Investigate openly and covertly to know the truth

Cut through the mess with a big slash

Let everyone have a preliminary impression that in the Song Dynasty, the money has always been a thousand copper coins, equivalent to one or two pieces of silver, of course, sometimes it will be less, about eight hundred yuan. Ordinary people go out to work, and their daily income is generally a few tens of yuan, at most less than 100 yuan, which is 1,500 to 3,000 yuan a month, and the income of the whole family is about 3 to 6 yuan. This money could buy five to ten stone rice in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, 350 to 700 kilograms of rice. Ordinary households with better conditions spend about 30 percent of their total income on food each month, while those with worse conditions spend almost 60 percent. For example, for ten cents, you can buy a bucket of wheat in Caizhou, bathe in a public bath once in Hangzhou, buy a duck egg in Jiangdong, buy five bowls of porridge in Kaifeng, buy a broom in Jiading, and buy a plate of good dishes in an ordinary hotel. Therefore, the royal family members and relatives who live in the main division of the Nanwai Sect live in a house built by the state, do not have to work, and receive a much higher salary than ordinary people issued by the government every month, and can also walk around, listen to small songs, and live a free and comfortable life.

Whether Zhao Bujie, the governor of the Southern Foreign Sect, had forced to buy and sell, Deng Yushi and his gang found the parties involved, and then visited the site, and it soon became clear.

Zhao Buyi is indeed his elder brother, and he has a large shop in Fan City, Quanzhou, mainly dealing in all kinds of import and export commodities used in overseas trade. However, although Zhao Buyi is the shopkeeper, Zhao Bujie is the main investor.

Wang Qiong decided to sell the ship, and three people talked to him successively, among which the shopkeeper Li did have intentions, and the two sides talked about the price of 170,000 yuan, and suddenly said that they would not buy it. Wang Qiong was surprised, and inquired privately, and someone threatened the shopkeeper Li to quit. At this time, Zhao Buyi came forward, found out such and such shortcomings, and pressed the price at 120,000 yuan, of course Wang Qiong was unwilling to suffer such a big loss, but half a month passed, no one came to talk, and Zhao Buyi came forward again:

I want to buy this boat, but the price can't exceed 100,000. And, as you can see, no one else has come to buy it except me, and remember, after this village, there is no such shop.

How can Wang Qiong be willing to lose so much at once, but if she doesn't sell, how can she repay the debts she owes? Wang Qiong couldn't help but feel sad, oh my God, this doesn't make people live!

The third time, when Zhao Buyi came, he had already written the contract and was just waiting for Wang Qiong to sign and get the money.

At this point, Wang Qiong finally saw clearly that this Zhao Buyi relied on the power of his younger brother Zhao Bujie to blackmail and force him to comply, and he could sell it at this price, and if he didn't sell it, he couldn't sell it.

Wang Qiong was unwilling and went directly to the Quanzhou Yamen to sue Zhao Bujie. Quanzhou Yamen said: Zhao Bujie is a royal family, his grade is higher than that of Zhizhou, and we can't control his affairs.

ran to Fuzhou to find the Criminal Division, and the Criminal Division said that Zhao Bujie was a member of the royal family, he was a member of the Dazong Division, and his affairs could not be managed by Fujian Road.

The human and material evidence were all there, and the governor was sitting in front of him, and Zhao Bujie could not deny it. looked like he didn't care: Yes, I made some money in business, so what's the matter, I can't say what kind of rules there are. The country was brought down by the ancestors of my Zhao family, so why shouldn't we eat more and occupy more?

The governor of Quanzhou talked about this Nanwai sect, and he was angry. This Nanwai Zongzheng Division is not of the slightest benefit to Quanzhou, but he is still a creditor who can't pay it off.

Every year, Quanzhou pays as much as 240,000 yuan of money and rice to the members of the imperial family, as well as the administrative expenses of the Nanwai Zongzheng Division and the expenses of the school, so the so-called "the support of the officials and the maintenance of the sect" is not less than 60,000 yuan and 5,500 stone of rice every year. This money accounts for more than 50% of Quanzhou's taxes. As long as the time comes, the Nanwai Sect will send someone to collect the payment, and it will not work for a month. The number of personnel is increasing year by year, and the funds are increasing, and Quanzhou is overwhelmed, so it has to report to the third division, and sometimes the third division instructs the transfer department to bear a part, and it is still spread to Quanzhou.

