My life skills in Daming Liver

Fang Wanghai, who was promoted to the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department, just went to the Nanjing Household Department to meet his superior, Fang Dun, who was then the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department.

After paying homage to his immediate boss, the scene was a little unpleasant, and Fang Wanghai returned directly to Huguan after the unhappy breakup.

It has long been heard that this Fang Shangshu is particularly biased towards the township party, Fang Wanghai did not expect him to do this.

As soon as he arrived at the Nanjing household department, another servant of the Nanjing household department, Lu Dayou, the warehouse assistant, immediately proposed that the banknote customs that Fang Wanghai set up in the water transport needed to share the banknote tariffs equally with his yamen.

It's really unreasonable!

What is your water transportation in Nanzhili like? Are you confused, Lu Da? The granary was burned down by Japanese pirates a few days ago, and now he still has the face to come and steal money from him?

And then his boss, Fang Dun, Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Households, actually proposed that Fang Wanghai should hand over the customs duties on banknotes to the Ministry of Accounts, and the Nanjing Ministry of Households would be responsible for the distribution?

Fang Wanghai wanted to ask, are you Yuezhou people still shameless?

Fang Wanghai directly used banknotes to send the tariff silver to the capital, and sent it to the emperor's inner treasury, blocking the two hands reaching out to his pocket.

But when Fang Wanghai just returned to Huguan, he heard the people talk about banknote tariffs again.

The content is probably that Fang Wanghai is the emperor's lackey, and like the eunuch, he is searching for the emperor's personal money.

This made Fang Wanghai half-dead again. He kept his business and collected taxes, and was scolded as a strict party for a while, and now he simply became a eunuch party. Fang Wanghai's reputation has fallen to the same level as an eunuch.

At this moment, Su Ze rushed to the Chaoguan hall suddenly.

"Ru Lin?"

Fang Wanghai brought Su Ze into the study in surprise. The servant of Nanjing household department has already become a senior official of the third rank, but Fang Wanghai did not despise Su Ze because of his promotion, on the contrary, he couldn't do without Su Ze even more.

Such talents will be the guarantee of prosperity and wealth for generations of the Fang family in the future, and Fang Wanghai still has a clear understanding.

Fang Wanghai has already written to Mrs. Li in Quanzhou Prefecture, asking her to prepare a dowry, and when the Japanese invasion is a little more stable this year, she will immediately return to Fujian to get married.

As soon as Fang Wanghai sat down, he began to complain:

"I thought the court said that Fang Shangshu of the Household Department is a loyal gentleman, but I didn't expect that he was also such a person, and he was in cahoots with Na Lu Da, and wanted to take credit for my tax duties."

"Then Lu Dayou didn't even look at himself. The Japanese pirates set fire to Changping's warehouse and burned the 20,000 deniers of grain, yet they still had the nerve to reach out to my Chaoguan Hall?"

Fang Wanghai was indignant, and the official rank crushed people to death. He implemented the banknote tariff law in Nanzhili and Zhejiang, so naturally he could not avoid dealing with the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs.

The bank gates of the Chaoguan Hall are all set up on the canal, which has to deal with Lu Dayou, the warehouse assistant in charge of water transportation.

Today's matter, Fang Wanghai used the emperor's internal treasury to block it, but he had torn face with these two people, and in the future, he would always be wearing little shoes.

In particular, Fang Dun has been the secretary of the household department for many years, and he likes to support the township party members from his hometown as officials. As a result, there are many Yuezhou officials in the northern and southern officials. The servant of the Nanjing household department is also not easy to do.

Thinking of this, Fang Wanghai felt a little headache.

Fang Wanghai lost his temper, and began to reflect on whether his tone was too aggressive, whether he had offended his boss and colleagues.

Su Ze had long been aware of Fang Wanghai's weakness. Officials in the Ming Dynasty basically looked like this.

However, my future father-in-law can still guard his conscience. It is not easy among many officials to do something for the Ming Dynasty sincerely.

Fang Wanghai also refused to stand in line, whether it was Qingliu or Yandang's invitation, Fang Wanghai tactfully refused.

Su Ze understood that Fang Wanghai was afraid of being put on small shoes by his superiors and colleagues in the future.

Fang Wanghai looked at Su Ze, and then asked, "Why did Ru Lin come back from Shanghai?"

