The most unlucky crossing in history

According to the customs of the Great Late Dynasty, during Zhengyuan Festival, all the people in the court have to rest for ten days, but since the past month, there has been a series of heavy snowstorms in Youzhou, and many people's houses have collapsed and food storage has been damaged. Tens of thousands of people have been affected. The government office of Youzhou has written to the imperial court, asking for help.However, due to the heavy snow that closed the mountains and roads, the relief food in Pangzhou could not be delivered. Because of this, Xie Wenyuan did not rest.

At the beginning of the new year, on the third day of the first lunar month, Xie Wenyuan sent the relief plan to the palace to be signed and approved by Emperor Shengning and handed over to Shangshu Province for implementation. When he returned to the mansion, it was still dark.

After being busy for more than ten days, today is considered a little bit of relaxation.

He changed his official uniform and ate some casual meals. It was still early, but he was very tired. After washing up, he was ready to rest.

It's just that he just put on his inner shirt when Guan Shi from the outer room knocked on the door: "My lord, Chengfeng Station has delivered something."

Xie Wenyuan couldn't help but smile when he heard this. After Zhong Qiyun returned to Hangzhou, during the Zhengyuan period, Zhong Qiyun seemed to want to send all the things from various famous stores in Hangzhou to Jingzhao, and he kept asking people to send things to his house. .He doesn't like to make noise at all, in fact, in previous years, he just let Steward Cao do whatever he wanted, but this year the people in this house are still those individuals, but there are a lot more things, such as fine wines and delicious food. , or preserved meat snacks, clothes and cloth, or rare fruits and vegetables in the winter of Jingzhao, or items for the servants of the Fuchu... one car on the left and the other on the right are continuously sent to the Fuchu every day, Even a lot of fireworks and firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets and hanging blessings... I bought all the New Year's goods that I needed to buy during the festival, so that Guanshi Cao, who was planning to buy New Year's goods years ago, didn't know what to do.

On the day of Zhengyuan, Housekeeper Cao had people post Spring Festival couplets everywhere. The originally quiet and poetic house in the south of the Yangtze River was set off by the red Spring Festival couplets, and it became quite tacky.At that time, when I came back from Zhengshitang, I was a little dumbfounded when I saw this scene, but...

After all, he didn't let people pick up these beautiful Spring Festival couplets.

Vulgar, but also warm.

At night, he blinked at the fireworks, and then asked Cao Guanshi to find an open space to set off the fireworks, and colorful meteors fell to the moon.

Although this person did not celebrate the festival in Jingzhao, it made him have a lively Zhengyuan Festival.

Xie Wenyuan shook his head, not knowing what Zhong Qiyun had sent here, so thinking about it, he said to the housekeeper Cao: "If those items are for the holidays, you can find a warehouse

Let's put it in the room, don't break it. "

Butler Cao outside responded, "It's not those, it's a letter. Boss Zhong ordered the letter to be delivered to you."

After hearing this, Xie Wenyuan put on his clothes, and then went to the door and opened it.

After Steward Cao saw him and handed over the thick letter to Xie Wenyuan, he bowed his head and withdrew.

When the people left, Xie Wenyuan took the letter and walked to the table outside the bedroom and sat down, took out a total of ten pages of letters and read them by candlelight.

In the first five pages, Zhong Qiyun told him about Jiangnan during this period, and told him the purpose of going to sea and the time when he returned to Hangzhou in detail. The Zhong family has developed to the point where it is now. There is no need for Zhong Qiyun to go there in person. The reason why he wants to go overseas this time is that there is indeed a big deal to discuss.

In fact, the story of Zhong Qiyun's business struggle in the south of the Yangtze River was spread in Jingzhao City years ago, so he naturally knew about it. Although Zhong Qiyun had no time to discuss it with him in detail before he left, he knew that Zhong Qiyun had already had something in his heart when he saw how sure Zhong Qiyun was winning. The countermeasures, but he didn't expect it to be so exciting, even people in the court talked about it.

It also made him feel some joy that he had never had before.

And the last five pages of the letter...

Zhong Qiyun eloquently said nearly a thousand words, all of which were openly expressing his missing, liking for him, and affection for him...

"Prime Minister Xie is so cruel. Could it be that you are reluctant to part with your ink? Someone sent a letter to me, but didn't leave a word to me. The people of Zhong Yuan almost tore open the envelope to look for something missing, but But really no..."

Xie Wenyuan couldn't help laughing when he saw this.

If it is said that Zhong Qiyun is not thinking in his heart, it must be a lie, just like what Zhong Qiyun said in his letter that he cannot sleep at night, he is also a little unaccustomed to the feeling of being without Zhong Qiyun by his side.

