First of all, the household department has made efforts to strictly rectify the behavior of giving and receiving private gifts and enriching private pockets in the payment of tribute taxes in kind from top to bottom. Taking tea as an example, tea producers must first pay a certain amount of tea to the local government as a tax when selling tea to tea merchants, and high-grade tea must be paid to high-grade tea, medium-sized tea is medium-sized tea, and so on. However, after accepting bribes from tea producers, many tax officials acquiesced to their "shoddy" and paid taxes on inferior tea no matter what kind of tea they sold, which led to the poor quality of the goods received by the Equalization Division, which affected the pricing and market price of the Equalization Division.

After Xue Chunyue took charge of the household department, he carried out a substantial reform of the tax official system in various places, and the household officials of the local government offices were all official officials, and all the tax officials who collected taxes on the spot were officials. Officials are employees hired by the local government, and do not belong to the ranks of officials, and it is up to the government to decide to stay. Officials implement the system of one examination a year, and if they are found to have committed illegal acts, they will be immediately dismissed from their posts and transferred to the government for questioning, and those who have not committed illegal acts will be judged according to the output value of the tribute tax in kind collected by them, and the better the quality of the tribute tax recovered, the more profitable the market, the better the merit and the higher the annual income.

After the reform, the atmosphere of taxation in various localities changed drastically for a while, and the tax officials who collected taxes on the spot no longer dared to collude with taxpayers' private interests. If you lose your job, it's a small matter, but if you go to prison, it's a big thing. At the same time, the annual salary is linked to the output value of the tribute tax, and for the sake of their own income, taxpayers will not be allowed to shoddy, and the tribute tax in kind across the country has basically realized "what is sold, what is paid", and the quality of the goods received by the company has been greatly improved.

After the Ministry of Household ensured the quality of the tribute tax in kind, Ye Cizhun began to lead the Taifu Temple to undertake the reform, so that these tribute taxes in kind could get the maximum benefit in the market. The Equalization Division collects and transports goods, and the Equalization Division puts them on the market, so the combination of the Equalization Division and the Equalization Division is actually the "government-run firm" of the imperial court, and mobilizing the enthusiasm of a commercial bank is nothing more than the redistribution of profits.

Ye Cizhun followed up the household department, and also carried out a reform of the employment system of the average loss division and the Pingzhun division in various places, except for the main directors of the commanders, deputy envoys, records, and chief bookkeepers as officials, the rest of the personnel were all filled with officials, and the examination was conducted once a year. During the examination, the cost of the average loss of the local company is approved, and then the income of the equalization division is approved, and the difference between the two is the average profit of the local level, and the more the profit, the higher the annual income.

This reform basically took the knife of the low-level officials, and almost did not involve the vested interests of high-ranking officials in the imperial court, so there was little resistance to its implementation, and it began to show results once it was promulgated. The combination of Xue Chunyue and Ye Cizhun once again showed amazing explosiveness, and the treasury was rapidly filled at a speed visible to the naked eye, Emperor Hongyuan praised the talents of the two very much, and Xue Chunyue and Ye Cizhun gradually had the capital to establish their own power in the court.

However, the damage caused by the equalization of profits to private commercial banks is also obvious, because the market is so big, the official profits are more, and the profits of the people are smaller. To put it more bluntly, the goods obtained by the Equalization Division are all collected from the private sector, which can be said to be zero cost, and only need to add a little additional transportation cost to enter the market. In addition to the same transportation costs, the goods of private commercial banks also have to bear the cost of purchased goods, and no matter how they are calculated, they can't compete with the officials.

Daye's three major non-governmental consortia, Hengxingxing, Taixiangxing, and Haizhou Xuejia Commercial Bank, were more or less affected by this reform, especially Hengxingxing. Hengxingxing and Xue Huijin jointly funded Dingtaihui in Binzhou repeatedly frustrated, every time and Taixiangsheng confrontation is a feather back, the former Jingnan Province Jiedu made Zhang Yi's territory in Binzhou basically by Taixiangsheng encroached on seven or eight percent.

King Xi couldn't sit still any longer, and sent more than a dozen secret letters urging Xue Huijin to come up with results, forcing Tai Xiangsheng to spit out the fat in his mouth, otherwise he would completely break off his cooperation with him, and return to the bridge with Haizhou Xue Jiaqiao in the future! Xue Huijin, who was forced to be anxious, re-targeted the so-called "business without capital", the former Yeefung and the firm, smuggling. But he had the heart of a thief but not the courage of a thief, and he hesitated several times and did not dare to start, which once disappointed the Fanbang smuggling boat.

King Xi forced Xue Huijin to make achievements, and at the same time stepped up to find Xue Chunyue and Ye Cizhun's stubble, intending to use his hand of Yushitai to bring down the two, especially Ye Cizhun, with the marriage of the imperial gift on his head, and casually find evidence of discord or dissatisfaction between the two to slander in front of Emperor Hongyuan. Emperors are very good-looking people, and they will not allow the decisions they make to be proven wrong or considered absurd, so as long as there are rumors that Ye and Wei are dissatisfied with the marriage, Emperor Hongyuan will not tolerate their existence.

