Chapter 517: Jinchuan Gate
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On November 20, the first year of Shenwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan had occupied Nanjing for almost a month. The entire Nanjing city had begun to adapt to returning to the rule of the Ming Dynasty. All industries in the city also began to operate normally. Except for some people who participated in the Qing Dynasty in the past few years, the rest of the people lived as usual.
However, it cannot be said that life has not changed. Nearly 200,000 troops from Guangdong outside the city, these people took the newly issued silver dollars to Nanjing to spend, which can be regarded as a small boost to the capital's GDP.
At this time, all the civil officials in Guangdong did not arrive. There were only more than 200 officials in the huge Nanjing city, so government affairs had actually stopped. Everyone was waiting for the arrival of Zhu Hongsan's upstarts in Guangdong.
Tong Yangjia, Qian Qianyi and others took advantage of the fact that there was nothing to do and began to occupy real estate in Nanjing. Tong Yangjia directly occupied the house of the former Duke Baoguo Zhu Guobi. The poor Duke Baoguo Zhu Guobi was still in the imperial prison of Jinyiwei. His family was driven to the streets. There was no choice but to rent a small yard outside the city and wait for his master to be released from prison.
Qian Qianyi naturally could not be as despicable as Tong Yangjia. Lao Qian just sent his family to his old house in Mochou Lake and gave a message to the guy who occupied his house. The guy immediately moved out of Qian Qianyi's house overnight and accidentally left 10,000 taels of silver at home.
Zhu Hongsan doesn't want to care about these bullshit things now. He was so angry that he was half-hearted by the news coming from Huguang.
It turned out that Zhu Hai, the successor whom he had hope, just saved his life in the Nanchang front line and took a woman as a concubine. This was not that Zhu Hongsan didn't like his son looking for a concubine, but that he was annoyed that Zhu Hai could not see the situation clearly.
Zhu Hai now needs to rely on Ma Mingyuan to stand firm in the position of the prince, and he has promised Ma Mingyuan that Zhu Hai must marry Ma Mingyuan's legitimate daughter as his concubine. However, Zhu Hai couldn't control his desire and found a concubine first, which really disappointed Zhu Hongsan.
Zhu Hongsan looked at the information from the guards of the East Factory and said to Li Chengen: "This bastard, I don't know the slightest importance, how can I entrust my country to him? Li Chengen, you send someone to pass the order and let the bastard come back immediately!"
Lee Chengen asked with a pleasing look on his face: "Prince, how do you arrange that woman?"
Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "I will directly give death. What's the best thing about that mine-rolled daughter?"
Li Chengen bowed his head and was about to go out, Zhu Hongsan said again: "Don't let the prince know when doing things! The prince is very soft-hearted!"
Just when Zhu Hongsan ordered the recall of the prince, a large sea ship came from the Jinchuan Gate outside the water gate of Nanjing. Now Emperor Shenwu's army occupied Nanjing, so naturally the Hengjiang iron chain on the Yangtze River had been cleared. The routes from Guangdong and Nanzhili were unobstructed, and the sea ships could go directly along the river to Wuchang. With the opening of shipping, a large number of Guangdong cargoes poured into Nanjing. In the past, Guangdong's fine salt, sugar, etc. had to be transported by land, and the logistics cost was very high. However, with the opening of shipping, the logistics cost dropped greatly. After the exquisite goods from Guangdong were shipped to Nanjing, it was 20% cheaper than the local ones. However, this economic impact is not obvious yet, and no one cares about it.
With the docking of Guangdong passenger ships, the first batch of Guangdong people boarded the land in Nanjing. Most of the first batch of visitors were servants of the major families in Guangdong. They wanted to stand up for their masters and prepare for the welcome. However, they were not all servants. There was also an important figure in this ship, Qian Qianyi's second son Qian Sunai. Qian Qianyi's son is very awesome. Qian Sunai is the concubine's son of Lao Qian, but he has been smart since childhood and is better than Lao Qian's eldest son.
Young, the deepest love of Lao Qian. And Qian Sunai was also very awesome in history. He passed the imperial examination at the age of fifteen. He was completely like a child prodigy in Nanzhili, where literary style is so strong. However, Qian Sunai was displaced throughout history. After becoming a Jinshi at the age of eighteen, he was implicated by his father Qian Qianyi. He returned to his hometown in Changshu and lived in seclusion. He waited for Lao Qian to die before he became an official. In the future, Lao Qian's direct descendants were no longer promising. At most, they were just small officials like magistrates.
But now it is not in history. Although Qian Qianyi is despised, he is a cabinet master after all, and Qian Sunai is still very majestic.
Qian Sunai is 18 years old this year. He originally wanted his second son to study in Guangdong with peace of mind. There will definitely be an Enca exam next year. At that time, I hope that his son will come out of the exam, and it is best to get a Tanhua as well. In this way, the father and son are much better than the Ma family, which is a three-jinshi student.
But Qian Sunai didn't think so. He was in his 180s and nineteen years old and really wanted to make achievements in this troubled times. So after he got his brother-in-law and emperor occupied Nanjing, he immediately bid farewell to his mother and wife in Guangdong and brought a few family members to Nanjing to open his eyes.
Qian Qianyi's name was unknown, and Qian Sunai was deeply loved by the emperor, so the butlers of various aristocratic families on the ship received an order from their master to deliberately hand over the Qian family. After the ship docked, all the butlers came to salute Qian Sunai and bid farewell to Qian Sunai.
