Great deeds begin small. At the beginning of the eighth year of Wanli, no one will notice what the establishment of the General Taxation Department will bring to the Ming Dynasty, for the world, this is just a yamen, although in the next month or so, this yamen always from time to time to spread the news that the tax collector was killed with a rod, but with every raid, people are always shocked by the greed of the "greedy officials", and they are also surprised at how fat the tax department is.

But that's pretty much it. If it was in the past, maybe those noble Beijing officials would do everything possible to get this fat difference, but now they don't have this opportunity, after all, they are not surnamed Zhu.

Of course, the corresponding is these noble Beijing officials, all of whom criticize the use of the clan as officials in the palace in private or in public is not in line with the ancestral system, of course, all this is just the beginning.

At the same time, the "Morning Post" in the capital will always publish some news, such as what a certain Jiujiang banknote stopped a certain king's ship and ordered him to pay taxes, and what Yangzhou banknote stopped the ship of a certain dynasty Yipin family and extorted hundreds of taels of silver. As for the fact that some officials' domestic slaves broke through the customs and were whipped by the tax department, it is not uncommon.

And for those tax departments, even if they are governors, there is no way at all, and there is no way to make the family a "nobleman" and a clan. In this way, it also let the ordinary people know why the palace uses these people as tax accountants. The wicked still need the wicked to grind, and this is the truth.

At this time, with the melting of the ice and snow of the Grand Canal, the north-south logistics that had stopped for several months were unblocked again, and those businessmen from the north and south who had been silent for several months suddenly found that things had changed. The banknotes along the river are no longer as easy to dispose of as in the past, but directly levy a tariff of 3% according to the value of the goods. Even if you break through the customs without permission, you will be fined for tax evasion at the next level, not only will the goods be confiscated, but you will also need to pay several times the fine.

Linqingguan is the pass that must pass through the Yellow River into the canal, every time the river thaws, thousands of merchant ships and official ships will pass through here to sail north and south, but this year seems to be different from usual, hundreds of merchant ships anchored along the river, that looks like the canal is frozen again.

It's not that the canal is impassable, it's that the merchants are there watching. They were there to see how they could go without paying a single tariff. Even the merchants on the ship who had been waiting for a few days all hung their heads and sighed, and occasionally there would be a few people in the bow and stern of the ship discussing something.

"Can you inquire about the preferences of the tax department? Tell him that we can pay fifty percent, and if we can pay one percent in previous years, it will give him a big face, but we can't recognize fifty percent now? ……”

"Bullshit, pay fifty percent, how to pass the next level? If there is no ticket at the next level, the fine will be ten times higher according to tax evasion...... Grandma's, what kind of profiteers, I think these officials are more traitorous than the other, as soon as our ship was parked, we nailed the ship to the license, and it can't be a ...... if you want to pretend to be a ship from Shandong."

"It's not one by one, but it's really worse than the other."

As he complained, the man couldn't help but glance at his boat. As soon as the ship stopped, the bronze medal was successfully set on their ship, indicating the identity of the ship, and perhaps this plate could be taken off. But the other side has already sent the ship's identity and other information to the next level. In this way, even if you remove it, it is useless, and you will even be punished.

While they were complaining, there was a sudden commotion.

"The official ship is coming!"

"Official ship? Which one? Which one? ”

"There, you see."

When you hear it, the big guys get excited. As we all know, it is a well-established rule for official ships to carry private goods. Now that the official ship has come, they want to see what those tax collectors who bully the weak and fear the hard will do?

"This official ship should not be small."

"No, you look at the ship's pressure, it is estimated that the cargo is not less than ours......"

"Hey, let's take a look, if the official ship passes the customs, let's follow the customs, and the big guys will coax together when the time comes, I still don't believe it, they still dare to kill people!"

"Yes, the law does not blame the public!"

"It's not, let's make a fuss, and then let the fellow villagers in the capital hand the folds to the court, and we have to fight to break the net!"

"Fish dead and broken? Hmph, I don't know who died by then? ”

In the expectation of the merchants, when the official ship was about to swagger through the checkpoint, they saw a sampan quickly approaching the official ship and stopped it.

"Sir, the tax collector at the customs has stopped our ship!"

Fang Wanshan, who was reading the book in the cabin, frowned and said when he heard it.

"They don't know we're official ships?"

Someone dared to inspect the official ship. This sounds like a rarity.

"Yes, but, but what the tax department said, the official ship also has to be inspected! He also said that this time it was the law of the imperial court. ”

"How can it be!"

Hearing this, Fang Wanshan said angrily.

"Do you really think that you can do anything wrong if you are a clan?"

