No one would think that Song Liuhong's three daughters would really do anything when they became officials. From the very beginning, people believed that this was just another test of the government and the opposition by Hongwu's new policy.

As in the past, craftsmen such as Zhang Ergong became officials, and then opened a precedent for the examination of the metric system. This time, let three women be officials, what people are really waiting for is what kind of new policy measures the imperial court will introduce next.

Of course, except for Song Liuhong, the three of them, as well as the instigators behind them, because Song Liuhong and the three of them became officials of the court, and the plan fell through, they were still in a state of confusion for a while.

As for the matter of Song Liuhong's three daughters, it gradually reached the ears of most people. No one thought that a little girl like Song Liuhong, Luo Shuyun, and Qi Yongdi, who was born in a family of poets and books, would be able to let go of everything and do things under everyone's noses so openly.

Especially in the Xicheng project, Song Liuhong, who is in charge of the garment city. It only took two days to gain the love of everyone on the garment city project.

As long as you see a good-looking little girl who should be in the boudoir, she can personally carry a hoe and dig soil and plant trees on the project.

can talk like honey, big brother is long and big brother is short. Without any scruples, he shuttled through the construction site with tea and sent warm tea to everyone.

Then, there was no one who would not be willing to listen to Song Liuhong's arrangement. It's just a day's time.

Song Liuhong has magically become the most powerful person in the garment city project. Thereupon. Zhu Yunxi has become the most idle person in Yingtian City again.

"I'm free because I leave everything to the people below. What about the two of you? Why do you run around all day long, and you have nothing to do? Zhu Yunxi is in the pavilion on the top of the Xicheng project at the moment, busy making tea around the hearth.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Shangbing, who were named, glanced at each other. Zhu Shangbing quietly moved his steps and took a handful of roasted peanuts from the stove.

He also generously divided half of Zhu Gaochi. Zhu Yunxi had already prepared everything at this time, sat aside with a teacup with red dates, and looked at the lively Xicheng project site at the foot of Guanjing Mountain.

Zhu Shangbing smiled: "Recently, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has been mobilizing the Beijing army, saying that it is to prepare for the Spring Festival drill after the beginning of the year. Our direct relatives and military guards know about this, so naturally we can't lag behind the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and we are also preparing for the New Year drills. ”

"So, what does this have to do with you?" Zhu Yunxi felt that these two people just didn't want to work, so they skipped work all day and went out for a walk.

Zhu Shangbing laughed, then poured a cup of tea for himself, and poured another cup for Zhu Gaochi on the side.

He squinted and took a sip of tea. Then he said happily: "It's because it has nothing to do with me, so it's not idle...... "Zi Zi Zi Yu."

As he spoke, Zhu Shangbing drank tea and made a noise in his mouth. Zhu Yunxi was a little helpless, and looked sideways at Zhu Gaochi.

It's only a few days since the beginning of the year, and it's the busiest thing for the tax office. Throughout this year, the tax collection work of the Ming Dynasty must be prepared before the spring farming.

Then the tax office will send the plan to the tax departments, and when these things are implemented, it will be time for the summer tax to be collected.

Zhu Gaochi was holding a hot teacup and looking at the ready-to-wear city, food city, and amusement park area under the mountain.

"Let's talk about it first, I'm not just picking a pick." Zhu Yunxi pouted: "Then what are you doing here with me?" Zhu Gaochi glanced at Zhu Yunxi and said an explanation that he couldn't refute: "Don't you still pay taxes for this Xicheng project?" I did this in advance to be prepared and well prepared. Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth and was speechless.

What Chubby said was that there was nothing wrong with it. The Xicheng project was originally intended to stimulate the economy of Yingtianfu.

It is also to experiment with how much of the proportion and impact of taxes generated by business operations can be in the economy and taxes of a region.

Zhu Gaochi smiled, his eyes looked at Zhu Yunxi: "I remind you in advance, the accounts on the Xicheng project should be prepared before completion." Don't come back when our tax office comes to check the accounts, you can't get the account books. Zhu Shangbing held back a smile on the side.

Zhu Yunxi could only roll his eyes. After a while, Xiaopang's tax office turned out to be his superior.

But there's no way around it. When the Xicheng project was established, the tax office was the account supervision department.

