Guangzhou, Huangfu.

It was late autumn and the weather was already cooler.

Huang Wenfeng and his wife are snuggling up on a recliner to enjoy the shade.

His wife, who was pregnant, was lying beside him, reading a book with good interest.

This is the "Legend of the White Snake" printed by Dong Qin, and the king of Dong Qin specially sent someone to give it to him.

It's just that when he thinks of the black man, he is bored in his heart, but he is a little helpless.

The customs official of the Huangren came to visit Huangfu, and in addition to sending "The Legend of the White Snake", he also sent a letter of appointment.

The Yamen of Guangzhou Customs is preparing to hire Huang Wenfeng as the deputy director of the port management office.

I don't know what kind of official position this position is, but it is somewhat of a meaning of roasting the Huang family on the fire, and the Huang family is the first businessman in Guangzhou to deal with the Eastern Qin, which makes this move become the return of the Eastern Qin.

Not to mention that Huang Wenfeng also wrote "Records of Experiences in Eastern Qin", which specifically introduced the peculiarities of Eastern Qin, and all of these labeled his Huang family as a black person.

But yesterday, the new emperor sent a Ma Yongcheng to serve as the town guard eunuch of Guangzhou Customs.

In the words, there are many meanings of helping each other with the Huang family, and many times hinting that they want to turn this customs into a good place to make money.

Although Huang Wenfeng doesn't like eunuchs, he doesn't like eunuchs.

Ma Yongcheng is just a mouth, but he wants to let his Huang family live and die.

But can the Huang family offend the eunuchs? Can you offend the scumber? Neither!

In addition, Guangdong businessmen have a lot of stammers with the Huang family, so the Huang family is stuck in the three parties, and there is a bit of a dilemma.

Huang Chongde has been pondering this problem these days, and soon thought of a solution to solve it.

That is, immediately send a Huang family's son-in-law to Dongqin to buy a property, just like Fujian maritime merchants and Zhejiang maritime merchants, as long as they transfer their family wealth to Dongqin, then their road will be wider, and they can also be more bold in acting here.

But in this case, it is ironclad! This is a little hesitant for the Huang family.

"Cousin, did you say that you called me to be an official in the Huangren, did you appreciate my talents, or did you think that my identity was available?"

His wife lazily put the book on her chest, blinked her eyes and thought about it, and said, "My husband doesn't seem to have much talent!" ”

Huang Wenfeng sneered, stretched out his right hand and hugged her and said, "My cousin still understands me!" It seems that I am a signboard erected by the people! ”

"Isn't the signboard also very good, when the signboard is launched, the people can attract other Guangdong businessmen to deal with them!"

"yes!" Huang Wenfeng sighed: "But our family is a gentleman after all, and my father has a very good face, and now in Guangzhou, some people privately ridicule us as short-haired." If we really vote, we are the first birds, I am afraid that we will be like the Yang family in Ningbo, and we will be scolded to death by the readers! ”

"Haha, why doesn't the husband think like this, since a gentleman like the Yang family in Ningbo can deal with the people with an iron heart, then what is the embarrassment about us being the signboard of the people?"

Huang Wenfeng was silent for a while, then let go of his wife and sat up: "What my cousin said is reasonable, if you lose face, if you can get back the silver, you can count it as earning!" The Yang family is in Ningbo, and they must have seen the thunderbolt methods of the Huang people, so they are determined to come out of this head, and now the Huang people hire me, which is like a thousand dollars buying bones! I'm going to persuade my father to let him buy a house in Dongqin! ”

"Good! In this way, the concubine can often see the new script of the black people! ”

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The next day, Huang Wenfeng dressed up and went to the Yamen of Guangzhou Customs in a sedan chair to take office.

In the past, due to smuggling, the most prosperous was the Chengnan Wharf, and now the Dongqin switch is in Nansha.

This place is connected to the Pearl River, and the water transportation is extremely convenient, and it is also a harbor that is convenient for transshipment and has sufficient water depth.

The customs yamen has also been built, and it is a somewhat shabby, small two-story red brick building.

As for the warehouse, it is even more rudimentary, but fortunately, there are ready-made ones at the dock.

However, as long as you see the people building a lot of buildings, you know that this place will soon change a lot.

When Huang Wenfeng walked downstairs, he found that Ma Yongcheng's sedan chair had stopped downstairs.

He walked upstairs slowly and found that Song Chengxian, director of the General Administration of Customs, had not yet arrived, and Ma Yongcheng was leisurely drinking tea.

The rest of the people are busy taking care of themselves, and there are some hired scholars who are also working hard inside.

Huang Wenfeng knew that these scholars were all poor people, but they could write and calculate, they wore their hair in a bun, wore "work clothes", and were writing and painting without raising their heads, and they had to make plans from time to time.

Ma Yongcheng gestured to him, Huang Wenfeng immediately saw it, and then the two sat opposite each other, drinking tea by themselves.

