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Chapter 224 Don't Listen to Backyard Flowers When You Are Sad

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    Because of the girl's attendance, Tang Hou's mood improved a lot.

    They drank until late at night. If Zhao Mengfu hadn't shied away and said that he was going to Yangzhou to watch the Lantern Festival the next day, Tang Hou didn't know how long he would be stuck together!  Boss He prepared the best bedroom for Zhao Mengfu, but Tang Hou insisted on following him, saying that he wanted to talk about his heart.

    [1] "Spring in High Buildings - Part 4" Xu Ji. Poetry

    ?Late at night is a red candle,

    A curtain shelters guests from the wind.

    It is everyone who loves Hejialou,

    Naturally, He Junde is like jade.

    When he came to the room, Zhao Mengfu ordered his entourage to make some tea for Tang Hou to hangover.

    After Tang Hou drank tea and his thinking became clearer, Zhao Mengfu asked, "Your Majesty, what do you want to say from your heart?"

    "Brother Ziang, Master Zhao" Tang Hou burst into tears before he could speak.

    "Oh, don't cry, I'm most afraid of women crying!" Zhao Mengfu hurriedly stopped.

    Tang Hou raised his head and asked, "You, you're too drunk, you can't even tell if I'm a man or a woman."

    "Oh, I also know that you are a man. There is a saying, 'A man does not flick his tears lightly', but you are lucky, you cry all the time."

    "Master Zhao, you don't know, we literati are wronged!"

    "What's wrong with you?"

    "Hu people discriminate against Confucian scholars, and put us literati behind prostitutes and ahead of beggars We are comparable to beggars"

    Zhao Mengfu was a little dumbfounded: "Is there such a nourishing beggar like you?"

    "Am I moisturized?"

    "Aren't you moisturised?" Zhao Mengfu asked back, "All day, Jie is stretching out his hands for clothes and opening his mouth for food, and he is not satisfied."

    "But, why do they divide people into different categories?"

    "No points!"

    "They still say that there is no distinction," Tang Hou said, "They call the Mongols 'nationality' and they classify them as the first class; they classify the Semu people as the second class; they classify the Han people as the third class;  Classified as the lowest fourth class"

    "When did this happen? Who gave the score? You?"

    "I, how can I have such a great ability, ability, ability."

    "If you want to say that you have such a big 'pus', I believe it; if you want to say 'capability', I really have some doubts." Zhao Mengfu said, "I have worked in the Imperial Academy for so many years, and the Imperial Academy is in charge of compiling national history and classics.  I have never heard the emperor have such an idea about the three duties of edict making and preparing consultants, let alone making such an edict. Of course, the Mongols are superior to others, but which royal family is not? If our Zhao family is still in power,  Can you still get the money to cry in front of me? Let me tell you, the Mongols did not divide the people into three, six, or nine classes, including the Semu people, who are basically in the same status. Besides, isn¡¯t the abolition of the imperial examination just for the sake of  Eliminate the gentry class and make everyone equal?"

    "But no matter how equal, equal, we can't be equal between whores and beggars! Can we be the same as them!"

    "Since everyone is equal, they are the same! Prostitutes and beggars are not human?" Zhao Mengfu said, "Look, prostitutes need to work hard to earn money, beggars need to reach out to beg for food and you Confucian scholars? No need to work, every day  You will enjoy free two meals [three meals a day, that's what happens after a beggar becomes an emperor].

    "Well, that can't put us in the 'Old Ninth'!"

    "At the beginning, this arrangement only considered the household registration of prostitutes. They all relied on labor to support themselves. Only Confucian scholars and beggars needed relief. The imperial court formulated such a system of 'various household accounting' only to standardize household registration and let all levels  The government office is easy to operate."

    "Easy to operate? Isn't it just a Confucian scholar!"

    "You talk, oh, literati, are you all like this, full of sourness!" Zhao Mengfu smiled wryly, "Separating Confucian scholars separately and classifying them as 'Confucian households' is for overall planning, so that you Confucian scholars can  Eat the emperor's food. When the north was unified, there were only 3,890 Confucian households in the north. After the reunification of the north and the south, the number of "Confucian households" in the south alone exceeded 100,000. Think about it, the number of Confucian households in the south  People are the most shrewd, if there is no benefit, can they earn their way to join the 'Confucian households' who are ranked behind the prostitutes?"

