The customs management system in the Song Dynasty was very chaotic, and the city and shipping department were initially managed by the prefect or the governor, and then changed to the transshipment envoy.

Later, the central government directly dispatched the promotion officer, which was immediately dismissed and then reinstated.

Generally speaking, the amount and rate of taxes at each customs office are determined according to the actual financial situation of the imperial court.

The less money the court had, the more tariffs it collected.

The more taxes were collected, the more important the imperial court paid to the city.

The new dynasty of the Ming Dynasty became very formal, and set up six major cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Dengzhou. The city is promoted to the fifth grade, which is only one level lower than the prefect.

In addition to the six major city shipping divisions, there are also city shipping yards and market shipping offices in various ports.

Now a set of vertical management system has been formed, with a household department Zuo Shilang in charge of the national customs, the six major cities are under the jurisdiction of this Zuo Shilang, and the rest of the cities and offices are under the jurisdiction of the six major cities.

The head of the household who is in charge of the customs is nicknamed "the book of the city" and "the prince of the city".

At the same time, there is also the left servant of the household department who is in charge of the national treasury, and is nicknamed "Kuraba Shangshu" and "Kuraba Xianggong".

These two Zuo Shilang of the household department have an official quality one level lower than Shangshu, and one level higher than other Zuo Shilang (which can be understood as full-time deputy Shangshu). They are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs and can directly interface with the Cabinet.

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Fuzhou City.

The scale of maritime trade here is actually slightly smaller than that of Quanzhou, because its location is very awkward.

Merchant ships running Sino-Japanese trade can go to Ningbo or Hangzhou.

Merchant ships coming from Southeast Asia can dock in Guangzhou and Quanzhou, which are closer to each other.

The port of Fuzhou is positioned more like a transit point, or to eat the cargo that overflows from other ports, and to accept the fleet of ships on the southern route of Sino-Japanese trade.

However, the provincial capital of Fujian is here after all!

Dai Chengsi has had a very comfortable life in the past two years, and his family used to be the largest grain merchant in Golden State. Before the Zhu father and son captured Hanzhong, the Dai family chose to raise the clan to serve, and they made a lot of money before the official opening of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Zhu regime was besieged by Tuantuan, and after the expansion of the army, there was a serious shortage of food. The grain on the Jingnan Road was smuggled by Song Dynasty officials, and about one-third of it needed to be transferred by the Dai family.

Then Zhu Ming settled the displaced people in Xiangyang and Nanyang, and the Dai family also helped to transfer a large number of materials, and thus obtained the franchise rights of some goods.

Dai Chengsi is not only a scholar, but also knows how to operate, and assisted Qian Chen in managing finances very early.

If it weren't for the death of his parents and Ding Worrying for three years, Dai Chengsi would now be a household servant.

People are so unlucky, and their father died during the rise of his career.

Dai Chengsi took care of the funeral, symbolically kept filial piety for three months, and the emperor issued an edict to seize affection and let him return to Beijing as an official as soon as possible. As soon as I was halfway there, my mother was dying again, and she ran home in a hurry.

This time, he really can't accept the love again, so he can only keep his parents' filial piety together.

At the expiration of the Ding Wei period, it coincided with the rectification of the city's shipping division, and Dai Chengsi was sent to Fuzhou.

He will be able to return to Beijing at the end of this year to report on his work, and most of them will be promoted several levels, because his qualifications and political achievements have already been enough.

When Dai Chengsi left Beijing, Prince Zhu also specially instructed him to keep the position of "City Minister" (the head of the General Administration of Customs) for him, so that he could be familiar with customs business in the next three years.

"What about Liu Yongqian? Why don't you come yet! ”

Dai Chengsi walked around the Yamen of the City Bo Division, anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

A month ago, he received a letter from Beijing, saying that it was possible to find out about Fuzhou.

So he frantically settled the accounts and even borrowed debts to settle the accounts.

Those maritime merchants are not very clean, if they don't lend him money to settle the accounts, Dai Chenghei will drag everyone to die together.

Now, there are still a few sums of money that have not been recorded in the accounts, and that is the account that Liu Yongqian, the deputy promoter, is responsible for settling.

