Li Xiangjun didn't ask the man, "What's wrong." ”

She knew these rules and understood that for a woman, being quiet and silent might be the most advantageous option, and it was best not to get involved in the political affairs of the man next to her.

When he came to Jiangnan this time, Li Xianglai probably learned that in the past two years, there were many people who secretly went to the north to hook up with the elders, and there were not a few officials and businessmen.

Historically, these people themselves constituted the main force of surrender in the Jiangnan region, even when the shaving order came out, a large number of regions were dissatisfied with the shaving order and revolted, that is, so many real troubles.

Compared with the embarrassment of the barbarians who drank blood in later generations to occupy the imperial capital, the appearance of the elders was 10,000 times better, especially the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, although they had a lot of complaints about the need to pay taxes in the north, but with a little knowledge, they would find that the various goods produced in the imperial capital could be said to be very competitive products.

This kind of enthusiasm for business has greatly enhanced the centripetal force, and as for the hairstyles changed by the elders, the shocking requirements of the women are not allowed to bind their feet, and there are all kinds of things, you can endure it.

Anyway, their habit is like this, they serve you on the surface, but secretly they start to use various means to infiltrate the organization, and then erode and decay this organization, turning it into the worst organization in the world.

This is a bunch of bastards who can collude with the pirates in order to make money.

However, it is also a bastard who will receive Li Xiangqian to live comfortably in Suzhou, this Humble Administrator's Garden was temporarily cleaned up, borrowed from the original owner's house, Li Xiangqian once came to the Humble Administrator's Garden to play in later generations, I only remember that the ticket price is almost a movie ticket price, but the scenery inside has to be convincing, compared to the stars who cut out the picture and sang false-to-tune in a movie, the scenery of the Humble Administrator's Garden has a comforting beauty, even a layman like him has to kneel and lick, of course, This place is connected to a character like Wen Zhengming in history, and living in it is naturally full of style.

After living here, although there was no fanfare, but the wealthy businessmen from all over Suzhou, several surnames naturally all came up to offer their courtesy, even if Li Xiangqian knew that these people were almost the real root of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the financiers behind the scenes of the Donglin Party, and the source of many blood debts, but they also accepted their offerings without care.

Anyway, when they were in the imperial capital, they were also entertained by the elders, and in essence, this is an exchange of courtesies.

The enjoyment is naturally the top of the new time and space, and there are restaurants here from time to time, and the dishes cooked by famous chefs who are carefully fed by each big family are themselves.

These guys have money in the family, but their bodies and bones are like that, in order to enjoy them desperately, they naturally spend a lot of money, and women want Yangzhou thin horses that people have spent their efforts to raise, because their bodies and bones have long been lost, and women who are too strong can't surrender at all.

The singing troupe is also well-known in Suzhou, and according to Li Xiangjun's words, she is a master who can't catch up with her running.

There has been no major turmoil for hundreds of years, so that the skills of Jiangnan are more advanced than anyone else, there is heaven and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou, although there is no modern enjoyment, but the life supplemented by manpower is simply ......

In this era, the top human beings in Jiangnan ...... That is, the human beings at the top of this world, their enjoyment is probably a little better than that of the ordinary families of the later generations.

People in this era have long had the consciousness of freezing ice, and even the landlords in larger counties and even slightly burned bags will find ways to hide ice, and even have various ice-making methods, of course, compared to the ice machine that is ready to be sold to the south of the Yangtze River, it is naturally much inferior.

"Historically, the enrichment of wealth came from Guanzhong, but the reason is not difficult to explain, land, population, output, but now, transportation has become the most important point, Jiangnan this place, I prefer to call him the Yangtze River Delta, the biggest advantage is that, those places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, what Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, want to transport things to the field in the cheapest and fastest way, what is needed is reliable transportation, well, at this point, the Yangtze River shipping is very important."

Li Xiangqian knew that if he and others wanted to build a world empire, the only examples they could learn from were Britain and the United States, and these two countries happened to use similar systems and systems, so they must have merit.

As he himself summed up, after winning the Opium War and plundering a large number of markets from China, one of the performances of the British was too amazing and made him shudder: they studied this Tatar country that had just been defeated by themselves, and found that this backward country actually had a good system, that is, the imperial examination system, and after studying and inspecting for a period of time, it was actually put into practice in its own country.