As an official of Zhengliupin, Fang Wanshan naturally knows who the current tax department is, but in his opinion, it is a group of "unknown people". Now those people have bullied themselves, and they have actually taken out some court law to suppress themselves.

These people really think of themselves as characters!

When Fang Wanshan, who was pale, came to the bow of the boat, he saw the tax secretary standing there, and said coldly.

"Zhu Taxation Department is such a big official, don't you know that this official ship can be directly cleared through customs?"

"What Fang Yushi said is good, the official ship can indeed clear customs directly, but if the official ship carries commercial goods, it is a felony according to the law!"

As he spoke, Zhu Peng looked towards the side of the boat and asked rhetorically.

"I don't know what Fang Yushi is on this ship? The draft is so deep? ”

"What is pretending, what does it have to do with you!"

"Of course it has something to do with me, since this company is on an errand here under the emperor's order, we can't sit idly by and watch others carry commercial goods and evade taxes,"

Fang Wanshan, who was stunned by Zhu Peng's words, suddenly changed his face and asked sharply.

"You dare to check the official ship?"

"Daming's law says that official ships can't be checked?"

"There are family members of this official on this ship, aren't you afraid that this official will impeach you with bullets?"

"Hmph, if Fang Yushi can explain clearly, what is on this ship, this company will naturally not disturb Fang Yushi's family, but, can you explain it clearly?"

With a sneer on his face, Zhu Peng was holding a leather whip in his hand, he had long wanted to taste the taste of whipping the imperial history, usually these people's noses were raised to the sky. In the past, I wanted to clean them up, but I didn't have a chance. Now it's time to seize this opportunity to take revenge and revenge.

"You ......"

Suppressing the dissatisfaction in his heart, Fang Wanshan said in a deep voice.

"Why do you deceive people so much?"

"Too much deception?"

Zhu Peng looked at the ships that stretched for miles in the distance, raised his horsewhip and pointed.

"If this division allows you to pass the customs, these hundreds of ships will break through, and at that time, where will the face of the imperial court be?"

"You ......"

Without waiting for Fang Wanshan to threaten, Zhu Peng said.

"Come on, enter the cabin and check!"

"The surname is Zhu, you dare to ...... Yes! ”

Without waiting for Fang Wanshan to speak, a miserable scream came out of his throat, and the cowhide horsewhip in Zhu Peng's hand whipped towards his head like raindrops.

"The surname Zhu ...... How the hell do you dare to insult the sect, Lao Tzu just beat you to death today, and he didn't dare to speak for you......"

The wicked need to be grinded by the wicked. No, these arrogant people naturally want to deal with those who are more arrogant than they are. For a while, the whip like a raindrop fell on his body, making Fang Wanshan scream, and he immediately came to his senses and hurriedly prayed.

"Oh, Zhu Ye, Zhu Ye, it's a small mistake, you are a small horse......"

Put!

It was so easy, long before the customs clearance, the General Department of Taxation had a face-to-face lecture. "Kill a few tax collectors, beat a few more officials, and the rules of this money customs will almost be established."

It's nothing more than killing chickens for monkeys to see!

Since you kid sticks out his head to be this chicken, don't blame grandpa for being ruthless.

Zhu Peng, who had not been given a name for various reasons, held back the fire on these officials, and this would find an opportunity, so he would naturally take the opportunity to retaliate, and the whip would not kill anyone anyway. It's a good job, and there's a tax collector report over there.

"Ninth Master, this cabin is full of silk cloth, and the small one is estimated to be worth at least twenty-five thousand taels!"

"Twenty-five thousand taels! Well, your surname is Fang, you actually sell smuggled goods on official ships, compete with the people for profit, seize the cargo, expedite it for 800 miles, and report the matter to the General Taxation Department......"

When Fang Wanshan, who was originally suffering from pain, heard this, the whole person was dumbfounded, this, Da Ming still has such a crime? But what he was worried about was not the crime that this person casually moved out, what he was worried about was whether he would lose his official position because of this!

As for those businessmen who originally looked at the bustle, they were also dumbfounded, and in the end they all sighed.

"Oh, what the hell, even the officials are willing to fight for the sake of some tax money, let's, let's pay it too......"

The merchants who originally wanted to break through the customs will naturally no longer have any hope for breaking through, especially when they watch the ship being seized, most of your heads are secretly estimated there, in case you evade taxes, at that time, maybe there will be no people and goods, and it may even drag down the master's family.

It's just a matter of a few taels of silver.

Although the big guys were a little depressed, they looked at the triumphant appearance of the tax collectors. Most of them had a thought in their minds. It seems that this banknote is completely different from the past.

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