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In the end, Wen Tiren did not dare to listen to Ni Yuanlu's advice, in the current Ming tax issue is a very sensitive issue, from the emperor to the ministers know what it means to raise taxes rashly and irresponsibly. In the past few years, Daming has been suffering, what drought, locust plague, fire, earthquake and other disasters are almost one by one, the production in the fields is reduced and the damage to the family is everywhere, it is too late to appease the people and stabilize the people's hearts, who dares to say the word tax increase publicly?

Even if it's a tax cut, it's not okay, for those who are officials, they can go up or down, and if you are a good official, you suddenly want to demote others, and if you don't have an explanation, you may have to jump off your pants. In the same way, the people's taxes can be reduced or not increased, and if they are lowered, they cannot be increased, otherwise there will be big trouble, which is like a person standing on the ground, it doesn't matter, but whoever wants to lift him up and then throw it down, then no one can stand it.

Wen Tiren believes that even if he puts forward the suggestions that Ni Yuanlu said, no local official will accompany him, and now maintaining stability in the country is the top priority, and if he really provokes a civil unrest in taxes, he is joking with his own net worth and life. Of course, Wen Tiren also borrowed some ideas from Ni Yuanlu, that is, money is indispensable to doing anything, especially when dealing with ordinary people, it is necessary to use money to open the way. Wen Tiren meant to explain to the court the difficulty of increasing the literacy rate of the people in a short period of time, and at the same time said that there is a reason that the ghost can be sharpened before, he means that the first thing to teach is then the assessment, and the reward for learning more is not given if the money is not learned.

If the imperial court doesn't want to pay this money, then it's embarrassing to blame him for not doing things well, of course, Wen Tiren doesn't just want to shirk responsibility, he also wants to wait for Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru to come back and ask about the specific situation, because the lack of education is what these two people raised.

However, it was said that in October last year, Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru were ordered to go to Nanjing, and the two of them got on the boat from Tongzhou and traveled all the way south. In the past, when the canal was not dredged, in many places light boats could pass straight, but heavy ships loaded with goods had to go around, and there was no other reason just because it was blocked. The local government didn't have money to repair the river, so they came up with a local solution, which was to send boats to guard the place where it was easy to run aground. Charge a certain fee for those merchants who transport goods, if you want to say that it is an escort fee, or you can say that the river repair fee can also be paid, anyway.

At first, the merchants wanted to pay money to avoid disasters and pay the money very actively, thinking about taking it from the people and giving it to the people, who knew that later the local government used the canal as a cash cow, collected money but did not do anything, which made people a little angry. Whenever an official collects money from the people, he will always be hated by the people, but there is a difference between him and whether he can do anything after receiving money. For the officials who received money to do things, although people despised him in their hearts, they still respected him on the surface, and those officials and ordinary people who only collected money and did not do things looked at them with fire inside and out.

Qian Qianyi had heard people talk about the canal back then, and knew that this was a headache for anyone who mentioned it, and he was also sent to the local area to inspect several times in the past two years, although no one dared to charge for official ships, but because the channel was narrowed, it was not comfortable to go around in the river. Since the year before last, Zhao led the people and horses to take root in the canal, began to absorb the gang forces on the canal, and at the same time recruited people to dredge the river, and the canal became easy again. The river became better, there were more boats coming and going, more goods were being carried and more people passing through the canal, business was easier to do along the canal, and a small market could be seen every other way.

The common people are better than the hands of the officials, and they are also relaxed, seeing that Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru are Qincha, they also double their flattery, everyone knows that they are investigating some things on behalf of the emperor, and they don't ask them to say good things, just ask them not to make it bad. Along the way, there have long been people who have led the way to let Qian and Zhou see all the bright noodles, because there is a system of economic inspection, so they don't dare to openly bribe, but the food is handled according to high standards.

Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru felt that there was nothing wrong after a long time, the two of them thought that this time they were here to see the actual situation, and it was not a matter for someone to accompany them like this, in case they returned to Beijing in the future, the emperor asked about the passage along the way, and it couldn't be said that they were accompanied by good food and drink, right? The two of them finally decided to change boats and civilian clothes, let Qin send the fleet to the front, and the two of them to go behind, to see what the lives of the people along the way were like.

After the discussion stopped, the two put on ordinary student robes, left two errand runners and a clerk, and found a few guards who did not look very strong on the outside but were very agile, and then waited for the fleet to move forward for a long time before starting to hire ships. In order to avoid being seen through, the two also changed their titles, and they didn't call each other adults Brother Qian and Brother Zhou, after all, Qian Qianyi was about ten years older than Zhou Yanru. His subordinates were also strictly ordered not to be called adults, so they were called Mr. Qian or Mr. Zhou, and it was natural for scholars to be called Mr.

The two of them waited not long on a small pier, and the errand runner brought in a dark-skinned boat boss, who seemed to be a man who had been begging for a living on the water for a long time, otherwise he would not have been able to steam this effect. The price quoted by the boat boss is very reasonable and lower than the average price, because there is already a family on his ship, so Qian Qianyi and they share the rent with that family. Qian Qianyi looked at the boat, and estimated that he could squeeze it, so he agreed, everyone carried two boxes and got on the boat, and when he got on the boat, Qian Qianyi talked to the boat boss and listened to the reality, and the boat began to slowly go south.

