In the year of the eyes, the desolation of the extreme!

A square mound about several meters high is overgrown with miscellaneous trees and wild grass.

"Shiziye, this is the "Yang Emperor's Mausoleum", this place is called Leitang, also known as "Leipo", it is said that King Wu once built Diaoyutai here. During the Southern Dynasties, the landscape gardens here, the pavilions and terraces were the scenic spots in the south of the Yangtze River. After entering the Song Dynasty, due to the invasion of the Jin army, there was nothing left here, only a lonely mound remained, and the people called it "the emperor's tomb mound". ”

Staring at the square-shaped lonely mound of Lu Yuxiao's fingers, Zhu Guoqiang's expression was a little solemn, this "square mound" and the "square mound" in the field did not look different, at most it was slightly higher. If it weren't for someone pointing out, I wouldn't have seen that this was the "Mausoleum of Emperor Yang".

In fact, the "Mausoleum of Emperor Yang" has nothing to see at all, even if it is specially renovated into a scenic spot in later generations, there is nothing to see.

"Entering the Guo Deng Bridge and exiting the Guo boat, the Red Mansion is every day. The king endured the leveling of Chen Ye, and only a few acres of land in Boleitang. ”

In addition to sighing in his heart, Zhu Guoqiang softly said Luo Yin's "Emperor Yang's Mausoleum", and sighed in his heart that Emperor Yang was absurd and misled state affairs, but he shook his head and sighed.

"The Red Mansion is every day...... It would be nice to be able to live like this! ”

It's a pity that it's a troubled time now, and such days are just thinking about it?

The sigh of the prince made Lu Yuxiao, who was following him, chuckle.

"The prince laughed, if there is chaos today, the prince just wants to be relaxed, I'm afraid he has to wait for the world to be peaceful!"

"The world is peaceful, and after the chaos, there will be great governance, this thing...... Done with work? ”

After shaking his head and sighing, Zhu Guoqiang looked in the direction of Yangzhou City, and then smiled.

"Let's go to the Zheng family's movie garden!"

Going from Leitang to the Movie Park, it was just a matter of arriving in Yangzhou, and the luxurious breath that came to his face made Zhu Guoqiang breathtaking. I saw that on both sides of the river, there were all beautiful gardens, all of which were the gardens of Yangzhou salt merchants.

As for more than 100 years later, in order to cater to the elegance of Qianlong's vassals, Yangzhou salt merchants built 24 scenic spots in the northern suburbs of Yangzhou, Zhu Guoqiang did not know, but it is certain that even the Dewang Mansion is far inferior to the gardens of Yangzhou.

"Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist, ride a crane to Yangzhou ......"

Zhu Guoqiang's whole mood seems to be very good.

"Lord Shizi, it seems that he yearns for Yangzhou very much."

Lu Yuxiao smiled.

"When I was in Jinan, I heard that the two Huai salt merchants lived, the salt merchants can be described as a rich party, and no one in the world can compare with the luxury of life, to be honest, I have been yearning for Yangzhou for a long time!"

For example, Yangzhou's "skinny horse", this horse is not another horse, but what is this horse? But I have only heard of it, but I have never experienced it, how thin is this thin horse? What is a horse? I'm afraid that only in Yangzhou can I experience one or two, I expanded my chest, and a gust of wind blew in front of him, although the cold wind was biting, but he still chuckled.

"Especially for the "Yangzhou Thin Horse" is famous for a long time, today the Yangzhou gentry set up a banquet in the theater to entertain me, but I don't know if there is a thin horse serving wine during this banquet! ”

The prince wants to taste the skinny horse...... What's the matter, anyway, it just wants to let the outside world see how we give up on ourselves and the absurdity of our behavior.

"Lord Shizi, it has always been the rule of Yangzhou banquets for thin horses to serve wine and banquet guests."

While laughing, Liu Hanyi asked Cao Yushi Yang Ren, who was beside the prince.

"Imperial Envoy Yang, I don't know if what you said is right?"

"What Liu Senjun said is very true, the banquet must be danced and musical, and the family music people must be indispensable, among which it is inevitable that some family music people are born in thin horses, but Liu Shenjun does not know, this first-class Yangzhou thin horse is specially trained, ready to marry a young woman who is a rich businessman as a concubine, although some have become family music people, but after all, they are still not as good as the first class! However, I heard that the Zheng family specially invited everyone from Songjiang to cheer up the dance and music of the prince this time, which must be no less than the first-class thin horse. ”

Although he was surprised by the greed shown by De Shizi, Yang Ren still responded with a happy face.

In fact, as a magistrate, he didn't want to receive this De Shizi, after all, everyone knows that this "murderous" De Shizi is just a rabbit's tail that can't grow, as long as everyone impeaches him and arrives in the capital, he must be the high wall of the central capital, so it's best not to have anything to do with such a person.

Despite thinking so, ...... He didn't dare!

After all, the prince in front of him can kill! Therefore, along the way, he has been waiting cautiously, lest one accidentally lose his life?

"Lord Shizi, look, over there is the shadow garden of the Changling Zheng family, one of the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou."

As early as the Ming Dynasty, Lianghuai already had eight chief salt merchants, in fact, among the leaders of the Salt Industry Association, among them, the Western Merchants Hui (Huizhou) merchants accounted for four of them, and the two have been in constant conflict.

In fact, the earliest salt industry in the Ming Dynasty was Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants, because in the early Ming Dynasty, the implementation of "salt opening", allowing private merchants to send grain to the border in exchange for the salt distribution license "salt introduction", about 30 catties of grain can be exchanged for a "salt introduction", and it is also Huai salt introduction. Merchants from the two places relied on their geographical advantages to get involved in and even monopolize the salt industry by relying on the "opening of China and France". However, with the change of the "open middle method" of grain exchange to the "color folding method" of silver exchange in the fifth year of Hongzhi, that is, merchants no longer have to travel thousands of miles to send grain to the border gates, but directly take out silver to buy salt, that is, they can obtain permission to sell salt. This move broke the inherent advantages of "border merchants" such as Shaanxi and Shanxi, and gave a good opportunity for "domestic merchants", who were geographically closer to the two Huai and Huai, mainly Huizhou merchants, to enter the lucrative salt industry.

In the following decades, the Hui merchants who were both advantageous and popular with the people sprung up, aggressive, and because of its tradition of "Confucianism on the left and on the right", the cultural level was generally high, and they liked to initiate lawsuits at every turn, and there were repeated commercial conflicts with Shanxi merchants. According to historical records, in the litigation cases between the "Nanren" (i.e., Hui merchants) and the border merchants (i.e., Shanshan merchants), the former often obtained favorable official judgments and gained the upper hand in the fighting. Because Yangzhou is an extremely important place for this southward journey, Zhu Guoqiang also did some homework, knowing that the elder Zheng family is from Nanzhili Hui County, and this time they let themselves live in the Zheng family's movie garden...... This shows that Hui merchants still have the upper hand!

Still, it's a good thing!

After all, those Jin merchants in Yangzhou City will inevitably have some contact with that group of Jin merchants, so that they can use their hands to pass on the information!

"This movie garden is chic, but I don't know what about everyone in the mouth of Imperial Envoy Yang?"

(1) A family musician is an entertainer who sings and dances at a banquet