In addition to the previous two acres of land in Gui's parents' house, it added four acres of land, four acres of land, and fifteen acres of land under the names of Meishi and Meiduo. This year, he also had to pay the autumn tax himself, so Gui Chongyang was particularly careful.

By the first day of September, the village school would still have a few days to start classes. Gui Chongyang took Mei Xiaobaliu to the second house and discussed asking the two families to pay the autumn tax together.

Although the autumn tax payment cycle lasts for three months until the end of winter, it can be paid early and settled early. If it is really on the list of tax arrears, the government has the right to arrest people and beat the board. Gui Chongyang does not want to give Du Lizheng the opportunity to take advantage of the issue.

The Gui family is not a big family, but only a few acres of land, so they will not have the idea of ​​owing taxes. The rice that needs to be paid has been prepared long ago. Guichun and Gui Chongyang came out, and the three of them walked to the village ancestral hall.

Every year, Duli is collecting agricultural taxes here, and this year is no exception.

Before they arrived at the ancestral hall, the three of them met Mei Tongsheng head-on.

Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba are students in village schools, so they stood respectfully and said hello to Mei Tongsheng.

Mei Tongsheng looked at Gui Chongyang and said with some gloating: "You are smart on weekdays, but I didn't expect you to be brave. Yesterday was the last day of summer tax payment. You didn't pay it. You are really not afraid of hitting a board!"

Gui Chun and Mei Xiaoba were both confused.

Gui Chongyang understood, but he was so embarrassed by Du Lizheng.

The six acres of land were harvested in one quarter, and there was no summer tax involved. The remaining ones were the fifteen acres of land in the Mei family and the four acres of land in the Yang family, which were all changed this year.

The county collects grain taxes, and the area of ​​a county is divided into more than a dozen grains, and one grain is about ten miles below.

The grain tax in Mujia Village is Du Lizheng responsible for urging payments. The Du family had never urged it before. The 15 acres of land of Mei family were tax-free before, and the four acres of land of Yang family were paid by tenants, so Gui Chongyang never thought about summer taxes.

Du Li was just trying to do something very simple, so he returned the grain tax paid by the Yang family tenant and added a sum of Mei's land on the summer tax collection form, and the Gui family became a family that "owed taxes" and did not pay.

Before, Du Li was squeezed out two families, and he used similar methods.

Gui Chongyang was only angry, some of whom were against Du Lizheng and some of whom were against himself. Du Lizheng was too bullying and used such simple and rough methods; he was also angry that he had been so happy recently that he was less careful.

As long as you think about things like Xia Tax, Du Lizheng has no choice but to do anything even if he wants to do something.

But it was just annoyed, Gui Chongyang didn't have much fear in his heart.

The grain tax is being paid, and the grain chief supervises it, and finally it comes down to the county yamen houses.

I just want to use the excuse of "owing taxes" to beat Gui Chongyang's board, and I also have gains and losses. There is a Xiaoli Zhong on the other side of the house, who is Gui Wu's senior brother, and I will not see the Gui family really getting beaten.

Gui Chun and Mei Xiaoba were the more they thought about it, and their faces became blue.

The peaceful years are over. Every year of famine, when there are more people "owing taxes", there will be reports of people beating people to death.

Mei Tongsheng looked at Guichun, and Mei Xiaoba was very frightened and cheerful, but when Gui Chongyang was silent, he became unhappy again. He snorted coldly and said, "Don't think about being clever, it's so easy to take advantage!" After that, he left with his hands behind his back.

"Dongyang, go and find Uncle Wu!" Gui Chun was panicked and had no other good idea, so he hurriedly said.

Mei Xiaoba also nodded and said, "Yes, yes, go to the town to hide for a few days, don't let them catch you."

Gui Chongyang couldn't help laughing and said to Mei Xiaoba: "Yesterday was the last day of summer tax. I'll catch people and beat them today? Where can I get such a quick place in the yamen?"

Mei Xiaoba grabbed the back of her head and said, "However, Du Lizheng, what if he asks someone to come quickly."

Gui Chun knew that the people in the yamen were not instructed by Du Lizheng, but he didn't dare to take risks. He also said, "If you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of it, you should go to the town to avoid it!"

Gui Chongyang wanted to go to the town, but he didn't want Guichun and Mei Xiaobabai to worry, and whispered: "There is Uncle Zhong there in the county government, so there is nothing to worry about. I went to the town to discuss with Uncle Wu. I can't let Du Jiabai plot against us once we go back. Don't tell the elders when you go back, you don't have to worry about the elders."

Mei Xiaoba was at the point of Gui Chongyang and said something. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's so scary, Du Li is really bad! Brother Chongyang, let's tell Du Qi that if his father does this again, we won't take him to play."

This is what the child said, but Gui Chongyang nodded and said, "Okay! Just do it!"

Since Du Lizheng refused to calm down and wanted to mess with the Gui family, Gui Chongyang is not a saint, so he can't take his anger on Du Qi's head?

Gui Chun was worried. This was the summer tax. Even if he directly found a county yard house to make up for it and avoid future troubles, there were also autumn taxes and Dingfu. What if the Du family fought again?

