Jia Lian stood up from his pink arms and jade, and the self-discipline habit he had developed told him that it was time to go for morning exercises.
forecourt.
On the school field next to the stable, dozens of soldiers are practicing fists and kicks, some are practicing swords and shields, and some are practicing the "Sun Shooting Art" with their bows. These are usually talented Jia clan members, or those who have set a precedent for their fathers.
A meritorious and talented bodyguard.
Jia Lian got up his posture and slowly started Tai Chi. After practicing for half an hour, the sky was just getting bright.
He returned to the inner courtyard, stripped naked, and began to take a cold shower.
"My lord~, I knew you were taking a cold shower again..."
But it was Zhiyu who heard the commotion and came into the ear room. When she saw that it was Jia Lian taking a cold bath, she couldn't help complaining in her mouth.
He still stepped forward to rub Jia Lian's back or something, but was stopped from a distance by Jia Lian raising his hand.
"Okay, okay, you are still not strong enough to touch cold water, go and rest."
In the sacred city of Jingjing, the poor children in the south and north of the city finally got a job.
Every day before dawn, they go to the two Donghai Chamber of Commerce offices located in the east and west of the city to hand over the cost of selling yesterday's newspaper and collect today's newspaper.
Because the Donghai Chamber of Commerce allowed the newsboys to sell the newspapers first, and then return the agreed newspaper cost, three taels per copy, the next day.
This is undoubtedly a great help to the poor people in the city. The newsboys can sell at least fifty or sixty copies of "Daqing News" a day.
Seeing Jia Lian turning around, his muscles were not exaggerated but still well-defined, and his strong body exuded the charm of male hormones. Even Zhiyu, who had been serving him since childhood, couldn't help but be pretty when she saw this.
The face is slightly flushed, it looks really good...
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"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers! Anti-tax conflicts broke out in Hebei and Shandong provinces, which have resulted in the casualties of hundreds of tax collectors. The imperial court has urgently mobilized troops to deal with it..."
Every day before dawn, the newsboys would set out from their homes in the south and north of the city to the newspaper offices of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce in the east and west of the city to return the cost of the newspapers sold the previous day and the unsold newspapers.
, then collect new newspapers and carry them to various places in the city where people gather to sell them.
The Donghai Chamber of Commerce's newspaper comes out every five days, and the first day after each edition of the newspaper is published is the best time to sell, because most people have not read or heard about it.
As time goes by, the sales volume of newspapers will become lower and lower. Until the new edition of "Daqing News" and "Nanyang Maritime Affairs" are published again, the sales volume will reach the peak again, and then begin to decline again and again.
Each copy of "Daqing News" and "Nanyang Maritime" costs three copper coins, and the newsboys can sell an average of about 50 copies per person per day for about five copper coins.
In other words, these half-year-old children from poor families in the south and north of the city can put into their pockets nearly a hundred copper coins every day, which means that they can not only support themselves, but also have a balance of thirty or forty copper coins.
Give it to your home to subsidize household expenses.
This is naturally a great act of kindness to the people at the bottom. In recent times, people in Shenjing City have begun to praise the Donghai Chamber of Commerce more and more.
Of course, many problems were encountered during the implementation of this measure. The ignorance of the people at the bottom of this era is sometimes simply unbelievable.
From the time the Donghai Chamber of Commerce's newspaper office first started recruiting newsboys to now, at least thousands of newsboys have squandered the two to three hundred dollars they earned from selling newspapers the day before because of their own greed or the greed of their family members.
Most of the newsboys did not dare to appear around the newspaper office again. A small number of those who appeared in front of the newspaper office again after a period of time under the instigation of their families were mostly arrested.
This time the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce had no reason to let them off lightly. The officers of the Infantry Command Division caught these children who had made repeated mistakes at a young age and found them in their homes. They forcibly demanded the hundreds of copper coins that had been stolen before and punished them.
Considerable fines.
After several days of great excitement, the Donghai Chamber of Commerce tried to kill chickens and monkeys in the south and north of the city, so that the newspaper could lay its foundation in Shenjing City.
After that, many green-skinned gangsters who made a living by exploiting the vulnerable people at the bottom focused on the more than 100 copper coins earned by the little newsboys every day.
Or after receiving feedback from some newsboys, the newspaper took the infantry commander in the name of Rongguofu to severely punish these gangsters who had no bottom line.
In the end, more than 2,000 strong green-skinned gangsters were captured in Shenjing City. After the infantry commander consulted Jia Lian, he arrested all of them.
These people will then undergo labor reform in a shipyard near the Tianjin port. After the Nanyang Fleet captures Manila, they will be sent to Luzon.
