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'There are only three families in the world, and my family is only Jiangxi Zhang and Fengyang Zhu. Jiangxi Zhangjiadao morale, Fengyang Zhu family nouveau riche, and small family spirit. ’

This is what Wang Xingping has been thinking about these days, is it not that he can blatantly arrange the old Zhu family on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, or in front of the vassals of the vassal family, and only those few Yansheng families who live in the deep pond of Qufu Gaocheng dare to be so arrogant, and they have no scruples when they speak.

Wang Xingping and his entourage spent the Xia Yuan Festival in Yangzhou 20 days ago, and the children continued to go all the way north, and after crossing the Huai River, the canal gradually began to freeze a little, so they turned to land travel, and it took twice the time from Yangzhou to Huai'an to arrive in Xuzhou. After passing through Pei County to Shandong, he left the channel in Jining Prefecture and was led to Yanzhou by Zhang Bingfang.

Zhang Yaofang is the right long history of the Lu Wangfu as the deputy list, in charge of the political litigation of the palace, leading the government officials to provide for affairs, which is regarded as the general affairs, and he is from a scientific background, whether it is in Yanzhou Mansion or Ziyang County or even Ren Chengwei, he is a high-sounding figure. Its status is transcendent, and it is the existence of both government officials and state officials. Zhang Yaofang has been in Yanzhou for a long time and Qufu Confucius Mansion has been very close, and the children have to refer to Beijing when they go to Beijing, and when they pass through Shandong, they naturally have to go to the Confucian Temple to worship the Holy Master so that they can ask for a gold list title.

The Confucian Mansion specially set up a second-class banquet, and the person responsible for receiving everyone was Kong Yinzhi, the nephew of the contemporary head of the family, Kong Shangxian. Although this one is only the nephew of the head of the Kong family, Kong Shangxian's two sons died early and have no heirs, and this nephew is actually the real young master of the Kong family. Even though the Kong family has been deeply favored by the Ming Dynasty for generations, others still look down on the Zhu Ming royal family from the bottom of their bones, even if they were from the Lu Mansion when they said this.

Later, there were people who drank too much and arranged indiscriminately, saying that Confucius was named King Wenxuan in the Tang Dynasty, and he was attacked to the Yuan, and it was Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty who felt that it was inappropriate to be crowned king, so he changed his ancestor to go back, and it was reasonable for others to have grievances, but in Wang Xingping's view, the Confucian family's behavior has seen a lot in later generations, and it is purely a true portrayal of picking up chopsticks to eat, putting down chopsticks and scolding his mother.

However, Wang Xingping also experienced this time, and he had a deeper understanding of the four words of envy, and blindly selling well backfired in the end. But after thinking about it, if the young master of the Confucian family is to attack the seal one day, it will not take a few years to be ranked as the third duke, and if he goes to Beijing to face the holy class train before the university scholar, things in the world are often so unfair. In order to protect the Confucian Mansion and the Confucian Temple during the Jiajing period, Qufu County specially relocated a large number of civilians to other places, and now this county is actually a big household of the Confucian family, surrounded by more Confucian family slaves and tenants, what flower households, grain households, cattle and sheep households, the entire Qufu can be said to be a country within a country of Yan Shenggong, and it is no wonder that others are so perverse, after all, Confucius Mansion is liquidated as a landlord It will be hundreds of years later.

Thinking about the fact that the descendants of this master, who had been replaced by the Mongols, could enjoy such an unreasonable offering, Wang Xingping's cognition of the Ming Dynasty was a little worse, but about the country within a country, Wang Xingping had this idea for a long time, and he also worked towards this goal in Guizhou, but it was just starting, and because the Confucian family relied on the emperor's gift, and Wang Xingping wanted to be self-reliant.

Only delayed in Qufu for half a day, everyone set off towards Tai'an Prefecture again, after all, the Confucian Temple has been worshipped, not to Mount Tai to pay tribute to it is really not like a scribe.

