Hearing Princess Xingnan sigh so emotionally, Shen Zhezi knew that this little girl should not know which gossip she heard again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As his family's stalls spread out in the capital, the deeper the entanglement with the interests of each family, so the ladies of the noble families in the capital are also very welcoming to Princess Xingnan, and they often have contacts. When it comes to the overflow of guests, this girl is as good as Shen Zhezi.

The topics that the women gathered together to talk about were nothing more than food, clothing, daily life, and trivial matters. She has been in a lot of contacts, and this girl knows everything about the situation in the capital and what has happened recently.

"Today, Princess Zhangwu came to Yunyang again and pestered me for most of the day, this is the third time she has come to my house this month, and what she said is nothing more than that. Her family is becoming more and more embarrassed to make a living, and it will not be able to sustain itself, and the children of the family are arguing endlessly because of several garden villas in the suburbs of Beijing, and they are almost in trouble to the point of drawing knives. Earlier, the Marquis of Yuxiang of her family invaded the fields and occupied the village in Yanling, and was participated by the Taichen, and was almost imprisoned by the court captain. ”

After hearing a lot of things, the little girl was not used to talking about right and wrong in front of people, and whenever she had time to be alone, she would tell Shen Zhezi: "King Zhangwu is also a relative of my family, and he is also the title of the prince." Shen Zhezi, is it really so high that the princely family can't live? ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he sneered: "His family, men, women, and children all have knighthoods, and there are many industries in addition to the rank of knights. This princess is lying to you, if even his family can't survive, then what will the small people's family look like, I'm afraid that they will starve all over the world. ”

When Princess Xingnan heard this, she smiled and nodded: "I also think it should be the case, this woman came to my house to sobble for a long time, but her eyes looked around, sent a few horses of silk, but prepared a few carts to load the gift. Inviting pity in front of me is nothing more than hoping that my family will take care of more. Ha, if I change to someone else, I won't account too much, but this woman's tongue is annoying, and she talks more about my family's inferiority in front of others, and when she turns her head, she doesn't know that she doesn't know it, so I won't give her family too many benefits! ”

Shen Zhezi couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, as he gained experience in dealing with people, this little girl was no longer as eager for recognition as she was at the beginning, and she gradually had a difference between relatives and aliens in her heart, and she no longer treated everyone equally. Especially for those poor relatives in the clan who are accustomed to fighting the autumn wind, they will no longer ask for it.

These clans are so poor that they can't open the pot, and it's impossible, but life is definitely not as comfortable as before. Especially in the past few years, after Yu Liang monopolized the power, he intensified the crackdown on the kings of the sect, and the kings who had been appointed were all transferred to their positions, and the most important thing was to rule that the rank of the prince of the country was one nine-cent tax, which was tantamount to directly cutting the most important income of these kings' families in half.

This is simply unbearable for those who are accustomed to extravagance, but now their influence is not comparable to that of the Chinese dynasty. Even if they are dissatisfied, they have no choice but to seek other ways to make money to support their huge expenses. For example, the king of Xiyang has almost invested his entire net worth into the hidden lord, while the king of Nanton has recruited wealthy families from poor families to collect wealth for his protégés.

As for the kings of the sect who have a weaker sense of existence, such as King Zhangwu and King Pengcheng, they are indeed worse than ordinary overseas Chinese families now. If you don't have so much money and goods, and you have to maintain a decent luxury, you can only fight the autumn breeze everywhere. A wealthy family like the Shen family with relatives is naturally their first choice.

For these poor relatives, Shen Zhezi really has no sympathy at all. Not to mention that their current misery is the sin of their ancestors, they themselves are doomed to poverty.

In the past two years, Shen Zhezi also had the mentality of waste utilization to bring up these sect kings, and asked them to help do some things that they did not come forward to do, but without exception, they all did a mess, which can be described as extremely clumsy, and they didn't know how to do it mellow and decent, and their appearance was too ugly.

Over time, Shen Zhezi also completely abandoned these sect kings, drew a line with them, and no longer interacted. Even if he wants to plan any major things in the future, he needs to get the political support and response of the clan, and it is definitely not something that the current group of sect kings can do. For example, the king of the East China Sea, the king of Langya, and other close relatives of the imperial family have gradually grown up, and they can still maintain a good relationship.

"If you think that Princess Zhang Wu is too annoying, there will be less contact in the future."

Shen Zhezi held the little girl Bai Nen and said with a smile, in the past, his family didn't have to care about the attitude of these sect kings, but now he can completely ignore it, and he really doesn't need to bend to receive it anymore.

The little girl arched into Shen Zhezi's arms again, her demeanor was more lazy, her starry eyes were blurred, her delicate posture was a little concave and convex, and she was full of fragrance, which made Shen Zhezi's heart throb slightly, and she couldn't help but sit upright, which was also very qualitative.

"I like to see this woman say something inconsistent in front of me, she talks a lot about how my southerners are in front of others, but in front of me, she has to be flattering, and her appearance is gimmicky."

After living together day and night for a long time, the little girl learned Shen Zhezi's occasional evil taste, she tilted her face sideways, and held Shen Zhezi's chin in both hands: "I know that my husband is handsome and elegant, and he is talented in the world, but he will be happier when he hears it from others." ”

Seeing that there was no lack of faint admiration in the little girl's expression, Shen Zhezi suddenly felt arrogant, hugged the princess's delicate body in his arms with both hands, and asked with a smile: "My lady has a lot of praise today, could it be that she has honey on her mouth?" ”

When the princess heard this, she giggled and said, "It's a lot, do you want to taste it?" As he spoke, his pink mouth pursed slightly.

