In addition to the soldiers stationed in Dinghaiwei, Ningbo Port also has a very important imperial agency, which is the Maritime Bureau, which specializes in the management of maritime foreign trade, and its function is equivalent to that of later customs.

The government agency of Maritime Affairs was the most prosperous in the Song Dynasty. Even the tax revenue of Maritime Affairs once accounted for more than one-tenth of the Song Dynasty's finances. Unfortunately, after the Ming Dynasty, due to the implementation of the maritime ban,

The functions of the Maritime Bureau also shrank greatly. Although Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Ningbo still retained the Maritime Bureau, at most it was only responsible for receiving the imperial envoys from the foreign countries who were tributed, and the taxes collected were greatly reduced.

Among the three maritime departments retained by the Ming Dynasty, the maritime departments in Guangzhou should be the largest and most complete. After all, there are the most responsible countries there, and naturally the most taxes collected, and even the stations responsible for hosting the missions of the Fan State

There are only twenty houses, in comparison, the Maritime Services in Ningbo and Quanzhou are much different.

Take the Maritime Bureau in Ningbo as an example. It is only responsible for receiving Japanese missions, and only pays tribute once every ten years. In other words, the Maritime Bureau only has the opportunity to work once every ten years, but the remaining nine years have been idle.

There is nothing to do, and the taxes collected have to be paid, so Ningbo's Maritime Warehouse has changed from a well-off yamen to a clear water yamen.

Even from the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the highest commander of the Maritime Commission was always served by the Zhejiang Censorate, and the officials in the Censorate were incomplete. It was not until Zhou Chong came to Ningbo that the cabinet ordered the Censor to step down as the Maritime Commission.

The position was selected from the Maritime Warehouse Department as the recruitment officer, and then some officials were transferred from other places to the Maritime Warehouse Department, which barely filled the officials of the Ningbo Maritime Warehouse Department.

After Zhou Chong handed over all the training matters of the army to Shenying and others, he rushed to the Maritime Bureau in Ningbo Port. However, when he came to this once prosperous customs office, he was caught in front of him.

The scene was startled.

I saw an extremely dilapidated courtyard before him. Most of the surrounding courtyard walls had collapsed, allowing people to see the scene of overgrown weeds inside. Even the buildings in front of him also collapsed a lot, which looked like it was

Like a ghost house that had been abandoned for many years, if it weren't for the plaque "Shibo Tuosuoyamen" hanging on the main entrance where it still stood there, Zhou Chong wouldn't have believed that this place was the legendary Maritime Affairs.

"Wushan. Are you sure this is the Maritime Warehouse?" Zhou Chong looked up at the plaque on the main entrance and asked in disbelief. Speaking of which, there was a tradition of "officials do not build yamen" in the Ming Dynasty, which also led to a lot of

The government offices are very dilapidated, but no matter how dilapidated it is, at least it looks like a living person. However, like the Maritime Warehouse in front of you, it is like a deserted ghost house, but it is very rare. It may even be the entire Ming Dynasty.

Only this place.

Hearing Zhou Chong's question, Wu Shan also smiled bitterly and said, "Sir. This is indeed the Maritime Warehouse. My subordinates have asked someone to inquire about it. As a result, according to people familiar with the matter, because the city was in the past

The Shipbuilding Department only receives Japanese envoys once every ten years, so there is no one working in the Shipbuilding Department at all, and no one taking care of them. As a result, no one comes to the Shipbuilding Department for many years, and in the end it becomes like this, even the one on the door.

That plaque was replaced by the new recruit Yang Tong and Lord Yang after taking office.”

Zhou Chong smiled helplessly after hearing Wu Shan's explanation. He could understand the helplessness of the officials in the Maritime Affairs Office. After all, no matter who it was, he stayed in a yamen like the Maritime Affairs Office that only once a ten-year office was held.

Then, I'm afraid they will slack down in the end, and it's understandable that the yamen will become like this.

Next Zhou lifted his legs and entered the Maritime Office and followed the weedy path to the lobby of the yamen. He wanted to meet Yang Tiju who was in charge of this place, but unfortunately he didn't even have anyone along the way.

When he met, he waited until he entered the lobby, he saw a gray-haired old official sitting under a pillar dozing off.

Zhou Chong and his group of more than a dozen people entered the lobby and immediately woke the old official up. When he saw so many people coming from the yamen, most of them were majestic Jinyiwei, and the leader was a demeanor.

When the extraordinary young official was shocked, he hurriedly ran up and saluted, "The villain has seen an adult, but I wonder what important things are there for him to come to the Maritime Bureau?"

"Where is Yang Tiju of your Maritime Department? Let him come quickly to meet the Admiral?" As for such a minor official, Zhou Chong naturally did not have to speak in person. Wu Shan next to him immediately ordered.

