Chapter 300 Yuan is not an object in the pool (2)

Zhang Chengda has been in Suzhou for nearly two years and he is a fugitive.

This word was very sensitive in the Tang Dynasty. There were three reasons for the fugitives. The most important thing was uneven taxes. There were many exempted households in the Tang Dynasty, and only these households were exempted from taxes, including relatives from the royal family, nobles, monks, nuns, Taoists, and wise men, etc. They should not account for much, but this is not the case. As Li Wei saw in Shaolin Temple, because of tax exemption, many people calculated the accounts, and it was better to hang the land on these exemption households, and the tax rent paid was less than the tax paid to the court. Therefore, the exemption households gradually exceeded the taxes. At the highest time in the Tang Dynasty, nearly 90% of the exemption households were exempted from taxes. However, the Tang Dynasty calculated the taxes based on the taxes, so all these taxes were distributed to the common people. The second was the annexation of local tyrants, and the third was the natural disaster.

Therefore, both Wu Zetian and Li Wei are very conflicted about the psychology of famous families. The famous families have many talents and styles, but it is not necessarily the aristocratic families that are accumulating. The emerging commoners are also accumulating, but it is the leader of these big families.

It was precisely because of the previous reasons that Zhang Chengda fled from the Jianghuai River to Jiangnan. He then moved to Suzhou. Suzhou started to have a harbor, and he needed to transport it every day. In winter, there were many sugar fields from Suzhou to Huzhou. He refined sugar and worked short-term work. His life was not very good, but he was better than before.

This year, a family named Liang called him Liang Dalang. The origin is unknown, and it seems to be related to the famous Liang Jinzhu. Even this sugar workshop belongs to Liang Jinzhu. No matter what, he is just a little man, just take his wife, children, and have a bite of food.

When winter comes, Jiangnan is also very cold. When I wake up in the morning, I can see white silver frost on the ridges of the fields. A thin layer of melting ice forms on the edges of some ponds. The sun gradually rises, and Zhang Chengda pushes his wife and says, "I'm up and I'm going to go to work."

"Well," the wife snorted, suddenly woke up, got up and put on her clothes and cooked breakfast for him. Zhang Chengda also started washing, and several children were also awakened. The youngest child was crying, so she had to coax the child while washing. At this moment, a knock on the door came from the outer door. Zhang Chengda threw down the towel and opened the door and asked, "Who is it?"

It was cold and early in the morning, who came to the door?

As soon as the door was opened, a group of yamen runners rushed in like a wolf or a tiger like the cold wind outside, taking out the shackles. The two yamen runners twisted his elbows, and the other two yamen runners used shackles to punish him. Then they turned to his wife and children.

...

Liang Jinzhu was put into prison at this time.

The charge was very simple, and he was a bribe of court officials, but he was also a "official official". If he put aside the scattered officials, his Xuandelang rank was equivalent to the rank of a county magistrate in a middle and lower county. He was a good merchant and had a relationship with the prince. After entering prison, he was not beaten, and even allowed his servants to bring delicious food and drinks.

But Liang Jinzhu felt something was wrong. His servant came to deliver things again on the same day. He looked at the yamen runners in the distance and said in panic: "Alang, it's not good. The government sent someone to our sugar sugar workshop to catch people."

Liang Jinzhu's face changed, and there were already fleeing households. Not long after, Chen Angzhi wrote a letter saying that 30,000 households in the world were hiding in the mountains and forests, and the powerful household Axiang was indifferent. There were not many explanations, and it was not as serious as the later period, but the actual number was much higher than that of Chen Angzhi's books. After all, Chen Angzhi was just a small official with an egg size at that time. Not only were the wealthy families used it, but also various workshops were used. Half of the craftsmen working in porcelain kilns in Xianggong County were almost fleeing households. The policies of each state were also different. The Tang Dynasty government prohibited the people from moving, and businessmen had to go through cumbersome procedures. Officials in various states also prohibited the people from moving, and even took extreme measures to block the road. However, there was another attitude towards fleeing households moving to the local area, and indulged them. After all, with more people, the country would be more prosperous.

