Chapter 34 Poison
This is not the first day that Lao Jiao and his colleague have come out to collect tax revenue.
In the past half month, they have visited more than 20 mountain villages in the northern part of Shanyang City.
No matter which village we arrive at and mention the tax collection, the villagers will all beg for mercy and try every means to evade the tax.
Without exception, there is no exception. In the year of severe drought, even some landlords are almost borrowed by the government and have no surplus grain. What do you want these ordinary farmers to do?
But now, on the contrary, after the village chief, who was usually extremely poor, heard what he said about taxing grain, the village chief actually agreed directly, and the villagers did not have any refutation. .
Such an abrupt performance formed a sharp contrast with other villages. This contrast immediately made Lao Jiao feel a little uncomfortable.
Immediately afterwards, the village chief actually proposed to treat the two of him to dinner?
So grand!
If this was done in previous years when there were no disasters and the harvest was good, it would be okay to say that it was just to curry favor with the officials.
But now that most of the people in Kaoshan Village have fled due to drought, do they still have enough food to feed themselves? And there’s meat?
Lao Jiao heard with his own ears that people in the surrounding villages told him that Kaoshan Village was the worst, and they couldn't even drink water.
The Yamen Li has also made statistics before, and the population loss in Kaoshan Village is the most serious. Half of the people were lost a month ago.
In this case, do they still have the intention to treat themselves to a meal with enthusiasm?
If they were really so rich in food, would the villagers who were fleeing the famine leave their homes and run out in search of a way to survive?
Something is wrong, there is definitely something wrong with this!
What are they going to do?
Rebellion and killing officials? Flag sacrifice? Just in time for my two unlucky guys to catch up!
Lao Jiao couldn't help but tighten the knife in his hand, but soon gave up.
There is absolutely no way. Even if you resist, it will definitely be an egg against a stone!
Lao Jiao and the other two glanced at the dozen or so bright silver guns with cold light on the side, and followed Li Kanshan cautiously as they walked over.
Then, I saw a villager actually bringing over two steaming bowls of braised noodles.
Is this... really a meal?
Are there really two pieces of bacon as big as copper coins on it?
Hey guys, I really can’t resist this scent! My family of six has not smelled meat for several days!
Lao Jiao was still fighting fiercely in his heart when he saw another villager walking over holding a juicy blue-red fruit.
"Two adults, this is the Danli fruit we happened to encounter on the way here. It is fresh. You two should try it quickly."
Lao Jiao and the other two saw each other. After seeing Danliguo, the saliva secretion in his mouth suddenly intensified.
I had no choice. I had been hungry all night, so I ate a dry pancake and didn’t even have to drink water. I really couldn’t bear it.
Furthermore, in the year of severe drought, the price of top-quality fruits such as Danliguo soared, and he had not eaten it for a long time.
Lao Jiao was swallowing his saliva and hesitating when he saw that his young colleague had already taken the handful of dandelion fruits without hesitation, and started eating them while peeling them.
"Eat, Lao Jiao, even if you are slaughtered, it is better to be a hungry ghost than a hungry ghost." The colleague muttered softly.
Lao Jiao sighed, this is really the truth.
That’s it, let’s eat quickly! What else can be done?
As soon as Lao Jiao picked up the noodles with his chopsticks, he felt his companion next to him suddenly startled. Then, the guard suddenly rolled his eyes and fell back.
What's going on? poisonous!
Lao Jiao was shocked!
The whole person shivered and suddenly sat down on the ground.
……
Xu Boan has always been paying attention to the abnormal changes in the bonsai.
When the two guards revealed their identities, Xu Bo'an also instantly understood.
It turns out that the piece of imperial green material in his hand is the waist badge of that young villain!
I bet these two villains are not old, weak, sick or disabled villagers who can’t walk, but Yamen servants who come to collect taxes!
However, this government is too rich to use a top-quality jadeite like imperial green as a waist badge?
I heard Li Qingshi say before that this place has been suffering from drought for several years, and it has reached a dire situation where the people have no means of livelihood and have left their homes. How can the government still be so rich?
This is a bit too luxurious!
Normally speaking, shouldn’t this luxury item be exchanged for some food for disaster relief to help the people tide over the difficulties? I really don’t know what these officials in Da Jing Dynasty were thinking!
Xu Boyan was just about to scold the dog officer when he suddenly heard the officer say with a grimace, "It takes fifty copper coins to replace one waist card."
Lao Xu’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Fifty copper coins in exchange for an imperial green waist badge?
Although Xu Bo'an doesn't know the purchasing power in the bonsai world, under normal circumstances, fifty copper coins should not be too much.
If this is really the case, doesn’t it mean that although the Da Jing Dynasty in the bonsai world is short of money, it is not short of imperial green!
In other words, the imperial green in the bonsai world is not valuable at all!
Everyone understands the principle of "rare things are more valuable". The reason why jadeite like Imperial Green is so expensive is because it is so rare.
Similarly, since Da Jingchao in the bonsai world can use imperial green jade as a waist badge, doesn’t this mean that this thing can be found everywhere.
After Xu Boan figured this out, he suddenly became excited.
This is definitely the time to make a fortune.
Purchase a batch of imperial green jadeite at a low price and sell it, which is a net profit of millions!
The coal bosses in Hedong Province next door will be so jealous if they find out about this price difference!
Xu Bo'an was happily thinking about his road to riches, when suddenly he saw the young guard fainting to the ground with a "bang".
A group of little people in the bonsai suddenly panicked.
“What’s going on?”
“Ah, what’s wrong with this guy.”
“Oh, what’s going on? He couldn’t be choking on his food. "
The police officer surnamed Jiao even more exaggeratedly shouted: "Folks, have mercy on me, I have an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child, who are here to collect taxes. Food is also a helpless move. Please don’t make things difficult for me, a temporary worker.”
However, no one paid any attention to him. A group of people surrounded the officer who was lying on the ground, saying something to each other. Come up with ideas.
"This is not choking. If it is choking, it is impossible to pass out directly. You have to struggle and move around."
"That's right, when my family used to tie up the pillar to eat dates. I choked, but that’s not the case.”
“Please call the doctor.”
"The nearest doctor is over there in Xishan Town. It takes a whole day to go back and forth. Is it too late?"
"What can we do? Something happened to the official official here. This is a big deal. "It's troublesome."
A group of people were chattering, but Xu Bo'an stared at the bunch of red "dan li fruits", thinking of a similar situation that had happened on the construction site before. .
When Xu Boan was working on an old city renovation project, one morning the canteen bought fresh lychees for lunch.
A colleague in the construction site laboratory saw the vegetable truck unloading and took a bunch of lychees to eat before eating. After eating more than 20 lychees, his face turned pale and he fainted.
Fortunately, the project department was next to a hospital, so we were immediately sent to the emergency room.
The doctor diagnosed that the experimenter fainted due to hypoglycemia caused by eating too many lychees on an empty stomach.
At that time, Xu Boan only knew about the unheard-of disease "lychee disease".
As for the so-called "dan lychee" that the guard just ate, Xu Bo'an recognized it at a glance. It was the lychee commonly seen in the market!
That’s right, it’s the lychee that “rides the red dust and the concubine smiles, and no one knows it’s lychee coming”!
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