The pass of the Great Wanshan Division is called Tiger Pass, because this is a road intersection that is carved out of the rocks, the strange rocks on both sides are craggy, above the pass, it seems that it can be poured down at any time, and it is extremely steep, so it gets such a name.

The pass of the Dawan Mountain Division is located in such a position, relying on the mountains on both sides, built a three-door archway, after entering, it is the left and right drum pavilions, the left and right gates, in order to facilitate the vehicle to pass, the instrument door is not set up before the wall, only erect a flagpole six or seven zhang high on both sides, and then it is the head service class room, the healthy class room, the treasury of the money and grain merchant tax and so on.

The account room of the Tiger Mouth is also a huge piece, there are three halls in the middle, there are plaques such as "Li Ge Lao Hui", "Honest and Honest", etc., equipped with ear rooms, wing rooms and so on. At this time, in one of the ear rooms, there was a brazier in the center of the room, and a pile of things was burning in the brazier, and an old man in a green shirt squatted next to him, threw a book of books into it, and played with a fire hammer to make it burn as much as possible.

There was a man pacing slowly beside the brazier, and the glittering light of the fire reflected his robe, which was the robe of an unpopular miscellaneous official, and there was only one real official in this pass, that is, the tax ambassador, and this person should be the tax official here.

In the dimly lit room, his figure was projected onto the wall, and the figure on the wall moved slowly, and its mouth was closed one by one, because of the effect of projection magnification and distortion, it was like a monster opening its bloody mouth: "Burn it out!" Burn them all! The book must be seamless! There is already accurate news, Tongren Mansion allowed him to cross the border to handle the case, this Ye Xiaotian is not a fuel-efficient lamp, there are not a few officials in Huxian County who have been cheated by him, and he must not be asked to see the flaws! ”

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Ye Xiaotianshun got the right to cross the border to handle cases, not necessarily because Tongren Zhang Governor Nian opened the door for him with their cheap teacher-student friendship, but because of the smuggling and trafficking ban, especially the smuggling of a large number of Burmese goods is like a capital enemy. The pressure on him from the imperial court was also great.

It is undeniable that whether the imperial court's decrees and policies can be implemented in Guizhou depends largely on these Tusi masters, but although they have such and such thoughts and their own interests, they are subordinate to the Ming court after all.

Their small actions were just to ensure the interests of their family as much as possible, rather than working against the Ming court and deliberately plotting against them. From this point of view, in fact, the bigwigs in the DPRK and China are not necessarily much more noble than them, those officials who can climb to high positions step by step. Which is not behind the formation of a huge interest group.

It's just that the interest groups formed around these high-ranking officials are scattered and separated, and it will only take a few decades at most from formation to extinction, and then a new interest group will be formed again, unlike these Tusi families in Guizhou, which are as long and stable as they are.

In this case, under the severe reprimand of the imperial court, Governor Zhang could not help but express something, so as to give an explanation to the imperial court, so as to do so. It was logical for him to agree to Huxian's request. Huxian and Dawanshan Division are both under the jurisdiction of Zhang Duo, the local prefect, and he is just a handwritten edict, and this problem is solved.

Huazhi County got Zhang Duo's edict and immediately handed it over to Ye Xiaotian. Ye Xiaotian was already ready to go, and as soon as he received the order, he immediately hit the road.

Ye Xiaotian made this trip, with capable and capable people. In addition to the two tax collectors of the Tax Division, that is, Hua Yunfei, Ma Hui, Xu Haoran and others, Zhou Bantou stayed in Huxian. Because there must be a shrewd, capable and loyal person guarding the checkpoint at the exit, otherwise even if the problem is found here, all the stolen goods have already been sold out there, and there will be no credentials.

In addition to these subordinates, Ye Xiaotian also transferred some people from Luo Li Gao's carriage and horse shop to investigate the things on the post road, these people are the most proficient in the doorway, so Ye Xiaotian also borrowed Sun Weixuan, this person who climbed step by step from a coachman to the position of the chief steward of Luo Li Gao's carriage and horse shop, there are few qiē joints on the post road that he doesn't understand.