The money is matched by Daming Silver and the Household Department, and the operation is handed over to Daming Firm. As a result, the matter of supervising the accounts can only be handed over to the tax office.

If it was in the past, the most likely thing would be to let the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervise it. But since there was a tax office. The arithmetic talents of the top number in the Ming Dynasty basically entered the tax office.

Even the household department, sometimes when it is busy, has to borrow some people from the tax office to help settle the national financial data.

Zhu Yunxi faced the 'superior audit' and chose not to speak. Zhu Gaochi continued: "There is also the business value-added tax proposed at the beginning, and Xicheng is also the first place in the world to try it out. At that time, the accounts will be handed over to Daming firm for statistics, and our tax office will audit and review. A penny of silver is not a penny. You have to make it clear to those in charge in advance, don't pay the account between the three parties at that time, my tax office will take people. Zhu Yunxi was still silent.

The business value-added tax was actually something he thought of after the start of the Xicheng project. The Xicheng project is the best pilot site.

The types and structure of the current taxes in the Ming Dynasty are actually very primitive and crude. But there's no way around it.

Before informatization, taxes could only be levied at the root of the product. The Xicheng project is different. Because it is government-run, and the operation is centralized.

From the very beginning, when the Xicheng project was determined, Zhu Yunxi took several parties to determine it, and the accounts on the Xicheng project in the future were concentrated in Daming firm.

All the shops in Xicheng do not directly collect profits, but settle with equivalent banknotes issued by silver horns.

When people enter the Xicheng project, they first exchange for paper money at the entrance, then buy and pay for consumption banknotes, and finally each shop and stall hand over the paper money to the business, and the two parties can check and compare the accounts to determine whether the amount is correct.

Finally, the banknotes are returned to the silver horn and exchanged for equal gold, silver and copper coins. At first, whether it was a firm or a silver banknote, they felt that this banknote was no different from a treasure banknote.

In fact, in Zhu Yunxi's plan, there is no difference. However, the banknotes used in the Xicheng project can only be used in the Xicheng project.

It will take time for the total cancellation of the treasure banknotes. Nor could the imperial court forever use heavier gold, silver, and copper coins as fixed currency.

Paper money is a necessity. In this way, it can be more convenient for the people to do business with the merchants of the world. The use of paper money in the Xicheng project is just an attempt.

Once one day, the people exchanged the banknotes in Xicheng, took them to the outside to use, and could use them, then they could push the banknotes out of the Daming Silver Boat.

In this way, the value of the banknote can also be maintained, and the banknote will not plummet. The Xicheng project uses paper money, which is issued by silver and operated by a firm, which can ensure that all the accounts are clear and understandable.

As a result, the collection of business value-added tax is naturally supported by data and can be realized. The difficulty lies in how to divide the collection point and classification of this business tax.

It's too high, and it doesn't make sense. If it's too low, the merchants on the West Side project will be unprofitable. Politically, we must not do what we want.

On the viewing mountain, after the three brothers scolded each other, they whispered about the future plans and intentions of the Xicheng project.

Stand on the hill and look at the construction site below. Those workers are like worker ants in an ant nest, industrious and busy.

…… And outside the West Side project. In a house on the north side of Sanshan Street in Yingtian City, the head of the fishing class of Shangyuan County was walking in from the outside with two fast catchers.

Ma Bantou's face was very gloomy. When I entered the house, I looked around. The smell of blood filled the room.

Outside the house, the sound of vomiting from the first two arresters who received the report was still heard from time to time. in the house. A gently swaying corpse hung from the beam.

It is the grandmother of the Song family in Wuxi! On the ground, there were two other corpses, namely the Luo family and the Qi family's grandmother.

Except for the Song family's grandmother who was hanging on the beam, it seems that the hanging beam committed suicide. The Luo family and the Qi family grandmothers on the ground were all lying on the ground with knives in their lower abdomen.

Blood continued to flow from the wounds, flowing all over the ground. Ying Tiancheng has a murder! It was the three famous local grandmothers who died.

And these three people have a close relationship with the three female officials in the current dynasty. After inquiring about the situation at the scene, Shangyuan County caught the head of the horse team, and his heart was heavy.

"Who reported the crime?" Ma Bantou asked in a deep voice, his gaze moving from the three corpses in the room to the outside.

