Xiong Jing, a Chu man who mentioned Jiuying, was in a very low mood, and he didn't intervene in the discussion that followed, but only listened to the courtiers' discussions. It was only when the model of the fishing boat that he cooperated with Qi Guo was sent to him that he smiled slightly.

The boat is the foundation of the Chu State, and the construction of fishing boats in the Qi State has made many ministers uneasy, which is more than ten times more dangerous than selling huge iron. Once the warships of the Chu State are copied by the Qin State, then with the national strength of the Qin State, the situation will be reversed, and the Qin army, which has numerical superiority and strategic mobility, will defeat the Chu army. Therefore, the fishing boat is deliberately designed to be keelless: 14 meters long, 3.5 meters wide, 1.5 meters deep, 15 tons of displacement, and 10 tons of load.

This is actually the flat-bottomed sand boat that became popular in later generations, with sails and sails, because of the use of bow sealing plates, the bow and stern of the whole fishing boat, the side shell plate and the bow and stern are orthogonal, like a nearly rectangular cylinder with two upwards slightly upturned.

Seeing such a fishing boat, the people who knew the boat nodded again and again. No matter how big this fishing boat is, it cannot be used as a warship. It does not have a keel rib and has no way to withstand a violent impact, and its flat bottom is not suitable for long-distance sailing, wind and wave differences, and can only sail offshore.

And to the news obtained by the Qi country, the Qi people are mostly fishing in the offshore waters, every year in March, April and May are the fishing flood season, at this time, the whole Qi country's boats are out to sea to fish, but because the twisting and sealing process is not in place, the boats are not firm, most people can only fish in the sea areas that can be seen in the near sea, and they can't come back if they go far. The catch is particularly cheap at this time, not a hundred or two hundred yuan a stone, and even twenty yuan when the yellow croaker is listed in large quantities, of course, the premise is that the fish is about to stink.

There are many merchants in the Qi country, and the characteristics of the merchants who love to deceive and exaggerate are vividly exerted in the market order, he not only reports the price up, but also lowers the output. In recent years, Chu has become the largest importer of fish in Qi, and the prince of Chu personally went to the fish market in Qi to inquire about the price and output of fish, and he naturally had to deal with it in this way. In fact, from the fish tax levied by the government, the annual output of marine fish and freshwater fish in Qi exceeded 300,000 stones, and in high years it exceeded 400,000 stones. It's just that marine fish are caught in the spring and summer seasons, and freshwater fish are caught in the autumn and winter, because of the weather, technology and lack of manpower, the loss of the former is staggering.

In addition, the yellow croaker that migrates and spawns during the fishing season gathers together into a sea of fish, and they make a 'cluck, whine' cry in the sea in groups, and the sound is so loud that it can be heard on the coast dozens of miles away, so that the fishermen can only cast small nets, and a few families have no strength to drag the nets onto small boats. As long as there are enough boats to penetrate the fish, production is not a problem, and once the fish is packed into tinplate cans, storage is not a problem.

As for the cost of tinplate cans, whether it is one or two dollars, it is already negligible. Fishing is a seasonal industry, and the windfall profits generated by the seasonal price difference are enough to make a fish cannery a lot of money.

The prospect of fishing reminded the courtiers of the unhappiness of the poor fleeing - none of the courtiers present would return the fugitive population of his own county, because if they did, the poor who had fled to their own county would flee to those counties where they could protect themselves. The number of soldiers is the foundation of their foothold in the court, whether it is for the sake of face or for practical gain, it is impossible for them to return the dead in other counties.

Bear vitex in this problem and muddy. Although the poor people speak with their feet, and the debt evasion is illegal and untrustworthy, is there no reason for the excessive oppression of the county? The county with the most fugitives is Chen, where the usury is the highest, and as long as the peasants borrow, their children and grandchildren will be killed. Since the poor have the courage to flee, they should be given a chance to start afresh in other counties without debt.

Fleeing also helped the clan and the chief of the clan to pay attention to the outer dynasty composed of the armor, and now they will shout when the poor people flee, and if the armor also flees in batches one day, they will cry. The internal affairs of the county are indeed the clans, and the chief of the honor has the final say, and the common people 'don't need your consent, and they don't care about your opposition', but once the number of armor soldiers in the county is reduced below the allowable limit when the winter hunting review and conscription are sent out every year, they will be severely reprimanded by Xiong Jing, and if they appear twice in a row, the fief will be recovered.

Rule, too, can be competitive, and to allow flight is to bring the rule of the counties into the free market, and whichever feudal lord lives well, the common people will defect to which feudal lord.

This is the same as the merger of the powerful and the pagan missionary in later generations, the tax collectors often do the power to the helpless common people, but they can only be lower than the strong, so the pressure of taxation all falls on the common people, and the common people who can't stand it can only drag their families to Haoqiang, the result is that the tax source of the imperial court is getting less and less, and then the ministers are righteous and righteous to denounce the merger of the powerful and the people's hardship.

The same was true of Catholic missionaries in the late Qing Dynasty. The peasants either did not join the religion or joined the religion in one village. Faith in God? Many people can't answer the difference between God and a childless mother, and they join the church just to seek protection, because the government is afraid of foreigners.

The court meeting, which began in the morning, was barely finished in the afternoon. After the dispersal of the dynasty, Xiong Jing did not return to the main bed, but went out of the Mao Gate and entered the ancestral temple. Under the dim curtain, after bowing to his ancestors, he bowed his head to a spiritual seat with the inscription 'Zi Chengchi', and then sat there in silent meditation.

