After the twelfth generation family head met in Jiangning.
They returned to their homes as quickly as possible.
They were preparing gifts for the emperor.
Of course, in their eyes, no gift is as valuable as real gold and silver.
The twelve families contributed a total of 100 million taels of silver.
Since Ying Yuan ascended the throne, the annual tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty has been 60 million taels.
During the reign of the late emperor, at the peak of the Qin Dynasty, the annual tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty was only about 130 to 140 million taels of silver.
In other words, these 100 million taels of silver were equivalent to the annual tax revenue of the Qin State.
This does not mean that the wealth owned by the twelve families can be said to be rich enough to rival a country.
At most, it can only offset the tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty for a few years.
What's more, the tax system adopted by the Qin State was that local governments retained what they needed each year, and the rest of the silver was turned over to the court.
Afterwards, officials from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Censorate would travel to various parts of the country to conduct cross-examinations.
To ensure that corruption rates fall.
Of course, except for the year when Ying Yuan traveled through time, in the previous few years, more than 80% of the officials in the Qin Dynasty were corrupt.
However, it is worth mentioning here that most of the officials in Jiangnan came from the Twelve Aristocratic Families.
The corruption rate here is among the lowest in the country.
I have to say that the Twelve Families are indeed scholarly families, and they are all very particular people.
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Jiangning City.
Early in the morning, the governor Xie Yi led local officials of all ranks to welcome the emperor's arrival a hundred miles outside the city.
This Xie Yi is the eldest son of the Xie family, one of the twelve clans in Jiangnan.
He had a younger brother named Xie An.
Now he is still concentrating on studying and is not prominent in the court.
The tallest building in Jiangning City is Yuejiang Tower.
Because if you stand on the top floor of this tall building and look down, you can see the entire Yangtze River.
So it was named Yuejiang Tower.
After arriving in Jiangning, Ying Yuan went to this building immediately.
I want to get a glimpse of the whole picture of Jiangning.
Xie Yi and other officials all followed Ying Yuan carefully.
Yuejiang Tower is eleven stories high.
It is much higher than the city wall of Jiangning City.
Guo Jia, who was a little tipsy at first, followed Ying Yuan up to the top floor. When he saw the scenery outside, his drunkenness was immediately swept away. He couldn't help but praise:
"What a wonderful Yuejiang Tower, what a wonderful Jiangning City. I once heard someone say that Jiangning is a place where tigers crouch and dragons coil, and its feng shui layout is comparable to Xianyang. From the overall layout, it seems like a blue dragon licking water."
Jiangning takes advantage of the power of the Yangtze River, and is like a dragon rising from Huangshan Mountain and swimming down, making it a place where feng shui converges.
It is also a place where dragons can appear.
Almost all the emperors of the Qin Dynasty have been here.
Several emperors tried to steal the dragon's fortune from Jiangning to Xianyang.
Unfortunately, for some reason, it ended in failure.
Xie Yi smiled and said, “It seems that this gentleman knows a little about Jiang Ning.
When I first took office as the Governor of Jiangning, I heard many wandering Taoists talk about the excellent feng shui layout of this place."
Guo Jia smiled and nodded in response, but didn't say anything else.
Ying Yuan, who was standing aside, didn't care about feng shui.
He just thought the scenery here was nice.
If he had been more curious and asked Guo Jia who that 'someone' was, he would certainly have been surprised.
Because that person's name was Zhuge Liang, with the courtesy name Kongming and the nickname Wulong.
The relationship between Guo Jia and him cannot be said to be good.
Just met once.
When they met, the two had a big argument about the political situation at that time.
No one is convinced by anyone else.
However, Zhuge Liang later said angrily that if Guo Jia entered the officialdom, he would not be willing to serve in the same court with him.
Zhuge Liang was still very young and somewhat hot-headed at the time, so it was understandable that he said such things.
Xi Zhicai also heard about this incident at that time.
He once said to Guo Jia with a smile: "As long as Guo Jia is alive, Crouching Dragon will not come out."
Only true friends would joke about matters of life and death.
Moreover, what Xi Zhicai said was also from Guo Jia's perspective.
After all, once those eight words spread, Zhuge Liang would definitely be the one who suffered.
Because people would think that he is not as good as Guo Jia.
Zhuge Liang did not break his promise. Now that Guo Jia has become an official, he is still farming.
Interestingly, Sima Yi, the then Minister of Works, had a good relationship with Zhuge Liang in private.
The two often exchanged letters.
It is said that Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi were taught by the same teacher.
In the history of Ying Yuan's previous life, it was also said that the two of them were from the same school.
No wonder in the late Three Kingdoms period of their previous life, the two fought fiercely but could never determine the winner.
They were all taught by the same master, so they can't break each other's moves.
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Ying Yuan stayed in Jiangning for about a few days.
We also visited several famous local places.
This includes Purple Mountain.
The previous dynasty lasted about three or four hundred years.
For about a hundred years, Jiangning was the capital.
During this period, there were several major disturbances, and the capital was moved elsewhere.
It seems that throughout history, anyone who established their capital in Jiangning has found it difficult to maintain peace.
Some people link this incident to the local feng shui.
Finally, a more metaphysical conclusion was reached.
It is said that the sea dragon in Jiangning has been broken due to several changes in its route.
If the dragon does not gain power, it will never achieve anything.
Just when Ying Yuan was planning to leave Jiangning and head for Suzhou in a few days, the caravan of the twelve families slowly arrived.
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