Standing on the bow of the boat blowing the river breeze, Ye Qing was in a trance again, since leaving the dock, Yan Qingcheng and You'er were placing the belongings they brought with them in the cabin, and he himself began to be in a trance since he got on the big ship called the Mulan Boat.

The trivial things were handed over to Po Li San to deal with, and he himself was like a tourist who traveled for the first time, and his heart was in a trance and dazed.

The boats cruising on the river were large or small, and the sails were slowly rising in the morning sun, but Ye Qing reflexively did not hear the whistle, but could vaguely see that some slender men on the shore were dragging ropes, pulling some boats to slowly dock.

After a while, he looked at the scenery on both sides of the Qiantang River, and then turned around to look at this large boat that could accommodate 500 people, in addition to dozens of them, there were more than 200 other people who took this boat to Yangzhou together.

Less than half of the number of people made the ship not very crowded, but rather a little empty, and from time to time some literati or merchants could be seen passing by the side of the ship.

Today's river still follows the course of the Sui and Tang Canals, as the main means of transportation in the south of the Yangtze River, you can see many different types of ships passing by at a glance on the river.

Starting from Hangzhou, along the canal through Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Zhenjiang to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then walk the more ancient, Spring and Autumn Period, by the Wu State to dig the Yangtze River and the Huai River ditch, you can pass through Hongze Lake and then arrive at Sizhou, which is close to the Huaishui.

And Ye Qing and his entourage, obviously do not need to go around the waterway from Hangou to Sizhou, after all, they are only a large number of people, but there are no other goods, so after crossing the Yangtze River, they will get off the boat from Yangzhou, and then go to Sizhou by land, so although the time is about the same, the distance is much closer.

Ye Qing never believed that the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty was really prosperous, of course, he believed that several big cities led by Lin'an City were prosperous enough to be staggering, but other places far away from the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty north of the Yangtze River and south of Huaishui, obviously could not be compared with the surrounding areas of Lin'an City.

He couldn't see the reason for the green crops on both sides of the river, just as he thought now, if he crossed over to a farmhouse, he probably would starve to death in the fields or in the huts.

"What are you looking at, so engrossed?" Yan Tingcheng's voice sounded in Ye Qing's ears, his tall figure, beautiful cheeks, and skirt that danced gently with the river breeze set off Yan Tingcheng's graceful and concave figure to the fullest.

"What a good figure!" Ye Qing gave a thumbs up, looked at Yan Qingcheng, who had been extremely excited since he got on the boat, and said.

"Nasty! Not serious! Yan Qingcheng stroked the hair that was blown by the river breeze in his ears, and then hurriedly took the one handed over by You'er, and put the embroidered jacket with wide sleeves on his body.

"Didn't think about anything. But I'm curious, why are you so excited? It doesn't look like a businessman who is busy with his own business, but like a traveler. Ye Qing looked at Yan Qingcheng and gave him an angry look, but he was not angry at the lightness of his words, so he leaned on the side of the boat and turned around and said.

"Then tell me what a businessman who travels from south to north and sleeps in the open should look like?" Yan Qingcheng was very interested in talking, and stood at the bow of the boat with Ye Qing, although Yan Qingcheng was enough to be called a jade girl, but Ye Qing was not even half a golden boy in the eyes of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, some literati who passed by them, or other boat passengers, would be amazed by Yan Chengcheng's beauty at the same time, and then glanced at Ye Qing next to him, and shook his head slightly regretting that the flowers were still arched by pigs after all.

"I don't know what it should look like." Ye Qing smiled casually and said, "Don't believe it, this is my first time going far away?" ”

"I believe it, just look at your appearance. But when I was a child, I went to Sizhou twice with my father, and then I went to Sizhou with my brother once, and then I didn't go again, so it's inevitable to get excited when I go out this time, isn't it? Holding the arm of You'er next to him, Yan Qingcheng asked mischievously.

"yes, we haven't been out for a long time." You'er nodded hurriedly, excited and curious about the people and things on the boat.

Ye Qing looked at the two cheerful people, smiled and asked, "Aren't you afraid of encountering bandits when you go out?" In addition to having a lot of money, my Great Song Dynasty was a lot of bandits. ”

Yan Qingcheng glanced at Ye Qing speechlessly, as if complaining about Ye Qing's words, and then sighed helplessly: "I don't know what's going on, there are still many uprisings against the imperial court, and you can hear it in Lin'an City from time to time, where and where there are people who oppose the imperial court, and the imperial court has dispatched which Tunlu army to suppress it in the past, and then the division returned to the court within two months, and then there is a place against the imperial court, and so on and so on." ”

"Of course, you can't understand why the people rebelled, the merchants were not as humble as the previous dynasty in ......the Great Song Dynasty." Ye Qing shook his head and said halfway, only to see a few literati not far away, talking to each other, looking in his direction from time to time.

Ye Qing naturally didn't think that he was looking at himself, there was such a fairy-looking woman standing beside him, and the literati didn't come up at the first time, which was already restrained enough.

