Clam Pearl

It was a sunny day with no clouds in the sky, and when the land temple fair in Daopingli, Shangjing City, the people there became lively early, the traveling merchants and hawkers who came and went, the big business houses from all over the place were all in Daoping There are trading sheds on both sides of the Lidi Temple.

All of a sudden, all the officials patrolling the streets in Beijing became envious. The grandsons in Daopingli sent it today, and the reward will be more than doubled next month.

The so-called rewards of the street patrol officials have something to do with the newly collected tourist tax in Beijing.

According to the regulations in Shangjing, peddlers and small businesses can only trade in the designated squares and markets from east to west, north to south. This was the rule in Beijing in the past. No matter what you sell, it is a fixed location, which stipulates what you sell on that street. You can sell whatever you want, there is nothing wrong with it.

There are also those civilians who can't survive, who don't have the money to rent sheds and shops, so they quietly go to the surrounding counties to collect melons, fruits, pears and peaches and bring them into the city to sell.

They didn't dare to yell loudly, so they sneaked like thieves, straddled a basket, squatted under the trees at the end of the street or walked back and forth, and when the officials patrolling the street came, they ran faster than rabbits.Once these people are caught, it will be bad luck. For a basket of duck pears, they will eat ten boards first, and then go to prison to drink northwest wind for 20 days.If there is a wealthy family, five pennies are required to redeem someone, but who has five pennies and can come out to do this?

Since the beginning of this year, for some reason, there are more and more vendors in various places, and Sifang City in Shangjing is getting more and more crowded.Only go to Beijing every day and once the city gate is opened, half of the people who come in are villagers who have gone to the city to beg for a living. in spite of?

As a result, small merchants and peddlers gradually became bolder, and there were more and more peddlers. Now, apart from the three streets around the imperial palace, there are no shortage of these peddlers in the alleys and alleys of Shangjing, walking around with carts and baskets.Because of the new regulations, livestock must also pay taxes when they enter the city. This tax is not low, and it costs [-] yuan a day.In this way, the small traders will suffer some crimes by themselves, pull their own carts, and walk around with baskets.

A few months ago, a minister wrote in the book, saying that traveling merchants everywhere would damage the majesty of the capital, but today he didn't think so, and said with a smile, that is, poor people come to the city to beg for food, let's be more lenient, and add a tourist tax. yes.

Since then, the officials have been busy again. Once you go to the street, you don’t yell at the peddlers. money.

Ten kuai for the basket, 25 kuai for the cart, and you will be given a piece of bamboo brand for the day, and you will have to sell it the next day, and you have to change the brand.

The hot flowers on that brand have to be changed every day, and the commissions of the officials have to be replaced by the bottom brand. This brand has three sides in total, and the street patrolling officials have to go to the household department at five o'clock every day. A small yamen receives it, and it is said that only a few officials of the household department know what flowers are taken every day.It's the end of the month, and the street patrolman has to pay the money to match the cards with the cards in his hand.The petty official of each brand draws a money.

Of course, there are differences between the poor and the widowed, so the above stipulates that the inspectors will change their defenses every three days, and everything will be quiet now.

Such actions in the past will naturally cause dissatisfaction among the ministers, and no emperor in the past has been so mean to compete with the people for profit. How much can you earn by selling fruits with baskets?It's already pitiful, how can we continue to exploit?

So they quarreled for no more than a month, and continued to pretend to be deaf and dumb today, and several of them almost fainted in anger.In the blink of an eye, this month's settlement, the traveling merchants in Beijing actually paid more than 20 yuan in taxes. Today, with a big wave of his hand, the money will be used to repair houses and add ink to various yamen.There are also family members of military households who died every year, and the promised subsidy funds are also gradually paid out from here. If it is not enough at one time, it will be paid slowly, monthly, and it will be made up one day.

There are also two refugee shanty towns in Beijing that have added medical sheds from the Huimin Bureau. If they can’t afford medicines, they will provide free medical consultations. Ten tans of water and a pot of thick porridge were given to the victims.

Now no one spoke.How many years have the Ministry of Households not taken the initiative to allocate funds to repair the government office and purchase office supplies, and some victims of the disaster in Beijing No. [-] Division starved to death every day.

There are not many things, not much money, what matters is public opinion, the praises and praises are everywhere, and the small vendors seem to be very happy to pay the money. The melons and fruits at home are sold. , any day can earn dozens of money, and there is no cost, it is very cost-effective.They can't afford the shop's facade.

Shangjing is a big place. It is about 25 kilometers long and covers an area of ​​more than 60 square kilometers. There are ten main streets from east to west, with Tongtian Road as the central axis. Slowly spread out and repair, so the project has not stopped after Emperor Tiancheng ascended the throne.

