On the banks of the Xunyang River, Huaiyu and his son went fishing together after their morning exercises. Huaiyu occasionally likes to hang two poles in his free time. It is not an addiction, but he can also enjoy the tranquility of immersed in fishing.
"Aye, will Jiangzhou really belong to our family from now on? Will it be passed on to me in the future?"
Seven-year-old Chengsi asked. His hair hangs down naturally. Preschool children don't need to tie up the corners, so he is a droopy child.
Huaiyu gave him a small pole and made a nest. The little ginseng strips were very noisy, one at a time. Although the ginseng strips were only about the size of one or two fingers, the child was very happy and enjoyed it.
Wu Huaiyu used a different hook and line, and fished deep to catch big fish, but it was always quiet. He wanted to catch mandarin fish, but it was not easy.
Historically, the imperial decree was eventually withdrawn after a few years. None of the heroes led by Changsun Wuji were willing, so the emperor had no choice but to withdraw his decree.
The current situation may still follow the same old path, but there may also be some changes. For example, there was no such thing as Wu Huaiyu before, but now there are not only more of him, but actually more than a dozen. It turns out that the number of governors in the world is only eleven.
Moreover, it was not until the eleventh year of Zhenguan that the imperial edict was issued.
Now several years ahead of schedule, the number of vassals has more than doubled.
Wu Huaiyu was even urged by the emperor to seal him immediately, so he was in good shape.
Seeing that Wu Chengsi liked him very much, Huaiyu didn't say much, "Who told you what?"
After all, the child couldn't hide the matter, so he said that his uncle Fan Xiuyi and his adopted brother Shi Shouxin had told him on the road that Jiangzhou was very good, with water and land docks, and a Yangtze River fortress, and that Jiangzhou would be passed to him in the future.
, inherited from generation to generation.
"My uncle said that Jiangzhou used to be very big, with eleven counties."
"Well, when Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui of the Western Jin Dynasty, was in power, seven counties were separated from Yangzhou, three counties were separated from Jingzhou, and Jiangzhou was newly established. Later, three counties were separated from Wuchang County and Lujiang County and Xunyang County was established, so Jiangzhou was
The state has eleven counties and has become a large state on par with Jingyang."
At that time, Jiangzhou's jurisdiction included the entire Jiangxi and Fujian, as well as the Huangmei area in Wuchang, Hubei, and the Chenzhou area in Hunan. The original intention was to weaken the strength of Jingzhou and Yangzhou.
By the time of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jiangzhou began to shrink again. During the Chen Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, only Jiangxi was left in Jiangzhou. When the Sui Dynasty withdrew the counties and merged them into prefectures, only the northwest of Jiangxi was left in Jiangzhou.
Even with the Yangtze River as the boundary, the Huangmei area on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which originally belonged to Jiangzhou, no longer belongs to it.
Today's Xunyang County in Jiangzhou actually moved from the north of the Yangtze River to the south bank in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Jiujiang has been very important since ancient times.
The important town at Penkou, in the middle of the river, built the city where Wu and Chu were meeting. Not only did the safety of the right side of the river depend on the priority of Jiujiang, but the power of the upper reaches of the Huainan River was shared by the left and right sides of the Huainan River. Is it true that the land is always in danger?
Economically, it is also a national commodity integration hub. Xunyang opens six roads to the south, connects to Wuling Mountains, and leads to the Yangtze River in the north. It can travel to Minhan and Han Dynasty, and it is also a metropolis.
These days, big rivers are equivalent to highways and railways, and they are very important for the circulation of goods.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is connected with the Ganjiang River-Meiguan Road-Pearl River, forming a water and land transportation line running from north to south.
Jiujiang is located right at the interface of the Yangtze River, so it is difficult for it not to prosper.
Shi Shouxin was born in Northwest Maike, but he has been with Wu Huaiyu for several years. How could he not understand this? As for Fan Xiuyi, his hometown in Anlu is not far to the north of Jiangzhou. This can be considered half of his hometown.
The two of them accompanied the eldest son along the way, and often told Chengsi about Jiangzhou, a treasure land. At such a young age, Chengsi also knew some things that he seemed to understand.
