Chapter 303 A few happy families
The people of the world are in the world. At present, Shi Guitong has no great significance," said Shen Shixing, the Grand Secretary of the Pavilion, the Minister of Rites, and the backbone of Zhang Juzheng's disciples.
What does this mean is really worth pondering. Wang Tong checked the ins and outs of Yang Sichen during this period through the relationship network of the capital.
Shen Shixing was careful enough, and to outsiders, he cut off all relations with Yang Sichen and drove him out of the capital.
For a scholar, the biggest blow is that the imperial examination is imminent, and this person can pass the Jinshi exam, but he doesn't even have the exam. Outsiders think that if he has such a deep hatred, Shen Shixing and Yang Sichen must have had a quarrel.
Although Wang Tong told him not to say anything, apart from strategies and political arguments, some necessary self-examinations are still tricks, and the matter is not complicated.
Yang Sichen was also a smart person. After leaving his hometown to go to the capital, he decided to make friends with noble people, became famous in the capital for his piano skills, and then leveraged the imperial examination to pave a route to the Golden Avenue in the future.
He has real skills, and his piano skills are exactly what he likes when he is in the imperial examination. It can be said that everything goes well. When the imperial examination is in the first place, the second place, and the three places in Tanhua may depend on luck, but the top rankings are almost certain.
However, soon someone came to the door and asked him to do a few things, and with a Grand Secretary as his backer. Ordinary people were also threatening. However, the person who came was not an ordinary person and the matter was explained clearly. If he did not agree, even if Shen Shixing tried his best to protect him, Yang Sichen would not be able to be promoted to become a Jinshi. Moreover, the safety and life of the whole family would be difficult to protect. If he agreed, regardless of whether Shen Shixing was in office or not, he would be guaranteed to succeed in the imperial examination.
And there are several choices, one is to enter the Hanlin Academy. If it fails, then go to the most prosperous places in the world to be a prefect, and ensure a future of participating in politics in three years.
If you take a step back ten thousand steps, even if everything fails, Shen Shixing will be bad, then you will go to Changlu Salt Administration as a juren to give a lecture. It will be a fat bag of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.
If you don’t do it, you will die. If you do it, you will be protected by wealth and honor. And the person who asked him to do this is Zhang Siwei, the Minister of War. What does a person do to a Grand Secretary? If you don’t show this identity, the other party will not obey. Showing this identity gives you extremely generous conditions. Those with a little wise will weigh the pros and cons and then follow it.
Zhang Siwei, the Minister of War, seemed to be Meng Lang, but in fact, he calculated every step accurately, which was a clever plan.
However, Zhang Siwei stared at Shen Shixing, and Shen Shixing was also staring at Zhang Siwei. Zhang Han, the Minister of Personnel, took a wrong step. The fact that he was kicked out of the capital was really suspicious.
Zhang Siwei thought he was a Miaojing, but Shen Shixing used a self-deprecating method and drove Yang Sichen out of the capital.
"Mr. Shen's status in Chaofeng is no better than Lord Xiao Zhang. Although he protects himself this time, he doesn't know whether he can be self-reliant in the future. Therefore, he needs to find foreign aid, but he is very disciple of Zhang Ge, and he has no place to move. In desperation, he thought of the Lord of Tianjin Wei, who also regards the students as Bu Xianchess."
Although let Yang Sichen see it first, he still has to explain what he should explain to Wang Tong, after all, he has to stay here forever.
Wang Tong did not feel what the benefits would a grandfather contact with his own family bring. News from the court kept coming. Shen Shixing always expressed a clear position for any matters targeting Tianjin.
It seems that it is impossible to rely on for a short period of time. After Wang Tong was excited for a few days, he lost this thought. Since he treated Yang Sichen as a step of leisure chess, he also regarded Shen Shixing as a step of leisure chess, and there was always a time to use it."
Walking on the canal, the civilian ships from south to north, if you want to get some benefits for your private individuals, you have to carry goods. In the Hongzhi year, there was a clear statement that the official ship was allowed to carry 20% of the tax-free. The court allowed 20% of the official ships. In addition, it means that carrying more than 20% is considered to make a profit, so there is no official ship and civilian ship that does not carry.
Tianjin VM set up a checkpoint for inspection, actively declared to draw 20%, and did not voluntarily declared to apply for 40%, and there was no other extortion. This is really a matter of both government and civilians.
From Hangzhou to the capital, there are seven taxes. If each tax card is paid, at least two times the tax fee is paid. Everyone either carries or bribes to pass through the 20% rating here, which is really nothing. If you have been drawn before, there are not many lice. If you have not been drawn before, since you have been tested, 20% is only 20%, which is not a big deal.
Since some merchants have shipped to Tianjin, they are a distribution center. They simply unload the goods and sell them locally, and a large number of northern merchants are ate them.
The tax penalty is income, and the goods are left in Tianjin to turn over. Although there is no obvious income, the market will flourish, which will always be beneficial to the Haihe River under construction.
