Reborn female match

It was cold and windy in Lin'an in October, but the open and fertile villages were busy harvesting late crops, and the docks outside the city were still bustling with boats.

As soon as An Tong and the others disembarked, a soldier guarding the pier came over and asked them for a public inspection. An Tong frowned directly: "I have grown up so much, and I have been here several times, and I have never heard of a public inspection!"

Xu Xiangru and Jiang Congyi were not surprised, Xu Xiangru had experienced it in his previous life, while Jiang Congyi knew about it during his business dealings.

Although An Tong muttered, An's family seemed to have prepared a public test for her long ago, and the soldiers let them go after registering them.Only then did Xu Xiangru explain: "This is the way the prefect of Lin'an came up with to control the floating people in the city."

An Tong said: "I heard that even Bianjing doesn't need a public inspection. Why does it need a public inspection here? The prefect of Lin'an is really arbitrary."

Xu Xiangru smiled.

Speaking of it is now October of the fourth year of Chengkang, that Mo Chong must have been serving as the prefect of Lin'an for more than a year.Because of this, most people don't seem to be surprised by the registration and public inspection. They often travel between Lin'an and other places, so they naturally know that Lin'an has this strange rule.

Although the general trend of the world is that there is no need for public inspection, and the people are free to go wherever they like, but the local government still has to deal with the underlying affairs, so after the court knew about Lin'an's move, it did not oppose it. After all, this is the original Liangzhe Road The transfer made Li Chuzhou start.

The reason why Li Chuzhou and others have this idea has to start from more than a hundred years ago.After a long period of war, a new dynasty was established, and Lin'an, the former capital of the separatist forces, was lucky enough to escape the fate of being destroyed.

In order to stabilize people's hearts and win over courtiers, Emperor Tai-zu turned a blind eye to it, so that in just a few decades, Lin'an became a rich place second only to Bianjing, and there are also many The power of nobles and aristocratic families.

People in the world always like to move closer to rich places, so more and more people come to Lin'an to make a living.With the prosperity of water transportation, more and more porters are needed, so that there are many people waiting to find work at the docks and in the city.

However, when big cities are always saturated, the problem of resettlement of these floating tourists who come to make a living has become a headache for the court and local government. Because of improper placement, many people will go astray and specialize in some Dirty activities, so that the law and order in Lin'an is always bad.

Last year, the previous prefect of Lin'an resigned, and a young prefect Mo Chong came.

Mo Cheng was only weak at a young age, but he was able to become the governor of a state. In addition to relying on his family background and shade, he is also talented. Shi Lang, a small official was appointed later, and because his father was favored by the emperor, he was recruited as the manager of Muzhou to join the army, and was promoted to the magistrate last year.

Others need to go for more than ten or twenty years, but he has only gone for seven years, and he is still young and has a bright future. Many people say that he will have great achievements in the future.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiangru couldn't help showing a mocking smile.

It's a pity that in his previous life, Mo Chong failed to make great achievements in the future as the world thought. Because he fell in love with Qin Shaoru, he was willing to become Zhao Weicai's pawn for her.

Mo Chong is the emperor's favorite minister, but the emperor is the enemy who took away the throne that should belong to Zhao Weicai. Although he didn't show it on the surface, he was always unwilling in his heart.

He has been pretending to be carefree in front of the emperor, and he doesn't care about the government affairs at all, so as to lower the emperor's vigilance.

In order to silence the people in the world, the emperor gave him a lot of rewards. Maybe he took advantage of it to let the people in the world know that although he inherited the throne from his elder brother, he was still very lenient to his nephew.

Later, Zhao Weicai took advantage of the emperor's connivance and humility to reverse his own weakness step by step. He first separated the emperor from the heroes who supported him at the beginning, and waited for the heroes to come to a bad end. The emperor also slowly lost the hearts of the people. .

When the Xu family had an accident, several ministers had already been demoted and killed, and Mo Chong's father had also been demoted again and again.It's a pity that when she died, she didn't know what happened to the Mo family later.

"The government is just trying to maintain the law and order in Lin'an!" Jiang Congyi said.