Since leaving Huguan last time, Su Ze has not returned to Suzhou. Fang Wanghai only knows that Su Ze has made remarkable achievements in fighting against the Japanese in Shanghai.

Su Ze took out a report, handed it to Fang Wanghai and said:

"Uncle Shi, take a look at this report."

Fang Wanghai opened the report, and Su Ze wrote the statistics in text for his convenience.

Fang Wanghai didn't look at these reports, but directly looked at the conclusions. When he saw that the amount of grain released by the customs in the past half month was as high as 10,000 den, he also took a deep breath.

"How is it possible?" Fang Wanghai was the magistrate of a prefecture, so he naturally knew the concept of 10,000 deniers of food, and what a huge amount it was.

"Uncle Shi, it's all new food from last year."

Fang Wanghai's hands trembled even more. If it was grain stored in the past, it could have been hoarded by a grain merchant or a big family, but the 10,000-denier new grain is not something that a merchant has the ability to collect.

The reason is also very simple. The most produced in Jiangsu today are the central and northern regions along the Yangtze River.

These places were invaded by Japanese pirates, and ordinary businessmen couldn't get in or out.

Fang Wanghai only thought of one possibility: "This is the food in the official warehouse!? They are so brave!"

Su Ze said: "Before I came to Huguan, I also visited several other banknotes. The merchants who transported the grain all spoke with provincial accents and had an arrogant attitude. Some of them were directly transported by official ships."

Fang Wanghai pricked up his ears, only to hear Su Ze continue: "I asked a few clever subordinates again, and they identified that these grain merchants all speak Yueyang dialect."

Fang Wanghai was stunned, he paused and asked: "You mean, Fang Shangshu of Nanjing Household Department is now involved in this matter?"

Although Fang Wanghai had objections to Fang Dun, Fang Dun had always had a good reputation as an official. He really didn't expect that Fang Dun would do such a thing at such a critical moment in the country.

Fang Wanghai still couldn't believe it, Su Ze said again:

"I also asked people to search up the canal, and found that most of the grain came from Jurong."

Jurong?

Jurong also belonged to Yingtian Prefecture, which was regarded as Jingji County in Southern Zhili, but according to Fang Wanghai's knowledge, there was no official position in Jurong.

Su Ze continued: "My nephew asked someone to inquire again in Jurong. Half a month ago, the Governor's Office of Water Transportation sealed off the wharf in Jurong. I heard that water workers were recruited to work at the wharf for several days, but there was no one. The cargo was unloaded in Jurong, and since then ships have been going south to transport grain."

"And the day when the dock was blocked was the day after the fire at Changping Warehouse in Yangzhou."

Su Ze had already analyzed it clearly, and now it was Fang Wanghai's turn to be shocked.

It is no ordinary talent to be able to analyze such a shocking conspiracy from the past data of banknote tariffs.

In Su Ze's analysis, there was no rigorous physical evidence, nor did he capture the core witnesses of the other party, but the logical chain that was threaded was so clear that he could automatically draw conclusions without too much association.

The distance between Jurong and Yangzhou, the time difference between the fire of the official warehouse and the blockade of the Jurong Wharf, and who can have such a large amount of energy to mobilize the official ships for water transport and block the imperial court's wharf.

This result is about to come out, no one has this ability except the Nanjing household department!

And all this is just because these grain merchants have paid bills and customs duties and left behind a lot of vouchers.

Do you want to fight back?

But how to fight back?

Fang Wanghai raised his head again, his son-in-law is too caring!

Just after being wronged in the Nanjing household department, the son-in-law came to pass the knife, and it was so sharp and powerful!

If the evidence of this incident is confirmed, I don't know how many people will have their heads moved, and how many people will be dismissed from office.

But Fang Wanghai flinched again, it would take a lot of energy to be able to clear out the regular positions before the pirates came, and even Fang Wanghai didn't think Fang Dun had this ability.

The water transport ships are all under the control of the Ministry of Industry. Fang Wanghai thought of a name. Could it be that Fang Dun picked up Mr. Yan Ge?

No way? Wasn't Fang Dun transferred from the Jingshi household department to the Nanjing household department because of being played by Yan Song?

Fang Wanghai only felt that his head was in a mess. The relationship in the court is that there is me in you, and you in me. Behind every official, there is a huge network of relationships. These people cover up and collude with each other, forming a more dense An airtight network.