In addition, it is the mighty "old army". These old decays are all bookkeepers in the families of the major gentry in Huxian County, and I am afraid that they will not be able to do such a large number of things just by relying on a few people in the official mansion, and since Ye Xiaotian suspects that there are eyes and ears of smugglers in the official mansion, how dare he use them.

And these bookkeepers come from various families, and they are all the private accounts of the gentry of Huxian County, and it is unlikely that they have anything to do with this matter, even if one of the gentry happens to be the smuggling predators hidden in Huxian County, and his account office is also involved in it, he alone does not want to cover the sky with one hand.

It's just that most of these bookkeepers are old and old, they can't ride horses, and it is impossible to walk, so they sent them by car, and when they came to Moon Bay, they fell behind Ye Xiaotian and the others.

When the post road was dug to Moon Bay, I once wanted to bypass the lake, but then I had to go around seven or eight miles away, and the end was an endless mountain range, and it was ten times more difficult to open a road out of it than to ferry, and Mrs. Xiangxiang was anxious to build a post road to show loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang, so this section used ferrying.

Nowadays, wharves have been built on both sides of Moon Bay, and there are flat-bottomed large ships to carry cars, horses and goods, because of the special terrain here, it is difficult for cars carrying goods to gallop directly onto the deck, so there are a large number of lifu gathered here to load and unload goods for passing merchants, or carry cars onto ships. The surrounding people are boatmen and laborers, and they rely on this Moon Bay to feed countless people.

The bookkeepers even waited for the ferry with people and cars, and it was not convenient for Ye Xiaotian and others to lead the horses to board the boat, and Ye Xiaotian did not wait for them, so he ran to the Tiger Pass first. When the three big characters of "Tiger Pass" on the stone wall of the pass were impressively visible, I saw the ambassador of the Tariff Division of the Dawanshan Division waiting there with a few chief officials. In terms of class, Ye Xiaotian is a county official, and his position is far above him, so he needs to be welcomed.

Ye Xiaotian reined in his mount, and the ambassador of the Tariff Division immediately led people to greet him and saluted Ye Xiaotian's forked hand: "Pang Shaojun, the ambassador of the Tiger Tariff Division of the Dawanshan Division, has seen Ye Xiancheng of Huxian County. ”

"Oh! Huge envoys? ”

Ye Xiaotian glanced at him with some surprise, then turned over and got off the horse, as soon as he moved, more than ten riders behind him fell off the horse.

Ye Xiaotian was surprised by Pang Shaojun's name, the current emperor Wanli, the big name is called Zhu Yijun, so the word Yijun is evasive, there was this word in the name before Wanli ascended the throne, so after Wanli ascended the throne. It should be changed or omitted.

Fortunately, it is not called Zhu Yitian today, otherwise Ye Xiaotian would have to change Ye Xiaodi or Ye Xiaoxiao. Fortunately, he was not born in the Zhengde Dynasty, when Liu Jin was in power in the Zhengde Dynasty, he had asked for an order to prohibit the subjects of the world from using the word Tian and other words as names, but the Lang Fang Tianyu at that time changed his name to Fang Yu, and the imperial history Liu Tianhe changed his name to Liu He, and waited for Liu Jin to fall, this absurd order was revoked.

But avoid the name of the emperor of the dynasty. This article has always been inherited, and this huge envoy ......, if this kind of thing were in the Central Plains, it would never happen. That is, Emperor Gao was far away on this day, and he was the tax ambassador appointed by Tuzhi County himself, so no one paid attention to it.

Ye Xiaotian is not correcting the wind and imperial history, so he naturally doesn't bother to pay attention to this matter, but because of this matter, he knows more about this kind of place. In many cases, the deterrence of the imperial power and the imperial court is difficult to reach the locality, and he must have his own set of rules to do things in this kind of place. If he blindly copied the methods he learned from those Jingguan children who were imprisoned in the prison, sometimes he would hit the nail.

"Huge envoy, please, polite, polite!"