An Tong didn't take it seriously: "It's winter now, and it's freezing outside. Don't you see these people who are blocked outside and look like hungry people? The government maintains the law and order of the nobles and rich households in Lin'an, right? They are so Does your behavior seem to be for the sake of the people?"

Jiang Congyi was speechless by her words, Xu Xiangru also smiled slightly, and did not agree with any of them, but he quite agreed with An Tong's words in his heart.

In the end, Jiang Congyi resentfully said, "Didn't the government keep everyone out? Those who have never committed crimes, those who make a living in the city, or those who come to visit relatives, aren't they all let in?"

An Tong didn't want to tell him, but what he said was only a small part, and most of the people could only stay outside the city or work as porters for the docks, or wait for the dentist to pick them.

She thought there was a famine somewhere else!During the famine, the government was still thinking about how to resettle the people, but the prefect of Lin'an didn't care about anything, and the transfer envoy on the Liangzhe Road was also not thinking about the people.

Xu Xiangru recalled that every time there was a famine, the An family would help the hungry people, so An Tong's reaction was expected.She said: "Naturally, the government will not stand by and watch innocent people suffer. Maybe they have measures to deal with it properly in places that we can't see?"

An Tong didn't speak, but she also understood that she could not interfere with the government's affairs, so she could only wait until her grandfather's house to understand the pros and cons of the Lin'an magistrate's measures.

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The person Xu Renchang sent to pick up Jiang Congyi was already waiting at the post house in Lin'an, but it had nothing to do with An Tong. When she left the pier, there was a large carriage waiting for her.

The carriage was naturally arranged by the Li family. After all, although there are many rich households in Lin'an, there may not be many families who can afford such a spacious and luxurious carriage.

The Li family, the Qin family and the Chen family are among the great salt merchants in Lin'an and even Jiangnan.

Since decades ago, the imperial court has been less aggressive in cracking down on private salt sales. Later, the princes reformed and improved the status of official salt. Instead of the government selling official salt.

As soon as the ban was lifted, countless people flocked to the Transshipment Department, wanting to get this certificate.However, is this certificate so easy to obtain?

Not to mention having strong financial resources, but also having contacts, and finally having a flexible mind to do a good job in this business, so that the government can also see the benefits.

As a result, over the past few decades, salt merchants of all sizes have sprung up like mushrooms after the spring rain. Although some families were destroyed in the end, others accumulated a lot of money and became rich in the end.

The Li family, Qin family and Chen family in Lin'an occupied Lin'an's official and private salt business, and some small private salt dealers could only move between the villages.

The reason why salt merchants were able to accumulate such wealth was naturally impossible to rely solely on selling official salt. They were all related to salt households. They used various conveniences to buy private salt at low prices and then sold it at a high price along with official salt.In the end, part of the money went into the pocket of the court, but relying on the remaining part of the money, it was enough for these salt merchants to live a life of luxury and wealth.

Xu Xiangru didn't have much contact with the Li family in his previous life, so he didn't know the Li family's family background, but judging from today's carriage, if the Li family didn't keep a low profile, sooner or later they would be targeted.

And she didn't forget that in her previous life, Qin Shaoru controlled the Qin family with the help of Zhao Weicai, Mo Chong and others, and the Chen family was even suppressed later, and finally had to cooperate with it.And according to that kind of momentum, the fate of the Li family in the previous life must not be very good.

Xu Xiangru naturally wanted to mention the Li family, even if it wasn't because the Li family was An Tong's ancestral family, he still wanted to win over some people to deal with Zhao Weicai and the Qin family.However, it is obviously inappropriate for her to come forward to mention this matter at this time, so she can only hint to An Tong that the Li family's carriage is too luxurious, which is not a good thing.

An Tong said in surprise: "I found out that Xu Xiangru just changed your identity, but you have never been out of Quchuan, how do you know so much?"

Xu Xiangru thought for a while, and said, "You want to know, what will you give in exchange?"

An Tong originally wanted to say that she didn't want to know anymore, but she turned her eyes and changed her mind again. She leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, saying: "I know your purpose is this, so you can say it!"

