After the Jinghu Fort discussion, Song Jiaxuan first went to the town for a while, met his former boss Zhang Guowei, and got a satisfactory answer and hints. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 A few days later, under the introduction of Chen Enzhong, the garrison of Yanqing Prefecture, he met Guo Shitong, the grain manager of the East Road.

Although Guo Shitong's official position is small, he is a civil official, in charge of all matters related to food and salary on the East Road, and he has great power, not to mention, his backstage is Chen Xinjia, the governor of Xuanda. In the past, for him, martial artists like Song Jiaxuan didn't pay much attention to it.

Chen Enzhong took refuge earlier, so Guo Shitong reluctantly accepted him. For the sake of Chen Enzhong's face, Guo Shitong met with Song Jiaxuan, the garrison of Jinghu Fort.

Although Song Jiaxuan looks fierce and vicious, in front of Guo Shitong, he is not as domineering as Wang Dou", according to the unspoken rules of the noble and the lowly, respectfully kowtow to Guo Shitong. Guo Shitong nodded secretly: "Although this Song Jiaxuan is a vulgar martial artist, he also knows the rules, unlike that Wang Dou."

After kowtowing, Song Jiaxuan got up from his head, and desperately squeezed out a smile on his face: "I heard that adults are elegant and love calligraphy and painting. Xiaguan is a martial artist, and the hand-copied scrolls of such saints fall into their hands, which is really a tyrannical thing, and it is better to be collected by adults. ”

Then he said in a low voice: "In addition, there are some yellow essence and white wax things, which will be presented to the adults together." ”

Guo Shitong couldn't help but be overjoyed, the handwritten scroll of Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty, this is a rare thing, and those yellow essence and white wax are actually hidden words, yellow essence is gold, and white wax is silver. In order to facilitate bribery, these hidden words often change back and forth, and they used to be called "yellow rice" and "white rice", and now they are commonly called "yellow essence" and "white ash".

Guo Shitong's expression was more gentle, and he coughed: "You have a heart." ”

He rewarded Song Jiaxuan with a chair, and Song Jiaxuan sat on half of his buttocks respectfully, and the same was true of Chen Enzhong opposite.

Looking at the two, Guo Shitong stroked his beard and nodded slightly, in the past, he didn't pay attention to these martial artists, he controlled the salary, and the backstage was Chen Xinjia, the governor of Xuanda, who spoke to him was a kind of unacceptable taste, and those generals had to be respectful to him.

But with the arrival of Wang Dou, this person is domineering, and he has a lightning speed in handling things, which makes people unable to react at once.

Ma Zailei, the old fox, seemed to have the intention of standing in the same boat as Wang Dou. There are these two people on the East Road, how can they have their own voice in the future? Wang Dou is getting more and more nose on his nose and face, how can Guo Shitong bear it?

Before the rainy day, I need to win over a group of people.

"My lord, that Wang Dou is very fierce, and as soon as he arrived on the East Road, he made a series of moves, Tuntian, and suppressed bandits. The lower officials came from Yanqing, and the people everywhere only knew that there was a general of Dingguo, but they did not know that there was a court. Wang Dou invited people to buy people's hearts like this, this thought, hehe, Guo Shitong said in the shade beside him.

Guo Shitong's face became even more ugly, and he snorted: "The East Road is the East Road of the Imperial Court, not a certain martial artist." With this official here, he will never allow the disaster of Tang Ji Domain to be repeated under his rule.

Song Jiaxuan and Chen Enzhong hurriedly stood up: "The lower officials and others are loyal to the country. ”

Guo Shitong asked the two to sit down: "You wait to be careful and diligent, this official is in the eyes, sit, sit." ”

The more respectful the two became, the more Guo Shitong remembered Wang Dou's arrogance and rudeness to him, and he was full of jealousy for his easy prestige, and this jealousy became stronger and stronger. How good it would be if the people's approval of Wang Dou fell on their heads.