After about a quarter of an hour, Song Chengxian came to work, and as soon as he went upstairs, he rushed to the office, not caring about the "guests" in the reception room, which made Ma Yongcheng frown slightly.

Then a woman came up and said, "Those who have come to take office, please prepare the relevant documents, and the director will see you later!" ”

"Oh, what a big breath!" As soon as Ma Yongcheng wanted to put up a fight, the woman had already turned around and left.

The scene was a little embarrassing, Huang Wenfeng deliberately made an invitation and asked these people from the court to go to see the director first.

Ma Yongcheng flicked his sleeves angrily and walked towards the office angrily.

When I got to the door, I was stopped again, it was still the woman, she said expressionlessly: "You can only go in one at a time, queue up!" ”

"You...... You cheap bones, I am the emperor today......"

"I don't care who your dog emperor is, when you come to our customs in Eastern Qin, you will do things according to the rules and regulations!" The female girl was very fierce and took out a short handful.

Ma Yongcheng was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Okay! All right! Okay...... You shameless ......"

Bang - with a loud bang, the accompanying eunuchs were instantly frightened, and Ma Yongcheng lay down extremely fast.

"Things that are not afraid of death, make you like a victorious country, and if you dare to insult our people, you must look good!" The lady blew the smoking bell.

Ma Yongcheng's forehead was sweating, this is not right! In the past, when their eunuchs ran to the place, who dared to treat them like this.

Even if they receive those envoys of the vassal kingdom, they have to befriend them extremely flatteringly, who makes them the intimate people around the emperor?

"Get inside!" The woman urged.

Ma Yongcheng walked in gloomily, but his heart was extremely resentful.

"Mingguo just sent you to be the co-construction representative of this customs?"

"Positive...... Precisely! Ma Yongcheng straightened up and sharpened his voice: "Our family is ...... by the emperor himself."

"Okay, do you have any paperwork and ribbons?" Song Chengxian was a little impatient, he couldn't understand why he wanted Ming Guo to send people to share the right to audit and supervise.

Ma Yongcheng was stunned, but at a glance, he found this black man with a short hammer pinned to his waist.

He swallowed, hurriedly beckoned to the dog leg outside the door, and picked up the holy decree.

After Song Chengxian read it, he immediately sealed it and made up a letter of appointment to him, which read: Hire Ma Yong to become the deputy director of the Yamen Supervision Department of Guangzhou Customs, with a total monthly salary of five taels or four dollars of silver, including food and accommodation!

Ma Yongcheng was stunned when he received this document, and he didn't know how to tidy it up when his hat was crooked, how did the people of the Emperor Lao Tzu be hired by the people?

Hiring eunuchs, do the people want to rebel?

"What else is going on with you?" Song Chengxian looked up and asked.

Ma Yongcheng came back to his senses and walked towards the door in a daze, and the doglegs immediately swarmed up.

"Next!"

The one who came in was another eunuch, what was Ma Jin, presumably Ma Yongcheng's godson.

Song Chengxian hated these eunuchs very much, but he had no choice but to hire them with a seal, anyway, they were just decorations.

It wasn't until Huang Wenfeng entered the door that Song Chengxian laughed and said, "Huang Gongzi! Oops, you've finally figured it out! ”

Huang Gongzi smiled helplessly, took out the appointment letter and said: "Since you Dongqin are so important, I have no reason not to come!" ”

"Hehe, Huang Gongzi, don't you know, a total of five traders, and Guangzhou Customs, will let you, a Ming man, be a serious cadre! This is all my lord, I heard about your deeds! He named and said, your "Records of Experiences in Eastern Qin" is very well written, and you can come to Dongqin again if you have the opportunity to have a look, and you are guaranteed to have new insights! ”

"False praise, some vulgar words, not worth mentioning!"

Song Chengxian waved his hand and said: "Don't be modest, since you are asked to be the deputy director, you are treated as your own person, and the operation of the customs still needs you to contribute more!" ”

"It's nature!"

Song Chengxian said again: "The first thing you should do is to tell other businessmen that you don't need to bribe officials anymore, just say that I am Dongqin and have no intersection with local officials." In Guangdong, the merchants did not see our soldiers, and they were still stuffing silver to pay filial piety, which was the local officials pretending to be a tiger, and they might not be able to spread any bad words about the Eastern Qin Dynasty behind their backs. ”

Huang Wenfeng nodded and said: "This is true, some officials have been blackmailing businessmen in the name of Eastern Qin recently!" ”

"Well, your task is to explain the policies of the Eastern Qin, attract more merchants, and invest in the trade with the Eastern Qin. Of course, if your Huang family has the ability, it is also possible to make a chamber of commerce, and more than a dozen businessmen can monopolize trade! Song Seungxian said with a smile.

Huang Wenfeng thought for a while and said: "Guangdong's situation is not as good as other provinces, and it is still better to have money to earn together!" ”

"Even so, I don't force it! You will intern here for a month and get the statistics and bills! ”

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