Qin Lin took the big river boat with front and rear masts, the Chinese hard sail was full of wind, smooth wind and water, although the ten oarsmen on each side of the board did not make any effort, down the river has been riding the wind and waves faster than the galloping horse, driving fast and steady.

Sitting on the bow of the boat blowing the fresh river breeze, Qin Lin left his sorrows behind, the river and the sky in front of him, and the forests on both sides of the bank were dyed, but he was also in his arms.

This brand-new river ship is very beautifully decorated, the corridors and other places are painted with vermilion lacquer, some places are carved quite beautiful flowers, and there are big red lanterns hanging at the door of the cabin, bow and stern; The stewards and servants on the ship were all neatly dressed in green clothes and hats, and there were even a few handmaidens who looked well-born.

When he got on the boat, Qin Lin noticed that it seemed that a huge ship was his own group of four passengers, and secretly said that Niu Dali lacked heart: to pack such a large river boat, there are many servants and maids serving on the boat, I don't know how much it will cost to wear clothes? Grandma's, does this stupid cow really think I'm Shen Wansan?

Fortunately, there were three hundred taels of gold sent by King Jing, and Qin Lin was not going to take the overlord ship, and when he sailed out of the dock for an hour, Qin Lin asked Niu Dali to take the owner of the ship to calculate the ship's money.

"Engong, we don't spend any money on this boat." Niu Dali grinned, and he was still holding a bowl of braised pork noodles with extremely thick oil and water, which he brought out from the back kitchen.

Qin Lin rolled his eyes: "Don't call Engong in the future, it's strange to be cold." ”

"How's that going to work? If you call an adult humble in front of others, we have to call a graceful man, a stupid cow is not an ungrateful person......"

"Okay, okay, I don't have time to talk to you, call the owner of the ship to settle the score!"

Niu Dali's eyes widened, and he said honestly: "You really don't need to pay for the ship, the owner of the ship recognizes it himself, don't believe me to call him to come." ”

After saying that, he put down his face and went to the owner of the ship.

Qin Lin didn't know why, and said in his heart, didn't Niu vigorously beat the owner of the ship, forcing him to agree to carry passengers for free? This stupid cow is not a strong and domineering person, although the yamen is a big dye vat, it will not become so fast.

The owner of the boat is a white and chubby middle-aged man, wearing a green straight jacket with dark flowers, wearing a Haoran scarf on his head, piling up a smile on his face and being kind, and when he meets, he looks at Qin Lin deeply, and his mouth is sweeter than smearing honey: "The little cheap name Jia Fugui, Lord Qin appreciates the light and sits on the boat of the small people, and the three lives of the little people are lucky!" Lord Qin, the pillar of the young hero country, Xiaomin's ship is stained with the heroic righteousness of adults, and it will be more stable than other ships in the wind and waves in the future. ”

Got it, Qin Lin was not impressed by this smelly compliment, and shook his hand and said, "You are also going around in circles with me, how much is the boat money?" The price is right, I sit all the way to Nanjing, the price is not suitable, I will change the ship of another family in Jiujiang Mansion in front. ”

Jia Fugui smiled and lowered his waist: "The adults are willing to surrender, and the little ones are already grateful, how dare you ask the adults for boat money?" The envoy fee along the way is a small filial piety.

In addition, there are excellent cooks in the back kitchen, and there will be a few dishes from all over the world, and these maids can play and sing a few hands, and if adults can see her, they can also call her to sleep. If these people are pleased to serve the adults, you can reward them with a few pennies; Adults don't reward anything, and they don't dare to argue about the long and the bad. ”

Qin Linqi said: "So, wouldn't you lose money if you went to Nanjing?" ”

At this time, Han Feilian and Lu Yuanzhi walked out of the cabin, and when they heard this, Han Feilian smiled and said: "Let's delicate the mountains and seas every day, and then sleep all the bitches on his ship, and don't give a penny, Lao Jia can only make money and lose anything!" ”

This big river boat is called the white boat, and its belly is very large, except for the two layers above the deck to carry passengers, and the bottom of the belly of the ship is fully loaded with goods.

The white boat has never only carried officials and dignitaries, not only does the ship cost nothing, but also provides exquisite food and women's sleeping for free along the way, for what?

Originally, as long as the official was carried, the ship could play the lantern of official rank, and temporarily become an official ship in the name of the official's appointment and the family and relatives.

Like Jia Fugui's ship now, the value of the things loaded in the cargo hold is as high as thousands of taels of silver, although the positive tax of the Ming Dynasty is low, there are still bad rules and regulations everywhere, all of which add up, and the benefits of his legal tax evasion can reach hundreds of taels of silver, how much can it cost to supply Qin Lin and these people to eat, drink and have fun? The owner of the ship earns a lot!

What's more, the soldiers on the ship with official lanterns, tax customs, river defense roads, etc., who were supposed to come to make a nuisance, did not come, and those who were supposed to take care of it were immediately released, and the convenience brought was much stronger than that of civilian ships.

After Han Feilian finished speaking, Jia Fugui just laughed with him, and Qin Lin knew that what he said was true.

When Lu Fatzi heard this, his eyes let out a thief light: "I see, haha, I want to have a good meal today!" Boss Jia, wrinkled oil hooves, braised button pork, and sand balls...... One of each! ”

Jia Fugui couldn't stop laughing, "It's all, it's all there, Chief Lu wait." ”

Qin Lin ran a pencil shop, and knew that with an official background, he could exempt all bad rules and conventions, and only pay a very low tax - one-thirtieth, that is, a tax rate of three percent, such a low tax rate, how can the business tax of 5 percent, the value-added tax of 17 percent, and the enterprise income tax of 25 percent be embarrassed in later generations!

