Seeing the back of Jin Xizuo disappearing from the door, the butler Yang Fu asked: "Master, these Jiannu Xizuo have actually come to the Yang family. It's so arrogant! Master, have you reported to the factory guards and arrested all these Jiannu Xizuo?"

"Yang Fu, you are confused!" Yang Yuan sighed, "If the factory guards arrested Jiannu and did it carefully, Xiong Manzi would not have fallen; if Xiong Manzi did not fallen, what should my nephew do? Could it be that the three officials were tried and passed on to the nine sides?"

It was precisely because of these guys who put personal interests above national interests in the late Ming Dynasty that the Later Jin Dynasty grew stronger and finally became uncontrollable, which led to the dark age of Chinese civilization for nearly three hundred years!

Of course, Gao Shixin didn't know that when the Later Jin Dynasty came to the capital, even the factory guards in the capital did not notice it, let alone Gao Shixin who had left the capital.

At this time, Gao Shixin had already reached the territory of Shandong. He walked twenty miles to the post station to change horses. This was the speed of 400 miles; if it was 600 miles or 800 miles, it would be necessary to change horses after running ten miles. Although it could be changed every ten miles, there were many postmen who were exhausted to death with such expedition. In history, Yang Guifei sent lychees from Sichuan to Chang'an with 800 miles. In order to eat fresh lychees, countless people were exhausted to death.

Although the canals in Shandong have begun to be unsealed, ice is floating on the river surface. Because the North Canal leading to the capital is still in the ice-cold period, ships of all sizes are parked at various ports and have not opened. Linqing is a dead end to the north, and the canal transportation is temporarily interrupted. Gao Shixin asked others, saying that after crossing the Yellow River, ships were only opened to navigation since Xuzhou.

The canal has not yet been opened to navigation, so Gao Shixin could only continue riding his horse south.

Along the way, it was still a peaceful and prosperous scene. At this time, the disaster in the late Ming Dynasty had not yet arrived, and there was still a peaceful and peaceful pastoral scenery on both sides of the canal on the north. The snow left in winter covered the earth, and the winter wheat that had been sleeping for a winter was buried under the snow. In the cold winter, the snow covered on the wheat seedlings was like a thick quilt, protecting the wheat seedlings from being frozen to death. When spring comes, the snow melts, which provides sufficient moisture for the wheat seedlings, allowing the wheat to grow vigorously, and the wheat will mature in summer. Therefore, there is a saying that auspicious snow indicates a good harvest.

The further you go south, the more you can see the snow has begun to melt.

The sound of horse hooves on the ground was tickled. The more you walked south, the more difficult the road on the river bank became. The melted snow turned into ice. The road was very slippery. The horses pulled out of the post station were covered with thick cotton cloth. Even so, Gao Shixin dared not let the horse run too fast, so as not to slip and break the horse's legs.

I have been running for five days, changing horses for twenty miles during the day, and staying at the inn at night, and I have already run more than a thousand miles. The stations in the Ming Dynasty are divided into two types: pavilions and post stations. On average, one pavilion can be set up for ten miles. The pavilion can only change horses and not provide food and accommodation; a station can be set up for every sixty miles, and the station can provide food and accommodation.

With the identity of the Qianhu, Gao Shixin did not need to pay money for his own money when staying in the inn.

When you arrive at the north bank of the Yellow River, Xuzhou is opposite. The ice surface of the Yellow River has completely melted. It has not yet entered the Little Ice Age and is not that cold yet.

Gao Shixin walked into the post station with his horse. A postman saw a Jinyiwei in a furious horse coming, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "This official, please come in and invite him!"

He handed over the postmaster to the postmaster, and Gao Shixin walked into the postmaster.

This inn located by the Yellow River is a very large inn. It offers rooms for postmen, officials and soldiers to live in two floors. There is a stable behind the building, with more than 100 horses for transfer. The two-story inn is a restaurant, a dormitory and office for inns, and a room for passing people to live in the downstairs.

