Xiong Jing, a native of Chu who mentioned the old Ying, was very depressed. He did not interrupt the discussion behind him, but only listened to the court officials' discussion. Only when the fishing boat model that was fishing in partnership with Qi State was sent up, he smiled a little.

Boats are the foundation of Chu State. Making fishing boats in Qi State made many ministers uneasy, which is more than ten times more dangerous than selling giant iron. Once the warships of Chu State were imitated by Qin State, the situation will be reversed with Qin State's national strength. The Qin army with numerical advantages and strategic mobility will defeat the Chu army. Therefore, the fishing boats are specially designed to be without dragon bones: fourteen meters long, three to five meters wide, one to five meters deep, fifteen tons of drainage, and ten tons of load.

This is actually the flat-bottomed sand boat that was popular in later generations, with sails and slaloms. Because the bow sealing plate is used, the entire fishing boat is square, square stern, and the shell plate on the side of the boat are orthogonal to the bow and stern, which looks like a nearly rectangular column with slightly raised upwards at both ends.

Seeing such a fishing boat, Zuo Kai, who knew the boat, nodded repeatedly. No matter how big this fishing boat is, it cannot be used as a warship. It does not have keel ribs, and it cannot withstand violent collisions. Its flat bottom is not suitable for long-distance voyages. It can only sail near the sea.

According to the news obtained by Qi, most people in Qi fish in the offshore fishing. March, April and May are the fishing seasons every year. At this time, boats in Qi go out to sea to fish. However, because the tightening process is not in place and the boats are not solid, most people can only fish in the seas that can be seen in the nearshore, and they will not come back after going far away. The catch is very cheap at this time, not the one hundred yuan that is said by the port city order, and two hundred yuan per stone. When yellow croakers are on the market in large quantities, they don’t even have twenty yuan. Of course, the premise is that the fish is almost smelly.

There are many merchants in Qi State, and the characteristics of merchants who love to deceive and exaggerate are fully demonstrated in the market order. Not only does he raise the price, but he also lowers the output. In recent years, Chu has become the largest importer of Qi State's fish catch. The King of Chu personally went to the Qi State's fish market to ask about the price and output of fish, so he naturally had to deal with it like this. In fact, from the fish tax collected by the government, Qi State's annual output of freshwater fish exceeds 300,000 stones, and the high year exceeds 400,000 stones. However, sea fish are caught during the fishing season in spring and summer, and freshwater fish are caught in autumn and winter. Due to the weather, technology and manpower shortage, the loss of the former is amazing.

Moreover, during the fishing season, yellow croakers migrating and laying eggs gather together to form a sea of ​​fish. They make a "cucking, whimpering" sound in the sea, and the sound is so loud that the fishermen can hear the coast dozens of miles away, so that fishermen can only cast small nets. The family of people can cast large nets and have no strength to drag the nets onto the small boats. As long as there are enough sea boats that can penetrate deep into the fish, the yield is not a problem, and once the fish are put into canned tin, there is no problem in storage.

As for the cost of canned tinsel, whether it is one or two yuan, it can be ignored. Fisheries are a seasonal industry, and the huge profits generated by its seasonal price difference are enough to make fish canned factories make a fortune.

The bright prospects of fishery made the ministers forget the unhappiness of the poor in escaping - all the court officials present refused to return the fugitives in other county, because once they agreed to return, the poor people who fled to the county would flee to those counties that could protect themselves. The number of soldiers was their foundation in the court, and they could not return the dead in other county, whether for the sake of face or for the sake of real profit.

Xiong Jing is in a mixed bag. Although the poor talk with their feet, the debt evasion behavior is illegal and untrustworthy, is there no reason for excessive exploitation in counties and towns? The county that fled the most is Chen County. Chen County has the highest amount of usury money, and farmers will be trapped as long as they borrow money. Since the poor have the courage to escape, they should give them a chance to start over without debt in other counties and towns.

Escape also helps the clans. The chief of the emperor attaches importance to the outer court composed of the soldiers. Now the poor people flee when they flee. If the soldiers flee in batches one day, they will cry. The internal affairs of the county and towns are indeed clans. The chief of the emperor has the final say. The common people "do not need your consent, nor do they care about your objections." But once the winter hunting and sprinting is collected every year, the number of soldiers in the county and towns is reduced to below the permitted limit, they will be severely scolded by Xiong Jing. If they appear twice in a row, the fief will be taken back.

Rule can also be competed. Allowing escape means integrating the rule of each county into the free market. The common people will go to the common people who live well under the rule of the throne.

This is the same as the annexation of powerful people and the missionary in later generations. Tax collectors often acted as a blessing to the helpless common people, but they could only be humble to the powerful people. Therefore, the pressure of tax collection fell on the common people. The unbearable common people could only take their families to join the powerful people. As a result, the tax sources of the imperial court were less and less. Then the ministers righteously denounced the annexation of powerful people, and the people were in trouble.

The same was true for Catholic missionary in the late Qing Dynasty. Farmers either did not enter the religion or all of them entered the religion in one village. Believe in God? Many people could not answer the difference between God and the mother without birth. They entered the religion just to seek protection because the government was afraid of foreigners.

