In the cabin, Xu Xun played with the pen holder in his hand, which was not from a skilled craftsman, but also used some craftsmanship, and waited for a long time before the sound of the hatch opening and closing. Knowing that it was the person he wanted to see was coming, he turned around to look at Jing Bule, nodded with a smile, and then asked: "Father-in-law Jing, how much do you know about this tax supervisor Du Jindu's father-in-law who is on the verge of clearing money?" ”

Since the beginning of the Xuande period, these checkpoints have flourished on the land of the Ming Dynasty, although there have been repeated increases and decreases, but on the whole, the number of taxes has been reduced, especially the tax tasks are set down by the amount, and the amount of taxation depends on the value of the goods, and the value of the goods depends on the tax supervisor's mouth, so even if it is a ship of dignitaries, it depends on whether all aspects of the relationship can be considered thoughtful.

According to today's rules, each banknote customs only levies ship materials, but Linqing banknotes also levy goods tax. At this banknote, the household department sent the chief, the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent the imperial history, and the palace appointed the lieutenant officials, and the tripartite check and balance, sometimes the east wind together with the south wind overwhelmed the west wind, and sometimes the south wind together with the west wind overwhelmed the east wind. And now, when the middle official of Hongzhi Dynasty has always been cautious and cautious, Du Jin, the new eunuch who has been in the bank for three months, gets along well with his two old colleagues, which has to be said to be an extremely unbelievable thing.

Just like the hottest weather now, he took a few cronies to sit on the canal, check one boat at a time, and if there is any entrainment, he will immediately be severely punished. The number of partial birth of him is not outrageous, it can be above the bottom line of people's psychological bearing, and for a while, business travel has to consider himself unlucky. As for the director and Liu Yushi, they are used to seeing his death and ask for money, but the merit is everyone's, and the fault is Du Jin's, and people have long held their handles in their hands, and the officials and the people treat the rich and the poor equally, the two have been basking in the sun for more than half a month, and now they have even covered the prickly heat, and today no one is willing to come out to suffer this hardship.

I learned the most important information from Jing Bule's mouth, such as who Du Jin came from, and Xu Xun asked Ruisheng to use a string of copper coins, and gently and skillfully found a lot of other corner news from the mouth of a soap li. Of course, this is not all because of money, if it weren't for his two ships, the first one in front of which was flying the flag of the Duke of Wei, where would it be so easy to speak. At this moment, he explained these in detail, and the smile on the face of the soap who got the reward was even brighter, and he looked left and right and got closer to Xu Xun.

"There is another thing to inform the son, Du Gonggong was the royal supervisor when he was in the palace, and it is said that he has a good hand in the silver money, so this time he went down to the Linqing banknote customs. It has only been three months since I first arrived, and those account books have been sorted out completely, and there is no one up and down who is not convinced. A few days ago, there were also a few noble people's ships passing by, but they refused to understand the payment of taxes, and they didn't say anything about it, and they ate a book from him and handed it to the emperor for impeachment, so it was better not to commit screwing, or not to screw. Just now, there was a royal history master who patrolled Jiangxi, a military master of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, but the man who claimed to have two sleeves and a clean breeze took fifteen or sixteen people on the boat, and each of them collected another 2,000 wen for the boat, but he also clamored for the impeachment of Du's father-in-law, and Du's father-in-law directly detained the boat. The other person carried a lot of forbidden utensils, but he spoke softly, and his father-in-law opened his eyes and closed his eyes to detain him one hundred and fifty taels. ”

The news before and after was added to the judgment, Xu Xun knew that Du Jin was a soft and not hard face, and he had some financial management in the palace, not just scraping the ground, he had a number in his heart, and secretly thought that the previous arrangements for Huitong should be the same. When he took Latham into the shed that had been erected because he had spent an extra one or two hundred copper coins, he thought that he would inevitably see a noble man with a proud expression on the throne, but who knew that there was only a burly man sitting at a simple cedar desk and crackling the abacus.

"Father-in-law, this is Xu Gongzi......"

The soap who led the way called softly, and Du Jinfang, who was sitting there, said without raising his head: "Is it someone from the Wei State Mansion who is here?" Unexpectedly, before the summer heat has passed, there will be nobles in the Wei Mansion to go to Beijing. Since it is the mansion of the noble duke, our family does not want to go on the boat to check it out for no reason. What is carried on the ship, and how much it is worth, you can tell me first. ”

"It's just worthless bamboo and wood stuff on board."

Hearing this, Du Jin, who was on the desk, raised his head suddenly, and suddenly revealed his high hooked nose and blazing eyes. He frowned and looked at Xu Xun for a long time, but his expression that was about to get angry eased for a moment: "Zunjia is the fourth son of Xu of the Wei State Mansion?" ”

"The public admits that the wrong person, my boat just happened to be traveling with the fourth prince of the Wei Mansion and the boat of his uncle Wang Gongzi, but it happened that the prince was seasick, so he handed over the tax clearance to me." Seeing that although Du Jin's face remained unchanged, his expression immediately turned cold, Xu Xun arched his hand as if he was unaware, "Please also ask my father-in-law to look at the face of the Duke of Wei's mansion......"

Although Xu Xun spoke politely, it was not the same thing to Du Jin's ears. If the two masters of the Wei Mansion don't come down, at least they have to send a general manager or steward to deal with him, so what's the matter with just sending an unknown person? Therefore, looking at the young man in front of him who was traveling with Zi Chen and the Wei State Mansion, he made up his mind with a roll of his eyes.

