Yang Sichen himself does not have much significance to Wang Tong at present, but he was sent by Shen Shixing, a cabinet scholar, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and the backbone of Zhang Juzheng's party.

What does this mean, it is really worth pondering, Wang Tong checked the ins and outs of Yang Sichen during this period of time very clearly through the relationship network of Jingshi.

Shen Shixing was careful enough, and in the eyes of outsiders, he severed all relations with Yang Sichen and drove him out of the Jingshi.

For a scholar, what is the biggest blow is that the imperial examination is imminent, and this person can be admitted to the Jinshi, but he can't even take the exam. From an outsider's point of view, if this is such a deep hatred to do this, Shen Shixing and Yang Sichen must have fallen out.

Although Wang Tong told him not to say anything, in addition to scheming and political theories, some necessary self-presentation was still required, and the matter was not complicated.

Yang Sichen is also a smart person, left his hometown to go to Beijing, and made a decision to make friends with nobles, famous for his piano skills, and then the imperial examination borrowed strength to pave a route for the future of the Golden Avenue.

He already has real skills, and the piano skills are exactly what he likes when he applies for the bid, so it can be said that everything is going smoothly, and when the imperial examination is held, the champion, the list eye, and the three Tanhua may depend on luck, but the ranking before the reliability is nine out of ten.

However, soon someone else came to the door and asked him to do a few things, with a university scholar as a backer, ordinary people are also threatened, but this person who came is not an ordinary person, the matter is clear, if you don't agree, even if Shen Shixing is protective, Yang Sichen can't be pulled out to become a jinshi, and the safety of the whole family is difficult to protect, if he agrees, no matter whether Shen Shixing is in office or not, he will be guaranteed to succeed in the imperial examination.

And there are several choices, one is to enter the Hanlin Academy, if it doesn't work, then go to the most prosperous places in the world to be the prefect, and after three years, you can ensure a future in politics.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if everything is not successful, if Shen Shixing is evil, then go to Changlu Salt as a lifter to make a promotion, which is a fat shortage of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the bag a year.

If you don't do it, you will die, and if you do it, you will be prosperous and rich, and the person who asked him to do it is Zhang Siwei, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Let a person do something to a scholar, if he doesn't show this identity, the other party will not obey his fate, show this identity, give him extremely rich conditions, and people with a little brain will weigh it and then comply.

Zhang Siwei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, seems to be Meng Lang, but in fact, he has calculated every step accurately, and it is also a clever plan.

However, Zhang Siwei stared at Shen Shixing, Shen Shixing was also staring at Zhang Siwei, and Zhang Han, the secretary of the ministry, took a wrong step and was then kicked out of the capital division, which is really suspicious.

Zhang Siwei thought he had a clever plan, but Shen Shixing used a self-defiling method, and then drove Yang Sichen out of Jingshi.

"Lord Shen's status in the court is not as good as that of Lord Xiao Zhang, although he protects himself this time, he doesn't know if he can be self-satisfied in the future, so he needs to find foreign aid, but he is very much an old disciple of Zhang Ge, and there is no place to move, so he thought of the Lord of Tianjin Wei in desperation, which is also treating students as idle chess."

Although Yang Sichen will see it first, he still has to explain to Wang Tong, after all, he has to stay here for a long time.

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Wang Tong did not feel the benefits of a scholar's contact with his own family, and the news of the DPRK and China kept coming, and Shen Shixing always showed a clear stance on anything aimed at Tianjin.

It seems that he can't count on it in a short time, Wang Tong was excited for a few days, and then he gave up this thought, since he took Yang Sichen as a step of idle chess, he also regarded Shen Shixing as a step of idle chess, and it was always useful.

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Walking on the canal, from the south to the north, the official ships and civilian ships, if they want to give some benefits to the private people, then they must carry goods, and there is a clear text in the Hongzhi year, allowing the official ships to carry 20% of the tax exemption. The imperial court allowed 20 percent, which also means that it is cheap to carry more than 20 percent, so there is no official ship and civilian ship that is not entrained.

Tianjin Wei set up a card inspection, took the initiative to declare a draw of 20%, and did not take the initiative to declare a penalty of 40%, and there was no other extortion, which is really a matter of both the government and the people.

From Hangzhou to Beijing, there will be seven tax customs, if each tax card is tax-paid, then at least twice the value of the tax must be paid, everyone or entrained, or bribed a pass to break through, this side is only drawn two, it is really nothing, the front has been drawn, lice are not afraid of itching, the front has not been drawn, since the test has been out, two into two into two, is not a big deal.

Since some merchants have shipped to Tianjin, it is a distribution center in itself, and the surname Suo unloads and sells goods on the spot, and a large number of northern merchants eat it locally.

The tax penalty is a kind of income, and the goods are left in Tianjin to circulate, although there is no obvious income, but the market is booming, and there is always a benefit to the Haihe River that is being built.