The reason why the expansion has been continued is because there are still sixteen outer cities of different sizes around Shangjing. The city gates have been repaired, but the money for the city walls has not been in place.There are more than 20 counties in the surrounding area, hundreds of small towns, and countless villages...

Coupled with the constant flow of floating populations from all over the country who come to Beijing to do business every year, big merchants from all over the country regard Shangjing as the last stop of their business, which makes Shangjing, a city that is not small at first, continue to expand, and come and go every day There are thousands of traveling merchants. This is definitely not a joke.

All of a sudden, a large amount of income has been added, but it turns out that the business tax is so high!In contrast, the agricultural tax that can only be collected once a year in each locality appears a bit weak here.For a while, the ministers silently looked at this young, handsome monk emperor who liked to pretend to be deaf and dumb the most.

Some politically sensitive ministers can feel that a big game of chess is being played today, and where the army will end up. It is not known yet, and the interests of which class will be touched in the end. I don’t know. In short, it has been four years. The position is just smiling and changing something while pretending to be deaf and dumb. Although which class the emperor will touch, the minister currently does not have the foresight.

The only thing the ministers can be sure of is that the country is slowly recovering and prospering. Take the past two years as an example, with the sharp reduction of bandits and roving bandits everywhere, the word "stable" is used nowadays. It's touched.

For a while, the courtiers were a little bit disappointed, because Jinshang seldom asked their opinions, some things were thought of and he arranged for people to do it himself, and whoever was used was whoever was needed, and he never opened his mouth when it was not needed. .

As for the old three articles that the courtiers quarreled every day, "reform internal affairs, persuade agriculture and mulberry, and accept good talents", these things have been noisy before, after all, everyone has their own way.Each has a complete set of political reform ways of thinking of a certain academic school.

And everyone said that his set was useful to the country!In order to promote this celebrity career, it is not uncommon for ministers to get angry and fight each other in the hall to cause bloodshed.This is the problem that entangles each other every day. For this matter, it is quite awkward to fight upwards and downwards.

It has been four years since he ascended the throne, and he has gradually changed from not being favored at the beginning to now.Ministers are frustrated and some have begun to review their own way of doing things.Could it be that I was wrong before?For four years, everyone has been standing still, and only the people in Imakami's hands are slowly upgrading.And these people also belong to those who seldom talk and only do things.

It's funny how most of these people don't belong to that genre.The most representative one, Zhuang Chengxiu, was from a miscellaneous family. He knew a little bit about everything, and he came from a poor family.He became a monk in the early years, and he was implicated. His teacher was Wang Tian, ​​a representative of the famous school. At that time, the old man was timid, and he had already severed ties with him. Now he is probably vomiting blood with regret.

But when it comes to the ability to be an emperor, the ministers still think that Emperor Tiancheng is far behind Emperor Tianshou.

First of all, Emperor Tianshou began to receive imperial education since he was born, and then fought with his father, and then ruled the country for many years.That, that is a murderous emperor, majestic, and has his own way of doing things.

Emperor Tiancheng was different. He was born late, and when he came to the world, he began to study poetry, poetry, poetry, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, such as the aristocratic education of eating and dying.After the late emperor had an accident, he quietly went up to the mountain to ask for a ordination within a few years of receiving the prince's education.Later, what he received was the monk's education of clear rules and precepts, which had nothing to do with the way of governing the world.

Back then, the ministers had no other choice, so they elected him to be the throne. If the prince was not disabled, Taishi Hu’s faction would definitely support the former prince. After all, it is very beneficial for the ministers to support a little emperor, regardless of whether it is for each other. Whether it is a school of thought or a political method, it is a good opportunity to implement it.

Since his ascension to the throne today, he has been implementing the policy of four levels and eight stability.

No matter what it is, Jinshang has always had a good temper and started from the word stability. At first, Taishi Hu and other veterans of the three dynasties also intervened by gesticulating. Discussion, reconsideration and reconsideration, or pretend to be deaf and dumb.

This is the most annoying!But they have nothing to do today.Not for other reasons, the ministers also found out one day, no matter how they threaten, today they don't care about you, this indifference comes from the fact that the only bargaining chip in the present is the control of military power.Now the military power in the court is divided into two factions, one faction is in the hands of the Gu family, this faction has no objection to whoever is the emperor of the Zhao family, as long as they are descendants of the Zhao family, they are obedient.The other faction is Li Zhai, who is the minister in charge of the emperor's sleeve.

Military power is so mysterious, you look down on warriors, but you don't have military power in your hands, and the rest can only threaten Jinshang with the hearts of the people.But now it seems that Imamami has gradually grasped the hearts of the people.

