Qin Xiangru responded calmly: "According to the laws of the Yan Kingdom, grain taxes are to be collected based on the year's harvest conditions. In a year of bounty, the tax is twenty percent; in years of poor conditions, ten percent. In the event of war or other unforeseen circumstances, imperial edicts take precedence, and cases are handled accordingly. Not to mention your absurd ninety percent—even the fifty percent collected in previous years was baseless, merely Yu Zhan'ao lining his own pockets. Now that Yu Zhan'ao has been brought to justice, I should like to ask: who has the audacity to exceed his greed and extort a ninety percent tax? Is it this Magistrate Liu you keep mentioning?"
"Insolent! How dare you slander my master! Men, seize him!" The soldier immediately gave the order to arrest Qin Xiangru.
Xiaoman, seeing this, hurried to stand in front of Qin Xiangru. "Don't touch him! He... he... he he he is not from our village, he’s just passing through! You can't arrest him!"
Chapter 391