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    Zhang Pu, who has been in Suoxuegua for more than ten years, finally failed to survive this year.  What's more, he didn't die in the winter when the old disease often relapsed, but died in the early summer when there was always no disease or disaster.  After discussion by the Ministry of Rites, the emperor granted him the posthumous title "Wen Duan".

    Seventy-five-year-old Lou Qianyi returned home after paying tribute to Zhang Bo, feeling rather complicated.  Another old friend is gone, more and more in the past few years, there are friends and enemies, and I don't know how long I can live.

    Qian Qianyi sighed with emotion in Nanjing, but he didn't know that his son was already anxious like an ant in Shanghai.  In Shanghai County, in a mansion in the countryside.

    Xie Sanbin said to the two partners, "The imperial court wants to thoroughly investigate the tariffs, and the imperial envoy is on the way. The first batch of ports to be investigated are Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Dengzhou. After the investigation of these six places,  There will be a second batch and a third batch." "Is there any problem with our account?" Xu Fan asked.

    Xu Fan was the second son of Xu Xiake. As for his eldest son Concubine Xu, when the Datong Army recovered Jiangyin, she was killed by Xu's slaves in an uprising.  Qian Qianyi, Xie Sanbin, and Xu Xiake started a company together to do business.  The Qian family and the Xu family are responsible for the supply, while the Xie family is responsible for overseas trade.  With Qian Qianyi going to Nanjing to serve as an official, and Xu Xiake recuperating at home all year round, Xie Sanbin, Guo Ruyi and Xu Fan are now really managing the business.

    Xie Sanbin said, "Our account is definitely fine, but I'm afraidthe official store's account will not match"

    The official store is not a store, but a common name for an institution that collects domestic trade taxes.  Zhengde and Wanli launched Huangzhuang Huangdian, among which the Huangdian is for tax collection, not a royal shop.

    The central official store is called Xuankesi, and the local official store is called Tongkesi.

    ? In order to encourage commercial trade, Zhao Han no longer set up tax cards at various levels, but only collected once at the starting point (in special locations, there are tolls in the middle, which are charged according to the size of the vessel, and land transportation is charged according to vehicles and livestock).

    Take Shu brocade as an example, if it is to be shipped to Shanghai for export.  Then, when leaving Sichuan, the shipping agent must pay half of the tax to obtain a commercial ticket, which states the type, quantity, and location of the goods.  After arriving in Shanghai, these Shu brocades have to be inspected and paid at the Shanghai General Department.  If it is found by the inspection department that there is no commercial ticket, or the commercial ticket does not match the goods, the company license will be canceled immediately and a fine of ten times the smuggled goods will be imposed! Qian's family is in Changshu, Xu's family is in Jiangyin, although they are very close to Shanghai  , but the cotton cloth produced by the two companies needs a commercial ticket to be shipped to Shanghai.  These commercial invoices clearly stated the information of the goods, and they were fully reported to the Shanghai General Department.  Coastal smuggling is easy to operate, but inland smuggling is not easy.

    The General Departments are located in the traffic arteries, and you can go around quietly if you want, but the transportation costs will increase exponentially, and it is very likely that you will be inspected halfway.  And bribing the officials of the general tax department is even more nonsense. The tax is paid in half at the starting point. For the goods shipped from Jiangyin to Shanghai, you have to bribe the officials of Jiangyin and Shanghai at the same time, and let the tax officials of the two counties make false accounts with you.

    The farther the transportation distance, the less likely it is to evade taxes. It is awesome to be able to bribe Sichuan and Shanghai officials at the same time.

    What's more, the goods of these three companies are not only from Jiangyin and Changshu.  The cotton cloth they produce is not enough, and they will buy other products, such as tobacco, porcelain, and tea from Jiangxi.  Jiangxi merchants transport goods to Shanghai, they must report and pay taxes at the general department!

    If the Procuratorate cannot find out the customs and maritime problems, it will investigate the company that has been shipping goods to Shanghai for a long time.  Company A ships goods to Shanghai every year. Who did you sell the goods to? Oh, it turned out to be Company B.  Who did you sell Company B to? Finally, it was found out that Company C, which is engaged in foreign trade, did not match the trade accounts of the three companies, so someone must be evading taxes or smuggling.

    Qian Ruyi inherited his father's fine qualities, and at this moment he was so cowardly, he said anxiously: "Why don't we surrender to the Procuratorate. Our business company has only been evading taxes for four years, and it has not been involved in smuggling.  You can let it go lightly."

    Xu Fan was a little moved, his father Xu Xiake knew the emperor.  Qian Ruyi's biological father, Qian Qianyi, was also a celebrity in front of the emperor.  With the face of the two elders, and the act of turning himself in, most of them are just fines, and the most serious is the revocation of the company license.

    "You can't turn yourself in," Xie Sanbin frowned, "We also bribed the officials of the Maritime Department (Customs), and we will definitely have our maritime trade license revoked. - Zhang Haimao license is a white mountain of silver. We have a criminal record. In the future  Don't even think about getting a license again' After hearing this, Xu Fan hesitated again, he was really reluctant to part with the money.

