Through the ancient dark horse strategy

Ye Xiaoyi returned to the study with a large stack of salt tickets, while Xiao Mo was concentrating on preparing the child's homework for the next two years.

The full explanation of ancient Chinese textbooks is called "commentary", such as "Commentary to the Thirteen Classics", there are different commentaries written by different authors, Xiao Mo is listing out the catalog of commentary by famous writers he thinks one by one, for Ye Xiaoyi to read , to help understand the Four Books and Five Classics.

Xiao Mo has read a lot of books and has a strong memory. He can even write down the opening titles of the wonderful chapters in someone's "Reading Essays" for Ye Xiaoyi to read.

Xiao Mo listed a bunch of bibliographies, some for Ye Xiaoyi to read carefully, some for Ye Xiaoyi to memorize by force, and some for Ye Xiaoyi to understand.

When Ye Xiaoyi saw a bunch of opinions about "Guanzi", "Guiguzi", "Weiliaozi", and "Huainanzi", he immediately became confused.Nima, didn’t you say that there are only thirteen Confucian classics?

Among the Four Books and Five Classics, there are three rites in "Li", and there are three biography in "Spring and Autumn", which is enough.Obviously four plus five equals nine, Ye Xiaoyi already felt cheated if he insisted on finding out the Thirteen Classics.There are so many bibliographies popping up at this moment, when will I learn it?

Ye Xiaoyi said with a bitter face: "I want to endorse, I want to practice calligraphy, I want to write articles, and I also want to participate in the scholar's meeting. How can I have time to read so many books? Can you delete a few books?"

He has only memorized a little bit of "Shangshu", and Ye Xiaoyi is trying to find a way to reduce the burden and improve efficiency.

He is still reciting the "Book of Songs", and he is afraid that if he does not recall it for a long time, he will forget it all.Then the hard work of the previous few months will be in vain.

But such a back-and-forth like a wheel battle, the more pressure you get to the back.Each of the [-]-character Book of Songs has to be recalled before forgetting it, and the [-]-character Shangshu has to be memorized once, so hurry up and recite one more.

For a newly memorized article, you must recite once a day for the first three days, and three times a week for the next seven days.After that, keep repeating it two or three times a month, so that he will never forget it.Otherwise, you will forget everything and it will be too difficult to recite.

But in this way, the tasks he arranges in a day are very heavy.Not only does it take time to memorize new things, but there are also a lot of old things, which require him to recite and memorize word by word seriously.His time was running out.

Ye Xiaoyi now found a way to reach the state of not forgetting.But he found that he still needs to upgrade the method to save more time to read books.

But he doesn't have much time, and he doesn't read all kinds of books. He still wants to put his efforts on the cutting edge and filter out less important books.

Xiao Mo pinched Ye Xiaoyi's face, and deleted a dozen or so titles without any hassle. He hated iron and said: "You are the laziest, so you can't delete any more. The rest of these are very inspiring books. Be sure to take a good look."

Ye Xiaoyi saluted and thanked in a foolish way: "yessir."

Xiao Mo pinched his face again: "Can't you talk properly?"

This kid had always looked like this ghost before him, Xiao Mo was very worried that he would not see a well-mannered apprentice when he came back after two years at sea.The guy is still the rascal.

Ye Xiaoyi pulled his hand away, why do these tall guys always pinch his face because of their long hands and being taller than him?

Ye Xiaoyi brought up the business: "Let's see, how much salt ticket will I get back? You can use it to buy salt, and ship it to the Western Regions to exchange for cattle and sheep."

Xiao Mo frowned when he saw such a large stack of tickets, "Who gave it to you? Xiao Qian?"

Ye Xiaoyi also became serious, "It's that capitalist, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Xiao Mo looked at the stack of tickets worriedly, and then stared at Ye Xiaoyi: "You are too bold, you dare to get involved in the sale of salt. Once the salt transport envoy in Yangzhou is found corrupt. How much money has been embezzled? head felony.

Salt merchants who are in the same boat cannot escape.How many people know that you have so many salt tickets? "

Ye Xiaoyi was also a little startled, he didn't expect the official to break the law himself, and following the official to get rich is to die!Once this matter is exposed, he will order a fart champion and send him directly to the execution ground.

Ye Xiaoyi frowned and said: "So, salt, iron, wine, tea, and all the money-making businesses controlled by the government are no longer allowed?

As long as you are forced to feed corrupt officials, or take the initiative to pay bribes, it is a taint, so why not?Go home to farm and set up a street stall.

It's too bad!The law does not blame the public, isn't that what Yanyin and Chayin all over the country do?Doesn't the Son of Heaven know?

Isn't it funny that what the entire imperial court does conflicts with the laws enacted by the imperial court itself?Doesn't this mean that whenever the emperor wants to arrest people, he can catch a basket, and it only depends on who the emperor wants to arrest? "

Xiao Mo sighed and said: "It's really funny, there are indeed loopholes in the court's system, but no one in the court cares about it.

The emperor only wanted to collect heavy taxes to restrict businessmen, and at the same time fill the treasury to achieve his goal.No matter how much the officials below can fill their private pockets, the imperial salary is already low, and it is understandable for officials to be greedy.

And court officials are corrupt.The beneficiaries of smearing, they simply don't want to fix this loophole.As long as the record of impeachment is not played in front of the emperor, nothing will happen.

Moreover, the Son of Heaven is high above, if an official of the court intercepts the excerpts played by the local authorities, the Son of Heaven will not know the local affairs.

