Chen Lifu came to Shanghai, if it was in the past, whether it was when he was the director of the inspection department of the Ministry of Taxation, or when he was the right deputy director of the financial department, he could have caused a certain amount of waves in Shanghai.

Ordinary people naturally don't pay attention, but the top strata of society, especially officials, landlords and gentry, must be paying close attention to Chen Lifu's every move.

But now, Chen Lifu's arrival has not attracted much attention.

Because, now Chen Lifu's identity is different!

In the past, Chen Lifu was the director of the inspection department, this position was originally to look for trouble everywhere, and then arrest people, let alone the director of the inspection department, even if it was an ordinary tax inspection to a certain place, it would cause great panic, no way, who made most of the people's buttocks in these years not very clean.

Although the laws of the empire are very strict, and the punishment for tax evasion is very serious, as long as there is enough interest to promote, ordinary fines and imprisonment are not too much of a threat, even if it is a death penalty, it is difficult to make these people retreat, not to mention, although the Ministry of Taxation is strong, but the technology of this year is still first, in the case that the people who evade taxes have not exposed obvious information, and the Ministry of Taxation has not directly and deliberately investigated, in fact, many tax evasion and tax evasion will not be exposed.

Not to mention anything else, cash transactions alone are enough to evade taxes to a great extent, because the tax department can check bank accounts and check the accounts of enterprises, but there is no way to monitor cash transactions without written records, so there are still many people who evade taxes.

At present, the Datang Tax Department's monitoring of tax evasion and tax evasion is not comprehensive, and the focus of monitoring is mainly on enterprises, in addition to agricultural taxes, as for other informal enterprises, commercial transactions between individuals, in fact, most of them are not taxed.

In this case, not to mention the current Tang Empire, even in the 21st century, this is a huge problem, just ask, even in modern society, have you seen how many self-employed, small factory owners pay taxes according to regular procedures?

As for the problem of tax evasion caused by cash transactions, even the United States, which has an extremely well-developed tax system in later generations, cannot be eliminated.

Therefore, in today's Tang Empire, although tax supervision is very strict, this strictness is only limited to enterprises and agricultural taxes, which are relatively easy to supervise industries, and for other transactions, it is actually difficult to monitor, so there are still problems of tax evasion and tax evasion, and they are quite common.

But then again, if the tax department thinks that a person is suspected of tax evasion, and at the same time the person really has a tax problem, and concentrates on the investigation, then most of them can be investigated.

This is the reason why so many people are afraid of the officials of the Ministry of Taxation!

Because most of the time there is a kind of luck mentality of these tax evaders, thinking that the tax department will not notice them, but once they are noticed by the tax department, then the great outline will not be investigated.

As for those who pay taxes honestly, they are naturally not afraid of the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, after all, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation will not be idle, and they will mess around if they have nothing to do, even if they want to mess around, they don't have the right to mess around.

It is normal for people, especially tax evaders, to be afraid of being tax officials, of tax inspections by the inspection department.

As for the words of the right deputy director of the financial department, ordinary people naturally do not care, but the financial circles will care, and the financial circles directly affect the industrial and commercial circles, and at the same time, it will inevitably affect local officials.

Therefore, if Chen Lifu is still the deputy director of the Department of Finance, if he comes to Shanghai, he will definitely attract the attention of local officials, financial, and business people, for fear that Chen Lifu will make some trouble.

But now, these people don't have much fear of Chen Lifu!

The reason why they were afraid of Chen Lifu before was not because of Chen Lifu himself, but because of his position and the influence behind this position.

If Chen Lifu didn't have such a position, they would naturally not look at Chen Lifu even more.

Today's Chen Lifu has become the Tongzhi of Songjiang Mansion, although this position is already the second or third person in Songjiang Mansion, but the deterrent effect is not great, at least Chen Lifu's head, there is also a prefect of Songjiang Mansion who has not yet been appointed, and there is also a county order of Shanghai ad hoc county with greater actual power and influence than Chen Lifu.

These two people, although they don't know who they are, are what they are most concerned about.

In comparison, Chen Lifu is dispensable.

And this is also the reason why Chen Lifu felt embarrassed about this position after learning that he had become the governor of Songjiang Mansion.

seems to be the second in Songjiang Mansion, but in fact, the power was taken away by the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the county order of Shanghai Special County, and in the end, although he will also be in charge of some affairs, but his influence must be limited.

But Chen Lifu is unwilling!

He came to Songjiang Mansion to serve as a co-advisor, although it was beyond his own expectations, but the appointment has come down, he naturally wants to find a way to make achievements, and then get rid of the current embarrassing situation.

He was an ambitious man.

