It's good to build a garden and repair a house

Go to Quancheng to worship the ancestors

Half a month later, the problem came out, and last year, the entire salt area smuggled salt amounted to 60,000 stones, equivalent to 30% of normal salt sales.

The Transshipment Department and the Criminal Prosecution Department jointly issued a document: All salt smuggled abroad shall be compensated by the responsible salt official at the official price, and shall be dealt with according to the price and divided into three grades, serious ones shall be exiled for 300 li, medium ones shall be stripped of their official status, and ordinary ones shall be fined and retained.

In this way, the salt officials in the entire Huaiyan District handed over the deficit and fined 40,000 yuan, which was 40% of last year's income, six salt officials were exiled, 13 were stripped of their official status, and the rest were retained.

This incident immediately caused a sensation in the government and the opposition, and even the emperor Zhao Kuo praised him: Ye Aiqing is a capable minister. Zuo Xiang Jingyutang was ready to recommend to the emperor to promote Ye, knowing that Ye Zhengze had opposed Han Yanxuan before, he went to probe his tone.

Han Yanxuan replied very simply, recommending and promoting talents is your prime minister's business, you can do it boldly, what I oppose is those who only talk empty words and do not do practical things, such as Ye Cangsi, the more capable ministers in the court, the better. You can let him be a deputy envoy of the three divisions, and then send him to the local area to get more money for the country.

In this way, Ye Zhengze served as the deputy envoy of the Third Division and the envoy of the coastal system, and knew the Qingyuan Mansion.

The coastal establishment embassy is located in Qingyuan Mansion (now Ningbo, Zhejiang), originally in Liangzhejiang East Road, with jurisdiction over Wenzhou, Taizhou, Qingyuanfu and Yuezhou four counties, which is a rich land in the southeast. Qingyuan Prefecture has 19 salt farms under its jurisdiction, and the salt production is second only to the Huaibei salt area.

During this time, Han Yanxuan was quite at ease. The Empress Dowager gave him one of Gojong's original villas and the nearby piece of land, and he decided to build the mansion and garden together, making it both magnificent and beautiful. The maritime trade business made him earn a lot of money, building pavilions, stacking rockeries, planting flowers and plants, and doing it in an orderly manner.

The housekeeper told him that a batch of fir trees needed to be imported into the South Garden, and the fir trees in Quanzhou were the best in the country.

Han Yanxuan only then remembered that Li Renyou had been back for a few days. In the past two years, they have earned enough money from maritime trade to buy a good sea boat. Whether to buy or not, when to buy, and at what price to buy, all wait for him to decide. It's okay, look at Shouqing, worship the ancestors, kill more birds with one stone, why not do it.

Quanzhou is different from Lin'an, the weather is quite hot, but the sun is not blazing, and there is a faint smell of fishy smell wafting in the sea breeze blowing in the face. What's more special is that when you stroll on the beach, overlooking the sea and sky, the blue sky, and the tide rising and falling, the waves swelling, even if you have a thousand troubles, you will feel light and open-minded.

Han Shouqing ceremoniously received this powerful uncle and prepared a sumptuous seafood feast for him. It is said that Han Yanxuan has also seen the world, and he has eaten all abalone, shark fin, and bird's nest, but it is really the first time to see such a fresh and huge sea fish, lobster, and shellfish. No Lin'an restaurant can make it.

The first thing you do when you arrive in Quanzhou is to worship your ancestors. The ancestral hall of the Han family, also known as the Pantheon, has begun to take shape under the leadership of Han Shouqing.

I think that back then, when I was in Huazhi Quanzhou, South Korea, I was already fifty years old, but I was still burly and tall, with a dignified appearance, and he was a standard beautiful man, and compared with the locals, he stood out from the crowd. One day, when he had nothing to do, he walked out of the house and met a fortune teller. The fortune teller looked at it for a while, pulled him and told him: My lord, if you marry a lady and give birth to a son, you will be rich and noble, and you will eventually become a pillar of the court.

Han Han Hua didn't think so, he already had three sons and two daughters, the eldest was almost thirty years old, this fortune teller just wanted to get some money, so he sent him away. Unexpectedly, soon, Mrs. Luo died, married a maid surnamed Hu Lianli as a concubine, and the following year, she gave birth to a boy named Han Qi. When he grew up, he was really rich, but of course he didn't see it.

Han Yanxuan felt that he should do something. This time, he brought the stone tablet of "Xiangzhou Dayjin Hall", and it was more appropriate to place it somewhere. Build a building again, imitate the appearance of the Dayjin Hall, so that the stele has a place, and future generations can also know a little about the grandeur of the Dayjin Hall.

So, he told Han Shouqing about this idea, Han Shouqing agreed, and Wang Zhiyao, the prefect of Quanzhou, immediately said: King Han Jun is a hero of our dynasty, and Quanzhou Mansion has the responsibility to handle this matter well. Han Situ, don't worry.

Quanzhou has a long history of shipbuilding, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ancestors of Fujian took the ship as the car and the pole as the horse. By the end of this dynasty, Quanzhou had become the manufacturing center of sea ships in the country. At that time, there were four kinds of sailing ships in the country, such as sand boats, horse boats, fortune boats and Guangzhou boats, and the sailing ships made in Quanzhou belonged to the fortune boats, which were characterized by the sharp head and wide tail, the two heads were upturned, the head and tail were high, the hull was large and solid, the draft was deep, the maneuverability was good, the wind and waves were resistant, and the voyage was resistant.

In the dock of the shipyard, Han Yanxuan and his entourage were eye-opening, and there were all kinds of transport ships, naval war ships, and far-sea cargo ships. The boat they purchased was 35 meters long, 10 meters wide, with a displacement of 400 tons and a capacity of 200 tons. It is currently the largest and most technologically advanced maritime cargo ship.

After the overseas commodities enter Quanzhou, the city shipping department must first carry out extraction, that is, according to the goods about two-tenths of the tax collection, tortoiseshell, ivory, bintie, frankincense and other ten kinds of commodities, shall not be sold by the people, by the city shipping division at the current price of purchase, the rest of the goods, the official market, listen to the city to the people.

Quanzhou's Fan City is in the south of Quanzhou City, there are three streets, there are hundreds of stalls, mainly engaged in foreign commodities transported by merchant ships by sea, there are dozens of varieties of spices, medicinal materials, gemstones, pearls, etc., every day there is a flow of people like a tide, the river flows endlessly, all kinds of people speak multilingual communication, trade, just like a prosperous international cargo yard. Merchants from foreign countries who come to do business and trade are called Fanke, and they live in Fanfang next to Fanshi, and Quanzhou is called Huibancheng.

Han Yanxuan and Han Shouqing tasted Tieguanyin and chatted about family life. Han Yanxuan could see that this clan nephew was a few years older than him, his hair was gray, and he was a simple and quiet person. asked him, Shouqing, what are your plans for the future.

Han Shouqing said slowly, it has been a few years in Quanzhou, the family has lived here, they are all used to it, they are also old, and their health is not good.

Hearing him say this, Han Yanxuan smiled and said: It's okay, Quanzhou is indeed a good place.

Han Shouqing still said slowly: To do things outside and be an official, one is to support the family, and the other is to enrich oneself, and to pass the time and show one's talents by doing things and working. However, human power is limited, and there is an end to what can be done. It's the same with being an official and doing business, it's not that the official gets bigger and bigger, and the more money he makes, it's good, the key is to be useful to most people, and it's good to be happy with yourself. No matter what you do, just do it.