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Chapter 22 Only women and villains are difficult to raise

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    Zhang Luo looked at the tall hat on Tong Guan's head, and at the Jurchens on the opposite side crowded together, like the legendary Qilian Mountains:

    "My lord, is it really up to me?"

    "Of course it's true, you don't need to worry about it." Tong Guan smiled, looking down at the lotus pattern on the bottom of his wine glass.

    After the female real master Yan Zongjun finished playing, the corners of her lips curled up lazily, and she also had an expression of watching the show.

    He knew that Zhang Luo knew nothing about the affairs of Youyun Qizhou.  In the entire Song Dynasty, apart from Tong Guan and his cronies, there were not many people who really knew the truth.  I don't understand the situation, how can I discuss it?  This is clearly Tong Guan's trap for Zhang Luo, to use her fault as a shield for the future.

    Zhang Luo shyly picked up the wine glass, bulged her cheeks, and shouted:

    "Serve!"

    So, apart from Tong Guan, Master Xie and Nuzhen Envoy myself, there is no one in the cabin who is not happy.

    The name of the first dish is Caiyuequnxingzhaoyushan. What comes up is a pot of lotus root powder ball fish ball tofu soup, steaming white hissing.

    Zhang Luo waited for the food to reach him, so that he could take a solid bite.  But when the dishes reached Tong Guan, who was on the east side, he stopped.

    "Tonight, everyone is so speculative, it's time to get closer. Sitting so clearly is not the way I treat guests in the Song Dynasty. Why don't we sit together"

    Tong Guan stood up and walked to Wanyan Zongjun's side.

    Master Xie quickly led Zhang Luo to sit between the big gold bracelet (Gesmey) and the Mediterranean with two braids.

    Yue Yuhou was placed directly opposite Zhang Luo.

    After everyone sat down again, Zhang Luo felt uncomfortable:

    Facing the big table, the Jurchens are already very tall.  The Han people sat among them. Except for Yue Yuhou, everyone else was a circle smaller than the Jurchens.  And she herself is simply a dog's tail grass squeezed between two big bears.

    In addition, the greasy smell of the Jurchen mission made Zhang Luo think that she accidentally got a sheep's butt, especially the fat sheep's tail, sitting on her face.

    Yue Yuhou grabbed Master Xie: "Accountant Zhang is from the palace. It's not appropriate to sit between two outside men"

    Master Xie covered his mouth with his sleeve:

    "Marquis Yu is over-concerned. The Lord Yuan is a serious person summoned by His Majesty to participate in this meeting. If you don't sit with the mission, how can you discuss it?"

    Just as Yue Yuhou was about to say more, he heard Tong Guan cough: "Could it be that Yuhou has other meanings?"

    Only then did Yue Yuhou lower his head and keep silent.

    Zhang Luo looked at the big gold bracelet on the right. Although this man looked like he was swinging his arms, his eyes were gurgling from side to side, and he didn't look like an honest person.  She looked at the two braided Mediterranean seas on the left, and she had already put her big hairy hands into the dumpling soup, making the rest of the Han servants not want to move their chopsticks anymore.  She also had to wait for the next dish.

    Unfortunately, the next dish is grilled lamb.

    The Jurchens, especially the two-braided Mediterranean, immediately enjoyed it.  When the two braided Mediterranean seas were about to pull out the leg of lamb, they suddenly saw that Zhang Luo's eyes were dead.

    "Your Your lord, why don't you eat it? Look at how fat and tender it is?" He pointed to the pink meat roasted on the plate.

    Zhang Luo could only smell a strong smell of mutton, and she no longer knew whether it was the smell of people or vegetables.

    "II only eat cumin lamb"

    When the two braids heard Mediterranean Sea, they immediately put down the meat in their hands, touched their greasy hands on their thighs, and quickly took out a small leather bag from their trouser pockets.

    "My lord, let me tell you earlier, I have it here. It has been mixed with salt, so you can eat it directly!"

    Zhang Luo had no choice but to accept it.  Fortunately, the cumin flavor of the two braids from the Mediterranean region is very pure, and the lamb is suddenly delicious.

    Seeing that Zhang Luo was eating happily, the two braided Mediterranean sea chatted with her.

