Daozu is Cthulhu

Chapter 430
After leaving Sili Xiaowei's yamen, Li Fan could feel a lot of tails behind him even if he didn't need to search with his spiritual sense, following him overtly and secretly.

This is exactly as he expected. After all, Changsi City is a capital city like Gyeonggi. Every stranger who comes in has to be registered and pay taxes. You are still a Nascent Soul cultivator here, and if you come up, you will go to the Sili Xiaowei Yamen. It is a place where the wind is exposed on all sides, and there are eyeliners inside and out. He also actively declares his wealth, and he has to meet Gyeonggi to sit alone. How can he not attract attention?

Therefore, it is estimated that this early in the morning, "Ting Wei left and right supervisors enshrined Li Er", went to the city to meet Sili Xiaowei Wen Zhang, and the two were still at the critical moment of the new king's succession, discussing the big assassination of the previous king all night. It must have been written in the mansion newspaper a long time ago, submitted to Liguo Imperial City, and sent to the desks of all the lords for a preview, right?
Li Fan also chuckled and didn't care, it's better to say that it is also in his plan to startle the snake.Instead of looking for clues in the stinky canal, he started wandering around Changsi City with a bunch of tails.

In fact, Wen Zhang did not deceive anyone, well, in fact, he still bullied the original stunned young man in the middle. He hid a lot of information without mentioning it, and pointed Li Er to the wrong way to the sewer like a fool.

But this is not to deceive people, on the contrary, Wen Zhang actually wanted to pull this 'Li Er'.

After all, rather than chasing the truth, it is human nature to avoid taboo and protect oneself, and if 'Li Er', a Nascent Soul expert from other places, really has no head, he will search and scramble like a fly, not to mention being involved in the Liqiu Palace to pull the clouds During the treacherous struggle, the harmony inside and outside Changsi City was hurt. Even if the fight broke the flowers and plants on the roadside, he, the captain of Sili, might be implicated.

Fortunately, this guy is still polite. Although he is a martial artist who eats with a knife and a master of Yuanying realm, he has been in a place like Sanyuan after all. He is different from the rice bags in the Nangong family. And knowing that when he entered the city, the first thing he did was to pay a visit to the police chief of Wangdu, which was considered a way of giving him face, so Wen Zhang planned to give this guy a hand and seriously offered some good suggestions.

If Li Er really followed Wen Zhang's instructions and went to the west of the city along the stinky ditch of Yong'an Canal to investigate the dyeing workshop, although he couldn't catch the real culprit, he would certainly be able to gain something.

After all, the area of ​​Yong'an Canal, to the south of West Market, is a 'Kowloon Walled City' where there are three religions and nine streams entrenched, and fish and dragons mixed together.At the beginning, Lu Jie and his god sect opened up in the workshop to plot rebellion, and Luo Jiao's Shatang village also hid in the ditch for their lives, and there were not many serious "immortal thieves" with murder cases on their backs.

So if 'Li Er' is really a thief sent by the six sects, if you go in and stroll around, you can always catch a few criminals who are at large, right?It would be even better if the witnesses were killed, and he insisted that this is the remnant of the Black Lotus Sect, which killed Li Guozhu.Then Wen Zhang will definitely cooperate!

At that time, you will cut off the head, I will stamp the official seal, everyone will push the responsibility, and take the body away to Sanyuan to receive the reward.There is no proof of death, so whether it is the six doors or the Liguochaotang, both sides can communicate with each other, wouldn't it be beautiful?

So Wen Zhang took Li Fan to babble all night, and gave him a lot of information, hinting at several places in the market where there might be "fairy thieves".

Maybe this insidious and shrewd guy also saw that 'Li Er' was not a six-door worship, but so what?Maybe it's from the palace, who specially arranged for this person to settle this matter?

In short, the former king's cold is already cold, so there is no need to waste time, energy and financial budget on the dead. As long as this matter can be done well, the eyes of the adults above will be clear, and everyone will happily welcome His Majesty's ascension to the throne. That's fine.

But how could Li Fan let these people get what they wanted?

He mobilized so many people to come here to chat with this old man Wen Zhang, not to be a spearman for these people and maintain harmony inside and outside the imperial city!

Yes, he came here for the Taiping Temple in Dayefang, Changsi City.

We all know that those black lotus sect demon cultivators who broke into Black Bamboo Mountain were caused by the Taiping Temple behind the scenes, so what is there to be coy about, for the sake of the temple master, spare the life of the Taiping Temple If you don't die, just rush in at the main gate and beat them up violently, forcing the remnants of the Black Lotus Sect out.

Yes, being 'strong' means being able to do whatever you want and run amok.

May I ask those wastes in the Taiping Temple, can anyone stop him?
This time, I came here to do a little more detour. To put it bluntly, it is for the convenience of hiding the avatar. Anyway, when I ask you later, how do you know that the Black Lotus Sect is behind the Taiping Temple?Then Li Fan replied that Captain Sili and Lao Tzu said it last night, and you should ask him.