Obviously it was only a few days of sleeping together intimately, and he had already forgotten the feeling of being alone.

After receiving Zhong Qiyun's letter that day, when he was sitting on the edge of the bed at night and was about to rest, he still got up, put on a shirt, and went to the study.

But after he picked up his pen, Prime Minister Xie, who was rumored to be full of poems and books, suddenly didn't know what to write.

In the usual correspondence with Zhong Qiyun, his letters to Zhong Qiyun are all explanations of matters, and he has never written such words and sentences as a family letter, let alone such straightforward words to tell the other party how much he misses.

Sitting at the table for a long time, he also held the pen for a long time. After starting the pen, he wrote a few words, but after all he felt

No, it's too flimsy.When he remembered something, he suddenly stood up and went back to the bedroom, took the jade pendant he had with him and put it in an envelope.

At the end of Zhong Qiyun's letter, he wrote: "I put the jade pendant on my chest, Wen Yuan, my Wen Yuan."

In the first three months of the first year of Shengning, the Zhong family moved the main building of the HNA fleet from Hangzhou to Songjiang Port and signed agreements with local governments. The Zhong family's business expanded at an alarming rate. On bright and bright spring days, the Zhong family's shipping and land transportation spread all over the country.It is no exaggeration to say that almost all the cargo ships seen on the sea, on the river, and on the river are flying the flag of the Zhong family, and the same is true for the caravans on the road.At the same time, Chengfeng Station has also expanded from the original dozens to [-] in every larger town, and the scope of receiving business has also expanded from the original large shops to ordinary people. The words "coming by the wind" spread all over the country.

The Chengfeng Pavilion expanded even more rapidly, from the original one storefront to a three-story floor, and all the goods sold in it were good things from other places, things that were not seen locally, everything for food and clothing, and there was even a floor Showing up to sell all the foreign goods, the dazzling array is really eye-catching and very attractive. These things, even some rich kids have never seen these things on weekdays.

Who could have seen it? Nowadays, there are only a handful of people who can sail to foreign countries in Daqing Dynasty, and there are very few people who can even leave the state capital to go abroad.

In May of the first year of Shengning, Zhong Qiyun, who had stayed in the Sangha for two full months, made arrangements and returned to Hangzhou with a large amount of goods and treasures he had earned.

No one knew what Zhong Qiyun had done, but only knew that in just half a year, the Zhong family's status in the middle school was incomparable, and this was especially true after Zhong Qiyun took over the salt transportation business entrusted by the government.

Everyone in the world understands that the Pei family is about to collapse. It should be said that today's Zhong family has broken the geographical restrictions of the state capital by itself, and sent all kinds of goods to all parts of the country. to the thing.For example, sending the famous lotus cake in Hangzhou city and the jade from the Sangha city in foreign countries to all parts of the country, this is something that has never been heard before.

How amazing, and how terrifying.

After the ports built by the Zhong family in Youzhou, Songjiang, Yuhuan, Quanzhou, Maojiang and other places were connected and operated, some small fleets gradually emerged. This time, the Zhong family did not swallow them one by one like the previous year, but level with these small fleets

Coexisting with peace and harmony, the East China Sea and the Southeast China Sea, which had been quiet for hundreds of years, became so lively.

The first year of Shengning was the beginning of the prosperity of business and trade in the Daqing Dynasty. Taxes increased at an astonishing rate month after month, and the situation was gratifying.

In the early morning, Feng Ping, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, read out the taxes and business operations of the half year in the middle of the court on the court.

When they read that in January the Zhong family's taxes were close to the sum of the Zhou family and the Zhang family, everyone was shocked.

"It's close to the sum of the two? The Zhou family who made porcelain in Chaozhou and the Zhang family in Luzhou?"

Feng Ping replied without changing his face: "Indeed."

"This..." Chu Huaize, the new Minister of Zhongshu Province, was a little unbelievable: "Could it be a mistake?"

Feng Ping replied: "There is no mistake. The Zhong family was taxed 50 taels last month, while the Zhou and Zhang families also raised a bit, but it was only 25 taels."

Linghu Ze, who has been temporarily promoted to be the provincial servant at the moment, nodded and said: "It's normal to think about it, Mr. Chu, think about it, the Zhong family now has shops all over the country, and the business of Chengfeng Pavilion and Chengfeng Pavilion is even more soaring. It is already difficult to estimate the goods shipped and delivered, if the tax does not go beyond the Zhou family, I am afraid that the Ministry of Criminal Justice will have to investigate and investigate."

