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The room was quiet and felt a sense of desolation.

He had to get up by himself, walk to the table on the side to pick up the teapot, which was empty. Put down the teapot and sit back on the bed. If it were this time, when he woke up, a girl who was working in the room would have brought him tea. The tea would still be hot, and even if he woke up in the middle of the night, there would be hot tea.

When he woke up in the morning, he didn't even have to wear his clothes himself, so naturally there were girls to help him wear them. Sometimes, if he was intrigued, he would even call the young and beautiful girls to his bed for the night. In the past, there were many girls in the mansion, and all the girls in his yard were young and beautiful. There were almost no big girls, first-class, second-class, third-class, and fourth-class maids, almost no one was not played with by him.

Some of them are good at handling things, and when they are happy, they reward a few taels of silver or a piece of jewelry. Occasionally they will also raise one or two girls to be concubines, but most girls will be extremely satisfied as long as they are promoted to the first level, fourth level to third level, and third level to second level, and they will be extremely satisfied. Some are tired of playing and tired of watching, so they will simply send them to the outer yard, or simply betrothed to the male servants at home, most of whom are willing to give birth to children for their families. Occasionally, some are simply taken out for sale.

Think about how happy that time was.

But looking at it again, Li Song sighed.

He put on his own clothes, tied his hair randomly, and put on a hat. He pushed the tent on the bed aside and opened the door.

It was a hazy morning, with a slight redness in the east and the wind blew the treetops in the yard.

He looked at the yard that was lacking popularity and sighed again. He couldn't even live in this empty yard for a few days. Soon, the yard will be a public property.

But he secretly thanked that although the slaves were gone, the yard would be gone, at least he could still stay in Beijing. There was no need to go to the North Korean Concession, Danro Island or Hirado Island, in the Japanese Concession.

Li Cunyi was a noble child in the past. His father Li Guochen was the son of Li Mingcheng, the third generation of Wuqing Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. Li Guorui, the fourth generation of Wuqing Marquis of Li Guorui, was his uncle, and Li Cunshan, the fifth generation of Wuqing Marquis of the Wuqing Marquis of Li Cunshan, was his cousin.

His father Li Guochen was the grandson of Chongzhen's great-grandmother Empress Dowager Xiaoding's brother. The first generation of Wuqing Marquis was Li Wei. Li Wei's daughter was the biological mother of Emperor Wanli of Emperor Shenzong of Ming Dynasty and the imperial concubine of Emperor Longqing of Ming Dynasty. After Wanli ascended the throne, he named his biological mother Li as the empress dowager, and his grandfather Li Wei as the maternal uncle of Wuqing, and later promoted him to Marquis.

It had been five generations since the time of Chongzhen.

However, Li Cunyi's father Li Guochen once fought for the birth of his brother Li Guorui. Because Li Guorui inherited the Marquis and became the fourth generation of Marquis of Wuqing, Li Cunyi's father Li Guochen never competed for Li Guorui.

After the failure to fight for family property, Li Guochen once in angered manner and reported to Chongzhen, who was short of money at the time, saying that his father had a 400,000 taels of inheritance, half of which was given to him. Now he is willing to donate this half to the court.

This move is undoubtedly a revenge on Li Guorui. Since you don’t give it to me, then I will give it to the court directly, and no one can think of it.

At that time, Chongzhen was in a state of great trouble about military salaries. He was of course very happy to hear that Li Guochen was willing to donate 200,000 taels to the court. He immediately issued an order to Li Guorui, but Li Guorui was a master who only entered and did not leave.

Li Guorui is an iron rooster. He is not a single penny.

In order to resist the emperor's will, he not only cried everywhere but also demolished his house and took the furniture from his home to the streets of Beijing to sell it to show his poverty.

This action made Chongzhen very embarrassed, so he issued an order to cut off Li Guorui's marquis. As a result, Li Guorui died in fear in prison. The royal relatives took the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that the Empress Dowager had transformed into Jiulian Bodhisattva and was very angry at Chongzhen's harsh treatment of his relatives. The princes would die young, and the first one was the fifth son of the emperor.

Soon, the fifth son of the emperor, Zhu Cihuan, died indeed, and Chongzhen was very scared. He immediately appointed Li Guorui's seven-year-old son Li Cunshan as the Marquis of Wuqing, and returned the money and goods paid by the Li family.

This incident is like a farce.