He said slowly: "The ancestral system of civil and military division of labor, the division of staff and generals is not to repair the local city, drill the men and horses, and the military equipment and the official govern the civil affairs of Tuntian, so as to avoid the worries of hunger and cold for the sergeants. What is the purpose of Wang Douyue's cooking? Wang Douzhi was bold and reckless, but Bingxian didn't ask. ”

Guo Shitong's dissatisfaction with the soldiers in Ma Guobao couldn't be concealed, but Song Jiaxuan and Chen Enzhong didn't dare to talk about this topic.

Chen Enzhong complained: "General Dingguo set up a new tunbao, and the lower officials and others were in favor of it, but the original military households in each city coveted the benefits of the new fort and fled one after another. They entered the new castle, and the lower officials and others did not dare to pursue them. ...... This is a mistake for the collection of summer taxes and autumn grains in the fort, this Guo Shitong's face is even more ugly, he is responsible for the collection of grain and grain taxes in the states and counties of the East Road, because the old military households fled, the taxes of the cities are small, and most of this account is counted on his head. The Ming Dynasty became more and more strict with civil officials, unable to complete the collection of taxes, and was seized of office at every turn.

For this official position, Guo Shitong spent a lot of money and energy, and if he was taken away from the official position because of this, he would have Wang Dou's heart.

Song Jiaxuan suddenly said on the side: "The lower officials heard that General Dingguo intends to levy commercial taxes, regardless of Baoan Prefecture or all over the East Road. ”,

Hearing this, Guo Shitong stood up suddenly: "Ridiculous, this is a move to compete with the people." ”

He said: "When the emperor was present, there was a disaster of commercial tax and mining tax, and the mining tax flourished, and the people were unemployed. The people have no day and night, the world is in chaos, and Wang Dou has never heard of the car accident before? ”

He said sharply: "This official and the military constitution have not yet discussed and obeyed, what authority does he have to collect taxes?" This tiger and wolf's heart, can you want to control the country in the country? ”

"If Wang Dou dares to follow the actions pointed out by this ten thousand people, this official will definitely impeach him!"

Looking at his indignant appearance, Song Jiaxuan and Chen Enzhong knew it in their hearts, after Guo Shitong and Erpei Mushroom were sentenced to manage grain, the children of his clan flocked to buy land and land, set up shops, grain and oil stores, cloth, salt shops, etc., and opened more than a dozen.

If the king collects taxes, isn't he going to take food from his mouth? How can Guo Shitong endure this?

Song Jiaxuan is in charge of the border castle, and he is even more clear. The children of the Guo family, if they are not involved in smuggling outside the village, then there are ghosts. Wang Dou intends to rectify the army and prohibit private trade, which has made Guo Shitong extremely taboo.

In fact, whether to levy commercial taxes, Wang Dou's general's office has not yet decided, although Wang Dou has this meaning, but the time has not yet come, and he plans to slow down, and talk about it in a year or two. But I don't know why, suddenly this wind came, and it spread quickly in the cities of the East Road.

For Song Jiaxuan and others, this news is like a long time ago, whether it is true or not, Wang Dou will fall into a great crisis, and he will offend most of the merchants, scholars, and warriors on the East Road. Under the tide of opposition, it is really difficult to say whether he can sit firmly on the East Road in the future.

In this way, Wang Dou can't take care of governing the army and prohibits private trade, and Song Jiaxuan and others can rest assured of wealth, eat empty salaries, and drink the fastest blood of soldiers.

The three of them talked in the house for a long time, and Song Jiaxuan and Chen Enzhong were satisfied, and the two looked at each other and sneered.

Yanqing Prefecture was built in the 11th year of Yongle, covered with bricks in the second year of Jingtai, and expanded in the 7th year of Wanli. Like Baoan Prefecture, it is where two Minzhou are located in the territory of East Road, and most of the people living in them are households.

Yanqing Prefecture has a state governance and garrison official hall, and there is a Guanshan Academy in it, which is set up for Confucianism. The state city sits on the land of Pingchuan, the north and south are mountains and rivers, the east and west are flat and fertile soil, and the main road between the town and the capital division is more traffic, and it is the place where the residents reproduce, and the people are recruited here to guard the town during the Yongning period.