.In addition, the fugitives were all rich families, and they could not move. This was the unspoken rule of the Tang Dynasty. Li Zhi and Wu Zetian also knew that they had become a gray area of ​​the court, so they had to take some measures, such as encouraging fugitives to return, or recruiting Anyi, forcibly plundering, or making room for settlement in Kuan Township. However, they were not very useful, and even the law stipulated that fugitives were treated like deserters. If they refused to arrest them, they could be forced to kill them, and those who were taken in fugitives were punished. But the law is a law, and the system is a system, just like the law strictly prohibited the annexation of land, but that big family was not annexation, famous families were annexation, powerful people were annexation, common people were annexation, and the disciples of the royal family and meritorious disciples were also annexation.

No one takes it seriously.

But Liang Jinzhu's face was pale, although it was not taken seriously, and could be used as a legal basis when punished. Not this, almost all salt farms and sugar workshops were more or less fugitives, but just a businessman, doing business and not doing politics, otherwise he would not have been able to understand it for so long. At this time, he finally reacted and said to his servants: "Don't worry about this matter, go back immediately, call Mr. Lu to write a letter for me, stamp my seal, and send Zhong Laosi and Liang Datou to take four horses, travel day and night, to Dongdu and find the prince."

Just as the servant was about to leave, Liang Jinzhu called back and whispered: "Then you go back to Yangzhou immediately and pay a visit to the Yangzhou Grand Governor with a message. If you don't see him, take out the letter given by the prince and tell him the identities of the four little ladies."

If you can do something to yourself, you may be able to attack Yang Min and the others. You can pretend to be stupid. But after saying it, it will be difficult for the Yangzhou governor to avoid it.

This is because he was too careful. Li Ming dared to attack them, thinking that they were businessmen, the topic was sensitive, and the prince was not easy to protect. But Yang Min and the others dared not move, and the court deliberately sent two fire guards to protect them in a low-key manner. This was the concession made by Li Zhi to his son at that time. He was also a good citizen, so he had no excuse to attack. Of course, if Li Wei was still indifferent, he would be more courageous, and he would not be sure.

...

On winter nights, the weather in Danshui is colder than in Jiangnan. The other half is drained. The water flows on this half is a bit rapid and the river surface is frozen. In the distance, there are tents and wet sheds everywhere. The gangs who have been tired for a day are snoring and guards patrolling from time to time. It is not to protect the safety of the gangs, nor will anyone attack the gangs, but to prevent fire and theft. A carriage slowly walked over from the path with difficulty. When it arrived by the river, four people walked down the carriage.

I looked at the opposite side and saw that there was no one on the other side, and a strange thing was lifted from the carriage. It should be said that it was a shield. I don’t know if it was a long time ago or because it was soaked in salt. There were some rust stains on it. In the middle of the shield were two dragons surrounded by dragons, and in the middle were dozens of large characters.

Nine things stretched out around the shield, including axes, swords, swords, guns, etc., and nine weapons.

The shield is not small in size, and it is a bit difficult for the four big men to lift it up. They slowly lifted and dragged it halfway, moved it to the riverside, and slid down a steep slope. The ice in the river was not too thin, but the shield was very heavy, and it pierced the ice layer and slid down.

The four people immediately left with the carriage.

The sky was getting whiter and the cold weather made ice on the river surface again, and the hole disappeared, silently.

...

Li Wei got up from the bed and had just returned to Longju Village. He had been in Danshui for more than 20 days. He encountered all kinds of troubles, but before he came, he basically solved it. Not only the groundwater, but also the local mountains were not strong and easy to collapse. So he cut giant trees on both sides of the mountains, that is, using giant trees to make a breakdown dike under the mountains, and even intentionally collapsed the ridge with gunpowder. This is an artificial collapse ridge, which can be controlled, otherwise the collapse of the ridge will be washed away by the breakdown dike. There are very few situations like this when swimming in Danshui, but there are many mountains upstream and in Zhengdangqu that will encounter similar situations.

