Waiting for Xiaoqian to get out of bed, the obedient official got up, cleaned his face, brushed his teeth, ate a few pieces of cakes made by the horse cook, took the teacup and drank two sips of tea, the obedient official felt refreshed, and next to Xiaoqian took a palm-sized blue and white porcelain shallow basin, opened it and took a piece of iced peach and handed it to the obedient official's mouth.

This feeling of being served by a little beauty...... The obedient official chewed the candied fruit and teased Xiaoqian and said, "Why can't I see you eating the fruit these days?" Xiao Qian blushed suddenly, covered the blue and white porcelain shallow basin, carefully received it aside, refused to answer the words of the good official, and shouted to the big head to come in and pack up the things.

"Wait for the tax ship of the city to collect taxes to come over, collect the tax and enter the port, it will only take about two hours, quickly help me pack up my things, and save the time to get off the ship in a hurry." Xiao Qian commanded this big head to wrap all the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., and the big head scratched his head, "Sister Xiaoqian, I know that it was wrong for me to scold you two days ago, but ...... The affairs of our Zheng family, let's do it ourselves! ”

Xiao Qian blushed with shame, embarrassed to look at the good official, and whispered: "The master said that he gave me to the little minister." The voice became lower and lower, and it was no different from the humming of a mosquito later, but the good official and the big-headed master and servant both understood.

The obedient official's right eyebrow twitched slightly, and he said quickly, "Where can our family afford you." As soon as Xiao Qian was said by him, she peeked at the good official, and saw that the good official didn't speak, she was angry and anxious, and stomped her feet hard, "I'm ...... Where can I not afford it? Didn't I not eat a single piece of candied fruit in the past few days? I am also a member of the Zheng family now, and I know how to make careful calculations for the head of the family. ”

Belch! The obedient official heard this, and felt that the preserved fruit had not been eaten for the past two days because of this!

He looked at Xiao Qian, the little girl wringed her hands, looked at him pitifully, her snails drooped, and she exhaled like an orchid, thinking about the service in the past ten days, she has indeed done nothing bad, and she also has a good impression of this little girl, but what does it mean that this Yan boat owner gave people to himself?

"Xiaoqian, it's not that I don't want you, but, I guess you've heard a sentence, no merit is not worth it!" The obedient officer clasped his hands in front of his chest, rubbed his hairless chin and said slowly.

As soon as Xiao Qian heard this, tears immediately came down, tears rolled on her cheeks, and she didn't speak, but she choked and sobbed slowly, and the diaphragm on her chest twitched again and again, and she couldn't stop it.

Seeing this, the good official immediately covered his head, this was really a headache, so he had to stretch out his hand to signal her not to cry, and said, "Besides, let's talk about it when the owner of the Yan ship speaks." As he spoke, he gave the big head a look, and slipped outside.

A salty sea breeze blew, the sun was in the direction of the bow, and there was a three-masted ship with a thousand materials in the distance, which looked like it had a court background, and the big ship was even equipped with a Frann cannon, because the three-masted ship was in the sun's room on the bow, the light was dazzling, but it was not clear how many Fran cannons there were.

He leaned on the railing and looked at it for a while, when he suddenly noticed something that stunned him.

The front compartment of the three-masted ship was actually opened by the sailors on the ship's wheel, and then, from the belly of the big ship, three small boats, each with a dozen oars on both sides, made it extremely fast on the surface of the sea.

the mud horse, I'm here, dazzled?

The obedient official rubbed his eyes vigorously, he couldn't believe it, is this the Ming Dynasty? How could there be, how could there be such a sci-fi ship?

He hurried down from the upper floor to the foredeck, where the sailors were doing their duty, and were putting away their masts and lowering anchors to be inspected by the city's tax ship, when he saw the honest and honest captain of the ship, He Maxiang, in the bow of the ship, and called out to the other man, "What a leader, what a leader." ”

"Oops! Little Minister, why did you come out, let's go back to the cabin! After a while, those tax collectors from the city department will go on the ship to check, they are all vulgar and reckless men, in case they commit a crime, wouldn't it be my sin, and when the time comes, the lord will blame it, and I can't afford it! When He Ma saw the good official calling him, he quickly twisted his big buttocks, bowed his head and talked to the good official, and persuaded the good officer to go back to the cabin.

The good official ignored his words, but pointed to the big ship and asked, "What kind of ship is that?" Why do you look so weird? ”

He Ma Xiang laughed, "So that the little minister knows, the ship was originally Jin Shanwei's warship, called the mother ship, the age is not young, or when Hu Xiantai suppressed the Japanese, this ship has not been built, and when it is built, the Japanese are long gone, and they have been lying in Jinshanwei for ten years, or a few years ago, the city ship was reopened, and the governor of Zhejiang City, Li Chuncun, the eunuch of Zhejiang City, pulled out the ship from Jinshanwei and renovated it, specializing in tax ships. This mother ship is big and sturdy, and the centipede boat released from the belly is extremely fast, and no boat can escape, hehe! Used to collect taxes, it is really a monk with a nun, a perfect match. ”

The obedient official patted the rail, his eyes were full of surprise, mud horses, didn't the experts of later generations say that the ships in the later period of the dynasty were all shit! Why didn't you mention such a sci-fi ship? I almost thought it was the cruiser in "Saving Private Ryan" who released the landing craft.