In the end, the emperor lost his face and Li Guorui lost his life, but for Li Guochen, there was no good result. The emperor was angry that the matter started because of him, and the Marquis's Mansion hated him for complaining to the emperor, but Li Guochen cut off contact with the Marquis's Mansion in the future.

But fortunately, that's the case.

When the Marquis' Mansion participated in the rebellion of Zhou Yanru, Chen Xinjia and others, Li Guochen and his son were not contacted to participate because they cut off contact with the Marquis' Mansion.

When Liu Qiao and others killed Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia, smashed their plans, and welcomed Liu Jun into Beijing to become emperor, the families of officials, the families of honor and Qi were liquidated by the new emperor.

Those who participated were deposed and seized their official positions, confiscated their property, and even the subordinates were investigated, and they were all exiled overseas.

The subsequent recovery of tax arrears, clearing and occupying land, clearing and paying donations, and levying deeds, etc., these families of honors, officials and gentry were hit hardest.

The Li Xiaoyi family was also liquidated, but fortunately they all knew their relationship with the Marquis of Wuqing, and they knew that they did not participate, so the ending was much better.

Li Guochen was also exiled, and most of his family's property was confiscated.

However, Li Cunyi was Li Guochen's concubine son and was still a child of the family. Therefore, Li Cunyi was eventually exempted from exile. The property under his name was only recovered and the arrears of taxes were cleared, and the land was cleared, and the deed tax was collected, and even after passing the customs.

Li Cunyi successfully stayed in Beijing.

He originally owned many industries, including farmhouses, houses, shops, and the combined value was no less than 100,000.

But now, after being liquidated, the family wealth has almost been dispersed.

Especially the payment of the arrears and the exchange of deeds not only spent all the deposits in his bank, but in the end he was forced to sell a lot of the land.

Now he still has a farm in his name, but it only costs more than 100 acres. There are still several shops, but the mansions in Beijing and the villas in Xishan and Changping are all under the name of his father Li Guochen.

It turned out that the groups of servants and servants in the family were also dismissed.

Just a few days ago, the emperor issued another edict saying that the abolition of low-class households were prohibited from selling themselves as slaves, and the sale of slaves was prohibited.

Li Cunyi didn't quite understand why the emperor had to issue such an edict, and prostitutes were prostitutes. Could they be equal to others in the future? And this abolitionist didn't understand why there was nothing to abolish?

If you don’t understand, you still have to abide by the emperor’s will.

Besides, although my family still has some industries now, the cash is basically gone and I can't afford to support so many people. I sent those people away. The house was sold, and Li Cunyi bought a three-entry house in the outer city. In the eyes of others, this is a big house, but in Li Cunyi's view, it can only be regarded as a place to live.

Moving from the inner city to the outer city was a last resort, not to mention that it had changed from a luxury house to a small house with three entry points.

But there is no way, you can't pay taxes if you don't sell your house.

The most hateful thing is that when selling houses and land, there is no need to pay a deed tax. However, when buying this house, he still pays a deed tax. According to the tax law, the deed tax is paid by the buyer.

When I went out, there was only one old man standing there cleaning the yard.

When Li Cunyi passed by, he said loudly to him, "No need to sweep it, anyway, this will be someone else's in a few days, and it will never be ours anymore."

The old man stopped and waited for him to come over. He started to sweep again.

Standing at the door, Li Cunyi sighed again.

The carriage at home was sold and the coachman was sent. He told himself that he had to be low-key during this period. Moreover, now that if there is a carriage at home, he has to be registered and pay the tax on the car.

I walked a long way forward and it was the street. There was a newly-established wooden sign there. There was a group of people standing in front of the sign, and he also stood there.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, today's headlines. Tongguan is a great victory, and the general Zheng Zhilong, the Western Expedition, captured Tongguan. He has entered Guanzhong."

Seeing the newspaper boy shouting hard and waving the newspaper in his hand, Li Cunyi waved his hand to him.

"Give me a Kyoto Times."

He took out a copper coin, which was a new type of copper coin, similar to silver coin, without a round hole in the middle of the copper coin. The front also reads the denomination, half a cent.

Nowadays, there are no copper coins with holes. Those copper coins are mostly cast, with different thicknesses and adulterations.

Nowadays, silver dollar coupons and silver dollars are used uniformly. There are also several auxiliary coins. For example, in addition to one yuan, there are five cents, two cents, five cents, two cents, and two cents, and there are also copper coins in addition to silver dollars. There is only one type of copper coins, which is half a cent of this kind of denomination.

