"Remember everything?"

Guan Huaigong followed King Qin out of the back kitchen of Jiangnan Tower, and heard Zhu Xiang who was walking in front suddenly ask.

The young official had some doubts in his eyes, not knowing which one he was asking about.

Zhu Ming glared at Guan Huaigong indifferently: "The menu at Jiangnan Restaurant is really dazzling. I have rarely seen it in these years. Did you remember it all just now?"

Guan Huaigong was stunned for a moment: "Back to the prince, I guess I have remembered everything except the tea."

Zhu Xi nodded: "You remember how many taels of silver a dish costs, right?"

At this time, Guan Huaigong was stunned again.

He originally thought that King Qin wanted him to remember the name of the dish, but later he did the same thing himself.

Little did he know that Prince Qin actually asked him about the price of vegetables.

Guan Huaigong nodded: "This Jiangnan Restaurant is quite interesting, and the food prices are easy to remember."

Can you remember it easily?

If it's either a hair or a straight, there are just a few fixed ones on the left and right.

Thinking of this, Guan Huaigong felt a little sad. These officials in Yangzhou City really lived a good life. It's no wonder that the officials in Yangzhou City owned the Lianghuai Salt Fields, which was the highest in the entire Ming Dynasty.

First class rich place.

We need to talk to the governor about this matter later, and maybe we can dig out a large number of corrupt officials from here.

A meal like this costs hundreds of taels of silver. How can we not be greedy for money on weekdays?

I don’t know where the officials in Yangzhou City got the confidence to hold such a banquet today.

Zhu Xi just snorted and said nothing.

The two quickly entered the top floor of the main building of Jiangnan Building.

Jiangnan Building is very tall and spacious, with five tables on the top floor.

All in all, it can also accommodate the high-ranking officials in Yangzhou City.

At this time, the Yangzhou officials had not yet arrived, so Zhu Xi stood by the window and looked at the canal in the distance.

Although maritime transport has developed rapidly in recent years and its scale has become larger and larger, the canal, which has been operating for hundreds of years, still has an irreplaceable role and value.

On the river, there was an endless stream of official ships and merchant ships going south and north, and the huge sails seemed to have completely covered the river surface.

People were also coming and going on the official roads on both sides of the canal. Countless horse-drawn carriages and merchants and pedestrians were rushing in and out for the transportation of resources and economic exchanges in the Ming Dynasty.

A day laborer earns about fifty cash a day.

This is the more common labor price in the southern Zhili area today.

Private workshops and private businessmen have to offer such wages, otherwise the people will have to go to government-run workshops or try their best to work on government projects.

This was an outcome that the imperial court did not expect after initially considering allowing the people to earn some money.

It is actually possible to influence private employment through government means.

But this also made the court and cabinet understand one thing.

That is to say, to a large extent, the government does not need to use official documents and government expenditures to increase people's income as in the past.

A new model began to quietly rise to the cabinet's long-term agenda. In the current Hongwu New Deal, the imperial court began to try to use the administrative power of the government to influence and guide civilian employment, to regulate and increase the people's work income.

Zhu Yunxi didn't know about this matter.

If he had known about it, he would have been surprised and lamented that the Ming Dynasty had already begun to experiment with the government's regulation of the private economy without any guidance.

But Zhu Ping, who was standing in Jiangnan Tower at the moment, didn't have so many thoughts.

He simply felt that the lively and busy scene he saw in front of him was so satisfying.

Isn't this more fulfilling than fighting a cricket with a horse and a bird?

But some people don't want to have such a happy scene.

So here he is.

He wants to preside over a fair event in Yangzhou City.

The officials from various yamen in Yangzhou city did not keep His Highness the King of Qin and the superior officials from the governor's yamen in central Beijing waiting long.

The trend in southern Zhili has been very bad recently, and everyone is in danger.

The King of Qin couldn't just do it for the evaluation of officials. Such a trivial matter only requires a visit from the superior officer of the governor's office.

To be able to bring King Qin, the God of Killing, to come over, there must be something up his sleeve.

This is also why Yangzhou City went to war this time and entertained Zhu Fang and others at the Jiangnan Tower with high standards.

