How did the people of the Ming Dynasty escape from paying tolls?

People in the Ming Dynasty who have played the Beijing-Hangzhou self-driving tour know that from Hangzhou to Beijing, the shortest waterway mileage is 1,700 kilometers, and it takes 12 banknotes to pass through the customs, and the fee is 348 Wen, with an average of two Wen per kilometer.

Network illustration. When the price of rice in the Ming Dynasty was the lowest, 70 Wen could buy a stone, at that time a stone of rice was 90 catties, and the average price of rice per kilogram was 8 Wen, with the price of rice one conversion, the purchasing power of two Wen in the Ming Dynasty and today's five cents was almost the same, at that time two Wen per kilometer was paid, just equal to five cents per kilometer now. Times are different, some things are still retro, and you can see you go back in time when you pay at the stop.

The current toll booth is not asking anyone for money, military vehicles, police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks are all free of charge; In some counties and cities in the north, the cars of local leaders passing through the local toll booths are not allowed to be charged according to the usual practice -- money is a trivial matter, and it is important to hurt the face of the leaders.

Similarly, the banknotes of the Ming Dynasty did not ask anyone for money, they had three non-collections: the leader's ship was not collected, the eunuch's ship was not collected, and the Jinshi and the lifting boat were not collected. Times are different, some things are still going backwards, and you can see you go back in time when you pass through the free stops.

In the Ming Dynasty, people passed the banknote customs and changed the method to evade fees, and some made a pair of fake signs, erected them on the bow of the ship, writing "Xiangfu" on one side and "Tongzheng Department Hall" on the other side, pretending to be official ships, just like some civilian trucks now hang military vehicle license plates; Some people invite a taxi or lift someone to sit on the boat as a talisman, when passing the banknote customs, people ask for money, so let the talisman come out to pay, similar to some travelers now when they drive out of the house as much as possible to carry a reporter. Times are different, the methods will still be retro, and you can see going back in time when you pass the station to evade fees.

It is too risky to pretend to be an official ship, and it is too risky to ask a jinshi or a person to be a talisman, so in the Ming Dynasty, the jinshi and the person can be called a multi-talented, they not only promoted the prosperity and development of the cultural and educational industry, but also showed their skills in the field of private shipping. The shipowner also gave them a rich return, in the Ming Dynasty mimetic book "The Legend of the Crazy Maniac", a Xiucai escorted two civilian ships at the same time, and took the consulting fee of five taels of silver.

I admit that in terms of helping people avoid paying tolls, our reporters are not as good as the Jinshi and Juren of the Ming Dynasty, at least they can't help trucks evade tolls, nor can they help buses evade tolls on highways. But friends, even if it's just a miniature bus on an ordinary highway, it's promising, after all, the current traffic flow is far more than that of the Ming Dynasty, after all, the current toll booths are denser than the Ming Dynasty's banknotes.

In fact, the toll in the Ming Dynasty was still relatively expensive, so in order to escape the toll, people may choose to travel with some court officials or eunuchs, jinshi, and people who can not pay tolls, or directly pretend to be court officials. In addition, bribery charges are also a good way.

1. Pretending to be a toll waiver

During the Ming Dynasty, these toll booths did not charge for some court officials, eunuchs, and scholars who had obtained fame. This means that as long as you can show proof of occupation to prove that you are an official, eunuch or lifter, you will not have to pay tolls. In fact, it is the same as the fact that our current soldiers are exempt from paying tolls and can also pass through toll booths.

As a result, occasionally someone would hang a sign in a conspicuous place on their ship with the name of a high-ranking official such as "Prime Minister's House" written on it. In this way, the people at the toll booth will not say a word and will be allowed to pass immediately. It's just that this method is too risky, and once discovered, it will be over.

2. Walk with people who are exempt from tolls

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, some businessmen would go to Xiucai, Jinshi, Juren and other scholars who needed to enter Beijing to take the exam, because the rule of the Ming Dynasty was that these people did not need tolls. Therefore, as long as these merchants can take care of the food, drink, and lazar of these scholars on the road, and give them a thank you fee, they can save a lot of money on the tolls.

3. Bribery to collect tolls

Some of the ** on duty at the toll booth are not well paid, but if some ** or businessmen can see the opportunity to give these toll collectors a sum of money, they can save a lot of tolls. After all, not all people are honest and incorruptible, and these toll collectors belong to the kind that can be bought with money.

In addition, there are some salt dealers who will try their best to escape the tolls because they are smuggling salt. In the Ming Dynasty, it was illegal to smuggle salt, so they may have ended up using violence to escape tolls.

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Some ** hit the idea on the person in charge of the toll, and bribed them to make it convenient for themselves. If these toll collectors were not upright, they would probably have come to an agreement with them.

It can be seen that in ancient times, people evaded tolls in a variety of ways, and the success rate was not low, and this was mainly based on the opaque toll at that time, caused by the underdevelopment of science and technology, and this problem rarely occurs today.

In fact, there are many ways for ancient people to evade fees, including detours, all roads lead to Rome, and there will eventually be a way to go out, and there are rules, this ancient method of bribery is also very useful, and this method is also relatively common.

The road is walked by people, and when more people walk, it becomes the road. Take a detour, which is the basic method of escaping the toll.

That is, not to take the official road, to take the small road and the shortcut. It's like the kind of path in the mountains, **remote to**. There is no way, and I have to walk out of a way. This is one of the more common methods.

The ancients also chose to use bribery, and this method was discovered a long time ago, and it has been proved that bribery is really useful in some cases, and the ancients were also very smart.

Many do not take official roads, take mountain paths, or climb mountains and mountains.

The toll in the Ming Dynasty was on the avenue, and many of them took waterways or trails in order to pay taxes, and some even crossed mountains and mountains to bypass the tax collection station.

The ancients were very wise, of course they wouldn't take the avenue, they took a detour!

In the past, only high-ranking officials and dignitaries would walk on the official road, and most of the common people had mountain roads.