However, the construction progress is quite fast. Some river sections have not been dug yet, and some river sections have been closed.

Wei Xuantong climbed the boat with great interest and measured the depth with a pole.

Li Junzan said: "Wei envoy, the depth of the current measurement is not counted. Only when the entire river is fully opened can the effluent depth be measured. The width and narrowness of the river and the flow rate of the river will inevitably lead to an error in the final depth that is expected to be constructed, and the depth will be very errors."

This is easier to understand. It is not that the deeper the river will be, the deeper the river will be. If that is the case, it will be able to allow three or four thousand stone ships to enter Danshui at any cost, and its effect will be no less than that of the Yellow River. It is still a matter of water source. The deeper the river will be.

It is precisely because of the water source that Danshui is destined to be used as an auxiliary channel in Guanzhong no matter how it is constructed.

Li Wei smiled and said, "Wei Qing, come up and let's discuss it again."

When I came to Danshui, I looked upstream for more than ten days and made the fourth modification to the map upstream of Danshui. It was not about modifying the map, but about modifying some mountain flow data. The final data will be used as the basis for construction. At this time, two people rode four horses in the distance.

Normally, if you ride a horse, you will be a man and a horse, and the same is true for postmen. When you arrive at the post station, you will change horses. However, it is not a court official business. Some private urgent reports or special urgent reports from the court, so you have to prepare two horses and take turns to transfer.

After a while, he came to see him and turned over and dismounted. Li Wei was wearing casual clothes and didn't know him, so he had to ask: "Who is the crown prince? His subjects are Liang Jinzhu's servants. I have urgent matters to find the crown prince."

Li Wei walked out and said, "Gou is, what's wrong with Liang Jinzhu looking for Gu?"

Zhong Laosi and Liang Datou leaned down and cried, "Your Highness, Prince, save our Lang."

"What happened to Liang Jinzhu?" Li Wei asked in confusion. Almost everyone knew that they were their own people and had an official position in the court. What could happen?

Zhong Laosi took the letter.

Li Wei opened it and said angrily: "A bastard."

The officials' sidelines below caused a lot of disputes, not that they didn't know. They knew at a glance that the three parties of the Maritime Bureau, the Salt and Iron Envoy, and Suzhou officials joined forces to cut off their arm. In Suzhou, he suddenly thought of a person, King Cao Li Ming, and the relationship between Li Ming and Xue Yuanchao. He immediately woke up. But not only this, the impact of this matter was extremely bad, and Liang Jinzhu was not only his spokesperson, but also a safe way out for him in the future.

He immediately said to Wei Xuantong and others: "You continue to discuss and I will go to Xijing."

After saying that, he turned over and came to Chang'an, found Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong, and took out Liang Jinzhu's letter to them.

Wei Yuanzhong snorted coldly: "Idiot."

Even if I don’t know the late impact of this incident, I may also know that I still do this deliberately. However, the escaped households were a hidden pain from the Tang Dynasty, and even many escaped households were in the manor under the control of King Cao Li Ming. Everyone was deliberately avoiding this problem. There is no way, the major clans are too strong. Otherwise, they would not use the word "valve". Li Wei also knew this, so he had to open a different approach and transfer to industry and commerce as much as possible, or to overseas Chinese. At first, he made preparations for escape, but later he also guided it with intention. What if he ascended the throne? This evolution process was very slow, and now laying a good foundation, he would reduce the pressure of governing the country by himself in the future. He did a good job and had already seen the results. The increase in income of several million a year has already made the national taxation relax.

King Cao could use other attacks on Liang Jinzhu, and he would never use this. But on the other hand, Liang Jinzhu might have had some bad things in the past. He was paying attention to all aspects, and it was not easy to find a handle if he really wanted to find one.

This matter is easy to deal with. Come and find Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong to see if you can make the profit bigger.