Qian Sunai returned the gifts one by one, and then took Shutong's family to get off the boat. There are six official docks and ten commercial docks in Nanjing Jinchuanmen Wharf. They are very busy now and do not have the intention of just finishing the big battle.
Qian Sunai remembered a sentence in the book, "Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like washing." Unexpectedly, Nanjing, which had just passed the war, was not at all chaotic. All walks of life are still open, and there are even crowds of people on the dock.
Qian Sunai was not in a hurry to go home, but walked around the street outside Jinchuanmen for a while. He found that these people in Nanjing were obviously hiding from him. I don’t know why?
"Qian Mo, go and ask why they are hiding from us?" Qian Sunai whispered to Qian Mo, the book boy beside him.
Xiaoshutong Qian Mo agreed and went to the roadside to inquire in the name of asking for directions, and soon found out the news.
"Young Master, because they saw that we were from Guangdong, everyone in Nanjing now knows that the emperor is from Guangdong. Some Guangdong people in the city are very arrogant, so the locals in Nanjing are very afraid of us!"
"Oh? How did they know that we are from Guangdong? We didn't say anything when we got ashore!"
"Young Master, you don't know that after Nanjing was occupied by the Qing Dynasty, these people shaved their heads. Now Emperor Shenwu has been beaten back. These shaved heads have no way to cut their hair again. Young Master, you didn't notice that everyone on the street is wearing hats. Those who don't wear hats are all Guangdong people!"
Qian Sunai couldn't help but smile when he heard Shutong say this. He didn't expect that he would not wear a hat to make these people recognize him as Guangdong.
"Qian Mo, go buy a few hats and bring them all, so that people won't let you see them saying that we are pretending to be powerful!"
Qian Mo went to the street to buy five hats, and Qian Sunai and his family brought them with him, so that no one could hide from walking around him. However, Qian Sunai was wearing a long juren gown, and there were still people avoiding walking on the street, but he lost the fear he used to be.
Qian Sunai saw it and thought to herself: It seems that the powerful people from Guangdong have bad reputations. I don’t know how they are doing at home?
Thinking of the fact that Qian Sun Ai had no desire to go shopping, she directly asked her family to find a big cart and prepared to go home first.
The car asked his family and asked, "Young Master, where are we going?"
This time Qian Sunai came out and did not write a letter to Qian Qianyi from Nanjing, so she didn't know where her home was. Qian Sunai thought for a while and said to her family: "Let's go to the old house outside Sanshan Gate first!"
Sanshan Gate is on the west side of Nanjing and Jinchuan Gate is on the north side, which is more than ten miles away. It takes the entire Nanjing city. The driver who drove the car was very happy when he heard this. He asked for three cents of silver after he went on this trip. He quickly asked Qian Sunai to sit down and then rushed into the city.
Jinchuanmen Water Pass is located at the Outer Jinchuanmen. It took five miles to walk along the Outer Jinchuanmen Street to reach Jinchuanmen. This is the serious city wall in Nanjing. Because it is the main gate of Shuiguan, it is full of large trucks filled with goods from the Shuiguan wharf, and the queue has been shipped out for a mile.
Qian Sunai saw that the carriage had stopped, lifted the curtain and asked, "Carrier, how long will it take?"
"Back to the young master, Jinchuan Gate is a tax customs place. All the processes have to file taxes. It seems that this team is not our turn!"
After Zhu Hongsan’s tax and fee reform, Guangzhou only levies taxes at the place of origin of the goods, and then it can be unhelpful in the areas controlled by Zhu Hongsan. Imported goods coming in from the customs can only be levyed once on the dock. Unexpectedly, Nanjing still retains the bad habits of the previous Ming Dynasty.
Qian Sunai, taking advantage of Zhu Hongsan's love, studied the Guangdong tax system in Guangdong. He found that although this tax at the source was less than the previous times, it greatly flourished business transactions. In the end, the tax collection was several times more than before. Now, seeing that the tax system of the previous Ming Dynasty is still left in Nanjing, I know that his emperor brother-in-law had just arrived in Nanjing and had not yet taken action to deal with these tax collectors.
Qian Mo, the book boy next to him, whispered: "Young Master, how long will it take to wait? Why don't you take the master's famous post to the front and take a look?" Qian Qianyi, as a cabinet master, is naturally very useful, but Qian Sunai and he are not the same type of person at all. Qian Sunai is very low-key, and after thinking about it, it's better not to be arrogant.
"Forget it, wait a while, it's still early!"
Qian Mo saw the young master say this, and there was no way to wait together. Fortunately, it was still early and I guess he could enter the city at noon.
Qian Sunai waited outside Jinchuan Gate for half an hour, and finally it was Qian Sunai and his group's turn to enter the pass.
There were more than a dozen tax collectors wearing soapy clothes at the gate. They looked at the carriage and then at the family members around them. The head of the tax project said: "Each person costs two cents of silver, exactly one tael!"
The price of silver in the Ming Dynasty was very expensive, one tael of silver was equivalent to one thousand yuan in later generations, so it would cost 1,000 yuan to pay a toll. Qian Mo followed Qian Sunai in Guangdong for many years, and paid such a expensive toll there. He stepped forward to defend himself: "That tax item, my young master is a juren, and he has fame and fortune. The Ming Dynasty law stipulates that no tax is required!"
Chapter completed!