Chapter 69: The Prince Returns to Beijing

Severe winter.

A group of people in fresh clothes and angry horses came to Zhengyang Gate.

It's none other than Zhu Jianjun.

Zhu Jianjun looked up at the familiar city gate and said, "I'm back." ”

If you think about it, he has been away from home for two years, and he can be regarded as an arrow.

It's just that he didn't play the prince's guard of honor, so he could only line up honestly to enter the city.

He said to the people around him: "Ting Mian, there are so many people today? ”

Zhang Mao took a step behind and said, "Childe, it should be almost the New Year." ”

Zhu Jianjun's eyes swept around, but he saw hundreds of people bustling, carrying all kinds of things, entering and exiting the city gate, and guarding the old army at the city gate, while maintaining order, while collecting and inspecting all kinds of goods.

Zhu Jianjun's eyes were slightly stunned, and he said, "Now you don't collect the city gate tax?" ”

The city gate tax has always been a revenue of the Shuntian Mansion, and the amount is still quite large, after all, the nine-gate tariff has become a major item in the Qing Dynasty.

At the beginning, after Yu Qian reformed the rule of officials and abolished the hereditary system of officials, he hired a lot of officials, who were not untouchables, but they had to pay for work.

As a result, the expenses of Suncheonfu increased greatly at that time, and there was a city gate tax at that time.

Now Zhu Jianjun looked at the old army at the city gate, only checking the goods, but did not collect the money, so he naturally felt strange.

Zhang Mao immediately asked people to ask.

However, after a while, someone replied: "It is rumored that Liu Daxia, the champion of the new department, served as the magistrate of Daxing County, and he played the Shuntian Mansion with sufficient treasury, and it should be taken from the people for the people, and the Zhengyangmen tariff was exempted." ”

Zhu Jianjun listened and said to the people around him: "Go and check the accounts of Shuntianfu to see if it is as Liu Daxia said." ”

Although Zhu Jianjun said so, he still had a good impression of Liu Daxia.

This obvious concession to the people is very much in line with Confucian values.

Although Zhu Jianjun lined up, the old army at the city gate did not dare to be a little lazy, without him, the old army watching the gate may not be able to do anything else, but a pair of tricks are very poisonous.

You can see at a glance how much a person is worth.

And he clearly saw the clothes worn by this master, the appearance was extremely simple, it seemed to be an ordinary scholar's green shirt, but the material of the clothes, as well as the sewing techniques, were all craftsmanship in the palace.

At least the emperor's relatives and relatives, how dare they slack off?

When Zhu Jianjun entered the city of Beijing, he felt that there were many people, and the people on the street walked on the outermost side, and the carriages and horses walked in the middle.

Zhu Jianjun rode on a tall horse, looking around, and the red palace wall loomed in the distance. That's the direction of Miyagi.

Right here, not far from the palace, it is full of fireworks in the world, hawkers, all kinds of merchants shouting loudly, and even some performers have spread to the city from the overpass outside the city. It's just that compared to the various tricks on the flyover, it is much simpler here.

There were also a few old soldiers, running around, constantly reprimanding something, but someone forgot to give the horse-drawn dung pocket and pulled it on the street.

But there is a fine.

This is also a special request from Zhu Qizhen.

Without him, Zhu Qizhen was afraid of the plague.

Although there have only been two plagues in Jiangnan over the years, or two repetitions of one plague. Zhu Qizhen was worried that it would spread to Beijing.

Once it reaches Beijing, even the palace walls cannot stop the spread of infectious diseases.

Therefore, he is particularly particular about the Beijing City Guard. But what if you are exquisite?

A large number of horses and livestock from the north to Beijing arrived in Monan.

Beijing is the largest livestock distribution center in the whole of the north.

Although the horse market was arranged outside the city, the number of private horses increased, so that more people rode horses or used horse-drawn carts.

When there are more vehicles, the city will naturally smell of gasoline.

And there are more animals in the city, and the city will naturally be filled with the smell of animal feces.

There is no way around it.

It is already good to be able to control people's open defecation, but how can you control livestock, just to control people's open defecation, it has taken a lot of energy from Shuntianfu in the past dynasties.

Even if the animals have dung pockets, the contents of the dung pockets are still smelly.

Zhu Jianjun even has a kind of smell as fragrance at the moment.

