentianhu has 3,000 acres of land near Baihu Mountain, but has not paid taxes."

Ouyang Xiu couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

It took the government ten years to catch the bandit, but the tax department arrested him in one fell swoop for tax evasion.

this.....!

At this moment, another court policeman ran over and said, "Please inform Judge Qian. The tax envoy said that he has something important to discuss with the Judge."

Immediately, Fan Chunren and Qian Yi rushed to the imperial court, and saw a bitter-looking middle-aged man sitting in the hall.

When the middle-aged man saw the two of them, he immediately bowed his hands and said, "Wu Daliang has met Prosecutor General Fan."

This person is the Qingzhou tax envoy, Wu Daliang.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Qian Yi bowed his hands and said, "I just heard that Zhentianhu, the grass bandit from Baihu Mountain, was captured by your tax police?"

Wu Daliang nodded and said: "That's why I'm here today. We found out that some businessmen have close contacts with Zhentianhu. Now we have convinced those businessmen to testify against Zhentianhu and accuse him of tax evasion. I hope

The Royal Court can pardon these witnesses from their crimes."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fan Chunren immediately said: "That Zhentianhu has done many evil things and must be a capital crime. Why does the tax envoy need to do this?"

This is already a capital crime, is it still necessary to pursue the crime of tax evasion?

For this reason, do you also pardon the crimes of those profiteers?

This is not unnecessary, what is it?

Wu Daliang said: "Having said that, our Taxation Department is all about evidence. If no one accuses him of tax evasion, then it will be difficult for us to convict him. If we cannot convict him of tax evasion, then it will be difficult for our Taxation Department to obtain

fine."

Qian Yi was puzzled: "Is it worth letting those who do evil things off just for this fine?"

Wu Daliang cupped his hands and said: "Please forgive me, President Qian, our tax department only relies on fines to survive."

Fan Chunren said: "If I don't agree, what will the tax envoy do?"

Wu Daliang said: "Without the evidence provided by our tax department, it would be difficult for you to investigate those businessmen, and we will keep Zhentianhu detained until we find other evidence."

Fan Chunren said: "But the procuratorate can investigate your tax department."

"I know that, and we will also cooperate with the procuratorate's investigation." Wu Daliang nodded, and then changed the topic and said: "To be offensive, if the procuratorate can find out the actions of our tax department, or even evidence of crimes, then you

It will be very easy to find the evidence."

Just so domineering!

The corner of Fan Chunren's mouth twitched, but he also knew the methods of the Taxation Department. The Procuratorate had not checked it, but it was of no use. He nodded and said: "Okay, this time our Procuratorate is willing to cooperate with your Taxation Department, but you also

Remember what you said today, our procuratorate will definitely be able to find evidence of your crime in the future."

Wu Daliang took out a contract and said, "As long as the imperial court signs this declaration, our tax department will formally file a lawsuit against the Zhentianhu."

Qian Yi took it and took a look, "This is Zhang San's masterpiece!"

...

However, the Taxation Department is not omnipotent. In fact, they are just like the soldiers. When encountering each other on a narrow road, the brave will win. In Qizhou, the Taxation Department suffered a big setback.

In the misty spring rain, on a low hill in the suburbs, there were faint sounds of crying, but I saw some women and children kneeling in front of the brand-new graves, covering their faces and sobbing.

There were dozens of men standing next to them, but they saw a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar, standing at the front of the team. "Man perishes for money, and birds perish for food. This is nothing to complain about, but if we want

To reduce the occurrence of such things, we must unite and complete revenge on those evil thieves.

Our Taxation Department will offer a reward of 10,000 yuan to capture these evil thieves until they pay with blood. We want to tell everyone that once they mess with our Taxation Department, they will only die. There is absolutely no chance of death.

The second result."

"eye for eye!"

"Blood debt and blood taste!"

...

Zhang Fei, who was in Bianjing, had no time to go east for the time being. He had to quickly deal with the financial crisis of Hezhong Prefecture, because he dug this hole. Yuan Jiang and the others were helpless about it. After all, the salt production was limited.

There are only so many years. If you ate too much food in the first place, you will definitely have problems today. You must find enough salt to make up for it.

Zhang Fei's response was very simple, which was to smuggle cheap Xixia salt as a supplement.

To put things into perspective, Xixia salt is not only cheap, but also very close to the border states. However, after Zhao Xu took office, he issued the strictest ban on private salt in Xixia, forcing Xixia's economy to deteriorate and preparing for a large-scale attack in the future.

Today, Li Bao came to the Zhang family with detailed information on the Northwest Salt Policy. At the same time, he also brought bad news.

"The Taxation Department encountered an ambush in Qizhou and lost more than 20 people."

"what happened?"

Zhang Fei asked immediately.

Li Bao said: "I'm really not making excuses. It's all because we expanded locally too early and the tax department didn't go there. As a result, some people gradually lost their patience. After the news of Hezhong Prefecture came, those people all changed.

You have to be more careful and beware of people around you being bribed by the tax department. This fiasco happened because the person we recruited was bribed by a local bandit and then tipped off the other party, so that our tax police were ambushed."

Zhang Fei frowned and said, "Then are they capable of revenge?"

Li Bao nodded and said: "They have found the real culprit and have offered a reward of 10,000 yuan. It won't take long before we can make those people pay with their blood."

Zhang Fei nodded, "Go tell them that to deal with this group of people, there is no need to keep anyone alive, and there is no need to give them a chance to plead. Just leave some witnesses and get the fines. It's time to tell everyone that the Taxation Department

He really knows how to kill people."

Li Bao nodded.
To be continued...