In addition to receiving Japanese tributary envoys, Ningbo Boji is responsible for managing overseas trade affairs:

According to the application of the foreign merchant, the certificate of trade to the sea is issued (notarized, notarized);

inspect ships that are allowed to go to sea for prohibited items such as gold, silver, copper coins, weapons, horses, and people;

On the way back to the port, the ship sent people to block (seal the goods), escort them back to the port, and after arriving at the shore, the officer will supervise and move all the goods into the warehouse, and search and inspect all the crew members to prevent unauthorized entrainment of foreign goods;

The foreign goods are divided, and the fine color (precious goods) is taken out of ten, and the coarse color (general goods) is taken out of fifteen, and then it is changed to two out of ten for fine goods, and two out of fifteen for coarse goods, and the foreign tax is levied separately, and one out of thirty is taken, and then it is returned to the foreign merchant for sale.

Due to the long interval between the tributes between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, usually only once in five or ten years, Ningbo Bosi was not busy with affairs on weekdays.

However, as the overseas trade of Cochins progressed, the Ningbo City gradually became busy, and the warehouses on the wharf were full of goods used to trade with the Nanyang countries.

Obviously, if those traded goods were to be transported by land to Jiaozhi and then to sea, land transportation alone would be a big trouble, so Li Yuntian took the Ningbo City Shipping Division, Fuzhou City Shipping Division, and Guangzhou City Shipping Division as a springboard to complete the relevant trade procedures in these three cities, and then rushed to the Jiaozhi City Shipping Division by boat to gather, and then went to sea together to trade with the Nanyang countries.

Compared with the city shipping department in Jiaozhi, the Ningbo City Shipping Division, the Fuzhou City Shipping Division, and the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Division actually have two sets of operating systems, one is the original official system, and the other is the officials sent by Li Yuntian to manage overseas trade affairs in the past, and these officials do not interfere in the normal affairs of the local and municipal shipping divisions, and are only responsible for the overseas trade affairs to which they belong.

In order to gain the support of the local yamen, Li Yuntian handed over 3 percent of the trade profits to the yamen where the city shipping department was located, and a series of employment opportunities brought about by this made the Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong political envoys attach great importance to this, and specially send personnel to coordinate various matters related to overseas trade.

After learning that Ningbo City Bosi had been attacked by the Japanese invaders, Li Yuntian was slightly stunned at first, and then shook his head helplessly.

No one could have imagined that the Japanese would have such the audacity to brazenly rob the goods used for overseas trading in the warehouse of the Ningbo Bosi Wharf, and it was difficult to compete with those Japanese soldiers with the combat effectiveness of the local guards.

Although he was a little surprised, Li Yuntian was not worried that this matter would affect Jiaozhi's overseas trade, and now that there were still several months before delivery, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou would definitely make up for the lost goods.

The only thing that interested Li Yuntian was that it was the great Japanese who led the attack on Ningbo City or the Japanese daimyo, and from the information he obtained, it was judged that there were thousands of people who launched the attack, and their actions were orderly, the division of labor was clear, and the actions were fast, and it was definitely not something that those rabble could accomplish.

When the fleet arrived in Yangzhou, Yangzhou prefect Chen Wenxing led Yangzhou Yamen officials to meet, Chen Wen was a Jinshi during the Yongle period, and later entered the six branches to become a close minister of the Yongle Emperor, served as a household branch for many years, and later released Jiangnan as an official, last year was transferred to the Yangzhou prefect, and had a close relationship with the cabinet.

Li Yuntian once worked with Chen Wenxing in the capital for a year, when Li Yuntian was just a hairy boy who had just entered the Metropolitan Procuratorate, while Chen Wenxing had profound qualifications in the six departments, and the two had also dealt with each other because they were both science and Taoist officials, but they were all official affairs and did not have much personal relationship.

Chen Wenxing was very enthusiastic about Li Yuntian, in addition to Li Yuntian's noble status, because Li Yuntian was regarded as a member of the cabinet camp, he naturally had to receive him carefully.

While talking and laughing, Li Yuntian inadvertently noticed a man in a Zhengwupin costume mixed behind the crowd, looking cowering, as if he was deliberately avoiding him.

Seeing this situation, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a sneer, and he quietly chatted and laughed with Chen Wenxing and the others, and left the dock to go to the restaurant in the city to participate in the reception banquet.

In recent years, this is the second time Li Yuntian has gone to Yangzhou to perform official duties, and his arrival has made officials of all sizes in Yangzhou nervous.

In the sixth year of Xuande, Li Yuntian came to inspect the two Huai salt roads, and as a result, the two Huai salt roads were served to a small pot, which is still fresh in people's memories today.

Now Li Yuntian has come to Yangzhou again, and under the banner of inspecting Jiangnan, this has to make the officials in Yangzhou worried and uneasy, Yangzhou is the most prosperous place in the Ming Dynasty, and it is inevitable that there will be dirt and dirt, and if Li Yuntian investigates thoroughly, many people will be implicated.

Not only the officials in Yangzhou, but also the officialdom of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang, Jiangxi, and even Guangdong and other southern provinces were filled with a trace of nervousness because of Li Yuntian's arrival.

There is no other reason, Li Yuntian's official duties this time are very strange, Jiangnan is just a general reference, not an exact place, which means that Li Yuntian can exercise the power of patrol in the southern provinces such as Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and the power is similar to that of the governor, but it is a large prefect who governs several provinces, which is a bad thing for the officials of the Jiangnan provinces, and God knows what big moves Li Yuntian will make this time.