That's right, what's wrong with this guy, this kind of cruel official who blocks the way and will be killed with a stick, Li Fan didn't take his head off, he was already very considerate of the overall situation, okay?

However, Li Fan had to wait a little longer before rushing into the Taiping Temple head-on to start the attack, and he had to give the snake a chance to move.

So now Li Fan doesn't go straight into the city to arrest people, but pretends to wander around the west of the city for a while, then goes shopping in the West Market, drinks tea and listens to music, and pays the bill with the gold hairpins and gold bahts from the Taifu's mansion. I'm just here to travel at public expense, and I don't want to give up if I don't empty out the funds for handling the case.

The spies who followed him were not surprised. Before sending someone to handle the case, they would step on a spot nearby to inquire about information. This is a normal operation, so they also followed in the restaurant to spend money, drink tea and listen to music, and take turns to keep an eye on people. .

But when Li Fan sat in the restaurant and stared at the West Market for a while, he realized that something was wrong, so he didn't care about pretending, so he threw out a few gold bahts and started asking someone about the situation.

He wasn't asking about some immortal assassins, nor was he asking about the magic ways of the Black Lotus Sect. He was asking why the population in Changsi City was so small?

The last time Li Fan came to Changsi City was the last time, ahem, five or six years ago.

At that time, the market was full of people, and many people passed him by. The avenue was full of traffic and congestion. If you were dazzled by the dazzling array of goods, you would be crushed by the ruts if you were not careful.If you are still using the invisibility formula, your shoes will often be trampled off.

But it has only been a few years, and it has literally become a desolate and desolate scene among the commercial buildings in the West Market.

Fuck?How did Li You build the palace?How many years will it take to make Changsi City look like this?And Mo Zhushan didn't care about this kind of chaos in Changsi City?
So Li Fan chatted with the shopkeeper of the restaurant, the waiter who served the dishes, the actor who played the piano, the old man begging, and even the spies who drank tea at the next table. what happened.

How should I put it, the poor livelihood of the people in Changsi City cannot be entirely blamed on that boy Li You, but the role played by this guy from the side is not to say that it is the culprit, but it has to be said to make things worse.

Well, the lord of the country just wants to live in a new house, doesn't he just enjoy eating, drinking and having fun for a few years, so what's the matter.The mighty feudal lords of the Twelve Kingdoms, with one person under ten thousand, it is a big problem if they don't even have this little money!And to some extent, civil engineering can also be regarded as stimulating domestic demand and promoting the development of the tertiary industry!
If it was a time of peace, if the ruler of a country led the princes and ministers, civil and military officials indulged in pleasure, and did not mess with the people, the country would not be defeated.

But it has been said many times, these are troubled times.

So the biggest problem that Changsi City encountered was not the inaction of the king and the desire for pleasure, nor even the big pattern of court corruption, corpses, land annexation, etc., but a purer, more direct, and more painful blow.

The business route of Changsi City was cut off.

Kunlun to the west, Kun Kingdom to the north, and Xun Kingdom to the east, the trade routes on three sides were all cut off due to the impact of the war. The business groups that brought countless goods to Changsi City disappeared, and there was a serious shortage of capital flow and logistics chain.

As for the Black Bamboo Mountain in the south, it has recently been fully armed and shifted to strategic defense. The main energy and financial resources of the temple masters are all devoted to organizing farming, preparing for war in the north, and destroying mountains and temples.The monks in Black Bamboo Mountain also need to consume a lot of materials to produce spells and instruments for war. Since they can't buy resources in Changsi City, even the trade route from Black Bamboo Mountain in the south is quickly cut off.

This would be a devastating blow to Changsi City, a large city with a population of 240 million.

You must know that the land annexation has indeed been very serious after Liguo has been operating for these years. Most of the million people living in the southwest corner of the country are serving the princes and nobles, officials, soldiers, scholars, merchants, servants, and handicraftsmen.Most of them do not have their own fields. The vast and high-quality land outside Changsi City is completely the property of the noble clan. There are more than 40 waterwheel mills in the Guo family alone, but the Liguo people in the city live in There is no place to stand, this is the reality of society.

But no matter what, relying on the status of the capital of the country and the advantages of the southern country's trade center, the people in the city can work for dignitaries and dignitaries, buy and resell goods from various places on behalf of others, be second-tier dealers who earn the difference, and provide travel, accommodation, guards and maintenance. Various service activities such as supplies, financial services, and pawnshops exchange gold and silver for interest. No matter what, life must be richer and easier than that of farmers who cultivate and cultivate fields in frontier areas.

But now the commercial routes are cut off in all directions, and the severe shortage of funds and commercial goods has naturally led to the collapse of the economy, cutting off the means of livelihood for most people.

And the worse thing is that it doesn't stop there. If the severance of business routes is temporary, after so many years of savings and development, Changsi City is the center of Liguo after all, and the temple master will not let so many people go hungry, isn't it, life is tight A little can still be maintained.

But at this time, I want to explain the 'obligations' of the people of the Li country, or the people of the Immortal Palace, and all mortals in the world.

One is taxation, and the other is corvee service.