    The big gold bracelet on the right also pricked up its ears, listening to the two of them chatting.

    "Your gentleman is from the Western Regions? Do you still like cumin?"

    "Qi from Jinan Prefecture, Qizhou. We also have many Muslims there, and everyone likes cumin. What do you call it?"

    "I am a relative of Zhengshi, and my surname is Wanyan, and my Jurchen name is AhLu. Han people call it, and it always sounds like 'short'." Taking advantage of the situation, the two braided Mediterranean Sea also made a posture of lying on the ground,  Zhang Luo laughed happily.

    The big gold bracelet on the right thinks this is a good start to a clich¨¦.  But his smile immediately froze, because Wanyan Zongjun, who was sitting upright, had a fierce gleam in his eyes.  Just because of his small size, he never dislikedFrom now on, it will be collected every year.  As for the amount" The big gold bracelet looked at Yan Zongjun and said after a long while, "3 million per year.  "

    "I don't know what the word 'representing taxes' means?" Zhang Luo continued to ask.

    "Our country handed over the seven states to your country, and naturally lost the taxes of these seven states" Wanyan Zongjun finally spoke out.  "Don't your country think that we are a lion. The tax money for this generation is also calculated according to the annual population tax of these seven states"

    Having said that, Wanyan Zongjun winked at the big gold bracelet.

    The big gold bracelet asked a big Jurchen man sitting at the last seat to bring over a roll of documents.  It contains the approximate population of the seven prefectures, the number of livestock such as cattle, sheep, horses and donkeys, the number of mulberry trees and other useful fruit trees, and the number of houses and city walls.

    "The population of these seven states is more than a million? Hehehe"

    Wanyan Zongjun fiddled with his earrings and added with a smile.

    Tong Guan twirled his beard, stared blankly at Zhang Luo with a blank expression on his face.

    Zhang Luo looked down for a while, then nodded:

    "Thank you Zhengshi for your guidance. I don't know how much tax can be paid in a year in a remote and cold place like Wuguocheng?"

    Dajin Bracelet didn't understand what Zhang Luo meant, so he could only look at Wanyan Zongjun.

    Wanyan Zongjun said casually: "Wuguocheng is located in the extreme north. Even if there are people, they don't get much tax. For a year or so, it's just buckskin and suede. The world is cruel, the climate is bad, and the people can't do it even if they are strong."

    Zhang Luo nodded, thank you:

    "That is to say, even if the people of Qizhou moved to Wuguocheng, they can't pay a lot of money, is that so?"

    Wanyan Zongjun nodded, and then his face turned pale with shock.  He accidentally dug his own corner just now and admitted that the data on the scroll was deceptive.  If the Seven States really had a million people, it would be impossible to move into a place as small as the Five Kingdoms City.  Moreover, he also admitted that the number of common people has nothing to do with the taxes that can be produced.

    He tried to keep his face calm, but his waist almost stood up from the seat.

    Tong Guan was also stunned for a moment, and the famous sentence of Confucius, "Only women and villains are difficult to raise" rang in his ears.

    It seems that if Zhang Luo is asked to ask further questions, he is afraid that there will be obstacles to his plan to report to the imperial court and the Jin people for a total of 30 million guan.  So, he called Master Xie and told the cooks to keep presenting new dishes of vegetables.

    After Mr. Xie went out, the sound of fireworks rising into the sky sounded outside the window of the boat.

    All the guests boarded the deck one after another to watch, and saw clusters of sparks like peonies in full bloom, peonies bursting stamens, and wheels, blooming whistlingly in the twilight blue of the night sky.

    Not long after, the people on this boat heard singing as thin as a hair and as weak as a delicate flower floating in the distance.

    This song score is extremely beautiful.  The more Zhang Luo listened, the more he felt that it was like the "Lanling King-Willow" that Li Shishi once sang in Zuixing Tower that night.  She couldn't help but also squeezed to the bow of the boat, looking towards the direction where the singing sound came from.

    At this time, someone from behind suddenly pushed hard.  Zhang Luo was pushed from the crowd into the Bianliang River.

    Although Tong Guan was a eunuch, but according to historical records, he was a eunuch with a beard.  As for how he was able to have a beard, history books and unofficial histories have different opinions.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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