Soon, the Great Song Dynasty dispatched 10,000 troops and rode the East China Sea Fleet towards Luoluo.

And at this time, smuggling along the southeast coast also intensified.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the smuggling behavior of several major families can be concealed from the top but not from the bottom, and it was soon discovered by other local merchants who also do maritime trade, and the scale of smuggling is also quietly growing, gradually affecting the tax revenue of maritime trade......

Haifu County, Maritime Tax Division.

"Director, there's been a problem with taxes lately!"

Early in the morning, Wang Minghua, deputy director of the Department of Maritime Taxation, hurriedly took the tax account book of the latest quarter to Zhou Zhongren's public house.

As soon as he came up, he said:

"Although on the surface, all the maritime merchants who went to sea paid the sea tax on time and in accordance with the amount, but the income of our Haifu County Customs Tax Department has dropped by half compared to the previous quarter!

Last quarter, our Haifu County Customs Tax Department still had a full 10 million taels of customs revenue left, but this one was only less than 5 million!

However, there is no shortage of goods on the market, and with the development of China in the past two years, the demand for those popular goods in the market has been on the rise.

But the strange thing is that half of the goods are missing this quarter, and there is no shortage in the market, which is really strange! ”

Looking at the account book of the Maritime Tax Division in his hand, Wang Minghua frowned and said.

Zhou Zhongren on the side didn't look at the account book, he had already read the account book of this quarter as soon as the account book came out last night, and he had already discovered that the relevant income was wrong.

After all, the tax amount of the Maritime Taxation Division is related to his annual evaluation results, and the impact on him is the greatest, and no one in the Maritime Taxation Division will be more concerned than him.

After Wang Minghua finished speaking, Zhou Zhongren immediately asked, "Did the people we sent to investigate the An family find any news?" ”

Wang Minghua shook his head and replied: "No, according to the news they reported back, the An family will send two groups of people out every morning, but after going around in a circle, they will return to the An family, and there is nothing abnormal other than that." ”

"It can't be!"

Zhou Zhongren concluded that there must be something wrong with the An family, and just the two waves of people who suddenly went out when it was dark at night could see that there were ghosts in the An family.

After thinking about it, Zhou Zhongren asked again: "Except for the two waves of people who sneaked out of An's house in the morning, will no one else in the An's family often enter and leave the house?" ”

Wang Minghua thought about it, remembered something and immediately replied:

"By the way, in addition to those two waves of people, the An family will have a housekeeper to lead a team to the market every day to purchase materials, but the An family is such a big mansion, and the daily consumption of materials is so terrifying, it is normal to send people to purchase every day.

So I didn't care much about it below. ”

"Procurement...... The housekeeper led the team ......"

Zhou Zhongren gently tapped the table with the middle finger of his right hand, muttering the words procurement and housekeeper leading the team, suddenly! One action!

Immediately asked out loud: "Have you ever noticed which housekeeper of the An family led the team?" Are the people who go out every day the same as those who come back? ”

Wang Minghua was stunned, then shook his head and said:

"They shouldn't have paid attention to this."

"Then let them check and watch!

People will not let two waves of people go out to interfere with the line of sight for no reason, it must be to cover up their real purpose.

And there is only one time when the An family can send a large number of people openly every day, and that is when they go to procure, the official has a hunch that the secret of the An family is hidden in it! ”

"Good!"

With Zhou Zhongren's order, the spies of the Maritime Taxation Department immediately adjusted the direction of the investigation, and just as the Maritime Taxation Division found the right method and was ready to investigate.

The Dark Guard has suddenly arrived!

The Yamen of the Department of Maritime Taxation, the meeting room.

"Director Zhou! Take the liberty to visit! Please forgive me! ”

Early in the morning, Yun Thirty-six came to the door with a group of secret guard members to the Yamen Maritime Tax Division, which is now emerging in the coastal area.

When the members of the Dark Guard appeared at the door of the Maritime Tax Division, it caused quite a stir, and many people were speculating about who had brought the Secret Guard over.

You must know that in today's Great Song Dynasty, the secret guard usually does not appear, once the two appear in front of everyone, it means that someone has committed a crime, where to comfort them, and they are usually the Qin criminals directly asked by the saints!

Because the dark guards can be said to be the eagle dogs of the Son of Heaven, except for the current saints, no one can command them.

Many people are uneasy in their hearts, hoping that the target of the secret guard will not be themselves.

It wasn't until the leading secret guard said they were looking for their director that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that it immediately started to talk about it, and it was the topic of what the director had done.

And Zhou Zhongren was also very surprised to see the secret guard coming to him.

Because he thinks he hasn't done anything to be sorry for the country, how can there be a secret guard to find him?

But it was too late to think about it, so I hurried to meet him.

"Uh...... This little brother of the secret guard, didn't ask for advice? ”

Yun Thirty-Six showed his token and introduced himself:

"Director Zhou, the contemptible secret guard Yun Thirty-six, added as the commander of the secret guard of Haifu County, responsible for supervising everything in Haifu County, this time I came here because of one or two things that need the assistance of Director Zhou, and I hope that Director Zhou will cooperate!"

In the face of such a royal eagle dog, Zhou Zhongren did not dare to be careless, and immediately patted his chest and said: "It turned out to be a cloud commander, what is there to need Zhou's cooperation, although the cloud commander said that Zhou can help, he will definitely not postpone it." ”

"That's great!"

Yun Thirty-six nodded, and immediately told the smuggling situation in Haifu County that the secret guard had recently investigated, as well as the information investigated by the secret guard.

When he heard that the secret guards had even found out where they were smuggling, and the people they had sent out from their department halfway, Zhou Zhongren's feelings were complicated.

On the one hand, he was shocked by the intelligence capabilities of the Dark Guard, and on the other hand, he had a new understanding of the level of waste of those under him.

In the same surveillance, people found out that something was wrong, but their own people were stupid and were fooled, and they were immediately angry.

However, since the secret guards who want to investigate by themselves and others have already found out, then they only need to cooperate to solve the matter, which is also a good thing.

After figuring out the cause and effect, Zhou Zhongren immediately asked Yun Thirty-six:

"How does the Cloud Commander want our Maritime Tax Division to cooperate with you?"

Yun Thirty-six immediately stated the purpose of this trip.

"Director Zhou, because this involves smuggling after all, and it belongs to you, so you need your Maritime Tax Department to come forward to contact the East China Sea Fleet to block the smuggling ground, and coordinate the local garrison to carry out the only one from the land, and strive to block all the other party's retreats.

At this point, all we can do is provide you with information to monitor some of the key tasks. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhongren smiled and said: "Whatever the Yun Commander said, these are enough, don't worry, I will write a letter to the East China Sea Fleet and the garrison to borrow troops!" ”

"That's it, that's it!"

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(End of chapter)

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