Xu Bai This is the first time he has seen the communication between people in officialdom.

There was no expression on his face, as if he was just a retinue standing in the crowd, but his heart was breathtaking.

In a few simple conversations, Qi Wu was pulling and fighting, trying his best to be an old oilman in officialdom, and the previous conversation between the two made Xu Bai know clearly that Qi Wu did not directly state his purpose as soon as he came up, but directly pinched the other party and expressed his dissatisfaction.

That's right, this kind of seizure of ships, the businessmen will only hold a grudge against the government, whether they are Jinyi Wei or the Inspection Department, not to mention what Qi Wu said is very serious, they just point out directly - you are extorting money on the grounds of handling cases.

It doesn't matter if you want to do this, but since I am involved in the Yanyun Yamen, we will not carry this black cauldron!

According to the general development, at this time, if Jinyiwei really had this thought, it would be time to give in, and Qi Wu took advantage of their concessions, and everyone could easily get back the seized goods of Bailiqi, without revealing direct intentions at all, but made the top and bottom of the inspection office feel that this Lord Qi did this for the good of our own yamen, not for personal gain.

The art of being an official!

Xu Bai sighed secretly in his heart, he still has a lot to learn, this kind of thing, if he is Qi Wu, I am afraid that he will directly find the head of Jinyiwei and put forward his own requirements, things may or may not be successful, and they will fall behind left and right, and even owe favors.

"If this judge thinks it's inappropriate, he can tell us directly!" This Liu Chuan is also a dog's face, the kind that changes when he says: "The order was given by our Lord Qianhu, and we people only know how to act according to the orders of Lord Qianhu!" ”

He looked at the group of people behind Qi Wu and said leisurely: "But let me remind you in advance, what is our Beizhen Fusi doing, don't forget it, your Excellency, ordinary cases, our Beizhen Fusi is not much interested!" ”

"Good, good!" Qi Wu was so angry with this guy that he probably lost face in front of Xu Bai: "It's looking for money and no illness, right, don't be so troublesome, come here, invite the brothers of Beizhen Fusi out, our Yanyun Yamen Temple is small, and we can't entertain such a valuable guest!" ”

Although Nanjing is not one of the three divisions, the two Huai salt transport yamen are in Yingtian, Ningguo, Taiping, Yangzhou, Fengyang, Luzhou, Anqing, Chizhou, Huai'an Jiufu and Chu, and Erzhou in the south of the country, and the main responsibility of the inspection department is to be responsible for the social security of the salt works, and "patrol the thieves and traitors."

In other words, there is the force of the Inspection Division behind him, as long as Qi Wu occupies Li'er, even in the face of the thousands of households of Jinyiwei, he dares to speak loudly. And today's Jinyiwei is not as authoritative as the Jinyiwei in the Hongwu period, and the duty of Jinyiwei is "to detect lawlessness and supervise hundreds of officials!" "After the defeat of the civil fort, it was greatly weakened, which can be seen from the huge Yingtianfu, Jinyiwei only set up a thousand households.

With Qi Wu's order, the salt dings up and down in the inspection office moved one after another, and more than 100 salt dings invited more than 20 brocade guards to go out, this kind of thing is too simple, in a noisy voice, the scene was very chaotic.

"Take away the prisoners!" Seeing that the captains in brocade clothes were driven out of the house, Qi Wu snorted: "All the evidence seized will also be taken away, and we will not leave anything of you in the inspection center!" ”

"Good, good!" Liu Chuan's face became very ugly, and he ordered his subordinates: "Pack up your things and watch the prisoners!" While giving a thumbs up to Qi Wu: "This judge, you'd better be honest and honest in this official, it's best not to violate the laws of the court at all, and it's best to always be ......prosperous."

"If you chirp crookedly, believe it or not, I asked Qian Wuzhi to come and collect people in person!" Qi Wu directly pestled Liu Chuan's chest with his fingers: "You can say another word to try......"

