I am the king of the dead

Yu Qian endured it for so long, and finally said: "Your Majesty, I think Lu Laixuan is wrong. There is nothing wrong with human nature and selfishness, but not everyone is extremely selfish, and some people are willing to go."

Lu Laixuan's dog barking brought everyone to the same moral level as him, which represented that all the scholars in Ming Dynasty had his tone.

If His Majesty is credulous, how can he, the de facto prime minister, persuade Renshu?

The debate between man's nature is good and man's nature is evil has existed since ancient times.

Zhu Qiyu grabbed hold of the railing, and the two-masted flat merchant ship had already pulled anchor and sailed, and it was still stable. He said with a smile: "Yu Shaobao, I understand what you mean, and his mourning will not shake my foundation." Heart, why listen to him barking like a loser?"

"From ancient times to the present, there have been people who are righteous and uncompromising, people who are not respectful, people who uphold integrity, people who are humble, and people who sleep long and sleepy."

"Han Dynasty, the generation has Zhongliang."

This was the libretto in "Emperor Ji's Resentment", and Zhu Qiyu remembered it very clearly.

There are many different types of people in the society, and the society is also very complicated, with thousands of people and different faces, not everyone is the same as people like Lu Laixuan.

If one sees the Confucian family, the three brothers of the Qu family, evil gentry and merchants, corrupt officials, etc., and thinks that the Ming Dynasty should perish, and then draws the fallacy that the people of the Ming Dynasty are so vile, then one is losing one's sense.

After all, even Uncle Sun Zhong, the leader of the rebellion, said that Zhongliang is the backbone that supports the country, not their group of moths lying on the big tree of Daming.

"Your Majesty is wise." A stone in Yu Qian's heart finally fell.

"Your Majesty, where are we going on this trip?" Yu Qian asked suspiciously as he watched the bow of the boat cut through the water.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "When we get to the place, Yu Shaobao will know."

Even though it is already late October, hundreds of boats are still fighting and thousands of sails are sailing on the water of the Yangtze River, and merchant ships are heading for Hukou County on board.

Zhu Qiyu watched the water become turbulent, tightened the cloak on his body and said: "Xu Youzhen went to the Taoist memorial, saying that he can do the dredging of the Yangtze River, but there are some things that he can't do. He said some things in the memorial. Let Lu Zhong investigate it, and it is true."

The water suddenly became turbulent. There was a sandbar on the Yangtze River, which divided the Yangtze River into two, and the speed of the boat suddenly increased a lot.

Zhu Qiyu clenched the railing, pointed to the sandbank in front of him and said, "This is Jiangzhou Town, which divides the river into two, and it was called Sangluo Township in the Western Han Dynasty. "

"After this sandbar, it's where we watch the excitement."

"arrive!"

Zhu Qiyu and his party came to Hukou County.

The Ganjiang River stretches and flows into Poyang Lake, and there is Hukou County at the confluence of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River.

In the battle of Poyang Lake, after Hongdu was besieged by Chen Youliang's army, Zhu Yuanzhang stationed from Nanya to Hukou, then entered Poyang Lake to fight Chen Youliang, and defeated the Han army.

This is a well-known history, Hukou County, just at the intersection of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River.

Because of the sandbars in the water, the river suddenly became long and narrow.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the boats whose water surface suddenly increased, and said, "The narrowest point from Yuanbao Mountain to Shazhou Town is 350 steps, and the narrowest point from Huikou Town to Shazhou Town is only [-] steps."

"Hukou County set up cards, built floating boats and connected them horizontally with iron cables to block the water surface, and set cards to draw points."

"Iron lock Hengjiang."

Crossing the river with iron chains was Chen Youliang's tactic back then. There were so many buildings and ships in the Han army, and they were connected across the river with iron chains.

A wall of pontoons appeared in front of everyone like a city wall, and the ships were congested and unable to move forward.

The scene is reproduced and belongs to yes.

Yu Qian stared blankly at the grand scene in front of him, the Yangtze River was actually blocked.

"I didn't see such a weird scene when I came here..." Yu Qian said in a daze.

Zhu Qiyu said in amazement: "The Ming Dynasty's Beijing army was mobilized, and the capital along the way was notified. Naturally, the iron chain floating boat was withdrawn in advance. The army was stationed, and it was pulled out again."

"Work together to force the court to abolish the Navy, the purpose is to lawlessness, to collect rent!"

Yu Qian looked at the scene of chaining Hengjiang in front of him in silence, thinking for a moment that he was at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Because the merchant ships of the Ganjiang River merged into the Yangtze River from Poyang Lake, the merchant ships in front of the iron chain moved slowly.