Chu Huaize shook his head and sighed: "If the Zhong family's growth rate is as high as that of the Zhong family, I'm afraid it won't be long before the five families..."

The current Shang Shu Ling Chen Xiaohuan responded: "The Zhong family's transportation has opened up a good momentum. It can transfer goods from the north to the south to the east and west. The sign of prosperous commerce in ancient times is the rapid flow of goods. It should be even more gratifying in the future."

Tan Yuanyong, who was sitting on the royal seat, also nodded and said: "Zhong Qiyun's ability is indeed not small, but the money has gone into the pockets of the merchants, and it is the farmers who are suffering from the land. They can't share it."

Just talking about this, Tan Yuanyong looked up at the scorching sun outside the hall, and said after a long time: "But the most important thing right now is the drought. If this continues, if there is no harvest in the two lakes this year, how will the farmers survive? "This is the most troublesome matter for Tan Yuanyong, and it is also the matter that has been debated the most in recent months and has not been able to find a solution. "I ordered you to go back and think about it for so long, but have you come up with a solution?"

As he said that, Tan Yuanyong glanced at the seat, only to see that the ministers who had been discussing the tax issue just now became dumb and quieted down.

Tan Yuanyong frowned: "Ten out of [-] households in the Daqing Dynasty are all farmers, and the two lakes are also big grain-producing states in Daqing.

This year is like this again..." As he spoke, he looked at Linghu Qing, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, "Can Minister Linghu think of a way? "

Linghuqing took a few steps forward, "I'm stupid, I can't think of anything more than last year's method of asking merchants to donate."

Tan Yuanyong thought for a while, and said: "After Jiangnan and other places hand over the grain and rice, I am afraid that there will be no surplus grain to help the two lakes..." Last year, rich businessmen were still able to give generously, but this method has been played. It's useless to do it once, and it's useless to do it the second time. Those merchants who kept grain and rice probably won't spend a penny. Now that the treasury is empty, they even spend money to buy grain.

In the end, there is still no solution, but we can't watch the people of the two lakes starve to death like this.

Tan Yuanyong thought for a long time, but there was no other way. He looked down at Xie Wenyuan who was standing in the first place, and asked, "I don't know what the prime minister thinks?"

Xie Wenyuan, who was mentioned by name, couldn't stay silent, he held the jade board, bowed and said: "Going back to the emperor, I have followed the emperor's will for a few days, but I have an immature strategy. I don't know if it's right or not."

Tan Yuanyong looked at Xie Wenyuan and said, "The prime minister will speak first."

Xie Wenyuan nodded yes, and then slowly said: "Earlier, the Qianzhengshitang received reports from the two lakes and three state capitals. Now the food and grass in the two lakes and the world are all withered and yellow. It is a foregone conclusion that the two lakes will have no crops for two years, unless a miracle happens. .”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was even more mournful.

Tan Yuanyong closed his eyes, and then said: "The prime minister hasn't said there is any strategy yet."

"I think that the only way to do it now is to let other state capitals provide assistance, but judging from the current situation, there is only one reason why other state capitals have no spare capacity to provide assistance..."

Tan Yuanyong heard it, his eyes moved, and he said slowly: "The prime minister continued."

Xie Wenyuan heard the words and continued: "Farmers pay too much tax on rice and grain. Now farmers are taxed at 33 per cent, but merchants are only taxed at 35 per cent. In this way, it is even heavier than merchants."

Tan Yuanyong squinted his eyes and said, "What does the prime minister mean... to lower the tax on farmers?"

When Linghu heard this, he frowned slightly: "The tax of 33 households has not been changed since the establishment of the dynasty. If the tax is lowered, the treasury will not only be short of money, but even food and rice."

Xie Wenyuan looked at Linghu Ze and said, "Lord Linghu, I just wanted to ask you, if you have enough money, might you buy rice from farmers?"

Linghu didn't know why Xie Wenyuan asked this question, he thought for a while and nodded: "Of course it's possible."

"if

If the farmers have surplus grain and sell it, the farmers who have surplus money in their hands can live better. "

Linghu frowned: "Of course."

Xie Wenyuan smiled when he heard the words, he rarely laughed like this in front of people, but it caused other officials to look at him in surprise.

Xie Wenyuan said: "Therefore, it is even more necessary to change the tax rate that has not changed in the past century, but it is not only to change the tax rate for farmers. It is unfair and unfair for the people that the commercial tax is lower than the agricultural tax. However, there is even an important omission in the current tax system of the Daqing. Taxes—maritime taxes."

The author has something to say: I am a bit stuttering today, I am a little late, sorry, thank you for your support