The Grand Canal, the Yangtze River, the Gan River, and the Pearl River are the most prosperous trade routes today. The hereditary governor of Jiangzhou is really a cornucopia of money trees.
"My uncle said that the imperial court is going to set up Jiujiang Banknote Pass in Jiujiang to collect customs duties. He also said that our Wu family can share one-third of the customs duties?"
This kid, Huaiyu smiled,
The imperial court really planned to set up banknote checkpoints and collect customs duties at Shanhaiguan Pass, an important place in the country, such as Guangzhou Pass, which was the customs.
Jiujiang will also set up customs. The main objects of collection are naturally the Yangtze River and Ganjiang River, which are important nodes on the golden trade route. The main objects of collection are of course merchant ships transporting goods from south to north and east to west.
This Jiujiang Pass is not only the border of Jiangzhou, but actually connects Jiangxia in the upper reaches and Jiangning in the lower reaches. A long section of the Yangtze River line is all within this pass.
Last year, more than 5,000 large and small ships entered Guangzhou Port, but more than 50,000 large and small ships passed through Jiujiang, with an average of more than 100 ships every day.
Although these river ships are not as good as sea-going ships, if Jiangzhou's currency customs is complete, the customs duties can be about 600,000 guan a year.
Although this is an ideal tariff, there are actually many cases of evasion and concealment, but even half of it is 300,000 guan, which is very scary. The tariff is at least 1,000 guan per day.
And Jing, Yang, Jiangxia, Jiangning and other important industrial and commercial wharf towns on the Yangtze River will still be able to levy a lot of tariffs. If you add in the tariffs of Jiaotong, Guangzhou, Hangdeng and other ports, plus the tariffs of important towns along the Grand Canal,
Su Changrun, Chu Si, Xu Bian, Zheng Luo, etc.
Tariffs may collect several million a year.
It was so tempting that Li Shimin couldn't help but be moved.
The emperor was also short of money,
Otherwise, Tian Khan would have promised the military generals in the DPRK to attack Tuyuhun, Xueyantuo, or even Goguryeo and the Western Turks.
After all, he was still short of money, and the emperor was still saving money, so he seemed to have a good temper now, with a saintly and compassionate look on his face. He was always polite to the barbarians, and even made peace with them.
"If Jiujiang Pass is built and the imperial court wants to distribute taxes to the localities, then I suggest that one-third should be given to the national treasury, one-third should be kept in the governor's office, and one-third should be kept in the prefectures and counties. Even if our Wu family is still the governor of Jiangzhou, we will not be able to do it.
Regardless of the money,"
"Can't I have this money?"
Chengsi was puzzled. Although children did not have a clear concept of money, the young men and women of the Wu family began to receive monthly money from birth. The Wu family even received some welfare dividends every year.
He is not short of money, but he also knows that money is a good thing.
"Jiujiang has unlimited potential in the future. It will actually become the national food, bamboo, salt, tea, and Beijing-Guangzhou department store dispensing center in the Tang Dynasty. Wu, Chu, Bashu, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong will be able to collect goods. Its status will not lose to places like Jingzhou, Hankou, Yangzhou, and Jiangning.
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If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and Jiangzhou’s doorstep is the Yangtze River and Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake. Countless goods, money, and business opportunities are flowing, and they are all rushing to embrace it.
This is purely because God is chasing after me to feed him.
From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the Ganjiang trade route from Jiujiang to Guangzhou was the most critical reason why Jiangxi became rich for so many years.
Jiangzhou banknote customs will definitely be established, and the tariff of 500,000 to 600,000 yuan a year is not a problem, and there will be more and more in the future. Even if Jiangzhou has a one-third tariff, it will still be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan.
The imperial court said it would give such a large amount of money to the Wu family. How dare the Wu family take it?
During the Wu De Dynasty, the annual household tax was only 400,000 guan, and the money was not enough. A large tax of 800,000 guan was levied every three years. Now a Jiangzhou tariff is 600,000 guan a year. The Wu family dares to share one third of it.
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Wu Huaiyu wanted to use Jiangzhou in exchange for Liuqiu, but he actually had some selfish motives. He felt that the world-wide seal of Jiangzhou was unsustainable, and he might take it back after a few years. It would be better to change to Liuqiu Island, even a desert island.
