Text Chapter 517 Jinchuan Gate
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On November 20 of the first year of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan had occupied Nanjing for almost a month, and the entire city of Nanjing had begun to adapt to returning to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and various industries in the city began to operate normally.
However, it cannot be said that life has not changed, and there are nearly 200,000 troops from Guangdong outside the city, and these people take the newly issued silver dollars to Nanjing to consume, which can be regarded as a small boost to the GDP of the Beijing Division.
At this time, all the civil servants in Guangdong did not arrive, and there were only more than 200 officials in the huge city of Nanjing, so the government affairs had actually stopped, and everyone was waiting for the arrival of those upstarts of Zhu Hongsan in Guangdong.
Tong Yangjia, Qian Qianyi and others took advantage of the fact that there was nothing to do now, and began to encroach on real estate in Nanjing. Tong Yangjia directly occupied the house of the former Baoguo Duke Zhu Guobi, and the poor Baoguo Duke Zhu Guobi was still in Jinyiwei's edict prison, and his family members were driven to the street, so he had no choice but to rent a small courtyard outside the city and wait for his master to be released from prison.
Qian Qianyi naturally couldn't do it like Tong Yangjia, Lao Qian just sent a family member to his old house in Mochou Lake to bring a message to the guy who occupied his house, and that guy immediately moved out of Qian Qianyi's house overnight, and accidentally left 10,000 taels of silver at home.
Zhu Hongsan didn't want to care about these bullshit now, he was half angry by the news from Huguang.
It turned out that Zhu Hai, the successor he had pinned his hopes on, picked up a life on the Nanchang front just now, and accepted a woman as a concubine. It's not that Zhu Hongsan doesn't like his son looking for a concubine, but because Zhu Hai is annoyed that he can't see the situation clearly.
Zhu Hai now relies on Ma Mingyuan to stand firmly in the position of the prince, and he has promised Ma Mingyuan that Zhu Hai will definitely marry Ma Mingyuan's concubine. But this Zhu Hai couldn't control his desire and found a concubine first, which really disappointed Zhu Hongsan.
Zhu Hongsan looked at the information from the guards of the East Factory, and said to Li Chengen: "This bastard, he doesn't know how to take it seriously, how can I entrust the country to him?" Li Chengen, you send someone to deliver the decree, so that this bastard will come back immediately! ”
Li Chengen lowered his eyebrows and asked, "Emperor, how does that woman arrange?" ”
Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Directly give death, what's so good about that daughter who rolls mines?" ”
Li Chengen lowered his head and was about to go out, but Zhu Hongsan said again: "Don't let the prince know when you do things!" The prince is very soft-hearted! ”
Just when Zhu Hongsan ordered the recall of the crown prince, a large sea ship came to Jinchuanmen, a water gate outside Nanjing. Now that Emperor Shenwu's army has occupied Nanjing, the Hengjiang iron cable on the Yangtze River has been cleared, and the shipping routes between Guangdong and Nanzhili are unimpeded, and sea ships can go directly up the river to Wuchang. With the opening of shipping, a large number of Guangdong goods poured into Nanjing, before Guangdong's refined salt, sugar, etc. have to be transported by land, the logistics cost is very high, but with the opening of shipping, the logistics cost has dropped greatly, and the exquisite goods from Guangdong are transported to Nanjing after being cheaper than the local production of two percent, but this economic impact is not obvious now, and no one cares about it.
With the docking of the Guangdong passenger ship, the first batch of Cantonese people landed on the land of Nanjing. Most of these first batch of people are housekeepers from major families in Guangdong, and they have to stand in front of their masters and prepare for them. However, it is not all subordinates, there is another important person in this ship, it is Qian Qianyi's second son Qian Sunai. Qian Qianyi's son is very awesome, Qian Sun Ai is Lao Qian's concubine, but he has been smart and clever since he was a child, and he is much stronger than Lao Qian's eldest son, and he is deeply loved by Lao Qian. And this Qian Sun Ai is also very awesome in history, at the age of fifteen he was admitted to the exam, and he was completely a prodigy in the southern Zhili at the peak of his literary style, but Qian Sun Ai was displaced all his life in history, and was implicated by his father Qian Qianyi after he became a jinshi at the age of eighteen, and returned to his hometown in Changshu to live in seclusion, and waited for Lao Qian to die before he came out, and the direct descendants of Lao Qian did not have any interest in the future, at most they were just some small officials such as county magistrates.
However, now is not history, although Qian Qianyi is despised, but after all, he is an old cabinet minister, and Qian Sunai is still very majestic.
Qian Sunai is eighteen years old this year, originally according to the meaning of Lao Qian let his second son study in Guangdong with peace of mind, next year there must be an Enke exam, when the time comes, I hope that his son will take the exam, it is best to get a Tanhua, so that the father and son double Tanhua is much stronger than the Ma family of a three-jinshi.
But Qian Sunai doesn't think so, he is eighteen or nineteen years old, and he very much hopes to take advantage of this troubled era to make contributions. Therefore, after he got his brother-in-law the emperor to occupy Nanjing, he bid farewell to his wife and wife in Guangdong as soon as possible, and brought several family members to Nanjing to open his eyes.
Qian Qianyi's name is unknown, and Qian Sunai is deeply liked by the emperor, so the housekeepers of the major families on the ship received orders from their masters to deliberately befriend the Qian family, and after the ship docked, each housekeeper came over to say goodbye to Qian Sunai.
