Damn, isn't this a servant of the people and a lonely loyalty of the court? Qin Lin was startled, and when he looked up, he saw that the person who spoke had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and a pair of triangular eyes that were slippery, and he wanted to make a look of being brave and loyal, which was really ridiculous.

Sure enough, those officials who received the folded money were all angry, and they all shouted: "Qiu Yushi, you don't have to work hard to talk nonsense, but we want money and food to raise children, and they are all as fake as you, why bother to be an official?" ”

"We still have to rely on the silver to support the family, Qiu Huan, you have to pretend to be a lonely minister, why bother to pretend to be in front of us!"

When Qin Lin heard this, he knew that the person who spoke was called Qiu Huan, who was a superintendent of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate, the imperial history of the patrol city is divided into the north and south of the capital, and the patrol is according to the imperial history according to the provinces, but the supervision of the imperial history has been in Beijing for a long time, because it is a subordinate official of the Imperial Procuratorate, and is also known as the old man.

The so-called mad dog Yushi refers to these people, who are extremely poor and bored all day long, and the court allows him to hear about things, and often go to this chapter to impeach the court officials, which is often a bit of a catch-after word, but it also plays a role in supervising and balancing the court officials.

Starting from Hongwu's grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty officials' salaries were very meager, the old men were not deacons, they couldn't receive any ice and charcoal, they were so poor that they ate up and were clean, and some people even relied on selling impeachment to supplement their families - for example, if a wealthy businessman or official has a personal grudge with a certain court official of the dynasty, he can spend fifty or one hundred taels of silver to buy the impeachment chapter of the old man, and the nonsense of impeaching the court official is a pass, anyway, this chapter will not be read from the emperor to the ministers, and the final fate is a wastepaper basket, which can always make people disgusting.

Qin Lin knew that the life of the supervising imperial historian was poor, but it was very strange that this Qiu imperial historian was willing to accept the discount without complaint.

Qiu Huan's words angered the public, and he was squeezed out by the officials, standing next to the crowd and wiping his sweat with a handkerchief.

Qin Lin stepped forward and arched his hand with a smile: "Qiu Yushi is invited, the lower official is the commander of the Jinyi Guard Qin Lin, may I ask if the officials are in turmoil about this matter, why don't you think so?" ”

Qiu Hu didn't know Qin Lin, he was stunned when he was suddenly asked, thought about it, put on a face of serving the country with a red heart, and said with a stern face: "Chief Qin, you are a new official in Beijing, right?" The matter of folding the salary has already caused an uproar in Shilin and officialdom, and everyone is wrong with this, but the lower officials uphold the public heart and want to advance and retreat with the imperial court, not to mention that only part of the salary is discounted with tribute, even if all are not paid, the lower officials are willing to serve the court loyally, and there is no complaint. "-Damn, this man's brain is burning? Qin Lin had a feeling of nausea after eating flies, and he wanted to ask Qiu Yushi about the folding, but he didn't expect that what Ya said was simply the reincarnation of Bao Longtu, and he didn't want to be an official together, and he was willing.

If something is abnormal, it is a demon, Qin Lin has also handled several cases of corruption [***], those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, who doesn't say it better than singing? As an official, you always have to support your family, like Qiu Hu, who doesn't ask for anything, but I'm afraid that he will grab more miles in other aspects.

Lu Yuanzhi and Niu Dali were two, but they admired Qiu Hu so much that they threw themselves to the ground, and felt that this person who could chase Bao Zheng Bao Longtu in the history of the supervision of the imperial history was comparable to Hai Rui Haigangfeng, and he was really a rare honest official in the dynasty.

Qin Lin didn't think so, but he pretended to have a look of admiration on his face: "Qiu Yushi has such a loyal heart to serve the country, and now it is extremely rare, and the lower officials really admire it!" It's just that Xia Guan is the first time to come to Beijing, and he doesn't know how to do this folding, so he asked Qiu Yushi for guidance. ”

Jinyiwei and the Eight Poles of the Metropolitan Procuratorate couldn't fight, but Qiu Huan was still very happy to get Qin Lin's praise, so he explained to him point-at-all.

The Wanli Emperor ascended the throne as a young man, Zhang Juzheng implemented a new policy, and all parties hoped to show a Zhongxing atmosphere, showing that the tributary trade of the Shengtianzi during the reign of the four Yi Dynasty was also prosperous with the opening of the moon port.

Tribute, in Chinese civilization, can be traced back at least 2,000 years to the time of Zhou Tianzi.

Confucianism Zhou etiquette set the "five suits", the princes of the world according to the relationship and geographical location, divided into five suits, respectively have different tribute standards and give returns, the rewards are generally more than tribute, for example, the tribute of the Chu State is a bunch of weeds: bud grass, used to filter wine, not worth a few big bucks, and Zhou Tianzi's rewards are often silk, bronze, bows and arrows, military chariots and other good things, the value is much higher than the tribute.

In general, "the king does not rule Yidi, those who come do not refuse, and those who go do not chase", if the Central Plains Dynasty is in the name of the four Yi dynasties, the emperor is "not refusal" to the countries that come to pay tribute; The four Yi and the princes coveted rich rewards, and both sides took what they needed, and they were all happy.

Since the tribute is profitable, it is inevitable that some people will have a bad idea on this, just get some thatched poles, and go to Zhou Tianzi to change a big copper tripod, which is really profitable.