A large number of goods gathered, handling and unloading, also need a large number of labor, the autumn harvest time in the north is early, a lot of idle farmers and men from all over the country come here to work hard to make money, the year is better.

There are many people who come, and the price of hard work on the dock has also dropped a lot, but these people from outside are also satisfied, this income is not bad compared to farming and eating grain, and it is more or less a subsidy.

Merchants and shipwrights are also satisfied, from Tianjin Wei, set up card inspection, extortion and extortion, the loading and unloading of labor is also much more expensive, Linqing and this side of the ship is only three days up and down the distance, can be loaded and unloaded labor only one-fifth or one-sixth of this side.

And if you use the guys on your own ship to load and unload, and it is not allowed on the dock, there will definitely be some entanglement at that time, and there will be things like smashing ships and smashing goods.

On 27 August, four more ships from Taizhou entered the Haihe River, and now the forts are covered with thatch and tarpaulin, and from the outside they look like nothing more than some firewood piles or piles of rough goods. This is also because they are afraid that the cargo ships coming from the sea will not dare to enter the port after seeing the fort.

When the four seagoing ships laden with cargo saw the swarthy guns and the shells that landed on the side of the ship after they were fired in demonstration, they all thought they were unlucky, and lamented in their hearts that neither the cargo nor the ship could be saved.

Who would have thought that someone from Tianjin Wei got on the ship and explained the rules to them, saying that it was a tax of 20%, and 20% of the tax was achieved, and it was still possible to make a lot of money, but everyone was worried that there would be a back-up move, and it was still a trouble to find a buyer for this goods.

Unexpectedly, the cost of loading and unloading at the shore was only less than one-tenth of the usual one-time, and there were special guards on the shore.

There is also a ship that was originally scheduled to take over a batch of mercury and deerskin on the side of Tianjin Wei, seeing that there are officers and soldiers guarding the port, it is also absolutely impossible to think about this thought, thinking about getting some northern specialties back to sell, but I didn't expect that the merchant who prepared the goods for him actually sent the goods directly over, above board, but scared the ship's up and down, of course, this time the goods are not two out of ten.

Except for the ships that took the route of trafficking in the Japanese kingdom, the rest of the merchant ships were counted until they left port with their goods.

The high cost of loading and unloading has been cancelled, there is no excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and the value of the goods is 20%, which is strictly calculated, which is much cheaper than the previous loading and unloading of goods in Haihe, and it is very cost-effective.

A seagoing ship can almost bring Wang Tong thousands of taels of tariff revenue, but this money cannot be subsidized for the construction on both sides of the Haihe River, which must be counted as gold and silver.

The only thing Wang Tong fought for himself was the peace money collected inside and outside the city of Tianjin, which was designated by the palace to be at the disposal of thousands of households in Tianjin.

The ships from the south took away what they had seen and heard in Tianjinwei, and this sight and hearing was completely positive, and it can be expected that more and more ships would come to Tianjinwei in the future.

With the re-entry of these four sea ships, a large number of goods were divided by the merchants, and those who did not get the distribution could only stomp their feet and regret it, after this time, the merchants inside and outside Tianjin began to realize the value of the shops being built on the riverbank, and some people began to pay a deposit to ask for a fixed rent.

Wang Tong's Jinyiwei, Tianjin's merchants, maritime merchants from the sea, and villagers in all four miles and eight townships, each party is cheap, each party is rich, and the market of Tianjin Acropolis has also prospered.

There is no perfect thing in the world, there is no thing that everyone is happy about, and the bow incense that has been silent for a long time is the one that loses the most.

There were more than 6,000 people on the bow of the boat, some of whom were boatmen and sailors on the river, and these people had no fixed place to live in the north and south, and what happened in Tianjin had no effect on them, and the real subjects were those coolies who were eating by the canal.

They had a monopoly on the loading and unloading market, charging at much higher prices than elsewhere, and the money for the loading and unloading of the ships on the Haihe River was even outrageous, and because of their large numbers, they charged incense money similar to the protection fee, and all this disappeared without a trace.

The influx of a large number of cheap laborers and the strength of Wang Tongjin Yiwei made it impossible for the incense people on the bow of the boat to maintain this monopoly price.

Cutting off people's financial routes, this is the biggest grudge, originally because of Wang Tong's thunderbolt policy has become fragmented, and the incense on the bow of the ship, which is about to become a mass of loose sand, has gradually begun to gather under some external force.

In Tianjin Weizhong, the undercurrent is turbulent, and every night there are dozens of people inside and outside the city, or even hundreds of people, colluding with each other, gathering people to discuss, and some people walk the streets and alleys to connect the former leaders.

But all the manpower of Tianjin Jinyi Wei Qianhu is on the wharf, on the bank of the Haihe River, or they are stationed in the city, and the personnel are already stretched and seriously insufficient.

On the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, Yang Sichen asked to see Wang Tong again, which should have been almost seen.

(To be continued)