This is the rule that was set in the period of Xianzun. After all, it was a cruel race war at that time. Practitioners with cultivation qualifications went out to crusade against demon clans to expand their territory. Undertake the logistics of maintaining the four hosts and eight feudal clans and twelve armies of Xiangong.

Specifically, taxation is the direct payment of money and food. For example, the regular taxes stipulated by the state and still in use today include oral tax, calculation tax, household tax, mountain, river and forest tax, donation fee, land rent, capital calculation, city tax, rent baht, Tariffs, etc., and there are even more miscellaneous taxes and donations added by the local government.Needless to say, Liguo, especially in a place with developed industry and commerce like Changsi City, has the most tax items.

The corvee service is to provide physical labor for labor and garrison, build city walls and water conservancy, forge ordnance and armor, inspect Zhou counties in the inland, and transport money, food and military equipment to the front line for rotation on the frontier.

I also want to know that the civil engineering works for the overhaul of Liqiu Palace are all apportioned in the form of corvee.Moreover, the big money of the project is naturally earned by the eunuchs who are the contractors. The people in Changsi City are only assigned voluntary labor. It will be allocated to powerful families like the Guo family, and in the end it will all be allocated to the people in the southwest city.

Originally, if the business travel was cut off, there would be no income, but now he has to do volunteer work for the country's leader. He is so exhausted all day long that he doesn't even have enough food to eat. Naturally, the people complain and become angry.

And don't forget, there is also a problem of excessive distribution of Shengang money during the same period.

The system of the Immortal Palace's Shengang money has already collapsed.Sanyuan has lost the ability to manage the local area, and the right to mint coins has naturally been controlled by the local tyrants. Not only the clans of the Twelve Kingdoms have merged their land, plundered the assets of merchants and citizens, and the flood of private money has also become a common problem faced by the Twelve Kingdoms. .

Of course, not only Sanyuan and Nangong's family were exchanging bad money for new money, but also the imperial courts of the Twelve Kingdoms, local elites, and even private banks in Changsi City were all minting coins on a large scale, and bad money was chasing good money.

Li Fan has also seen forged Shengang coins before, but the difference is only in the content of the Shengang gold energy, but the copper is still used, and ordinary people can't tell the difference with the naked eye, but now let alone the Shengang gold energy, even copper coins The texture is starting to fill up the number.

Li You, the second idiot, is also the same. Originally, the country's finances are already tight, and it's not enough to make ends meet, but for the big house in Liqiu Palace, new clothes, rewards from the imperial army, and the sky-high expenses of banquet polo, this guy is also fighting.He actually listened to the advice of those idiots in the inner court, and used the money from the gods in the inner court to make two pennies into two coins.

The lord of the country took the lead and did it blindly, so the behavior of the family members can be imagined. The Guo family took the lead, flooding private castings, annexing and plundering land.

As a result, the income of the people in Liguo dropped sharply, while their burdens skyrocketed, their assets also began to shrink sharply, and at the same time, prices soared.However, the country's finances are on the verge of collapse, and the taxes and taxes of the elites cannot be collected at all, and money is still being used inside and outside.

In such a situation, if it was replaced by any other country in the twelve countries, the situation would have collapsed.

But if you don't specifically say that the country is rich and the people are strong, and talents are coming out in large numbers, even in this situation, it hasn't collapsed yet!Still stabilized!
This is also because of the support of friends and businessmen, there are wars in all directions, and the viewer can at least feed the people of a country, so the situation is not serious, and everyone feels that patience will always pass.

Then came the big ones.

In order to make up for the shortage of national finances and military expenditures, and at the same time deal with the flood of bad money, under the auspices of Li Hongxian, the doctor of imperial history, Li Wenrao, a doctor in Duzhi, introduced the strategy of Duzhi Division, and the strategy of preparing border extension funds to rectify the situation. state finances.

To put it simply, salt, iron, silk, horses, water, wine, etc. are all changed to the franchise of the Duzhi Division directly under the Ministry of Household Affairs.At the same time, the local taxes and taxes no longer collect money from the gods, but instead collect silk and cloth, and all debts are paid in kind, and the settlement is settled with cloth.In an instant, Shengang's money collapsed.And Guangchangsi City stores 12 pieces of cloth a year.Even the concubines from Liqiu Palace went crazy and dyed the cloth...

As for the special products collected by the local government, all of them were confiscated into the Bibian warehouses of the prefectures, states, and counties for liquidation, and they were first used for the military supply of Bibian. Dispatched by Duzhi envoys, transported to various markets for sale, to be used as military funds.

To put it bluntly, leaving the country in the future will only be farming and fighting, and there is no need for the profession of 'businessman'.

As a result, the citizens of Changsi City went bankrupt one after another.Anyone with some connections sold their ancestral property, or simply fled their nationality, dragged their families and became refugees, and came to Black Bamboo Mountain to open up wasteland.

Why come to Mozhu Mountain?

Because Mozhushan is now a Taoist sect, the leaders of the Taoist sect never pay taxes to the Immortal Palace.

(End of this chapter)