The more prosperous the place, the more developed the service industry and entertainment industry will be. Walking in Yangzhou City, the streets and alleys are full of teahouses and taverns.

This is the third day of coming to Yangzhou, Gao Yiming and others are walking around the city these days, whether it is a shop or a wharf, he has gone, and has communicated with many foreign businessmen in Yangzhou, with the prosperity of maritime trade, he feels that it is necessary to introduce a law to regulate this transnational trade.

After staying in the city for a few days, Gao Yiming also went to the nearby villages and towns to take a turn, and the overall situation was still good, the city economy was prosperous, and the people in the villages and towns lived and worked in peace and contentment.

After a few more days, several people sailed south.

On this day, when the ship sailed to the vicinity of Hangzhou, the water surface was filled with boats escorted by officers and soldiers, and it was noisy, as if it had collided with the ship.

"Which Yamen's ship is this?" Gao Yiming asked Shi Kefa beside him.

"Looking at their dress, it seems to be the ship of the salt transportation yamen, since the salt returned to the imperial court, the 100,000 horses of that year have been allocated to the salt administration, in order to protect the safety of salt transportation, and to inspect illegal salt."

Gao Yiming nodded, he naturally knew this, but now the group of people in front of him, although they were wearing official clothes on the salt transport, but the boat they drove was not a regulated official ship, I don't know what the situation was, and there was no flag on the ship.

"Zhao San'er, haven't you dealt with it for so long?"

"General Hui, this time we have encountered a thorn in the head, or we should lean to the side first, let the boat behind pass first, so as not to block the river, and I see a lot of official boats on the water."

"What are you afraid of, what official can manage us, you kid is less verbose, hurry up and deal with it for me." The person who was called the general was obviously drunk, and he had to pause for a long time to speak, when a few women from the Qinglou with heavy makeup came out of the cabin.

"General, our wine order is not over yet, come quickly."

"Okay-good-" The one who was replaced as a general laughed, and walked into the cabin with a beautiful woman in his arms, and said as he walked: "You have to take off your clothes if you lose, and you can drink well if you lose."

Shi Kefa's face twitched when he saw this scene, he had formulated strict military regulations back then, and with this person's style, he was rewarded with fifty military sticks and fired.

Shi Kefa looked up at Gao Yiming, and didn't see any change on his face.

"Lean in and see what's going on up ahead." Gao Yiming said suddenly.

Their ship was relatively small, and when they leaned forward, they saw a big cargo ship on the side, and there was a person standing on the bow of the ship, who was obviously the owner of a shipload of goods, Gao Yiming hugged his fists at him and said, "This shopkeeper is invited."

The other party looked at him politely, and also gave him a salute.

"I don't know what's going on in front of this, you came early, I don't know if it's clear."

"You don't often run boats, there are a lot of things like this, there are land snakes on land, and there are bullies on this water, and these people in the salt transportation are a wave."

"Oh? Listen to you, it's not a wave. ”

"Of course, the states and counties close to the canal, who don't want to make some money on it."

"Oh—I don't know what's going on right in front of you."

"These people on the salt transport smuggled cargo ships were too fast, and they collided with other ships, who knew that the other party was also stubborn, and the two sides were deadlocked, and there were many such things."

"How much? Doesn't the government take care of it along the way? ”

"I can't control it, it's all under the jurisdiction of the salt administration when I get on the boat, and the local government can't intervene, at most I will just charge some tolls."

"Tolls still have to be paid? Didn't the imperial court make repeated orders and pay only one kind of tax in the whole world? ”

"That's in Nanjing, this place is far away from the emperor, who can manage it, besides, when the policy of the imperial court reaches the locality, it is not the government that has the final say."

Gao Yiming nodded: "Taught."

The blockage lasted for two hours, and the blocked ships on the water could not be seen at a glance, and the errand officers who patrolled the river came and went several times, but they were never resolved.

"General! ——”

"What are you calling here?"

"The other party now agrees to give fifty taels of silver in compensation, and asks if it is possible."

"This little money is not enough for the brothers to rub together, tell each other, there is no one thousand taels, this matter is not over."

"General, the local government has sent people, and they think that fifty taels is a lot, which is enough to compensate us for our losses."

"You also said it, that's because they think that fifty taels is enough for our ship to be damaged, and the collision of the ship also frightened the beauties on the ship, so we have to lose it, let's go, just say what I said, there is no one thousand taels, everyone will spend the night here, as for the local government, don't pay attention to it, they can't control us."

"Hurry up—"

"It's just a little rubbing the boat, fifty taels is a lot."

On the river, there were people shouting from impatient merchant ships that were blocked.

"What are you yelling about! Either you will accompany me in my loss, or you will close my beak. The general's words drew a lot of shouting, but he ignored them and went back to the cabin to spend a lot of wine.