Yang Chengzu said: "Thank you Uncle Song for your kindness, but you said that this method is at most for a while, not for a lifetime, and we still have to find a way to get money to solve this matter." ”

"Money? This is going to be a lot of work, if we have money, do we still have to worry about it? Song Liansheng smiled helplessly, "We have thought about everything we can think." You just saved Zhang Xianzun, maybe you can ask him to help you think of a way to let the yamen collect less taxes and let us collect more, but I'm afraid that this money won't solve the problem. ”

Yang Chengzu shook his head, this road will not work. He just married Zhang Jiayin, and if you want to say that you have a friendship, you can't say it. But for this kind of thing, how can you open your mouth?

The funds in the yamen were also tight, and they also had to rely on taxes to maintain their expenditures, without which the yamen would have to drink the northwest wind. What is the difference between letting them pay their taxes and letting them die? If friendship is used in this matter, it is tantamount to making it difficult for friends.

He thought about it again, and suddenly said, "Did the Cao Gang go there?" If you want to say that we are here in Huaxian County, the richest one is Caoyun. They were carrying a lot of food in a boat, and there were a lot of personal belongings in it, as long as they leaked a little, it would be enough for us to eat. If you get a copy in the Cao Gang, it will not be a problem to get 20% of the money and grain. ”

Song Liansheng shook his head again and again, "Cao Gang? That's something I can't think of, the Cao Gang is so powerful, our little manpower, which is someone's opponent. Even if you add the surplus army, it is not enough for the Cao gang to fight. Don't think of other ideas before it's too late. You still have a mother, you can't offend these people. ”

The Ming Dynasty set the capital of Jingshi, with a registered population of one million, while Paris, a famous European city in the same period, had a population of no more than 200,000. Therefore, in this era, Daming is a well-deserved king of the world. If you want to talk about learning, it is also the world's learning of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no such thing as opening your eyes to see the world in the eyes of some people. It is the European barbarians who should be serious, not the people of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty.

One of the major problems facing this million people is to eat. Shi Zaijingshi's house, there is no stone storage, that is, most ordinary people have no grain storage. Therefore, during the Hongzhi period, a merchant who quit the city could make the imperial court admit it.

This is not surprising, in a city with a population of more than one million, if every family can save a few stone of grain, how much grain must be enough? Thanks to the Cao Yun, the rice and grain of the Jingshi were transported into Beijing from the south to maintain the operation of the Beijing Division, and this Cao Gang came into being and became the real No. 1 gang today.

The Cao Gang has food in their hands, and the Cao Boat is a special ship with priority qualifications, so it is natural to find a way to make some extra money. One of them is to entrainment of private //// goods. This is not to say that the Cao Gang spread anti-Ming remarks in addition to work, but the private /// goods they brought were serious goods that evaded taxes, and some of them operated part-time and profited from them.

At that time, the private /////transportation of the Cao gang was rampant, and in another time and space, Emperor Jiajing specially issued a holy decree to legalize the entrainment of Cao Yun, so that it could be seen how rampant it had been. Cao Yun is a million profits, and the Cao Gang is also fat, if you bite the meat from above, it will definitely solve the problem of dissolution.

Huazhou belongs to the Yellow River ferry, the Cao Gang here has a large cargo throughput, relying on the water draft, as long as the food and water waterway, I don't know how much silver to enter every year. But everyone knows that this silver is good, and they all know that it is not so easy to take.

At this time, the Cao Gang does need to pay protection money and buy a safe and smooth one. However, their protection fee is not handed over to Jinyiwei, and they recognize it as Shaolin Temple in Henan, not Jinyi.