Qian Sunai returned the gifts one by one, and then took the scholar's family off the boat. Nanjing Jinchuanmen Wharf has six official wharves and ten commercial wharves, and it is very busy now, and there is no sense of just finishing a big war.
Qian Sunai remembered a sentence in the book, "Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like washing", but he didn't expect that Nanjing, which had just gone through the war, was not chaotic at all, all walks of life were open as usual, and the wharf was full of people.
Qian Sunai didn't rush home in a hurry, but walked around the street outside Jinchuan Gate for a while, and he found that these people in Nanjing were obviously hiding from him, I don't know why?
"Qian Mo, why are they hiding from us?" Qian Sunai whispered to Qian Mo, the scholar next to him.
The little scholar Qian Mo agreed, went to the side of the road to inquire in the name of asking for directions, and soon found out the news.
"Young master, because they saw that we were Cantonese, and now everyone in Nanjing knows that the emperor is from Guangdong, and some Cantonese people in the city are very arrogant, so the locals in Nanjing are very afraid of us!"
"Oh? How do they know that we are Cantonese? We didn't say anything when we went ashore! ”
"Young master, you don't know, after Nanjing was occupied by the Manchus, these people all shaved their heads, and now Emperor Shenwu has come back, these shaved heads have no way to cut their braids again, young master, you didn't find that the people on the street are wearing hats, and those who don't wear hats and keep their hair full are Cantonese!"
Qian Sunai couldn't help but laugh when he heard the scholar say this, but he didn't expect that he didn't wear a hat to let these people recognize him as Cantonese.
"Qian Mo, you go buy a few hats, let's bring them, so as not to let people see that we are fake tigers!"
Qian Mo went to the street to buy five hats, and Qian Sunai and his family brought them, so that no one around them would hide from him. However, Qian Sunai was wearing a long shirt, and there were still people who avoided walking on the street, but he didn't have the fear he had before.
Qian Sunai saw it in his eyes and thought to himself: It seems that these powerful people from Guangdong have a bad reputation, and I don't know how their families are?
Thinking of this money, Sun Ai also had no desire to go shopping, so he directly asked his family to find a big car and prepare to go home first.
The big car called the family and asked, "Young master, where are we going?" ”
This time, Qian Sunai did not write a letter to Qian Qianyi in Nanjing, so he didn't know where his home was, Qian Sunai thought for a while and said to his family: "Let's go to the old house outside Sanshan Gate first!" ”
Sanshan Gate is in the west of Nanjing, Jinchuan Gate is in the northernmost side, the distance is more than ten miles, this has to pass through the whole city of Nanjing, the coachman who drove the car heard the great joy, how to say that this trip down also needs three coins of silver, hurry up to invite Qian Sun to love the seat, and then drive the car into the city.
Jinchuan Gate Water Pass is located outside Jinchuan Gate, along the Jinchuan Gate Outer Street walked five miles to Jinchuan Gate, here is the serious city wall of Nanjing. Because it was the gate of the water gate, it was jammed with carts full of goods from the water gate wharf, and the team was discharged for a mile.
Qian Sunai saw that the carriage had stopped, lifted the curtain and asked, "Coachman, how long will it take?" ”
"Back to the young master, Jinchuan Gate is a tax customs here, and all the processes must be taxed, see that this team will not be able to turn us for an hour!"
After Zhu Hongsan's tax reform, Guangzhou only levied a tax once at the place of origin of the goods, and then it could be unimpeded in the area controlled by Zhu Hongsan, and the imported goods imported by the customs were only taxed once at the wharf.
Qian Sunai took advantage of Zhu Hongsan's love to study the Guangdong tax system in Guangdong, and he found that although this kind of taxation at the source was less than the previous taxation many times, it greatly prospered commercial transactions, and finally the annual tax collected was several times more than before. Now I see that there is still a tax system of the former Ming Dynasty here in Nanjing, and I know that my emperor's brother-in-law has just arrived in Nanjing, and he has not yet poured out his hands to clean up these tax collectors.
Qian Mo, the scholar on the side, said in a low voice: "Young master, how long will you have to wait, why don't you take the master's name card to the front to take a look?" "Qian Qianyi, as a cabinet elder, is naturally famous, but Qian Sunai and his Lao Tzu are not the same type of people at all. Qian Sunai is very low-key, and after thinking about it, it's better not to be publicized.
"Forget it, wait a minute, it's still early!"
Qian Mo looked at the young master and said this, there was no way but to wait together. Fortunately, it is still early, and it is estimated that you will be able to enter the city at noon.
Qian Sunai waited outside the Jinchuan Gate for half an hour, and finally it was Qian Sunai's turn to enter the customs.
Guarding the door were a dozen tax collectors in soap-colored clothes, looked at the carriage, and then looked at the surrounding family members, and the tax collector headed by him said: "Two dollars of silver per person, exactly one tael!" ”
The price of silver in the Ming Dynasty was very expensive, one tael of silver was equivalent to a thousand yuan in later generations, and it cost a thousand yuan to pay a toll. Qian Mo has followed Qian Sunai in Guangdong for many years, and he has paid such an expensive toll there, so he stepped forward to defend: "That tax, my young master is a lifter, and he has a meritorious reputation, and the Ming Law stipulates that there is no need to pay taxes!" ”
The tax officer squinted at Qian Mo and scolded: "That dog didn't clip the crotch of his pants and ran out of you such a thing, do you know that now Nanjing is the master of Emperor Shenwu, everyone has to pay taxes, and you, as scholars, should pay more, four yuan per person, a total of two taels of silver!" ”