The ship was extremely fast, and when it was almost noon, Min Yuanjin pointed to the north shore and said to Min Yuanqi: "Brother Yuanqi, you should be in Guannan County. The tax customs set up by Salt Ding in front of him, which is only a few miles apart."

Min Yuanjin's age is similar to Min Yuanqi, but in terms of the familiarity between waterways and cross-strait geography, Min Yuanqi is far inferior to Min Yuanjin.

Everyone became nervous. Liang Shifa's face turned blue and stood up together with Yang Zhijin and Gao Cuncheng. The three of them were originally squatting beside the boat and whispering. After they stood up, they all looked at Min Yuanqi.

Min Yuanzhong and Min Yuanjin were also quite nervous. After Min Yuanjin spoke, he stood behind Min Yuanqi.

The flag soldiers also looked weak, even if they were two servants.

Min Yuanqi looked at Li Junsun and Wang Wumai. He knew that these two guys were different from ordinary flag soldiers. When he was young, he practiced archery, horses, swords and guns under the supervision of his elders. His martial arts skills were quite outstanding. The two of them received one stone of grain each under Min Yuanqi's sect. This treatment must be extremely poor in the northern border army. The servants of the generals of the Liaodong border army, and the most ordinary servants also received three taels of silver and two stones of grain every month. If they were good-matched border soldiers, there were all kinds of fat fields, horses, and arches and swords. The head of the family himself might not eat meat every meal, but the servants would have to keep wine and meat.

The reason is simple. The north has been fighting for wars over the years, and the servants are not very good at martial arts and are not well-fed. At critical moments, they cannot save the life of the master.

The generals can ignore anything else, but their lives are extremely important. Those miscellaneous fish camp soldiers are cannon fodders, and they can ignore them no matter how much they die. Only the generals and the lives of the servants are the most important key. Therefore, the servants are given high treatment, and they practice martial arts and riding and shooting every day. The servants also represent the strength of the generals.

The famous Liaodong general, the Li family of Ningyuan Bo is the first. In addition to Li Chengliang's outstanding martial arts, the eight thousand servants of the Li family are the most critical bargaining chips. The generals of the generals are from the Li family.

After the decline of the Li family, Zu Dashou's family rose because the Zu family had been in Ningyuan for generations, and they merged a large number of land and raised a large number of servants.

The elite servants of the Zu family were over a thousand, so no matter how arrogant Zu Dashou was, he fled in front of the Guangning Formation and led his troops to leave first under the city of Beijing. The emperor dared to kill Yuan Chonghuan, but he did not dare to touch Zu Dashou's finger. The reason was that the servants only recognized the head of their family, but did not take the national laws and regulations seriously. The emperor dared to touch the Zu family, and the servants of the Zu family dared to rebel. Some servants were supported by the family for generations, just to avoid the righteousness of the family at the critical moment. Things were not tortuous. The servants only recognized their heads of the family and ignored everything else.

In Dahewei, Jiajing never set up any swords after Jiajing. The flag soldiers of the garrison had never seen blood for decades, so even the servants were the same. Min Yuanqi's family had over 100 people at most, which was also the case during the Jiajing period. Now, Min Yuanqi has only had these two goods in front of him.

Wu Yi, but in the past, the experience of fighting on the battlefield was equal to zero. In the current situation, not to mention going to the battlefield, even if these two people were asked to fight in groups, I am afraid that these two families were also playing a small drum in their hearts, and their faces were also pale and unstable, and they were not much stronger than those ordinary flag soldiers.

People didn't dare to speak casually, they could only hear the sound of water slapping on the hull. Then, people gradually appeared on the desolate shore. Going forward a little further, the crowds on both sides became increasingly dense.

It was almost noon, and the sun seemed to be warmer. After all, it was already February. In about half a month, the willow trees on the shore would sprout, and the spring water would be warmer, and the scenery would be much more beautiful than the bleak, gray and black now.

In front of you is the ferry from Guannan to Dahewei, and the other side is Guannan. There are villages in Xiangdu and hundreds of households in Dahewei on the south bank. From here to large areas of Yancheng and Dongyang, there are no township counties. In the early Ming Dynasty, 30% of the land in the entire coastal area was tidal flats, and there were large areas of saline-alkali land with a small population. It was possible to set up a Yancheng county and Huaian Prefecture. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were actually a large population breeding, but the villages in Minhou were managed by counties under Huaian Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture. It would take hundreds of years before multiple counties would be added here.

At this time, of course it is impossible to build a bridge on the Huai River, and the personnel exchanges between the two sides are naturally a boat.

The ferry is back and forth between the wooden piers on both sides. The ferry ends every day from morning to evening, before dusk. This is the time when the crowds are the most crowded.

In addition to Min Yuanqi's old canal ship, many small black-sailed boats walked along the river bank and were also stopped here.

These ships have small civilian ships, most of which are merchant ships for cargo. In addition to the ferry, people are clearly seen checking passing pedestrians on the road.

If an ordinary person who does not bring goods is released directly. If he brings goods, he will not let go of any of them. He will have to pay more or less to pass the card.

Min Yuanqi frowned and looked at the situation in front of him. This situation of setting up a card and taxation was too common in the Ming Dynasty. In front of him, this was a card jointly assigned by Guannan County and the Yankeshi Tuiju Department, and there were also card from Shanyang County and Huai'an Prefecture. In Henan and Shandong and other places, there were many relatives, and the royal palaces also sent people to set up a card and taxation at the official road and the Hedu. No matter what the name is, you can only pass by if you pay the money.

