"What a white jade capital!"

Seeing the snow-white walls painted everywhere, Thief Quanzi took a breath and muttered.

Brushing a layer of lime is not a new thing, but it takes a lot of labor money to paint it so white. If it's a place to live, it's good to say, after all, it's a beautiful picture, but these are just warehouses, so it's too luxurious.

"But...... Senior Brother Guiquanzi, I never said that Nanhaibo's surname likes luxury, I saw that he was dressed in clothes, almost no different from the guards around him, even gold, silver, pearls and jade, and he would never find it on him. So, why did he use lime powder to paint the wall, following the example of Sui Yang silk wrapping trees? ”

The thought came to my mind, but I didn't show it on my face. The experience of stealing Quanzi has long allowed him to get out of the ordinary realm of pretending to be gods and ghosts. As a descendant of the Heavenly Master Zhang family, and also a long-term three sects, he is not easily moved by external objects, which is the minimum requirement.

The boat docked, and everyone came down in turn, and the first-class crew was given preferential treatment, but everyone was quite reserved, waiting for the passengers of the first and second class to leave before they got off the dock.

Stepping on the concrete floor, many people can't help but jump up and stomp their feet to see if this ground "rock" is real or fake. Although he didn't do this, he still carefully looked at the ground, which should be the "concrete floor" that Gui Quanzi said in his letter.

Then I saw people wearing uniforms similar to those of Tiger Guards who were originally walking around on the dock running over one after another, gathering at a very short speed, lining up, and then, a person who was missing half an arm walked out of it, raised his eyebrows with his only remaining hand, and saluted Yu Guozhen: "The personnel of the Port Authority of Xingang Wharf have been assembled, please instruct Gongzi!" ”

The eyes of this man who was missing half an arm were sharp, and his gestures were neat, and the thief Quanzi saw it brightly: If it weren't for his disability, he would be a good man!

Not only him, but the more than ten people gathered together, almost all of them were like this, somewhat disabled, but they did not have the decadence and depression of ordinary disabled people, but they were all high-spirited. Just by looking at them, you can imagine what a passionate and energetic city it is.

"After the ceremony, you have worked hard, please return to your post and disband!" Yu Guozhen also raised his hand to his eyebrows, returned the salute, and then disbanded the group.

"These were all the famous tiger guards of Nanhai Boda?" Izumiko asked.

"Exactly, they're all warriors."

Thief Quanzi nodded and didn't ask again, but in his heart he had some respect for Yu Guozhen. Since ancient times, there have been many famous people who have driven warriors, but after warriors have become disabled, they still attach importance to them.

In addition to benevolence, this also proves that Yu Guozhen is a person who misses old love.

Everyone walked a few steps, and suddenly heard a loud sound behind them, they couldn't help but look back, Yu Guozhen smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, it's the sound of the boiler, we are still not enough manpower now, so we use some machinery that is not available in the side." ”

What Yu Guozhen is talking about is a steam crane.

Originally, the original role of the steam engine was to pump water to the edge of the pit, and it was naturally easy to lift heavy objects, especially all the ships in Xinxiang adopted a standardized packing mode, with a box of about four meters long and two meters wide, and the weight was different according to the different loads inside.

This is also the first practical application method after Song Yingxing and others made the steam engine, but the consumption of coal is larger.

Seeing that under the drive of this rumbling and roaring machinery, a long boom stretched out to the back half of the Penglai, and then lifted out the big wooden boxes, whether it was Zhang Pu or Thief Quanzi, they were all dumbfounded, it was Xu Lin, and his eyes were straight when he saw it: when he came back to Xinxiang, he had not seen this kind of situation!

Many businessmen who came here with the Penglai were waiting at the dock at this time, and then a box was hoisted out, and suddenly a businessman came over and said: "This box is mine, it is my ......"

"What is that doing?" Zhang Pu saw that these merchants were taking something to check with the management of the wharf, and then the boxes were pulled onto the ox carts and sent to the warehouses, and the merchants themselves followed over, and couldn't help asking.

"Oh, that's in the customs declaration, all the goods into Xinxiang, and out of Xinxiang, need to declare tariffs, naturally, the tax rate of different commodities is different, such as luxury goods such as wine, the tax rate in Xinxiang is higher, but cotton, ore, raw silk and other raw materials, the tax rate in Xinxiang is lower." Yu Guozhen said with a smile: "Generally speaking, the average tax rate is between nine and thirty-seven, and only some items have tariffs of more than 100 percent. ”

"What, the commercial tax of the dynasty is thirty taxes and one ......"

"This is not the imperial court's commercial tax, it's the new Xiangxiang commercial tax." Yu Guozhen said lightly: "The commercial tax of the dynasty is thirty and one, so the two Zhejiang, Hui and Jin wealthy merchants can fall into the city, and the imperial court wants to provide disaster relief but only takes out a mere six thousand taels of silver. ”

This year, like last year, there are still locust droughts, and there are two counties in the west of the mountain that have been miserable to the point of changing children and eating, and breaking bones into firewood, but the imperial court has taken out a pension to give only 6,000 taels of silver, which in the case that the price of stone rice has risen to 8 taels, can only buy less than 800 stone of grain, plus officials at all levels stretched out their hands layer by layer, and the people did not know if they could get a grain of rice!