When a group of red-robed and green-robed officials in Yangzhou City walked into the Jiangnan Tower and climbed to the top floor, Zhu Ping's eyes swept over everyone who arrived.

The green-headed flies in Yangzhou City are not yet qualified to go to the top floor, so they are all on the floors below, waiting for Prince Qin and the governor's Yamen officials.

A group of people, including the salt transshipment envoys of the Huaidu and Huaihe Rivers, the governor of water transport, the prefect of Yangzhou, and others stood in front of Zhu Ping with respectful expressions.

Here, the magistrate of Yangzhou is naturally the host, and the salt transshipment envoy of the Huaidu and Huaidus, the transshipment envoy, has the highest official position.

However, when the two people and the people behind them bowed and prepared to salute.

Zhu Ping coughed slightly and raised his hand to stop these people.

Everyone was puzzled. It was stopped before the opening remarks and introductions even started. It seemed something was wrong.

But Zhu Xi had already spoken: "I received an errand from the prince to go to Yangzhou. Therefore, the errand is the most important thing, and naturally I am not in the mood to listen to your polite words."

This is already a bit serious.

The atmosphere was brought to a freezing point right from the start.

It's just that Zhu Xi was the King of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, and he was also the clan killer.

No one dared to say anything, and seeing that Zhu Xi didn't speak, they could only stand there.

Guan Huai glanced at Zhu Xi with some doubts, wondering what the trouble was about.

At this time, there was a noise outside Jiangnan Tower.

Some people are shouting, mainly shouting about injustice.

At intervals, some people were warning the people who were complaining in cold voices.

The sound was very noisy, as if there were many people downstairs.

At this time, Zhu Xi looked at the Yangzhou officials present with a mysterious face: "Let's all go and have a look. Each one will receive one. Which yamen they are from."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was shocked again.

As soon as Prince Qin entered Yangzhou City, he took people first.

Everyone already had some warning in their minds. After a period of silence and hesitation, the Lianghuai Transfer Envoy, Yangzhou Magistrate and others still followed Zhu Ping's words and went to the window sill on the side and looked down.

It's okay not to look at it, but everyone was shocked again when they saw it.

I saw that the entire Jiangnan downstairs was already overcrowded.

The officers and soldiers of the Yulin Guards and the Jinyi Guards who followed Zhu Ping into Yangzhou, with the cooperation of the tax soldiers of the Yangzhou Prefecture Tax Department, had already escorted a large group of officials from various yamen downstairs.

The Lianghuai Transfer Envoy and the Yangzhou Magistrate looked at each other silently. While they were shocked, they also distinguished who were the officials from each department downstairs.

They were all the former Governor-General's Yamen who presided over the examination of Zhili officials, and there were government officials in the Yangzhou prefecture who were absent from the examination for various reasons.

"Your Majesty, this..."

The Lianghuai transfer envoy looked a little ugly, bowed his head and glanced at Zhu Xi.

When he heard that Zhu Ping was coming to the city today and wanted to treat them as guests, he had some speculation that today's meal would not be very appetizing.

Even, this is a Hongmen Banquet.

But he didn't expect that when they came over, they not only didn't have the chance to tell their families and names, but now they took away so many officials from the Yangzhou government in front of them.

When did this happen?

Thinking of the tax collectors downstairs, the transfer between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River made me a little worried.

Since the imperial court established the tax bureau, set up tax bureaus and organized tax soldiers at the local level, the local area has often become embarrassed.

The first is the local finance, which was stripped away at once, and everything was in the hands of the local tax department. On weekdays, when the government wants to do something and needs some money, it not only has to ask for approval from the Ministry of Revenue or the Chief Envoy as in the past

You have to go to the tax department to ask for money just like grandpa.

That’s not all.

The most important thing is that the people from the tax department cannot be bribed at all!

Those people don't seem to see money in their eyes.

The most irritating thing was that not only did the gang detain the person who sent the money and hand it over directly to the Jin Yiwei, they also recorded the money in the tax department's account and handed it over to the Accounts Department.

If that's all it is, it's pretty good.

The most uncomfortable thing for the local government now is that as long as they have some evil intentions, these tax department people really dare to come and ransack your home.
To be continued...