When Shen Zhezi saw this girl's state, he couldn't bear it anymore, pressed the girl's fragrant shoulders with both hands, and leaned over to kiss the wolf.

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Under the scorching sun, many boats and boats are crowded here on the waterway that is not open, waiting for the water dam to open the gate and discharge the water to continue navigation.

Only in this ancient society, where conditions were rudimentary, could we feel the constraints of transportation conditions on the vitality of society as a whole. Shen Zhezi stood on the ox cart on the shore, looking at the boats full of goods parked on the waterway and wasting time, and his heart was particularly touched.

From the east of Qu'a Yunyang, there are continuous hillsides and hills, and the terrain is extremely undulating. It was a huge cost to dig a canal and maintain it on such terrain. Therefore, although the whole Pogang and Dushui waterway is not long, it is a ladder-like segmented layout, which cannot be consistent.

When the boat reaches the bottom of the ladder, the water dam opens the gate and discharges the water, and the water level of the river slowly rises, but it still cannot completely reach the same level, and can only catch up with the bottom of the upper section of the river. If the boat goes straight up, it will quickly sink into the silt at the bottom of the river, and it will need to be towed on both sides of the river. Not only the loss of manpower is great, but also the wear and tear of the boat.

Although Shen Zhezi did not coordinate his efforts to carry out a thorough repair of Pogangdu, as his family's industries in Qu'a and Jurong increased, a series of changes were made in response to the harsh water transportation conditions.

Now there are boats on each of the two sections of the Pogangdu River, and the boats are no longer directly towed, and the boats are unloaded and reloaded onto the opposite boats after that. In this way, although the loading and unloading process is increased, the consignment work is saved and the wear and tear of the vessel is reduced.

In order to facilitate loading and unloading, the goods transported are loaded in small wooden containers, and there are overhead pulley nooses on the shore to pull and lift these two-foot wooden containers. If it is a commodity that is afraid of water and tide, it is transferred to the shore and dragged to a high slope by an ox-drawn cart and then loaded. If the goods are not afraid of water, then tie an inflatable sheepskin bag directly to the bottom of the container to increase buoyancy and drag it directly over the water.

After this series of changes, the efficiency of Pogang Gang Shipping has increased several times, and the daily traffic of goods has greatly increased.

On the other hand, it is hard work, while Yunyang opened a waterway, Shen Zhezi also led the craftsmen and men to dig the water of Taihu Lake, and built a navigation dai in the west as a supplement to the original water dai. In this way, the navigation period can be extended by about two months per year.

This is also due to the reform and upgrading of the local industry in the left and near the past, which no longer focuses on paddy field cultivation and turns to planting a large number of cash crops. In this way, the phenomenon of digging ditches privately to divide the water of the canal as irrigation was gradually eliminated, so that a large amount of water consumption of the canal was avoided.

Of course, Shen Zhezi did not do this without rewards, Pogang is a government-run waterway, and the navigation period was short in the past, so it is generally absolutely forbidden for civilian ships to navigate. The Shen family repaired the waterway at their own expense, making the water transportation here more convenient, and while Taichung benefited, Shen Zhezi also made a lot of connections and requested priority navigation rights for his family.

Basically, after the transportation of money and grain taxes is completed every year, the remaining transportation volume is basically chartered by the Shen family. And even if it is Taiwanese-funded tax-paid transportation, it is basically done by the Shen family's fleet. The scale of tax-inclusive transportation is now getting bigger and bigger, and it is no longer limited to Wuxing and Huiji, such as Linhai, Yongjia and even Jin'an in the distance, and with the unremitting efforts of his father Shen Chong, they have also been handed over to the Shen family for chartering.

This mode of transportation is more convenient for the local government and can also save consumption on the way. As for the transportation losses saved, part of it was the Shen family's profits, and the other part went into the pockets of officials at all levels in the county. For this alone, the annual gross profit is hundreds of millions of dollars!

Of course, the actual net profit cannot be so high, after all, the Shen family transportation also has to bear a huge cost. Moreover, today's taxes are not limited to money and grain, and miscellaneous goods from various places are also included in the transportation, so it is not easy to realize it. The imperial court collected these taxes, and a large part of them were piled up in the treasury and difficult to use.

But the Shen family is different, there are such huge sales channels as Shangmeng and Yinjue, even if they donate dog shit from all over the country, they can be sold as fertilizer in Jingkou.

Taichung is actually very unhappy with the Shen family's control of the entire southeast tax, and if the Shen family's operation is suddenly blocked, the entire Duzhong and large officials will have to do volunteer work for the first half of the year. Therefore, since last year, there have been 20 or 30 prohibitions on the taxation of Taiwan capital and the prohibition of private charter transportation, and the wording has become more and more stringent.

But it's still that sentence, the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, the central opposition is opposition, and the place is still the same. Even if there are honest officials who do not eat the fireworks of the world to take up their posts in the local area, they will not be able to organize manpower to transport and pay taxes, even if they are barely transported, just in the many stalls along the waterways, if this tax is to be transported to Jiankang, I don't know how many years will pass.

It is a foregone conclusion that the Shen family will control the taxation of Taiwanese capital in the southeast, and unless the center ruthlessly wants to eradicate the Shen family, it will not be able to change this fact. But if you really want to do this, you have to take into account the powerful counterattack that comes with the Shang Alliance and the Hidden Lord!