How sensitive is today's Hubei officialdom, every move of the official document is in the spotlight of everyone. He was a member of Liu Xian's appointment as the governor of Hubei, and before he was sent to Beijing, it spread throughout the Wuchang officialdom, and then the news quickly spread to the entire Huguang.

When Liu Xian knew the news, he really wanted to sneer at the old thing of Guanwen with a knife. This old immortal is going to force himself onto the boat.

However, Liu Mingchuan has already led the army to transfer to eastern Henan, and the people are not in Hubei, Liu Xian just wants to find someone to confess to the Hunan Gang, and there is no middleman.

Of course, he can also directly stand up and say that he does not want to be the governor of Hubei, and directly dissociates himself from the official text. But Liu Xian is sure that if he really does this, Beijing will find an excuse to eat for himself.

Unless he immediately leads the Qin army to rebel, otherwise, by this time next year, the Qin army that Liu Xian has worked so hard to manage will definitely be demolished.

"My lord, Lord Li of Tianmen believes in ......"

"My lord, Lord Huang of Anlu Mansion has ...... letter."

"My lord, Lord Zhang of Jingmen believes ......"

"Your Excellency, the king of Hankou is here......

In just two days, Zhang's protégés and relatives and friends in Hubei rushed to Xiaogan overnight, plus 21 letters. All of them strongly persuaded Liu Xian to stay away from official documents.

"My lord, a letter from Lord Liu from Yuezhou Mansion......"

In the barracks, Liu Xian, who was dressed as a wealthy businessman, ate and talked about his feelings, and said to the 'rich businessman' in front of him with a wry smile: "Good things don't go out, and bad things go thousands of miles." Even Hunan's ones are known. ”

"Military Gate. It's not that we have a lot of things, but it's actually a person who can't get things done by the official system. "The rich merchant is Wang Xichao, a member of the Hankou River and Han Customs Daguan newly established by the Qing court for a few years. A native of Wuding, Shandong.

In the eleventh year of Xianfeng, in 1861 of the Western calendar, Hankou opened its port. Before the opening of the port, the Qing court only set up inland checkpoints in the three towns of Wuhan, such as Jiangguan in Wuchang, Chaoguan in Hanyang, Zongguan in the west of Hankou, and Hanguan in Hankou. After the opening of Hankou, the inland checkpoints were abolished and the Jianghan Pass based on the Han Pass was established.

In March of the 11th year of Xianfeng, the British unilaterally promulgated the "Yangtze River Trade Regulations" and the "Yangtze River Trade Regulations", which stipulated: "Foreign merchants who transport goods to the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River only need to go through the formalities in Zhenjiang, and can load and unload legal commercial goods at will at the ports above Zhenjiang, and do not perform any customs procedures before returning to Zhenjiang." As a result, the outer ships flocked into the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The official letter of the then governor of Huguang expressed dissatisfaction with this. Appealed to the Qing court and requested to set up a customs in Hankow. After several twists and turns, Prince Gong, the prime minister's minister, issued an edict: "...... As far as Hankow is concerned, according to the Governor, it is necessary to set up a customs office, which should be allowed to be established, and to inspect the entry and exit of all goods......"

On January 1 of the second year of Tongzhi, the opening ceremony of Jianghan Customs was officially opened under the presence of Zheng Lan, the superintendent of Jianghan Customs, in the presence of Zheng Lan, the superintendent of Hanhuang Dedao Bingbei Road. On 15 January, Di Tuma, the first director of the Jianghan Customs Taxation Department, reported to the Chief Taxation Department Hurd.

Although the administrative power of the Jianghan Customs was entirely in the hands of the tax secretary Titoma, the situation and power of the customs in the late Qing Dynasty were not as many people in later generations thought - all the power and rules were vested in the British.

Liu Xian, who still knew a little about history and was completely ignorant of the customs, only learned after he arrived in Hankou that although the administrative power of the customs in the late Qing Dynasty was pinched to death by the British led by Hurd, the Qing court did not degenerate to the point of completely entrusting the power of customs duties to a group of foreigners and ignoring them. In order to protect its own interests and to check and balance the General Taxation Department, the Qing court formed a customs system structure completely different from that of other countries on the basis of its original customs system -- a dual system of customs supervision and taxation department standing side by side.

