The Chinese New Year will be celebrated in half a month. In previous years, Ningbo Port would be much deserted, but this year is a little different. Even though Laba Festival has already passed, Ningbo Port is still very lively, and the ships are passing by.

Not only did it not decrease, it was still increasing compared to usual.

It is said that because of the major changes in Shuangyu Port this year, the three largest chambers of commerce, Nanyang, Xie family and Hong family, have become more and more closely cooperated, making Shuangyu Port more prosperous, and the throughput of cargo has also increased.

Double, so now many people want to take this opportunity to visit Shuangyu Port a few more times and strive to make more money before the New Year.

Ningbo Port is becoming more and more prosperous, and the officials who manage the port are naturally very happy, because the more ships are parked at the port, the more tax they receive. Although these taxes are to be paid, they draw some oil and water from them.

But it is also very easy, and the more tax they pay, the more oil and water they draw, so they also hope that the more prosperous the port, the better.

As usual, Consul Cheng put on his clothes from his third concubine at midnight. He didn't have breakfast at home, so he rushed to the tax office at the port. When he arrived at the port, he looked at the sky.

It was still early, so I went to the Wangji breakfast shop next to the port to drink a bowl of porridge and eat a basket of soup buns. By the way, I teased the boss's lady who was a bit beautiful, and then I came to the tax office to work with satisfaction.

Although Ningbo Port is within Ningbo Prefecture, the management of the entire port does not belong to the local area, but is directly managed by the governor's yamen. For example, the tax office under the charge of the Commissioner Cheng is the agency sent by the governor's yamen to Ningbo Port to manage taxes.

He, the counselor, is also an officer of the police yamen. It can be said that except for the governor, local officials could not command him at all.

Ningbo Port is very large, with Yongjiang as the boundary and divided into two parts, north and south, and a tax office was set up respectively. Among them, Cheng Gongsen is the chief official of the Beigang District Tax Office, and his subordinates also manage dozens of people, collecting taxes in this way.

Of course, all the rough and tiring work will be left to your subordinates. Consul Cheng only needs to check the accounts every day.

I saw Counselor Cheng slowly enter the tax office. After greeting the guard at the door, he came to the warehouse in the backyard. In fact, the building in the tax office is very simple, except for a few office rooms,

There are only two large warehouses underneath, one of which is used to install tax books, and the other warehouse is used to install tax silver. Every ten days, people will be sent to take away the tax books and tax silver.

As for the whereabouts of these tax banks, it is not something that Commissioner Cheng can tell, but he is sure that these taxes will definitely not enter the treasury.

When Consul Cheng came to the warehouse, he saw two large boxes piled up in front of the large warehouse containing tax silver. The lid of the box had been opened, revealing the large amount of copper coins in the box, and occasionally some fragments could be seen.

The silver, the amount of money in the accounting rooms is counting, and then compare it with the tax bill sent together, and record each tax bill in the tax book according to the tax bill, so that it will be convenient for people above to check in the future. If it is a tax bill

If it doesn't match the number on the tax book, then the people below will be beaten.

"Old Tu, how is the harvest today?" Consul Cheng looked at the money boxes piled on the ground and asked casually at the oldest of the accounting rooms. This old accounting room looked like it was sixty.

Around the age of age, the hair on the top of the head was already half bald, so he got the nickname of old baldness.

"Your Madam, the harvest is good today. From the morning to now, I have collected two boxes of copper coins and broken silver. It is nearly 150 taels of silver to convert it into silver. It seems that the tax on the silver today is likely to exceed 500.

Two." Lao Tu, who was keeping the book, said excitedly.

Consul Cheng was very happy to hear the number of five hundred taels. Although these sharp silvers were to be handed over, as the saying goes, being an official for thousands of miles is just for wealth. Where can anyone not be greedy in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty? Even if it is his little one

A small tax office will also intercept some of the silver as the welfare of the officials in the tax office.

Of course, the Commissioner Cheng and others would not be so stupid as to move the money in the account. Instead, when collecting taxes, all the tax collectors would deduct one tenth of the tax bank, and the money would not be recorded.

When the money is submitted uniformly at night, that is to say, the taxes in front of you are actually only 90% of all taxes. The intercepted silver becomes the small treasury of the tax office. When the monthly money is issued, the Commissioner Cheng will allocate it to the tax office.

Everyone has money to take, and there is no need to worry about someone reporting it. Moreover, this is a practice in the officialdom, even if the superiors know about it, they will only turn a blind eye.

Consul Cheng roughly calculated in his mind that he could get five or six taels of silver today. If he could keep this number this month, he could get more than one hundred and twenty taels. This is not a small amount.