"Admiral?" The old official was stunned when he heard this official position, and then immediately guessed Zhou Chong's identity. He was also shocked. After all, after Zhou Chong came to Ningbo Port, he immediately conducted a series of Dinghai Guards.

His actions, especially the abolition of Cheng Quan's position as commander, made his name spread throughout Ningbo Port. Now, both in the officialdom and in the civilian world, have heard of Zhou Chong, the new admiral of the Four Seas.

"Sir, please wait and see the master working in the backyard. I'll report it now!" After the old official said that, he turned around and ran to the backyard quickly, and secretly thanked that his master was an official fan, otherwise it would be difficult to find him at this time.

In a dilapidated room in the backyard of the Maritime Office, the new Maritime Office Yang Tongzheng sat there happily. He was holding his appointment document in his right hand and playing with the newly-received official seal with his left hand, and was happy.

At the same time, he was also a little moved. He thought that he could only be promoted from the sixth rank deputy chief executive in his entire life, but he did not expect that this time the cabinet would issue a document, which led to the Censor's envoy hand over the same-serial officer.

The position finally fell on him, which was like a pie falling from the sky for Yang Tong.

Yang Tong is over fifty years old and was a juren. Later, he spent some money to move, and then he was assigned a small official of the ninth rank. After years of hard work, he finally reached the seventh rank county magistrate.

He was only thirty years old at the time and was considered a promising official, but unfortunately he offended people in the officialdom later, and as a result, he was promoted from a seventh-rank county magistrate to a sixth-rank deputy director of the Maritime Department.

It seems that the grade has been improved, but the Maritime Service is a cold yamen. People who come here either offend people or come to retire, and there is no possibility of promotion at all.

Yang Tong has no other hobbies, he just likes to be an official, which is commonly known as the "official fan". When he was transferred to the Maritime Bureau, he was very unwilling to do so. He tried his best to get out of the way, even if he was demoted.

It's true, after all, as long as he goes out, he will be promoted. He doesn't have to stay in the Maritime Bureau and wait for death. Unfortunately, the man he offended was too powerful, so he never got what he wanted, and finally

I have been in the Maritime Department for more than 20 years.

After so many years, Yang Tong had thought about all the ways he could think of, which made him slowly give up and prepare to be his deputy to be at ease for the rest of his life. After all, this was an official position of the sixth rank. But he made him

Unexpectedly, he was about to reach his sixties, and he encountered such a good thing, and he was promoted from deputy to regular training. Moreover, the Maritime Bureau, which was originally a cold yamen, seemed a little unlucky.

Likewise, a group of officials from above actually sent in. Although he had not said what to do, he had been an official for many years and had already keenly realized that some unexpected changes would occur in his small Maritime Mansion Office.

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It was precisely because he saw that his future was expected, and he had just been promoted, which satisfied Yang Tong's own thoughts on officialdom. Therefore, since he took office, Yang Tong has come to the Maritime Bureau on time almost every day, and he has been sitting there.

One day, this was not just to live up to his own official addiction, but also wanted to wait for the orders from his superiors. After all, the court would not fill the gaps in the Maritime Bureau for no reason, and even take the position of the

The Censor's independence means that the court will definitely take action, and will also use the Maritime Bureau.

However, although Yang Tong saw the matter very clearly, not everyone was as smart as him. For example, those officials who had just been transferred from other places to the Maritime Bureau were still in their previous impression of the Maritime Bureau.

I didn't see the profound meaning of the court's transfer to the Maritime Warehouse Department. So after these people came to the Maritime Warehouse Department, except for the first day of their exposure, they stayed in their place of residence dejectedly at other times.

No one can find it.

Thinking of the officials transferred to the Maritime Warehouse Department, Yang Tong snorted coldly in dissatisfaction. After all, he was also the top leader of the Maritime Warehouse Department. However, because everyone knew where the Maritime Warehouse Department was before, those subordinates were

He doesn't take him seriously either.

Especially the two newly transferred deputy directors, one of them was an old man in the officialdom. He said it nicely, but he didn't take his boss seriously in his heart. The other was known as the number one talented man in Suzhou.

Originally, he had no hope of career in this life, but he didn't know what path he had taken, so he actually restored his fame and honor to the Juren, and was also sent to the Maritime Bureau to be the deputy deputy of the sixth rank. I remember that he entered the official position as a Juren.

He has only become a ninth-rank official and has been in the seventh-rank official for several years, but he has been in the sixth-rank official all at once. It is simply pissing people over to others.

Just as Yang Tong was slandering his subordinates, he suddenly heard a burst of rapid footsteps outside. Then his former servant, Yang Fu, who was now arranged by him to work in the Maritime Warehouse, ran away from outside.

When he came in, he ran and shouted, "Master, a big man has come outside. I'll ask you to see him!"
Chapter completed!