In the past four years, Emperor Tiancheng has never added a gift, nor has he caused any trouble to his subordinates due to his own problems.His elder brother is enough to save, but I heard that Jinshang is now in the harem, and he only eats eighteen vegetarian dishes for each meal. When it comes to New Year's Day, he can just set up enough dishes according to the rules, but the dishes are still at most eighteen, and he hasn't seen him yet. Meaty.In four years, no one was added to his harem, and even two-thirds of the people were let out.The rest of the people are also very merciful today, and they all gave extra wages.

For four years, today he has never added any clothes to himself, and what he is wearing now is the clothes left by the late emperor, and he wears them himself after making them smaller.The first emperor had a lot of clothes, most of which were naked.

In order not to add to the loss of the poor treasury, except for going to Biluo Mountain by light car every month, the rest of the day has not been out of the palace for half a step since he became the throne, so as not to add any loss to the poor treasury.In the past, the drinking water in the palace was brought into the palace from the mountain spring near Shangjing, but now it is good, the empresses in the palace use the more than ten old wells in the palace as before.Today's work has reached a heinous level, and the ministers tried to persuade him to no avail.I was so anxious that I went to the temple to chant scriptures and reflect on myself for a few days, which made me very angry.

He picks on himself today, but never picks on the bottom.During the time when Emperor Tianshou was there, he promised many things, such as treating retired soldiers back to their hometowns, relocating soldiers to pay road money, increasing government schools in various places, rewarding meritorious ministers with some mansions, etc., the late emperor remembered something As soon as you leave, you owe everything if you have no money.

Not today, today he seldom promises anything, since he took the throne, he has paid off his father and brother's debts, and he has been paying off debts owed to the world and the ministers.

In the past, the ministers didn't pay much attention to these things. Since the increase of the tourist tax, it suddenly seemed like a lamp was lit in the dark. Everyone discovered that today he is silently changing the country. Not superficial, he just chanted scriptures and did things silently, quietly doing what an emperor should do.I really don't care if you say I'm good or not!If you think it's not good, then I will become a monk. This is what I often say when I am in a hurry and threaten ministers.

For a while, the officials in the court were quite ashamed. Now it seems that the emperor is not a species that can manage the world well. The soft emperor has the way of the soft emperor.What's more, it hurts even more to cut flesh with a soft knife!

The world is stable, life will be better, and the common people have extra output, so they can make a living and add some income. Today, it is not mean, and you are not restricted when you come to do business. Except for the few streets in front of my house, you can do whatever you want. Sell ​​it and pay the tax. I can’t help it. I dare not think about agricultural tax now, and no one in the five counties has farmed land yet.

In the fourth year of Tiancheng, the reform of Daliang Kingdom began to change slowly from the ten coins of this traveling merchant.

But he said that on this day, Daopingli held a land temple fair.This temple fair is very big, because the land grandfather of his family has a background, stories, and legends. The land grandfather here is the largest of the four land grandfathers in Shangjing.It is said that this grandfather had also been in the family of a grandpa who was protecting the emperor before, and then died in battle. After returning to the sky, the Holy Lord granted him the old man to come here to be the Lord of the Land.

The grandpa of the land is also a statue in armor on the shrine, very majestic, with a horse behind him, that horse is also a grandpa, and now he also wants to eat incense.Therefore, the scale of this temple fair is large, with three streets in one.

Early in the morning, the bustling merchants from all over the country set up stalls outside the Earth Temple from shed to shed, basket to basket.The temple fair is different from the chamber of commerce. The temple fair is full of fun, except for the Yunluoban invited by the head of the Earth Temple to sing for three days, there must also be vendors and jugglers on both sides of the lane below, every five sheds.

Take storytelling as an example, nowadays there are all genres of storytelling, those who tell history books, those who sing slang songs by blind men, those who tell biographies by girls, are all separated from those who tell novels.There are rules for these people to open a book now. They have to find some white powder first, draw a circle on the spot, pay ten dollars to the grandpa of the little official in Lifang, and stand in the middle of the circle and talk when they get a place.

Since it is a temple fair in alleys, the people who come and go are ordinary people, and those who walk among the bustling crowds are also dressed in linen and coarse cloth. Everyone is of the same class, and they all happily stroll around very happily.

As soon as the temple fair opened, it was a lively morning. Seeing the sun shining brightly, the guests were tired from shopping, so the guests bought a big cake and stood by the street or sat or stood there listening to books and resting.

Everyone was in a good mood, but they didn't pay attention. Suddenly, a group of people entered the street. This group of people entered the street in batches. There were about thirty or forty people coming and going.This group of people is dressed in cotton clothes and fast boots. They are all tall, with big arms and round waists.They don't buy anything when they come to the temple fair, they just stand on the street looking for storytellers.