These huge networks constitute the so-called "civilian group".

The "civilian group" is like Azathoth in the Cthulhu myth. He has no will or wisdom. He is just a combination of the will of every official.

Greed, desire, every official wants to control the prosperity and wealth for generations, so there will be fraud in the examination room, so he will support his nephews and students.

Every official wants to control more power, so he will fight with the imperial power and honored military officers, and only then will the civil servants' rights expand after the Tumubao Change, and there will be party struggles between the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party in the future.

Every official wants to get promoted and make a fortune, do everything possible to search for places to please his superiors, and act to report good news but not bad ones for various examination results.

Every selfish desire finally converges into a torrent, and finally becomes a monstrous turbid current of desire.

No one can control the entire group, not even Yan Song, Xu Jie, or even Zhang Juzheng.

This is also the cycle of the rise and fall of a dynasty. When the bureaucratic group, the god of blindness and ignorance, expands day by day, it will eventually devour everything and ruin the entire dynasty.

Su Ze saw Fang Wanghai's hesitation, and also understood Fang Wanghai's cowardice as a member of the system.

As for who can fight against all this? Su Ze doesn't believe in the fairy tales in "Private Interviews with Kangxi Weifu".

The Taoist emperor sitting on the dragon chair didn't care about the life and death of the people, but whether he could achieve Taoism and become a fairy.

Su Ze put away these thoughts, he said to Fang Wanghai:

"Uncle Shi, this case cannot be moved lightly."

Fang Wanghai nodded quickly.

Su Ze said: "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never end in a hundred battles. First of all, we must find out the people behind this grain."

Fang Wanghai nodded quickly and said, "How do I get caught?"

Su Ze said: "Uncle Shi, have you forgotten? The Shanghai Anti-Japanese Anti-Smuggling Headquarters, followed by the word anti-smuggling."

"The imperial court set up a banknote gate, which is the same as the land tax and Dingfu. They are all mandatory. Before relying on services alone, some merchants were asked to go through the banknote gate to pay taxes. In fact, they were far from receiving the full amount of tax."

Fang Wanghai nodded. Of course he knew that there are still many merchants evading currency customs duties by detour, but Fang Wanghai also suffers from his lack of manpower, so he can only turn a blind eye to these merchants.

Su Ze smiled and said, "So now it's time to fight against smuggling."

The next day, the announcement of the Chaoguan Office was published in the latest issue of "Warning the World".

In theory, all merchant ships passing through the river should be subject to banknote tariffs. Anyone who bypasses the banknote customs and evades the banknote customs duties, once caught by the anti-smuggling headquarters of the banknote customs department, the ship will be detained to pay taxes, and a fine will also be required.

"Jing Shi Tong Yan" is also issued every half a month, and has been released twice. Through the serialization of Su Ze's "Nanke Meng", coupled with the management of Xu Shixing and others, "Jing Shi Tong Yan" has become the most important issue in the entire Nanzhili area. best selling newspaper.

When this newspaper was published, the businessmen in Nanzhili scolded one after another, saying that Fang Wanghai was a cruel official like Sang Hongyang, who came to Nanzhili to search for the people's favor and anointment.

But these businessmen soon stopped laughing. The anti-smuggling group led by Su Ze made a decisive attack, setting up ambushes in several tributary rivers, and detaining these merchant ships who were bypassing tax evasion.

Naturally, there are also many grain ships of Yuezhou merchants.

After the boat was detained, these businessmen left the boat and ran to Nanjing City. They gathered around the mansion of Lu Dayou, the servant of Nanjing Hubu Warehouse, and accused Fang Wanghai of sustainable fishing and Su Ze's excessive taxation.

Lu Dayou looked at these township party members with a headache. They had clearly done the business of beheading, and they still wanted to evade taxes?

Lu Dayou didn't know that when a crime happened, everything in the future would be out of his control, leading to more chaotic and chaotic results.

Just after these township parties were sent away, another group of grain merchants from Yuezhou was seized by Su Ze, and the owner and staff of the merchant ships were all arrested by Su Ze and brought into the Chaoguan Office on the charge of resisting taxes.

Oops!

Lu Dayou, who has been up and down for many years, instinctively felt the crisis.