Zhang Anshi leaned over to take a look, but he actually knew in his heart why Hu Guang couldn't understand it.

It's strange to understand it!

On this note, it is densely packed with numbers.

Zhang Anshi knew that in order to facilitate counting, the arithmetic school used the famous Arabic numerals of later generations.

Of course, Arabic numerals also have their disadvantages, that is, they are easy to be confused and falsified, so often, the numbers in Chinese characters will be filled in at the same time after the general account to prevent tampering.

So probably, this piece of music has become a full of numbers, and in the eyes of the layman, it seems to be a ghost drawing.

It seems that everyone can also see that Zhang Anshi understands this recital.

So someone asked, "His Royal Highness King Song, what is this above?" ”

Zhang Anshi said: "It's the number, all the money, grain, taxes, and income from the operation of the entire Jiangxi Railway Division. ”

When everyone heard this, they were a little excited, and Xie Jin took the lead and said, "How many are the numbers?" ”

Zhang Anshi closed the music and said, "The number is not small, it's just ......."

"Just what?" Xie Jin's face was full of suspicion.

Zhang Anshi said: "It's just that let's talk about it after facing the saint." ”

Hu Guang couldn't help but mutter: "This ...... What kind of thing to sell when it's time? ”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, "Say it now, I'm afraid that I will frighten the princes, this is for your health." ”

“……”

Such a mysterious mystery makes everyone more curious.

So, Zhang Anshi ordered people to report first and prepare to meet Zhu Di.

On the other hand, he hid in the corner and continued to open the recital.

In fact, Zhang Anshi was not afraid of frightening them, but although he himself could see them, he himself was surprised by these numbers, for fear that the railway department had miscalculated, so he needed to match the accounts first, so as not to be embarrassed by the emperor.

And the reason why these accounts are complicated even for Zhang Anshi is because there are too many incomes involved.

This is different from the accounts reported in the past, if it is a direct subordinate, it is only responsible for tax declaration, and if it is a Qixia firm, it only needs to report revenue and profits.

But this railway department, or rather, the Jiangxi Railway Division, in essence, is a complex of the government, the railway, and the commercial bank, and the income of various items is mixed together and dazzling.

Seeing Zhang Anshi looking down at Song Shu, he was distracted.

Hu Guang and a few people, it's not easy to bother.

Smart people, probably at this time, will not continue to talk deeply, because the results will soon be revealed, and if they talk too much, they will appear to be anxious and unstable.

Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar is considered Zaifu, and Zaifu naturally has the bearing of Zaifu.

Therefore, everyone drank tea and simply talked about some idle things.

"I heard that there is a play outside now, but it is very hot." Yang Rong said with a smile.

As soon as he heard the play, Xie Jin's eyebrows moved slightly, but he lowered his head to drink tea.

Hu Guang showed a little displeasure, and said with displeasure: "These so-called operas are said to entertain people, but in fact they are bad people's tricks, readers should study with peace of mind, and people should make a living with peace of mind......"

Yang Rong smiled and said: "Hu Gong, don't worry, the old man said this play, he just wants to understand the preferences of some military and civilian people." This drama is said to be popular all over the world, and now in the capital, all the troupes are singing. ”

Xie Jin said: "But I don't know what I'm talking about?" ”

Yang Rong said: "It's about a young master, because he fell in love with the maid next to the master, and secretly communicated with him, and finally gave birth to a son, after that, the young master had to marry a daughter as a wife because of the family, but the maid was sent out, and then the daughter passed the door not long after, and then fell ill and died." The young master continued the string and married another lady, who knows, the maid's child grew up, and actually fornicated with the lady who continued the string......"

Hu Guang's face was angry, and he scolded: "It's really unethical!" ”

Seeing that Yang Rong was silent.

