Standing at the bow of the boat, Ye Qing was in a daze again. Since he left the dock, Yan Qingcheng and You'er were putting their items in the cabin. Since he got on the big boat called Mulan Boat, he began to feel in a daze.

The trivial things were handed over to Paoli San, and he himself was like a tourist who had gone out for the first time, and his heart was filled with trance and confusion.

The cruising boats on the river were large or small, and sails slowly rose in the rising sun. However, Ye Qing did not hear the sound of whistles when he was reflecting. Instead, he could vaguely see some boatmen on the shore dragging ropes and pulling some boats slowly to the dock.

After a while, I looked at the scenery on both sides of the Qiantang River, and then turned around and looked at the large ship that could accommodate 500 people. In addition to dozens of them, more than 200 others also took the ship to Yangzhou together.

Less than half of the number of people made the ship not very crowded, but it seemed a little empty. From time to time, you can see some literati or merchants passing by the side of the ship.

Today's river channels still use the Sui and Tang Canals. As the main means of transportation in the south of the Yangtze River, you can see many different types of ships passing by by a casual glance on the river.

Starting from Hangzhou, follow the canal through Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Zhenjiang to reach the Yangtze River Estuary, and then walk into the more ancient. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Hangou, which was dug by the Wu Kingdom, connected the Yangtze River and the Huai River, can pass through Hongze Lake and then reach Sizhou, which is close to the Huai River.

Ye Qing and his team obviously did not need to go around the river from Hangou to Sizhou. After all, they were just a large number of people, but there were no other goods. So after crossing the Yangtze River, they would get off the boat from Yangzhou and then go to Sizhou by land. Although the time was similar, the distance was much closer.

Ye Qing never believed that the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty was really prosperous. Of course, he believed that the several big cities led by Lin'an City were so prosperous that they were shockingly prosperous, but other places far away from the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, especially the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River, obviously could not be compared with the surrounding areas of Lin'an City.

He couldn't see the reason for the green crops on both sides of the shore. Just as he thought now, if he traveled over and came to a farmer's house, he would probably starve to death in the fields or in the hut.

"What are you looking at? So fascinating?" Yan Qingcheng's voice sounded in Ye Qing's ears. His tall figure, beautiful cheeks, and the skirt that gently danced with the wind made Yan Qingcheng's graceful and concave figure vividly set off.

"What a good figure!" Ye Qing gave a thumbs up and said to Yan Qingcheng, who looked extremely excited since he got on the boat.

"Hate! Not serious!" Yan Qingcheng stroked his hair in his ears, which was blown by Jiang Feng, and then hurriedly took the piece handed over by You'er, putting an embroidered slanted collar and wide-sleeved embroidered trousers on his body.

"I didn't think of anything. But I'm curious, why are you so excited? You don't look like a businessman who is busy with his own business, but you're on a trip." Ye Qing looked at Yan Qingcheng and gave him anger, but he was not angry about his frivolity in his words, so he turned around and said with a backside of the boat.

"Then tell me, what should a businessman who travels from south to north and sleeps in the open?" Yan Qingcheng was very interested in talking and stood on the bow of the boat with Ye Qing. Although Yan Qingcheng was enough to be called a jade girl, Ye Qing was not even half a golden boy in the eyes of the Southern Song people.

So some literati and other boat passengers who passed by them would stun Yan Qingcheng's beauty while stunning Yan Qingcheng's beauty, and then looked at Ye Qing next to him, shook his head slightly and regretted that the flowers were finally arched by the pig.

"I don't know what it should be like." Ye Qing smiled casually and said, "Do you believe me, is this my first time traveling far away?"

"I believe, you can tell from your appearance. However, when I was a child, I went to Sizhou twice with my father, and then I went to my brother once, and then I never went there again. So it is inevitable that I would be more excited when I went out. Isn't it You'er?" Yan Qingcheng asked naughtyly with his head on his shoulder.

"Yes, we haven't come out to play for a long time." You'er nodded quickly, excited and curious about the people and things on the boat.

Ye Qing looked at the two cheerful people and asked with a smile: "Are you not afraid of encountering bandits and bandits when you go out? In addition to the more money in the Song Dynasty, my Song Dynasty belongs to bandits and bandits."

Yan Qingcheng gave Ye Qing a speechless look, as if he was complaining that Ye Qing's words were disgusting. Then he sighed helplessly: "I don't know what's going on. There are still many uprisings against the court now. From time to time, I can hear in Lin'an City that someone has opposed the court. The court has dispatched a large army from the way to suppress it. Then, within two months, he returned to the court, and then there was another place that has opposed the court. This has been repeated without stopping."

"Of course you can't understand why the people rebelled. Merchants were not as gentle as the previous dynasty in the Song Dynasty..." Ye Qing shook his head and said halfway, only to see a few literati whispering there not far away, looking in his direction from time to time.