Suddenly, the security of Shenjing City miraculously improved, even making many people feel uncomfortable.
From now on, not to mention other gangsters, even the officials and servants of various government offices no one dared to think about the newspaper office and the newsboys in a short period of time.
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"Hey! Kid, bring me a newspaper!"
"Okay~ Chenghui's five eldest sons, thank you very much."
"..."
"Let me tell you, this plan of raising a small family into an entire household is to cut off the flesh of those gentry and gentry. How can it be so easy to accomplish?"
"Brother Huai's words are a wise saying. Most of these squire, landlord, and county magistrate families are greedy people. Although there are a few good families, they are just a drop in the bucket. They will never be willing to be taken away by the imperial court like this.
Such a big piece of fat."
"Yes, how famous was Wang Anshi back then? Even this highly respected scholar just wanted to get back a little money, food and taxes from these people. So what was the result?"
"yes……"
These young people discussing current affairs are all wearing the attire of lifelong scholars. As they speak and look excited, there are faint waves of fresh air flowing around them. It is obvious that they are all well-educated and have cultivated a noble and righteous existence.
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They are also the best among the Confucian scholars who come from poor families. They often have a better experience of today's world than other scholars who come from aristocratic families.
They understand that it is because the previous officials did not have to pay taxes!
It just so happened that they annexed most of the most fertile land!
In this way, how can the country's finances be supported?
Naturally, the burden can only be shifted to small farmers who are unable to resist.
What's even more egregious is that since the aristocratic families basically monopolize the grassroots bureaucracy, state taxation has become a tool for them to make money.
All kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were imposed one after another, and then the money of the wealthy gentry was paid back in full, and the money of the common people was divided into 30% and 50%, and only the remaining 20% was turned over to the national treasury.
Exploiting people from both ends, the result is that the country and the people are getting poorer and poorer, but the vampire in the middle is so fat that his mouth is full of oil!
But are they satisfied?
No, of course not!
They monopolized most of the good land without paying taxes, and naturally hoarded huge amounts of grain in their hands. However, the common people had no overnight grain due to the burden of various exorbitant taxes. Naturally, the risk resistance levels of the two were completely different.
Therefore, the squires and county magistrates do not even have to wait until the actual famine years. They only need to cut off the flow of food and spread some rumors to artificially create crisis and panic.
As a result, food prices were raised several times or even dozens of times in a short period of time, and man-made disasters occurred.
For the common people, the famine was a cruel and cruel thing, but for most of the squires and magistrates, it was a gluttonous feast!
Under the famine and man-made disasters, countless small farmers and even small landowners went bankrupt, but the big landowners in Tianlianqianmo were able to annex land unscrupulously, and gradually developed into a wealthy family across counties, counties, and even states!
This is how those aristocratic families started...
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"Speaking of the current affairs section of "Daqing News", Mr. Zhou Shuren's writing style is extremely pungent. Every word he says is sure to hit the mark and is sarcastic to the bone. It can be said that he won my heart!"
"Although what Brother Zhou Shuren said is not bad, it is too harsh and harsh, which is unacceptable to gentle gentlemen like us. I regard this promising gentleman as a role model for us. He was published in ""
"Young China's Theory on Nanyang Maritime Affairs" makes people's hearts swell every time they read it!
When the red sun rises, its way is so bright!"
"Ah, yes, yes! I guess this Mr. Youwei is the pen name of some great scholar. Seeing that he is willing to publish such a magnificent article on "Nanyang Maritime Affairs", Mr. Youwei should be the general who supports Rongguofu.
This is a plan to open up the sea."
"Mr. Youwei is a great scholar in the world. This should be true, but I don't know if he will take that step by relying on the mighty general's strategy of opening up the sea..."
"Well, this matter is not something we can discuss. Mr. Youwei is naturally unfathomable, but don't you think that Mr. Zhou Shuren is also a figure like Wei Zheng and Hai Rui?
I wish there were more people like this in the world, which would be of great benefit to the nation, the court, and the people."
"That's true, but judging from Mr. Zhou Shuren's attitude, he probably has no intention of entering officialdom."
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After all, there are only a few people like these people who come from poor backgrounds and are able to study successfully. Therefore, the vast majority of people in the officialdom see and hear public opinions that are contrary to this.
Countless scholars who came from aristocratic families denounced the bad government of "sharing grains between farmers and farmers, and officials, gentry, monks and lay people all paying for the food" in order to compete with the people. Many people even wrote articles and submitted them to the newspaper of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, hoping to be published in "Daqing News".