    "What's the benefit, just for that two meals a day?"

    "You, it's really There are some things that others don't know, don't you know? Uncle Ling [referring to Tang Fenglong] is Huai'an Road tax withdrawal, how much tax is reduced and exempted for the 'Confucian households' with land in a year, don't you know?  I don¡¯t know! Also, there are a lot of remote areas that are not managed by officials at all, and the people in these places are basically free-range, and they don¡¯t have to pay any taxes!¡±

    "It's not our fault, it's allIt is as large as Japan in the east, the Persian Gulf in the west, and even some places on the east coast of Africa.  Chinese ships sailed so far because the Chinese at that time had mastered very advanced navigation and shipbuilding technologies.  The goods shipped from China are mainly porcelain and silk products, and there are also some daily necessities.  The goods imported into China mainly include ivory, pearls, spices, cloth and so on.

    Quanzhou was the largest port in China in the Yuan Dynasty. The so-called "a place full of exotic goods, distant things, exotic treasures, and strange toys, and a cave house for wealthy merchants and giants in different places, is known as the world's most" (Wu Cheng, "Send Jiang Manqing to  "Quanzhou Road Records Preface").  It can be seen that Quanzhou was prosperous at that time.  Except for Quanzhou, Qingyuan and Guangzhou were major ports at that time. Qingyuan mainly imported and exported goods from Korea and Japan, while Guangzhou was famous all over the world for its huge ceramic market.

    In the early Yuan Dynasty, the government began to consider implementing a relatively stable overseas trade policy.

    From the establishment of the Shibo Department in Quanzhou and other places in the fourteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1277) to the twenty-two year of the Yuan Dynasty (1285), it was the first stage of formulating and implementing its foreign trade policy after the Yuan Dynasty gained control of the whole of China.  At this stage, the foreign trade policy of the Yuan Dynasty was mainly based on inheriting the system of the Song Dynasty, and at the same time adjusted slightly according to the practice of the Mongolian aristocrats and the actual situation after ruling the country.  In the fourteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1277), the Yuan Dynasty "established the first shipping department in Quanzhou, and ordered Busy Gu to lead it. Established the third shipping department in Qingyuan, Shanghai, and Ganpu, and ordered Yang Fa, the appeasement envoy, to supervise it. Call every year  Ship merchants trade pearls, emeralds, incense, etc. in Fanbangbo. When they return to sail the next year, they will be drawn according to the rules, and then let their goods be sold."

    ? At the beginning of the establishment of the Shibo Department, the Yuan Dynasty obviously imitated the Song Dynasty's Shibo Department system.  A few years later, the Yuan Dynasty issued another instruction: after the shipping goods of merchants and merchants have been collected by the Quanzhou Shipping Department, they will no longer be charged for trading elsewhere, and only need to pay currency taxes:  , to stop the tax payment".  Of course, there were some differences between the foreign trade policy of the early Yuan Dynasty and the Song system, such as the difference in the distribution of ports.  At this time, the foreign trade policy of the Yuan Dynasty focused on Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian.  Among the major ports in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, Quanzhou has gradually become China's largest overseas trade port since the Northern Song Dynasty. It not only has convenient transportation with Japan and Korea in the east, but also has frequent business exchanges with Southeast Asia, South Asia and the regions to the west. The overseas transportation conditions are excellent.  in other ports.

    On the other hand, it seems that the taxes in the Yuan Dynasty were not heavy.  When the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, all corvee and miscellaneous taxes in the Southern Song Dynasty were abolished, and the commercial tax was also reduced to one out of thirty.  After the reunification of the North and the South, the Yuan Dynasty levied the Ding tax and the land tax in the north, and the summer and autumn taxes in the south.  But in operation, it is another matter.  National finances rely on this "trade tax", which is tantamount to allowing Westerners to support Easterners.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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