Zhang Pu coughed, he decided not to argue with Yu Guozhen on specific issues: "If the court and the middle are all righteous people and gentlemen, this matter is easy to hear......"

"Tianru said this, okay, if Tianru is the head of the court, and the gentlemen of the Fushe fill the court, will the treasury be rich? Will the Scourge be over? Will the people rebel when they are hungry? Won't the captives outside the gate enter the Great Wall? ”

The more Zhang Pu wanted to avoid it, the more Yu Guozhen grasped the specific things, and listened to him with a few questions, Zhang Pu smiled and said: "Jimin is still too anxious to be surnamed, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, righteous people are in the dynasty, and it will be a matter of course." ”

Yu Guozhen laughed, looking at Zhang Pu's gaze with some pity.

This kind of compassionate gaze made Zhang Pu very uncomfortable, he didn't know what Yu Guozhen was thinking, but even if Yu Guozhen sealed Nanhaibo, Zhang Pu still thought that he was born in these two lists, so he really had the capital to pity others.

Zhang Pu is a smart and determined person, but after all, he can't jump out of his own circle, can't jump out of the so-called "historical limitations", and so, he and the things he maintains, clinging to the body of the Ming Dynasty to suck blood, and finally go to a dead end with the Ming Dynasty.

Yu Guozhen has no intention of stopping them from going to a dead end, but if they want to kidnap the future and fate of Huaxia, it is absolutely impossible!

didn't speculate, so he didn't say anything more, but Tian Chang looked at the crane with burning eyes, thinking about how much such a thing could be worth.

Soon out of the wharf, it was the wall, and everyone could only pass through the passage enclosed by the wall, and when entering the passage, Yu Guozhen and others directly took out a document to show each other, which was convenient for registration and release, while Zhang Pu and others were stopped.

"Why did you stop us?" Tian Chang took more than a dozen servants and shouted at this time.

"Everyone entering Xinxiang needs to be registered, and they must also undergo health quarantine to avoid bringing infectious diseases and mixing with people with ulterior motives. I see that this gentleman is very good-looking, and I don't think anyone wants anyone to bring the epidemic and infect you, right? ”

The guard was good-tempered, and explained with a smile that Zhang Pu saw that it was not only him, but even Yu Guozhen had only entered the customs, and then brought him into a room, where there were a few people in white robes sitting in the room, taking the pulse of Yu Guozhen, and then handing over a glass tube to Yu Guozhen, Yu Guozhen sandwiched it under his armpit, and talked and laughed with those people.

Everyone stopped silent, Tian Chang's eyes kept blinking, and he became more and more cautious in his heart, this Nanhai Bo's rules are really big, he came on the orders of his relatives, do you want to show your identity?

Glancing at Zhang Pu, Tian Chang felt that Zhang Pu must have revealed his identity to Yu Guozhen, but Yu Guozhen did not come to visit him, nor did he give him preferential treatment, and there must be a name for it.

The people who got off the ship from the Penglai were only more than 200 people, and the ten channels quickly registered their basic information, including their original place of origin, the purpose of coming to Xinxiang, the names of friends they visited, and their "work units". Then he took a glass rod and clamped the metal end under his armpit.

This is a thermometer that measures whether a person has a fever or not. Almost all infectious diseases cause inflammation and fever, so the presence or absence of fever is the first criterion for isolation. Out of nearly 300 people, a dozen or so people with fever were found, and these dozen or so people were led to another channel, where they would be further examined by regular doctors.

They wanted to refuse, but when they saw the guards with their guns and the guide very gently explained to them what they were going to do, they had to follow.

So they passed through the passage and came to the back of the wall, and the first thing they saw was the horse-drawn railcar.

"A car can pull a rail car of 7,000 catties." Zhang Pu thought of what Wanshi Huaxin said.

"Brother Tianru, is he going to find a hotel to stay in or is he looking for Wan Maosheng first?" Yu Guozhen smiled at Zhang Pu and said, "If you don't want to, I can arrange a place for you to live." ”

"First...... Let's take a look at the city first, Wan Maosheng said that the dock still has half an hour to get to Xinxiang. ”

"Isn't this a new Xiang?" The people next to him, especially Tian Chang, were a little speechless.

Because behind the pier is an obvious residential area, with rows of houses and neat roads, it looks very clean. Since ancient times, only Cang Liao is honest and can know etiquette, if you are not rich, who cares if the road is smooth and clean!

"Well, there are two ways to go to Xinxiang City, one is to take the rail car, but it only costs ten copper dollars - oh, I almost forgot, you can't have copper dollars on you, you can go to the front to exchange, one tael of silver can be exchanged for a hundred copper dollars, this is the currency that can only be used in Xinxiang."

"Private money?" Someone exclaimed.

It was Tian Chang, but he knew how much of a crime it was to cast private money, and how much profit he could get. Tian Guoqin's family, there is a secret trick of making private money!

"It's not private money, it can only be used in Xinxiang, and it is not allowed to circulate outside." Yu Guozhen explained.

(To be continued)