It is still far from Nanjing, but the shore is brightly lit, the ships are constantly coming and going, and there are many ships docked on the dock, so we found a place to stop, everyone took out the prepared civilian clothes and changed into them, and all the people were divided into two shifts, taking turns to get off the ship and rest, ensuring that there were people guarding the boat full of silver at all times. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Xin took a few and half of the tiger ben disguised as merchants from the north, so he found the largest inn nearby, and chartered a courtyard to stay temporarily.

It's not far from here to the pier, and you can see your boat through the shadowy trees.

There are hundreds of thousands of garrisons on the territory of Nanzhili, although most of them are officers and soldiers of the guard post who are useless, but they only have more than 300 people, and many ants can bite the elephant to death, and if they don't understand the rules, Chen Xin really doesn't dare to enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty rashly.

Everyone was tired from sailing on the sea, so they ate something casually that day and rested.

Because he didn't know the customs of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xin didn't dare to casually find someone who didn't know the details as a guide, so he decided to take a look first.

After getting up the next day, Chen Xin had breakfast with everyone after exercising, and then arranged for a few people to inquire about the situation.

Chen Xin stayed in the inn to process some papers, and when it was noon, he was ready to go out for a walk. didn't bring too many people, so he followed Kan Shu and Han Da.

Yesterday the sky was dark, Chen Xin did not pay attention to it, today I went out and found that the inn is very elegantly arranged, the inn is surrounded by bamboo, flower beds are staggered, and the tree-lined path looms.

Slowly went around the side door to the front along the path, and saw that the inn was built next to the official road, and there was an endless stream of convoys on the road, where the smoke and dust were filled, Chen Xin turned his head to both sides.

This turn, I found that the inn I lived in was also a restaurant, the doors and windows were half rolled with bamboo curtains, and the inside of the restaurant was also very clean, and people came in and out from time to time, which was very lively.

Kan Shu and Han Da are both from Liaodong, and they have not seen such a peaceful scene for a long time since they have seen such a peaceful scene in the past ten years, and they can't help but praise it.

At this moment, there was a burst of words from the side, "This brother is from the Northland, right?" ”

Although it is a question sentence, it has an affirmative tone.

Chen Xin turned his head to look and found a tall young man dressed as a scholar shaking a folding fan to look at him.

When Chen Xin turned his head, the man gave a salute and said, "I saw Brother Tai Yu Xuan Ang just now, but I disturbed Brother Tai Yaxing." ”

Chen Xin said curiously, "Brother Tai is polite, under the surname Chen, the word Hongxuan, dare to ask Brother Tai what to call it, how do you know that I am from the North?" ”

Chen Xinlai Daming realm, because of the fear of the legendary Jinyiwei, so it is not good to say the name directly, the elders and good people in this era can call their names, and people who are not familiar with them are called words or numbers, so they took a Hongxuan word by themselves.

The man folded the fan in his hand and received it, "The surname is Song, the word is fragrant, as for how to see that Brother Tai is from the North, hehe, my Jiangnan territory is full of prosperous scenes, the people do not get tired of eating, they are not tired of being fine, and they are gorgeously dressed, it is the norm, Brother Tai's subordinates are so curious about a small shop on the outskirts of the district, and they don't ask whether they come from the war-torn places in the North regularly. ”

Kan Shu felt that this sounded a little harsh, but seeing that Chen Xin didn't react, he held back, and just secretly touched the handcuff hidden under the hem of his clothes.

Chen Xin smiled and nodded, "Brother Song's eyesight is good, we are all from Liaodi, and we have never seen such a quiet and peaceful scene, but it makes Brother Zixiang smile." ”

"I have also been to the border of the Northland, I have seen the dilapidated scene of my homeland, and I know that the border area is different from Jiangnan, and I have no other intentions, Brother Chen is not to blame."

"Naturally not, Brother Song is straightforward and open-minded. I have lived in the north for a long time, and I came to Jiangnan for the first time, and it is fate to meet today, and it is just noon, how about inviting Brother Song to have a drink in this store? ”

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate."

Chen Xin had never been to Jiangnan, so he asked Song Zixiang to order, and the store quickly brought desserts first, and the portions were not much, all of them were served in small plates, which were very exquisite.

Chen Xin asked, "Brother Song, this is the first time I came to Jiangnan, please give me a lot of advice, just now I saw an endless stream of vehicles and boats outside, why is it so prosperous here?" ”

"Brother Chen came for the first time, he didn't know much about Jiangnan, and he was not the most prosperous place in front of him, and it was far from the prosperous place.

Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou these places, each city now has a population of more than one million, take the nearest Nanjing as an example, since the time of Taizu has been very prosperous, to now, there are many small bazaars can not be counted, there are dozens of large bazaars alone.

Merchants from the south gathered, and the capital of the world's businessmen, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Jinling accounted for as much as seventy percent of the world, and even the Beijing division was far behind.

Under this convenience, almost every household in the south of the Yangtze River is prevalent in raising silkworms and weaving, compared with commerce, the benefits of land are already very meager, so the gentry in the south are not willing to annex the land, but set up various workshops, large workshops around the country, and the number of workers can reach thousands, how can it not be prosperous. ”

Chen Xin was very shocked when he heard this, he got some workshops in North Korea, adding up to more than 2,000 employees, he thought that it was already a big deal in this era, but he didn't expect that in the southern boundary of the Ming Dynasty, a large workshop could have thousands of people.

I used to sit in a well and watch the sky, but I didn't expect that I, a "modern person", would lose to these "ancients" in terms of knowledge.

But thinking of the tragedy in Jiangnan in the future in history, Chen Xin had an indescribable feeling, as if he sighed, seemed to be happy, seemed to be sad, very complicated, and could not be described in words.

The two chatted for a while, Chen Xin was also very interested in the commercial tax of this era, and his own knife was the hardest in the north of Korea, so no one talked about collecting taxes. There is still a war in the south, and there is no need to pay taxes, and the Tsushima Domain of the Wa Kingdom is also a prince, and there is no need to pay taxes.

After chatting for a while, after a few glasses of wine, Song Zixiang and Chen Xin commensurate each other with the words, Song Zixiang also operates some business at home, which is very clear about these, and carefully explained "According to the rules of the imperial court, the shipment of bulk goods must go through the tooth shop, as well as the sale and purchase and payment of commercial tax, all of which are done by the tooth shop."

This tooth shop is also divided into official teeth and private teeth, the official teeth are mostly the relatives of officials, and the private teeth are spent money to buy dental stickers, help merchants buy and sell, and collect commissions from them, and then calculate the commercial tax according to the goods and report to the government for inspection. There are a lot of joints here, Hongxuan, you are also a businessman, and the joints here should be understood. ”

Chen Xin nodded and said that it was clear, and later generations would know that the small amount of commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty was simply scary, but now it seems that the taxes were not collected, but the silver did not reach the hands of the central government.

The silver must have entered the pockets of officials at all levels, that is to say, there is a lot of room for maneuver, whether to collect or not, to collect more and to collect less, all have his own set of rules, and now the relationship with Song Zixiang is not in place, it is already interesting for him to hint at some things, and the specific details are not easy to ask now, so Chen Xin changed the topic and asked about other things.