[6] Collusion

This Shijia Hotel has been in business for about some years, and the shop is very large, upstairs and downstairs. There are wine jars and clay pots against the wall in the store, with blue bricks and white plaster walls.

Yao Fan sat down in the private room, looking at the all-wooden private room, although it was poorly furnished, it was also clean.

He ordered a table of good dishes and waited with peace of mind, thinking about how to talk to Sun Maowen next.

Before the tea in front of him was cool, he heard someone outside the private room, "This is it." ”

Yao Fan could understand that it was the voice of the Sun family.

Then I heard Sun Maowen's voice: "Brother Yao has been waiting for a long time." ”

Yao Fan immediately stood up from his chair and lifted the curtain to greet him outside.

said in his mouth: "Where is it, Brother Sun is busy with official business, I should wait for you." ”

Sun Maowen was still satisfied with Yao Fan's courtesy, he stopped and arched his hand, pointed to the two behind him and introduced Yao Fan: "This is Lord Liu Ziming of Qingdao Customs Inspection, and this is Lord Fuwei of Jiaozhou Garrison Wei Guo.

Yao Fan saw that the two of them were both powerful snakes in Jiaozhou, so he learned the actions in the TV series to make a gesture for the two, and the two politely raised their hands to return the salute, so the four of them sat down.

Sun Maowen sat down, cleared his throat, and briefly introduced Yao Fan. Then the hotel served the price of the table that Yao Fan had ordered before, and the four of them frequently exchanged cups and exchanged glasses, and they chatted casually.

After three rounds of drinking, the self-introduction of the four has been completed, and they are familiar with each other.

Jiaozhou garrison Wei Guofu looked a little rude, he held the wine glass with a pair of big hands, and said to Yao Fan: "As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, Brother Yao came back from overseas to find his ancestors, but he ate a stick from my rabbit cub for nothing, and I will compensate my brother for this cup of wine." When I go to school tomorrow, I will definitely serve those blind fools with military sticks. ”

Yao Fan raised his glass and said sincerely: "Lord Wei is aware of the situation, and he cares about the people, so he doesn't dare to do it. The soldiers who made mistakes were also faithful, and I ask your lord not to punish them. "Drink it all.

Customs inspector Liu Ziming is a thin middle-aged man, speaking a southern dialect, he blinked and said to Yao Fan: "It is said that Brother Yao's family is all over the Taixi countries and is familiar with foreign affairs, so he will do business in our Jiaozhou in the future?" ”

Yao Fan replied honestly: "That's true. ”

Liu Ziming saw that Yao Fan was not on the road, so he directly singled out and said: "Then Brother Yao plans to go to Yangguan in the future?" Or do you want to go as usual? ”

Yao Fan was stunned, he didn't know what the Tao was at all.

Sun Maowen put down his chopsticks, shook his head and explained to Liu Ziming: "His Yao family used to do business between the Taixi countries and never returned to China. ”

Liu Ziming nodded, stroked the sparse beard under his chin and said: "It doesn't matter, I said that Brother Yao knows, that's the case, domestic shipping, go through the regular customs, and pay the ship's banknote and goods tax, that is, various centigold, port donations, license fees, and parking taxes." As for overseas goods, they have to go through the foreign customs, which are under the control of the Briton Hurd, and have nothing to do with the Changguan that we are under the control of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Yao Fan came to his senses and asked, "Which one is cheaper?" ”

Liu Ziming looked at Sun Maowen and Wei Guofu respectively, and when he saw the two of them eating with a smile, he smiled and said to Yao Fan: "The foreign customs are harsh, and the declaration, inspection, taxation, and review of various matters are cumbersome and tight. However, it stands to reason that foreign goods must go through the customs of various treaty ports. Even if the customs declaration is made at the treaty port, and the transfer to Jiaozhou Port is landing, it is also the foreign customs declaration of Jiaozhou Port. ”

Yao Fan said with a smile: "If my ship does not declare customs at several major treaty ports, and comes directly to Jiaozhou to go through the regular customs, is there a way for Lord Liu?" ”

Saying that, Yao Fan untied his horse coat and threw it on the chair on the side, wearing a straight suit and looking at Liu Ziming with a smile.

Liu Ziming's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart that these two devils are indeed shrewd and teachable.

Said with a smile: "In the ports of Guangzhou and Jiangsu, there are many righteous businessmen who are not resentful of foreign customs, big ships are moored at sea, and small boats enter Changguan. The goods do not need to be parked at the customs of the foreign customs and wait for the customs declaration to cost time, just directly to the inner 6. Alas, I only suffered from Changguan, who knew that there would be so many official duties out of thin air, which can be said to have saved a lot of consumption for Yangguan, but it was thankless. ”

Yao Fanqiang couldn't help laughing in his heart, otherwise he would really have to spray the wine in his mouth on Liu Ziming's face.

