"Brother Hexi, look here, why do I feel that this tax is wrong?"

Cliffordshire.

Maritime Tax Department of Haifu County.

Zhou Zhongren, director of the Department of Maritime Taxation, and Wang Minghua, deputy director of the Department of Maritime Taxation, are checking the tax details of the previous quarter.

When they saw the tax situation of the Kanese family, both of them couldn't help frowning.

Wang Minghua took the entry and exit of the goods in and out of the An family last quarter and put it in front of Zhou Zhongren with this quarter, and said with a puzzled expression.

Zhou Zhongren picked up the details and looked at them, in the spring and summer of the third year of Xingwu, the number of merchant ships in and out of various ports in Haifu County alone was about 30, and the total number of materials reached more than 60,000.

The total amount of tax paid in the spring and summer also reached 800,000 taels.

However, in the autumn and winter, the number of ships entering and leaving the port was still about 30, but the tax revenue plummeted by 200,000 taels, leaving only about 600,000 taels.

Looking at this detail, Zhou Zhongren asked, "Has Anjia's goods been replaced?" ”

Wang Minghua shook his head: "The goods of the An family this year are still tea, and even the varieties have not been changed, according to the roadmap they submitted, they also went to Malliuya to trade with the group of red-haired fans."

It's the same as before. ”

"Could it be that they are evading taxes?" Zhou Zhongren's eyes flashed.

Don't look at him as a weak literati, but only these businessmen who often deal with the Maritime Taxation Department know how ruthless this director of the Maritime Taxation Department is, as long as you dare to escape a penny of sea tax, this will immediately go to the surrounding garrison to force you to pay taxes.

Are you dead or not?

OK!

He doesn't kill you, he doesn't let your family come out, and he keeps a group of garrisons to surround your house tightly, and you are not allowed to go out or enter.

Starve you to death!

And he also has a rule, if you refuse to pay taxes, and if you don't make up for it for more than a month after the reminder, he won't give you another chance.

In the future, no matter how much you regret it, he doesn't care, he will starve your whole family to death, and then steal your family's property to make up for it.

There was once a family of eunuchs, relying on their own officials to be officials in the capital, and they did not take the officials of the Maritime Taxation Department in their eyes at all, and refused to pay taxes even after repeated reminders.

In the end, the matter was reported to Zhou Zhongren, and he went directly to the garrison of Haifu County to borrow 500 soldiers to surround the eunuch family.

The eunuchs didn't care about it at first, and even arrogantly shouted that their own family was an official in Bianjing, and let them leave quickly! Otherwise, he will be stripped of his official skin!

But after seven days, they regretted it, because they had some grain in stock, but not much, and their granary was somewhere else, not in the house.

There were more than 200 people in the family, and the food in the family was eaten in less than seven days.

The head of the family sent someone out to buy it, but they were blocked and refused to let it out.

Breaking in?

Directly send you a hornet's nest package.

Messengers are sent in, but they are not allowed to enter, and people are not allowed to let in the goods.

In short, it is to isolate the inside and outside.

Finally, they realized the seriousness and hurriedly passed the book to Bianjing's dependent flying pigeon, and at the same time began to beg for mercy and were willing to pay taxes, but Zhou Zhongren ignored them.

And their reliance on the capital, the soldier Langzhong participated in Zhou Zhongren in the court, wantonly and recklessly transferred troops to surround his house without permission, and did not let his family enter and exit, etc., in short, they wanted to cure Zhou Zhongren's crimes.

Zhao Jun directly blocked back with a word.

"I have to pay taxes on my inheritance, so why don't you pay your family's property?"

Na Langzhong was dumbfounded on the spot.

Why? Could it be that he is better than the emperor?

Moreover, Zhao Jun also gave a reasonable explanation for the transfer of troops by the Taxation Department, and the Maritime Taxation Department had already been given the authority of the Maritime Taxation Department when it was set up, and the Maritime Taxation Division had the right to secondment the local garrison to assist in tax collection when encountering problems that were difficult to solve by the Maritime Taxation Division.

Everything is in accordance with the regulations, no problems.

In the end, this Lang Zhong could only give in and say that he was willing to pay taxes.

But Zhao Jun sneered:

"If you resist taxes, you only need to pay taxes, so why do you need the Maritime Tax Division?"

This Lang Zhong family also hit the muzzle, their family is the first anti-aging family, so it is regarded as a typical example.

was directly besieged by 500 soldiers for a whole month, starved the whole family to death, and Na Langzhong was deprived of his official position for covering up the family's tax resistance, and took away his fame and returned to the ranks of civilians.

As for their family's property, all the money except for the tenfold need to be paid back to Nalangzhong.

In the end, Na Langzhong took the rest of the property and fainted weakly as he looked at the corpse lying on the ground.

After that, the respected monkeys also understood the importance of the imperial court to taxation, and at the same time had a deep understanding of Zhou Zhongren, the director of the maritime tax department who ordered to starve Na Langzhong's family to death.

Seeing that the boss of his family wanted to kill again, Wang Minghua shook his head with a wry smile and said: "That's not true, the goods they enter and leave have been paid according to the tax rate, and there is no arrears." ”

"Where did the less 200,000 taels go?" Zhou Zhongren's brows furrowed deeply, and he looked puzzled.

Wang Minghua pointed to the entry into the customs and said: "The main thing is that there are fewer here, director, you see, Ji An's family is full of ships and full of ships, and after selling the goods, Anjia will fill the local spices and come back, so as to maximize the profits of each trip."

But this quarter, I don't know why, when I went out, it was a full boat, but when I came back, it was only seventy percent.

As a result, we were able to collect a full 200,000 taels less in taxes! ”

"When you go out, it's a full boat, and when you come back, it's only seventy percent?" Zhou Zhongren was surprised.

Wang Minghua nodded heavily, and said with some doubts: "But what I don't understand is that only An Jia is the one who takes the Ma Liuya route in our county, and the spices on the entire market are provided by An Jia, which is also the most profitable business of An Jia in addition to sea trade."

It stands to reason that Anjia's spices are in short supply every year, and they only pack seventy percent when they come back, which is absolutely not enough, not only Anjia's income will decrease, but the demand for spices in the market will also increase.

But what is strange is that the demand for spices in the market this quarter is actually the same as in previous years, there is no more, and there is no shortage more, as if the An family sent back the same amount of spices as in previous years. ”

Zhou Zhongren thought for a while and asked, "Has the number of shipments from Anjia been investigated, and is it consistent with the number of customs arrivals on our side?" ”

Wang Minghua nodded heavily: "I have already asked the secret guard to help investigate, and I found that the number of shipments from the An family is exactly the same as the number we put into the customs." ”

"Isn't that weird?

Anjia's purchase is less, and there is no problem with shipments, so why hasn't the demand for spices expanded in the market?

Could it be that they suddenly don't need spices?

But this is impossible, over the years, Feiyun Restaurant's good dishes have flowed out of a lot of practices, and several of them require a lot of spices.

The local rich gentry can't live without those delicious foods every day, and the demand for spices will only increase, and it will definitely not decrease! ”

"Unless ......" ×2

The two looked at each other and said in unison:

"Unless there is another trading channel under the market that we can't see, the spices in short supply on the market have already been replenished from there, so it can lead to the current situation."

Immediately, Zhou Zhongren instructed:

"Immediately investigate whether there are other channels that are secretly selling spices, and focus on those families who use spices a lot on weekdays, if there is a problem, they should be able to receive some news."

Wang Minghua nodded when he heard this, responded respectfully, and then left quickly.

…… (End of chapter)