Yunxi asked Bai Wenxuan a few more questions and asked him to go down.
The fourth person to be received was Mu Tianyan, the magistrate of Changzhou County. When he was saluting, Yunxi took a special look at his appearance. Yesterday when they knelt down to greet him, it was already late, and Yunxi would not go out of his way to greet him.
I follow a small magistrate, so I don’t know what he looks like. I learned his name last night and decided to pay attention today.
But to his expectation, Mu Tianyan was very handsome, tall, and upright. He didn't look like a flatterer at all. Then why did he have such a name? Could it be that
People should not be judged by their appearance?' Yunxi thought.
After that, Yunxi asked him questions that he had asked the prefect Xiang Bao and Wu County magistrate Bai Wenxuan. His answer was not as good as Bai Wenxuan's answer, but similar to Xiang Bao's, and he did not know the situation of the local businessmen. This made Yunxi have no idea about him.
I looked down a bit: Although I like to flatter people, my sense of smell is not sensitive and I also have some contempt for businessmen. What is the use of such a person?
Yunxi was not in the mood to talk to him anymore and let him go down.
After that, Yunxi patiently interviewed several tongpans, but found no outstanding people. Yunxi then decided not to interview officials younger than tongpans. It was just a waste of time. What's the point of interviewing them?
Yunxi stood up and thought to himself: 'Now it seems that the one available to Suzhou Prefecture is Bai Wenxuan, the magistrate of Wu County. This matter can only fall on Bai Wenxuan. However, he should not be in contact with Suzhou Prefecture on weekdays.
How do you deal with businessmen? Nowadays, agricultural taxes are still the main ones. The few local industrial and commercial taxes are not worthy of being personally investigated by the county.'
What Yunxi wanted to do was of course related to merchants and commerce. As one of the most prosperous places in the Ming Dynasty, Suzhou Prefecture had a developed economy. Although it was the early years of the Ming Dynasty, its commerce was far stronger than in other places.
Moreover, Suzhou is close to Songjiang Prefecture, which is also close to the Shanghai Shipping Department. It has an excellent geographical location and is definitely a good place for industry and commerce. Historically, Suzhou has become an important industrial town after the reform and opening up in later generations. There are eight national-level development zones.
There are two high-tech zones, and their GDP exceeds that of Nanjing.
It is not yet the period of the industrial revolution, and Yunxi has not graduated from the textile major. He has no research on textile machines and cannot come up with a cross-century advanced textile machine, but he can start from the silk textile industry.
Silk, as one of China's three major export tools, has a large domestic and overseas market. Silk can be integrated into silk textile factories as a leading local industry.
At the same time, we can also develop an agricultural product processing industry as a supplement to attract employment. Suzhou now has more than two million people, which is too many. It is definitely not possible to fully participate in agriculture. They must either move overseas or participate in industry and commerce to make a fortune.
Yunxi thought about it secretly and felt that the local businessmen would not refuse his kindness. In the feudal era, establishing a connection with the emperor was a beautiful thing that many people could not even imagine, not to mention that Yunxi did not ask them to pay.
The problem now is how to contact the big local businessmen. He can't personally announce the presence of the Li family, right? Does he still need the dignity of the emperor? But this is not urgent. Is the Li family the largest businessman in the local industry?
We need to investigate further. Maybe there is a businessman who hides deeply.
Yunxi had made up his mind and felt much more relaxed. Thinking about the beautiful scenery left by previous generations in Suzhou, he felt sorry for himself if he didn't take a look at it. He ordered someone to call Puyu and ordered: "Puyu, arrange it."
For a moment, I want to incognito and take a look at the scenery of Suzhou."
Puyu was startled: "Your Majesty, you must not do it! Suzhou is not a capital city, so you must not surrender."
"Why?" Yunxi asked: "I am always incognito when I am in the capital, why can't I do it when I go to Suzhou?"
"Your Majesty, the dialect in Suzhou is different from that in the capital. The dialect in the capital is Mandarin, while the dialect in Suzhou is Wu dialect. Although the difference is not big, the locals can recognize it immediately."
"Even if His Majesty can speak Wu language, the guards I brought here have all lived in the capital for a long time and cannot speak Wu language. The locals will definitely be able to tell them apart. In this way, His Majesty's safety will be difficult to guarantee." Puyu said.
Yunxi thought the same thing. With so many people speaking the Mandarin of the capital walking around on the streets, anyone who was not deaf could guess that they were the emperor's men who had recently visited Suzhou, so they would definitely attract attention.
Yunxi then said: "In that case, I will go out and take a look."
Then he counted: "Of course we have to go to the Lion Forest. Mr. Yunlin (Ni Zan, calligrapher and painter) wrote poems and paintings here in the sixth year of Hongwu. Obviously the scenery of the Lion Forest is good."
"Of course we have to go to Hanshan Temple. 'The sky is filled with frost as the moon sets, crows cry, the river maples and fishing fires meet the sorrowful sleep, the Hanshan Temple outside the city of Suzhou, the midnight bell rings for the passenger ship', has been famous for a long time."
"Of course we should go to Huqiu Mountain. Su Dongpo of the Song Dynasty once said: "It would be a pity not to visit Huqiu Mountain in Suzhou." How can I regret it? Not to mention the Tiger Qiu Tower."
"Taihu Lake is a tourist attraction that you should take a look at. Although its reputation is not as good as that of West Lake in Hangzhou, it is not far behind."
"There is no need to go to Yangcheng Lake, but I heard that Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are very famous, so I must try them."
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"Do you have any other recommendations for where I should go?" Yunxi finally said to Puyu.
Puyu couldn't recover for a moment. Yunxi just looked like a scholar visiting Suzhou, talking about the beautiful scenery of Suzhou with great interest. Puyu had never seen Yunxi like this before.
However, he is a Marquis after all, and he has seen many unusual things in his daily life. Hearing this, he said: "Your Majesty, the scenic spots near Suzhou City include the Pagoda of Bao'en Temple, the Arhat Statue of Baosheng Temple, etc., which are all worth visiting."
"It's just that," Puyu said, "Your Majesty's public visit to the scenic spots in Suzhou may lead to the impeachment of the ministers in the DPRK and China."
"I've finally come to Suzhou once, and wouldn't it be a pity not to visit the famous places in Suzhou? If the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government come to remonstrate, let them do so. Isn't it true that these famous places can only be visited by scholars, and I can't visit them?"
Yunxi obviously thought of the fact that in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, unless the emperor went to Changping to visit the mausoleum, countless people would come to impeach him once he left the palace.
"The emperor was imprisoned in the palace by them. He couldn't hear anything or see anything. He was only happy because they believed in nonsense." Yunxi said.
Yunxi's words frightened Puyu. He immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me."
"What sins do you have to forgive? Get up and make arrangements for my visit." Yunxi said.
Puyu immediately bowed and left.
After Yunxi made arrangements for the trip, he thought about it, called Wang Xi over, gave him a few instructions, and then, seeing that it was getting late, returned to the backyard to have a meal.