However, during the time of Zhou Tianzi, no matter how far or near the princes of the world were, they were extremely far away from Chu, Wu, and Yue and other wild places at that time, and their ancestors were mostly heroes of King Wu or relatives of Zhou Tianzi.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty arrived, he opened up a small country in the Western Regions, those barbarians were not familiar with the emperors of the Han Dynasty, the distance was too far, and when they came to Chang'an, some had to cross the desert, and some had to cross the green mountains, and there were many countries, and a small city of hundreds and thousands of people was considered a country, what Dawan, Shache, and Yu Hui...... The strange names alone are a headache, and the old man who is in charge of diplomacy has made one head and three big, so he has to carry it clearly, so he has to refuse to come.

Later generations said that the golden seal of the "King of Han Weinu", which was regarded as the important treasure of the country, was given to them by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Japanese people were still in the Yayoi period, and the primitive people were about the same, and there could be no good things, and it was estimated that after paying tribute to a few plates of sashimi, they would get a gold seal, which was really profitable.

Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, and there is no doubt that he will repeat the lessons of the past, but when the tribute is the most lively, it belongs to the Yongle Dynasty. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di overthrew his nephew Emperor Jianwen and seized the throne by force, after all, he was a little unsure in his heart, so he attacked Mongolia in the north and went to the West in the south, and called all countries to come to the court to show the legitimate surname of the regime.

There are cunning and cunning guys in the southeast, northwest, and northwest who saw the doorway, wiped their faces black with pot ashes, and then casually muttered a few words of "Yi language", casually brought some rural specialties, a chicken in his left hand and a duck in his right hand, and ran to Zhu Di to pay tribute.

Good! Yiren came to pay tribute to show that I am "the reign of the Holy Son of Heaven", and of course my Ming Emperor wants to "not refuse those who come", a big reward! Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was very bold, and asked Zheng He to go to the West to order the small countries of the Tubang to come to the Hajj, a few local chickens and ducks, in exchange for gold and silver, silk and satin, the guy who succeeded in the Beijing Shi Hu Eat Haisai, finished washing off the pot ash on his face, took the emperor's reward, and went home with a smile.

Needless to say, the small countries such as Goryeo, Ryukyu, Luzon, and Siam are genuine, because the imperial court's rewards are often several times the value of the tribute, so the scale of the missions they send is getting larger and larger, and the nominal value of the tribute is getting higher and higher, such as the tribute envoys of many living Buddha land judicial kings in Wusizang (Tibetan Province), which have thousands of people every year, carrying a large number of tributes, so that the Ming Dynasty, which is overwhelmed, has to limit the number of tributes and limit the total price of tribute.

Since the opening of the sea in Yuegang, more and more countries and vassals have come to pay tribute, and Zhang Juzheng wants to create the style of the Ming monarch and virtuous minister, in recent years, the tributes paid by various countries have been piled up in the treasury, which has become a great burden on the finances, and has to use the method of discounting the tributes in the treasury to deal with the tributes in the treasury, and use these things to offset the officials' salaries.

Qin Lin watched coldly, only to see that the officials received the folded money, some of which were pepper and sumwood, and some were lacquerware and folding fans. ”

"Brother Du, you are good, give me twenty gold-painted folding fans, I'm afraid I will use it until the Year of the Monkey!"

There were also some people who received something that even the official of the shipping depot in charge of distributing was inexplicable: a crooked sword paid tribute by the Javanese state, the registered value was as high as a hundred taels of silver, but when a third-grade official received this thing, his face was more ugly than crying.

There was also a large box of tamba mushroom (tobacco) paid tribute by the Francophile man, which was worth fifty taels of silver, and the person who received it was completely dumbfounded, and did not know what this thing was for.

Such ridiculous scenes happened again and again, Qin Lin shook his head from the side, and said in his heart, no wonder the officials were dissatisfied, something like this is not suitable for random distribution!

Like that tamba, which is actually the tobacco that the Spaniards got from the Americas, is now only smoked by a few people in Guangdong, and the people of the whole country still don't know what smoking is.

The things that Qiu Hu received were even more inexplicable, a large box of A Hibiscus paste paid tribute by an island country in the South Seas, opened it and smelled it, and the taste was strange, it was Qiu Yushi, who had just boasted that he was going to advance and retreat with the imperial court, and his face was also very stinky.

Qin Lin knew that this thing was actually opium, and it was also of some use to forensic doctors, so he asked with a smile: "This thing Qiu Yushi must be useless, how about selling it to this official at a discount?" ”

Qiu Huan, who was still coaxing just now, didn't hesitate for even a second, and hurriedly stuffed Ah Hibiscus paste into Qin Lin's hand.

Qin Lin discussed with the officials who had received the strange tributes again, and bought the discounted tributes they had received at a low price, these officials were originally going to throw away the tattered things they had shared, but at this time, seeing that some people were willing to spend white money to buy, it was really a crowd to sell things to Qin Lin.

Fortunately, with the help of two brothers, Lu Fatzi and Niu Dali, Qin Lin bought a lot of strange things, until there were too many things to move, and then announced that he would continue to buy them in the accommodation of the Huixian Inn in the next few days.

In the next few days, Qin Lin's residence was really called a minister's house, and many officials sold him the discounted tribute at a low price, and went home with a smile on the cash.

(To be continued)