The court meeting that started in the morning was barely over until the afternoon. After the scattering, Xiong Jing did not return to his main ward, but went out of the thatched gate and entered the ancestral temple. Under the dim curtain, he bowed to his ancestors and paused his head to a spiritual position with the words "Zi Cheng Chi". After that, he sat there meditated without saying a word.

"King, it's dark." Chang Jiang knew the reason why Xiong Jing came to the ancestral temple, so he could only sigh deeply about it.

"You have served your father for many years. Do you want to be old Ying?" Xiong Jing asked lightly, his voice echoing in the increasingly darkened ancestral temple court.

"King, the former king has had no choice but to do anything." Chang Jiang sighed. "Although the former king risked his life to return to Chu, the power was all in the hands of the county magistrate. That year, the Qin people were defeated in Handan. After the son Cheng met the eldest king, the king allowed him to take back the old Ying. What if he did, what if he did..."

After the fall of the old Ying, the Chu people in the city were either killed or moved, but the resistance lasted for more than ten years. However, the support of the Chu State was not supported by the Chu State, and the resistance of the old Ying became weaker and weaker. However, the defeat of the Qin army in Handan ignited the hope of the old Ying people. The most fatal thing was that the son of the duke who was hiding in the old Ying went to Chen Ying to meet his father. The father was extremely excited and agreed to wait for Jingyang to return to the country on the spot, and he would order him to send troops to the old Ying. However, the result was that Chu destroyed Lu and moved to the title of Lu Jun to Ju...

Whenever he thought of this, Xiong Jing felt that his heart was about to explode. The final outcome of Zicheng's clan was not written in the history of Chu, nor did he say the final result of the Old Ying Uprising, but he could still imagine their despair and misery.

"Does Zicheng have descendants?" Xiong Jing suddenly asked.

"King, I have heard that Zi Cheng was killed by the Qin people, and all the clans were all killed." Chang Jiang said hurriedly after saying this rumor: "Someone said that Zi Cheng Chi's son Zi Chengsheng was helped by the prison officer and exchanged it with others before being punished, and he was spared."

"It's all wrong." Xiong Jing never believed such rumors. After Shi Dakai was executed by the Qing court, many Sichuan people said that he was still alive. This is how the people were. The more they said that the people who were still alive were actually dead. However, what he never expected was that a man who claimed to be a victorious was appearing in the junction of Chu and Qin.

The western foot of the Dabie Mountains is full of hills and forests. The Tang Counties were like a useless rib and were not captured by the Qin army. So these two counties looked like protruding tenons, deeply embedded in Nanyang County and between Nanjun. To the north of the tenons is the remnants of Tongbai Mountain to the west and the water marsh to the west; to the west is the Dahong Mountain that is difficult to climb; to the south, it is connected with Anlu Mountain. The water flowing down from the southern foot of Tongbai Mountain runs across the Tang Dynasty, follows the county town, enters Anlu, and then flows through the west side of Anlu County, and finally flows into the Han River through Xiapu and enters the river.

Although the sun is hot in May and June, the mountains and forests are extremely cool when the breeze blows. As the cicadas chant continuously, four black-faced men dressed in Guizhou, looked at the man who claimed to be a winner for a long time. Although they were bandits and private dealers, bandits and private dealers also had a honest side. The man in the lead swallowed a few mouthfuls and stuttered, "I, I don't believe me."

"You don't need to believe it." Zi laughed at the victory, and his entourage took out a broken Qin Banliang and handed it on. "Please take me to Anlu City."

Qin Banliang is a token of connection, like a military talisman for dispatching troops. However, Qin Banliang is much more hidden than military talisman and is inconspicuous when he is carried on his body. Whenever Zi Sheng saw this half of Qin Banliang, he would praise the wisdom of the Knowing the Master.

"This is my reward." The follower took out another piece of gold cake when he heard the sound. The eyes of the four private vendors suddenly turned red. The gold was in any country. "Although the reward is small, please give me some wine. How dare I ask for my surname?"

"How can a poor and humble person have a surname?" The leader smiled and put the golden cake in his arms. "If the young master doesn't dislike it, he can call Ji Hei. These are all my brothers."

"Zi Chengsheng has seen all the heroes." Zi Chengsheng bowed to Ji Hei's three brothers, which made these people very embarrassed. The private sales of salt and iron are because they can't survive, and naturally because they can't survive.

"Young Master dresses like this..." It took dozens of miles to accompany Weishan to Anlu City. Zi Chengsheng's outfit was not as good as a farmer. Ji Hei suddenly felt that the gold in his arms was very hot.

"Is that good?" Zi Chengsheng said to take off his clothes. He was wearing a torn ragged thigh-washed blouse. His lower body was a common light green tarstone, a pair of straw shoes, and his hair was covered with a black cloth like a season black. Because his beard continued to be the style of the Qin people's eight characters, the precious young master instantly became an honest farmer, with only his eyes not dull.

"Yes." With the help of the salt and iron smuggling passage, the Chu people on the other side of the mountain kept coming and going to Nanjun. Ji Hei was not surprised by this, nor did he object. According to Qin Rule, he died hundreds of times and hoped that he would make enough money one day and take his wife to Chu State to enjoy his happiness.
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