Located in Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River, this emerging city has surpassed Beijing and Nanjing, becoming the largest city in the East, Shanghai Zhixian Yao Tingxuan (the word is pure) is also rising, in Shanghai Yamen does not need to move the territory, from the seventh grade of the county, all the way to the sixth grade of the prefecture, the fifth grade of the prefecture, the fourth grade of the prefect, and now it has become the prefect of the third grade, and the Shuntianfu, Yingtianfu these high-level prefects of the same grade!

Nanjing, which was originally renamed Jiangning Mansion by the Qing court, has now been changed back to the name of Nanjing, and the original Jiangning Mansion Yamen has changed its brand and become Yingtianfu Yamen. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Shuntianfu is still in the hands of the Qing court, and after the recovery of Beijing in the future, Wang Xinyu plans to raise the prefects of Shuntianfu, Yingtianfu and Shanghai Mansion again, and become the first grade and the governor of the second grade, or even from the first rank!

Located in the old city of Shanghai near the City God Temple in Shanghai, the Shanghai prefect's yamen is located in the old city, and the prefect Yao Tingxuan is sitting in the living room of the prefect's yamen, and is entertaining a group of Jiangnan celebrities such as Huang Zongxi, Qi Bansun, Gu Yanwu and Fang Yizhi.

"Yao Fu Yin is really gratifying! Four years ago, it was still a seven-pin county order, and today it has been promoted to a three-pin prefect! Qi Bansun arched his hand.

Huang Zongxi laughed: "It's still as pure as my brother's vision!" Four years ago, the prince invited you to be the same governor of Jiaxing, and would rather be the county of Qipinzhi in Shanghai. Back then, many people laughed at the stupidity of the pure brother, but now it seems that the pure brother is the real prophet! ”

In just four years, he was promoted from a seven-grade county order to a third-grade high-ranking official, and the speed of this promotion was indeed a rocket, Yao Tingxuan was upgraded on the spot, and he was promoted all the way without even moving the yamen, which is indeed enviable. However, this Yao Tingxuan is actually a capable person, he was born in the first year of Chongzhen, and he lost his father when Chongzhen was fourteen years old. This person is very talented, but he has never achieved fame, and this person dares to tell the truth.

In real history, when Fan Chengxun, the third son of Fan Wencheng, became the governor of Liangjiang, the son of Fan Da traitor was actually advertised by Kangxi and historians as a good official who was honest and honest, but in the book written by Yao Tingxuan, Fan Chengxun's various bad deeds were truly recorded. The customs officer specially prepared a luxury cruise ship from Suzhou to Shanghai, put wine on the ship, acted and drank, and the gift money also cost 500 taels. To be the governor of the two provinces, the subordinates gave gifts, and they all received them all, and they were extremely greedy. After claiming to be Wen Zhenggong, he didn't expect that the descendants of Wen Zhenggong would be unscrupulous.

Yao Tingxuan is extremely talented, because he is the grandson of Yao Yongji, the political envoy of Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty, and served as a county official for a period of time in the Qing Dynasty, plus he is proficient in medicine, when Wang Xinyu captured Zhejiang, he urgently needed to employ people, so Huang Zongxi and others recommended this person.

Although Yao Tingxuan did not gain fame, in the eyes of Huang Zongxi and other Jiangnan scholars, Yao Tingxuan was unwilling to take the fame of the Qing court and the puppet dynasty, so he recommended this person.

This Yao Tingxuan is indeed a capable person, since serving as the county governor of Shanghai, the urban construction work has been very good, in these four years, there are luxurious buildings on the Shanghai Tang, from the Suzhou Creek to the south, along the Huangpu River paved a cement road, called the Bund. To the north of Suzhou Creek, along the Huangpu River, a large number of wharves and warehouses were built, and various factories sprung up in Shanghai.

Yao Tingxuan devoted himself to the construction of urban planning, and he also personally participated in the design of the blueprint for the future development of Shanghai, planning industrial areas, commercial areas, residential areas, dock areas, etc., and the upcoming Beijing-Shanghai railway (Nanjing to Shanghai) is also being planned, and a railway from Zhabei District to Wusongkou is currently being built.

The railway from Zhabei District to Wusongkou connects residential areas, industrial areas and wharves north of Suzhou Creek. The railway can handle passenger transport, and people who go to work from residential areas can take the railcar to the industrial area and the dock to work; The goods produced in the industrial zone can also be transported to the docks by the railcars running on this railway, loaded onto ships and transported to the South Seas for transshipment to Europe, or across the ocean to the Americas.

At that time, the land was concentrated in the hands of the landlords and gentry, and land acquisition was required to build urban areas, factories, railways, docks and warehouses, and urban construction to develop.

The farmland near Shanghai Tang is not suitable for planting the most profitable mulberry fields, cotton fields and tea forests, because it is located in a low-lying area of water network, and it is a large rice field.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, the Jiangnan region has very little rice, and the local income is mainly based on mulberry fields and tea forests, because from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the peasants pay taxes and pay silver, and the landlords collect rents are also cashiers, and the land is fertile in Zhejiang, and the agricultural tax is naturally relatively high. Since the tax collection has been replaced by the collection of cash, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to grow high-profit crops such as mulberry leaves and tea than to grow rice?

Therefore, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the truly wealthy gentry in Zhejiang relied on the income of silk and tea, and the granary of the world was also transferred from Jiangnan to Huguang.

The low-lying Shanghai Tang is not suitable for growing cash crops, so the locals still mainly grow rice. In fact, in those days, the Jiangnan landlords who relied on rice cultivation were not so rich. The area around Shanghai is densely populated, and the per capita land area is not much, and many small landlords have 20 acres of land at home, and the real big landlords are in Jiaxing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places. The vicinity of Shanghai Tang is dominated by small landowners. Twenty acres of land are rented to peasants, and each mu of land is harvested for about three stones a year, and when sold to grain merchants, it is the most three taels of silver.

The peasants pay half of the land rent, that is, they pay one or two halves of silver.

The landlord who owns 20 acres of rice fields earns only 30 taels of silver a year from the rent of his family. In addition, these small landlords were all people with no merit and reputation, and they had to pay a tax of two taels of silver, leaving only twenty-eight taels. The annual income of these twenty-eight taels of silver is only a little higher than that of an ordinary soldier of the Qiongzhou Army, and it is not as good as the income of a small officer.

Fortunately, there are abundant fish and shrimp resources in the river network area of Shanghai, so that the small landowners can barely make ends meet. If there is a disaster year, it is really that the landlord's family has no surplus food.

And the big landlords and gentry who have a way, they will not stay here to guard the rice fields without much income, but a large number of mulberry fields and tea forests, and they have merit and fame, and they can be tax-exempt!

In addition, after the Qing army came to Jiangnan, many gentry in Jiangnan were killed, and a large amount of land fell into the hands of the banner people. After the Ming army recovered Jiangnan, they drove out the banner people, and a lot of farmland was allocated to farmers, so the price of fields in Jiangnan fell from 20 taels of silver per mu in the late Ming Dynasty to 5 taels of silver now.

It is precisely because of the fall in the price of rice fields that this has also created a good opportunity for Yao Ting to acquire land to build the city.