Zhao Xu had no time to care about the troubles in the court. Now they arrived in Yingtian, which is Nanjing in the Song Dynasty.

Yingtian and Nanjing here are not the locations of later generations. They are not far from Fengfu, which is Shangqiu in later generations.

As one of the four capitals, Yingtian is still quite prosperous.

Zhao Xu, Meng Tang, Li Ke and his daughter, plus the only pedestrian in Hu Zhong got off the boat and entered Yingtian Prefecture.

Meng Tang followed Zhao Xu and said, "The magistrate of Yingtian Prefecture was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Yuanfeng and a disciple of Xianggong Li. Should I call him over?"

Zhao Xu waved his folding fan in his hand and said, "No, we just come and have a look. If we ask him to come, we won't see it."

Meng Tang responded and stopped talking.

Li Ke didn't speak, but his daughter looked around, her eyes full of curiosity.

Hu Zhongwei led a group of plainclothes guards, following behind him like a wealthy servant, alerting him.

Zhao Xu's folding fan in his hand was rotating in a variety of ways, and his eyes were scanning the sides.

After a while, Zhao Xu came to a somewhat deserted rice and grain shop, walked up and took a look, and said, "I have three stone rice and two stone noodles. Do you have it here?"

The store owner was a middle-aged woman. When she heard this, she hurried over and said repeatedly: "Yes, do you want the customer now? Do you want it to be delivered to your door?"

The folding fan in Zhao Xu's hand was still turning, and he said with a smile: "Yes, the mansion needs a banquet for some people, and it takes a little more rice and flour. What is your price here?"

The woman looked at Zhao Xu's clothes and the large group of people behind her, and was obviously not short of money, so she said directly: "Customer, this rice is 800 stones and the surface is 900 meters. You want more, and each stone will be 50% cheaper."

Zhao Xu listened and said with a thoughtful look on his face: "This price is much more expensive than Kaifeng Prefecture. Kaifeng Prefecture has only 650 meters of rice and a little more than 700 dollars. The store is not deliberately raising the price, right?"

The woman hurriedly said, "The guest misunderstood that Kaifeng Prefecture is cheap, but we are not Kaifeng Prefecture. It's okay in Yingtian. If you go south or north, the price will be much more expensive. If I raise the price, it's not cheap."

Zhao Xu glanced at Meng Tang beside him.

Meng Tang approached and whispered: "It should be due to the canal transportation. The cheaper things in Bianjing may be because of the large amount."

The wealth of the world gathers in Bianliang, which is not empty talk.

Zhao Xu looked at the woman again and said, "I heard that Yingtian has set up a tax office. Are they going to collect your taxes?"

The woman didn't care and said with a smile: "Just pay taxes in another place, there is no change. We deal with each other."

"No more or less?" Zhao Xu said curiously.

The woman looked at Zhao Xu and said cautiously: "We haven't changed much, so we don't know much about other places."

Zhao Xu nodded thoughtfully, knowing that he couldn't ask anything, so he said, "Mu Gu, give the money to the semicolon."

After Zhao Xu finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Meng Tang stepped forward to pay the money, and the semicolon was naturally the semicolon of the Royal Piao number.

Li Ke followed Zhao Xu and then spoke, saying, "The reforms of the official family and Yingtianfu are said to be highly praised by the Political Affairs Hall, because the promotion here is gentle and powerful, and it not only implements the 'new policy' but also does not cause major changes."

Zhao Xu nodded and said, "I know that Yingtian Mansion has taken the opportunity to be difficult. At present, there are some people who have a headache behind them."

Boiling a frog in warm water is not suitable for change, especially for fierce changes. The more you go to the back, the greater the resistance, because there are too many emotions in the past, you will encounter concentrated outbreaks.

Li Ke didn't dare to speak anymore, and the obscure persuasion did not work at all.

Zhao Xu walked and said, "Rice and flour are a must for the people. His price should reflect the living conditions of the people, but it is obvious that Kaifeng Prefecture cannot do it, and Yingtian Prefecture cannot do it. The reason here is that the court has concentrated all its wealth in the four capitals, causing the erotic falsehood. The richer it is here, the more difficult it is for the people to live."

Li Ke followed silently, without saying a word.

Although he is rich, he also knows some things.

There were more and more civil changes in the Song Dynasty, and many people were unable to survive, and they were raised as thieves and bandits.

As Zhao Xu said, he came to a cloth shop, had a few conversations, and walked out with two bundles of cloth.

Zhao Xu walked in front and said to Li Ke: "Compared with rice and flour, cloth can actually reflect a little. The cloth here is relatively cheaper, which shows that Yingtianfu is not as prosperous as imagined and has a false side."

Li Ke didn't say anything, Zhao Xu glanced at him and said, "I have been thinking about how to build a set of methods to evaluate the real situation of a place. These prices are important factors."

During these days, Li Ke was really "educated". He bowed and said, and said that he would listen to the Hadith.

Zhao Xu did not have the idea of ​​preaching him and said, "You have the identity of a censor. I will give you a task and free activities. I will tell me about what you found tomorrow afternoon."

Li Ke was stunned and said, "I will receive the order."

Li Qing stood beside Li Ke and frowned faintly. She really liked to follow Zhao Xu because she could hear a lot of things she was interested in and had never heard of before.

Li Ke took Li Qing away, and Zhao Xu took a walk around again.

A group of people walked towards the royal number and semi-colon of Yingtian Mansion.

Meng Tang and Zhao Xu said: "The official family, Yingtian Mansion, does not seem to have the rumored prosperity."

Zhao Xu smiled and said, "Not only, what you see is the prosperity of Bianjing City, are you real? The annual treasury income of my Song Dynasty cannot even compare with the prosperous Tang Dynasty. It is important to know that during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the territory and population were much stronger than that of my Song Dynasty. So where did so much tax come from?"

Meng Tang knew it, and said, "I know that there are too many taxes in my Song Dynasty and I collect taxes everywhere."

Zhao Xu said with a nod, "Yingtian Prefecture has made efforts to implement the 'Shaosheng New Policy', but its efforts have been made to show that it has not been in-depth. It has fooled the court and fooled me in a form of changing soup and not changing medicine. It has not offended the local gentry, but can also seek credit from the court. The prefect of Yingtian Prefecture has become a good official..."

Meng Tang originally thought that Zhao Xu was very satisfied with Yingtian Prefecture Prefecture, but now he realized that Zhao Xu had seen more, Yingtian Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture was going to be in trouble.

Zhao Xu and his group arrived at the Royal Piao. Meng Tang knew his identity and naturally did not dare to treat this uncle at all. He invited him to the backyard and began to report his performance after some entertainment.

"Meng Jiangui, Yingtian Semi-colon, has currently deposited 600,000 yuan, loaned 120,000 yuan, and total assets of 900,000 yuan..." The shopkeeper of the semi-colon is well aware of it.

Zhao Xu was not entangled in the strangeness of the numbers, but looked strange in his eyes.

A decent Nanjing semicolon has only 600,000 yuan in deposits, not even a fraction of Kaifeng Prefecture?

Meng Tang obviously knew the numbers, and it was not surprising that he signaled the shopkeeper who had broken a little and continued to say it.
Chapter completed!