Li Sanyong drove his donkey cart, carrying the vegetables, eggs, and more than a dozen old hens locked in bamboo cages, walking on the spacious official road with a fiery mood.

He has an account in his heart.

The vegetables, eggs, and old hens purchased in the village this time, as long as they are transported to Bianjing City, they can be sold for at least thirty-five stakes! The cost is less than 20 stakes, and he can make a net profit of more than ten stakes!

After doing this, I will be able to make a profit of fifty cents this month.

Fifty cents of money are not counted in Kaifeng Prefecture.

It may even be less expensive than the cup of tea that the Yanei in Bianjing City after a meal.

But he could buy a new donkey cart, and the remaining money should be enough to pay Shu Xiu, the two younger brothers to go to school.

His donkey pulling the cart is very old and he is too slow to travel. His body has been decayed, and his various wooden boards are nailed, and the wheel hub has been broken several times.

But this is his important asset!

With it, Li Sanyong can go to Bianjing City to sell vegetables six times a month.

You can earn seven or eight or ten coins every time.

In this way, if you deduct family expenses and expenses and taxes paid to the government in one year, you can save up to three or five hundred stale coins.

Three or five hundred stags!

Just thinking of this number, Li Sanyong's heart burned like charcoal fire.

He followed his father since he was a child and made a living to sell vegetables in Bianjing City.

In his memory, he and his father got up early and went to bed late, and after a year, let alone making money.

It would be great if you could not owe debts.

Because it is difficult to go to Beijing to sell vegetables.

But a few dozen miles away, tax collectors, officials, and thugs are like blocking obstacles.

Peel off the flesh and blood of their father and son layer by layer, then stuff them into their mouths and chew them in big mouths!

When you arrive in Bianjing City, you have to face the most dangerous pass - the city gate!

The tax collector guarding the city gate is like a wolf or a tiger.

Every time, they would turn their father and son's donkey cart upside down, and they would pretend to let go after taking out a handful of copper coins stained with sweat.

If entering the city is a pass, then leaving the city is a gate of hell!

The tax collectors carefully check what everyone who leaves the city carries with them.

He even clings to the hat, checks the texture of the hat, orders him to take off his shoes, and checks whether there is anything hidden in the shoes.

Because they have to collect taxes on everything they leave the city!

Including copper coins!

Therefore, the small vendors can only do everything possible to manage a familiar tax collector and be filial to the fullest every month so that they can make the tax collectors proud when they leave the city.

But even so, it's not safe!

Because there are still people above the tax collectors.

These people will appear from time to time, and when they meet them, they will have to admit defeat.

All money and goods may be confiscated by them with excuses or reasons.

If someone dares to resist...

At the least, they were beaten, and at the worst they were imprisoned...

Therefore, although Li Sanyong's family started from his grandfather's generation, they cooked vegetables in the countryside and sent them to Bianjing for a livelihood.

But after three generations came down, they didn't save any savings.

In addition to a rammed earth house, the most valuable thing in the family is the donkey cart that Li Sanyong drove.

This is already very good!

At least, it can support the whole family!

He can still have extra money to support Li Sanyong in his studies, so that he can read, arithmetic, and learn to master various measuring instruments.

This is a skill that must be mastered when selling vegetables in Bianjing.

But now...

It's different now!

Since the small officials in Bianjing City ascended the throne two years ago, the situation has gradually changed.

Li Sanyong was in the city of Bianjing and heard the storytellers say that this was because "the officials are naturally benevolent and sage, and they are the most unwilling to see the common people suffer." Legend has it that the officials and female officials in the palace once told their families that such things were told to their families - the officials often burst into tears in the palace because they thought that the people were not full or had clothes to wear.

Li Sanyong doesn't know whether these things are true or false.

So, at the beginning, every time Li Sanyong heard the storytellers talk about these things, they always smiled.

Because no matter how Storyteller praises it.

What Li Sanyong felt has never changed.

Every time I go to Beijing to sell vegetables, clerks, thugs, city gates... I always stay there.

Like his father, he worked hard every year, getting up early and working late, saving money, but after a year, he couldn't have much money left.

But, since last year, things have started to change.

First, the official issued an edict to completely abolish the city gate taxes on the inner and outer gates of Bianjing City.

Everyone, regardless of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, went to and from then on, and was no longer afraid of tax collectors' exploitation.

Li Sanyong's life is getting better.

Last year, after the year-end settlement, the family actually had more than 100 stakes!

He happily went to Hu Butcher's house in the village, weighed a few pounds of fat, and happily celebrated the New Year with his two younger brothers and younger sisters.

At that time, after getting drunk, he happily said to his younger brothers and sisters: "The official family is kind and sage, our family will be relaxed in the future!"

"I plan to use the money I earned this year to build a new house, and save all the money I earned this year, the year after year, and keep it for Ah Mei as a dowry!"

"If I had a dowry of 500, Ah Mei might be able to marry a scholar!"

Li Sanyong remembered that the little sister's face turned red at that time.

That was the happiest day in his life!

However, such happy days did not last long.

Starting from the beginning of the New Year, the road to Beijing has become bumpy.

Because the government knew that these people were rich.

So, the appetite is getting bigger and bigger.

In the past, it was possible to release a tax card if you paid a permanent or even hundreds of dollars.

Later, it was about to reach two stakes, three stakes or even five stakes!

In the end, it still cannot escape the government's exploitation.

Li Sanyong's family life was also returned to the starting point at once.

Back in the past, in that tight life.

Even the more than 100 chunks I finally saved last year were gradually consumed through continuous expenses.

He didn't dare to mention the matter of saving a dowry for his sister.

but……

The official family is indeed a sage.

More than 20 days ago, the officials in Bianjing City issued another order and ordered Kaifeng Prefecture to implement the tax exemption in the government.

The government can no longer collect taxes with vendors, and can only collect taxes.

And his dishes are sold to Bianjing City.

The clerks on this road can no longer ask him for money and benefits.

So, in just over twenty days, Li Sanyong went to Bianjing four times to sell vegetables.

Including this time, it is the fifth trip.

After five trips, you can earn fifty taels.

Li Sanyong's confidence comes back!

He even began to take the initiative to use his time in Bianjing to go to Wazi to hear the scholars lecture.

Whenever I hear the story of the benevolent and sages of the officials, and when the emperor is in the palace, he is worried that the people will not be able to eat enough and shed tears.

Li Sanyong no longer believed it as usual as he was at the beginning.

Instead, he tried hard to imitate others and shouted: "The official family will live forever!"
To be continued...