Chapter 3 The pitiful bear child
"Is there any allusion in this half-floating pavilion?" Qian Yiqun asked.
Zheng Yuanxun said: "There is no allusion, but I just lament that life is ups and downs. If it is completely floating, it will inevitably sink. If it is half floating and half sinking, it will be safe." Zheng Yuanxun is calm and believes what Mr. Huang said in his life's insights. Therefore, this time he won the B list and did not want to take advantage of the victory. He passed the A list, but instead planned to take three years off to participate in the next exam.
Qian Yiqun felt that this statement was reasonable and said, "If the moon is full, it will be deficient; if the water is full, it will overflow. Huidong Duke has received my wish."
Zheng Yuanxun said "Shame" and led everyone forward.
In front of it is Yugou Caotang, which seems to be a place for a banquet and accommodating guests. Qian Yiqun suddenly remembered the three words "Yuhuoxi", which was the place where Emperor Yang of Sui buried the palace servants. There was a sense of ominousness in his heart, so he was unwilling to stay. Zheng Yuanxun wanted to boast about it, but when he saw Qian Yiqun leading the deer away, he had to chase him.
After passing Zheng Yuanxun’s Yizizhai, he saw a bridge pavilion. After passing the bridge pavilion, to the north is Meiyouzhai, to the southwest is Danyan Shuyuyuan, which is also the courtyard where Zheng Yuanxun’s mother and family live. Zheng Yuanxun’s mother and family support his mother and lived in the east courtyard of Danyan Shuyuyuan.
"Meiyouzhai, I'm destined to be with me!" Gu Meiniang smiled, "Master, let's live there for a while?" She deliberately learned Suzhou dialect, but she sounded a little weird and innocent.
"You have to follow the owner's arrangements, don't talk too much." Yang Ai, two years older, taught a lesson.
Gu Meiniang looked aggrieved and bowed her head without saying a word.
Zheng Yuanxun saw it and said in his heart: These women are all beautiful and beautiful. They really admire this Taoist's blessing. He said: "I want to ask Taoist Master to stay in Meiyouzhai."
"Thank you so much." Qian Yiqun bowed.
Li Xiangjun thought to himself: We are not unwilling to give money, so why bother so much?
Youdao is a woman following her mother's face. Yang Ai grew up with Xu Fo, as if she was born to know when to show off and when to praise her. She was not underestimated, but also attracted to her as a confidant. Gu Meiniang was also average. At a young age, she learned enough about her mother's skin and a ravine in her heart. Although she was immature, she would probably not be able to deal with her with a shorter understanding.
Li Xiangjun, like Li Zhenli, practiced the Bingxin Art since she was a child, and after a few years, she was quite cold. After knowing that staying at home would cost money, she only regarded it as a business.
Qian Yiqun's heart calmed down, and his senses naturally became much more sensitive. He rolled up his sleeves and covered Li Xiangjun and asked Zheng Yuanxun to move.
When we arrived at Meiyouzhai for a while, everyone saw that the house was facing water and the scenery was unique, and they couldn't help but admire it. Zheng Yuanxun also said, "This garden is really a place with ten tablets. It is entirely up to the plan to create such a landscape." After that, he explained the design concept of the plan, as he knew it.
Qian Yiqun remembers that he read Ji Cheng's book "Yuanye" in his previous life, which specializes in garden design. Its name is "The Defeat of Heaven" in Japan. The preface to the book was written by Zheng Yuanxun in front of him. Now when Zheng Yuanxun explained it in person, he only feels that Ji Cheng's thoughts are indeed different from ordinary people. He believes that architecture is part of the landscape, and that landscapes cannot be created because of architecture. This idea is quite brilliant and has a very natural flavor.
After Qian Yiqun's understanding of Taoism was profound, his knowledge of mundane affairs naturally became profound. When talking to Zheng Yuanxun, he often hit the nail on the head, which made Zheng Yuanxun sigh that this young Taoist priest was indeed very knowledgeable. This was because after leaving Qionglong Mountain, Qian Yiqun did not use the disguise array, but only showed his true face to others, and looked really young.
Fortunately, "The Tao does not care about longevity". People who don't know the details still think that Qian Yiqun has achieved success in his practice and has the ability to keep his face alive.
For example, the Duke Wuquan of the Mansion was thinking this way.
The wealthy families will raise some clean customers.
These Qinggu is different from slaves and employed workers, and are like friends of the head of the family. They are purely vocal insects who talk, play chess, and entertain when they are idle. Only those with great talent among Qinggu will be given the title of private ministers such as western seats and squad friends.
Qian Yiqun's arrival soon alarmed Fan Yuanxun's private officials, who all regarded him as a competitor, and were quite tempted. Qian Yiqun was too lazy to deal with these ordinary people, and studied behind closed doors all day long, watching the water and making flowers. Zheng Yuanxun invited him to attend and met guests, and he went there one or two times in three times. When he met someone who was not good-speaking, he just smiled "hehe" and passed.
Naturally, the three girls could not live in the garden like Qian Yiqun. The garden they grew up with might be bigger than the cinema garden. So the old lady of the Zheng family wanted to burn incense, so they went to play with them. The young ladies of the Zheng family wanted to go to their boyfriend's house, and they followed them together, known as the "female history" and had a lot of fun.
