The next day, Zhu Zhi slept until the sun was noon before getting up. He had been exhausted for more than fifty days, and was really tired after a night of hangover. After getting up, he ordered Qu Neng to restrain his troops and continue camping outside the city, and the family of the royal family was taken to the city and temporarily moved into the Qianyuan Palace.

After lunch, Zhu Zhi saw that his side and left nothing to do, so he called Xiao Chenzi. The two of them came to Guangning City to stroll. Zhu Zhi still wanted to know his own station. He did not want to be a blind prince who was arrogant and did not know the sufferings of the people.

Guangning is not big, and the streets are rustic, far from the prosperous Yingtian Mansion. However, Guangning is the largest city in Liaodong, with a much more population than Liaoyang, the capital of Liaodong Dusi. Zhu Zhi walked on the street in front of the royal palace and saw that there were not many shops on the street, and people were quite lively. After inquiring, it turned out that today was Guangning's day, and the people from all over the countryside came to the city to trade goods.

Zhu Zhi walked slowly on the street, and saw the cloth and silk in Jiangnan, ginseng and antlers from Liaodong, agricultural products, and local specialties. From time to time, two hunters were selling the fur on the street with a few wild beasts. Zhu Zhi was quite interested in these local wild goods.

I saw a strong hunter, carrying a few fox furs on a steel fork, squatting on the side of the road. A guest bargained with him, took one, threw down a piece of broken paper, and was about to leave. The hunter was discussing something with the guest with his begging eyes, but in the end the guest ignored him and left. The hunter sat down with a depressed look on his face.

Zhu Zhi walked up to the hunter and looked at the fur on the steel fork. The foxes were all red in color, not high-quality goods, far inferior to those in the royal palace. It was not interesting to see that Zhu Zhi was about to leave. Seeing that he was dressed in bright clothes, the hunter quickly called him: "Does anyone like this guest?"

The hunter spoke in a muffled voice, full of energy. Zhu Zhi smiled and shook his head, and was about to move forward again. The hunter said anxiously: "Don't hurry to leave, the small one has a sable fur here, you can take a look." As he said that, Nana took out a fur from the bag behind him. The skin was dark brown all over, and there was no miscellaneous hair. The color was smooth and soft and shiny. It was really a fine product among sables.

Zhu Zhi remembered that he and Guo Xiu both had one at home, and did not want to spend more money, so he shook his head and said, "It's better to find other customers."

The hunter looked anxious and said, "Customer, I'm waiting for money to use. Can you take a look again? It's a bit cheaper. You can get one."

Zhu Zhi said curiously: "Oh, what's the urgent use of you?"

Hunter said: "My mother was sick and was anxious to get medicine. She only sold two of them in the morning. The money was far from enough. This one was beaten by my young father in his early years and he was reluctant to take it out. Now she is not sick at home and she is reluctant to sell it."

When Zhu Zhi saw that this person was dull and looked anxious, he was rarely filial, even if he helped him: "How much do you have to add up?"

Seeing that Zhu Zhi wanted to buy it, the hunter said happily: "If the guest likes this one, it will cost two taels of silver. The others are ordinary goods, so it's better if the guest doesn't buy it." In ancient times, this sable fur was something that only the best people could afford. Now he only costs two taels of silver, which is already very cheap. If he takes it to Nanjing, he will cost at least twenty taels of silver.

Zhu Zhi was very happy. He had never seen such a honest businessman. The ancients really didn't deceive me. Zhu Zhi said, "The family is going to make a leather robe. Since I have encountered it, I'll buy them all. I'm afraid it's not enough. Don't let my mother-in-law do it, how much does it cost?"

Seeing that he was a big customer, the hunter was extremely happy and said, "Three taels of silver, but can the guest official give cash money?" After thinking about it, what he had been entangled with the guest official just now might be that he wanted cash money but not the "treasure paper".

Zhu Zhi smiled and said nothing. As soon as he reached out, Xiao Chenzi quickly took out a ingot of silver from his bag and handed it to the hunter: "Do you see enough of this?"

The hunter held it in his hand, and there was no place to be only three or five. He was embarrassed: "The little one has no silver on his body, so he really can't find it."

Zhu Zhi waved his hand and said, "It's rare that you have a filial piety, just take it to take medicine for your mother."

The hunter was still embarrassed and quickly took off the leopard skin waistcoat on his body, wrapped it with the sable and fox skin in a bag and stuffed it to Zhu Zhi, saying, "Then, then put it on this leopard skin. Although it is not worth two dollars, in winter, the old man can also use it to warm his feet. The villain thanked the old man for his kindness."

Zhu Zhi didn't want to get involved with this person, so he took the bag and handed it to Xiao Chenzi. The hunter bowed to the ground and happily ran to a pharmacy opposite with the silver. It seemed that this person was very honest and really took medicine for me.

Zhu Zhi continued to wander around the city and found that some Mongolians were pulling horses in Guangning City from time to time. Suddenly, he remembered that he had read the Liaodong memorial that he had said how many horses he had traded with the Mongols in what month and month. Guangning was originally one of the only three horse markets in the Ming Dynasty, and two were located in Kaiyuan. The horses in the Ming Dynasty were exchanged with the Mongolians for cloth.

Zhu Zhi followed the Mongols and came to the horse market. There were many horses in it, but there were not many people. Several officials dressed up as people were accepting horses, and several rich people were picking horses. Also, horses were very expensive in the Central Plains, so naturally they were not affordable to ordinary people. Zhu Zhi took a casual look and found that they were all Mongolian horses, which were not as good as his Arab horse Xiongjun.

