Clam Pearl

In the spring and April of the 16th year of Tiancheng, camellias bloomed to the end of the flowering period, and peonies came to welcome them.

The spring of this year is particularly good, everything is in harmony with the scene, there is rain, there is thunder, the vernal equinox is green, it is really auspicious.

In spring and February, Laofang City in the south of Jing began to renovate the old city and built dormitories for low-level officials. This is a new welfare thing that has emerged in the past few years.

In the past two years, the vocabulary of welfare has always been around the girders. It is the emperor's birthday, and the emperor's father had a good dream, so it is time to give out benefits.

There are many kinds of benefits, of course, the favorite of the common people is that the emperor Lao Tzu pays for the people all over the world to watch a big play, this is called sending the play to the countryside, and having fun with the people is a kindness.

Every year on the birthday of the emperor Lao Tzu, go to the nearby county towns, there must be a good show there, at least three days of singing, don’t you think?

Now the Shangjing City is even bigger, and it is no longer what it used to be. In just five years outside the moat, besides the east gate, there are three more big square cities built around the city. Slowly, people repaired the mansion, and there were twelve five-mile commercial streets. After connecting with the inner city, Shangjing gained a lot of weight.

Nowadays, merchants from the south to the north gather in Shangjing, and after selling the specialties of various places, they buy all kinds of good things in Shangjing and sell them all over the country.

Are you fat or not?

This morning, the bells and drums of the four gates were still ringing together. After the gate was opened, the soldiers guarding the gate had less food to enter the city. Without it, fewer people entered the city and more people left the city. Now the people in the inner city just buy meat and vegetables. , I also love to find wholesale prices in Fangshi outside the city.

It is more convenient to live and eat outside the city, and you can buy and sell as you like. There is no night ban, and there is no strict control and jurisdiction, so it is more free.

Speaking of which, the most valuable Beijing official outside the city is the Governor of Commerce and Taxation under the Ministry of Household Affairs.The fatness of these officials is hard to describe in words, but they have been cracked down every year, and corruption has been repeatedly banned.

Do not compete with the people for profit, this is the word of the Confucian group of people, and now the comparison, it is illiterate, all feel that scholars make up flowers, it is a lie, such a good thing, long ago As it should be.

Is it right not to compete with the people for profit?On this issue, Confucianism encountered quite a real collision.

Speaking of which, when this matter first came out, the Confucianists were tossing around fiercely, and they were all running around, and they all opposed it.

Is it useful to object?It's useless, when you see money and food, what to say, what to learn, you can't take care of it.

The business tax thing is really powerful. In just a few years, it has been hitting the upturned elm heads every month, wave after wave, making the ministers dizzy.

First of all, Juehu County with commercial tax!No, now there is Fumin County over there, and there is also a county called Immigrant County.

Since the immigrant county began to have a commercial tax, it has not been a few years since officials from top to bottom discovered that the commercial tax is already dozens of times greater than the agricultural tax. Once such a terrible profit comes out, all the reasonable theories in the world will be They were all shattered like dust from the beating...

Is this tax indisputable?There are so many books written by saints, who are they listening to?Then don't you hear the saying "don't compete with the people for profit".

In this way, Confucianism changed accordingly, and immediately there was a school of Ziren. Relatively speaking, Ziren was still very lively, and people didn't talk about competing for benefits with the people.

Seeing that the internal treasury is huge today, but the ministers dare not challenge the issue of immigrating to the counties. This has become the current rule of the court. The seven counties are the private treasury of the Lord Long Live, and your eyes are hurting. Bleeding, bleeding soup from jealousy, it's useless.

Five years is not long, and short is not short. Except for the money handed over to the Shangnei Treasury, Ganzhou has already supported Changzhou and Qingzhou, but now Juehu County can no longer be mentioned. People from Changzhou, Changzhou, and Qingzhou must be rich masters, land masters, or capable masters.

It's a pity that such people are not easy to meet. Without it, people from immigrant counties have to apply to the immigration bureau when they leave the county, and people from other counties who want to enter the immigrant county have to check their qualifications.

When a child born in the immigrant county is born, the imperial court will give milk money, cloth, meat tickets, salt... Let's put it this way, the child born in the immigrant county fell into the blessing nest, and the imperial court helped you take care of it until it was four years old. Hold on, it's not over yet.

When you are seven years old, no matter what your background is, you can go to a school run by the royal family for free for three years. After three years of literacy and numeracy, you can enter various factories as apprentices, and then you can make money for your family.

Apart from this, the most enviable thing about Immigrant County is that people have no bad taxes, no hard labor, and those seemingly hard and tiring jobs are all done by workers from the Construction Bureau. For an hour, after work, they all go back to their respective homes to be uncles!

What people get is the sixth-level salary of the immigrant county. The sixth-level workers are talking about money, and the annual salary is [-] guan. Of course, this does not mean that they can get [-] guan.This money, in addition to the personal income tax paid to the country, education fees, and insurance premiums, may be able to keep more than ten yuan.