Today is the agreed deadline!

Dai Chengsi walked quickly to Liu Yongqian's office and found that this guy hadn't come to work yet, so he took a boat and went straight to Liu's private house.

"Liu Yongqian is at home?" Dai Chengsi questioned Menzi, and he was so anxious that he called him by name.

Menzi replied: "Xianggong took Niangzi, Langjun and Xiaoniang, and the family went to Nanshan to worship the Buddha." ”

Dai Chengsi was shocked and asked, "When did you go?" ”

Menzi said: "Yesterday at noon. ”

Yesterday morning, Liu Yongqian claimed that he was going to collect the money, and he also went to negotiate with Dai Chenghei.

Dai Chengsi did not doubt him, and until noon today, he finally felt that something was wrong.

Hurried all the way to the temple, but found no one in all the courtyards, and Dai Chengsi went to other temples to look for it.

It was getting dark, and Dai Chengsi returned to the city, and he was sure that Liu Yongqian had run away.

"Yesterday and today, did you have a fleet out to sea?" Dai Chengsi called the officials who managed the port.

The official said: "In the past few days, the trade winds and the letter water have come, and there are merchant ships going to sea every day. ”

"It's nothing, just ask casually." Dai Chengsi waved the man away.

A person sat in the hall for a long time, and Dai Chengsi couldn't help but sigh: "The surname Liu is so ruthless, my parents don't want it anymore, and they only take their wives and children overseas." ”

In the next few days, Dai Chengsi forced the maritime merchants to take the money and forcibly closed the accounts of the city.

Then, wait to be caught!

He hated the shabby place of Fuzhou, which was hot and humid in summer. And the businessmen here are also bastards, and they actually lured themselves into corruption, and they were involved in big cases without dying.

He is a hero from the dragon, and his family has also worked hard, maybe the prince can open up the net.

Perhaps......

An official ship docked, and more than 20 officials landed with a garrison borrowed from Hangzhou.

These people went their separate ways, some went straight to the city, and some went to several merchants in the sea.

The Fuzhou anti-smuggling fleet, which will follow the navy to the Penghu Islands this winter, is directly controlled by several warships from the north.

Fuzhou anti-smuggling fleet is suspected of colluding with maritime smuggling!

"Brother Chaozong, long time no see." Dai Chengsi took the initiative to greet Yushi.

Jiang Han looked disdainful: "You are a lot fatter." Your Dai family is already the richest man in a state, are you short of money to spend? ”

"Alas!" Dai Chengsi sighed dejectedly.

"How much was embezzled?" Jiang Han asked again.

Dai Chengsi said: "I have tens of thousands of yuan, and they also have to share the profits, and they have already made up the account a few days ago." ”

"Confused!"

Jiang Han was furious: "Even if I don't come, the household department won't send someone to check the accounts?" ”

"There are several ledgers, which are very difficult to look up. This time, the purpose of settling the accounts is to make up for the money, hoping to be able to make it lightly," Dai Chenghe's desire to survive is very strong, "I can write down the methods of the city department to make false accounts, as well as the methods of patrolling the smuggling of the fleet, and how to prevent and eliminate these, and dedicate them to the court in detail, and then confess all the people involved in the case." Can it be regarded as voluntary surrender and meritorious service? ”

Jiang Han pondered: "Maybe, but you have to ask the prince." What about Liu Yongqian, the deputy lifter? ”

Dai Chengsi said: "This bastard ran away with his wife and children. During the two days of his family's disappearance, more than 20 merchant ships from Champa, Dashi, India, and Sriwijaya set sail. This person may have gone to Champa or Sriwijaya. ”

"If you flee from a foreign country, even if you don't destroy the three clans, his Liu clan is gone!" Jiang Han gritted his teeth and said.

The Fuzhou City Shipping Division was also a nest case, which was only cleaned up and rectified once more than two years ago, and now there is a large-scale corruption among the officials of the Fuzhou City Shipping Division. Due to the tighter customs and taxation system, this time they simply dragged the anti-smuggling fleet to play smuggling, and directly ignored the normal accounts of the customs.

Dai Chenghe's account is a fart, and it is impossible to say how much he smuggled.