In Zhejiang, I saw the passenger ship that went to and from Putuo Mountain to worship Guanyin, and was originally prepared for the tourism industry of Mount Tai, but when the group arrived in Tai'an Prefecture, Wang Xingping was still taken aback by the flow of people, a small state city, before entering the city, it was all rows of inns, it was winter, and there were thousands of visitors, among which there were pilgrims from Yunnan and Guizhou. It is said that there are more than 800,000 pilgrims who come to Mount Tai to worship every year, which is not much better than the 5A scenic spot in later generations.

I heard Zhang Yaofang say that this is still the off-season, if it is the peak season, the pilgrims who go up the mountain every day will count eight or nine thousand, and the tax of one dollar and two cents per person on Mount Tai will collect nearly 300,000 taels every year, which is several times the Liao salary that Shandong has just increased, and it is nearly 100 times the main lesson of Shandong in a year.

With the landlord leading the way, Wang Xingping and others are naturally the best inn in the local area, and the silver of the store alone costs three dollars and eight cents per person, and a drink and food must be counted separately.

The guest seat is also divided into three classes, the pilgrims on Mount Tai are vegetarian seats in the morning, and only eat some vegetarian wine and fruits on the mountain at noon, there is probably a meaning of fasting and bathing, which is the so-called top. However, the reception of returning to the inn in the evening is based on how much money is paid, after burning the incense and returning to the store, the store has to set up a banquet to congratulate, probably because of the success of this place, seeking officials to get officials, asking for sons to get children, seeking wealth and wealth. Therefore, the dinner party is also divided into three classes, the lowest class is three or four people a seat, only sugar cakes and food cores, and there are playing and singing for fun. The middle two people can listen to the play, the larger inns have special theater apartments for the performance needs, as for Wang Xingping and the other people choose the upper class seat is a special seat for one person, all kinds of pastries and fruits are also more complete, the same is to act. On that day, there were more than 20 places where Wang Xingping was entertained after nightfall, and the number of playing and singing was incalculable, and the scale of hundreds of people was roughly calculated, and there were more than five or six such big stores outside Tai'an Prefecture alone.

It's just that Wang Xingping doesn't believe in these, so he is also a vegetarian, even if he eats meat before going up the mountain, he has to eat meat, and after he goes down the mountain, he doesn't go to others drinking and prostitutes, which is also different from ordinary people.

And now the Dongchang Mansion Linqingzhou, where everyone is located, is Guanjin, the largest port of the canal in Shandong at this time, but it has been five days after Wang Xingping came down from Mount Tai.

The mutton sold from Zhangjiakou Fort in Xuanfu is poured with cold water before departure, and then re-melted and boiled into a thick soup under the supervision of the chef of the restaurant outside the city of Linqing, and the special pickles of this place can be the most able to dispel fatigue on the night of the winter solstice.

And in addition to eating and drinking, what Wang Xingping is most willing to do now is to gossip with Shen Xiaolian, a son of Shangjing who he met on Mount Tai a few days ago. His father died early, but because he was an official of the Hanlin Academy to review and participate in the compilation of the "Ming Huidian", he is a historian, so he also knows a lot about the story of the court and the opposition, although his ancestral home is Jiaxing Mansion, but he was born in the city of Beijing, his father died when he was more than ten years old, and then he has been studying in Nanjing Guozijian, so he knows a lot about the affairs of the north and south of Beijing, and he is also a new imperial examination person this year, and he is also going to Beijing to take the exam, and he was in an inn when he was in Tai'an.

After nightfall, sitting in front of the charcoal stove drinking soup and drinking, several lifters and Wang Xingping were chatting in the morning and south.

"Speaking of Liaodong, I don't know how this matter in Liaodong will be corrupted, you see that if it weren't for the delay of the convoy transporting grain, we would have been here at least one day earlier." On the way, there were a lot of grain trucks going north, and the news here was not closed, and the military situation about Liaodong was more detailed, and the transfer on the road naturally added to the tension, and the post road was indeed delayed a lot because of this, and Yuan Chonghuan was also impressed.