To say, it's no wonder that the obedient officials don't have knowledge, and at this time, Mao Yuanyi, a generation of strange people who followed the scholar Sun Chengzong twice to paint Liaodong, not to mention that he has not compiled a huge work of more than 2 million words "Wubei Zhi" to systematically describe all kinds of warships in the Ming Dynasty, and he has not even been born yet! What's more, this book was banned in later generations, and it was deleted and edited again and again, and it was normal for later generations of experts not to know.

He looked at this big ship that was comparable to 007, and suddenly felt a sense of pride, Da Ming, Da Ming, I came to this trip, I don't complain!

"Big head, big head." He turned his head and shouted, "Come out and look at the big ship." ”

Shan Sinan heard the young master's voice, and was feeling that it was really uncomfortable to tidy up things with this little sister who wiped her tears, and when she heard the young master shouting to herself, if she was pardoned, she would run away, "These will trouble you, Sister Xiaoqian." ”

He quickly got down from the ship's building and ran to Zheng Guofan's side, Zheng Guofan dragged his arm and pointed to the tax ship on the sea in front of him, "Big head, look, this ship is not big." ”

The big head didn't pay attention to the sea, and at this time, as the good official's fingers looked over, he slowly opened his mouth wide, and his eyes widened, "I have a mother, this boat ...... Master, how is this ship like a monster? ”

The obedient official held his chest high, as if the ship belonged to his name, "I told you a long time ago, what is the meaning of reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, and nesting in Daxing County, you see, come out for a walk, only to know that we Daming still have a lot of things that I haven't seen." ”

His words, to the ears of He Ma Xiang next to him, were inevitably a manifestation of a child playing and seeing new things, and he would not have thought that he was an ordinary person five hundred years later, and the pride of seeing such a powerful emperor was spontaneous.

At this time, a centipede boat approached, and first two tax collectors climbed up, and then, the two tax collectors bent down and stretched out their hands, and dragged a white-faced man dressed as a civil official from the side of the boat.

The white-faced man wore a black gauze hat on his head, a dark blue robe on his body, and a heron patch on his chest.

He Maxiang, who was standing next to the obedient official with his waist bent, took a look, and quickly trotted over with his buttocks, with a sincere smile on his face, "Oops! Isn't this Hou Tiju, how can you collect the taxes yourself? ”

Ming system, the city of the division set up a person, from the fifth product, deputy promotion of two people, from the sixth product, the deputy promotion of the subordinate and one person, from the ninth product.

Generally, those who come to collect taxes at sea have at most a servant from the ninth grade, and the Hou Tiju who came over today is the deputy promotion from the sixth grade, and it is rumored that he is also the brother-in-law of Li Shaonan, the political envoy of Zhejiang.

Ningbo City Bo Si was reopened a few years ago by the Zhejiang Political Department to make Li Shaonan play, so that Li Chuncun, the governor of Zhejiang City, naturally had to thank Li Shaonan, if it weren't for Li Shaonan, where would he have the opportunity to release such a fat shortage! Therefore, after arriving at the Yamen of Hangzhou City, he fought with Li Shaonan, the chief secretary of the government, and the two joined forces to protect Li Shaonan's brother-in-law Hou Xiaobai as the deputy of the Ningbo City Bo Lifting Division, which is a typical reciprocation of the peach, of course, there is a promotion above, but it is only a marionette.

What I want to say here is that the Ningbo City Bo Division, its yamen is in the provincial capital Hangzhou, and the admirals and eunuchs often live in the provincial capital, and the errands are the city Bo Tiju Division, in Ningbo, so it is a yamen, two office locations.

It is precisely because it is a yamen with two office locations, so the eunuch yamen and the yamen of the lifting division have their own clever differences in making money, generally speaking, the lifting division collects the money tariff, water tax, drought tax, these taxes, and the silver collected is in the hands of the envoy of the political secretary of Zhejiang, and the eunuch yamen! For example, if you want to go to sea, you have to be issued by the eunuch yamen, and you don't want to be filial! It's hard to say when this can be issued, and even what types of items you can buy and sell have to be nodded by the eunuch yamen, so there is no conflict between the eunuch yamen and the promotion division yamen, each has its own money.

However, due to the difference of each political envoy, the tax collected by the promotion department is also different, when it is high, it collects more than 100,000 silver a year, and when it is low, it is more than 10,000 silver a year, which is very different.

After this Hou Tiju got on the boat, he looked arrogant, and he didn't care about He Ma Xiang at all, of course, there is also a reason in this, this Hou Tiju is an official from the sixth grade, He Ma Xiang is just a servant of a merchant family, and the identity gap is too big.

Fortunately, He Ma Xiang is clever, and when he saw that people didn't care about him, he hurried to find his master, but unfortunately, people were originally looking for trouble.

"Stop, who let you go?" This Hou Tiju's appearance is not bad, his face is slightly round, and his complexion is very white, which is quite in line with the face of a scholar at that time, but his eyes are a little fluttering, which makes people feel very frivolous.

At this time, the twenty or so tax collectors on the centipede boat all climbed onto the boat, all holding a square and round water and fire stick in their hands, and stood neatly behind Nahou Tiju, which was also quite imposing.

ps: Let's chat with readers, Li Chuncun's father-in-law, it's not good to be a master outside the world, I have the so-called sunflower in the world, you can barely serve as the eunuch of Zhejiang City!

Hou Xiaobai Daxia, in fact, there is no chance of mixing the rivers and lakes in the officialdom, Ningbo Bo Si is raising the master, listen to the Dora style! With more than 20 tax collectors behind, Yue Buqun is not afraid when he comes! You are now standing between the civil officials with one leg and the eunuchs with the other, and the future is not bright!