Emperor Zhengde believed in Buddhism, whether it was Central Plains Buddhism or Tibetan Lamas, he believed in them all. In the leopard room, he raised Xingji Bandan, Luozhu Banzhuo, Sanzhu Thorn and other Tibetan monks, and self-proclaimed "Daqing Dharma King Xijue Dao Yuanming Freedom Dading Abundant Buddha", ordered the Ministry of Rites to cast a gold seal for it, and gave the decree. Referring to his own behavior of appointing himself as a mighty general, it can only be said that he is indeed a more playful emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Tibetan monks are fragrant, and the bald days of Shaolin are not sad. Several famous monks of Shaolin Temple listened to the value in the leopard room, and discussed the golden gun is not bad, the avenue of the ten women at night, and they have made great achievements, and they have won the appreciation of the heavenly family. A few years ago, Banzai even inscribed a plaque for Shaolin with his own hands, which made the Shaolin Temple majestic.

In Henan, there is a Shaolin land is boundless, and it is said that it crosses the Yellow River in the north and leaps into the mountains in the south. Although its temple is in Dengfeng County, the monk Buddha field is all over the eight provinces of Henan, and the monk can be seen everywhere.

Regardless of restaurants, butcher shops, cleaning buildings, and burning pots, they may all be Shaolin industries, while monk property does not need to pay taxes. Take this slippery county as an example, one-third of the trading shops are monks' property, whether it is a brocade cloth guard, or a servant, when calculating taxes, this part is excluded, and it is in vain to go, and not a single child can be collected.

In the martial arts, it is said that there is a faction and there is a field, which sect has a large field and many shops, and which sect has a strong strength. A group of disciples who were skilled in sticks surrounded the owner of the field and pointed with sticks, "This is the price, do you sell the field?" "Isn't this what you do to feed the doorman?

Shaolin Temple relies on these countless fields and shops, and sits firmly in the position of Wulin Taishan Beidou, and no one can compete with it. If there is a conflict, if you throw a sum of money, you can hire dozens or hundreds of outlaw swordsmen and hack you to death. As for the Seventy-Two Stunts, that thing can neither be steamed nor boiled, it is purely useless.

Since there are so many Buddha fields, there must be tenants who do not listen to the teachings and are lazy, because they are lazy or slanderous, or they are good at drinking, or gambling, or some other factor. If they don't farm well, the Buddhas won't have rent, and there will naturally be contradictions between the two.

In order to protect their Buddha fields, in order to urge those tenants to sell their sons and daughters and wives to pay rent, they had to send monks who are proficient in Buddhism, strong and strong, and holding a big stick to persuade them.

Don't look at the Cao Gang, there are many Cao soldiers among the members, but if you want to ensure smooth transportation, it is not surprising that Shaolin's sesame oil money is not at all. Otherwise, the Dharma is boundless, and when the Buddha is angry, either the ship capsizes and people die, or the warehouse is on fire, which is not a good feeling.

Since they have paid the Shaolin protection fee, they will not pay Jinyi. As for hard robbery, the Cao Gang also has a lot of heroes who are skilled in guns and sticks, and the coolies are outnumbered, and not daring to provoke the monk does not mean that they can't beat Jinyi. Song Liansheng calculated, even if everyone poured out of the nest, it would only be a hundred men, and compared with the Cao Gang, they were still at a disadvantage, and if the monk was alarmed, it would not end well.

Yang Chengzu smiled: "Uncle Song, this is okay. In fact, I have thought about eating water for a long time, but it was only today that I caught up with this season, and I said it. Let's eat Cao Yun, and it has nothing to do with those monks. They take their filial piety, and we take our share of the money, and the water of the well does not interfere with the water of the river, and no one can provoke anyone. Those masters are reasonable people, and when they ask for money, they must be humble to each other. As long as their own interests are not lost, are you willing to stand up for the coolies of the Cao Gang? ”

"What you said makes some sense, but the question is, even if you are not a monk, then the Cao Gang is easy to provoke? Anyway, there are thousands of men, if we really turn our faces and fight, we won't take advantage. ”

"Thousands of men are coolies, and if they are desperate, they are only a matter of more than a hundred. I have hundreds of thousands of sons and daughters in Jinyiwei, and there are four other armies of the Chitose Lord behind me, which are tens of thousands of old soldiers who have fought old battles, I want to see how many heads the Cao Gang has, and they dare to fight against the uncle. ”