"My lord, it's getting dark." Chang Jiang knew the reason why Xiong Jing came to the ancestral temple, and he could only lament it deeply.

"You have served your father for many years, does your father miss the old Ying?" Xiong Jing asked lightly, and his voice echoed in the darker and darker courtyard of the ancestral temple.

"My lord, the first king had a last resort." Chang Jiang sighed. "Although the first king risked his death to return to Chu, the power is in the hands of the county Yin. That year, the Qin people were defeated in Handan, and after the Zicheng clan met the queen, the king allowed to take back the old Ying, how to do it, how to ...... it"

After the fall of Jiuying, the Chu people in the city were either killed or relocated, but the rebellion lasted for more than ten years. It's just that without the support of the Chu State, the old Ying's resistance is getting weaker and weaker, but the defeat of the Qin army at Handan has ignited the hope of the old Yingchu people. The most fatal thing is that the son of the prince who was hidden in the old Ying went to Chen Ying to meet his father in front of him, and the father was very excited, and promised on the spot to wait for Jingyang to return to the country, and he would order him to send troops to the old Ying, but the result and the result was that Chu destroyed Lu and moved Lu Jun to Ju......

Every time he thinks of this, Xiong Jing feels that his heart almost wants to explode. The history of Chu did not write about the final outcome of the Zicheng clan, nor did he say the final result of the old Ying uprising, but he could still imagine their despair and misery.

"Does the Zicheng clan have descendants?" Xiong Jing suddenly asked.

"The king, the minister once heard that the Zicheng clan was punished by the Qin people, and the whole clan died." After Chang Jiang finished talking about this rumor, he hurriedly said: "Some people say that Zi Chengchi's son Zi Chengsheng was helped by prison because he was imprisoned, and he was exchanged for others before being sentenced, and he was spared. ”

"It's all wrong." Xiong Jing never believed such rumors, and after Shi Dakai was executed by the Manchu court, many Sichuan people said that he was still alive. The people are like that, the more they say that those who are still alive are actually dead. However, what he never expected was that a person who claimed to be Zi Chengsheng was appearing in the Baowei Mountain at the junction of Chu and Qin.

The western foothills of Dabie Mountain are continuous and densely forested, and the Sui and Tang counties are like chicken ribs, which were not captured by the Qin army. So the two counties are like a protruding tenon, deeply embedded between Nanyang County and Nanjun. To the north of the tenon is the remnant of Mount Tongbai to the west and the water to the west; to the west is the Dahong Mountain, which is difficult to climb; The south side is at the end of the mountain and Anlu. The water flowing down from the southern foot of Tongbai Mountain traverses Tang and Sui County, enters Anlu and flows through the west side of Anlu County, and finally flows into the Han River through Xiapu.

In May and June, the sun is hot, but the breezy mountains and forests are cool. Knowing the continuous chanting, the four black-faced men dressed in the clothes looked at the person who claimed to be Zi Chengsheng and doubted for a long time. Although he is a bandit and smuggler, the bandit and smuggler also has a sincere side, and the man led by him swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and stammered: "I, I believe in it." ”

"You don't have to believe it." Zi Chengsheng smiled, and his entourage took out a broken Qin Banliang and handed it over. "Please take me to Anlu City."

Qin Banliang is a token of the joint, like a talisman for transferring troops. It's just that Qin Banliang is much more hidden than the talisman, and it is inconspicuous to carry on his body. Every time Zi Chengsheng sees this half Qin and half tael, he will admire the wisdom of Zhibisi.

"It's a despicable reward." When the attendant heard this, he took out another piece of gold cake, and the eyes of the four smugglers suddenly turned red, gold is hard currency in every country. "Although the remuneration is small, please pay for the wine. Dare to ask the surname of the foot? ”

"How can a poor man have a surname?" The leader of the man smiled and put the golden cake into his arms, "If the son doesn't dislike it, you can shout Ji Hei." It's all my brother. ”

"Zi Chengsheng has seen all the heroes." Zi Chengsheng saluted Ji Hei's three brothers, which made these people very embarrassed. The reason for the smuggling of salt and iron is that they can't get by, and the reason why they can't get by is naturally because they are poor.

"Childe is dressed like this...... "There are dozens of miles from Weishan to Anlu City, Zi Chengsheng's dress does not have the slightest taste of a peasant, and Ji Hei suddenly felt that the gold in his arms was very hot.

"Is that good?" Zi Chengsheng's clothes were taken off, and he was wearing a tattered and white-washed kudzu coat, with a common light green tarsal note on the lower body, a pair of grass shoes, and his hair was wrapped in a black cloth like Ji Hei. Because the beard continued to be the eight-character beard style of the Qin people, the noble son instantly became an honest peasant, only his eyes were not dull.

"Yes." With the help of salt and iron smuggling channels, the Chu people on the other side of the mountain continued to enter and leave Nanjun. Ji Hei is not surprised by this, let alone objected, according to Qin Law, who died hundreds of times early, he also hopes that one day he will make enough money and can take his wife to Chu to enjoy happiness.

"If you meet the pavilion chief and ask for a thief, don't panic." The people of Chu Guojia, who came here to trade salt and iron, said Ji Hei, who entered the Qin realm with his son Chengsheng. He carried a bag of two hundred pounds of salt and spoke breathlessly.