The East China Sea Chamber of Commerce also believed that newspapers should not become the mouthpiece of a certain faction, so they adopted a number of articles that were less violent and less taboo and published them as well.
In the early days, even if the Donghai Chamber of Commerce's newspaper secretly tried to sidestep the situation, the opposition to Tandin's policy of becoming a mother still had the absolute upper hand.
It wasn't until Jia Lian published a number of articles under the pseudonyms "Zhou Shuren" and "Youwei" that exposed the real life of the lower class people and satirized the shameless faces of the landlord class that the situation slowly changed.
In the end, the voices supporting the court's new policy slowly suppressed those who opposed it, but within a few days, a tax-resistance conflict broke out between Hebei Province and Shandong Province as described by "Daqing News".
Even Emperor Baode was caught off guard. In shock and anger, he directly issued an order to mobilize the soldiers and horses in the Shandong camp.
At the same time, another edict was issued to Rongguo Mansion. After Jia Lian entered the palace, he asked Jia Quan to lead a group of personal guards to set off to cooperate with the Shandong camp.
And from this point of view, in a short period of time, the five northern provinces still need a strong figure to sit on the battlefield for a long time. The legendary martial artist Jia Quan, who has already appeared in front of the world, is undoubtedly a suitable figure.
And transfer them away from Rongguo Mansion, the royal family and other interested forces can also try to win over them.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't work out. If the wooing succeeds, it will be a huge profit for the royal family...
The newspapers of the East China Sea Chamber of Commerce took great advantage in this public opinion war. Naturally, knowledgeable people from other forces saw this and began to follow suit.
The printing technology is not up to par? The quality of paper manufacturing is also not up to par?
It’s okay, let’s spend money!
Just a newspaper, how much food can it consume?
We, the millennium-old family, have a lot of background, but if we don’t want to spend money at this time, I’m afraid we won’t have anywhere to spend it in the future!
As a result, a "Jinlin Current Affairs" appeared in Jinling City, and a "Hangzhou Newspaper" appeared in Hangzhou City, which no longer accepted submissions from people like Zhou Shuren and Youwei who supported the imperial government's new policies.
Both newspapers are full of articles about conservative ideas such as ancestral family laws cannot be changed, and it is a sin to compete with the people for profit.
However, all the articles written by these people are of the same kind, which are tough and difficult to understand. They often use rare words and are often written in a beautiful style.
The author is also plausibly saying that courtesy cannot be extended to common people. How can our beautiful articles be written for those stupid people!
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Zaoge Mountain!
Also known as Ge Ling;
Located southeast of Yaodu City in Jiangyou Province, on a branch of Wuyi Mountain, it is known as the Blue Peak of Qingjiang River.
The winding road stretches for more than 200 miles, with rolling peaks, ancient bamboos and pines, steaming clouds, catkins and smoke, beautiful mountains and rivers, and natural scenery.
Climb to the top and look around, surrounded by green peaks and mountains.
Zaoge Mountain has good soil and clear water, green forests and green bamboos, abundant rainfall, and pleasant climate. There is a saying that "a cover is needed to sleep in summer, and there is little ice in the cold winter."
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Throughout the ages, this famous Taoist mountain has attracted countless poets and poets for its beautiful mountains and rivers, strange scenery, unique historical sites, and legendary gods.
In the seventh year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous Taoist master He Tian once attained Taoism and practiced Buddhism here.
It is said that the Taoist sage Ge Xuan was not only the ancestor of the Lingbao Taoist sect, but also the founder of the Zhangshu medicine industry. Therefore, Gezao Mountain became the "ancestral mountain" of the Zhangshu Medicine Gang.
Therefore, Zhangshu City is also known as the Medicine City...
After Ge Xuan, his disciples continued to refine gods and elixirs in Zaoge Mountain, and also cultivated medicine and practiced medicine. Among them, Ge Hong achieved the greatest success. Later Taoists named these two Ge as "Ge Family Tao". It is said that both of them have achieved breakthroughs.
After reaching the third health-preserving realm of Lian Shen, they finally flew away in the daytime!
Gezao Mountain has also become the "holy place" of Taoism because of Liang Ge.
Later, during the Yifeng reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Zaoge Mountain was given the title of the 33rd blessed place in the world.
Zaoge Mountain entered its heyday during the Song Dynasty, and together with Jinling Maoshan and Guangxin Longhu Mountain, it was one of the three most famous mountains in the world.
According to historical records, at that time there were more than 1,500 palaces, more than 500 Taoist priests, and 3,000 acres of fertile land. Taoists called it the "Pavilion of Immortals."