"A ** naked smuggling official, he still has the face to say so decently, it's really funny, ridiculous, funny and cute."

Of course, Yao Fan still said very decently: "In this case, my Yao family's goods also hope to go through the Changguan under Lord Liu." It's just that in this way, I added a lot of trivial affairs to the adults out of thin air, and I really don't know how to repay the three adults. ”

Liu Ziming's smiling eyes narrowed into a line like an old fox, and he clenched his fingers upwards in his palm and said: "Where is it, worry about the country, why are you tired, hahaha...... Haha......"

Of course, Yao Fan hopes to smuggle, so that he can make a good profit.

The foreign goods secretly entered the country through the regular customs, and it was certainly good to pay a little less tariff. And that Changguan naturally would not admit that he had put in the smuggled goods. As for the tariffs collected according to the standards of domestic seaborne goods, naturally they will not be counted in the official books, and all of them will fall into the pockets of officials.

When the three of them saw that Yao Fan was interested, they immediately became interested, and after raising their glasses and drinking together, they began to ask Yao Fan how many goods and what types of goods there were in a year.

Yao Fan pondered for a moment and replied: "There is everything, cloth, clocks, sugar, iron pots, all kinds of miscellaneous. In short, there are always tens of thousands of boxes a year. ”

Liu Ziming nodded and said: "If you go to the treaty port, it is worth five hundreds, although it will be transported to various seaports and foreign customs to resume customs without tax, but the value of one hundred draws is already very high." ”

Yao Fan said: "But I heard that as long as the foreign customs in various places are dredged, such as raw silk and the like, there are also two packs combined into one pack." ”

Liu Ziming shook his head disagreeably and enlightened Yao Fandao: "It's still convenient to pass often, although there are more donations in name, but most of them are fixed taxes, and they are calculated on ships." Compared with the value of goods, it is only one out of a hundred. Coupled with the standing tax of two out of a hundred, it is only three points, and it is always more cost-effective than the foreign customs worth five out of 100. ”

Yao Fan nodded and said: "I see, that's that, in the future, please mention more juniors." ”

Since the four of them had already made their words clear, they colluded with each other, so they exchanged cups and changed lamps to get drunk. With the rise of drinking, Sun Mao Wenjian yì everyone chanted poems to help the fun, to wash the dust for overseas travelers, and to experience the prosperous literary style of the Qing Dynasty. Liu Ziming agrees with this, Wei Guofu is noncommittal, but obviously he is not stunned.

Yao Fanxin said that this is to show their fame to Lao Tzu, although their official rank is low, but in the end they are still immersed in sour literature for many years, if they can't show it off from time to time, wouldn't they have read the sage books for more than ten or twenty years in vain.

Sun Maowen shook his head and said a few words first,

Shi Fei Chun Shui Ming,

The walls are long and the summer grass is thin.

Cen Zhongren returns,

Congratulations on my birthday.

Everyone sang their praises, and Yao Fan was also impressed by Sun Maowen, "It seems that the literary level of the officials of the Qing Dynasty is not bad." ”

Then Liu Ziming still shook his head, followed by seven words,

Eight immortals cross the sea this water show,

Qilu scenery pavilion clear.

The people who are watching the flowers are gone,

The clouds are fragrant and shine on Du Kang.

So everyone sang again, Yao Fanting thought with admiration, "Although these officials are **, but when they use writing skills, they really have a good foundation." ”

When it was Wei Guofu's turn, he thought about it for a while, and also learned from the two of them shaking their heads and chanting a limerick.

The Admiral is not happy,

Go to Penglai.

Don't seek fame and don't seek progress,

Thousands of miles for officials, only for money.

After listening to Yao Fan's previous two poems, he deeply felt that the literati of this year were really powerful, and he soaked in the pile of old papers for decades, and the poetry and literature trail reached out.

But after listening to Wei Guofu's poem, Yao Fan almost squirted out the side dishes in his mouth, hurriedly threw away the chopsticks, his face purple, and blindly clapped his hands to cover it up. finally swallowed the fried pork liver in his mouth, and then he shouted a stack of good sounds, and the sound was so loud that it almost broke through the roof.

