When Cui Yanyan walked out of the ruined temple, Heiwa was feeding the horses.

Zhao Yan stood with his hands behind his back, enjoying the scenery in the distance.

Cui Yanyan curled her lips and muttered: Humph, what's so good about it? Isn't it just that she is gentler!

Choi Yeon-yeon walked to her white horse and then turned over to the horse.

"drive!"

She held the reins and said when she reached Zhao Yan's side: "If you go to Xingyuan County and have any help, you can go to Cui's house to find me Cui Yanyan. I think that you have helped me, and this girl will treat you well!"

After saying that, she rode away on a horse.

Zhao Yan looked at her back as she left, murmured: If Xingyuan and the Cui family were as tall as this girl, they would have a brainless figure and ambiguous weather, and they would probably not be able to become a family.

...

Nearly noon, Zhao Yan and Heiwa finally arrived at Xingyuan County.

When Zhao Yan saw the prosperity of Xingyuan County, he was stunned and thought he had returned to Changdan City.

Xingyuan County has only one main street, about five miles long, and is naturally far inferior to Changdan City in scale, but there are many shops on both sides and vendors are shouting hawking.

There are so many pedestrians, very lively.

Zhao Yan looked around and found that there were many tiles on both sides of the street.

Kong Moshan once said that whether a city is rich or not, you just need to look at the tiles in the city. If there are many tiles, it means that the economy is prosperous here, otherwise it will be the other way around.

Zhao Yan felt that this was very reasonable. Only when the people were satisfied with their food and clothing could they try other entertainment behaviors.

Ahem...

Of course, the Wazi here not only does the meat-selling business, but many Wazi also advocates literary and artistic exchanges and spiritual communication.

Teahouses and restaurants are the easiest places to hear news.

Zhao Yan visited for an afternoon and finally got a general understanding of the Cui family.

The Cui family made its fortune a hundred years ago and became a family through the sale of cloth. However, there are three main parts of the sale of Cui family, namely: books, cloth and fields.

These three businesses not only leave Ganping Mansion, but also leave Luzhou.

In Jiangnan, whenever someone talks about the books sold by the Cui family in Xingyuan, he will give him a thumbs up and think that although the books in the Cui family’s book shop are more expensive, their quality is among the people but they can squeeze into the top three.

The cloth and fields are also the secret to the Cui family's prosperity.

In Xingyuan County, almost 80% of people are working for the Cui family.

Liu Shiqing, the county magistrate of Xingyuan County, was the adopted son of the Cui family, and Mo Sheng, the governor of Ganping Prefecture, was the son-in-law of the Cui family.

In such an environment, the Cui family is naturally the only one in Xingyuan County, and no one dares to mess with it.

The most important reason why the Cui family opposed the new policy is that the local tax and commercial tax of the new policy will greatly reduce the Cui family's income.

The new policy's local tax and commercial tax are all determined by hierarchy. The more you earn, the more tax you pay.

The purpose of this is to prevent the merchant, landlord class and literati class from increasing more land and property, which leads to the people becoming poorer and poorer.

After all, from the perspective of the ruler, many rebellions are caused by uneven distribution and too large gap between the rich and the poor.

At present, although the new policy has been launched, the county level has not been fully implemented, but this news has spread to Xingyuan County.

The people and scholars of Xingyuan County all complained about the new policy.

The people here currently only recognize the Cui family but not the county government. They think that if the Cui family does not make money, they will definitely not be able to survive.
Chapter completed!