Ye Qing naturally would not think that he was looking at himself. There was such a fairy-looking woman standing beside him. It was already enough to restrain the literati didn't come up immediately.

Ye Qing ignored the young scholars not far away, and then continued: "You may not believe it when you say it. After Qin Hui's death, both officials and wealthy families in Lin'an City said that the Qin family is now in decline, but even so, the rented rice reached 100,000 hu every year last year. Qinghefang was famous for Zhang Jun. When he was alive, his family collected 600,000 hu of rice every year. This is not the most. Zhang Guaizi, a powerful Huaidong tycoon, collected 700,000 hu every year...!"

"Then you go north this time, it's not that the court is going to attack that kidnapper?" Yan Qingcheng looked at the cold light flashing in Ye Qing's eyes and asked in a low voice with some anxiety.

"Of course not, it has nothing to do with me. Besides... After crossing the Yangtze River, who has the final say in the territory between the Huai River and the Yangtze River, I don't know. What should I do if I'm fine?" Ye Qing put his hands in his sleeves and said honestly.

"But we got off the boat from Yangzhou and took the land route. Yangzhou, Chuzhou, Sizhou, Zhenzhou, Haizhou, Tongzhou, Chuzhou all belong to Huainan East Road, and..." Yan Qingcheng curled his lips and said with some dissatisfaction: "It is indeed as you said, as long as you cross the Yangtze River and enter Huainan East Road, especially after Yangzhou, no matter where the merchants come from Sizhou, there are various taxes on Huainan East Road, both water and land routes, so it is no wonder that the people will rebel."

Ye Qing smiled and said nothing. He looked at the young literati, discussed for a while, tidied up his clothes, and seemed to be walking towards him.

So I turned my head and faced the river, but my thoughts were flying involuntarily. The Southern Song Dynasty... seemed to be an extremely wealthy dynasty, especially after being whitewashed in later generations, it completely became a peaceful and prosperous era with clear politics and peace and peace in the people.

Whether it was Zhang Jun or Qin Hui's death, when the land that was originally annexed by them was taken back by the court, it did not become the official land of the court, but after a round trip, it unknowingly returned to the hands of the powerful and powerful in the court.

People like to say that the Southern Song Dynasty was rich and its economic proportion accounted for a lot of the world, but they didn't know that the heavy taxes in the Southern Song Dynasty were far greater than those in the Northern Song Dynasty and the previous dynasties.

There are many types of levy and miscellaneous taxes, and even some places slightly far from Lin'an City, just like Huainan East Road north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River. The additional local taxes are completely beyond what ordinary farmers can afford.

The most important reason why these taxes were still accused and accepted by the court was that they blocked the gang of officials and masters south of the Yangtze River, as well as Zhao Gou and the current emperor in the name of supplying military expenses.

Everyone knows that Zhao Gou is afraid of death and is afraid of losing his country. Yangzhou and other places were also occupied by the Jin people in the early Southern Song Dynasty. They once crossed the river and attacked Jiankang and other areas. The so-called Zhenjiang naturally became a military town south of the Yangtze River.

Yangzhou and other places across the river from Zhenjiang were naturally valued by Zhao Gou and the court as the first line of defense to prevent the Jin people from going south before the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, the officialdom of Huainan East Road could be relaxed, cleverly established names, and set up a large number of taxes to fill their personal pockets, so that the court could have nothing to say to them.

But it was obvious that the entire Southern Song Dynasty was not the only one in Huainan East Road. Although other roads were not as blatant as Huainan East Road, various taxes were naturally small. Looking at the north and south Song Dynasty, peasant uprisings were probably the most?

If ordinary people could have enough food and clothing and don’t have to worry about taxes, who would have rebelled or rebelled for nothing?

Even in the current period of Emperor Xiaozong of Song Dynasty, large-scale peasant uprisings have basically never stopped.

When Emperor Xiaozong of Song succeeded to the throne, the Wang Xuan, Zhong Yu and Li Yun were rebelled on Guangnan West Road, and then the government forced the sale of frankincense to various places in the past two years. The Li Jin Uprising in Binzhou where Yan Qingzhi, Yan Qingzhi, was located, and the Guiyang Army went south to Guangnan East Road, and Lian Po Lianzhou, Yingzhou and other places.

Tea farmers and tea vendors on Jinghu North Road revolted under the organization of Lai Wenzheng, and Xin Qiji, who was the founding officer at the time, led his army to suppress them, etc.

In short, in the Southern Song Dynasty, behind the rise of singing and dancing, it was like a glamorous woman. You don’t know how much price she paid and dignity behind her glamorousness.

So in Ye Qing's view, even if the crops on both sides of the river grow vigorously, they are just the private property of local tyrants and evil gentry, and have nothing to do with the people.

"How do you know all these?" Yan Qingcheng was a little surprised. When Ye Qing talked about Binzhou just now, she was still a little worried, but when Ye Qing said that Yan Qingzhi had passed, the uprising there had been long suppressed, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!