The few people standing at the bow of the boat were all dressed decently and neatly, and it was rare that several of them were not very old, and their long eyebrows were clear and beautiful, and they had a bookish atmosphere.

At first glance, it was a scholar who came to Jinling to take the exam.

It has only been three years since Lu Qian moved the capital to Jinling, counting Enke in the first year, and today is only the second - Emperor He Lu's fiftieth birthday. In such a subject, Wuzi is also Enke.

The eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law of Jinling were not accustomed to the scholars from other places, and they looked at the bow scholars with burning eyes and pointed their fingers.

"That Lang Jun in green clothes is not handsome."

"Anyone is handsome. I value the one in the white shirt the most, and he looks heroic. ”

"I'm really not ashamed, I can say this. Let you be in charge of hearing it, but you won't break your mouth. ”

"Ha, the sister-in-law of the Wang family is thinking badly. The second lady is thinking of her own man. ”

"What do you want? It's only been half a year, and there is no family leave. ”

The scenery of the Qinhuai River is beautiful, and the beautiful style is not only in the clear water of Qinhuai, but also in the people on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

The Lu Qi Dynasty was politically clear, the society was stable, the top and bottom were united in one mind, and the wind and rain were smooth, which can be said to be the people living and working in peace and contentment, and the market was prosperous. Although it cannot be said that the road is not left behind, the night is not closed, there are no thieves, and the prison is always empty, but the great governance of the world is really alive in front of you.

More importantly, since Emperor Lu ascended the throne and became emperor, he has sent troops outward many times, and the Great Qi Heavenly Soldiers swept in all directions to suppress all disobedience. The Jurchens in the northeast, the Khitan and Mongolia in the north, and the Uighurs and Tianfang in the northwest, the soldiers were mighty, so that the people of the Central Plains, who had suffered under the rule of the Zhao and Song dynasties for more than 100 years, were not proud of themselves.

There is a way to have a sharp weapon and kill yourself.

Under the circumstance that the Qi army was invincible and invincible, and the soldiers were invincible, the people of Lu Qi naturally became 'arrogant'. No one will be inferior and timid when there is no one to match their 'backer'.

Just as China will call itself the kingdom of heaven and heaven, England will call itself the empire on which the sun never sets, and the United States will call itself a lighthouse country, and a strong country will forge strong self-confidence among its subjects, which is the same reason.

When it comes to the people, this situation has evolved from the atmosphere and mind of "tolerance and merger" in Luqi society.

This is eclectic and different from Li Tang's. If Li Tang is a "take-it-or-leave-it-it-ism", Lu Qi is a merger and annexation with me as the mainstay.

The former is Hu Feng, who dates back hundreds of years, and has already penetrated into the soul of Chinese society at that time, so it is inclusive, Huayi is no different, and the Hu and Han families all seem to be very 'in line with the times'. And the latter, no matter how you belittle Zhao and Song, you can't deny that this is a prosperous era of culture and a society dominated by Han people. Sinology is prosperous and prosperous, and there is no place for "Hu Feng". So from inclusiveness, to inclusiveness.

The whole process is very similar to before and after 'deposing the Confucianism of the Hundred Schools'.

Previously, the world's ideas were full of flowers; Since then, it has been a monopoly, and the essence of all schools has been returned to itself.

So don't be shocked by the words of the little ladies on the riverside, Lu Qi is not the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Northern Song Dynasty is not the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Northern Song Dynasty, which inherited the legacy of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, was very open in terms of male and female atmosphere. Although science was produced in the Zhao and Song dynasties, the atmosphere of the Song dynasty was by no means old-fashioned. Fan Zhongyan's wife was married for the second time, his son Fan Chunhu died early, his daughter-in-law was widowed, and later his student Wang Tao died of his wife, so he married his daughter-in-law to Wang Tao.

Again, Li Qingzhao in history remarried Zhang Ruzhou, Tang Wan remarried Zhao Shicheng, and even Liu E, the Empress of Song Zhenzong......

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In the Forbidden City, Emperor Lu's gaze did not stay on the imperial examination that was about to begin.