Taking advantage of the fact that the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture has not yet been decided, and taking advantage of the fact that his authority is still relatively free in the next half month or so, he needs to quickly grasp the situation and control power, so that he can occupy the position of political initiative after the future prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the county magistrate of Shanghai's special county take office.

And the first fire, he chose to be in the Shanghai terminal company!

Although Shanghai or the entire Songjiang Prefecture is the land of fish and rice, and agriculture is quite developed like other places in the south of the Yangtze River, agriculture is not the economic pillar of Songjiang Prefecture at present.

Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture, its economic pillar is undoubtedly industry and commerce!

A Shanghai industrial zone, a Shanghai business zone, this is the economic pillar of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and in this economic system, Shanghai Terminal Company has a pivotal position.

Although the company's assets are not much other than the dock facilities and the land and buildings in the vicinity of the docks, the economy is not even as large as that of a medium-sized textile mill.

But even so, its economic impact on Shanghai is also quite significant, not to mention, if the company increases or lowers the related costs of terminal services, then it can directly affect the entire Shanghai economic circle, and the increase means that the transportation and even the entire operating costs will increase, and the price of the product will increase.

If the cost is reduced, then it means that the transportation, operating costs will be reduced, and the cost of the final product will be lower.

On the surface, this company does not produce anything, but it provides the most basic and irreplaceable basic services, so it can actually affect the development of the Shanghai economic circle, and its role is no smaller than that of banks and securities companies that provide financial support.

Chen Lifu does not want to see such a company be devastated because of the impact of the Zhou Lide case, and the construction of the third phase of the wharf that has been suspended must also start as soon as possible, otherwise, it will affect the economic development of the entire Shanghai.

However, before he can do it to the Shanghai Terminal Company, he still has to meet a person, who is now the most senior official in Songjiang Mansion and even the entire Jiangnan Province, and the only big man in the entire Jiangnan Province!!

Jiangnan Taoist Huo Shouqi.

This Huo Shouqi is not just an ordinary local official, he can be said to be the most special one among the many feudal ministers in the Tang Empire!

First of all, Datang currently has a total of 16 provinces, four provinces, three military districts, and four overseas territories, but the overseas territories are only at the level of state capitals, and the military regions are also relatively special, and their administrative units are also at the level of state capitals.

Therefore, there are twenty feudal ministers in the real sense, that is, the governors of the sixteen provinces and the Taoists of the four provinces.

And Huo Shouqi should be one of the more special among the twenty feudal ministers.

said that he was special, naturally not because of his age, appearance and other messy things, but because of his political status!

First of all, as a Taoist of Jiangnan Province, his grade is not very high, only the third grade, one level lower than the second grade of the provincial governors, but as a Taoist of Jiangnan Province, his political discourse power is very great.

Because Jiangnan Province's agricultural, industrial and commercial output value is among the best in the whole empire, and it occupies a huge proportion, the entire Jiangnan Province is expected to have more than 18 million fiscal revenue in Xuanping ten years, and the entire Tang Empire is expected to have only 80 million taels of silver in Xuanping ten years!

From these two data, we can basically see the importance of Jiangnan Province, and the importance of Jiangnan Province can be directly reflected in the particularity of Huo Shouqi.

And another key point is that before Huo Shouqi served as a Jiangnan Daoist, he was the political envoy of Guangdong, but in the two years that he served as the political envoy of Guangdong, in the last half year, the governor of Guangdong was vacant.

Even people who know a little bit about the unspoken rules of imperial officialdom know that if such a situation is not deliberately arranged, it is basically impossible for it to be impossible, and it is impossible for such an important position as the governor of a province to be vacant for more than half a year, and even in most cases, it will not be vacant for a month.

When the upper echelons of the empire needed to transfer governors of a province, they often prepared the new governors of the province in advance to ensure a smooth transition of work.

But Huo Shouqi was acting as the governor of Guangdong for half a year!

And the reason why he ended acting as governor of Guangdong was not because a new governor was sent from above, but because he was transferred to Jiangnan as a Jiangnan Daoist!

In other words, if he is not transferred, it is very likely that he will continue to act as the governor of Guangdong, and then be promoted to the second rank as a matter of course.

From this change of position, it can basically be seen that Huo Shouqi's particularity is low, although his rank is low, but his actual power is greater than that of ordinary governors from the second rank, and even the squire of the ordinary department is not as good as him.

In this way, fools know that he is in the heart of the emperor, and his grade is not a problem for him, and sooner or later, he will be transferred back to Gyeonggi, and even become a figure of Shangshu and even the minister on duty.

In the face of such a person, Chen Lifu will not have any contempt!