Even many large gentry and grain farmers cannot ban private tax cards by using various names such as group training and local public security.

In the Ming Dynasty, the court collected very limited commercial taxes and miscellaneous items. The people in the south were extremely wealthy after the opening of the sea in Longwan. Even in Shandong and Jiangbei, they were much richer than before. There were many tax cards, which restricted commercial circulation. The officials and related people who set up the card were poor, but the court had the benefits of half a penny.

The tax card in front of you is a typical private card.

The dock was bustling with crowds, and boats were constantly coming and going on the river. A group of men wearing short blue cloth jackets and blue folded scarves on their heads held a scratch hook in their hands and kept hooking the boat towards the dock. Then the people on the boat negotiated to pay the money. These men in the green robe pushed the boat away with push rods. They all looked relaxed. This has been done for a long time.

Above the dock is a small river house building. Although the place is remote, the river house is well built. It has a blue tiled and animal ridge, three courtyard doors, three wing rooms on both sides, plus the main hall, kitchen, horse house and thatched cottage.

There were also people coming and going in the courtyard. Most of them wore royal blue or cocoon silk robes, straight blue cloth, straight body, six-piece uniform hats, or Dongpo scarves, square flat scarves, Tang scarves, and corrugated hats and big hats. Every time someone enters and exits, there are silver and money entering the account. At the gate of the courtyard, there are several large baskets, broken silver and copper coins thrown into the baskets. From morning to noon, several baskets were already filled.

The few people behind Min Yuanqi were all stretched their necks to look at the money-collecting basket, and several of them were all red in their eyes.

The canal boats became closer and closer, and finally someone stretched out the hook and dragged the canal boats to the dock.

"A canal ship coming from Yundi Pass?" A middle-aged man in his forties came over, glanced at the cabin, and said, "I should have come half a month ago. I also said that these thieves and soldiers have something else to do to grow hair elsewhere, so they will no longer boil red eyes and boil salt."

Everyone around laughed, and someone said with a slight interest: "What other ways to make money besides boiling salt in this way? It's also a blessing for Brother Yang and Brother Guan Erde. It's not a stove owner, so how could you cook salt at will? It took decades to change the iron pot stove that privately cooked salt to be charged with three thousand miles."

The middle-aged man named Guan Er, who was a brother who exchanged posts with Yang Shida. He took care of the matters at the level. He had a good job and was well-manned, so he had a group of gangs who were idle around to serve and make fun of it.

"Ten thousand pounds are coming." Guan Er didn't talk much about these military soldiers. These military households were three points poorer than ordinary stove households, let alone compared to those big salt merchants, there was not much oil and water to squeeze. After a glance, he said, "It's worth fifty taels, 20% of them, and then he will leave quickly after paying ten taels."

The people on the canal boat looked at each other, but no one answered.

"What?" Guan Er felt something strange and said angrily: "The pickled things that donkeys and horses ejaculate, and they are still thinking about bargaining with me Guan Er?"

There were five small flags on the canal ship, including the seventh-rank official, and Min Yuanqi was wearing the sixth-rank military officer robe and the waist tag was hanging on the belt. His identity was quite obvious, but this Guan Er did not take the military officers in front of him seriously at all.

Before Guan Erkai scolded, Min Yuanqi was a little embarrassed.

Rebirth and time travel, the future is a major change in the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Min Yuanqi felt powerless in the wave of the times. Personally, he had some identities to rely on, but it was not high... This official position can only be told that he will not be bullied and have enough food and clothing. If he wants to protect himself in troubled times, or not be crushed by the wheels of the times, he has to work hard to improve.

So I heard that the salt I had to be cooked with 20% of the time was for free, and Min Yuanqi's first reaction was to solve this problem.

Until now, Min Yuanqi felt a little bit unlucky.

Min Yuanqi's family has been passed down in Dahewei for a long time, and his prestige and connections are quite stable. He was appointed as a test household at the age of 20. He was from the sixth rank, and he could be converted into a household in a few days. He had two general banners under his command, nearly two hundred flags and Yu Ding followed his command. He could use his own fortune in this household. Even if he was in a thousand households, although Li Kecheng, a thousand household, was a little wary of the Min family, but he always had to give some face to the children of the Min family.

These things gave Min Yuanqi some hints and illusions about his past memories, as if he was also considered the No. 1 person.

When we arrived at the tax card office in front of us, we looked at the merchants wearing silk shirts and Guan Er and others on the tax card, either wearing wealthy clothes or burly and stubborn eyes. And the eyes of these people when they looked at themselves and others, without exception, all looked unconcealed and contemptuous.

In the Ming Dynasty, the military soldiers of the garrison, whether they were flag soldiers or military officers, were all under the chain of contempt!

Of course, if Min Yuanqi is a deputy or a thousand households with real power, or a commander, co-guild, or even commander in Huai'an Prefecture, a demon and a demon in the place like Guan Er, he still has to give these military officers some face. However, these high-ranking military officers of the fifth to fourth and third ranks have at least hundreds or thousands of acres of land. The flag army under his jurisdiction farms for them. How could these military officers escort such a dilapidated canal ship and take private salt to Huai'an Prefecture to sell it?

Even if Min Yuanqi really became a hundred households, instead of trying the hundred households, he would not have done anything like this himself.
Chapter completed!