chicken!

Chicken everywhere!

Shi Yiwen is of course very clear about this. Even if he doesn't go to search for it, those "chicken" will come to him. After all, now he has long been "notorious" in Jiangnan.

"This time, let's kill him all over the place!"

Lying in the cabin, Shi Yiwen silently thought that after drinking two glasses before going to bed, he naturally fell asleep.

In the next few days, the official ship headed south along the canal. Unless he passed through Chaoguan, Shi Yiwen would never get off the boat and go to the shore. Even if he arrived on the shore, he would only meet with the Tax Department and the tax collector in Chaoguan Gongtang. The reason for this was that he did not want to give others the opportunity to impeach.

But even so, there were still pairs of eyes staring at Shi Yiwen, staring at his every move. Especially after the ship passed by Linqing, there were fast horses every day to report his every move back to some cases in Nanjing.

The flower boat leaving the Qinhuai River was blown by the night wind, and the wine was fading a little. When he got home, Li Zhen's wine was awake after drinking two cups of tea, and his eyes returned to clear. Just as he was about to read a book, he saw that the slave Li Liu came in, and he waved his hand and said.

"Just come and talk!"

Even after receiving the order, Li Liu still saluted.

"I've met the master."

As a slave, these rules must always be kept under the control of them, and they must not be without magnanimity.

Seeing Li Liu, who had just rushed back to Nanjing for hundreds of miles, looked like he was exhausted. Seeing this, Li Zhen pushed a cup of tea and said.

"Sit down and take a breath and have a tea first."

"I thank you little one."

After drinking a sip of tea, Li Liu sat down.

"Thank you for your hard work these days. How has the news I asked you to inquire about?"

When Li Liuyi heard this, he quickly put down the teacup and said.

"Master, the villain followed him all the way from Jinan. The person along the way had never been to other places except to Chaoguan. Even if he went to Chaoguan, he would still meet the tax department and tax collector in the court..."

When he said this, Li Liu was obviously very proud of his achievements, so he looked a little proud. He picked up the cup and took a sip to moisten his throat, then took out a small notebook from his arms, handed it over with both hands.

"Master, the things the young man checked are all recorded here. Let me first talk about what the man did along the way. On the surface, he went to the cash gates for business, but in fact, it was for the supervision of taxes. He even asked the cash gates in various places to investigate the prices of various commercial goods one by one, and divided the goods into hundreds of types, and then taxed them according to the different goods. Just like in the past, they used to transport wine. In the past, it was nothing more than rice wine or steamed wine, and the price was calculated at 200 pounds per 100 pounds. But now, rice wine alone had to be divided into upper, middle and lower third grade wine, and lower one hundred pounds per 100 pounds per 100 pounds of wine, and the top 100 pounds of wine may be as high as more than ten taels of silver. The villain thinks that he is here to open a new pass along the way, and it is clearly to scrape the ground. If he continues to do this, most of our merchants in Nanzhili will go bankrupt."

Although he is a slave, Li Liu, as a confidant of the master, also has his own business. Of course, he knew that it is most reasonable to tax the price according to different types, but in his opinion, this is simply "official exploitation."

"I'm really a bad official!"

Li Zhen browed when the slave said:

"The taxes are too heavy, and the profits are quite high in the short term, but in fact they are just fishing in the dry pond. Such a bad official actually has the emperor's order and serves as the imperial envoy. Don't the lords in the capital know the suffering of the people in the world? They don't know that exploiting the people in this way will be of great harm to the country and the world..."

Li Zhen said again as he complained.

"But these methods are probably what he has planned for a long time. The reason why the Prime Minister agreed to set up a new Four Cash Pass this time was probably to suppress the kings of Nanzhili. He wanted to borrow his hand to muddle the water in the pool. Zhang Juzheng is really a toxic thought!"

He pondered for a long time, then secretly thought about it in his heart before asking.

"I understand this. Does he have other illegal acts to impeach?"

Hearing this, Li Liu frowned slightly, and then he shook his head and said.

"Along the way, he did everything he could do without leaking water. He stopped at the Chaoguan Wharf. He never approached anywhere along the way. Even when he arrived at Chaoguan, he met everyone in the public housing, and then got on the boat and left, never receiving anyone's gift."

After a pause, Li Liu said confidently.

"However, even so, when the villain pretended to be a peddler selling wine and food, he still learned from the tax collector of the cashier that every time he got on the boat, he would lift it down and lift it up a few boxes, and the portion was quite heavy. The small one thought that there must be something shameful in those boxes. Maybe those boxes contained the filial piety of each cashier. After all, the cashier has been a fat man since ancient times, how could the hands and feet of the individual tax officials be clean? They just stuck ordinary tax collectors!"

Looking at the thoughtful master, Li Liu said softly.

"So, the young man thought that his ship must be filled with silver goods now. Moreover, it seemed that the draught of the ship was getting deeper and deeper. The young man probably would have to hold less than ten or twenty-hundred thousand taels of silver on his ship when he arrived in Nanjing. After all, the money he had been charged for a month now, it would have been a year since he had been charged!"

"What a corrupt official!"

After snorting, Li Zhen's brows frowned suddenly, and then said annoyedly.

"But it's just that the general tax department is so greedy, and he doesn't hesitate to earn a huge bribe of tens of thousands of taels. Do you really think that I, the Ming Dynasty, have no king's laws?"

Although he was the Minister of Justice of Nanjing, Li Zhen knew the rules of the officialdom. When Shangguan visited, the individual tax departments would definitely respect Shangguan. This is the rules of the officialdom since ancient times. It is of course easy to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver for one banknote, so naturally there is no doubt about this.

"Master, look at what you said, what is he afraid of? Now he is an imperial envoy. According to the rules, let alone a cashier, even officials along the way must be polite when they see him. After all, they are an imperial envoy!"

The slave seemed to say casually, but Li Zhen was furious and slapped on the table with a "slap" and shouted loudly.

"I didn't expect that there were such corrupt officials under my bright and bright world. No wonder the people in the world have been suffering for a long time. How can the people in the world not suffer if such corrupt officials hold the money? If he cannot be punished this time, how can Li be worthy of the people in the world..."

He said righteousness. After saying this, Li Zhen ordered Li Liu again.
Chapter completed!