, but after all, it is so big and has great potential for development, so it is better than being happy in vain.
The two of us spent half the morning fishing,
Chengsi caught a flat basket of ginseng skins, except for a few crucian carp, while Wu Huaiyu only caught two mandarin fish and a bream.
The harvest was not bad. What Huaiyu liked was the calmness of immersing himself in fishing. Chengsi was simply happy because he caught a lot of fish. He didn’t care whether the fish he caught was big or small, expensive or cheap. He just saw that he caught so many fish with his own hands.
Very satisfied.
This satisfaction may even be more than what my uncle and sworn brother said that the entire Jiangzhou would be his from now on.
Return to the governor's mansion in the city.
Huaiyu also took his son to collect the catch himself, slit the belly of the ginseng skin, removed the internal organs, gallbladder, and dug out the gills. There was no need to remove the scales for small fish.
Marinate the ginger, green onion, salt and cooking wine for a while, then heat the oil in a pan and fry slowly over low heat.
Pan-fried small ginseng fish, the bones and scales are fried until crispy.
Chengsi was quite patient, maybe because he caught the fish by himself, or maybe because he was tired of studying every day, so he brought him all the way to Jiangzhou. There were more smiles on this kid's face and he was jumping up and down.
He was very active, and Wu Huaiyu also specially gave him a holiday, and no longer asked him to study or do homework these days.
The two of us had pan-fried ginseng strips for lunch and steamed mandarin fish for dinner.
After dinner, he went to the Fan Building incognito for a meeting, and finally went upstairs to the center building to listen to the matchmaker, the female steward, reporting some intelligence news.
Jiangzhou is very lively recently,
The issue of Jiangzhou's examination and awarding of officials caused a sensation in the whole city.
Huaiyu just took a casual look at the collected and screened information and had no interest in it. Instead, he was more interested in the collected business information.
In the past three years, Jiangzhou Wharf has continued to expand, with many warehouses and stores added, more merchant ships coming and going, and more goods being transferred in Jiangzhou.
The service industry alone has just experienced explosive growth.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that there is feasting and feasting,
The prosperity of the service industry also illustrates the development of today's industrial and commercial economy. Jiangzhou, a commercial port and wharf, is really prosperous.
The third largest rice market and the fourth largest tea market in the country,
Other commodities such as salt, wine, sugar, cloth, medicine, etc. are also available in huge quantities here. In addition, Jiangzhou's shipbuilding and ship repair industry has also improved a lot.
Not only did it attract many banks and pawnshops, it even sprung up an escort agency.
The ceramics and textile industries have also reached some scale.
Fanlou's five three-story restaurants can accommodate thousands of guests at the same time, and there are even one to two hundred prostitutes accompanying them. The business is full every day.
In addition to Fanlou, Jiangzhou has several high-end restaurants, and the business is also very good. There are also many other teahouses, restaurants and small restaurants. These all illustrate the popularity of Jiangzhou now.
The prosperity of these industries and commerce even far exceeds that of Jiangzhou's agriculture.
Wu Huaiyu is looking more and more serious these days.
If he were the emperor, he would not be willing to entrust Jiangzhou to meritorious officials. Although Jiangzhou is only Zhongzhou with more than 17,000 households, in terms of importance, it is even more important than Hongzhou next door.
Even if the emperor will definitely send a younger brother or a prince to Hongzhou in the future and make him the governor of the town, he can't compare to Jiangzhou.
Maybe Li Shimin hasn't realized the potential and importance of Jiangzhou yet, but with this situation, the emperor will understand sooner or later. By then, the Wu family's Jiangzhou will definitely be handed over, or its title will be changed.
So after understanding this, I actually felt a little disappointed.
After all, we cannot keep such a cornucopia in our arms forever.
From this point of view, there are some things that Wu Huaiyu does not need to worry about at all now, such as protecting the military palace, marriage affairs, the inner palace, and state affairs, there is no need to waste energy on them.
It would be better to take advantage of the fact that Jiangzhou Wharf is still developing at a rapid pace, and the first-come-first-served buildings near the water are here, and quickly lay out and seize some opportunities here, including rice, tea, salt, cloth, as well as shipbuilding, shipping, and banking and pawnshop finance.