Hu Guang couldn't help but say: "Tell me, what happened later?" ”

"The old man still thinks that Hu Gong is not happy to listen." After that, Yang Rong continued: "Over there, it was the maid who was driven away, who lived among the people and gave birth to a daughter outside, who knows, that daughter...... By mistake, she also entered the young master's mansion as a maid. ”

Hu Guang showed a miserable look: "Needless to say, this is another human tragedy." Oh my God, the hearts of the people are so bad now. ”

Yang Rong said: "Hu Gong, can you not interject." ”

Hu Guang had no choice but to silence.

Yang Rong continued: "So, the son born to this maid fell in love with this maid again, and he tried his best to be courteous. ”

Hu Guang: "......"

Although Hu Guang wanted to scold a few more words, he finally endured it.

Yang Rong said: "At the same time, when the lady who continued the string saw this, she naturally couldn't help but be jealous. ”

Hu Guang coughed desperately.

Yang Rong glanced at him, and then said: "But who would have thought that just when the daughter of this maid and the son of the maid, that is, the young master of the current mansion, were about to become a good deed, the daughter of this maid was actually taken by the current lord and insisted on accepting her as a concubine." ”

So, one night, the young master made a big fuss in the mansion and confronted the master, and finally revealed the past step by step, and the master realized that his son had an affair with his stepmother. And the young master found out that the maid in the family was actually his half-brother and sister......"

Hu Guang couldn't bear it anymore after all, and said angrily: "Don't look at incivility, don't listen to incivility, don't say it, don't say it." ”

Yang Rong was really silent.

Hu Guang saw that he was silent, and finally couldn't help but say: "Can these people in the back suffer from God's curse?" ”

"Not really." Yang Rong said with a smile.

Hu Guang said angrily: "It's hateful, the person who sings this opera is hateful, and the person who compiled this opera is also hateful." What happened? ”

Yang Rong said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Isn't Gong Hu not wanting to hear it?" ”

Hu Guang stiffened his face and said, "I just want to know the result." ”

Yang Rong said: "The situation is even more complicated than what Fang just said, because the old man can only say a rough idea in this play, and there are many people, and they don't have time to say that in this story, it turns out that the maid born to the maid actually had an affair with a man before entering the house......"

Hu Guang showed a pained expression.

But he heard Yang Rong continue: "And this man who made a personal relationship with the maid's daughter, in order to find the maid's daughter, actually entered the mansion and became a groom." ”

Hu Guang sighed: "It's really the wind of the world, the wind of the world is going down!" ”

Yang Rong said: "But this groom asked for it but couldn't get it, and saw that the maid's daughter was almost occupied by the young master in the house, so in the midst of sorrow, he hid in the treasury and drank, and in one night, he actually ...... with the wife of the continuation string."

"What ......" Hu Guang stood up, his eyes were as big as copper bells, and the fire in his eyes seemed to burst out.

杨荣对他压了压手道：“不不不，胡公，你先别气，你误会了，这马夫与夫人全无相干，只是续弦的夫人，见少爷移情别恋了，自是悲从心来，此时听了马夫的遭遇，不免与他共情，于是将马夫引荐进了内府……”

Hu Guang said: "So in the inner courtyard, this groom and the maid's daughter will continue to have a relationship?" ”

Yang Rong shook his head and said: "No, this groom entered the inner courtyard and won the trust of the master, and the master saw that he was fair and handsome, and he actually ......."

Hu Guang covered his eyes and shouted, "Oh my God, this is a troupe that should be killed." ”

Yang Rong said: "I turned this groom into a scholar." ”

Hu Guang sighed: "This is the end of the bad morals. ”

"And this groom became a scholar, and after winning the favor of the master, he had a heart of revenge, and wanted to put the young master to death, and even more to kill the daughter of the maid, so he conspired with the wife of the continuation string, and the two hooked up and became adulterous......"

Hu Guang was already dumbfounded, he was tired.

Yang Rong continued: "Until that night, the truth was revealed, the maid's daughter, the groom who was saddened by her childhood sweetheart, actually jumped into the well and committed suicide. The old man never expected that his wife would be like this, so angry that she had heart disease, and she actually died. The wife of the continuation was ashamed and fled overnight. The young master was disheartened and left for the rest of his country. The groom also learned that the maid's daughter was still thinking about herself, and when he saw the maid's daughter commit suicide, he was also sad and full of self-blame, so he went incognito, and then returned to his hometown, only to know that the family had suffered a catastrophe, his parents and brothers had starved to death, and the family's fields were all pawned. ”

Hu Guang let out a long sigh of relief and said, "It's about the same, at least...... There's always a karma, and it's gone. ”

"And." Yang Rongdao.

