Of course Li Chenan did not return to Kyoto.
A group of seven of them were walking on the official road to Zhouzhuang.
He and Xiao Baozi still rode the same horse, and there was still one horse free, which of course surprised Second Young Master Su and Butler Liu.
But you can't ask this kind of thing.
In Butler Liu's view, this is the relationship between the couple.
We traveled together for two days.
Whenever they rested, Butler Liu would arrange the food and lodging for Li Chenan and the five of them. Of course, he would also have to talk to Li Chenan more.
Regarding Jiangnan officialdom, it is obvious that Butler Liu knows a lot.
Compared to the information in the Imperial City Department, what he told Li Chenan was nothing.
Li Chenan knew many things.
However, he was still listening very carefully, and he should confirm it with the information.
In the opinion of Butler Liu, this is the curiosity of this young man who has just left the hermit family for official affairs.
So he has the right to talk casually——
After all, people in the rivers and lakes travel in the rivers and lakes, and most of them will not pay attention to the officials in the temple.
I can't ignore it either.
Because the relationship between officials in the officialdom is so complicated and intricate that you don't even know who the big tree is behind them.
There was once a knight-errant who was doing chivalry and justice. One guy killed the whole family of a corrupt magistrate in Huixian County. What was the result?
As a result, he was wanted by the entire Jiangnan government, with a reward of ten thousand taels of silver, and was eventually betrayed by people in the Jianghu.
It is said that the knight was stabbed alive by a thousand cuts, and in the end his body was hung on the city wall to dry!
This is to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
It is also a warning to people in the world to abide by the rules!
"The so-called rules of the rivers and lakes are that officials cannot be killed. Even if they are notoriously corrupt, the imperial court will send people to do it."
Butler Liu shook his head, poured a glass of wine for Li Chenan, and said with a smile: "Just ask your son to beat him. If someone else beats him... that would be disrespectful!"
"Even if they flee to the ends of the earth, they will still kill them!"
"So when traveling in the world, you must never provoke those officials... You can surrender to them, and you can obey their orders, but you can't do anything wrong, because official authority cannot be offended!"
Li Chenan grinned: "To put it this way, our Ningguo officials are so tough that they will not be bullied by other countries."
"Young Master's thinking is still too simple."
"As for the outside world... In fact, Ning Ren is still very tough at heart, otherwise the Western Region Allied Forces would have destroyed the country a hundred years ago when they invaded."
"It's just that the officials in the temple now..."
Butler Liu laughed at himself, "Let's drink and not talk about those things."
Li Chenan and Butler Liu had a drink together, and suddenly asked: "Now that we have changed people in the Ningguo Temple, Ji Tai's gang members have all been eradicated. I think things will get better in the future."
Butler Liu pondered for a moment, "To be honest with you, Master, I and the Second Master originally wanted to go to Kyoto, hoping to pay a visit to the Regent."
"Oh, what do you want from him?"
"Why……"
Butler Liu let out a long sigh: "I shouldn't have said this to the young master, but I have been walking with the young master for the past two days, and I feel that the young master is an open and honest person, and I should just chat with him. The young master listened to it."
"That's it, our Su family, in the land of Jiangnan, can be regarded as a law-abiding businessman... After all, the Su family's family tradition is very strict. Even though the family has produced many talented people, some of whom have served as officials in the court, but the Su family But the family never bullies and dominates the market just because there are people in the court."
"The Su family still upholds fair and reasonable business, and uses the money earned to provide education for the children of the Su family."
"It's been like this for hundreds of years."
"But since the Shang family came to Pingjiang City... the Prime Minister Shang a hundred years ago saved the country of Ning from the dying state, and his contribution is certainly indispensable!"
"As a century-old family in Pingjiang City, the Su family welcomed the arrival of the Shang family. They even helped the Shang family a lot in the beginning...such as teaching the Shang family how to do business, teaching them how to start a textile workshop, and even teaching them how to do business. Cooperate with farmers to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, etc.”
"In the view of the Su clan leader at that time, Ning Guo could survive, the Su clan could still make money by doing business in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Su clan's children could still study and learn with peace of mind. This was almost all the kindness of Prime Minister Shang."
"Then, of course, we must give full support to the descendants of Prime Minister Shang."
"This help made a big mistake!"
"The Su family never expected that the Shang family, which was rising rapidly, would raise the butcher's knife against the Su family!"
"After Ji Tai became Prime Minister, the Taoist leader of Jiangnan Road was replaced by the current Yu Wanzhi... The original Taoist leader fell down and was killed by bandits on the way to Beijing!"
"The first thing Yu Wanzhi did after taking office was to convene merchants from all over Jiangnan and hold a so-called Jiangnan market rectification..."
"Jiangnan is rich in silk, and there are many silk workshops. Among them, Su's silk workshop is the largest and the largest."
"It took the Su family hundreds of years to build these, but at that conference, Yu Wanzhi took all the silk workshops under the ownership of Jiangnan Weaving... and now the weaver Cao Fa of Jiangnan Weaving , is the confidant promoted by Yu Wanzhi."
"The people cannot fight against the officials after all."
"The head of the family handed over all the huge family property to Jiangnan Weaving. It was originally agreed that Jiangnan Weaving would share the profits with the Su family with 30% of the silk share... Of course, this is much less than the output of his previous workshop, but the head of the family forgot about it. After all, we can still make a profit, so let’s let this matter go.”
"But two years later, which is about the sixth year of Zhaohua, the share of silk given to the Su family by Jiangnan Weaving dropped to 20%...and two years later, only 10% was left!"
"Those who shared the profits all fell into the hands of the Shang family."
"Then the head of the family heard from an old friend that all this was the idea given to Yu Wanzhi by Shang. Shang had been spying on Su's family business for a long time!"
Li Chenan frowned and interjected: "I heard that the Shang family mainly relies on water transportation to make money."
Butler Liu didn't realize the suddenness of Li Chenan's words.
"Water transportation is a matter of the past ten years."
"After our Emperor Ningguo went to practice Taoism, Jitai... It's not that we can say bad things about him after he is dead. Many businessmen in Jiangnan have complained about him for a long time, but they just dared to be angry and dare not speak out!"
"Jitai, how does he know how to govern a country!"
"He just knows how to play with power!"
"He has no idea how important business is to a country. All he wants is to consolidate his power and use this power to make more money! Use the money he makes to feed the dog officials he raises!"
"As for the life and death of businessmen and the life and death of common people..."
Butler Liu drank a drink alone and smacked it in his mouth, "Who cares about Ji Tai and the corrupt officials he promoted?"
"Bu Ji Tai has finally fallen. The policies issued by the regent, especially the emphasis on boosting industry and commerce, are absolutely correct."
"It's just that this wind doesn't seem to blow out of Jade Capital City... At least the land in Jiangnan is no different from before."
"The old man and the second young master intend to go to Beijing to meet the regent. What they think is that the regent may not know the situation in Jiangnan or the situation in the whole country."
"If the regent is really that enlightened, we should report to him the bad government in Jiangnan, which is also the bad government in the whole country!"
"Otherwise, everything the regent did...the decrees did not leave Yujing City, it was just a change of soup without changing the medicine."
Butler Liu shook his head and sighed, and then said:
"The Su family... To be honest with you, the Su family is selling off their property to survive."
"But those corrupt officials, as well as the Shang family, made a lot of ill-gotten wealth. They were not punished and were still happy..."
"This is not fair!"
Li Chenan nodded, "Well, that's not fair!"
"Come on, let's drink this glass of wine...the day will eventually light up."
As soon as Li Chenan finished speaking, a bird came through the window and landed on Xiao Baozi's shoulder.