Di Renjie said: "Your Highness, I have four strategies. The first strategy is that you go back to Dongdu to meet the emperor and explain the truth clearly. Liang Jinzhu will be released immediately. Although he has taken some losses, His Majesty will think you are a general. Second, Your Highness stays in the capital for a few days, and I have asked someone to search for a list. In the capital city, people take in fugitives. Especially in the previous years, the drought has been severely absent, and Liang Jinzhu is still worried about his spear. The third method is that I secretly send people to find some evidence of the crimes of the relevant people. Since they dare to attack Liang Jinzhu, there will be some illegal things."

Li Wei shook his head. None of these three methods agree.

"There is another method, which has some bad consequences, such as Your Majesty will be angry, and the ministers of the King Yong will take the opportunity to make a fuss, saying that Your Highness cannot tolerate the children of the royal family, etc. But the advantage is that many ministers who are interested in Your Highness will be even more worried about Your Highness..."

"Let me tell me?" Li Wei immediately became interested.

What is strength? You need resources in your hands, not only money, but also people. There is a group of civil servants and military generals, just like Di Renjie helping him, this is the real power.

...

The next day, Li Wei issued an order to stop the two canals. However, instead of stopping the work, he used to stop the construction of the two canals, and all the materials were transported back to the warehouse and the civilians went home.

What significance did the two canals mean to the Tang Dynasty? Some flexible methods were used to prevent the people from complaining about the construction. Even Li Zhi felt the pressure brought by the completion of the two canals. Although King Cao favored him, he was just a small King Cao.

This order was extremely abrupt, but the prince was the governor of the two canals. Wei Hongji and Yao Shu had to give orders and sent someone to quickly ask Li Wei what happened. Li Wei's reply was very simple, and he had no money to build. Of course, he was even more puzzled. He didn't know what was going on, but there was still some extra money in the Eastern Palace warehouse. But the prince said he had no money to build, so something happened. He just wanted to build, but he definitely couldn't do it without money. For example, if the civilians were asked to go home, he would have to pay a huge salary.

Li Wei delayed for a few more days, and after getting a list from Di Renjie, he returned to Luoyang slowly.

The sudden shutdown of the two canals can be imagined, and the news caused a lot of shock. The news reached Luoyang and there was a lot of discussion, and even Li Zhi couldn't sit still. He immediately sent a guard to ask, blocking Li Wei on the road. Li Wei didn't answer, saying that I would go back to Luoyang to explain. Then, one hundred miles a day, and returned to Luoyang at a speed slower than walking.

This is in the open. Li Wei in secret gave Di Renjie 10,000 yuan in money, and Di Renjie spread the money out again. With more than 100 people set out to Suzhou, Yangzhou, and even Li Ming's farm. But Li Ming didn't know all this.

When he returned to Suzhou, he saw Liang Jinzhu in his cell like he had entered a nursing home. He was furious and began to torture the yamen runners. He wanted to plead guilty, bribing officials and taking in fleeing households was a pseudo-in-law, and more news also interested him, such as how much money he gave to the prince in total, what was his relationship with the prince, etc. The main thing behind him was, and he had to make the prince's reputation smell bad.

Liang Jinzhu didn't say anything. He endured it, so he tortured and used it torture and clamping. But he had money and had the benefits of being rich. He used money to bribe some yamen runners, and the servants of the Liang family delivered the news. Liang Datou and Zhong Laosi left successfully.

Therefore, Liang Jinzhu was beaten to death many times, and even fainted, but he just didn't respond. At this moment, Li Ming heard that the two canals suddenly stopped working. He was distracted at first, but after a while, he woke up and sat on the chair and was stunned.

He was the King of Cao, but only two merchants. I thought the prince would take advantage of his own. It was not easy for the merchants to come forward directly, so he took advantage of it. He gained a lot. From Yangzhou to Suzhou, Liang Lu and his two industries were checked and ships were detained. Then the industries were paid to the public, and the ships were sold to others. Part of the money was replenished, but most of the money was put into his pockets and the Caitianshui. The industry was large and only half of it was processed.
Chapter completed!