The sea breeze was slow, and Xu Qiuyue's hair was flying in the wind.Xu Qiuyue still remembers the legend of her previous life, and it was rumored that there was a dragon in the North Sea.Beicheng was not a place of exile before, the former Beicheng, the wind and rain were smooth, although the people here did not farm, but they could make a lot of money by going out to sea every day to fight fish.Those sea fish are made into salted fish, which can be stored for a long time and shipped to other towns and cities where they can be sold for very high prices.But I don't know what's wrong, over the years, Beicheng has been getting worse and worse.Northtown is actually a good place.Because Xu Qiuyue knew very well that in three years, there would be a big man called the Dragon King of the North Sea here.He himself was crowned king, and the title was the Dragon King of the North Sea.This man is rumored to be a pirate-turned.Later, Xuan Jiu poured into the words, anyway, Beicheng is also a barren land, and the war costs the people and money, so he simply gave this Beicheng to the Dragon King of Beihai and gave it as a fief.Then the Dragon King of the North Sea only needs to pay an annual tribute of 10,000 taels of silver.Emperor Sheng felt that Beicheng didn't pay taxes and silver every year anyway, and it was okay to give it a fief, and he could earn some silver, although it was a little less, but it was better than nothing.And the imperial court sent many people to attack Beicheng, but unfortunately, it never attacked Beicheng.Emperor Sheng had already exhausted all the silver money of the Sheng Kingdom because of refining the Immortal Pill, and the treasury was poor.Then Xuan Jiutian put the sprouts on those rich businessmen, anyway, those businessmen have no background, whoever is rich will copy their homes.I don't know what's going on, it's clear that the merchant doesn't have any power.Those merchants are gone, they are gone.But the common people of Shengguo are getting poorer and poorer.The poor can't open the pot.Everyone in the world hates businessmen, and Xu Qiuyue used to hate them, thinking that businessmen don't have to do anything to make so much money.But later, Xu Qiuyue learned that the operation of this world is inseparable from businessmen.No one is born high.At least every penny of the merchant's money is earned by himself, what about the powerful!
All their money comes from the exploitation of the common people, why are they high?
The fishermen were silent for a long time, and one of the oldest old men spoke to Xu Qiuyue: "Madam, these pirates are actually just desperate.On the North Sea, there are many islands, and the pirates were actually from our North City at the beginning, but the taxes in this North City are too heavy, and they are getting more and more every year.The concubine likes to use pearls to grind into powder to nourish the face, the pearl tax is getting heavier and heavier year by year, and the pearls in the sea are getting less and less year by year, and the sea people can only go to the deep sea to dig pearls.I don't know how many people died in the deep sea.At that time, those seafarers were ordered by the officers and soldiers to forbid to go ashore, and they could only be at sea for the rest of their lives, and if they were just at sea all the time, it would be nothing.But somehow, after staying at sea for a long time, all of them began to become weak, unable to eat, their faces became extremely pale, their teeth began to bleed, and most importantly, their legs were all broken.This is the curse of the sea god, and the sea people are cursed to dig too many pearls.However, those officers and soldiers felt that it was an epidemic and were not allowed to go ashore.Poseidon said that as long as you go ashore, the disease will be cured immediately.But after going ashore, who will dig these pearls.As a result, these seafarers could only die on fishing boats, and finally die in the sea.Perhaps the sea monsters in the sea are the embodiment of these sea people, and the living fishermen are not willing to become like this, so they find new islands and live on them, and their illnesses are indeed cured.But no one has dug up the pearls!
The pearls of the shallow sea have been hollowed out.In order to rebel against the imperial court, they became pirates.It's too hard. ”The old fisherman was already in tears as he spoke."
Madame, these pirates have a conscience, and we fishermen's boats have never plundered.If the days get better, who wants to be a wild man on that desert island!
The goddess said that it was the court that angered the god of the sea, so Beicheng became like this!
Now that there are pirates, the court forces people to go to the sea and even if they catch pearls, they are robbed, and pirates often attack the people of the court.There was no one in the court to force the people to be the pearl people.The sea god also took pity on these sea people, so he let the sea monster not attack the sea people, so as to protect the people of Beicheng and cut off the disaster of pearl diving. ”Xu Qiuyue didn't have much sense of belonging to the imperial court in her heart.Therefore, hearing this kind of reverse, Xu Qiuyue did not have too much resentment.Pearl powder is indeed a common skin care product for ladies in Beijing.But everyone basically uses pearls produced in the river, and some people specialize in raising pearls, and the pearls in this sea water are rarely used.And you don't need so many pearls!
Xu Qiuyue suddenly remembered that Xuan Jiutian had complained to her in her previous life.A Taoist priest said that the pearls in the sea are the essence of heaven and earth, and have the effect of delaying aging.Therefore, Emperor Sheng had to bathe with pearl powder every day, and all of them had sea pearls.But how can there be so many sea pearls, no matter how much there is, it is not enough for Emperor Sheng to bathe every day.Anyway, the pearls are ground into powder, and even the sea people who catch pearls every day can't see it.At that time, Xuan Jiutian asked Xu Qiuyue to raise pearls and falsify.Because the rice grown by Xu Qiuyue is very good.Xuan Jiutian knew that Xu Qiuyue had a certain talent in this area.Xu Qiuyue was also thinking about Xuan Jiu at that time, Xu Qiuyue soaked the pearl in the spiritual spring water to warm up, and then, Xuan Jiu poured the pearl, Emperor Sheng liked it very much, and Xuan Jiu Tian received a lot of rewards.The reason why the northern city was abandoned by the imperial court is one thing.There is one more reason.Linhai City is very close to the capital, which is more convenient for the imperial court to govern.Therefore, most of the sea people are in Linhai City.In this northern city, there is another reason for the imperial court to give up, the poor mountains and bad waters, and the pearls in the sea have almost been dug up.Later, the reason why Xuan Jiutian opened his mouth to speak for the Dragon King of the North Sea was that the Dragon King of the North Sea promised to provide 300 pearls to Xuan Jiutian every month.There has been no pearl diving in the North Sea for many years.By the time the Dragon King of the North Sea came out, he would have been able to harvest some pearls.The Dragon King of the North Sea was a smart man, and he gave the matter of pearl diving to Xuan Jiutian as a benefit.In this case, there will be no tax from the imperial court.Once the tax is paid, it can be stacked on top of each other.At the beginning, it was three hundred, and then it was added little by little, and it became three thousand.And the Dragon King of the North Sea also knows how to raise pearls, and the small pearls are not dug up, and they know to keep them.In this case, pearls have always been there.In fact, three hundred and one month of pearls is a little less.In the past, Beicheng sent 100,000 pearls to the capital in a month.It is precisely because of this that the Beicheng County Commander was promoted, transferred to the richest Yangzhou, and became the prefect of Yangzhou, he used to be very favored by Emperor Sheng, but unfortunately, he stood on the wrong team.No matter how the crown prince targets other princes, he is the son of Emperor Sheng, and Emperor Sheng will be a little more tolerant of him than others.And the prefect of Yangzhou is just an outsider.So he became the prefect of Yangzhou.The crown prince could only make a move, promoted his son to the prefect of Linhai City, and let him continue pearl diving in Linhai City.