According to the regulations, the internal affairs of the Southern Foreign Sect Shoji Quanzhou has the right to govern, but the governor thinks that he is a descendant of the imperial family, and his head is held high, so he does not look at you at all. Changes in the number of royal personnel, the standard of distribution of money, the use of many funds, and how to deal with the troubles of the royal family, these are all not allowed to ask, you have a part-time position in the department, and you will be given a salary, and the royal family personnel will make trouble, force them to buy and sell, bully men and women, etc., don't care, just deal with the aftermath and wipe your ass. In the past few years, all the leaders of the Nanwai Sect have been doing business in private, and some of them have even bullied the market and failed to pay taxes, disrupting the business order of the market and causing the volume of overseas trade and tax revenue to decline year by year.

Shi Miyuan and Su Shicheng came to the Yamen of the City Ship Division located at the northern end of the harbor, and Wang Ti greeted them with a smile. "I'll just say, sooner or later, the imperial court will solve the matter in Quanzhou, and this can't put Liu Shenzheng and the two of you here."

After the politeness was finished, Shi Miyuan opened his mouth:

Wang Tiju, the imperial court sent us here to understand the problem of the decreasing overseas trade volume and the city tax of the Quanzhou City Shipping Division in the past two years, and what good suggestions the Municipal Shipping Division has.

In order to give the two Qincha a specific impression, Wang Tiju led them out of the yamen and to the dock. Say as you walk:

I took over in the winter of the sixth year of Qingyuan, and my predecessor was Han Shouqing, you two may know that he is the nephew of Han Taishi, and his ancestors have been Zhizhou in Quanzhou, and the old gentleman has a hard waist, and no one dares to mess around. At that time, there were thirty merchant ships in the area, and there were seven or eight ships at most, and the whole harbor was full of mooring. If you look at it now, there were four merchant ships parked there, and there was only one ship here, less than a third of what it was then.

In the past, whether it was a local merchant ship or a foreign ship, overseas goods entered Quanzhou Port, first of all, by our city shipping department people on the ship inspection, there is no problem, before unloading, in accordance with the regulations, by us to extract the goods, purchase some prohibited and in-demand commodities in the market, deduct the city shipping tax, and then settle the account for the merchants. But now, when the ship stops there, there are small boats to copy in front of the market to extract it, and take away those that are easy to sell in the market and have high profits, and how can the rest of the market be purchased?

Su Shicheng asked, aren't there people on the dock, they don't care?

They belong to the Quanzhou Yamen, and as long as they pay the commercial tax they want, they naturally don't care.

Shi Miyuan interjected, so the Quanzhou Yamen opened their eyes to see them coming nonsense?

My Lord Shi, these people have been bought by big merchants, and when someone comes to check it, they will do business, and if they don't find it, they will say that they got it from the sea at night, just so that you can't catch the handle.

Su Shicheng's mind flashed, yes, the boat that went from the sea was managed by the navy, and told the leader of the navy to let them intercept it from the sea.

Alas, my Master Su, the navy is even bolder, and the Quanzhou Yamen can't control it, and they don't listen to me, the city's boss, unless we give him more money.

As soon as you leave on the spot, it will be clear that a big piece of fat meat will give a family enough to eat, and if many people come to eat, they will get less.

Wang Tiju gave a set of data: in the sixth year of Qingyuan, about 100 merchant ships entered and left Quanzhou Port, and the public fee and city tax collected by the Municipal Shipping Department amounted to 1.04 million yuan. In less than three years, in the second year of Jiatai, about 42 merchant ships entered and exited Quanzhou Port, and the public fee and city tax collected by the Municipal Shipping Department amounted to 340,000 yuan.

The reason for this is that there are many officials in Nanwai Zongzheng Division and Quanzhou who are doing business, and there may be other yamen, who rely on their own power to buy and sell, which greatly infringes on the interests of ordinary merchants, and these people have a small capital and make little money, and there is no competitive advantage at all, so there are fewer and fewer shops in Fan City, and there are fewer and fewer customers, and they are increasingly concentrated in large merchants, and although these big merchants are doing bigger and bigger, they pay less or no commercial tax and market tax through various methods.

The matter was quickly clarified, and Liu Lan and others were asked for instructions to clean up and rectify the officialdom and shopping malls in Quanzhou. First of all, he used the knife against the Nanwai Sect. Governor Zhao Bujie and other major officials were dismissed, and the governor was no longer elected from the imperial family, but was replaced by civilian officials appointed by the central government; Officials of the Southern Foreign Sect were not allowed to do business, and the royal family members who committed crimes and injured people were handed over to the Quanzhou Yamen; The internal affairs and expenses of the Southern Foreign Sect and the Western Foreign Sect were reported to the Great Sect for review, and the expenses were allocated by the Great Sect from Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Fujian.