Perhaps some people who are easily satisfied can consider this to be a matter of pride, as if they were to hang on their heads the so-called territories created by the Mongols in Europe.

The British are not particularly good, but they have an instinct for what their interests lie and for absorbing excellent institutions and technologies, and there is no psychological obstacle at all in this regard.

Just like later generations, the British gloriously became the first country in Europe to learn multiplication tables in the same way as China, and it was not a ninety-nine multiplication table, but a frenzied thirteen times thirteen multiplication table!

It's certainly not easy.

Living in the Humble Administrator's Garden, Li Xiangqian is like an ostrich every day, hiding and enjoying it, of course, there are also those rich businessmen who come to say hello every day, Li Xiangqian did not use them in vain, there are many places that need to use them in the future, as for how to deal with them, the inheritance law splits their family's wealth, which is actually a perfect good idea.

At this time, Suzhou did not have the concept of later generations, at least when they called themselves, they all liked to call themselves Wu County, and the most famous was naturally Tang Bohu, who was mixed in the brothel and remembered the beauty when he closed his eyes.

The magistrate of Wu County naturally knew for a long time that there were people living in the Humble Administrator's Garden, and he was a figure from the north, but he dared to be angry and dare not speak out for this kind of blatant behavior of the enemy, no way, the imperial power was finished, and a figure like him who was stationed in the local area by the central government was actually just, Master Huang said that you are the county magistrate, that you are the county magistrate, and that you are the county magistrate.

Moreover, if you think about it seriously, as a small person, he is not qualified to go to the imperial capital to secretly collude and betray the country, which is also a kind of sadness.

However, since someone is coming, he naturally wants to make a little gesture, and he is naturally not good to go over, but under the guise of maintaining law and order, he first looked around the Humble Administrator's Garden, and the beggars should be driven away, and it is useless for the beggars to help those leaders stuff money to give benefits, and at the same time, the people inside come out to purchase and shop, which is also convenient, not to mention the usual exchanges.

And got Li Xiangqian's gift, he also hurriedly prepared a lot of good things and ordered someone to send them, the so-called friendship, isn't it this kind of friendship between you and me.

The person who came to give the gift was a subordinate of the county government, with no identity, that is, no establishment, purely a character who brought his own dry food and ran for money, yes, it was "after running for money", that is, temporary workers in later generations.

According to the ancient imperial court system, in a county, the county magistrate is a pro-people official, and the foundation of the rule of officials is also, and there are two adjutant officials: the county officer, the county lieutenant, the county lieutenant is in charge of civil affairs, the county lieutenant is in charge of military affairs, and when the county order is not there, the county magistrate is the first agent, and the county lieutenant is the second agent.

As for the history of the main book, it has not yet entered the stream.

This county magistrate, as well as the main book, the canonical history, the county lieutenant, can be called the "imperial court officer", the real national civil servant, and then down, is the county ten rooms, first the officer's room, household room, ceremonial room, military room, torture room, workshop, this is similar to the design of the six departments, but also regarded as the characteristics of the great unification dynasty, can also be regarded as the design of the branch franchise store.

In fact, they actually possess all the power of a yamen, and there is no legal provision for its staffing, and there is no state fund, and because they do not have money, but they have real power, they do everything possible to use the power in their hands to expropriate and expropriate, solicit and accept bribes, and enrich their own pockets.

And a stunned young jinshi from the imperial capital often has to manage the affairs of a county by playing games with these bastards who have been killed one by one and have not been wronged.

In addition, there are also warehouses and grain rooms, sending and receiving and other things, which is also a position.

Of course, in terms of force, the soap class is the one who stands on the line when asking the case, similar to the bailiff, the fast class is similar to the criminal police, but the strong class is in charge of chasing taxes and collecting grain.

As for the rest of the teachings, inspections, they belong to the vertical institutions of the higher-level yamen in the county, similar to public institutions and provincial institutions, although they are also under their jurisdiction, but after all, there is another mother-in-law above, and it is not easy to bully.