Xu Xiangru pursed his lips, wanting to be entangled for a while before he was satisfied, and said: "This is what I want. For the sake of the little lady's cooperation, I will tell you that the reason why I know so much is because — I'm smart."

"..." An Tong rolled his eyes angrily.

The two of them chatted and quickly arrived at the post house, and Xu Xiang got out of the carriage.It's not suitable for her to follow An Tong to Li's house, and she has to leave tomorrow, and rushing to Li's house is also ill-mannered.So after she came back from Jiangning, she had to find another opportunity to visit.

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After parting with Xu Xiangru, An Tong was very happy at first, but slowly a trace of loneliness grew in his heart.

The carriage was still driving unhurriedly on the road to Li's house. The journey was too far, so far that she had no time to divert her thoughts, and could only experience the feeling of loneliness in a boring way.

Shao Ru left with Xu Xiangru, so she simply asked Ren Cuirou to come and chat with her.However, when Ren Cuirou arrived, she was not interested in chatting anymore.

It was the first time for Ren Cuirou to come out of Quchuan to such a prosperous place, and she kept watching along the way, curious and envious of everything around her.Seeing that An Tong was unhappy, she explained: "If my lady is reluctant to give up on Xu lady, why don't you go for a stroll in the street. There are many interesting things outside, and my lady will surely relieve her depression after seeing it."

An Tong said: "I'm not unhappy because I left her! When we go to the old man's house and have a look at his old man's house, we will find a chance to go out for a stroll."

When someone was talking, An Tong felt less bored, and they arrived at Li's house not long after.

Knowing that An Tong finally came, the insider of the Li family waited for her at the door, and there were a woman and two teenagers standing beside him.

The woman is a double tenth youth, her eyebrows are three points similar to Li Jinxiu, and her temperament is quite generous.Although An Tong hadn't set foot in Li's house for many years, he recognized her from the feature of her eyebrows similar to Li Jinxiu. She was the daughter of An Tong's uncle and also her cousin Li Yan.

The two teenagers are only fourteen or fifteen years old, one is a little taller, looks a little restrained, but has dark skin.The other one is fair and tender. If it wasn't for his displeasure, An Tong's impression of him would be better.

The taller one is Li Hao, the son of An Tong's eldest uncle, and the fair and tender one is Li Bing, the son of his younger uncle.

When An Tong came here, they were still young, so they didn't recognize each other for a while. It was only because of Li Yan's initiative to mention that she remembered many things in a daze.However, she also discovered that one of these people seemed to be missing.

As if aware of An Tong's thoughts, Li Yan smiled and said: "Er Niang is not at home because she went to the meeting, otherwise she will come with us to wait for you today."

An Tong vaguely remembered that Li Jinxiu mentioned that her two uncles seemed to have some suspicions, but the Li family did not separate and still lived under the same roof, so there would naturally be some suspicions among her cousins.

She didn't think too much about it, after all, she was not a distinguished guest, Li Yan and her two cousins ​​were able to come out to pick her up, it was already a respect for her.

"Ah Weng and mother-in-law have been waiting for you for a long time, so hurry up and follow us in!" Li Yan said again.

An Tong responded, a little impatient to see the two old people, but Li Bing was even more "impatient" than her. After Li Yan's words, he had already turned around and ran back to Li's house, disappearing in no time.

Complicated emotions appeared on Li Yan's face, she quickly adjusted her expression, and said to An Tong: "Erlang must have gone back first and told Ah Weng and mother-in-law about Tong'er's cousin's arrival."

Although An Tong didn't have so much scheming, she wasn't stupid either. It was fine for Li Wei to pick the day when she came to attend the meeting. Li Bing came to wait for her as if he was on a mission, which made her frown.He had to follow Li Wei's lead and find an excuse to hide himself. It would look better than being rude like this.

But Li Yan deliberately covered it up for him, and she didn't have to worry about it with her relatives.On the contrary, when Li Yan turned her head, she glanced over Naizhi at the side, and only after seeing his expression, she hooked the corners of her lips in satisfaction.