my wife is queen

Chapter 23 Water Transport Fire Consumption

As the sky darkened, red lanterns floated on the bow of the boat, reflecting the bright lights of the red camphor wood boat.

The figure floats, and the hearts of the people also float.

Hongqiao was about to explode with anger, with his hands on his hips, almost wanting to swear like a shrew, cursing and crying at the aggressive Princess Shouning.

She treats her own people in the mansion with a soft mouth and a soft heart, but it is different when she treats outsiders. Hongqiao, the former personal servant of Princess Changping, is famous in the palace for her mouth, and she has never had a soft heart.

Princess Changping shook her head lightly, signaling to Hongqiao not to speak, this grievance is not a big deal, as long as the son-in-law is not made things difficult by the so-called talented scholars, I will bear it for now.

From Princess Changping's point of view, the relationship between the two is just the first step of the Six Rites. In fact, they are a close family after all, and outsiders are not allowed to bully the son-in-law.

Hongqiao became sullen, turned his head to look at the shore, and suddenly widened his eyes.

Uncle and grandson and Yuan Gong actually sat together to talk high-spirited, grandson and Yuan Gong nodded from time to time, with smiles on their faces, and got along very well.

The appearance of chatting and laughing is not like a nodding acquaintance, but more like a family friend in the capital, seeing a nephew from another place.

As an elder in the officialdom, listening to his nephew talking about his views on the current situation of the government is very in line with the wishes of the elders in the officialdom, and he nodded with a satisfied smile.

Hongqiao felt better again, and snorted coldly.

Hmph, the grandson you are chasing after, but Sun Yifa, who has a little relationship with grandson, has been favored by you, the current eldest princess, but you don't know that grandson and Yuangong have had a good talk with my uncle for a long time .

Li Mian got up early in the morning, and after his daily horseback riding and archery, he came near the Yinding Bridge and asked for a bowl of fresh and delicious locust juice.

Before he had eaten a few mouthfuls, he bumped into Sun Gong and Yuan Gong who also came to eat Leng Tao, and pulled him away.

Especially Sun Gong, he had to tell him the detailed rhetoric of abolishing the water and reforming the sea, otherwise he was recommended to be a grain supervisor in Liaodong.

Li Mian shook his head helplessly when he heard Sun Gong's threatening words, and had to admit that Sun Gong was really good at controlling people's hearts.

It is not a good job to be a food supervisor in the frontier army, usually an eunuch is in charge, but with Sun Gong's reputation and status, he can recommend a son-in-law as a food supervisor.

The food supervisor travels between the border and the capital all the year round. He is physically busy, and he has to deal with various complicated official duties all day long. The general capable ministers and officials can't bear the hardship of the grain supervisor, let alone just thinking about it. He has a leisurely life.

Li Mian could only use his words to deal with Grandpa Sun: "The disadvantage of water transportation, to put it bluntly, is the increase in fire consumption of water transportation, which is the consumption of grain transportation. The collection and transportation of water grain belong to two teams, um...that is, two teams. A set of government office yamen, the yamen responsible for collecting taxes is the local prefecture and county, and the yamen responsible for transporting is the governor of the water transport, and the eunuchs, Cao Ding, water workers and other profit-seeking cronies attached to the water transport yamen. When the common people pay grain, they have to pay Pay an extra sum of money, that is, fire consumption, which is used for the consumption of various people eating horse chews in the process of water transportation, and the so-called ICBC used to give millions of water workers."

When Sun Gong heard this, he put down the pine flower glaze tureen in his hand, stopped drinking tea, and looked at Li Mian with serious eyes.

Today, I used the excuse of the grain supervisor to force Li Mian, just wanting to hear the whims of young people about water transportation.

As for how many insights they have, Sun Gong and Yuan Gong didn't have much expectations in their hearts. After all, knowledge is not something that can be imagined just by whim.

It takes years and months of being an official and accumulating many years of experience in the official position to get some inside information, and it is still in the case of a very talented person.

Generally speaking, young officials cannot understand the inherent rules of officialdom without the advice of their elders.

Li Mian's words were truly insightful, and he analyzed the water transport very clearly and clearly.

If Sun Gong and Yuan Gong didn't know that he was a son-in-law, they would even suspect that Li Mian was a Cao Supervisor eunuch.

Li Mian only spoke half of it, shut his mouth, and stopped talking.

Yuan Gong waved his hand, signaled the disciples who were with him to pour Li Mian a cup of tea, stroked his beard and said, "It's not a gentleman's job to make people appetite."

Li Mian took the pine flower glaze covered bowl, took a big sip, pointed to the large blue and white glazed bowl next to him and said, "It's not that this junior whetted his appetite. He ate a big bowl of Lengtao, and before he could even drink water, he was caught by grandson." Gongla talked a lot, and he was really thirsty."

Sun Gong couldn't help laughing, and directly put the pine flower glaze teapot in front of Li Mian, which meant that the pot of good pine tea was given to him.

Tribute tea is rare, and it is difficult to drink tribute tea a few times in the mansion.

Ok.

You should be able to drink it often in the future. Ma Yun, the big companion in the mansion, served as the tax supervisor and eunuch of Chongwenmen. Rich merchants such as Lianghuai salt merchants and Huizhou merchants will send a tribute in the future.

Li Min withdrew his thoughts, and then continued with what he hadn't finished speaking: "But as time goes by, the fire consumption is not enough, and the Governor of Water Transport who is in charge of transporting grain cannot pay for it himself, so he can only put pressure on the prefecture and county to ask for it." More fire consumption. It is also impossible for prefectures and counties to pay out of their own pockets, so they can only put the fire consumption of increased income on the common people. After the two sets of yamen have increased their taxes, the taxes of the common people have become more and more heavy."

When Li Mian said these words, he never mentioned the word "official and gentry" from the beginning to the end, and he always talked about the common people.

The officials and gentry who occupy most of the land in the world have the grace of exemption and exemption, and pay very little tax.

People who own a small amount of land need to pay a lot of heavy taxes. After a long time, the people are overwhelmed.

In order to search for money, some prefectural and county officials imposed very high fire consumption, even higher than the regular tax.

The common people were overwhelmed, so they had no choice but to choose to become escapees and hermits, and they made contributions.

Sun Gong and Yuan Gong nodded lightly, knowing the disadvantages of water transportation and fire loss, and with their fame and status, they are still powerless in the face of the word fire loss.

After these years of development, Water Transport has formed profit-making cronies one after another, and anyone who dares to touch the whole body at the risk of disrespect will be attacked by groups.

Many officials have even turned pale when talking about water transport, and they dare not talk about the ills of water transport.

Today it was rare that a young junior dared to talk about this matter, so Grandpa Sun became interested: "Do you know how to contribute?"

Li Mian didn't keep his mouth shut because of taboo, and said it without any scruples: "The contribution involves escaped households and hidden households. The so-called escaped households are people who are overwhelmed and directly abandon their land. If you want to make a living and find a way to survive, the amount of grain collected will be reduced. Hermit households are involved in the decrease of grain grain year by year. The common people put their land under the names of officials and gentry who can be exempted from tax. The government's various layers of increased fire consumption have been exhausted."

(End of this chapter)