Without him, although Zhu Qizhen rarely had time to match Zhu Jianjun, he gave Zhu Jianjun a lot of freedom, and when he was very young, he went out to visit Beijing.

This familiar smell of horse manure is no longer strange.

Even after a year or two outside, I suddenly realized how difficult this kind of horse manure smell is. Without him, many people may think that the countryside is stinking.

Yes and no.

Growing grain always requires fertilization, so the smell is not too good, but at the same time, the farmer's fertilizer is always insufficient, and even a piece of horse manure must be picked up on the street.

In this way, there will be no smell, and the smell is in the field, and when it is dried, there is no taste, unless you come in the season of top dressing, and generally there will be no such gathering of horse manure smell.

Only in the city of Beijing, many people do not think that farming makes a living. This horse manure is not a useful thing for them.

Now it can be regarded as a sweep of the streets by the old army who retired from Beijing. In the past, this horse manure would be put into the ground by layers of vegetables, and the soil would have a smell of horse manure.

Zhu Jianjun smelled a lot, saw a lot, and the familiarity gave him time to associate this smell of horse manure with his hometown.

Along the way, Zhu Jianjun came to a conclusion and said: "Jingshi is a lot bigger. ”

Indeed, Zhu Jianjun came from the south of the city, and he did not enter the Beijing division along the way, but first entered the streets of the market, especially from Zhengyangmen to the water conservancy academy by the Lugou River, and the ordnance workshop, which has formed a long street, which is no less lively than the city, and even more lively than the city.

After all, the gates of Beijing are to be closed at night, but there is no such restraint outside the city.

Some people can play all night long.

Some things that are sexy and sensual are placed in the city, and they may not be ignored by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After all, at this time, the overall atmosphere of the Ming officialdom was quite good, and for officials, prostitution was still a crime, not an elegant matter.

Naturally, they want to be a little more remote.

And Zhu Qizhen's general strategy of tilting the Hebei Beijing Division also made the city of Beijing expand more rapidly than history.

Zhang Mao said: "This is all Your Majesty's wisdom, in my opinion, Beijing is better than Nanjing." ”

Zhu Jianjun nodded and said, "One thing, it's just that the city wall of Beijing is far inferior to Nanjing." It is estimated that the construction of the outer city wall will be on the agenda. ”

The construction of the outer city wall naturally has a voice.

After all, most of the outside of Beijing's city walls are now houses, especially in the south of the city, where there were originally streets left by the Yuan capital, and now they have developed around a few schools and factories.

Many people feel that these places are unprotected outside the city and are not suitable.

However, with the defeat of the Watts, the call for this matter has weakened a bit.

Zhang Mao said: "Childe, but not necessarily, the city wall of Beijing is already far away in Longcheng, and there will be no Xiaoxiao who dares to offend the imperial court." ”

"I've seen Childe." Zhu Jianjun and Zhang Mao were talking, but they saw a person who didn't know where to come from, bowed and said.

Zhu Jianjun said, "Lord Yun." ”

This person is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Yun Lei. He bowed slightly and said, "The master will go to see him when he comes back." ”

At the end of the Tile War, the Jinyi Guard, who had been active, slowly became silent and seemed to become silent. But Zhu Jianjun didn't dare to underestimate the commander of the Jinyi Guard, after all, when he was in Guangxi, Guangxi Jinyi Wei Qianhu and Annan Jinyi Wei Qianhu were directly responsible to him.

Only then did Zhu Jianjun see what was under the deep pool of Jinyiwei.

Even in the face of Annan Jinyiwei's all-out strangulation, he can also keep the flow of information smooth.

You heard it right, it's Annan Jinyiwei, Annan Houli Dynasty is almost a small version of the Ming Dynasty, they learn everything from the Ming Dynasty, and naturally they also want the establishment of Jinyiwei, and their responsibilities are also to serve as the escort of the lord of Annan, and they also have intelligence missions in private.

It's just that the intelligence work of the Annan people is much worse than that of the Daming Jinyiwei, on the one hand, it is a matter of heritage, after all, the money spent by the Daming Jinyiwei is something that Annan can't get. The other is Zhu Qizhen's reorganization and revolution of Jinyiwei.

Although it did not transform Jinyiwei into a modern intelligence agency, it was much stronger than other intelligence agencies.