Originally, I had to stay for three or five days before leaving, but in a blink of an eye, I had lived for nearly ten days. When Qian Yiqun saw the Zheng family's Confucian scriptures almost complete, he felt that it was time to say goodbye.
The three girls are naturally unhappy.
Qian Yiqun raised his face and taught a lesson: "These days you came out, you neither do your homework nor know how to be calm. Did your mothers just ask me to take you out for fun!"
The three of them were all secret techniques cultivators who inspired Lingyun. They were still young and were just the time to work hard. After hearing Qian Yiqun's words, they felt uneasy and stood aside and timid.
Qian Yiqun showed his majesty at the beginning, and saw that he was shocked by the three girls to obey, which was even more prouder than winning the previous struggles. He showed off his ability and went to see Zheng Yuanxun.
Speaking of which, he lives in other people's houses, it is not common for him to see this noble man. Zheng Yuanxun has such a huge salt empire, and there are not a hundred or eighty people coming and going every day. In addition, he likes painting, which also takes a lot of time. However, he doesn't really worry about gossiping with Qian Yiqun.
The disciples knew that the master valued the young Taoist priest very much. When he saw him asking for a meeting, he immediately took him to Yizizhai. Zheng Yuanxun was having a meeting with his shopkeepers, so he asked Qian Yiqun to wait in the side hall with tea.
Qian Yiqun sat for a while and saw Zheng Yuanxun coming over with a frown.
"Is there anything wrong with being kind?" Zheng Yuanxun asked.
"The path has been bothering me for many days, and it's time to set off north." Qian Yiqun asked again, "Why is there anything difficult to see Huidonggong so haggard?"
"Oh," Zheng Yuanxun sighed, "It's not the trouble caused by the dog son!"
"Oh? The man is still young and he just likes to linger in the traits on weekdays. What trouble can he cause?" Qian Yiqun said with a smile.
Zheng Yuanxun sighed again and said in his heart: Are you praising his duty or calling him a playboy?
"This is a disaster," Zheng Yuanxun was really annoyed this time, "I sent 30,000 taels out!"
"Thirty thousand taels." Qian Yiqun was stunned and then smiled, "For Mr. Huidong, it is not worth being haggard for this."
Zheng Yuanxun sighed this time and said, "Although the 30,000 taels is a huge sum of money, it is not enough to hurt my family's vitality. But the place he used is wrong."
"Is it because of which sister?" Qian Yiqun thought to himself: 30,000 taels of silver... If this were to be replaced by three hundred years later, how big would the sister who was conquered?
Qian Yiqun thought about how willing he is to spend money, he is really a rich child.
"It would be better if this is the case! At worst, my Zheng family will also open a brothel, just let the world laugh at it!" Zheng Yuanxun said with a frown.
Qian Yiqun thought about it, because his situation was too small, he just wanted to pack * actresses and other things. 30,000 taels, which was enough to fill the entire Yuzhufang next to the Slender West Lake.
"He donated this huge sum to the court!" Zheng Yuanxun was so worried this time that he couldn't help but stomp his feet and said, "Thirty thousand taels of gold...this!this!this is a disaster for the family!"
Qian Yiqun took a breath and found that what he had just made up for was silver, but he didn't expect it to be gold! He had never seen Zheng Yuanxun's son, but he heard that this young master only knows how to spend money all day and has never heard of him being able to make money. So where did this gold come from?
The children of wealthy families also only have monthly silver. Unless they are in charge of a certain industry, they can mobilize more economically, but they dare not embezzle family industries for personal use. Zheng Xiaoguan is only twenty years old and must have never managed family industries, so the origin of this gold is a bit suspicious.
"Have you asked the son?" Qian Yiqun advised, "The father and son cannot say anything. Where did he get the gold? How did he think? You can find the roots from it."
Zheng Yuanxun sighed: "He said that he would use this gold to buy the three hundred years of peace in the Ming Dynasty."
Qian Yiqun didn't know how much things could be bought with 30,000 taels of gold, but if he could buy peace in the Ming Dynasty for 300 years, he would undoubtedly take a big advantage. However, this was the passionate dream of a young man after all, and no god, Buddha, would sell goods like "peace".
"The idea is good, but it's a little naive." Qian Yiqun said, "What is the disaster that Mr. Huidong said?"
"You can go out of the crowd!" Zheng Yuanxun felt the head on his shoulder was heavy and hung heavily.
The salt merchants have money all over the world, but this is more like a secret that everyone knows. They know it well, but they can't get on the table. When Emperor Jiajing was visiting Zhongxiang in the southern tour, he passed by Yangzhou. The merchants in Yangzhou changed their worn clothes to welcome him, and bribed the eunuchs around Emperor Jiajing, describing the Jianghuai area as many disasters and people's livelihoods, which dispelled the emperor's idea of adding salt taxes.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty had faced the problem of imbalance in revenue and expenditure since Hongzhi. Because both commercial tax and agricultural tax were still the tax rate in the Zhu Yuanzhang era. According to the commercial tax of 30 taxes, the taxes and fees paid by merchants were less than 4% of the value of the goods. Even so, many governors still collected enough quotas during the Hongwu period and no longer collected taxes. If they collected too much, they would be praised as "harsh and abuse of the people".
Since the scholars and officials started doing business and fleeing in private and fleeing, the country should not expect to receive full taxes and fees.
Chapter completed!