Hurd's tax department is what people usually think of as customs, and the tax department does play the role of 'customs' in terms of its responsibilities and reality. However, the Department of Taxation could not fully represent the customs under the Manchu system, because under the entire 'tariff' of the Qing court, there were a large number of old customs in addition to the new customs that opened the port. These old customs were completely under the 'rule' of customs supervision. In addition, some activities of Xinguan are also under its jurisdiction, such as anti-smuggling, license plates, etc., and there are also 'diplomatic' matters to deal with foreigners in the port, and urge merchants to pay taxes at the official bank account with "inspection documents", and the official silver account will issue receipts.

It can be said that customs supervision still plays a pivotal role in the entire Jianghan customs system. And Wang Xichao's Daguan Committee is the second level of customs supervision in the entire Chinese customs system.

There are also commissioners, general secretaries, clear books, case books, general affairs, messengers, and military officers, artillery warriors, sailors, and so on on gunboats and sentinel ships. There are more than 400 people in the entire Jianghan Pass, and Wang Xichao's official rank is not high, only a sixth grade, but the position is absolutely important.

The previous batch of arms of Maisheng Foreign Company, Bell did not declare at the customs, and the goods were unloaded by Wang Xichao and the ship directly outside the customs.

The Zhang family has many protégés and relatives and friends in Hubei, and Wang Xichao's official position is ranked after the tenth, but the weight is definitely the top three.

Liu Xian is also very aware of the importance of Jianghan Pass, and intends to have a good relationship with Wang Xichao. Now the two sides are very familiar.

"The official system has no talent, and the world knows it. The imperial court used him to suppress Huxiang, but he was poor in spear chaos. I said something that I didn't like, the court needed a dog to stay there.

Now that Jiang Ning has recovered, there are a few stubborn bandits in the long hair, and they can be destroyed with a turn, so there is no need for mediocre people to occupy important places.

If the official platform can retreat bravely, with his ten years of 'hard work', the court will not treat him badly. But how many people are there in the world?

Zeng Hou is one, an official platform, but it is by no means. ”

"For this alone, the battle between Zeng Hou and the official system is firmly invincible." Wang Xichao looked at Liu Xian with his eyes, hoping to hear a reassuring word from Liu Xian's mouth.

This is the future of the entire Zhang Group.

At a young age, he became the position of the commander, as long as he did not take the oblique road, he would definitely be able to seal the territory of a province in the year of confusion, and his future achievements were limitless.

And now is a key point for Liu Xian. Don't take into account the official documents, just stand on the opposite side of the incomparable Hunan Gang. In that way, Guanwen, the old immortal, really dragged the 'hope for the future' to his death.

"Do I want to fold up and say that I won't transfer to the governor of Hubei?" Naked, naked slap in the face of the official text.

Wang Xi smiled at Wan'er, "Why do you need to come here. Didn't Zeng Hou order Li Futai's sixth brother to recruit a training horse team of 2,000? The military gate has the people and horses in the army, and you can transfer 300 turns! ”

PS: Customs import and export taxation can be done in five ways: 1. After the merchant declares the customs, the customs will inspect the goods according to the customs declaration materials (in the final Qing generation, the inspection work should be carried out in addition to the acceptance of the goods, but also the tonnage of the ship to determine the ship's banknotes and tonnage); 2. The customs shall issue an "inspection form"; 3. The merchant shall pay the tax at the official bank account with the "inspection document", and the official bank account will issue a receipt; 4. The customs shall allow the merchant to enter and leave the port after inspecting the receipt of the official silver number; 5. In the form of three months, the "inspection documents" and receipts are compiled into a four-column inventory and sent to the Prime Minister's Yamen and the Ministry of Households.

The duty of customs supervision is that when it does not involve the collection of foreign taxes or is outside the open port, these five links are all completed by customs supervision; When it comes to the collection of foreign taxes, the first, second and fourth links are completed by the tax department system, while the third link, which is the most critical for the Qing government's finances, is the responsibility of the customs supervision. The fifth link is to be completed by the system of the Department of Taxation and the system of customs supervision: the "document inspection" is sent by the customs and taxation departments to the General Taxation Department, which in turn submits them to the Prime Minister's Yamen, and the receipts are sent by the Customs Supervision to the Prime Minister's Yamen and the Household Department - to facilitate mutual supervision.