Chapter 59
The vivid and diverse people's livelihood can better reflect the people's sentiments of this era than the cold and cautious words on the memorials.
Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a turbulent family, and Zhu Yunyu had a restless soul. The two of them walked around the city for a long time.
After a while, I went to the grain store to check the rice price. You can tell the real autumn harvest situation in the past two years through the rice price. The rice price in Beijing is a little more expensive. One stone of rice costs one Hongwu Tongbao, which is about eight cents of silver. One stone of rice is about one hundred and twenty kilograms, and one kilogram is sixteen taels at this time.
Based on the current prices, Zhu Yunqiu thought this price was pretty good. However, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was a little cheaper. The low grain was harmful to farmers. The bumper grain harvest made the price cheaper, which was not beneficial to the farmer.
I went to the silk shop and satin shop again to take a look. I kept warm and beautiful. When people had enough money in their pockets, they thought about how to dress up and dress up. I chatted with the shopkeepers in the store. In the past two years, there have been many people buying silk in Beijing. However, most of them are rich and powerful families. Only when the people get married can they buy some.
The shopkeeper of the satin farm was obviously a wealthy businessman but was wearing coarse cloth clothes. He was helpless in his words, saying that if the court allowed the merchants to wear silk, then the transaction would be even better.
Zhu Yunxi was really afraid that the old man would let the silk merchant kill on the spot and did not allow the merchant to wear silk. This was the law established by the old man after the founding of the country.
Unexpectedly, the master was not angry, but said indifferently that although the emperor did not allow you to wear it, you are a lot of unwilling businessmen in private. The people in the world are suffering. You wear gold and silver, what do the people think after seeing it?
Rich people, just hide at home and know it. What can you show off the world? If the people in the world have seen it and learn to do business, who is the fucking farming?
Zhu Yunxiu laughed silently, the old man was cute. This old man was probably the emperor who valued agriculture the most throughout history. He stubbornly believed in his heart that the profession that is most beneficial to the country and that the most capable of making the people live a peaceful life is farming.
However, although he was out for a walk, his world was full of knowledge. The old man always reflected his rich experience in governing the country and his life philosophy in every word and action. Zhu Yunqiu accompanied the old man like a good baby, carefully remembering his views and principles in his heart.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this move, he nodded secretly. The elderly like obedient and studious children, and their intelligence must be used to be happy when the elderly are in the right place.
Then the two of them walked around the city again and went to lively places. The old man was in a good mood, but on the side of Widow Wang's slanting street, he looked a little unhappy.
By the afternoon, the fences and taverns began to open, and a few scholars, or merchants who were rich and powerful, appeared here.
The street was filled with rouge, which made people itchy. A young woman wearing a veil, holding a round fan made of silk in her hand, sat lazily on the windowsill on the second floor, half-covering her pretty face to the passers-by and being embarrassed.
The half-old sissies who stood by the door had bold eyes, and the handkerchief in their hands kept wiping the head. The non-existent fragrance of sweat revealed half of the white and smooth arms like jade.
Yingtian City has been the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties since ancient times, a place of smoke and powder. The singing, dancing and painting boats on the Qinhuai River shuttle day and night, and the lights are endless. Those are famous actors, and ordinary people can't go easily. The women on the boat are all free to use poetry, calligraphy, piano and painting, and they are all literati and elegant.
The widow Wang is more direct in the street. The girls in the yard are all engaged in sex, and are not outstanding in other literature and art. Occasionally, some of them are just the sound of flutes.
This kind of ancient business is absolutely impossible. There is a market where there is a need. As long as there are men in this world, the business can continue.
Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang cursed, "What a bad habit, the world is getting worse and worse." People who come here to enjoy the entertainment industry are full and don't know how much they weigh.
Zhu Yunxiu looked at it with relish, and his eyes fell on the windowsill on the second floor of a Hongxiu Building. The pretty woman smiled.
I was so happy to see it, but I didn't know that my big hands covered his eyes.
