Zhan Feng walked into the conference hall with a tea bowl.

Staff Li Maoshu and Li Lie reported on the salt tax: "...... The salt tax payment system has always been paid in March of the following year. The year before last, the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy issued a total of 1.82 million taels of salt, so last year a total of 7.28 million taels of silver were paid in salt taxes. Last year, in view of the serious problem of the loss of salt workers, the number of salt introductions granted by the Holy Emperor to Lianghuai was reduced to 1.7 million citations. According to the system, four taels of silver will be taxed for every 400 catties of silver, and it is estimated that 6.8 million taels of silver will be taxed this year. However, due to the investigation of the salt case, this year's salt tax has not been handed over, and it has been locked in the government treasury. ”

"But just now we brought people to the Lord Salt Administration, the Lord of the Salt Transport and the representatives of the four major salt merchants to check the treasury silver, but there were only four million taels of silver, nearly one-third of the deficit, but there is a record. Before September, the Grandpa of the Holy Decree returned to Beijing with the same year's tax salt. ”

Lu Gang, Lu Yanyun, and Yang Governor were also very cooperative with them, and they went to the prefect's yamen every day to supervise the collection of taxes, and tried their best to deal with the salt merchants, but the salt merchants deduced that the official salt could not be sold, and kicked the ball to the private salt criminals, and even said that the largest salt merchants were in the law, and many of the banks were occupied by the illegal salt, and the tax and silver were naturally reduced.

Li Lie understood that they were doing this to drag him until he was consumed!

He had to find the real ledger as soon as possible.

Li Lie wore a dark blue robe, which made his face a little gloomy.

Seeing this, Zhan Feng hurriedly made a cup of Tieguanyin for Li Lie.

Li Lie got up from the Taishi's chair. Today, he was given the order to inspect the salt and receive the order, the purpose of which was to rectify the salt affairs of the two Huai. Now he is struggling in Yangzhou, not only has he not even obtained the real account book, but he can't even find the gap of the salt official.

The salt officials in Nanhuai all looked loyal to their duties and were impeccable. He could not detain Governor Yang on the grounds that he was ineffective in handling his duties, but he was interrogated for several days, using both soft and hard measures, and Governor Yang insisted on not letting go, and only admitted that he was responsible for his ineffective work.

Li Lie walked to the window and looked at the courtyard outside, thinking about things.

Li Maoshu was waiting for Li Lie to speak, and the conference hall suddenly became quiet.

There was a sound of footsteps at the door, and a guard came in, saying, "There is a girl named Cuckoo outside, who has come to find the exhibition commander." ”

Li Lie casually asked Zhan Feng: "Which cuckoo girl?" "They are so busy that they have the time to pay attention to the affairs of men and women.

Zhan Feng coughed lightly and replied, "It's the maid next to Miss Su Fuliu." He and Du Juan didn't say a few words, and they couldn't understand what she was looking for him, and it wouldn't be good if Grandpa Guo misunderstood.

Li Lie's mind wanted to flash Jin Nian's black and white clear eyes, he waved his hand silently, signaling Zhan Feng to go out to meet people.

Zhan Feng walked out of the conference hall and walked along the corridor in the courtyard to the gate, and the guards guarding the door waved to him: "Commander Zhan, the girl who is looking for you is waiting outside, she is a fresh face, and the brothers don't dare to let her in, how much can you take care of!" ”

Zhan Feng looked out, and the cuckoo was standing alone not far from the door, carrying a suitcase in his hand. As if she heard someone talking, she looked over and when she saw that it was him who had come out, she waved her hand at him vigorously.

"It's so tightly guarded." Zhan Feng walked over, and the cuckoo smiled, "I thought I wouldn't be able to see you today." ”

Zhan Feng explained: "Grandpa Guo is working here, and the brothers are more vigilant than usual. ”

He invited the cuckoo in to speak.

Cuckoo shook his head: "You are so busy, I will disturb you when I go in." She handed the suitcase to Zhanfeng, "Last time at the post station, thank you for the Baihao tea, my young lady and master like it." It just so happened that some rose cakes were made in the house today, and Madame asked me to bring them to you and Grandpa Guo to taste. "90 look

If you come to look for someone for no reason, you have to find a reason. She can't use the name of Jinnian, if Li Lie misunderstands, then her sin will be great, not to mention that Jinnian will punish her for making assertions, but I am afraid that Gu Yanyi will not spare her.

After thinking about it, it is best to send something in the name of the third lady.

Zhan Feng thought to himself that this was more than half a year ago, why did he only think about expressing his gratitude now, that is, he saw Miss Six outside the bamboo forest in Sufu some time ago, and he didn't see her mention Baihao tea.

But the rose cake had already been handed to him, and he couldn't push it back, so he smiled and said, "Let the third lady bother." ”

Zhan Feng took the box, and the cuckoo seemed to inadvertently follow Zhan Feng's words: "Compared with Grandpa Guo, our wife doesn't bother much. There are a lot of things in the salt case, and our lord didn't bring any trouble to Grandpa Guo! ”

Zhan Feng immediately understood in his heart that Du Juan came to find out about Su Youhua's transfer.

He didn't want to say it, but he thought that Jin Nian had also lent things to Li Lie twice, and if he didn't mention a word, it would inevitably seem that the people around Grandpa Guo were not close to him.

Zhan Feng fixed his mind and said: "Recently, Grandpa Guo is still investigating the salt tax in Huainan, and Huaibei has not yet begun to investigate it seriously, and it may take a month or two or even more to get results." ”

This can be regarded as a letter of approval.

Zhan Feng returned to the conference hall with the suitcase, Li Lie was still standing by the fan and looking at the sky, it was almost summer, and the sun was fierce.

Zhan Feng took out the rose crisp from the suitcase: "It was given by Mrs. Susan." He told Li Lie about the cuckoo's intention and his reply.

Li Lie sat back on the Taishi's chair and said, "Who told you that the account books in Huaibei haven't started to be checked yet?" ”

Zhan Feng was stunned for a moment, and looked at Li Lie in disbelief. He knew that when he set off from the capital, Grandpa Guo broke away from the fleet and rushed to Lianghuai to check the salt tax, but he didn't expect to get the account books in such a short time.

In this way, Su Youhua must have found out whether he was contaminated with salt.

It's a shame that he said to the cuckoo just now that he meant to tell the truth to others, but who knew that it was his in the end.

Zhan Feng asked Li Lie: "Then there is nothing wrong with Su San, right?" When I meet the little girl of the cuckoo again one day, I can tell them about it. He took a piece of rose cake and handed it to Li Lie.

Li Lie glanced at him: "You don't care about this, I'll tell her myself." ”

The rose crisp melts in your mouth with a delicate sweetness. She should also like sweets, how could the third lady make rose cakes.

Zhan Feng was puzzled, Grandpa Guo said that he told her himself, did he tell Du Juan? But Grandpa Guo hasn't spoken to Du Juan, I'm afraid I don't even know what she looks like, right?

Zhan Feng had no choice but to ask tentatively, "Are you planning to go to Su Mansion?" ”

Li Lie snorted.

Zhan Feng said: "Then when will you pass, do you want me to talk to Su Si in advance?" There is also the second lady, she is still in Su Mansion, you will always go to say hello to her when you arrive. "If it's just to tell Du Juan about Su San, why should Grandpa Guo go away in person, he must have something to ask Su Si. Although Su Si's official position is small, there are two young and promising brothers above, and he has a lot of face in Yangzhou officialdom.