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... llected taxes from the merchant caravans passing through, including entry taxes and exit taxes for individuals, cart taxes for carriages, and horse taxes for mounts. However, the lord governing the city was relatively fair-minded and demonstrated a reasonable sense of economic management, keeping the tax rates low.

To ensure proper tax collection, the entire city was surrounded by walls, and camping outside the city limits was generally prohibited. This restriction made sense, as it comp ...

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Mama, who can tell her what’s going on?

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“As much as you have!” The hulking man yelled back.

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He Jian I loved you more than anything in my whole life. To the point that it became poison for me.

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A gentle kiss fell on her lips and a shiver ran down her spine.

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Her heart pounded fiercely inside her chest. These words. Oh, how she wished to hear them in her last life. She might have fainted from happiness if she had heard them at that time. But now, they didn’t bring that happiness to her heart. They only brought fear, confusion and anger, and so many questions.

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She was reborn. This time she vowed to make different choices and change her destiny. Hiding the past in her heart, this time she chose her family. But what will she do when the same past is back pounding on the doors of her heart, ready to break the walls she had surrounded her heart with.

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