"The left side is the right side, if the world is all about the love side, what is the use of the long live lord's banknotes! Someone's coming! Du Jingao stood up with a shout, and when he saw the two young eunuchs rushing in immediately, he tied the cyan coat on the chair he had pulled over and said in a deep voice, "Come with our family on the boat to check!" ”

Rayson, who followed Xu Xun over on the side, was already stunned when he saw this scene. It wasn't until this Ying Ren and the others ignored his master and servant at all and walked straight out that he tugged at Xu Xun's sleeve with extreme anxiety and said, "Young Master, what's going on now, they want to get on the boat......"

"What are you afraid of!" Xu Xun patted the little guy's shoulder with a smile, and then said meaningfully, "I just want him to go!" ”

Du Jin was resolute in his work, and when Xu Xun rushed back to his ship's berthing place, he saw that Du Jin had already gone up with three or four people. Seeing that there was a bit of a chicken, flying and jumping on the boat, he was not in a hurry, and waited under the boat for a while, until the messy sound on the boat disappeared suddenly, and then there was silence, and then he beckoned Latham to get on the boat unhurriedly.

Sure enough, when he entered the cabin in the head, he saw Xu Liangzheng glaring at Du Jin with anger on his face, a box on the ground had been overturned, several bamboo and wood pen holders had rolled to the ground, and on an offering table on the side, the shelf containing a yellow silk scroll had also been a little crooked. In the corner, behind Li Qingniang and Ruyi, who else is Shen Yue who is not bowing his head and behaving in a proper manner?

"Du, what's going on?"

Du Jin didn't expect it, he thought that he would take the latter ship to deter the ship of the Wei Mansion in front of him, and he would show off his iron selflessness to this Linqing banknote pass again, but he didn't expect to kick it on the iron plate. If he hadn't noticed the unusual yellow silk scroll on the table, he was afraid that he would have provoked a big lawsuit this time. Even so, seeing Xu Xun's master and servant coming in, he still had the expression on his face as soon as possible, and instead of smiling with him, his face became even more gloomy.

"What's going on? What is it? The emperor's holy decree, how dare you be so lazy, and put it here loudly? ”

"I naturally dare not slack off on the emperor's decree, what is placed outside is the cover, and the real nature has long been stored at the bottom of the box. It's just that if you give Du's father-in-law such a toss, whether it is really damaged or not, it is not good. Seeing that Du Jin's face stiffened suddenly, Xu Xun said with a smile before he spoke, "As for offering this volume of yellow silk here, it was originally when he received the decree in Nanjing, the celebrant wrote Sun Gong's announcement to admonish, saying that when the canal passed through the banknote customs inspection, there would be no one to rummage around." I thought that my grandfather was worried about the sky, but I didn't want to, but it was true. ”

The celebrant writes? Grandpa Sun? It is Sun Bin, the godchild of the eunuch Xiao Jing, who is the master of ceremonies!

Du Jin gasped, but this time he offended people ruthlessly, he knew that he couldn't just retreat, and immediately laughed: "It turned out to be the decree of Grandpa Sun." That being the case, it's our Meng Lang. However, the inspection of cargo ships, merchant ships and passenger ships at the Qing Dynasty is where the duty lies, and our family has to be loyal to their duties. Come on, pack up your things and check them out one cabin at a time! ”

"Father-in-law, please."

Seeing Xu Xun smiling and bowing his head gently, he was fearless, Du Jin only felt that a bad premonition suddenly arose in his heart. However, he had to send a bullet on the string, he glanced around the room, knowing that as soon as he arrived, he had turned the bottom upside down, and he couldn't find anything more, so the surname Suo turned around and left, planning to go to other rooms to carefully investigate, even the slightest clue was enough for him to pass this level.

As soon as Du Jin walked on his front foot, Xu Liang suddenly couldn't help it, walked to Xu Xun's side in three or two steps, and was about to ask something, when he found that someone was tugging at his sleeve, and when he turned his head, he saw that it was Ruyi. Seeing that Ruyi pointed to Shen Yue behind Li Qingniang, and the little girl was waving him over, he was even more strange, but he still walked back according to his words.

"Uncle Xu, don't worry about this big liar, he just told me that our ship didn't bring any good goods, only a few boxes of various bamboo and wood products, a box of fans, a box of pen holders, and two boxes of bamboo and wood ornaments, the dead eunuch must have run in vain!"

Xu Liang clearly remembered that when he got on the boat, Jin Liu also complained to him that those boxes were dead and heavy, and he thought it was some kind of treasure, but the result was so unexpected. Looking at the little girl with shiny eyes, he glanced back at Xu Xun again, and suddenly felt that the fire he had just had turned white, and he immediately walked back to Xu Xun angrily, and slapped him on the head without saying a word.

"If you have an arrangement in the future, I will scare you to death!"

"Dad, it's acting to lie to yourself, isn't it?" Xu Xun squeezed his eyes with a smile, but then added a sentence that made Xu Liang's face completely darken, "If you want to blame the monk, you should blame the monk, he is an insider, besides, I asked him to buy the contents of those boxes two months in advance." As for other important things, he had also moved to the boat in front of the Duke of Wei earlier. ”

In the cabin, Huitong, who was smiling and watching Du Jin lead someone to check it, suddenly sneezed vigorously, and then muttered proudly: "Xu Ba, it's really fun to work with your precious son!" ”

(To be continued)