The amount, you must know that even a first-rank official's salary is only 87 s of grain, and with other miscellaneous discounts, it may be less than 100 taels of silver, but now his little consultant can

Get one hundred and twenty taels.

Of course, Consul Cheng only dares to compare with the normal salary of first-rank officials. If he counts all the hidden income of a senior official, he may not even be worthy of carrying shoes for others.

Next, Consul Cheng walked to Lao Tu who was keeping the account, flipped through the book in front of him, and then grabbed a handful of money by the box containing the money, and looked at the quality. After finding that there was no big problem, he also said that

He stopped caring about these things and told Lao Tu and the others to be careful, then turned around and returned to his office room to prepare for a night of sleep. After all, he spent a lot of energy to feed the little vixen at home last night.

But today is destined to be an extraordinary day. Just as Counselor Cheng returned to the house, before he could lie down, he heard a loud noise outside, and even screams from someone, as if someone had taken action.

Cheng Guan was shocked in advance. There was a lot of money in the warehouse in the tax office. Could it be that a strong man wanted to rush in and grab the money?

However, soon Consul Cheng dispelled the above idea. Although everyone knew that there was a lot of money in the tax office, the military camp of Dinghaiwei was not far from the tax office. Even if he had great courage, he would probably not dare to do so.

The only explanation is that someone is coming to cause trouble.

"I'm so impatient to come to the tax to cause trouble!" When I thought that I was not a robber, Consul Cheng's courage immediately became stronger. After all, he was only under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office. In the whole of Zhejiang, who dared to provoke their Governor's Office?

people?

I saw that Consul Cheng had tidy up his clothes, looked gloomy, and quickly walked to the place where the noise came from the front yard with his hands behind his back. As soon as he arrived there, he saw that the people from the tax office were confronting a group of Jinyiwei.

Several of the tax offices were already bleeding from their heads and looked very embarrassed. It seemed that they had suffered a loss.

Seeing this, Consul Cheng was also furious. He had been in the tax office for so long and had never met anyone who dared to attack the governor's yamen. Although the other party was the Jinyiwei, he thought these Jinyiwei were the local Jinyiwei in Ningbo Prefecture.

He was not afraid of these people at all. After all, this is not a capital city, and it was not the turn of the Jinyiwei to be arrogant.

At that moment, Consul Cheng rushed forward angrily, pointed at the group of Jinyiwei and shouted: "Damn it, don't you see where this place is. You dare to hit the people in our governor's yamen. I think you are alive.

impatient……"

"Oh~, oh~" Before Counselor Cheng finished speaking, a scabbard was smashed into the scabbard on his head, which made him scream, squatted on the ground with his head covering his head for a long time and couldn't stand up.

"Ma Baihu, we are here to receive the tax office, not to hit people. I will talk to them about the rest. Don't do anything anymore!" Tang Bohu in the crowd was almost crying. He said this.

It has been repeated no less than ten times, but unfortunately it doesn't work for the Jinyiwei around me. Even the Ma Liang and Ma Baihu took the lead in beating people.

Yesterday, after Zhou Chong took over the Maritime Warehouse Department, Yang Tong, as the presiding officer, was eager to show his merits to Zhou Chong, so he immediately sent two deputy presiding officers, Li Lian and Tang Bohu, who brought more than 20 Jinyiwei respectively, and there was also a city.

Several minor officials in the Shipbuilding Department rushed to Ningbo Port to take over the tax collection office.

Originally, Tang Bohu thought it was easy to have such an age. As long as he announced the order of His Majesty the Emperor, he would then move out the great god Zhou Chong, even if the tax office was backed by the governor, he would probably have to hand over the tax office obediently in the end.

But Tang Bohu obviously thought things too simple. When he brought people to the tax office, he did not expect that the tax office was very arrogant. He heard his words and did not react at all. He just told Tang Bohu that the tax office belongs to the tax office.

The governor's yamen is in charge. Unless they have the governor's order, no one can go in!

This situation has driven Tang Bohu's expectations, and he didn't know what to do for a moment. However, at this moment, the Jinyiwei led by Ma Liang could no longer bear it. These people were all elites among Jinyiwei, and even

Most people are qualified to enter the palace, but now they are blocked by a small tax, and the other party's attitude is still so arrogant. This is simply not taking them seriously. It can be said that since the day they became the Jinyiwei

I have never suffered this kind of anger.

It is precisely because of this that the Jinyiwei who was blocked outside finally couldn't help but take action. They first beat the doorman of the tax office, and then planned to rush in. The people in the tax office naturally would not let them get what they wanted, so both sides were

The front yard of the tax office confronted each other. Just when Ma Liang was really impatient and was about to take over the tax office with tough means, Consul Cheng rushed out and pointed at Ma Liang and the others and scolded him. As a result, he just hit a gun.
Chapter completed!