Hu Guang: "......"

Hu Guangfang's relaxed face suddenly tensed again.

Xie Jin looked at Hu Guang with a smile.

And Jin Youzi actually listened attentively and felt that he was still unfinished.

Yang Rong said, "That young master, didn't you go away?" But by mistake, he boarded a merchant ship to go overseas, first gave a sailor to live on the merchant ship, and then arrived in Java, but somehow, he started trading and made a fortune. His family business was ten times or a hundred times better than his ancestral property, so he built bridges and paved roads, cultivated virtues and did good deeds in Java, and it became a good story for a while. ”

Hu Guang: "......"

"And the groom, when he was almost starving to death, suddenly the postal department recruited workers, he was desperate, he went to recruit, but he was lucky to get in, because of his diligent hands and feet, and meticulous work, he also began to be solid, married a wife, gave birth to many children, and his life was prosperous."

Hu Guang: "......"

Yang Rong glanced at Xie Jin from the corner of his eye.

Xie Jin said with a smile: "Yang Gong has always been smart, but I want to ask, why can such an opera be popular all over the world?" ”

Yang Rong smiled and said calmly: "In fact, the old man was also confused at first, but he could chew carefully, but he also noticed that it was not simple, in this play, there were both gentry and Gaomen mansions, and the compiler of this play must also be from a scholarly family, so he told the things in the mansion vividly, taught many soldiers and civilians, and was able to get a glimpse of the life in the Gaomen mansion and satisfy his curiosity. ”

"Secondly, the relationship between the characters in it is complicated, but they are connected to each other's fate, and some adultery, the maid and the young master fall in love, and the groom changes his fate.

"Of course, in the end, there must be that karma thing, which becomes a warning for the prosperous world."

"Later, although the young master and the groom made a mistake, they also got retribution, and since then, they have been reborn, but it may not be without reverie."

Hu Guang only shook his head, and said with no dissipation: "The person who compiled this drama has such a vicious mind, it really deserves a thousand cuts." ”

“……”

But at this time, a eunuch hurriedly came and said, "My lords, Your Majesty has summoned all the princes to meet you. ”

Immediately, everyone was silent, quickly put away their thoughts, and got up to tidy up their clothes.

Zhang Anshi has finally checked the number, and he is also full of confidence.

Immediately, several people went to the Chongwen Hall together.

At this time, Zhu Di was listening to the lecture of the Hanlin Academy.

Seeing the scholars, he immediately smiled and said, "Zhuqing, I heard that the Jiangxi Railway Division has a performance?" ”

Zhang Anshi stepped forward and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty, the Jiangxi Railway Division is here to play." ”

The Hanlin had their own expressions indifferent.

In fact, their impression of the emperor and grandson is still good, but this emperor and grandson have been a little off track since they followed his uncle.

In everyone's opinion, the emperor and grandson are malleable talents, but they are just taking the wrong path.

However, this time, the situation in Jiangxi has deteriorated, which has made many people have a bit of slander against the emperor and grandson, and the situation in Jiangxi is so erosive, which is not unrelated to the fact that the emperor and the railway department are messing around in the local area.

Jiangxi is the land of fish and rice, and it has always been the focus of taxation.

Zhu Di was a little nervous at this time, and he naturally knew that now in Shilin and the market, gossip about the emperor and grandson messing around in Jiangxi had already begun to appear.

Of course, Zhu Di knows that these rumors cannot be taken seriously, but the problem is that the appearance of such rumors itself hurts the prestige of his grandson.

Zhu Di was a little anxious, and immediately said, "Report it." ”

Zhang Anshi said: "Jiangxi Railway Division, this year's freight income, totaling 1.95 million taels. ”

As soon as these words came out, the hundred officials first showed surprise, and then couldn't help but start whispering.

