Three days passed, Kunning Palace.

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi is reading a book.

Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Zeng, who were standing by, were selecting three solemn people from the sixty girls, and were preparing to issue an order for the Ministry of Rites to hire.

Zhu Zaikun ran to Queen Zeng and whispered: "Mother, please allow your father to accept the princess of Tang and Song dynasties?"

Queen Zeng looked up slightly, looked in a certain direction, and saw that the Supreme Emperor had already stared at him with a stern face.

A majestic voice made the eunuch energetic.

"What benefits does your father promise you?!"

"Take me to Master Yan's mansion to have fun..."

Zhu Zaikun's skin was as thin as flour. Seeing the emperor's anger, he continued: "My father has crawled out of the palace, I didn't go."

"..." The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi.

Empress Dowager Zhang looked at Emperor Hongzhi. She didn't need to mention her son's temperament. She was smart and had ideas and would not obey her.

"I am also agreeing, I wonder what the Supreme Emperor is?"

"The princess has a special status and needs to go to court to discuss with the public."

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi put down the book, and these three days were not idle.

The Jinyiwei has been checking Liu Zhao's scribe script to see if his ancestors and parents are innocent.

This is a necessary process for the emperor to accept his concubines.

The next day, Fengtian Palace.

Today, when discussing the matter of the new emperor's appointment of concubines, Liu Jian first mentioned Turpan's invasion of Gansu.

Yan Chengjin thought for a long time and stood up and said, "The imperial court used to confer the title of King Zhongshun of Hami, but Hami's power was weak and was not enough to suppress the Western Regions.

The Tang and Song Kingdom can replace Hami, and from this point of view, they can marry the Tang and Song Kingdom."

He did not want to participate in this matter, which would arouse suspicion from all the officials.

But the Supreme Emperor pushed this matter to him and did not participate, which made the Dukes even more suspicious.

"Have the Jinyiwei found out the Liu clan's sect scroll?"

"It was found that there was a family in Yuanzhou Prefecture the same as Liu said, but there was no trace of it more than 20 years ago, but the background was innocent."

Mou Bin reported nervously.

I moved away twenty years ago. Who knows whether I became a refugee or escaped from the sea? It's so difficult to check.

Yan Chengjin breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuanzhou Prefecture is next to Nanchang Prefecture, and Wang Shouren really found someone who can match the number.

The dukes stared deeply with their eyebrows and looked puzzled.

When everyone thought of marriage, they became cautious. At first glance, it was a happy event that was beneficial to the two dynasties.

Moreover, the new emperor has always been stubborn and disobeyed advice, so what else can he say?

The decree was quickly sent to the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Heavenly Prison, and a date was selected to issue documents and ordered the envoys to take the betrothal gifts to the Tang and Song Dynasties.

...

Hangzhou Prefecture, Zheshan Town.

The laborers lined up in a long line to prepare to go to the deck. The wages in Hangzhou Prefecture are very high, and they are eight cents a day of silver.

But the Zhang brothers gave it even higher, with 16 cents of silver on a day, which costs double the price.

"Why haven't the dog official Yan Chengjin sent him a boat yet?"

Zhang Heling looked at the fish and shrimps in front of him. The ocean was like a huge treasury, but he was not excited at all, but was about to burst his lungs!

Buy less ships!

I was too cautious at the beginning and only bought eight large ships. When I came back, the shopkeepers and gentry from many restaurants and inns in Jiangnan came to order.

The best-selling soft fish and prawns are priced at will.

I don’t know how much money I lost every day!

"Brother, let's write a memorial to ask the dog official to pay the money!" Zhang Yanling gritted his teeth and said angrily.

At this time, a fleet of ships sailed into Hangzhou Bay not far away.

Wang Busui walked down from the boat with more than ten people.

"The two lords' ships have arrived, please send someone to the helm. Lord Yan also asked the villain to bring three imperial chefs."

"Why are there only ten ships?"