The merchant ship under Zhu Qiyu's feet moved forward slowly, because of the congestion, the ships were very close, and the Tiriders looked around nervously, lest someone board the ship and disturb Sheng Jia.

"Little boy, where did you come from?" An old man on another merchant ship that was very close shouted loudly.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the patches on the old man's clothes. There were several merchants around the old man. Their heads were covered with thick white handkerchiefs several feet long, and a three-to-four-inch long handkerchief hung from their right ears. They were obviously all traveling together.

He smiled and shouted: "Come from Jiujiang Mansion, where did the old man come from?"

The old man showed a simple and honest smile and said: "He came from Peng'an, Sichuan, and sold some lamp grass to Wuzhong."

The old man's accent was very heavy, Zhu Qiyu couldn't understand, and occasionally asked Yu Qian what the old man said.

His name is Lu Er, and he makes a living selling rushes. Every year, he sells rushes from Sichuan to the Suzhou area, and then sells urgently needed things in Sichuan from Suzhou.

He is also boating, renting a boat with a few people, and barely making ends meet. The value of the second-hand lamp grass in Lu's second hand is less than 300 taels.

Soon it was the turn of Zhu Qiyu and Lu Er's boat, Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Old man first, we are not in a hurry."

Lu Er's face, which was still enthusiastic just now, became slumped, and he said something cursing, and slowly drove the boat into the branch office where Hengjiang was locked.

Zhu Qiyu waited for a while, but he didn't see the boat in front of him for a long time, so he felt a little strange, and said to Lu Zhong: "Send some Tiqi to have a look."

Three or two Tiqi jumped onto Lu Er's boat with a light leap, and the news came soon.

Lu Er's boat was stopped to draw points, but Lu Er couldn't pay the tax money, and Lu Er wanted to use the light grass as a deduction, but the tax collector refused, so he stalemate.

Because Lu Er's boat was blocked, it was impossible to move forward. Standing on the boat, Zhu Qiyu had already heard the scolding voices of the surrounding ships.

Zhu Qiyu was silent for a moment and said: "Go to the shore."

Zhu Qiyu's boat docked, he stepped on the long wooden trestle, and looked at Lu Er's boat.

Lu Er's boat also docked on the shore, and the lamp grass was moved down.

When Zhu Qiyu walked across the trestle bridge, he thought it was the tax collectors who agreed to the taxation, but after watching and listening, he frowned.

Lu Er couldn't go down, so he simply unloaded all the lamp plants.

The tax collector looked at Lu Er who was carrying the lamp grass, and shouted loudly: "You old man! You're going to die of trouble!"

"It's like you. Is there any place to get off the trestle bridge? Those who go on the boat don't even bring cash, they don't know the rules!"

"Come here and pile up all the lamp grass over there, and set it on fire!"

Lu Er was shocked when he heard that, knelt on the ground, grabbed the tax collector's trousers and shouted: "Officer, you can't do it! This is the life of the old man's family, how can it be burned!"

"Guan Ye, I'll move out quickly, I won't get in the way of the Guan Ye here!"

The tax collector kicked away Lu Er, who was holding onto his trousers, and said with a sneer, "It's late!"

"No rules, no standards."

"If you are as unruly as you are, how will you collect points to collect taxes in the future? Burn your weeds and teach others to know the rules of our Hukou branch office!"

"Come here, burn it for me!"

Lu Er got up and stood beside the lamp grass, shouting hoarsely: "If you burn it, I will die here today!"

This was probably the biggest threat Lu Er issued.

The merchants who accompanied Lu Er were all blushing, but they could only grit their teeth and watch this scene.

With a knife in his waist, the tax collector walked in. Lu Er pushed him away, and said with a disdainful face: "You little brat, you have a life, even if the king of heaven comes here today, I will have to burn it!"

"Come on, burn it! What are you doing in a daze..."

Before the tax collector could shout out, he saw a shining steel knife on his neck.

Yang Han's embroidered spring knife rested on the tax collector's neck.

The other tax collectors didn't react at all, and were pinned to the ground with socks stuffed in their mouths.

The tax collector turned pale with fright, but still calmed down, and said sternly, "Which way is it? Tell me where you came from."

Lu Zhong looked at the tax collector with disgust on his face, not to mention that he was seen by the emperor's grandpa as a domineering man, but Yang Han is as ruthless as Yuan Bin, the kind of cruel official who kills without blood, asked Yang Han where he came from...

Yang Han's knife approached again and asked coldly: "I ask, you answer."

The tax collector's face lost all color in an instant, and he didn't dare to move, knowing that he had kicked a hard stubble, he said tremblingly: "Heroic man, spare your life, good man, spare your life!"

Yang Han asked calmly: "Who asked you to set up a card here to collect tax points, the county magistrate?"