A catcher immediately said: "It was the maidservant of the Song family who ran to the street to stop our people to report the case." ”

"What did the informant say?" Ma Bantou asked again. The servant girl said that the grandmothers of the three families got together today to discuss the matters explained by the family. So it was inconvenient for everyone else to be there, and the maidservants were all behind the house preparing their meals. At that time, I heard what seemed to be some quarrel in the room, and then after a while there was no more quarrel. When they finished the food and came to call for someone, they didn't listen to the movement, so they had to push the door open. And then that's what you see. Ma Ban's brow furrowed.

Could it be that they argued and fought, and then beat each other to death? But why is this grandmother of the Song family hanging on the beam, and the grandmothers of the other two families were stabbed in the abdomen and fell to the ground?

"Could it be that this grandmother of the Song family killed the other two, and then committed suicide by hanging herself because of the frightened consequences?" Caught quickly and quietly speculated tentatively on the side.

Ma Bantou frowned, and looked coldly at the catcher who followed him. They are all from the public family, and they are all from the Yamen, and they are still their own subordinates.

Ma Bantou naturally heard the meaning of the other party's words. This is to close this case quickly.

It is determined that they will beat each other, accidentally cause death, and then commit suicide in fear of crime. Ma Bantou looked around the room again.

"There is no trace of a fight, and there is no secret passage in the secret room, if you argue with each other and then fight each other, and then accidentally die, and finally commit suicide in fear of crime, it is ......" Ma Bantou's words were not finished, but his eyes suddenly flashed, and his brows were tightly furrowed.

Somewhat unconvinced, he walked to the window in the back corner of the room. Ma Bantou stretched out his hand and pressed it lightly against the window, with a slight force.

He pushed the window open. Then, Ma Bantou used his fingers to slide over the windowsill. Look at the fingers again.

It's already covered with a layer of black dirt.

"Horse head?"

"Ma Tou, do you want to close the case like this and report it to the warden?" Caught up in the back whispered asking. Ma Bantou's face was gloomy, and he looked at the gable outside the window: "I'm afraid...... This is a homicide case! ”

"He kills!" Catch quickly raised his eyebrows, and his heart was shocked. This is a murder case for him. Then they will catch the shift, but they will have to be busy.

If the case cannot be closed, there will be punitive measures from above. For example, now that the management fee of the streets of Tiancheng should be reduced, it will have nothing to do with them at the end of the year.

A window that can be pushed open is unlikely to have too much dust on the sill. Even if this house was uninhabited before, and the three families who lived here later, the window would inevitably be cleaned when the window was opened.

They are all people who come out of the local people with heads and faces, and these rules and things will still be done. Since this windowsill has a thick layer of ash, it means that the three families in this room did not use it after they came, so there will be dust.

The window must be closed. But now the window opens as soon as it is pushed, which means that someone has opened the window.

If the window had been opened by the dead men, it should have been open when they came. Now there is only one possibility.

"The murderer fled the scene from here!" Ma Bantou looked out the window at the high gable, and his tone was gloomy.

The corner of his eye jumped, and he followed the line of sight of the team leader. The other catcher immediately rushed out of the house with the saber at his waist and went around the back of the house, under the gable outside the window.

Not much. Na Yu quickly found a slender bamboo pole in the corner of the wall.

"Horsehead, there's a pole!" Ma Bantou's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "Look at the two ends." "I don't know why I want to see it, but I still do it.

Soon, another voice came.

"Boss! This end of the pole is full of mud! Ma Bantou immediately snorted coldly. Now, it's clear.

The three people in the house were killed by others, and then the killer jumped out of the window and escaped with the help of bamboo poles climbing over the gable.

The catcher standing next to Ma Bantou whispered: "Look at the direction, the side of the gable is Sanshan Street, which used to be the territory of Jiangning County." Ma Bantou's eyes were solemn.

The murderer was smart. The case was done in Shangyuan County, and then he fled to Jiangning County. Thinking about this time, it is very likely that he has already fled from the Jubao Gate.

Ma Bantou turned around, glanced at the three corpses at the scene, and walked out of the house.

"Send the news back to the yamen, and then inform the Jiangning County arresting class."

"In my opinion, the yamen will probably report this matter to the prefect's yamen." Catch up a little nervous: "Boss...... Nothing big will happen. Ma Bantou snorted: "Big deal? Now it's time for something big to happen! ”