"I don't have to move bricks."

As soon as Wang Xingping's joke came out, everyone laughed again, and the atmosphere was relaxed.

Linqing land is close to Zhili, and because of the convenience of water transportation, so the north of the construction of bricks in this place, the Ministry of Industry also set up a special camp in Linqing to burn tribute bricks and tiles, and the method of transporting bricks is also due to the old practice, all the official and civilian ships in the north have to bring bricks to Beijing, grain ships transport bricks ninety-two per ship, and civilian ships transport bricks per foot twelve, only to transport all kinds of special tribute to the emperor of the new recommended fresh yellow boat is exempt, and if the people who bring the transport are lost on the way, they have to compensate themselves, in fact, it is a kind of maladministration.

"However, in previous years, when I went to Beijing, it was the off-season after July, where would there be so many big trucks transporting grain and cloth." He Wusu also said that it was the fifth time he had gone to Beijing to catch the exam, and when had he seen such a battle in the freezing season. The canal has the convenience of water conservancy, a boat eighteen people can transport 300 stone grain, which is much more convenient than land transportation, which is why the water is abundant from March to June every year is the peak season of water transportation, and the time to sail well in a year is actually not too much, especially the Cao Road north of the Huai River.

Shen Defu looked unfathomable when he heard this, and he began to popularize the court to everyone with a mouthful of hot soup, "You don't know, these are mostly private merchants' grain trucks, if they are transferred by officials, now that they are gone, there will be no more surplus grain in the south." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Tiancheng doesn't know, since the Xuande years of the exchange law, the people of Jiangnan will no longer transport grain into the warehouse, all only transport the grain to Huai'an, Guazhou to the official army of the guard, and then sent directly to Beijing by the army, so these years along the way the water of the warehouses of the grain storage will gradually decrease, in addition to Beijing, Tong each warehouse is full, Linqing, Dezhou two places only have to store grain 500,000 stones, in addition to the Huaibei warehouses of the grain is not enough, those from the south of the grain cart cloth is more than the businessmen who heard the news, the so-called no profit can not afford to be early, if I expect it is not bad, Prices in the capital have risen a lot. ”

Shen Defu is worthy of being a person who is familiar with the master, this Linqing Prefecture is also a big place even on the canal, this side was originally Cangcheng, a total of Linqing, Guangji two warehouses and Changying small warehouse, a total of 48 warehouses, Jingtai years after the construction of the city in the Qing Dynasty is a warehouse in the city, now there are nearly half of the city are granaries, and everyone stays in the inn in Zhongzhou, although there is also a Tucheng but far away from the county seat, it is the confluence of the Huitong River and the Wei River, and it is also the most prosperous place in Linqing, although there is also a water to the military warehouse on the nearby Mashi Street, But overall, there is still some distance from Linqing County.

After all, there are more than 100,000 people on the Grand Canal all year round, even though there are more people this winter than in previous years, but Shen Defu knows that it is nothing, after all, this place is the main road to control Henan and Shandong, and it is also the necessary transshipment port for grain to enter Beijing.

"No matter what these things do, you are going to refer to them, and when you become a jinshi, you will naturally say and do it, and now you can eat and drink with peace of mind." Zhang Bingfang said indifferently, picked up a lamb rib and gnawed it again.

Chen Zizhuang said: "We are waiting to study to take the world as our own responsibility, and now that Jiannu is so rampant, how can we sit idly by." ”

Zhang Bingfang disagreed, "Have you all read the latest Di Bao?" Even Liu Dadao (note: Liu Ling) was nested in Sanhe County and refused to go out, and the newspaper said that Zhao Zhizhi (note: Zhao Xingbang) of the military department and Wang Zhiyuan (note: Wang Xiangheng) had been impeached. ”

Shen Defu said with a smile: "Liu Wei is afraid that he has no bottom in his heart, so he will wait for his rescue in the pass." ”