Ye Xiaotian picked up Pang Shaojun with a haha. said with a smile: "Huge envoy, I'm really sorry." Recently, a large number of Burmese smuggled goods have flowed into the Central Plains, and the imperial court has repeatedly ordered strict investigations. It's a pity that my Huxian County is stuck at the exit of the post road, so I have been repeatedly reprimanded, saying that the official cannot fulfill his responsibilities. Helplessly, I checked up and down thoroughly, and I didn't see anything special, and I came to your tiger today, just to do as much as possible, and to hold the boss accountable, there is an explanation. ”

Pang Shaojun was in his early forties, with a slender melon face and two beards, and when he heard Ye Xiaotian say this, he said with a smile: "Ye Xiancheng doesn't have to be polite, since there is an order from Tongren Mansion, the lower officials should naturally fully cooperate." It's just that the subordinate officials asked themselves to be diligent and conscientious in their duties, Ye Xiancheng couldn't find anything in your county, and when he arrived at our Dawanshan Division, hehe......"

Ye Xiaotian didn't know that Da Wan Shan Si had received the news long before Tongren Mansion authorized it. But he still understands the attitude of the huge envoy, if it were him, the officials of other counties would not be able to solve the case, and they would be reprimanded by their superiors, so they would go to their own jurisdiction to find their own faults, and he would not have a good face.

Therefore, Ye Xiaotian, who has always been a donkey's temper, smiled very good-natured this time, and said disapprovingly: "There is a huge envoy, please lead the way." ”

The huge envoy lukewarmly led Ye Xiaotian and his party into the pass, and the tax collectors of the tax department were busy at the pass. There are three gates, the one on the left is the one for the wagons coming from the south, the one on the right is the one for the wagons from the north to the south, and the middle gate is the road for the travelers who do not carry a large number of goods.

The left and right two doors are supported in front of the horse, the head of the car to inspect the goods, next to the door is supported by a bookcase, behind a secretary sits, listen to the head of the service to report the variety of goods, the quantity, then one by one registered in the book, at the same time pull the abacus, calculate the number of taxes to be paid in the back.

The inspector pressed the knife and walked around with horizontal eyebrows, inspecting the inspection site, and the middle gate was full of travelers and foot merchants, and most of them had only one burden, so the secretary of this gate only remembered the number of people passing by, and collected taxes according to the head, of course, the packages they carried were also to be checked.

Searching, supervising, bookkeeping, collecting, issuing tax bills, and stamping the anti-seal letter on the road, the whole process is orderly, although because of the arrival of Ye Xiaotian and his party, there must be an element of deliberate drama, and it can also be seen that the management of Tiger Pass is not bad at ordinary times, otherwise even if it is pretended, it will not be able to be so orderly.

Ye Xiaotian and his entourage looked as they walked, nodding frequently, although the envoy was not very friendly to them, but seeing their expressions, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent.

The huge envoy led Ye Xiaotian into the customs and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Ye Xiancheng, do you want to rest first, drink hot tea, and then talk about the account audit." ”

Ye Xiaotian smiled and said, "No, let's ask the envoy to take us to the account room first, and we will talk about receiving the account books of the past five years." ”

"It's okay, my lord, please!"

The huge envoy smiled slightly, and was not polite, and led Ye Xiaotian and his party to the account room.

'Open the door wide!'

The envoy pointed to a tall portal and said, and an account room stepped forward to unlock the door, and as soon as the door was opened, there was a "bang", and the account books piled up inside poured out like quicksand, burying both of his thighs. The huge envoy pointed to the full account books in the warehouse and smiled at Ye Xiaotian: "My lord, this is the account book of the goods of the northern and southern merchants of my tiger customs in the past five years. ”

The huge envoy said with a smile: "The two rooms on the right are the same, you check slowly, after checking this room, it's not too late to check those two rooms!" ”

Su Xuntian looked at the mountains of messy account books, and said with his mouth open: "My God, so many!" ”

Ye Xiaotian was also taken aback, although he had expected it, and he didn't expect that there would be so many, but in front of the huge envoy, Ye Xiaotian's face did not change, and he smiled serenely: "How?" Do you know now, why did the official bring so many account rooms? ”

Su Xuntian and the others said in unison: "An adult is an adult, wise!" Wise! ”

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