Don't underestimate these dozen or so, the prices in the immigrant county are different from those outside, and people can enjoy the qualification to buy various items at low prices every month.A strong donkey in Shangjing is at least fifteen guan.

People in immigrant counties have animal tickets every year. The tickets are given on a per-head basis. Even if your family has a milk doll, they can also earn tickets. The tickets are the same regardless of gender. Girls can also read and write when they grow up Yes, if you know how to read, you can take odd jobs home at the age of ten, and when you are older, you will be married, and your daughter and baby can work in a textile factory and get a sixth-level salary.

In the end, everyone in the immigrant county can make money and be literate.

It's so good, isn't it hard to live?After saving fifty livestock tickets, people can only buy a donkey for seven pennies. So do you think the immigrant county is beautiful?OK?

It’s good to die, but you can’t go if you die!If you don't have a status, you are considered a black household in the immigrant county. It's okay to catch it. After half a year of hard labor, I will give you travel expenses and go back to your original place.

There is no one more xenophobic than the immigrant county people. Without it, there is a saying. This saying is, why do you have to pay education fees, headcount fees, and various fees every month... There are also black households. Work to grab your resources?Oh, thinking of not working to enjoy our benefits?That's not going to work.

In this way, anyone who ran over quietly did not need to be arrested by the immigration bureau, and the common people would all go up to encircle and suppress them.

Nowadays, immigrant counties no longer move from Wukang County. Every state and county now has a migration office. Those who leave their careers are not required, those who come from aristocratic families are not required, and those who have a family record are not required, as long as they are innocent.

In short, they are poor, clinking good citizens who have nothing, and they want them.Sometimes you can't figure out what Jinshang and the new Ning County King Gu Zhao are thinking.

Oh, this one is also amazing. He supervised the Qianding Division single-handedly. It took him many years of hard work to lay down this good family business today.The accumulation of such merits enough to mark the history of history has led to the present king of Ningjun.

The King of Ningjun was the only one who was not crowned a king by a non-clan in the Liang Dynasty. He fed [-] households, from the first rank, and granted [-] hectares of land.

According to the theory, such a thick seal, there must be disputes at the top, but when it comes to King Ning, everyone is silent.

There is no way that a person has a good family background, the direct blood of the emperor's six stars, and the emperor's family are sworn brothers, and they will still be brothers in the sky after death.

What's more, the emperor of Daliang is raised by Qianding Si, the clan is also raised by Qianding Si, and the various royal academies that scholars like most are raised by Qianding Si. One step, it's not too much for a county king.

King Ningjun and Lord Long Live didn't cause trouble for the ups and downs, so that's all right.

When there was King Ningjun in the world, there was the Qianding Division, and then there was the Daliang Merchant Tax that changed the entire dynasty.

Since there is a commercial tax, this household department has been difficult to manage. Without it, His Majesty has started to raise the clan mansion and the harem by himself, and he has taken care of his own food and drink. He changed his simple style and built a temple if he wanted to. If you want to build a tomb, you can build a tomb, and if you want to build a golden temple, you can build a golden temple.

Prince Ning is rich, so he doesn't say anything about what His Majesty wants.

In this way, not to mention today, even if someone is changed to be the emperor today, he will not hate such a courtier.

Seeing that the money in His Majesty's internal treasury was piled up into mountains, and comparing it with the stretched treasury, this upside-down face was slapped hotly.

Under all kinds of shocks, in the 13th year of Tiancheng, the first tax law of the Liang Dynasty was finally released. After the tax law was released, the status of merchants was finally equal to that of ordinary people.

After the businessmen carefully studied the tax law, they found that this law was not just about simply collecting money. In addition to protecting the interests of the court, this law would also protect their interests.

For this very fair grace, the merchants responded to the country's call, and they were very happy to pay this tax.All of a sudden, the household department also became fat.

Seeing that the Ministry of Household Affairs has become fatter today, they began to renovate the old city of Shangjing with a wave of their hands, and doubled the monthly salaries for all the officials.

In this way, officials of the middle and lower classes all love and respect the current emperor, and call him the number one enlightened emperor in ancient and modern times!

But it turned out that this Mingjun came like this!

However, Shangjing still opened four doors, and the sound of huge bells and drums woke up the sleeping Ningjun Palace. In the early morning, Gu Zhao got up from the bed, and after washing, he changed into a loose and simple blue gold woven unicorn. Clothes went out.

The prince of the county is now also hugging from front to back, and if he goes out casually, he has to be surrounded by three or twenty people, and thirty to twenty is not too much, but the current world has begun to move towards refinement and luxury, and he has begun to pay attention to style and ostentation.

When the county king travels, there are naturally some ceremonies, but Gu Zhao is a good and down-to-earth county king, and every time he goes out, he is ordinary, and it is absolutely unacceptable for him to disturb the people's clear streets.

