Chapter 379: Give Da Ming a chance to be a comprador
Guangzhou Customs was officially established after the personnel of the Ming Dynasty were in place.
The director is Song Chengxian, the deputy director is Su Chu, and in addition, there are eight cadres from Dongqin.
In addition to a bunch of eunuchs on the Ming side, Huang Wenfeng is a serious cadre.
Ma Yongcheng was very angry, because this customs is not at all like the city's shipping department.
After several hints, the people ignored him, but threw a bunch of bills and forms to them, asking them to check them quickly, so as not to delay the deportation of taxes and silver into Beijing.
There are too many eunuchs in this group who don't know how to check the accounts? They came to make money, but they didn't expect to run into a black man.
In a fit of rage, the group of eunuchs began to be absent from work the next day, and instead of running to work, they roamed around the city of Guangzhou.
In the final analysis, it is to extort money, and at the same time, it secretly colludes with officials and gentry to prevent the opening of the port.
As a result, the gentry didn't like him at all, and the officials were also muddy, and they didn't want to follow the eunuchs to death.
In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, the gentry can profit from the opening of the port, so that even if the officials want to oppose it, they are left to use their power to prevent the opening of the port.
But can they do it? They can't do it at all, they have no other way but to write impeachment recitals and complain every month.
Unless they have the ability to block the thunderous blow of the Huang people, then Zhenjiang will be defeated, and the area along the Pearl River will not be spared.
Ma Yongcheng touched his nose and wanted to join if he couldn't beat it, so he found Song Chengxian again, who was extremely flattering, and wanted to pull the tiger skin of Dongqin and get a handful of silver.
As a result, Song Chengxian directly announced the disciplinary punishment and gave Ma Yongcheng a big demerit.
Ma Yongcheng, who was aggrieved, had to write a letter to Liu Jin and the emperor, writing about what the people did in Guangzhou, and writing about the anger and resentment, as if the whole of Guangdong was eager to skin the people and make the grass hard.
At the same time, he was also thinking about whether to leave quickly, since Guangzhou is not a good place to make money, he has to move his nest quickly.
It's not easy to get out of the palace once, otherwise, it will delay making money for yourself.
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In Ningbo and Quanzhou, the situation is similar.
There were even two eunuchs in Quanzhou, who were directly beaten to death on the street, not by customs cadres, but on the street, by businessmen who had already cast their hands on the street, and who secretly bribed and killed scoundrels.
Therefore, Wei Bin, who went to Quanzhou Customs to take office, seemed to be extremely well-behaved, and even deliberately studied hard.
Gao Feng in Ningbo was also frightened, and it was a coincidence that he picked Ningbo Customs, and there were soldiers stationed there.
On the day he arrived, he only saw the soldiers from a distance, and he was terrified.
Several soldiers were still very curious, and deliberately stripped a eunuch of his clothes and made him stand on the street to accept the ridicule of the common people.
As a result, the eunuch went crazy on the spot, and the rest of the people were instantly honest.
This group of eggless things, this is clear about the power of the black people, in front of the black people, Zhu Houzhao is the emperor's signboard, which is very bad.
While they were crying in the book, they were planning to get out quickly.
This group of eunuchs would never have thought that they were used by the customs yamen to establish their authority.
originally thought that the Ming Dynasty would send civil officials, but as a result, a group of eunuchs were sent, and the cadres were naturally even more unpolite.
This move also made the magistrates of Quanzhou, Ningbo, and Guangzhou, as well as the gentlemen and merchants, understand that in the customs, the words of the people of the Ming Dynasty were more effective than the words of the Ming Dynasty.
With this effect, many things are much easier.
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A month later, the eunuch was going crazy, but Huang Wenfeng had already clearly distinguished the functions of the customs departments at all levels, and he could probably distinguish various bills and statements.
I also have a superficial understanding of the use and interpretation of various terms, although I have not memorized them, but I am more rigorous, and each item is accompanied by a booklet with explanations.
It is enough to know that you can flip through the booklet and get the corresponding instructions, then it is enough to cope with the work so-so.
At first, he thought that this kind of bill form was very cumbersome, but after he really understood it, he was immediately attracted by the statistical method of the black people.
I think this method of bookkeeping is much wiser than the traditional bookkeeping.