"Your Majesty, the input of the water and land gates in the summer has been counted and verified, totaling 3.1 million yuan." At that time, Shangshu Zongying of the household department read the excerpt. As early as the beginning of the seventh year of Hongwu, the taxes and fees of the land and water customs passes of Luqi, that is, the customs revenue, were unified and only cashiers. Whether it is grain, cloth, jewelry, or treasures, they are all converted into money and grain.

Lu Qian attaches great importance to the entry of the customs, because in his mind, the level of customs tariff directly corresponds to China's annual import and export quota, and a high-spirited empire, the annual import and export quota must be step by step to be called correct.

3.1 million, an increase of nearly 200,000 compared to the same period last year, and he was very happy with the fact that the transactions between Lu Qi and the feudal states only collected domestic tariffs, not foreign trade. "Not bad, not bad. In summer, it can reach 3 million, and the annual customs tax can reach 15 million this year. "After all, sea trade depends on celestial phenomena, and the coastline of southeastern China, although vast, is aided by monsoons. The north wind blows from October to February, and the south or southeast wind blows from April to October, which is very conducive to sailing boats. Every summer, foreign merchant ships sail in the south wind; In autumn, it is very convenient to take advantage of the north wind to return home. And now the era is the world of sailing boats, and the southeast coastal area can become a good port in this era by finding a shallow port, which is very convenient for trade. Unlike modern time and space, sailing ships were replaced by steamships, and deep-water ports such as Xiangjiang and Shanghai aspired to be developed.

Although there will be a lot of foreign businessmen arriving in May and June, there will be no shortage in July and August, not to mention the foreign trade ships that ride the wind in winter.

"What about commercial and agricultural taxes in various places?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the provincial commercial tax and agricultural tax are all good......" Zong Ying didn't look at the twists and turns at all, and the series of figures were already familiar with it.

A whole hour passed, Zong Ying withdrew from Xuande Pavilion, looked up at the blue sky, was calm, and strode to the outside of the palace, and the whole person was three points lighter than when he came.

Emperor Lu was left in the palace with a face of "the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard".

The sum of all kinds of domestic taxes is a lot of money, and there are no major military moves in the empire this year, and because of the extra fat on the mouth of Tianzhu - although it has not yet taken a hard bite, it has also added a mouth full of oil, but even so, it only slowed down the growth rate of the "imperial court fiscal deficit" by 55% year-on-year, and did not achieve a fiscal surplus.

Relying only on policy taxes, I am afraid that it will not even be enough to maintain the salary of an official. Emperor Lu was so upset in his heart. Especially at this time, it will be the autumn season soon, and there are one or two hundred people in the Jinshi Branch, and all of them are officials.

The normal age of the imperial court is one every three years, but the average age of the first scholar may be more than 30, but can it exceed 40? Sixty years old is a hurdle, at least twenty years apart, seven generations. In a sense, the number of officials in the imperial court will only increase in the year of the normalization of the imperial examination!

Lu Qian thought of the officials under him from the financial deficit, and then thought of the number of officials, and the whole person was stunned until Zhu Guijin arrived.

"What's going on in Yangzhou? Can you have eyebrows? ”

"Your Majesty, all the criminals on the list have been arrested, and the Security Department has chased and killed the rebels, and punished twenty-one thieves all the way, only the culprits Sima Guanghai and Han Zhe have not yet been found. The minister has sent someone to investigate, and he will find out the culprit behind the two. ”

"Don't those convicts know anything about the background of the two thieves?"

Zhu Gui didn't say anything.

Lu Qian said again: "What about the twenty-one people who were killed? Can't you see any clues? ”

"The minister is incompetent. Those twenty-one people were all dead, all of them resisted fiercely, and they could not leave a living mouth. Judging by the characteristics of its physical appearance, it is only the likes of sea thieves......"

Lu Qian pinched his nose, someone actually made a nest in Yangzhou, which is across the river from Jinling, which was really beyond his expectations. And as far as the evidence under control is concerned, the appearance, words and deeds of those people are no different from those of the Central Plains scholars. The scope of this is not large. But no matter how small the scope is, there is no other corroborative evidence, and it cannot be determined.

"Keep looking."

"Obey."