My Red Mansion Career

Chapter 96 Refusal to Pay Health Fees

General Shenwu's Mansion

In the evening, Feng Ziying returned home after a busy day. She grabbed the tea on the table and drank all the tea in one breath. Then she grabbed the teapot and poured water. She drank three cups of tea in a row before she stopped. Sitting slumped on the chair.

Feng Tang, who was talking to Feng Ziying's mother at the side, saw his son's appearance as if his bones had been ripped out. He instantly became furious and shouted.

"Sit up straight for me. Look at you. Are you standing or sitting? How do you look?
Now you are no longer a gangster running around on the streets all day long, but an official of the imperial court of Daxia.

Since you have become an official, you must look like an official. If you are seen like this by the superior, you will inevitably be reprimanded. "

Feng Ziying, who was scolded by her father, did not dare to talk back. She just muttered: "Father, this is home now, not a government office. My son just wants to sit comfortably, can't he?"

"you……"

Seeing that Feng Tang was going to scold her again, Feng's mother, who felt sorry for her son, quickly smoothed things over.

"Okay, as you said, now that our child is a sixth-grade military attache, you can't beat and scold him as often as before. It's better to save some face for Ziying."

After saying that, Feng's mother asked with concern: "Ziying, what have you been busy with these days? Why do you go out early in the morning every day and come back after dark?"

"What more can there be."

Feng Ziying said: "After I became the commander of Dongcheng, I realized that there are too many things to do after becoming an official.

Take these days as an example, Jia Xiandi has recently..."

"Stop!"

Feng Tang interrupted Feng Ziying again and said seriously: "Ziying, you have to remember.

Although Sansi is younger than you, he is just as good as you in terms of dealing with people and abilities. Now he is even more holy, and he is your boss.

It's okay if you shout this title twice in private, but if you shout it like this outside, it means you don't understand the general rule and don't distinguish between superior and inferior, and you will be criticized by others. "

"Yes, kid." Feng's mother did not face Feng Ziying this time: "Look...you were just a white lady.

Sansi first arranged for you to join the Dongcheng Army and Horses Division as the ninth-grade deputy [-] households. Now, in just a few months, you have been promoted to the sixth-grade commander of the Dongcheng Army and Horses Division. Such a promotion speed, except for a few at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. There is no one else but the individual.

So over the past few years, Ziying, you have to calm down and do something down-to-earth in your position as the commander of the Dongcheng Army and Horses Division, so that you can also silence the mouths of those officials and censors.

In order to prepare for future promotion. "

Feng's mother was also from an official family, and her vision and knowledge were beyond the ordinary people's. She pointedly pointed out the shortcomings of Feng Ziying's current weak foundation.

Feng Tang stroked his beard and said: "Your mother is right, it is not a good thing to suddenly rise to a high position.

Don't think about getting promoted in the past two or three years, and just be your commander of the Dongcheng Army and Horses Division with peace of mind.

By the way...what have you been busy with these days? Why do you come home so tired every day? "

"What else can I do? I'm busy collecting health fees from those merchants."

Speaking of this, Feng Ziying was full of complaints.

"Sansi gave His Majesty a deal, saying that he would charge a certain amount of money for health fees from all the merchants in the city, and then use the money to hire a group of people.

They gathered together to carry out a large-scale cleanup of the whole city. Unexpectedly, those profiteers jumped up one by one as if they were digging up their ancestral graves.

These days, the child is so tired that his mouth is blistering as he takes people to collect money from door to door. He has not received a few taels of money, but he is full of anger first. "Well...that's it." "

Feng Tang pondered for a moment, "I have also heard about this matter. It is indeed the first time since the founding of Daxia that we collect health fees from merchants.

It's understandable that everyone has doubts about this, but... By the way, how much sanitation fees do you charge each merchant? "

“We charge according to the size of the shop, with [-] cents per month for shops under five cents, one tael of silver for shops from five cents to one acre, [-] taels of silver for one acre to two acres, and so on.

In fact, this amount of money is nothing to the merchants, but it has encountered collective resistance from the merchants. These days, the child's throat is almost broken just by arguing with these profiteers. "

"Is this true in other suburbs as well?"

"It's about the same."

Feng Ziying gritted her teeth and said: "Not only that, these days, many officials and censors have written articles to impeach and think twice, saying that the military commander is competing with the people for profit."

Feng Tang looked at Feng Ziying with a solemn expression, and said seriously: "Collecting health fees may seem like a small matter, but in fact it involves many people and things, and I can't understand it.

But what is certain is that if this matter is not handled well, think twice, there will be big trouble. "

…………

Feng Tang indeed got it right.

The next morning, when Jia Yu just arrived at the Bingma Si Yamen in Zhongcheng, a yamen servant came to report that a restaurant near the Shuntian Confucian Temple refused to pay the health fee. The head shopkeeper couldn't help but have an arrogant attitude, and even went to The clerk who paid the fee was beaten.

Now things are getting serious, a large group of people are gathering around to watch the joke.

As soon as Jia Yu heard the report from the people below, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter. Without any delay, he immediately grabbed the oxtail knife and rode to the Confucian Temple.

Since the Confucian Temple was not far from the Bingma Si Yamen in Zhongcheng, and it was only half a quarter of an hour away by horseback, the group quickly arrived at the scene of the incident.

When he came to the restaurant, he found a fat middle-aged man pointing at the nose of a clerk in soap clothes and yelling: "A dog-like thing dares to come and collect money from your grandfather.

If you don't take a pee and look at yourself, are you worthy?
You raise your dog eyes and take a look, what is written on the plaque of this restaurant?

A gathering of heroes!

Is this a place where you can extort money?If you annoy grandpa, a two-finger-wide note can be handed into the yamen and your skin will be peeled off!

If you still don’t want to, hurry up and get out of here, Grandpa…”

"Snapped!"

As soon as the shopkeeper finished speaking, a clear voice sounded again.

But this time it was not the clerk who was beaten, but the fat shopkeeper who had been shouting just now.

Then he saw a young man in a third-grade military attaché uniform with a tiger embroidered on his chest standing in front of him and said in a cold voice: "Whose skin do you want to skin?

Now that I'm beating you, why don't you write a note and submit it to the Yamen to see if you can peel off my tiger skin? "

The strength of Jia Yu's hand was not comparable to that of ordinary people. With one slap, the fat shopkeeper's face instantly swelled up like fermented dough.

The shopkeeper who was slapped was stunned for a moment, and then became furious. He raised his fist and was about to hit someone, when he saw Jia Yu's cold eyes and the steel knife at her waist. The anger in his heart disappeared in an instant. Most of it.

(End of this chapter)