In particular, all kinds of accounts are clearly divided, such as purchases, shipments, and money transactions, which are three kinds of forms and bills.
With a little comparison, you can see the difference, and you can see more clearly what the income is in a certain period.
If you make all the bookkeeping methods, that is, the data statistics and double-entry bookkeeping methods that the people say, all of them clear, then you can know how the performance and trend of the year are by simply listening to various comparisons.
This kind of bookkeeping method also makes it much more difficult to make false accounts, not to mention the need for various bills as evidence.
Under this kind of bookkeeping, if you want to embezzle money and embezzlement money, as long as you want to check it, you will definitely be able to find out.
Because as long as the final accounts are not matched, you will definitely be able to search according to the bills and find that there is a problem in that link.
In this way, the only way to make a profit is to spend the money in it by other means.
This made Huang Wenfeng amazed, and felt that although the entire Ming Dynasty was full of talents, he had never pondered it, and from the bookkeeping method, he tried to eliminate false accounts and greedy ink as much as possible.
But after thinking about it, he felt that if this was the case, Da Ming would not be Da Ming!
The Ming Dynasty has always been known for its moral articles, everything is pinned on the morality of officials, officials are really a little virtuous, then the people will naturally get some benefits, if the morality of officials is not good, then the people think they are unlucky.
But it is not the case with the Tyrants, who seem to have never believed in morality, but only in rules and decrees.
Huang Wenfeng felt a little unkind at first, but since getting along for a month, he feels that he is not close to people, but he has no frame in private.
He has a good look, but he is less and less concerned about the matter of throwing money.
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On this day, he was sitting in his office, approving the trade qualifications of several merchants.
The director's secretary knocked on the door and said, "Director Huang, there will be a meeting later, you are ready to prepare." ”
Huang Wenfeng responded with a smile, immediately sorted out his clothes, picked up a notepad and a pen and rushed to the conference room.
After he sat down, Director Song Chengxian smiled and said, "Director Huang, the work has been going well recently, right?" ”
Huang Wenfeng nodded and said, "It's going well!" Since the beginning of this month, the number of businessmen who have handled the documents for overseas quotation has increased by seven or eight times, and there will be more in some time! ”
Song Chengxian praised: "Director Huang has made great contributions, as long as the trade is prosperous, then all industries are bound to prosper, not only the people of Eastern Qin can benefit, but also the people of Daming!" ”
"That's what the Director said!" Huang Wenfeng is quite modest.
Song Chengxian chatted with him for a while, and after waiting for someone to come to Qi, he took out a notepad and said: "It's all here, now the meeting begins, this meeting, the main discussion is the deportation of taxes and silver into Beijing!" ”
Hum - Huang Wenfeng's mind exploded, do you really want to spit out the tax money of the white flowers?
"Everyone also knows that according to the Ningbo Treaty, the customs is of a mutual nature, and we are responsible for helping to operate, but the ownership is still Mingguo. So this time, this is the first time we have fulfilled the treaty, and the tax and silver have been counted, since the treaty was agreed, we will start operation, and the real operation day will not exceed five months, and the total tax and silver will be 138,432 taels and 33 yuan.
There is not much silver, which is also the reason why there was no publicity and no official establishment in the first place! However, although the silver is small, the procedures that should be there should not be less at all, we must calculate one side more to ensure that a penny of silver cannot be wrong! It is also necessary to ensure that within fifteen days, the silver will be shipped and sent to the capital division of Daming before the end of the fourth year of Huaxia! ”
Huang Wenfeng was completely stunned, this customs is an old hen that lays golden eggs, and the people actually sent it to the Ming court without blinking?
Now they want to get rid of this amount of silver, all they need to do is say a word, but they really have to fulfill the treaty.
Not only that, but also to ensure that nothing is missed?
So this group of customs managers, are they cadres of the Eastern Qin Dynasty or officials of the Ming Dynasty?
Things were too unexpected, Huang Wenfeng slowed down for a long time, and then he understood a little, and felt that the people were afraid that the Ming Dynasty would be unprofitable, and they would have a negative attitude towards the customs.
However, what does it matter if the Ming court has a negative attitude?
With Huang Wenfeng's knowledge, he really couldn't figure out why the people did this.
In the next meeting, he was also a little absent-minded.
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