In fact, the reason why the imperial court did this was not only a pretext to confuse the Japanese pirates, but also gave Li Yuntian the power to mobilize materials and troops from the southern provinces to deal with the coastal pirates with all his might, and it was not easy to eradicate the Japanese troubles.

In order to help the wine at the reception banquet, Chen Tianxing specially invited the new Jiangnan Oiran to perform for Li Yuntian, whose figure is graceful and beautiful, which can be described as having both color and art, looking at Li Yuntian's eyes is tender like water, and there is a kind of charm that catches people's hearts at the flow of eye waves.

Li Yuntian smiled at the tender offensive of the Jiangnan Oiran, and talked and laughed with Chen Tianxing and the others, and did not want to kiss Fang Ze, which made the Jiangnan Oiran extremely disappointed.

The green calyx who was once born in the Jiangnan Oiran has become a model for the world's red dust women, not only successfully married Li Yuntian as a concubine, but also became the concubine of the Zhongwu palace after Li Yuntian was named the queen of Zhongwu because of the edict given by the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family.

Unlike dukes and counts, their wives and important concubines will be made concubines by the imperial court, from the highest to the lowest, the main concubine, the side concubine and the concubine.

Among them, the concubine is often called the princess of the palace, who is in charge of the back house of the palace, and her identity in the palace is no different from that of the queen in the palace.

Side concubines are usually from powerful eunuch families or scholarly families, while concubines are from commoners or low-level officials, and those who can become side concubines and concubines are all good concubines with innocent backgrounds, and those concubines from low backgrounds cannot be named concubines.

For example, Hongluan, who was born in Jiangnan Qinglou, is regarded as a lowly person, and according to common sense, the imperial court will not make her the concubine of the Zhongwu Palace, but she has the title of the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, so her identity is naturally different, and then she can be enshrined as a concubine.

In the same situation as Hongluan, Liu Zhen, who was also from a low background, was also named the concubine of the Zhongwu Palace.

Among Li Yuntian's several wives, only two were named side concubines, one was Zhu Yuxin, the county lord of Ruixiang, and the other was Nuo Min, the county lord of Dexin.

Li Yuntian is not a person who likes the new and hates the old, and with his current status, it is not suitable for him to show mercy in the flower field like others, so he rejects the overtures of the new Jiangnan Oiran and looks at it from a distance without playing profane.

"Lord Wang, the little people are wronged, ask the prince to be the master of the little people!"

After the banquet, Li Yuntian left the restaurant surrounded by Chen Wenxing and others, and was just about to get on the four-wheeled carriage parked there at the entrance of the restaurant to go to the Yangzhou Affairs Office of the Wutang to rest, but before Li Yuntian entered the car door, he heard a rather desolate chant from the crowd of onlookers in the distance.

"Please let the prince call the shots for the little people!" With a commotion in the crowd, a middle-aged man in a blue robe came to the soldier in front of the crowd who was responsible for maintaining order with a piece of paper in his hands, knelt on the ground and shouted to Li Yuntian in victory.

With a bang, the scene suddenly became commotionous, and people turned their heads and whispered, no one expected such a scene.

Seeing this, Chen Wenxing's face became gloomy, the middle-aged man in the blue shirt blocked the road at this time, but it was a taboo in officialdom, which not only swept away Li Yuntian's interest but also blocked Chen Wenxing, and also ruined the reputation of Yangzhou Mansion, as if there were many unjust cases in Yangzhou Mansion.

"Your case has been accepted by this king, this king has been tired of traveling and driving, and the case will be tried by the Chen prefect first, if you are not satisfied with the result, you can come to this king again."

Li Yuntian's brows furrowed, and he said to the middle-aged man in blue shirt in a deep voice, "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, those who skip the level and accuse will be punished with thirty rods, and if they do not go to the county and government levels to submit the complaint and skip the level to file the complaint, their case will not be accepted and punished according to the law." If someone comes, first scold him for thirty, and then find out whether he has handed over the complaint to the county or government!

After speaking, Li Yuntian got into the four-wheeled carriage and left accompanied by Chen Wenxing and others, he felt very helpless about the matter of blocking the road and complaining, although it was not in line with the legal principles of the imperial court, but if it was not forced to a corner, I am afraid that no one would do this, but the state has the national law, and those rods and reproaches cannot be avoided.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Hearing this, the middle-aged man in the blue shirt hurriedly knelt down in the direction where the four-wheeled carriage left, with a relaxed look on his face, he was not afraid of being scolded by the cane, in his opinion, as long as Li Yuntian could take his case, then he would definitely be able to help him wash away his grievances.

Subsequently, several errand officers of Yangzhou Mansion pressed him to the ground after the blue-shirted middle-aged man held him to the ground, picked up the water and fire sticks, and crackled the board.

Since Li Yuntian took over the form of the middle-aged man in the blue shirt, those few errand officers naturally couldn't kill him, but the pain of the middle-aged man in the blue shirt couldn't run, and he soon beat the flesh and blood of the buttocks of the people in the blue shirt, so as to deter the people who watched the excitement at the scene, otherwise everyone would be like the middle-aged man in the blue shirt and go up to the next level, wouldn't it be a big mess in the world!

The next morning, when Li Yuntian met with the Yangzhou business leaders at the Yangzhou Affairs Office of the Wutang, news came from the Yangzhou Mansion that the person who the blue-shirted middle-aged man had told was Cui Hui, a fellow acquaintance of the Yangzhou Mansion, and Chen Wenxing was in full swing to ask people to verify the case.

"Cui Hui!" After learning about this, the corners of Li Yuntian's mouth couldn't help but flash a sneer, the so-called Tianli Zhaozhao retribution was unhappy, more than ten years have passed, and he finally has to settle the general account between the two with Cui Hui. R1148