Ye Qing ignored the young literati not far away, and then continued: "You may not believe it, after Qin Hui's death, whether it is an official or a wealthy family in Lin'an City, they all say that the Qin family is now in decline, but even so, the rent collected last year reached 100,000 yuan. Qinghefang is famous for Zhang Jun, and when he was alive, his family collected 600,000 yuan of rice per year. This is not the most, Huaidong Hao is forced to crutch his son, and he earns 700,000 ...... a year! ”

"Then if you go north this time, it won't be the imperial court that wants to attack that kidnapper, right?" Yan Qingcheng looked at the cold light that flashed in Ye Qing's eyes, and asked in a somewhat uneasy whisper.

"Of course not, it has nothing to do with me. Let alone...... After crossing the Yangtze River, in the territory between Huaishui and the Yangtze River, I don't know who has the final say, I have nothing to do with that moldy head. Ye Qing put his hands in his sleeves and said honestly.

"But let's get off the ship from Yangzhou and take the land route. Yangzhou, Chuzhou, Sizhou, Zhenzhou, Haizhou, Tongzhou, and Chuzhou all belong to Huainan East Road, and they are ....... Yan Chengcheng pursed his lips and said with some dissatisfaction: "It is indeed as you said, as long as you cross the Yangtze River and enter Huainan East Road, especially after Yangzhou, no matter where the merchants are, as long as they come from Sizhou, there are all kinds of taxes on Huainan East Road on both land and water, and it is no wonder that the people want to rebel." ”

Ye Qing smiled and didn't speak, looked at the young literati, and after discussing for a while, he straightened his clothes, and looked like he was going to come over to his side.

So he turned his head directly to face the river, but his thoughts flew involuntarily, the Southern Song Dynasty ...... It seems that a dynasty that is extremely wealthy, especially after being whitewashed in later generations, has completely become a peaceful and prosperous era with clear politics and peaceful living for the people.

After the death of Zhang Jun or Qin Hui, when the land that was originally annexed by them was recovered by the imperial court, it did not become the official land of the imperial court, but after tossing and turning, it unconsciously returned to the hands of the powerful people in the court.

People like to say that the Southern Song Dynasty was rich and accounted for more or less of the world's economic proportion, but they didn't know that the heavy taxes of the Southern Song Dynasty far exceeded those of the Northern Song Dynasty and the previous dynasties.

There are many kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and even in some places that are a little farther away from Lin'an City, such as Huainan East Road north of the Yangtze River and south of Huaishui, the additional local taxes are not at all something that an ordinary peasant household can bear.

And the reason why these taxes can still be acquiesced in and accepted by the imperial court is that in the name of supplying military expenses, they blocked the mouths of the officials south of the Yangtze River, as well as Zhao Gou and the current saints.

Everyone knows that Zhao Gou is afraid of death and losing the country, Yangzhou and other places were also occupied by the Jin people in the early Southern Song Dynasty, and once they crossed the river to Jiankang and other areas, the so-called Zhenjiang naturally became a military town south of the Yangtze River.

And Yangzhou and other places across the river from Zhenjiang, as the first line of defense to prevent the Jin people from going south before the Yangtze River natural danger, were naturally more valued by Zhao Gou and the imperial court.

Therefore, the officialdom of Huainan East Road can completely let go of their hands and feet, set up clever names, and set up a large number of various taxes to fill their pockets, so that the imperial court has nothing to say to them.

But the entire Southern Song Dynasty is obviously not the only Huainan East Road all the way, although the other roads dare not be as blatant as Huainan East Road, but all kinds of taxes are naturally not small, throughout the North and South Song Dynasty, the peasant uprisings are probably the most, right?

If ordinary people could be fed and clothed, and they didn't have to worry about paying taxes, who would have nothing to do with a rebellion and an uprising?

Even in today's Song Xiaozong period, large-scale peasant uprisings have basically never stopped.

At the beginning of Song Xiaozong's succession, Wang Xuan, Zhong Yu, and Li Yun on Guangnan West Road rebelled, and then the government forced the sale of frankincense to various places in the first two years, and the Li Jin uprising in Binzhou, where Yan Qingzhi's brother Yan Qingzhi was located, and the Guiyang army went south to Guangnan East Road, and broke Lianzhou, Yingzhou and other places.

The tea farmers and tea sellers on Jinghu North Road revolted under the organization of Lai Wenzheng, and Xin Qiji, who was sentenced to prison at the time, led the army to suppress it.

In short, in the era of the Southern Song Dynasty, behind the singing and dancing, she was like a glamorous woman, you don't know how much price she paid and dignity behind her glamorous body.

Therefore, in Ye Qing's view, even if the crops on both sides of the river are growing vigorously, they are just the private property of the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and they have nothing to do with the people at all.

"How do you know that?" Yan Qingcheng was a little stunned, when Ye Qing talked about Binzhou just now, she was still a little worried, but when Ye Qing said that after Yan Qingzhi passed, the uprising there had already been suppressed, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

"There are many things recorded in the Imperial City Division, and each one is shocking, and these are still on the surface. Don't forget, the reason why the Imperial City Division is called the Hukou Yamen is when Zhao Gou is in power and Qin Hui is the prime minister. Ye Qing had a smile on his face, and those literati also came over at this time, but none of them looked at him. ()

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