So in the Ming Dynasty, as long as you hook up with the eunuchs and don't pay bad rules and regulations in business, even pig brains can make money.

However, now Qin Lin actually heard that with the official title, he didn't even have to pay the regular tax, which was too much.

Jia Fugui told him with a smile that not only are the cars and ships of the current officials exempt from paying taxes, but they can also return to their hometowns, and even those who take the examination can enjoy this treatment.

Qin Lin shook his head incredulously, although he was also one of the beneficiaries, he instinctively felt that the Ming Dynasty was too lenient in collecting taxes and too many loopholes, and if he wanted to reduce taxes, he should also reduce the poor rural peasants, instead of taking care of the officials and rich merchants, right? That's not how you play!

Seeing that Jia Fugui was not bad, Qin Lin invited him to sit down and talk slowly.

Jia Fugui happily obeyed his fate, and asked the kitchen to send extremely exquisite dishes, such as bird's nest, shark's fin, bear's paw, and so on, and opened the jar of 20-year-old osmanthus wine, and the two talked while drinking.

Jia Fugui has been in business all the year round, has a wide range of knowledge, and knows the stories on the Yangtze River: "Shao Jingbang Shao in Jiajing is a Qing official, he is an old man with the title of director of the Ministry of Industry to collect Jingzhou tax, just three months The annual tax amount stipulated by the imperial court is full, Shao Daren simply opened the customs and let the merchant ships come and go, and the tax is no longer collected, tsk, where to find such a good official......

Qin Lin was speechless when he heard this, Shao Jingbang actually only collected taxes for three months, and when the tax amount was full, he allowed tax evasion and evasion, where is he a clean official, it is clearly a big dumb official!

Shao Jingbang is a matter of Jiajingnian, so Qin Lin didn't mention it much, and only asked how the situation has been in recent years.

"Zhang Jiangling (Zhang Juzheng is from Jiangling, Hubei) has been the first assistant, but we have been miserable," Jia Fugui poured bitter water: "Don't hide it from Lord Qin, in previous years, the contemptible ship casually borrowed the official title and name of others, made a deputy lantern and hung it on the ship, and stuffed some silver casually when passing the tax customs, who will care about you?" Since the opening of Zhang Jiangling, the customs and other places have been strictly controlled, and they have to see the officials themselves to exempt the taxes, so that everyone who has a white boat will dig holes in the sky to find the officials who go to the post, like you are willing to take the contemptible boat, and the contemptible people are very grateful. ”

Saying that, Jia Fugui poured a few more sips of wine, and there was nothing to avoid on the river, so he scolded Zhang Juzheng, saying that if he continued like this, he would definitely cut off his financial route, Zhang Juzheng was really not a thing.

Qin Lin shook his head when he heard this, and refuted loudly: "Brother Jia's words are not right, the national taxes have a pencil source, some are used to raise soldiers and royal robbers, and some are used to relieve disasters, for example, the great drought in Hebei in the sixth year of Longqing, the hungry people are everywhere, at this time, if you don't ask your rich businessmen to collect taxes to save the hungry people, do you still have to scrape oil on the hungry people to use it as a national tax?" ”

Qin Lin added fuel and vinegar to what Zhang Xiaoyang said, but Jia Fugui only cared about how much money he made, although he heard the tragedy of the catastrophe, he didn't see it with his own eyes, the state wants to collect taxes, that is, he wants to use the real silver in his purse to save the victims who are chasing the wind and shadows, he is a little disappreciative after all.

Qin Lin thought for a while, and then said: "Like you who walk the Yangtze River waterway, do you remember that the Japanese were rampant twenty years ago?" Was your business good at that time? ”

Speaking of the Japanese Invaders, Jia Fugui immediately burned his buttocks, scolding the Japanese Kou for not being a thing, the plague of Jiangnan back then, disturbing the peace of the people, and the business in the entire Jiangnan area was not good, he followed his father to do raw silk trading, and as a result, he lost a lot of silver, and Qi Jiguang's business improved a lot after the war.

"Ahh Qin Lin slapped his palms and smiled: "Grandpa Qi is training to level the Japanese, isn't it the salary of the imperial court?" The money of the imperial court, not the taxes collected? ”

Jia Fugui was silent for a long time when he heard this, and nodded lightly: "What Lord Qin said is good, but if everyone else tries to avoid paying taxes and asks me to be a 'righteous citizen' alone, and takes out the big amount of silver, this contemptible person will have no choice but to thank him." ”

Qin Lin laughed, he also felt it, and he didn't expect Jia Fugui to change from Lai Changxing to Chen Jiageng in a few words.

As everyone knows, the river is extremely empty, Jiang Feng sent the two people's answers far away, and on an extremely gorgeous official ship in the distance, someone has already heard it clearly.

This boat is a blessing boat style, the bottom of the ordinary fortune boat is slightly flatter and the draft is shallower to facilitate the river to travel, the ship building is carved and the beams are painted, many places are painted with gold paint, painted with golden dragons and colorful phoenixes, the high lanterns on both sides of the bow are several times larger than the ordinary official title lanterns, but there is no direct official title name, the left one is written "Erwei Yanmei", and the right one is "Ru Zuo Zhouji".

The person at the bow of the boat heard Qin Lin and Jia Fugui's answer, and suddenly slapped his hands and smiled: "The height of the temple is worried about the people, and the distance of the rivers and lakes is worried about the king. ”

(To be continued)