It's a pity that the news from the Taifu Siqing Mansion and the Zhongshu Ling Mansion shows that Ye Cizhun and Wei Zhiyu not only did not have a quarrel, but became more and more harmonious as they got older!

Except for a period of time when he had just gotten married, Ye Cizhun was so busy that he had to live outside the Yamen of Taifu Temple because of the rectification, and he moved back to a new house soon after returning home. After the reform was stable and he had leisure time, he often took his wife Wei Zhiyu back to Wei's house to visit his parents.

Wei Yingshi was very satisfied with Ye Cizhun's performance, and Mrs. Wei often took the opportunity to privately summon the maid Ling'er who had married in the past, and learned that Ye Cizhun lived in the new house almost every night, and the two were also in love when they were in the house, and the Wei couple believed that Ye Cizhun had empathized with Su Yuming and treated Wei Zhiyu wholeheartedly.

Su Yuming has been missing for more than a month, and even if everyone doesn't want to believe it, the chances of her surviving are slim. I'm afraid that except for Xue Chunyue and Ye Qinyu in this world, no one still thinks that Su Yuming is still alive, even Ye Cizhun. Because in the eyes of outsiders, Ye Cizhun seems to have accepted the reality, at least when he took Wei Zhiyu back to his parents' house, he showed her such pity and love, he personally stopped her waist and picked her up when he got on and off the carriage, poured food and wine for her at any time during the meal, and even held her hand when he walked, lest she fall. I really can't find a place that is not good for Wei Zhiyu!

The Beijiang River flows through a natural lake 30 miles away from the suburbs of Binzhou, this lake is wide, extends to the depths of the dense forest, because the mountains are high and the forests are dense, few people come and go, and no one knows that the depths of the lake are connected to another river with a wide river surface, there is a small island hanging alone in the middle of the river, the island is surrounded by a tidal swamp, impassable, and some people on the island nominate the stone to say "Jicoop Island".

Early in the morning, Su Yuming stood at the head of the continent as usual, looking at the river bank in the distance.

Cao Yingze came to Su Yuming with a bowl of rice soup and raised his hand to hand it to her. Su Yuming shook her head and gently pushed it away. Cao Yingze sighed and said, "You don't have to look at it every day, if the flood season is not there, the river will not overflow the swamp, and if the river water does not come up, you will not be able to sail, and you will not be able to cross the swamp without relying on boats." This swamp is unfathomable, and we were lucky enough to get there by the waves of the river, and it is impossible to walk through it now. ”

Cao Yingze has said these words countless times, she understands, but she is indeed like an arrow...... I don't know if Ye Cizhun has successfully obtained the evidence of King Jing's rebellion in Jianzhou, even if he gets it, he can return to the dynasty smoothly, whether he can return to the dynasty smoothly before returning to the emperor's case, and even if the emperor believes him before sending it to the emperor's case...... These things have been repeatedly deduced and assumed in her mind hundreds of times, coupled with the deepening of Ye Cizhun's bitter lovesickness, these troubled worries are about to drive her crazy.

Thinking about a month ago, Cao Yingze and Su Yuming jumped off the Beijiang River and then went with the flow, fortunately, Su Yuming grew up in Haizhou City, which is near the sea, the water is very good, and there is Cao Yingze's protection, the two of them narrowly avoided the reef at the bottom of the river, but they could only go with the flow, and were carried by the unfathomable whirlpool of the Beijiang River and crossed the forks, and finally washed into the lake. The two of them wanted to swim ashore by swimming peacefully in the lake, but who knew that the lake was very wide, and they did not know the direction, and finally reached the depths of the lake, and then encountered the rapids of another river and washed up on Jilongzhou.

Cao Yingze traveled all over the world, saw a lot of such rivers and islands, in the dry season the water surface can not reach the heart of the continent, the swamps around it will be exposed, people will step on it will be swallowed, only in the flood season will the river surface reach the center of the continent. This peculiar environment has created a unique "fishing moratorium" in the "dry season". After the dry season of recuperation, a lot of fish will be produced during the flood season, and fishermen from outside will come here to stay and fish. It is precisely because of this that there are a few thatched huts on Jilong Island, and there are some leftover food and bedding and clothes left by fishermen during the flood season in the thatched huts, so that the two can survive. When the flood season arrives and the fishermen come as usual, they will naturally be able to spot them.

Cao Yingze listened to the waves on the river, as if it was a little more turbulent than a few days ago, and the river surface had eroded some tidal flats and swamps, so he estimated, "In my opinion, it will take as little as three or five days, and at most ten days and a half months, and the flood season will come." ”

Su Yuming came back to his senses, listened carefully and said, "It has been raining for the past few days, even if the flood season does not come, it is estimated that there will be some small flash floods, and after the flash floods are discharged into this river, the river level will naturally rise." ”

"Looks like you don't want to stay any longer......"

"This place is deserted and the environment is harsh, does Cao Gongzi like it?"

"You know it's not the environment that I like, it's you. With you, I will be happy to live my whole life", after a period of being alone, Cao Yingze's courage towards Su Yuming gradually increased, and the older he got older, the more straightforward he became, no longer as secretive as before, and the expression was hazy, because he didn't want to miss any opportunity to influence her, especially in this paradise where no outsiders disturbed, Su Yuming's world was only him.