The color of this boat is dark, and it doesn't look very new, compared to the new boats that are white and clean and smell of trees, but the sides of the warehouse door are wiped clean, and it can be seen that the captain is very good at paying attention to the appearance of the guests. Generally speaking, this boat is divided into front and rear warehouses, the front warehouse is where the boat boss and his men live, including the kitchen, there are three rooms on both sides of the back warehouse, and there is a small open space between the front and rear warehouses for everyone to move their muscles and bones here, Qian Qianyi is here to talk to the ship boss at this time.

Seeing Qian Qianyi talking to himself while looking at the boat, the boat boss said: "Mr. Qian, don't look at my old boat, it will take many days for you to find those new boats." And although my boat is not very new, it is clean, if it weren't for the shopkeeper Luo who shared the lease with you and wanted to save two, you probably wouldn't be able to rent a boat as clean as mine. ”

When Qian Qianyi was talking to the boat boss, Zhou Yanru was also sitting at the table next to him, and when he heard the boat boss boasting like this, he asked rhetorically: "The grain ships in the south just brought grain a while ago, and when those grain ships go back, they are all empty, and they will definitely compete to pull goods and people, why do you say that you can't rent other ships except your ship?" ”

The boat boss looked Zhou Yanru up and down when he heard this, and then nodded and said, "Does this Mr. Zhou have relatives in the yamen?" How do you know when the official ship will deliver grain to Beijing? Most people think that as soon as the grain is beaten, it will have to be transported to the capital immediately, but in fact, it is not understandable. The new rice that was laid down and transported to the capital was new rice, and the new rice had to be eaten before August 15 to have the taste of new rice, and after August 15, it tasted similar to old rice. The remaining rice except for the new rice has to be slowly dried and transported to Kyori after September, and it is possible to delay it until October. ”

Zhou Yanru was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart that this ship boss could know from his own words that he had a relationship with the people in the yamen, and it seemed that no one in the world could underestimate him, he said: "My cousin is working in the Tongzhou grain depot, how can you see it?" ”

The captain said, "Seeing that you are dressed and look white and clean, like a scholar who is not diligent in all parts and does not distinguish between grains and grains, how can a person like you know about the croppers?" Besides, from the time you say that you can sit on a grain ship, you know that you have never sat on it, and the cargo ship that transports grain is different from the ship that people sit on, because the cargo ship is loaded with a lot of smell and dust, no matter how much you clean up, it is useless, and it doesn't matter if we rough people sit on it and sleep on it, and you are afraid that you will not be able to sleep with fine skin and white meat. ”

Qian Qianyi saw that the boss of the ship was very aggressive, and he was a little unconvinced, so he asked: "I heard that now that the river has been dredged, there are many merchant ships and cargo ships, can you say that there are no other ships to compete with you for business?" ”

The captain said: "Of course, I could say this a while ago, but not today, because what kind of Qincha fleet is in front of me, and I have already pulled the business south, who wants to follow the Qincha ship and slowly shake it up?" ”

Zhou Yanru asked strangely: "Could it be that Qincha's fleet has insulted you?" ”

The captain of the boat said: "I don't dare to take this seriously, the main thing is that the old man of Qincha is full of food and drink and wants to slowly sit on the boat to watch the mountains and rivers, who eats the leopard and dares to rush from the fleet of Qincha?" ”

There is a story about the words of the boat boss, saying that the year before last, a retired minister went back to his hometown and hired a few cars to walk on the newly built fast road of the imperial court, because the newly built road was smooth and people sat on it without bumps, so the old minister fell asleep in a daze. Just when the minister was dreaming of Zhou Gong, suddenly a convoy of trucks ran quickly from behind, probably in a hurry, and the leader of the truck shouted for the retired official's convoy to give way. As the saying goes, half of the road is in the sky, and the retired official said in his heart that others are in a hurry, so they let the convoy give way, who knows that it will be slower and will be sarcastically said by the caravan.

The question was that the leader of the caravan whipped his horse, pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, "Why does the old animal go so slowly? What a thing to die for! ”

Hearing this, the retired official's entourage almost wanted to draw a knife, and the official thought that he would not make much trouble if he had retired, but complained a few words to the roadman in charge of safety when he rested at the next stop. In the end, the officials of the DPRK and China knew about this matter, so they pursued it layer by layer, and finally found the businessman out, found a reason to punish him severely, and everyone was still in a group in matters related to the collective decency of the officials. Later, there was a saying among the people that you should not overtake the officials' cars and ships casually, and now that there is a fleet in front of you, you can't overtake it casually, otherwise it will hurt the emperor's face.

Although everyone was talking together, they didn't speak very loudly, and as they were talking, they heard the door on the right side of the back warehouse "squeak" open, and a woman's voice came: "Miss, if you feel bored, come out and breathe." ”

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