It can be said that the commercial tax produced by the Qinhuai River alone is enough for more than 30% of the entire area of Jinling.

After all, although many tycoons live in Jinling, their industries are all over the country, and the real commercial taxes paid to Jinling are not as much as here.

Even because of the extremely high taxes of high-ranking officials, they sometimes need to invest some extra money in education and infrastructure improvements in exchange for exemption from excessive personal income tax.

Exhaustive taxation made it impossible for anyone to escape their due obligations, even the peasants had their own part to contribute, and the tax was paid by work, so that the treasury of the whole country was extremely full.

It has also led to an increase in the state's investment in all aspects of national life.

One harvest and one return, although it is slaughtered a lot of fat sheep, but it has not touched the roots, plus some public welfare measures that can reduce taxes and fees, but also make many businessmen who are named great benevolent people emerge in the society.

And what these so-called great benevolent people like to do the most is to make friends with those ordinary scholars, after all, helping these people is the most profitable, once a few become officials and win the three lists, of course, it will not directly extend the benefits of a generation like the previous dynasties.

But there are also a lot of potential connections hidden in it, and for these guys who are good at research, they understand better that today's scholars may not be able to do anything, but they are definitely good at bad things.

In addition, many scholars now specialize in Mohist and other doctrines, and from time to time there are eye-catching things to come out, which may not be worse than being an official.

In general, for these wealthy people, even if they are confined to the three views of Confucian morality in the past, they can still accurately find that charitable investment in education is the most worthwhile.

As a result, new schools are built everywhere, and various subsidies for remote areas naturally make many students from these places come to Jinlingzhong, either to participate in the big exam, or to work directly under them.

This is also another new source of talent, because these giants are keen on this kind of thing, but also for the good performance of learning, there is a commendation to motivate those students.

It's all young people, it's normal to scramble for the first time, in fact, it's just a decision of will, but there is no shortage of eye-catching characters, so no one stops them, just control the situation and don't expand.

After all, it is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and when things get bigger, there will be an unpredictable situation in many cases, whether it is a giant or other high-ranking officials who sponsor their hometown studies, they are very aware of this, and being a low-key person and doing things in a high-profile manner is the king.

Therefore, although there is news every day in Jinling City, there are not many major events.

Once the situation is out of control, the level of the person who intervenes will be far beyond the imagination of other outsiders, and after one or two times, everyone will be honest.

This time coincided with the autumn season, and suddenly added the founding ceremony of the country, and the liveliness of Jinling at the intersection of the two has not been over for decades.

Some of the older generation still vaguely remember the last time this was the last time it was King Shenwu who conquered Nanyue and other places, completely opened up the land for nearly 10,000 miles, and the surrounding small countries looked down on the wind, which is why there is such a style.

Today is just a long-pending establishment of the country's name, and now it is comparable to the situation of the last time all countries came to the dynasty, which shows the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty in the past few decades, which is simply a change every day.

These residents living in Jinling know this all the better, and when they think about what they looked like 20 years ago, they feel that it is too old-fashioned.

What's more, in the past, they just looked at the food in front of them, but now they are thinking about things in the long term, and their vision is completely different, and even many of them can join the evening adult night school to learn things, which is an unimaginable change in the past.

The surging flow of people and the approaching autumn season, and the unique pride of Jinling residents, naturally caused a lot of incidents, not big or small, but also quite annoying, especially for the patrol house to maintain Jinling's public security, it is called a headache.

They didn't even have time to catch their breath, this was still after they greeted them in advance and asked those green skins to watch their subordinates not move.

Otherwise, the crime will be committed during the martial law period, and the crime will be added to the third degree, and a petty theft will be enough to sit in prison for 20 years.

If it is a robbery, it is a crime that can be killed on the spot, let alone being armed, and it is enough to find one, but now because of the entry of countless outsiders in the ceremony, the daily security check is enough, if there is really a green skin that does not open his eyes and bumps into it, there is no emotion to talk about.

This is not something that can be solved by sending some fruits and red envelopes, but the people in the patrol room understand where their official skin comes from, so naturally they can't stand on the wrong side at a critical moment.

Otherwise, those seniors who have been abolished and imprisoned in the prison will still look at them.

How dare they stir up trouble in such times?

Therefore, as soon as they heard that there were people gathering near the Qinhuai River, they could only dress up as officials and go to work overtime.

By this time, the twilight was already thick, and according to the past dynasties, it was already close to curfew.

But this dynasty is very different, not to mention the current capital of Guotai and Min'an, even the rest of the places do not have such a curfew, but the only thing is that there is a person in the city who is not allowed to go out of the city at night, and it doesn't matter if they are active in the city.

It can be said that those larger cities are all cities that never sleep, especially after the discovery of fire oil and the invention of the steam engine, the emergence of electric lights has affected the night of big cities.

In addition, every big city has a place similar to the Qinhuai River, which is naturally more lively.

When the patrol officers who managed the Qinhuai River came to this place, they only saw a patch of lights flickering, and the street was full of mobile stalls.

And the men and women who come here are countless, rubbing shoulders are considered a good situation, in the end the quality of the people has risen a lot, there is still room to move around, just look at those really lively acrobatics, it is simply the degree of needle insertion.

The patrol who was very familiar with this place noticed that something was wrong as soon as he arrived.

I saw the leader touch his beard, a pair of thick eyebrows and a wrinkle.

"Sanzi, take two people to ask those familiar stalls to see what's going on in front of them."

As soon as the words fell, a young man with a round face and a flash of inspiration in his eyes took two people and rushed into the crowd like swimming fish, looking for a familiar shop to ask about the situation.

Then the middle-aged man in the lead turned to a man with a few scars on his face and said, "Brother Liu, I want to trouble you to find some people to check the faces here and guard the high places on both sides." ”

"Understood!"

Without any other words, the scar-faced man hugged his fists and walked out with two people on a rampage.

Looking around at the remaining three guys, the middle-aged man clapped his hands.

"Let's go, let's see what is the excitement that attracts so many people today!"

With the sound of his steps, the crowd of people who had gathered in front of him was unconsciously split a passage.

Vaguely, the closer you get, the more you can hear the long chant and shallow singing inside, and the scholar is very romantic...