It was only when I came to Yangzhou that I found out that the well-known Yangzhou salt merchants did not sell salt, they sold salt tickets.

Everyone thinks how much money a salt dealer can make, and they compete to buy salt tickets to sell salt.In fact, the income from selling salt is limited, and the lucrative business of selling salt tickets is the reason why Yangzhou salt merchants are rich in the world.

It's a pity that if you don't come to Yangzhou officialdom, you don't understand this truth.All the officials in Yangzhou who were upright and clean-sleeved were all because of politics.He was pulled down by mistake, or died on the way to his post.Only corrupt officials can stay in Yangzhou safely and maintain the status of the richest man in the imperial capital of Yangzhou.

Once this phenomenon is exposed, the emperor will investigate thoroughly, and the implications will be extensive.Just imagine, if you copy the home of a big salt merchant, you can get a huge sum of money and put it into the treasury. Of course, the emperor will not be soft. "

Ye Xiaoyi understood that although there were more than one place that issued tea tickets and salt tickets, if Yangzhou was caught, it would have to be dealt with strictly according to the law.This is a profit flow cycle.

People buy salt from salt dealers at high prices, and salt dealers buy salt tickets from officials at high prices.The benefits flowed to the Yangzhou salt transport envoy and the big salt merchants.

The Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy colluded with the big salt merchants, and sold so much salt that the tickets were not submitted to the court.Once it is reported, the emperor will be furious.Annoyed that Yangzhou's appetite is so big, the total salt tax in the whole country is not as much as Yangzhou's salt transportation makes a person's private income, and the big salt merchants in Yangzhou are actually richer than the royal relatives, how can this be possible?So the benefits must flow upwards.

The emperor's first distress is not the people, but anger at you for collecting so much tax money in the name of the court, so most of it should be handed over to Zhen.

I just handed over a fraction of a cow, and I am a beggar?Where is my imperial prestige?I should kill you all, and then ransack all the houses (confiscating property), and I will still be the winner in the end.

So this system is very good, there is no need to change it, and it is very cool to fatten it up and then slaughter it.I have killed so many corrupt officials, and I can still gain a lot of popular support.People and wealth gain both, and the winner in life is me.

Therefore, despite the many disadvantages of the imperial court's laws, they were still implemented for decades.It's not that there are no more advanced methods and systems, but that people simply don't want to change them.

These loopholes that are ridiculed are precisely the bureaucratic class.The level includes the emperor's own magic weapon for collecting money, who said it needs to be changed?I'm fighting with you!

Ye Xiaoyi speculated: "So once there is a turmoil in the court, if there are no court officials to support Yangzhou, Yangzhou will not be able to keep it?"

So in order to avoid harming Chi Yu, shouldn't he move his address?After all, the royal garden-style residence in Slender West Lake is too eye-catching.

Xiao Mo shook his head: "Yangzhou is not so fragile, Yangzhou is more powerful, local officials are also very powerful, and the affairs of Yangzhou's official circles cannot go beyond the boundary of Yangzhou.

There are not many outsiders who can understand the mystery of Yangzhou's rise.Mainly because there are too many smoke bombs.

One is that Yangzhou is in charge of salt transportation in the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, and the Huaihe River and Huaihe River is the area with the largest salt production in the country. Yangzhou has four meetings and five developments, and there is a convenient canal leading to the capital. Salt merchants from all over the world come to Yangzhou to import salt.It is not surprising that Yangzhou salt merchants can surpass merchants in other places and become the richest tycoon.

Second, Yangzhou is one of the four major foreign trade ports and the most luxurious place in the country.Hu people, Persians (Iran), big cannibals (Arabia), Tianzhu people (India), Koryo (North Korea), Dongying (Japan) and other foreign countries, a quarter of the silver produced each year flows through trade and tribute. Come into me.

Therefore, Yangzhou's wealth is the best in the world, and there is a good cover-up. No one in the court thought that Yangzhou's wealth had hidden secrets.

But if this case is exposed, it will cause a sensation in the government and the public, so it is better for us not to get involved.

The Xiao family in Lanling and the Ye family in Jinling have their own guardians. I will tell Xiao Qian not to drag you into it.You only need to provide Lanling Restaurant with new wine, and we don't deal with any tax officials, and we can avoid being implicated. "

Ye Xiaoyi nodded: "I see."

Ye Xiaoyi was going to change his residence. He was a widowed farmer's boy, but living in such a luxurious place as Yeyuan was really too much to criticize.Now that Ye Yuan's fishing mission is complete, he can also move.

Xiao Mo confiscated all of Ye Xiaoyi's salt tickets, nodded his nose and said, "You kid is too bold, I will take these tickets to the black market and dispose of them. You are not allowed to interfere in Yangzhou's salt sales, you know ?"

Ye Xiaoyi nodded solemnly: "Understood, I will be careful not to get involved in the gray area of ​​officialdom in the future. This time I was almost trapped because I didn't understand the general environment, and I won't in the future."

He only saw the prosperity of Yangzhou, but he didn't know that there were many dangers behind Yangzhou, and he would be exposed at any time.Don't lose your life if you don't get much money, and get involved in salt and greed.It's not good if the dirty case is gone.Xiao Mo taught him a very important lesson.

Xiao Mo touched Ye Xiaozi's hair, which was getting darker and darker. This kid is so determined and courageous, how can he rest assured to leave this kid alone in Yangzhou for two years?

Don't wait until he comes back, this kid has already turned the wind and rain upside down in Yangzhou?It's really worrying, what should he do with this kid?