Sun Maowen sighed secretly, deeply unaware of Wei Guofu's vulgarity and uncivility, but in his mouth he did the opposite, and praised: "Good! Brother Wei is worthy of the spirit of a general, refreshing and happy, and he broke through this officialdom in one sentence. ”

Liu Ziming said in his heart that this Sun Maowen is purely a man who has eaten too much, and if you want Wei Guofu, a martial artist, to chant poetry, isn't it equivalent to calling a fat pig to grind? This is a loss of half of our faces.

Liu Ziming rolled his eyes, and said to Yao Fan with a smile: "Brother Yao, your family has been doing business in Taixi for a long time, and you want to come to the family to learn from it, I don't know how much you have learned the etiquette and music culture of my Celestial Empire's mother country?" You must be inspired by foreign languages in your daily life in the West. You don't have to stick to rhyme, just try one here, and I can help you with one or two for my brother. ”

Sun Maowen brushed the wine on his beard and said slowly: "That's right, Brother Yao is young, and he still has a great future in this moral article. ”

Where can Yao Fan compose poems, that flat rhyme, without more than ten years of immersion, it is difficult to do well. He thought about it and felt that if he wanted not to be ashamed, he had to plagiarize and tamper with one.

"The heavy rain fell on Qilu, the white waves were surging, and the fishing boats outside Jiaozhou Bay.

I can't see an ocean, who do you know?

The past is more than a thousand years, Wei Wu whipped the whip, and there is a posthumous chapter in the east of Jieshi.

The bleak autumn wind is now again, and the world has changed. ”

Yitaizu's "Lang Tao Sha - Beidaihe" was changed by Yao Fan to "Lang Tao Sha - Jiaozhou Bay", but where can the weather of this word be changed in three words!

Wei Guofu immediately shouted "color" when he heard it, and said: "Although I can't make good poems, I can still hear good poems, Brother Yao's words are atmospheric, and they should be excellent." ”

Liu Ziming twisted his beard and praised: "Good words, good words, I have told the meteorology of Jiaozhou thoroughly, and the heavy rain fell on Qilu...... The white waves are monstrous...... Wonderful! It's really like seeing the sea of Jiaozhou! Brother Yao is really full of poetry and books, and his family history is very good. ”

Sun Maowen was shocked in his heart, put away his drunkenness, and looked at Yao Fan with the help of raising his glass, thinking: "Wei Wu whipped...... Changed the world...... What a big breath this is! If he is an official in the future, his future is limitless, and if he is in trouble...... That....... ”

Thinking of this, Sun Maowen shuddered at first, and then immediately sneered at himself: "This son was born in the family of a businessman, and everything is just good, even if there is a monstrous ambition in the words, it is just looking forward to becoming rich in the world, but my thoughts are too worried." ”

After figuring out this section, Sun Maowen raised his glass, recited the waves and sands chanted by Yao Fanshi in public with the air of Zhongping, drank the wine in one gulp, and praised it with a sigh: "Good words!" Good words! We are fortunate to meet a young talent like Brother Yao, and I am really happy.

According to Brother Yi, Brother Yao has such a splendid foundation, even if he goes to the exam, it is enough. Wang Zi'an once said that there is a confidant in the sea, and the end of the world is like a neighbor. Brother Wei was able to get to know Brother Yao today, and I really responded to this, I was happy in my heart, I drank this glass of wine. ”

Yao Fan also raised his glass with a humble smile and drank it all.

But when he looked down and thought about it, his heart became compassionate.

"Yao Fan, you are doing death, why don't you use your brains! In this word, Cao Cao has come out, and Agui's family history is ...... Who else doesn't know?

In this word, there is also a repetition of the last chapter of the Shenma Jieshi...... Autumn Breeze ...... The flood surged...... Sun, Moon and Star Han ...... What are you going to do?

The most brainless is the sentence "changed the world"......

Dangerous! …… If this is left in Qianlong and other dynasties, it is not enough to have eight heads. Fortunately, this table is all 'thousands of miles for officials only for money', small officials in small places in the late Qing Dynasty, otherwise they would really be dead and dead! ”

Thinking of the frightened place, Yao Fan couldn't help but secretly wipe his sweat, and quickly changed the topic: "Little brother, I also saw the beautiful scenery of the sea and sky in Jiaozhou in the boat, and under the rule of our Qing Dynasty, Yunei Shengping." At the same time, today, my Yao family has to return to my hometown after a hundred years of wandering, and I am fortunate to have a banquet with your parents and officials, which really makes my heart flutter! Fang sighed at this time, and the three adults praised it falsely.

If you want to say that my prose, compared to the good poems written by the three eldest brothers, it is really not worth it, not worth it! Come on, come on, I'll toast the big brothers! ”

The three of them laughed and even said that Yao Fan was too modest.

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