They all crowded into the crowded stall one by one, and when they squeezed in, the posterity was open, and they grabbed their sleeves with their big hands, and threw more than 20 bright and big copper coins into the ring, and said, "Come on, give it to me!" Tell me what you are best at!"

When the storyteller got the money, he suddenly became interested, so he chose the most recent passage: "Xiaoqianniang came to Beijing to meet her relatives, and the big playboy pushed the widow's wall" and started talking!

This story is about the past dynasty!Yoho, right?It is said that there was a minister in Beijing in the previous dynasty. This minister's family had six daughters in a row, and until he had a son in his eighty family, he naturally loved him like a treasure.So this little brother's milk name is Brother Zhu, and that brother has grown up in a honey jar since he was a child.

When Brother Zhu grew up to fourteen, he began to hang out in the family's family. There were eight big maids in his house, divided into plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo girls, who were fragrant in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. They were all the best in the world. Naturally, Zhu Geer had already started it.

Having eight beauties, Brother Zhu, is not enough, because his family dotes on him, he becomes lawless.Every day, he rides a white donkey and looks for beautiful women in the streets and alleys.As soon as he saw that it was ready, he waved his hand, and the soldiers of the family rushed up like tigers and wolves to snatch it back home.

But it is said that on this day, a girl named Qian Niangzi came to Beijing to visit relatives. This lady grew up to be a shameful flower of a closed moon. She is really beautiful in the world, hey!This girl was also unlucky, as soon as she entered Beijing, this girl encountered the scourge of Brother Zhu.

That brother Zhu, who was riding a white donkey, saw the beauty, how long did he stay, waved his big hand and said, grab it for me!

But she didn't want to, this lady Qian is smart, she turned her eyes and thought, and said, Mr. Lang was born in a noble family, he has talent and looks, you don't have to grab it, slaves are also willing.It's just that I'm going with you now, so it's hard to say that I have no name and no title. If you force me, you will lose interest, right?

Brother Zhu thought, this is also the reason, usually the ones who are snatched are either jumping into the well or hanging themselves, it's so boring.Now that such a beautiful and fairy-like girl loves me, he is really overjoyed.So Zhu Geer asked, my dear, how are you doing?The lady Qian said, where does my aunt's family live now? If you come to ask for marriage tomorrow, my family will naturally obey.

So, this bastard dude sent someone to send Miss Qian to her aunt's house.On the way to Beijing, Miss Qian had heard that there was a chastity girl in Beijing, who was the widow of a certain general. Normally, this chastity girl was the most violent and the most nosy, so she came to the door to ask to see her, and it was as expected. Well, the chaste girl really saw her, and promised to protect her, and was willing to help her get rid of this scourge!

On the second day, Brother Zhu sent someone to propose marriage, but this side naturally did not agree easily, saying that he was not sincere.Brother Zhu said, how to show sincerity?The lady Qian said, there is a wall over there, if you push it, I will promise you.

That fool was usually illiterate, so he couldn't see it was a trick, so he brought a group of servants and accomplices to push down the widow's wall of the general's widow's house!Now that's all right, the virgin girl knocked on the Dengwen drum, and the story is naturally the end of evil with evil, and the end of the dandy who ransacked the house and destroyed the family.

Is this a story? It’s an ordinary story. Well, in fact, where there is oppression, there is resistance. We can’t offend you, we make a book to embarrass you!There is only one person who toppled the widow's wall in Shangjing!

The wonderful thing about this story is that Zhuge'er and Mei Lanjuzhumei's house, the spring, summer, autumn and winter fragrance, is really very fragrant and very popular. It is said that Zhuge'er is very powerful in bed and can spin. , hang the millstone!

Since this book came out, any day, no matter where you say it, there will be crowds of spectators everywhere.Today, this book is the most popular and most popular eclectic book.The tool is the treasure that the storyteller puts at the bottom of the box. Once he gets a big reward, he must sacrifice it to show his extraordinary level.Of course, talking about it, there are also some beautiful places, adding bricks and tiles, Zhu Geer Yeyu Shiv, it is no problem, 3P is too embarrassing to mention, at least it is a set of plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo.

When those strong men lost their rewards, the storyteller offered a good book from the bottom of the box to tell, and thus began a story of Duan Zhugeer's love affairs.These people were saying good things, but they didn't want to, and suddenly someone held a big gong on the street and beat it!Shouted: "Call work, how long do you have to play?"

It's too late, so fast!These strong men suddenly showed a sack from behind, and put it on the storytellers, without saying a word, they carried it and left.

All of a sudden, a good bazaar was in chaos like this: "It's amazing, we have robbed the civilian men!!!!"