Zhu Yuanzhang covered his eyes while pulling him forward, muttering, "Grandmaster, I can't see it." These vixen are not good things. When you look back, you get married. Grandpa will pick you some delicate beauties, which are better than this one!
The women sent by Goryeo are also very good. Before you get married, grandpa will give you a few.
It was not until he walked out of this street that his eyes were let go by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yunxi was curious, Grandpa, since you don’t like to go to these fireworks alleys, wouldn’t it be enough to issue an order directly to ban it?
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and smiled bitterly. He couldn't take care of everything when he became an emperor. He also cared about the heaven and earth. How many men wouldn't steal fish? This thing was banned. How many people would scold your grandfather?
In fact, there is another thing that the old man didn’t say. The Qinhuai River in Yingtian Prefecture, the fireworks places in Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou will pay a large amount of cash taxes to the government every year, which is not a small amount of money.
For example, the annual license price of an ordinary pleasure boat on the Qinhuai River is as high as fifty taels of cash, while a yard is as high as one hundred taels. If it is famous actors, and those higher-level private clubs... no, it is a teahouse, the license price will be more.
This is not just a tax issue, but in the eyes of the Ming ministers, it is also an industry about people's livelihood. Every night, the Qinhuai River is brightly lit and passing ships are endless. The entertainment industry can often drive local employment.
Small vendors carry loads to sell food, daily necessities, rouge and powder. Farmers carry their own fresh vegetables, fishermen's fish and shrimps, livs carrying sedan chairs, and carriage owners driving carriages, all have income and input.
If it was really a rough one-size-fits-all approach, not to mention the girls in the Qinhuai River and the goufang, the guests were not settled. Even other industries that rely on these people to live will plummet.
Moreover, this thing is not clean. This kind of business is not only a loss of taxes for local governments, but also inconvenient management and public security. (bianyi)
Therefore, modern people are not qualified to laugh at the ancients, because everything is based on the intelligence and experience of the ancients.
But the old man's smile suddenly solidified and even became a little hideous.
Next to Yanda Lane on Widow Wang's Slane Street, in front of a seemingly ordinary house, there were many burly men looking around, some of which seemed to be looking at the wind.
Men of all kinds kept coming in happily. But there were also people who were dejected and discouraged, and even some even squatted in the corner and cried loudly after going out.
To these people, the men who looked at the wind advised them kindly, and then either supported them and sent them away, or reached out to let the carriages and sedans parked at the intersection come over. They gave the money and let the dejected people sit and leave.
Zhu Yunqi, who drove an online car-hailing car in his previous life, is naturally familiar with such places.
Dasun, do you know where this is? Zhu Yuanzhang's words were murderous.
Zhu Yunxiu whispered, Gambling House!
Come here! Zhu Yuanzhang waved, Liao Ming immediately stepped forward, Mr., what are your instructions?
Check it out, anyone who eats a leopard dares to open this thing after eating it, check it out for us! Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and said, "You dare to do business that harms people, you are really not afraid of death!"
It's over, someone wants the head to land! Zhu Yunsheng thought.
The old man still tolerated and understood the fireworks and willow alleys. But he seemed to hate this gambling house deeply.
Liao Ming nodded and responded, turned around and gave a few instructions to a warrior, and the man went quickly.
Zhu Yuanzhang had a gloomy face, as if he had no intention of continuing to walk.
Grandpa, calm down. Zhu Yunxiu advised, you said, "Your Majesty can't control the heaven and earth." The world is too big, there are always places that cannot be controlled. The world is too big, there are always people who are not afraid of death. Do you think so?"
But you can't ignore it just because the world is too big and can't control it. Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously, just like, just like...
Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, it was like a grandson studying, Emperor Zhaolie of Han, don’t do anything because he is good!
That's all! Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said, "Our eldest grandson is good at studying!" As he said that, his nose suddenly moved. What's the smell? It smells so fragrant?"
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Chapter completed!