A large number of goods gathered, transported, loaded and unloaded also required a large number of labor. The autumn harvest time in the north was early, and many idle merchants from the villages came here to make money, so the year was easier.
There are more people coming." The price of labor and living on the head has also dropped a lot. However, the people who came from outside are far away from Sichuan. This income is better than farming and eating food, and it is somewhat a subsidy.
Merchants and ship owners were also satisfied. They came to Tianjin to set up checkpoints for inspection and extortion, not only the labor for loading and unloading was much more expensive. Linqing and the ships here were only about three days away, and the loading and unloading workers were only one-fifth or one-sixth of the loading and unloading workers.
And if you use your own boat to load and unload it. It is not accurate at the dock, there will definitely be some entanglement at that time, and there will be cases of smashing ships and cargo.
On August 27th, four more sea boats from Taizhou entered the Haihe River. Now the fortress is covered with thatch and oil cloth. Outside, there are just some piles of firewood or piles of rough goods. As soon as the ship enters the scene, they immediately remove the camouflage. When the people on the ship find that the Haihe River is blocked by artillery, it is too late to go out. After shocking, they will cover it with camouflage. This is also a fear that the cargo ships from the sea will not dare to enter the port after seeing the fort.
These four sea boats loaded with cargo saw the dark artillery and the shells that landed on the side of the ship after the demonstration. They all thought they were unlucky and lamented in their hearts that they could not save the cargo and the ship.
Who would have thought that someone from Tianjin Wei got on the boat and explained the rules to them, saying that they would be taxed 20% and that they would still make a lot of money if they earned 20% of the tax. But everyone was worried that there would be a later move, and it would be a problem to find buyers of this goods.
Unexpectedly, the cost of loading and unloading on the docking was less than one-tenth of that on weekdays. There were still people guarding the shore. As soon as I saw the sea boat docking, I immediately went to the city to notify the merchants to purchase.
There was another ship originally scheduled to take over a batch of mercury and deer skin from Tianjin Guard. Seeing officers and soldiers guarding the port, they lost their minds and thought about getting some specialties from the north to go back to sell them. Unexpectedly, the merchant who prepared the goods for him actually delivered the goods directly. It was so open that the ship was so scared that it was quite easy to get the goods. Of course, this time the goods were not 10% drawn.
Except for those ships who took the route of trafficking in the country, the high taxes were paid, the rest of the merchant ships settled their calculations when they left the port with full cargo.
The high loading and unloading costs are cancelled, there are no heavy taxes, and the picking value is 20%, which is strictly calculated. This is much cheaper than loading and unloading goods in Haihe before, and it is very cost-effective.
A sea ship can almost bring Wang Tong a tariff income of several thousand taels of money to the construction of the two sides of the Haihe River. However, this money cannot be compensated for. These are all worthy of gold and silver.
The only thing Wang Tong fought for him was the safe money collected from outside the inner city of Tianjin. The money was designated by the Tianjin Jinyiwei Qiangu to be controlled by the thousands of households.
The sea boats from the south took away what they saw and heard in Tianjin Wei, and this experience was completely positive. It can be expected that there will definitely be more and more ships to Tianjin Wei in the future.
With these four sea boats in, a large number of goods were emptied by the merchants, and the only thing they didn't get was to stomp their feet and regret it. After this time, merchants inside and outside Tianjin began to realize the value of the shops being built on the river bank, and some people began to pay deposits to request a deposit.
Wang Tong's Jinyiwei, Tianjin merchants, sea merchants from the sea, and village households in all villages, each party gets cheaper, and each party makes money. The market in Tianjin Acropolis also flourishes.
There is no perfect thing in the world, no one is happy about everyone. The bow incense that has been silent for a long time is the biggest loss. The bow incense is more than 6,000 people, some of which are boatmen and sailors on the river. These people travel around the country and have no fixed residence. What happened in Tianjin has no impact on them. The real main body is the hardworking workers who make a living by the canal.
They originally monopolized the loading and unloading market and charged the fees at much higher prices than others. The loading and unloading power of the sea ships on the Haihe River can even be said to be outrageous. In addition, because they are crowded and powerful, they charge incense burning money similar to protection fees, all of which disappears without a trace.
The influx of a large number of cheap labor and the strength of Wang Tong Jinyiwei made the incense crowd unable to maintain this monopoly price, and everyone paid the money for peace. Naturally, no one paid attention to the money for burning incense.
Cutting off people's wealth is the biggest hatred. It was originally broken because of Wang Tong's Thunder Thunder Pili's policy. The incense of the bow that was about to become a scattered sand began to gather gradually under some external force.
In Tianjin, undercurrents are surging. Every night, dozens of people, or even hundreds of people, gather together to discuss, and some people go around the streets and connect the former leaders.
But all the staff of the Jinyiwei Qianhu in Tianjin are on the dock and on the banks of the Haihe River, or they are stationed in the city. The staff is already in short supply. It is seriously insufficient.
On the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, Yang Sichen asked to see Wang Tong again, probably because he had seen it all.
Chapter completed!