After leaving Ma City, he had already walked to the south gate of Guangning City without knowing it. He was encountering several large trucks parked at the gate waiting for release. Zhu Zhi came to the front and saw an official with a few soldiers checking the goods on the truck. The two merchants looked like behind the officials, smiling.

Are you wrong? Why are you going to search after leaving the city gate just like the Japanese arresting the soldier Zhang Ga? Zhu Zhi saw a soldier next to him and went over to talk, "How come this military man, why do merchants still search after transporting goods out of the city?"

The soldier glanced at him with a squinted look, and saw that he was dressed in good clothes, and was also a wealthy family. He said, "This is a regulation. In order not to allow the Tartars and other Hu people to obtain, all goods are not allowed to be entrained with iron and sea salt." Zhu Zhi thought, oh, it turned out that it was because of this. It seemed that although the Tartars in Liaodong had been incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still had strict control over them.

The officials there had already completed inspections. The trucks were all medicinal materials and mountain goods. They checked the quantity and asked the merchant to pay the tax. The merchant also took out a few treasure notes and handed them to the officials.

Zhu Zhi asked again: "How much tax does these goods have to be charged."

Xiaobing said: "What are you doing for so many questions?"

Zhu Zhi said: "Oh, I'll come to Guangning to do some business, so I want to know about it."

Xiaobing said: "No wonder you have a southern accent, you can only charge five cents of money for these things." What a cheap tax.

I heard the two merchants begging again, "Official, why don't you send us Lu Yin after giving it to you?"

The official snorted: "Did you come to Liaodong to do business on the first day? You gave me treasure money, so you have to pay some charcoal."

The businessman said: "Official, my first time in Liaodong to do business, I really don't know what Tan Jing is."

The official said: "In the middle of winter, I will guard you here. I will not raise a charcoal furnace to warm up your body. Except for lijin, all goods must be called charcoal money. However, if this charcoal money does not collect treasure money, you can either take cash silver or take some goods to fill it." Several soldiers around him also looked at him with a smile, not thinking that this was illegal at all. Zhu Zhi couldn't help but start to be angry. What an official is called, and he actually openly solicited bribes.

The businessman sighed, pulled out a few fur from the car and put it in the hands of the official: "Official, what I came out this time were all treasure money. This thing was accepted by the official."

The official looked at the fur in his hand, walked to the car, stretched out his hand and pulled out two fox furs, threw it to the soldiers behind him, and then waved his hand and led the way to the merchant: "Let's go." The two merchants had to smile, bowed and drove the cart away from the city gate. The official walked back to the chair and sat down, humming a small song in his mouth, obviously satisfied with the gain this time.

This is the official of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Zhi suppressed the fire in his heart and did not erupt. He turned around and walked away. He did not want to reveal his identity here. In a place where the whole country was embezzling, what's the use of arresting him as a minor official?

Although Zhu Yuanzhang never ruthlessly treated corrupt officials and even used torture to scatter grass. However, these officials still rushed to join the tide of corruption and bribery. The Ming Dynasty stipulated that corruption of ten taels of silver would be executed, but there were never many corrupt officials. Ming Dynasty, no, what disease did our country's ritual dynasty have been suffered in all dynasties, and why can't corruption be banned?

Zhu Zhi always laughed at the moral education that Confucian scholars talked about. Can human hope be prohibited by morality? This statement itself is a kind of castle in the air that is separated from human nature and requires everyone to be sacred.

Zhu Zhi felt that corruption was serious, and the root was still a system problem. Under the autocratic system in ancient China, officials only needed to be responsible to their superiors, which means that as long as he raised the person above who was in charge of him, there would be almost no danger.

In the tree-shaped power structure of the Golden Tower, the cost of corruption was so low. So the so-called structural corruption occurred, and once it was arrested, it was strange. At the climax of corruption in the late Qing Dynasty, it even reached the point where a yamen, an official, and his disciples and old officials were all greedy.

The tree-shaped power structure makes the possibility of corruption being investigated and punished very low, thus offsetting the warning effect of beheading and sentence.

Some people also believe that the way to control corruption is to set up supervisory agencies and exercise effective independent supervision mechanisms, such as the Hong Kong Integrity Office system. Relatively speaking, the Ming Dynasty had Jinyiwei, the Censorate, and the East and West Factory. Which supervisory agency did not exercise the power to supervise all officials? But in the end, there was never a shortage of corruption.

Therefore, Zhu Zhi never thought that more supervision agencies were the best medicine to cure corruption. The key point was to increase the cost of corruption. If a person greed for 100 taels of silver but had to use 90 taels of bribe all those who could supervise him, then such a cost might be discouraged. In addition, some measures to maintain high salaries may reduce corruption to a level that a society can tolerate.

The fundamental way to solve this problem lies in the password of how to allocate power, which is the last bottom line that Zhu Zhi could think of. However, in the era of the Ming Dynasty when the hierarchy was strict, the feudal tradition was profound, and the people's wisdom was relatively low, how to solve this password would become a major problem for Zhu Zhi.

Walking around the market gave Zhu Zhi a certain understanding of Guangning. He slowly walked back to his base with a depressed mood. It seemed that the vassal of Liaodong was just the beginning of a story, and there was a long way to go.
Chapter completed!