Riding a camel from the door of your house to Yujie... The streets of Beijing along this journey are quiet and peaceful. The road is paved and can be as wide as twelve large carriages running in parallel, and flower beds are planted on both sides. Now it is the month, and the peonies in the flower garden are blooming in full bloom.

Speeding all the way to Pingzhou Alley, the concierge here has already opened the gate to welcome him. Gu Zhao got off the camel, entered the yard, got on a small sedan chair and was carried all the way to the Spring Shouyuan where the old man retired. .

Today, the Gu family is no longer what it used to be. This family is run by Gu Maode and his wife.

That year, the old brother returned to Shangjing after being foolish on the road. After being shocked, Lu was greatly saddened to take care of it himself. Taking care of a fool who thought he was a five-year-old urchin was not a simple project. Not long after, Gu Mao De took the title, then the Gu family began to split up, and then Lu died of illness.

Gu Zhao witnessed the replacement of the old and the new in the family. The home he and his elder brother thought was full of family affection and warmth collapsed at that moment. He could feel the family bleeding. Just a piercing kind of pain.

Ah Run said that the Gu family is already pretty good, and Gu Maode is willing to give his younger brother [-]% of the family business, and each of the concubines will give a fat cent.

But Gu Zhao didn't take it seriously, his elder brother loved the whole family and Hemeimei, reunited with each other, and his sister-in-law loved it too.

The separation of the family was an important reason for the death of the old sister-in-law, so Gu Zhao and Gu Maode were far away.

This is also one of the reasons why he accepted the title of Prince Ning calmly. Although he is an elder, Gu Maode is the patriarch. In the days when he lost his brother, everyone came to him to win the title!Gu Zhao didn't want to confront him, so he discussed with Ah Run and took the title of County King.

There is naturally resentment in Gu Zhao's heart. This anger is his hatred for Gu Maode's pretending to be deaf and dumb, and it is also his disdain for the couple's private tossing and separation. It hurts Lu Shi. Heart brought her the unspeakable rage that struck her and caused her untimely death.

Up until now, Gu Zhao has not forgiven Gu Maode. Although they have a good face, they both know that it will be like that in the future.

Gu Zhao arrived at the Duke’s Mansion according to the usual time. He took a sedan chair to go to the Spring Shouyuan where his elder brother retired. When he passed by the small courtyard of the main house, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the courtyard. Old Sanxian'er's voice, and the old man chanting something in a hoarse voice.

Gu Zhao kicked the skirting board, the sedan chair stopped, he lifted the curtain, and listened through the thin wall.

That yard is sung like this:

Madame!In your dream, the peach blossoms bloom everywhere in March, and when they bloom, the red ones fall one after another...

At this point, the singing stopped, and the old man suddenly asked: "Ma'am, did you have a dream?"

There was a pause in the courtyard, and Su Shi said after a long time: "It seems to be a dream."

"That's it!"

Singing again: Peach blossoms are ten miles away, relatives want to be heartbroken, peach blossoms are ten miles long, thinking of my mother's tears, mothers - softly calling every night to think...

The old man asked: "Ma'am, Peach Blossom Girl, this is a family member's younger generation who is thinking about it. It must be that the relatives have suffered grievances..."

Su family was sad: "Yes, yes, that's exactly the case. My poor Ming Huiyuan married another county. She is now in her twenties and has not yet had a son and a half. Don't feel wronged, oh..."

Mrs. Su began to cry, and the old man sang again: Peach Blossom—Ten Lixiang

A slender girl enters the blue window, a green pistil breaks through the spring breeze, and a million hectares of bonuses fall asleep...

After singing, the old man said: "Ma'am, there might be a spring event in your daughter's house, and a newcomer is about to enter..."

Su was furious, and cursed in the courtyard: "Damn! I'm afraid of flowers in my mouth, and I'm afraid of falling when I hold them. I was married with ten miles of red makeup. It's only been a few years now, and this traitor is going to fail to take a concubine... My poor and delicate Bao'er!"

After scolding, she cried again!

Gu Zhao couldn't listen to it any longer, how boring was this? Early in the morning at home, he even made a fortune teller. He shook his head and stomped on his feet, carried it over there and left.

Today, the old man has a good appetite. Early in the morning, he ate ten big buns and drank two bowls of soup. After drinking, the old man put on bright clothes, combed his hair, and wore a Da Jinsuo, with his two hands, holds a grasshopper cage in one hand and a large bamboo horse in the other, waiting eagerly at the entrance of the yard for "father" to take him out to play.

Ever since the old Duke was stupid, his intelligence was only about three or five years old. Gu Zhao was very kind to him, and would come to play with him every day and take him out, so he thought that Gu Zhao was his father.

When Gu Zhao got off the sedan chair, the old man suddenly smiled, grinning his mouth with one missing front tooth, and he flew over even jumping up and down, shouting, "Father! Where are we going today!"

Gu Zhao also smiled happily, he said: "Ancestor, let's fly a kite outside the city today!"

There's no other way, the father has called out, so he can only pay back with his ancestors...