"Yes! What do we want the imperial chef to do!"

"The two lords ordered ten ships. Lord Yan said that the imperial chef would promote the way to eat fish in Jiangnan." Wang Busui took out another drawing: "These are tributes and they are going to be sent to the palace. Don't catch them wrongly."

Just like I was proposing a book, I couldn’t afford to eat fish in other places, but Jiangnan is a place to have fun.

Whether it is poetry gatherings, pleasure boats or brothels, banquets are indispensable.

If an imperial chef brings the limelight here and sends tribute to the palace, it will make the gentry follow the trend and follow the example, and it will be another stable transaction.

This time when I came to Hangzhou, Wang Busui was not doing silk business, but water business.

I bought land in Hangzhou Prefecture and set up a fish market. Now, the merchant ships in Liangxiang have gone to sea.

...

Cabinet, room.

Liu Jian saw Zhang Heling submitting a memorial to buy Hangzhou surplus salt for 200,000 yuan.

"It takes 200,000 salt to pickle salted fish, how many fish do you need?"

Li Dongyang looked at the comments carefully and did not mention how many fish he caught, but just wanted to buy salt to attract.

The so-called residual salt is the salt bricks stored in the salt department.

After reading the memorial, Yan Chengjin said, "The officials thought that they should allow the opening of a warehouse to sell salt."

The price of salt bricks is one piece of silver.

The price of salted fish is two centimeter silver.

Of course, this is an ordinary salted fish. Soft fish is more expensive, and it costs eight cents of silver per kilogram. Obviously, it is more profitable to sell salted fish.

The Zhang brothers will not use salt bricks to do anything else.

"Now that the Marquis of Shouning has returned from fishing, how will the court collect cash?"

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi glanced at the memorial.

At the beginning, Yan Chengjin said that he would let Shouning Hou go to sea, but he thought of only a few ways to collect money.

When collecting money, you must have tax items. You cannot collect cash from the Hou of Shouning and the Gentlemen for no reason.

"The Ministry of Revenue has added a tax project, with a parking fee at the port's wharf. There is a port in Hangzhou Bay, and the money is calculated based on the goods for one day.

You can also store goods in collapsed houses and suppliers.

I heard that there is already a huge fishery market by the sea of ​​Hangzhou, and we need to collapse houses and store goods."

During the Hongwu period, there were more than 250 places in Hebo.

But the system is very simple, and it only controls the collection of fish taxes and does not care about other matters, so the court does not pay attention to its existence.

In the farming world, fishery is an existence as important as agriculture.

Even in later generations, it occupies an important industrial position and can support the cost of a country.

However, in Zhu Yuanzhang's career as a farmer, industry and commerce, fishery did not mention fishery.

First, he knows little about marine resources, and second, he is unable to go to sea due to shipbuilding technology.

Nowadays, if fishing can be established like agriculture, it can further move towards prosperity and increase the source of taxes in the court.

It is not necessary to put the chips in one basket, and once the agriculture is drought and flood, the court will not be able to extricate the blame.

At least, this is one of the good policies that Yan Chengjin can think of at the moment.

"Mr. Yan means to build a market in the port?" Jiang Mian raised his eyes.

"Even if the court does not build it, a market will spontaneously form over time.

But at that time, it was not easy for the court to collect cash from the gentry again." Yan Chengjin said.

Just like the road is repaired and it is natural to charge tolls.

But the road was there, and if you charge the toll, you will become a robber.

How can a gentry be willing?

There are small differences between the past and the future, but there is a way to govern the country.

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi thought about it and understood this truth, so he looked at Wang Qiong: "How to collect fish tax in the court?"

"Tax one for thirty is converted into silver, two cents of silver per pound of carp, one pound of crucian carp, one pound of silver per pound, and one pound of white fish with eight cents of silver per pound..." Wang Qiong murmured while pinching his fingers.

If he catches someone he doesn't know from the sea, he won't know.
Chapter completed!