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Zhao Erlang and Qiu Wu were very fast. Not to mention the government officials and soldiers, even the vendors who ran away first were trapped by them.

This also caused them to be busy here, talking, collecting taxes and releasing goods. Xi'e County, which is not very far away from here, still doesn't know anything.

It’s a cold day. If it’s not necessary, who would come out?

Still running so far away from the city gate.

Zhao Hanzhang also discovered that this place was quite far away from the city gate, so he summoned a government official to ask, "Isn't it possible that general commercial taxes are collected at city gates, docks, passes, etc. Why do you go to the official road to collect them?"

Sweat broke out on the yamen's forehead again. He moved his mouth twice and said, "These traders are cunning and took a side road to bypass the county seat."

Zhao Hanzhang: "...Since they can bypass Xi'e County, it means that they do not need to pass through Xi'e County. How can you collect their commercial taxes?"

After arguing for a long time, the business tax she just collected was still not what she should have collected.

The yamen servant whispered: "They opened trails privately and trampled on a lot of fertile land. They all belong to our Xi'e County."

Zhao Hanzhang looked him up and down and sighed after a moment, "Now I probably know what County Magistrate Gao is like."

It is said that a slave is like his master, so the high county magistrate who came to Xi'e County is almost the same as this government servant.

Humph, trampling on fertile farmland?

Which foreign merchant dares to trample on the fertile farmland of local people?

Zhao Hanzhang squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then turned to Fu Tinghan and said, "Let's take the first step, and you can take the people behind."

Fu Tinghan nodded.

Zhao Hanzhang said to Qiu Wu: "You stay here to protect Tinghan."

After that, she took Zhao Erlang and her soldiers and urged the government officials and soldiers to run away first.

Some of the government officials and soldiers had horses, some did not. Zhao Hanzhang simply collected all the horses. At this time, they all ran on two legs.

Zhao Hanzhang kicked the horse in the belly, and they could only run away.

When they ran to the sparsely populated city gate, the guard guard recognized them from afar and raised his hand to say hello, "Old Zhang, you are back so early today? Who is that person on the horse?"

Lao Zhang, who was running at the front, failed to reply. Zhao Hanzhang rode forward, glanced at him, and said directly to the soldiers: "Control the city gate."

"yes."

The soldier guarding the gate heard that something was wrong. He immediately lowered his spear in his hand and shouted, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"

Zhao Erlang picked up the spear in his hand with one shot. Fan Ying on the other side of Zhao Hanzhang immediately shouted: "Bold, this is the governor of Yuzhou. I have to kneel down when I see the envoy."

The other party was stunned and glanced at Lao Zhang. Seeing them lowering their heads and panting, they knew they were right and quickly knelt down.

Kneeling down, the soldiers who had just heard the noise and ran down from the city gate hesitated, and when Zhao Hanzhang glanced over, they all put down their weapons and knelt down.

Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand with satisfaction, "Guard the city gate. No one is allowed to leave the city without my order."

"yes."

Four soldiers stayed behind, and Zhao Hanzhang took the remaining people to the county government office.

Magistrate Gao was drinking at home, holding his beautiful concubine on his left and right sides. The sky was a little dark at this time, and it looked like it was going to snow.

He felt very comfortable. He leaned back and stretched out his feet. Immediately, the beautiful concubine gently took them and stuffed them into her arms to keep them warm. He nodded his fingers with satisfaction and said, "Let Le Ling play a song. Let's see." The weather is looking like this. There should be a heavy snowfall tonight. Go and invite Mr. Du and the Qing guests, and let’s have a night talk around the fire tonight.”

The servant bowed in agreement, stood up and was about to exit, when suddenly there was a loud bang, the door of the courtyard was kicked open, and half of the door instantly fell to the side.

Gao Cheng was startled, and immediately sat upright with his legs drawn back, turning his head and looking outside, "What's the fuss about?"

The servant rushed out to take a look, and saw Zhao Erlang kicking the door open and stepping aside. Zhao Hanzhang stepped in. At a glance, he saw Gao Cheng sitting on the mat wearing only socks. The mat was covered with soft fox fur. Pi, he was looking at Zhao Hanzhang in shock.

Seeing them holding weapons, his heart trembled a little. He didn't realize her identity, so he said with an inward look: "Bold, do you know where this is?"

Zhao Hanzhang stepped on the edge of the mat, looked down at him and asked with a smile, "Where is this?"

"This is the backyard of the government office in Xi'e County!" Gao Cheng tried his best to hold back his trembling voice and said as calmly as possible: "If you want money, just name a number and I will give it to you, but if you hurt others, , the police officers and soldiers in Xi'e County are not all vegetarians."

Zhao Hanzhang walked half a circle around him and found that his room was quite boring. There was not even a chair.

She simply swept away the things on the low table, dragged it over with one hand and placed it in front of him. Then she lifted her robe and sat down, talking to him with a smile, "I don't want money. As for me, I don't care about fighting and killing." I’m not interested either, so I won’t do anything for no reason.”

Zhao Hanzhang is so easy to talk to, but Gao Cheng doesn't dare to relax. As a gangster, he doesn't ask for money or kills. This is too abnormal.

Thoughts flashed across his mind, and Gao Cheng realized something was wrong. His eyes fell stiffly on Zhao Hanzhang's sleeves, and then he looked up at her face bit by bit.

Zhao Hanzhang looked at him with a smile and encouraged him to continue reading.

Gao Cheng's face turned pale when she saw the orderly soldiers behind her. The most important thing was that the two women standing beside her were wearing water-red Sichuan brocade, with large flowers outlined with delicate embroidery threads. Hua, at first glance, seems to be from a wealthy family, not a gangster from the countryside;

The other one was wearing cyan armor and was dressed as a maid from a wealthy family. He was holding a shining spear in his arms. He didn't need to look at the person, just by looking at the spear, he knew who was sitting in front of him. .

His eyes were dizzy, and many rumors flashed through his mind. The first one that came to his mind was the magistrate of Xianbiyang County. He heard that magistrate Hu was the one who was broken into his home by Zhao Hanzhang, and he didn't even have time to react. He was dragged down and chopped.

He held the fox fur with trembling arms and tried to stand up. Unexpectedly, the fox fur that had been firmly attached to the mat suddenly slipped and he fell forward suddenly...

His body was shaking even more. He tremblingly pulled his legs back and knelt down, his head pressed tightly against the fox fur. He apologized and said, "No, I didn't know that your envoy was coming. I was not able to welcome you from afar. Please entreat me." Spare your life."

The servants in the house were shocked when they heard this, and they all knelt down and kowtowed, but they felt much more relaxed. The servants even relaxed and thought that if they were not gangsters, then they should not have to die. I heard that the new envoy was very kind to ordinary people. It's gentle.

They were relieved, but Gao Cheng was breaking out in a cold sweat. He didn't know why Zhao Hanzhang suddenly broke into the county government office. Even if he was going out for inspection, he should have informed them first, right?

He plucked up the courage and said, "Your Majesty, may I ask you to take a seat in the front hall?"

"No need," Zhao Hanzhang said, "It's still office time. Since Magistrate Gao is in the backyard, he obviously often works there. In that case, let's meet here."

Zhao Hanzhang did not let him get up. He picked up the fragrant wine pot on the stove and sighed: "Stove, fox-skin mat, fine wine, ah, and beautiful women. It is very satisfying for Gao County Magistrate to be an official."

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