The tax collector's face changed drastically, and he said loudly: "The imperial court gave up! Grandpa! The imperial court gave up!"

The good name goes to oneself, the bad name goes to the top, this set of tricks is really superb and consummate.

Zhu Qiyu was also happy to hear that, and asked Yu Qian: "It's strange, we have been on the pole for more than nine years, and we have never heard of such items in the accounts of the household department. Have you ever heard of such entries, Master Yu?"

"I haven't heard of it." Yu Qian shook his head, and of course he hadn't heard of anything that the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty had never heard of.

As the household secretary of Daming, could Zhu Qiyu not know the accounts of Daming?

He even knew that the house number money was collected in Nanjing City.

In the twelve cities of the Ming Dynasty, the house number silver was collected every year, and about 10 taels of silver went to the household department Taicang every year.

But it has never been heard that the Ming court still has this kind of progress.

Daming's taxes can be collected from the Yangtze River, and Emperor Chongzhen can be so poor that he can pacify Li Zicheng and only give Sun Chuanting 6 taels of silver he picked out from his teeth?

Daming naturally also collects business tax, only for merchants, not for merchants, even for merchants, it is [-]% of the tax when entering the city.

The establishment of a sub-bureau in the Yangtze River is naturally unheard of.

"Old man get up first." Yao Long went to help Lu Er who was on the ground first.

"Several officials, I have paid a tax of 150 taels along the way, and I really can't afford it!" Lu Er was already crying in a daze, and said intermittently.

Lu Er's lamp grass was less than 300 taels, and he paid 150 taels of tax.

Zhu Qiyu's face was as heavy as water, and he said sharply: "Lu Zhong! You take people first and remove the iron lock Hengjiang on the river. Those who know will naturally know that our Daming has won. Those who don't know will think that he is Chen Youliang. Victory!"

"It doesn't matter if I read the joke, let Chen Youliang read the joke, wouldn't Chen Youliang have a stomachache from laughing in hell?"

"Yu Shaobao, don't you think so? Emperor Taizu Gao established the Great Ming Dynasty, that's all it is."

7 Chapter Twenty

What does the Battle of Poyang Lake mean to Daming?

In the Battle of Poyang Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang killed Chen Youliang, and Chen Han actually perished.

The Chen family is destroyed, and the Zhang family is alone.

After the Battle of Poyang Lake, the most important question at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the question of who the world belongs to, already has a clear answer.

The battle of Poyang Lake was the battle of Dingding in Ming Dynasty, which is of great significance.

However, in Hukou County, Nanhuzui of Poyang Lake, Chen Youliang's iron lock Hengjiang appeared on the Yangtze River again, stopping Daming's passing merchants and setting up cards to collect taxes privately.

The Tiqi not only had knives, but also guns. Soon, the iron rope boat was pulling towards Jiangzhou Town in Jiangxinzhou.

Zhu Qiyu stood by the river and saw the raging fire of the floating boat, his face sank like water.

Even Yu Qian, who wanted to persuade Renshu, didn't know how to persuade His Majesty Renshu.

Zhu Qiyu turned around, took a Yongle sword from Xing'an, and said, "Yang Han, there are many merchant ships passing by, you should inquire and investigate one by one to see how many checkpoints there are in the Yangtze River, find out all of them, and arrest them one by one. "

"I will give you one thousand Tiqi, three thousand Jingjun, and I will give you the Yongle Sword and the Wangming Banner."

Yang Han took the golden Yongle sword, and shouted loudly: "The minister leads the decree! Not one will be missing!"

Zhu Qiyu said to Xing'an: "Xing'an, take a few people and help Lu Er load all the lamp grass on the boat."

Xing'an was helping Lu Er to load the ship, and Lu Er couldn't stop thanking him. Although he still didn't know who he was, Lu Zhong went to demolish another pontoon bridge iron cable crossing the Hengjiang checkpoint. Zhu Qiyu stopped by the river and listened to his ears. With the sound of the wind, he tightened his cloak.

Yu Qian, Yao Long and other ministers did not say a word.

A loud voice suddenly came from the wharf: "Who told you to burn it! What a shame! I don't know who is behind this business, do you?"

A thick-faced, thick-skinned man appeared on the pier, followed by a large group of people.

"Dabutou! It's this group of people who suddenly rushed over, relying on their numbers and strength, to do their best here!"

"Third Master is the master for us! These people are so vicious! They don't even report where they came from, they just do it!"

"They burned the pontoon in Dabutou, which is several thousand taels of silver!"

"Big port..."

……

The identity of the person who came has been confirmed. He is the big port of Hukou Wharf, the broker-comprador who introduces sales, and is also the leader of the Hukou Wharf.