As for the three masters, that is, the master of the bookstore, the master of the criminal name, and the master of Qian Gu, it is even more important.

However, Li Xiangqian designated such a small person to come to the door to return the gift to himself today.

Previously, Li Xiangqian gave Zhixian an assembled electric fan, powered by solar cells, which can be turned indoors for six hours after the sun is full every day, which is a standardized commodity, simple and convenient, and can almost immediately win the favor of a city that does not yet have an engine.

Of course, this kind of equipment powered by solar cells also has a lot of problems, basically it can turn on a light and put an electric fan.

There are still a lot of gifts in return, and the county is actually thinking about getting more, and his family can't just blow such a one.

Li Xiangqian lowered his head and looked at the gift list in his hand, which contained exquisite silk, tea, and sandalwood, all of which were good things with local specialties, Li Xiangqian was very suspicious, this was part of the gift from the county, and he almost came to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

However, his interest is not here, these things basically have to be counted in the public account, and go through a procedure, which is not something he can use.

"Dude looks familiar, déjà vu, I don't know where it's from, maybe we knew each other before."

Although Wu Han was flattered, he said: "If you go back to adulthood, I have lived in Wu County since I was a child, but I am afraid that I have never seen an adult." ”

"Oh, who's in the house."

"There is a younger brother, a wife, two sons and a daughter."

"Other than that, there are no other relatives, maybe the person I know is him."

"It should be gone, my father died early, and the rest of my relatives are not much."

Li Xiangqian listened and said slowly: "It sounds like you have suffered a little. ”

"In the early years, there was a shortage of soldiers, although it was Wu County, but it was not very easy, but it has been much better these years, especially the adults do not use swords and soldiers, and there is nothing to do, and naturally everyone is happy."

Nonsense, Li Xiangqian complained in his heart, the national taxes that the provinces in Jiangnan didn't have to pay, although they definitely had to be filled with private pockets, but so much grain that didn't have to be shipped could now be left in Jiangnan, or sold to various places, and naturally there were many benefits.

In fact, one of the reasons for the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was that under the maritime trade, the income was unstable, and a large number of "rice to mulberry" continued to rush forward, a large number of fields that could have been planted to produce mulberry leaves, contributing to the silk production master, but what did this lead to?

When the Xiaoice River period arrived, winter was coming, the wild wind and sand were raging, hitting the agricultural production in the north hard, and the iron hooves of the cold god minions entered and exited the Great Wall. At this time, silver silk and mulberry leaves could not solve the food ration problem in the northwest, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which the Donglin Party spent millions of taels of silver to feed a year, was in deficit to what extent, and the laid-off postman coveted the supreme's family property, and the butcher's knife with the tail of money and rat tail was planning how to stake the land.

So the imperial capital fell the year before the climate warmed up, and as long as you hold on for another year, you can have enough food to feed yourself!

Tens of thousands of problems, all in terms of taxes and use.

To Li Xiangqian sent a house, a cook, a singer, and a rich businessman in Jiangnan who didn't care, but killed the tax that refused to pay a penny, and in the end, the Liao salary of the Ming Dynasty forced the people of the world to rebel, and the annual silver of six million taels was smashed on the last Guan Ning Tieqi who had no combat effectiveness, to be honest, the money was used to buy the killer, the head of Huang Taiji was one million taels, the head of a Eight Banner Banner Lord was 500,000 taels, the head of the soldiers was 1,000 taels, and the heads of the middle generals were counted separately, and the "bounty hunters" for the heads of the people could completely level the entire Liaodong!

Li Xiangqian was not surprised, and said: "Oh, you are also a symbol of the re-emergence of your family, and you have a bright future in this county government, which is not bad." ”

Wu Han felt that Li Xiangqian was laughing at himself, he had been stammering for a long time, and he found a house in the county government to serve Wenmo's messenger, in fact, he was just writing and entering the eyes of the county, how much income could he have?

Li Xiangqian said: "It is the general trend to become an official from an official, I think you can do it, maybe the governor of Jiangsu will want you to do it in the future." ”

Li Xiangqian made a joke and asked about Wu Han's family, his younger brother married a wife, and he had several nephews, how old were they, could he help.

(End of chapter)