Liu Chuan closed his lips tightly, waved his hand, and took his subordinates to escort the prisoner out of the inspection center, but from beginning to end, he never said a word again, but the hatred in his eyes was clear to everyone.

"Ma Jin!"

"Humble duty!"

"The contents of the innocent shippers seized shall be returned quickly! Our yamen doesn't do this kind of thing that can't be put on the table! Qi Wu glanced at him: "After finishing this matter, we will go to the Yanyun Yamen tomorrow, and the two of us will have a good chat about your affairs inside and outside!" ”

"Yes!" This is called Ma Jin's inspection, his face is more ugly than his dead parents, and he doesn't know whether he is worried that he is going to break his fortune, or he is worried that his inspector's hat is unstable, so he answered, left Qi Wu's side with a drooping face, and beckoned his subordinates to do this thing.

"Uncle, you can go and find what he wants to go back to our house!" Xu Bai reminded Bailiqi: "Take back the things and go back with Su Su!" ”

"I hear it all!" Bai Liqi replied in a low voice, looked at Qi Wu, and then looked at Shen Yun and the others behind Qi Wu who did not speak, and lowered his voice a little more: "These are all nobles, if you can't stammer, then Master Shen, you must serve well......"

"I know, uncle, don't I still have to find a chance to get close to them? Go ahead and get busy, they shouldn't be embarrassed by you! Xu Bai nodded, urging them to leave.

There was a rush of chaos, and by the time only a few of them were sitting in the lobby of the inspection department, it was already a long time later.

"The inspection has been using the excuse that he has not come back for a long time, so there will be no change!"

"If he is willing to inspect this position, he will toss!" Qi Wu's smile returned to his face: "It's not difficult to get one or two thousand taels of silver a year for one inspection in this area, don't worry, he doesn't think he will have any other ideas!" ”

"What about Jinyiwei, if it targets you in the future, will there be trouble!" Xu Bai asked seriously, this was something he cared about, and he didn't want to let Qi Wu get into unnecessary trouble for this little thing.

The judge of the Salt Transport Envoy Department said unceremoniously, this is already the biggest official Xu Bai has ever seen, such a resource, as long as his brain does not enter the water, he will never let such resources be wasted in a meaningless matter.

"Is money disease-free?" Qi Wu laughed, and Shen Yun, who was on the side, also laughed: "If he doesn't want the salt guide given to them by my salt transport envoy Si Yamen every year (Note 1), then even if they come to trouble us, the officials of Shuntian Mansion have Bing Jing and Tan Jing, but they can't enjoy our 'salt respect', in this world, most of the time, money is not only through the gods, but also through people!" ”

"The major yamen of Yingtianfu, the salt transportation yamen have salt to be sent to the past every year to do filial piety, and this salt is the silver of white flowers, Qi Wu, this official, said that it is not big, it is not small, who is it given every year, how much is given, but it just has a little right to speak!"

Shen Yun added with a smile on the side: "To be honest, sometimes I want to be this judge......

Note 1: During the Ming Dynasty, if you wanted to sell salt legally, you had to get salt from the government first. Merchants used salt to bring salt to the salt field to support salt, and then went to the designated salt sales area to sell salt.

In the Ming Dynasty's "Gang Salt System", the merchants who held the salt quotation were divided into 10 classes according to the region, each class of salt quotation was 200,000 citations, and each quotation was 300 catties of salt, or six coins and four centimeters of silver, which was called "Woben", and the tax was three taels of silver, and the minister's silver was three taels. Named after "Shengde is over the ages, the emperor has nine enclosures", those who have not entered the program have no right to operate the salt industry.

"History of the Ming Dynasty Salt Politics" pointed out that the capital in the salt industry at that time was very concentrated, "in Guangling is no less than 30 million taels, and the annual interest can be 9 million taels." And that's not even counting the volume of "private salt" transactions.

In the Ming Dynasty, the average annual total tax revenue of the whole country was only "10 million taels". The important role of salt in "a million profits" can be seen.

Again: There is no "salt respect" in history, the story is needed, and the author is just making it up.