There are several streets in the city, all of which have square tables, and at this time, in the mansion of an alley in Cheng'en Fang, many merchants gathered. The mansion is luxurious, the hall is spacious and magnificent, and the merchants in it are all dressed in brocade robes, showing the atmosphere of wealth and nobility.

They sat and laughed slowly, and in a few simple conversations, sometimes a transaction of goods worth tens of thousands of taels was reached.

Most of the merchants here are grain merchants and salt merchants, and some of them are also engaged in medicine cloth fur, pawnshops, hotels, money industry, tea industry, warehouse and other affairs, all of them are worth a huge amount of money, and they are full of wealth and nobility when they raise their hands.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, in order to solve the problem of food and salary transportation for the border army. The "Law of Opening China" was implemented to encourage merchants to transport grain to the border gates. Since then, the nine-sided grain and salt merchants have flourished, that is, the "opening of the Chinese law" has fallen, but with the dilapidated of the Daming Guard, the nine sides need a large amount of grain, cotton and cloth, and they are also inseparable from these merchants.

It is calculated according to the standard of one stone of sergeant's monthly ration. The three towns of Xuanda alone need more than 2 million stones of grain, hundreds of thousands of horses of cloth, and hundreds of thousands of catties of cotton a year. There is also a large amount of forage for horses, and the amount of miscellaneous goods such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea is also astronomical.

This fed a huge group of merchants, with 100,000 taels of capital dare not praise, one million taels is considered ordinary, especially Jin merchants, Beijing merchants, Hui merchants and so on.

Due to the huge profits, although the people were displaced by natural disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, for many merchants, it did not affect their rich and noble lives. The incense dust is full of words, the jade chips are overflowing, and the boasting and glamour of the businessmen are endless, and they are extremely profligate.

Look at the rows of maids and maids standing around, the exquisite Huanghuali tables and chairs beside them, and the Bangzi Opera Troupe specially invited from Taiyuan next to them. For many poor people, such luxuries could not have been dreamed of.

This is just an ordinary state on the East Road, if you go to Taiyuan everywhere, the owner of this house will be a bun again.

The businessmen were talking to each other, smiling lightly, when a housekeeper wearing a blue silk robe came out and said with a smile: "Everyone, Old Man Zhang has arrived." ”

An old man in his fifties came out with the support of a handmaid, he was half black and half white, tall and majestic, and he was obviously a figure who had lived in the center of money and power for a long time. ,

Seeing him come out, the businessmen present gave up their hands one after another, and even called "Old Man Zhang, Wan'an." ”

I can't help but be disrespectful to the businessmen, this old man Zhang Wanshan is the uncle of Zhang Guowei, the former general of the East Road, Zhang Guowei has been guarding the East Road for many years, and his tentacles are pervasive, all the industries that can make money on the East Road, which one he didn't stretch out his hand? Fields, grain and oil, cloth, cotton, animal husbandry, mines, etc., all have the presence of the Zhang family.

Zhang Wanshan is cunning and ruthless, and he never shows mercy to his rivals, unless he agrees to a series of harsh conditions he proposes. Some of the businessmen present may be foreign strong dragons, but strong dragons do not suppress the head snake, and the Zhang family is the head snake on the East Road. If you want to do business in this area of East Road. Who dares not to listen to the Zhang family's orders?

It was Zhang Guowei who was transferred to Zhencheng, but the influence of the Zhang family is still deeply present on Donglu.

Seeing the businessmen Jia Shili, Zhang Wanshan smiled, made a circle, raised his voice slightly, and said: "Everyone, let the old man come to introduce." ”

He pointed to a middle-aged man beside him who was wearing a silk robe and a hat, and his expression was quite shrewd: "This is Fan Sanba, the eldest son of the Fan family, the big shopkeeper of Fan, you are so close." ”