With his flying fish suit, embroidered spring sword and jade token on his waist, Gao Shixin was naturally arranged to a good guest room.

When I opened the door and walked into the guest room, this was a luxurious upper room that I could hardly see in a folk inn. When I opened the door and entered, the first thing I saw was a large living room and a dining room. There was a round dining table in the middle with a circle of stools around it. On one side of the wall were placed, two Taishi chairs were placed, and there were a table in the middle of the two Taishi chairs, and there were also various luxurious decorations such as large vases, screens, candlesticks and other luxurious decorations in the hall. After passing through the living room, there was a bedroom inside. The bedroom was not small in size, with a large bed and a dining table in the middle. There was a desk, a bookshelves, and the inner wall was a wardrobe.

Gao Shixin estimated that the total area of ​​the entire suite was almost 200 square meters!

At this time, after more than two hundred years of corruption in the Ming Dynasty, the station became a tool for officials to send private messages and travel for free, and there were very few parts that were actually used to perform official duties.

Because of this, Chongzhen later heard a man named Mao Yujian's comments, and the post station was removed, resulting in a large number of grassroots civil servants being laid off. Among the laid-off civil servants, there was a postman named Li Hongji.

Li Hongji was a poor peasant and finally became a civil servant who ate imperial grain, but who knew he was fired by Chongzhen. After being fired, Li Hongji, who was unemployed and laid off, owed the Juren usury, so he killed the Juren and brought his nephew Li Guo to join the army. However, he was not at ease when he became a soldier and had become an officer. However, during the change of history, Li Hongji followed the army to Beijing to serve the king. Who knew that the military pay and food had not been paid, and the hungry and tired soldiers had a mutiny. Needless to say, everyone knew what happened next.

It is said that the reason why Mao Yujian suggested that Chongzhen cancel the post was because his wife was too tough. His wife found out about taking a concubine in the capital, so his wife came to the capital through the post, beat him up, and sold his concubine. Therefore, Mao Yujian was angry that the post station in the Ming Dynasty was too developed, which led to the fact that he finally got rid of his wife and fell back into the roar of the Lion in Hedong again.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty were not able to take concubines if they wanted to take concubines, nor could they divorce their wives if they wanted to divorce them. Taking concubines requires the consent of the wife. If the wife does not agree to take concubines, only if the wife is over forty and has no son, can she bypass the wife and forcefully take concubines. If the wife insists on not agreeing, she can divorce her wife on the grounds that she has no daughter in the third place.

Gao Shixin put the bag on the bed and asked someone to send him dinner.

"Dinner is here!" A postman walked into Gao Shixin's guest room with a tray and placed the dishes on the tray on the table. "You are busy with this official!"

"You little brother, go down first. I will call you after I finish my meal!" Gao Shixin said, and stuffed several copper plates to the postman.

The postman pinched the copper plates in his hand and knew that the quality of these copper plates was very good. They were genuine official copper plates, not legal fake copper plates cast by the Donglin Party in Jiangnan. So he kindly reminded him: "This official, if you cross the Yellow River tomorrow morning, you'd better not wear this flying fish suit. If you cross the river, you will be Li Sancai's territory. Those Donglin Party hate you Jinyiwei. Li Sancai dared to throw the Jinyiwei into the prison and then commit crimes and execute him!"

"Li Sancai?" Gao Shixin thought of this person in his mind, so he asked, "Didn't Li Sancai, a corruption man who was impeached by him a few years ago and was already lost to his official position?"

The postman said, "Your Majesty, you don't know. Li Sancai has left, but how many years has he managed the canal transport? The canal is full of Li Sancai's people! His eldest son Li Jiaguo, but the canal transport is dominant, and the merchants on both sides of the canal are all listened to the eldest son. The second son Li Jiabin is the president of the boat gang in the Jiangnan Canal. As long as the two brothers say a word, the entire canal transport will be cut off immediately and the grain cannot be delivered to the capital! If you offend Li Sancai and the grain cannot be delivered to the capital, the emperor is furious, and you will be in trouble."
Chapter completed!