This amount is obviously much beyond everyone's expectations.

Before everyone could ease up, Zhang Anshi said: "The bulk of it is freight, and the revenue mainly depends on this, and single freight accounts for eighty percent of the revenue." ”

After hearing this, Zhu Di finally cheered up and said, "There are so many? ”

"After the railway was completed, the transportation of merchants has been endless, and it can be said that it is night and day." Zhang Anshi replied honestly.

In fact, this is also related to the great development of railways, because of the large-scale construction of railways in Jiangxi, so many commercial banks began to pour in, all kinds of equipment, materials and commodities need to be transported by rail.

For Zhu Di, this is tantamount to an unexpected surprise, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "The railway in Jiangxi has not yet been fully penetrated, and even in Nanchang, Jiujiang and other places, it has only been three or two months to half a year. ”

Facing Zhu Di's expectant gaze, Zhang Anshi said: "The Railway Division also estimated it like this. ”

Zhu Di probably calculated, although he didn't know how much the net profit was, but such a revenue was enough to cope with such a huge amount of capital investment, and he was very happy in his heart.

I saw Zhang Anshi say again: "Of course...... The revenue of this railway is only a small head, Your Majesty...... These are actually nothing, and in addition, the railway department also reported it......"

The monarchs and ministers stopped squeaking all of a sudden, if the freight greatly surprised everyone, Zhang Anshi only compared it to a small head, obviously, Zhu Di began to be more interested in Zhang Anshi's next words.

Zhang Anshi said: "Over the past year or so, the number of people at each station of the Railway Division has increased by 1.13 million households......

1,130,000 households......

Everyone was dumbfounded.

In an instant, many people began to panic and looked at each other.

It seems that at this moment, there is an ominous sign, gradually appearing.

Sure enough, Zhu Di's face first changed from great joy, then his gaze began to become deep, and then his face began to be as cold as frost.

Zhu Di suddenly said coldly: "Xia Qing is here?" ”

Xia Yuanji, the head of the household, also participated in the lecture today, and at this time he couldn't help but stand up and said, "Minister...... In the ......"

Zhu Di's eyes were like electricity, and then fell on Xia Yuanji's body, and said slowly: "Jiangxi Political Envoy, what is the household registration?" ”

"This ......" Xia Yuanji's response began to hesitate.

He had to tremble and say, "Twenty-six years of Hongwu...... The household registration of the Jiangxi political envoy has a total of 890,000 households......"

After a pause, Xia Yuanji continued: "After that, in the thirteenth year of Yongle, it is reported that because a large number of people from Jiangxi moved to Huguang and other places, it ...... There are 730,000 households. ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar.

Zhu Di was furious suddenly: "Since you ...... A few years ago, there were 730,000 households in Jiangxi, but why is it that now the population of the Jiangxi Political Envoy Department alone has 1.13 million households, which is more than the majority of the registered households in Jiangxi? ”

And this problem is the most terrifying.

From the Hongwu period to the present, it has almost gone through two generations, and in the time of two generations, the household registration has not increased, but in Jiangxi, the land of fish and rice, the registered population has been greatly reduced to 730,000 households.

In the past, it can be explained by the migration of Jiangxi people to Huguang, but in fact, it cannot be explained, how many people migrated?

Of course, in fact, during the Yongle period, the population of Jiangxi's political envoys declined, which was quite light.

What's even more ridiculous is that in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi has experienced a hundred years of development, and the entire Jiangxi is almost in the peaceful season, and in the sixth year of Wanli, the population of Jiangxi's political envoys is actually registered with only 580,000 households!

After ten generations, and there were hardly any major natural disasters, no wars, no large-scale plagues, the population plummeted by nearly half in more than a hundred years.

And this so-called registered population, in fact, is essentially a taxpayer population for the imperial court.

No one thought that a report of the emperor's grandson's account, in the blink of an eye, would reveal a terrible fact!

(End of chapter)