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Chapter 193 Bad Idea

When Cui Yanyan walked out of the ruined temple, Heiwa was feeding the horse.

Zhao Yan, on the other hand, stood with his hands behind his back, admiring the distant scenery.

Cui Yanyan pursed her lips, and muttered in her mouth: Hmph, what's so great about it, isn't it just that you look more refined!

Cui Yanyan walked to her white horse, and got on the horse.

"drive!"

She took the rein, and when she reached Zhao Yan's side, she said: "If you go to Xingyuan County and need help with anything, you can go to Cui's house and find me, Cui Yanyan, for the sake of your helping me, This girl will treat you well!"

After all, she galloped away on horseback.

Zhao Yan looked at the back of her going away, and murmured: If the Cui family in Xingyuan is as big and brainless as this girl, and the weather is uncertain, they probably won't be able to become a family.

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Near noon, Zhao Yan and Hei Wa finally arrived at Xingyuan County.

When Zhao Yan saw the prosperity of Xingyuan County, he couldn't help being taken aback, thinking that he had returned to Changdan City.

There is only one main street in Xingyuan County, which is about five miles long. Naturally, it is far inferior to Changdan City in terms of scale, but there are many shops on both sides, and the noise of street vendors can be heard endlessly.

Pedestrians are like weaving, and it is very lively.

Zhao Yan looked around and found that there were a lot of tiles on both sides of the street.

Kong Moshan once said that whether a city is rich or not, you just need to look at the tiles in the city. If there are many tiles, it means that the economy is prosperous here, otherwise, vice versa.

Zhao Yan thinks this is very reasonable, people can only try other entertainment behaviors if they are satisfied with food and clothing.

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Of course, Wazi here is not only engaged in the business of selling meat, but many Wazi also advocate literary and artistic exchanges and spiritual communication.

Teahouses and restaurants are the easiest places to find news.

After wandering around for an afternoon, Zhao Yan finally had a general understanding of the Cui family.

The Cui family probably made their fortune a hundred years ago, and became an aristocratic family by trading in cloth, but now the Cui family's business mainly has three major parts, namely: books, cloth and fields.

These three businesses have not only stepped out of Ganping Mansion, but also out of Luzhou.

In Jiangnan, as long as someone mentions the books sold by Xingyuan Cui's, they will give a thumbs up, thinking that although the books in Cui's bookstore are more expensive, the quality can be ranked among the top three among the people.

Cloth and fields are also the secret of the Cui family's longevity.

In Xingyuan County, almost [-]% of them work for the Cui family.

Liu Shiqing, magistrate of Xingyuan County, is the adopted son of the Cui family, and Mo Sheng, the magistrate of Ganping Prefecture, is the son-in-law of the Cui family.

In such an environment, the Cui family is naturally the only one in Xingyuan County, and no one dares to mess with it.

The most important reason why the Cui family opposed the new policy was that the land tax and commercial tax of the new policy would greatly reduce the income of the Cui family.

The land tax and commercial tax of the New Deal are determined by grades. The more you earn, the more you pay taxes.

The purpose of this is to prevent the land and property of the merchant landlord class and the scholar-bureaucrat class from increasing, causing the people to become poorer and poorer.

After all, from the ruler's point of view, many rebellious incidents are caused by uneven distribution and a large gap between rich and poor.

At present, although the new policy has been launched, it has not been fully implemented at the county level, but the rumor has spread to Xingyuan County.

The people and scholars in Xingyuan County complained about the new policy.

The people here only recognize the Cui family and not the county government at present.They thought that if the Cui family did not make money, then they would not be able to survive.

Zhao Yan was not surprised by this.The common people only think about their immediate livelihood, and they think whoever gives them food is good.

The Cui family is well versed in the hearts of the people. While eating meat themselves, they don't forget to drink soup for the people. They can be regarded as conscientious businessmen.

What the people in Xingyuan County don't understand is that without the New Deal, they can only rely on the Cui family to provide food and clothing for the whole family, and they will only be like this for the rest of their lives.

But if there is a new deal, they will have more land, more capital and space to do business, and then the days to come will not only be food and clothing.

And most scholars opposed the New Deal because of one thing, that is, after the imperial court began to streamline its troops and streamline its administration, there would be fewer scholar-official officials, and their chances of passing the imperial examination to become officials were lower.

Of course, Zhao Yan's opening of the New Deal was not to squeeze out all the money from the wealthy people in Da Zhou.

He is only thinking about the overall situation. In the New Deal policies, there are also advantages for businessmen, such as letting go of more monopoly economies, reducing taxes on closed markets, and even monetary policy. swell.

It's just that some people are short-sighted and can't see such a long-term view at all.

Besides these things, Zhao Yan also heard a very interesting thing.

This matter is about Cui Yanyan, the eldest daughter of the Cui family.

Cui He, the head of the Cui family, has five sons.His five sons gave birth to twelve children.

Eleven of them are men, and that girl is Cui Yanyan.

Therefore, Cui Yanyan is like a princess in the entire Xingyuan County.With such a background, such a background, his vision is naturally not ordinary.

As a result, Cui Yanyan, who is about to turn 20, has not yet found her husband's family.

The Cui family was almost panicked.

A few days ago, when Cui Yanyan left Xingyuan County, she ran away from home because she was urged to get married. Then she left Sanli Road in Xingyuan County, and was targeted by gangsters.Later, there was the story of Zhao Yan's hero saving the beauty.

Because of looking for a husband, Cui Yanyan has many stories.

Among them, the most famous one is the story of Cui Yanyan and a scholarly family son boating on the lake.

Just because the young man glanced at the girl in the distance too much, Cui Yanyan was so angry that she kicked her offspring's roots.

Since then, no man has been willing to go on a blind date with her.

She despises those with poor status and appearance, but she doesn't want to marry this tigress if she has a good status and good looks!

For this reason, the Cui family directly posted a blind date notice in front of the county seat, as long as Cui Yanyan liked it, they would immediately inherit a share of the Cui family's property.

This kind of temptation can only deceive the outsiders who are new to this place, as long as the local men think of Cui Yanyan, they will feel chills in their crotch.

Near dusk, Zhao Yan took Hei Wa into an inn called "Yue Lai Ju".

And a quarter of an hour after the two checked in, Cui Yanyan, who was drinking tea in a certain teahouse, already knew Zhao Yan's whereabouts.

"Hmph, you don't want to provoke this girl, but this girl insists on provoking you, I must let you come to the Cui Mansion to beg me!" Cui Yanyan showed a wicked smile on her face.

A moment later, a burly young man in black clothes walked up to Cui Yanyan.

"Miss, I don't know why you called your subordinates down?" The young man cupped his hands and said.

Cui Yanyan smiled and said: "Heihu, there are two foreigners living in Yuelai, I want you to steal all their money tonight?"

"Yes, miss!" Hei Hu said respectfully, he obeyed Cui Yanyan.

(End of this chapter)