Above the canal, the water is sparkling, and a large ship cleaves the waves, moving quickly towards the north.

On both sides of the river, the trees are verdant, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten miles have passed.

Feng Yuan, Yuan Chengzhi, Jiao Gongli, Wen Qingqing and others stood on the boat, looking at the scene on both sides of the river, each thinking in their hearts.

On the river, in addition to the large ships they were on, there were many merchant ships and grain transported to the capital.

Millions of people in the capital are counting on the survival of the grain transported in the south of the Yangtze River, and once the transportation is cut off, it will be a problem for the millions of people in the capital to even eat.

"When I get to the capital, I don't know how much of this grain will be left...... Ten stones of grain will be "floated" by at least 40 percent, or even more! The salaries and silver issued to officers and soldiers and the tax silver decompressed by various localities will all be "floated away." This Ming official is already rotten to the bones!"

Feng Yuan looked at the grain on the canal and thought of a rule that the Ming officials tacitly maintained, that is, "drifting".

With the ethics of the Ming officials, whether it was a canal or a sea transport, millions of stones of grain and grass were transported, and at least 500,000 stones were stolen and sold by the major officials along the road.

There is also the silver that the emperor issued to the officers and soldiers, which has not yet been transported out of the treasury of the household department, and it is less than 30% out of thin air.

When it was distributed to the officers and soldiers, after layers of exploitation, the officers and soldiers did not even have 30% of the original silver.

All kinds of bad rules and layers of exploitation and money-making methods have formed a solid net, making it difficult for Daming to return.

Perhaps, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, took this into account and sent his elite men and horses to escort more than two million taels of silver to the capital by land.

If you don't go through the canal, you don't have to deal with the big and small officials on the river, so you won't let this large amount of silver "drift" in vain.

"Only by breaking can we stand up, if we want to reborn Daming, we must sweep away these residual poisons!"

Among the twelve emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is Kangxi, who is known as the first emperor of the ages, and Qianlong, who claims to be the best martial arts, but in Feng Yuan's eyes, the two of them together are not as good as Yongzheng.

If it were not for the reform of Yongzheng's officials and gentry to collect grain in one piece, spread the land into the mu and return it to the public, and let the residual poison left over from the end of the Ming Dynasty rage, the Manchu Qing Dynasty might not have been able to have more than 200 years of national fortune.

It was also Yongzheng's reign that broke the saying that Hu Yun is only a hundred years old.

However, among the twelve emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the most famous is the "Three Ancestors and One Sect", and Yongzheng's reputation is far inferior to these four.

However, Feng Yuan's mind turned, and he understood the reason.

In this era, it is the literati who control the public opinion of the world after all, and in the eyes of these gentry, Kangxi Qianlong, who is relatively lenient and indulgent, is the real saint.

Feng Yuan's thinking diverged at this time, and he suddenly thought of the "Five Tombstones" he had read when he didn't cross over.

When I was young, I thought that these five people were martyrs who rebelled against the traitorous ministers.

When his own growth experience grew, he found out that these five people were the thugs of those scholars and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan to resist taxes.

The salt merchants in Yangzhou have millions of family fortunes, and they need hundreds of taels of silver to eat a meal. Scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as they become lifters, the fields are tax-free. Each person has tens of thousands of acres of land under his name......

But when it comes to paying taxes, these people don't have to pay a penny.

All the burden of money and grain fell on the lower-class peasants, who had only two acres and three points of land.

The tea tax in the entire south of the Yangtze River, in the past, there were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, and when it came to the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years, there were only a few dozen taels of silver left every year.

The thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, paid a tea tax of only a few dozen taels of silver, which is a joke.

Despite this, the scholars and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan continued to write letters asking for tax reductions and exemptions, and even directly exempted the commercial tax, so as not to "fight for the people's profits" in the imperial court.

Whenever Feng Yuan thought about this, he felt that these people were constantly dying.

This kind of behavior of resisting taxes and not paying taxes still worked when the Ming Dynasty was there, after all, it was a Han dynasty, and it was always necessary to pay attention to the "people's heart".

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied the world, these people still did not change, and the result was that the heads of the killed were rolling. Since then, the scholars and merchants in Jiangnan have all become honest and have become the wealth of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After the death of Da Ming, these people knew that Da Ming was good.

Sometimes, Feng Yuan really wanted to sit back and watch the Qing soldiers step into Jiangnan and let them know what would happen without the protection of the Ming Dynasty.

However, these gentlemen and squires died when they died, and the rest of the people were innocent. As soon as the Qing soldiers arrived, they were bound to be devastated, and hundreds of people were slaughtered.

Feng Yuan naturally couldn't let this happen.

"Forget it, when I master the army in the future, I can also solve all kinds of shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty according to Yongzheng's methods. ”

Feng Yuan knew the consequences of doing so, and when the time came, all the scholars and officials of the Manchu Dynasty would become his enemies.

Such a strong backlash is not something that anyone can bear.

Once he offends the world's scholars, the emperor may not be safe.

The "falling water" of Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Tianqi can prove this.

Zhang Juzheng, known as the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, died in politics, and his whole family was copied.

But Feng Yuan has strong enough martial arts, first of all, he can ensure his own safety, as long as he firmly grasps an invincible army and horses, any backlash will be a breeze in his face and insignificant.

All in all, Feng Yuan had only one thought in his heart, that is, the landlords and squires with more land paid more taxes, the people with less land paid less taxes, and those who did not have land did not pay taxes.

In this way, it is fair!

There is also the commercial tax in Jiangnan, even if all the southeast Shilin is offended, and the heads of the people killed are rolling, Feng Yuan will have to receive the tax.

As for the boys, they resisted him and were unwilling to serve him. Feng Yuan just wanted to say that in addition to them, there are a lot of poor scholars in the world, and there are many people who are willing to be officials.

"If you can grasp the power and revive the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many qi you can get......"

Feng Yuan's heart flashed.

In fact, after he practiced the third level of the Heavenly Xuangong, he could choose to return to the world of gods.

With the blessing of the majestic Qi and Blood Essence Yuan, his body can break through his cultivation in the blink of an eye and reach the triple level of Xuangong.

But the more you get, the more you want.

There are still so many martial arts cheats in the Blue Blood Sword World that have not yet been obtained, and there are still the qi brought by ruling the world...... All of them made Feng Yuan unable to give up.

He was able to come to this world, and he consumed a breath of innate origin qi.

If you want to get the second innate source qi and open the second world, you don't know when.

Feng Yuan must seize this opportunity to get enough benefits in the Blue Blood Sword World.

"Zhu Gongzi, when will we be able to catch up with the escort officers and soldiers?"

When Feng Yuan's mind was flying, Yuan Chengzhi, who was standing at the bow of the boat, was so leisurely and elegant, and he didn't have the heart to enjoy the scenery on the riverbank.

He saw Feng Yuan as if he was thinking about something just now, so he didn't make a sound to disturb, but as time passed, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.