Gui Chongyang picked on the corner of his mouth. Whether it was Du Lizheng who was plotting against him or Mei Tongsheng who was gloating, it seemed that they were too idle.

Gui Chun was worried that Gui Chongyang would go to the town alone and wanted to follow him. Gui Chongyang advised him to come out. He couldn't come out and wouldn't go. The elders at home would be worried.

Guichun is about to go with Mei Xiaoba and Gui Chongyang, and Gui Chongyang nodded and agreed.

Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba left the village directly. Today is the first day of September, not the market day. They walked halfway before they got on a ride. It was already lunch time when they arrived in Xiji.

On the 15th day of the 1st and 1st year of the 1st, whether it is a school or a county school, it is a day for students to rest. If Gui Wu is fine, he should be at home.

However, because it was a rice bowl, Gui Chongyang did not take Mei Xiaoba directly to Guiwu's house, but went to the nearby Baiwei Xiang Food Shop. He did not specifically look for Gui Qiu, and ordered a few servings directly.

After the food was almost done, Gui Chongyang said to Mei Xiaoba: "Go and ask Brother Qiu which shop he takes today. Go and tell him, let him go to Uncle Wu to find me. I will go to Uncle Wu to speak first."

Because Premier Gui Qiu’s three shops are watched from time to time, and this shop is not seen in Gui Qiu, but it should be in the other two, but I don’t know which one it is. Therefore, Gui Chongyang said this.

Du Lizheng targeted the entire "Xi Gui", so Gui Qiu also had the right to know.

Gui Chongyang did not pass Du Lizheng and settled directly. The same is true for Gui Wu and his wife's household registration. Gui Lizheng is not a fool, so he can naturally find out the relationship between the Du family in the yamen.

Knowing that Gui's family is related to the yamen, it's like a test.

Who knows what Du Lizheng will do next time? Gui Wu and Gui Qiu are in the town, so peace may not be possible.

Mei Xiaoba immediately agreed and went out to find someone to not mention it.

Gui Chongyang came up with the recipe and went to Gui Wu’s house.

Gui Wu happened to be at home, and was hanging books in the yard with his hair loose. Seeing Gui Chongyang coming, Gui Wu was surprised and said, "But the Du family or the Mei family are making trouble again?"

On weekdays, Gui's family comes over on the market day and buys it. Today is not a market day, so Gui Wu directly thinks that something is happening at home.

Gui Chongyang said: "Du Lizheng has done his tricks, and the Gui family has become a 'tax arrears' family, but the county government has Uncle Zhong, so it should be fine."

When Gui Wu heard this, he laughed "haha".

Gui Chongyang also laughed and said, "He knew the relationship between Uncle Wu and Uncle Zhong, but he still did this, which was really ridiculous." Speaking of this, he turned to solemnity: "I'm afraid he has a backup plan, Uncle Wu should not underestimate the enemy!"

Gui Wu smiled and shook his head and said, "I'm not laughing at this. On August 25th, the imperial court issued an order to exempt Zhili Xuzhou from floods for 43,893 stones of grain, including Tongzhou. If you don't need to find Senior Brother Zhong, Du Zhong would have to worry about it."

"Ah!" This time, I was surprised that it was changed to Gui Chongyang and said in confusion: "Although the rain in Tongzhou this year is heavy, there is no flood."

Gui Wu said: "What's hard to guess? There are many big landlords in Tongzhou now. After receiving the news that the court wanted to give favors to Zhili, we also suffered a 'imperial grace'."

"Haha!" Gui Chongyang couldn't help laughing: "Du Lizheng is going to be so angry this time!"

Gui Wu nodded with a smile, but frowned and said, "After all, the Du family cheated the Gui family back then, and the Gui family hadn't said anything yet. It's really unreasonable that the Du family was chasing them. It seems that their family is too idle, so they have time to stare at the Gui family, hum!" At the end, he was a little ruthless.

The uncle and nephew looked at each other and made a decision.

There are many landlords in Tongzhou, which have both advantages and disadvantages, but it does not prevent the uncle and nephew from leveraging their strength to deal with Du Lizheng.

"Uncle Fifth, has Zhang Fu's background been drawn?" Gui Chongyang said in thought.

After suspected from the "Taishi Bing" that Du Lizheng was from Jinling, Gui Chongyang told Gui Wu.

It is difficult to inquire about the Du family, but there is an old man from the Du family in the town, Zhang Fu, the shopkeeper of the Du family shop. The Du family runs a cloth shop, which sells cloth from Susong.

Gui Wu nodded and said, "Zhang Fu is from Songjiang, and Du Lizheng received it halfway. Although he did not ask if Du Lizheng was from Jinling, he knew that Du Li had an old man in Jinling. The cloth sold from Jiangnan every year was a ship arranged by people from Jinling." When he said this, he couldn't help but frown: "When it comes to official ships, it's hard to check in detail. I can only wait until the goods from the south arrive next time, and then ask someone to check in detail."

After saying this, both uncle and nephew remained silent.

Where is Jinling? It was the former place of the imperial court, and all the powerful officials gathered.

Those who can arrange trafficking in Songjiang Bu will definitely have some power. If they are really from the official family, Du Li has such a backer, so it is not something that the uncle and nephew of the Gui family can shake.
Chapter completed!