In Fuzhou City alone, six high-quality officials, four non-high-quality officials, and 29 regular officials were arrested. There is also a deputy lifting the whole family to escape!

After some interrogation, a large number of corrupt and smuggling officials were found in the city and the city offices under the jurisdiction of the Fuzhou City Shipping Division.

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Tokyo, Imperial Palace.

Zhu Ming took the summary information from all over the country and said with great emotion: "One case pulls out several cases, one person pulls out several people, and the number of people involved in the case has increased exponentially. In less than three months since the investigation, more than 200 officials have been sentenced to death, and more than 100 officials have also been sentenced to death. Not to mention those who are in prison, there are more than 400 officials who have been sentenced to exile! Counting the family members who were seated, the number has exceeded 2,000. ”

The above data only includes the officials and their families involved in the case, and does not include the gentry and businessmen who participated in the crime.

If the government and the people are all counted, it is estimated that there are more than 5,000 people.

"Check it, since it's already shot, let's check it to the end." Zhu Guoxiang also put away the woman's benevolence.

From the central government to the local level, the Ming officialdom has been made panicked.

Due to the arrest of a large number of gentry and merchants, and even affected the circulation of local materials, the price of rice and cloth in many cities rose as a result.

Zhu Ming said suddenly: "The case involving the military attache has been suppressed by me for the time being." In order to prevent people from jumping over the wall in a hurry, it is planned to let them leave the army and be arrested again on the way to change their official positions. ”

Zhu Guoxiang asked, "Is it serious?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "The main thing is that the commanders, garrison generals, logistics military attaches and the military industrial system, they usually have too many opportunities to make money. In particular, most of the generals who commanded and garrisoned the army belonged to the heroes who rebelled with us in the early days. They are either incapacitated, have made mistakes, or have been physically disabled, and have been transferred out of front-line combat units. ”

"They feel that they have little hope of promotion, and because of their high qualifications, they are not only a problem of corruption, but also often do evil at the local level. Some people even encircled and abandoned land, forbade the magistrates to distribute it to the people, and then coerced the people to make tenants for them! ”

Zhu Guoxiang instructed: "The action must be fast, and the army must not be chaotic. ”

"It's already arranged," Zhu Ming sighed, "These martial artists are very arrogant, even if they arrest many civilian officials, they don't think that anything will happen to them." They have the confidence of a fan, and even ...... Some people came out of Daming Village! When he opened his mouth and closed his mouth, he said that the emperor used to be his village head, and his son was also a student of the emperor in the village. ”

This kind of thing is too normal, how domineering the founding generals are, it is clearly written in the history books.

The founding generals of all dynasties, the most outrageous person is Wang Quanbin, there is no doubt that he killed prisoners and robbed all the way, not to mention, the Emperor of Houshu has surrendered, and the slaughter and robbery of this guy has just begun.

He forced the Shu army, which had surrendered, to rebel, and the rebels gathered more than 100,000 people.

Even fearing that the rebels would surrender prematurely, they directly slaughtered the Quanshixiong clan who was forced to be the leader of the rebels, seized the property and daughters of the entire clan, and then plundered and slaughtered everywhere under the guise of counterinsurgency.

Houshu, which had just surrendered, was actually forced by the Song army to rebel in seventeen states.

Afraid that the Sichuan army in Chengdu would also rebel, Wang Quanbin directly booby-trapped 20,000 Houshu soldiers - these are nominally his own soldiers!

finally quelled the rebellion, Wang Quanbin stayed in Sichuan again, and continued to raise his own respect.

Zhao Kuangyin's lungs exploded, but he could only forgive his sins and take the opportunity to call to relieve him of military power. More than ten years later, he was even named a festival envoy (no military power), and was rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 horses of silk, and 10 million dollars.

In the end, he can die well and chase the book order.

As for the blue jade, not to mention the glorious deeds.

When he led his troops back to Xifengkou, because the guards did not meet him in time, he directly sent troops to attack his own Guancheng.

This kind of behavior can be convicted of counter-crime!

In comparison, the group of generals under Zhu Ming only occupied wasteland and oppressed the people, which can be called good babies.

(End of chapter)