A piece of silver dollar is combined with ten cents, one cent is equivalent to two and a half cents of copper coins. A piece of silver dollar is equivalent to two hundred and a half cents of copper coins.

Of course, there are also gold coins on silver coins. One gold coins are ten silver coins, and the denomination is one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred yuan. However, such large amounts of gold coins cannot be used by ordinary people and will not be used in ordinary shopping transactions.

Nowadays, the price is higher than before, but a newspaper is basically a half-divided copper coin. If it is converted from the previous silver and two copper coins, one half-divided copper coin is about five or six gold-backed copper coins.

When handing over the copper coins, Li Cunyi couldn't help but think that the method of making money in the new dynasty was really powerful. Just a small copper coin was not much heavier than the copper coins in the past, but one could be used as five or six gold-backed coins. If it were some private money from the past, one could be used as ten.

A sound of nail bell interrupted his thoughts.

"The bus is here."

"What's the way?"

"This is a five-way public carriage, with five-character signs in front of the carriage."

When Li Cunyi heard that the fifth-row public carriage he was going to take, he quickly grabbed the newspaper under his armpit and began to squeeze in with the people ahead. During this period, the roads in the capital have improved a lot, and there are more public toilets on the roadside and street lights. However, the most commendable thing is that there are many public carriages in the inner and outer cities of Beijing.

Public carriages are double-layered, and each floor can accommodate twenty people. The most unique thing is that this kind of carriage only needs two strong horses to pull out.

Because these carriages are running on tracks, the horse is just towing, and the carriage can run easily, saving a lot of animal power.

However, this kind of carriage is only run in the capital, because the tracks are only laid in the main streets of the capital. Because there are tracks, these carriages are all fixed routes. According to different track routes, the capital is now divided into nine routes, and the carriages on each route are called carriage No. 1 and carriages No. 2, etc.

There are many carriages transported on each route at the same time, and there will be a carriage almost every other time. Passengers who want to take the car only need to wait in front of the public bus stop sign on the street.

Li Cunyi lined up to get on the carriage. He liked to sit on the upper floor. The upper floor of the carriage also had a canopy, but there were only four-foot-high baffles on both sides, and there was still a large space. When sitting in the carriage, he was not afraid of rain or boredom, but he could not completely block the wind and sand.

But sitting in a car, especially on the upper floor, is a completely different experience from riding a carriage and a sedan chair in the past.

There was a passenger policeman on the carriage who both collected tickets and maintained order.

When the passenger police walked up to him, he took out a piece of paper, which was the monthly ticket for the Beijing public carriage. With this, you no longer have to buy tickets every time you ride a carriage. A monthly ticket of 500 silver dollars can be used for one month without a limit. It is quite cheap. If you don’t have a monthly ticket, you will be able to close half a cent of silver dollars every time. If you sit from the starting station to the end station, you will need one cent.

But it is extremely convenient and cheap.

If you hire a sedan chair or a carriage, it will be more than ten times more expensive than this. Therefore, many people nowadays are willing to take this public carriage if they go farther away. It saves time and is cheaper. After Li Cunyi took it twice, he decisively applied for a monthly ticket.

However, the guests on the public carriage are all men, and there are no women who are taking the car. Although the carriage cannot help but female passengers, few women are willing to squeeze into a car with a group of big men.

After a while, the flight attendant had sold the tickets and checked it. He patted the carriage board at the front of the coachman and said, "Let's go."

The coachman waved his whip and the bell rang again. The carriage began to drive, and the carriage running on the track was very stable. Li Cunyi withdrew his gaze looking outward, took the newspaper in his hand and spread it open, and began to read.

Sitting on the side of the second floor of the public carriage and reading newspapers while riding the carriage is a very pleasant enjoyment. People who ride the carriage have everything, but he found that the crowd who rides the most are officials and merchants. They all have money and don’t care about tickets, but they are not very rich, and hiring a car and sedan are not as affordable as this one.

The most important thing is that there are many public cars and all the routes, so it is most convenient to sit.

While he was looking at the newspaper, he listened to the passengers chatting around him, but never got involved.

"Guang'anmen, you're here. Are there any passengers who get off the bus in Guang'anmen? Guang'anmen has arrived?"

The carriage stopped slowly, and the police officer began to shout loudly. Li Cunyi put away the newspaper and saw that there were already seven or eight people waiting under the street sign.

"Line in line to get in the car, on the front door and under the back door, don't mess up the order. Please keep your belongings in custody and beware of stealing."
Chapter completed!