    However, Qian Ruyi said, "You have forgotten that a few years ago, when the country's land administration was cleaned up, how many powerful officials were beheaded and exiled to the current emperor. They can't rub the sand in their eyes. The Shanghai Shipping Department must be investigated. How can we escape by then?"

    Xie Sanbin still had a fluke mentality, "Which maritime merchant does not evade taxes, which maritime merchant does not bribe officials, if all are investigated and dealt with according to the regulations, and all licenses are revoked, the maritime trade will not be able to do business in the future. Without the maritime trade tax, the court will lose tens of millions of taels of tax every year.  Silver. So, even if the emperor wants to completelyIf we investigate, we will only deal with those officials.  We are maritime merchants, at most we will accept the punishment.  " "Indeed.  "Xu Fan nodded.

    Qian Ruyi said, "Since everyone has to accept the punishment, why not surrender themselves and get a lighter punishment."

    Xie Sanbin shook his head and said, "We are the first to jump out, and we will not be regarded as a typical example. We will be dealt with severely. There are so many sea merchants involved, so we may not be found out. If we are lucky, we will save money if we are not found out."  A lot of fines." "That's justified." Xu Fan was persuaded, and he didn't even want to pay the fine.

    Xie Sanbin is just an old fritter, bold in the face of the government, but timid in the face of the enemy.

    He was originally the Minister of Taipusi of the Ming Dynasty, and was transferred to Shandong as an official during the Chongzhen period.  It coincided with the uprising of the White Lotus Sect, and this guy had been hiding in the city passively avoiding the battle. He waited for the friendly army to win the battle before rushing out to snatch the results of the battle. He made millions of taels of silver by suppressing the White Lotus Sect.

    Historically, the Manchu Qing army went south, and the former minister of the Ming Dynasty, Shang Cheng, formed a rebel army.  Because Xie Sanbin had wiped out the White Lotus Sect in Shandong, he must know how to fight better than ordinary scholars, so Xie Sanbin was publicly elected as the commander of the rebel army.  Xie Sanbin directly rebuffed, "The power is like pressing on an egg, if you are not afraid of death" (the Qing army fighting the rebels is like stepping on an egg, are you not afraid of death)

    This kind of person, only with a knife on his neck, will he truly plead guilty and submit to the law.

    Xie Sanbin and Xu Fan quickly reached a consensus. During the investigation of the customs by the imperial court, they paid taxes according to the regulations and did business obediently.  If you are found out, you will accept the punishment, if you are not found out, you will escape disaster.  As for the future situation, see step by step, if the investigation is strict, it will operate legally, and if the investigation is not strict, it will continue to evade taxes.  When Qian Ruyi returned to his hometown in Changshu, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

    This guy got up the next day and called his son to say, "Prepare the boat quietly, and go to Nanjing for my father. If relatives and friends visit, I will say that I have a serious illness and it is inconvenient to see guests." Qian Ruyi took a boat all the way to Nanjing, and met Qian Qianyi  Explain the situation.

    Qian Qianyi was horrified, "I didn't hear any news in Nanjing. How did Xie Sanbin know that the Procuratorate was going to investigate the case?"

    "He has a fart in the court," Qian Qianyi trembled with fright, "Xie Sanbin can get the news in advance, I am afraid that many officials and businessmen in Shanghai will know about it, and the emperor will be furious about it. This is worse than maritime merchants evading taxes.  Seriously!' Qian Ruyi was even more frightened, "Thenthen what should I do?"

    "I have already said who the current emperor is, and told you to operate legally. Why are you coveting those tariffs?" Qian Qianyi asked.  Qian Ruyi said, "Father, there is more than just a little tariff. Our business is getting bigger and bigger, and we can save four to five thousand taels of silver every year."

    "Four or five thousand taels" Qian Qianyi was about to go mad, picked up his crutches and beat, "Just for four or five thousand taels, or three families to share, one family can only get less than two thousand taels. For two thousand taels of silver every year  , you don't even care about your own father's official position?  !

    Qian Qianyi didn't hurt his son, and he was dizzy from exhaustion. He supported the table and slowed down for a while, "Go, follow me into the palace immediately, surrender yourself to the emperor, and tell everything you know."

    Qian Ruyi asked, "Xie Sanbin and Xu Fan, do you want to send someone to inform?" Qian Qianyi was furious, "I will inform his ancestors, let them die" Forbidden City.

    "Qian Qianyi brought his son to see him"

    Zhao Han didn't understand for a while, and thought that Qian Qianyi was old and wanted to find an official for his son in the Imperial Academy.  After leaving the Qian family and his son out for a while, Zhao Han settled down with the affairs at hand before ordering them to be interviewed.

    The moment Qian Qianyi entered the palace, he knelt down and kowtowed. While kowtowing, he crawled in and cried, "Your Majesty forgive me, I have no way to teach my son'

    Zhao Han didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Get up, and talk if you have something to say."

    Qian Ruyi also knelt down, and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I have only evaded taxes for four years. According to the company's shares, I only evaded taxes of more than a thousand taels a year. It's all It's all Xie Sanbin's idea, he said no  "Tax evasion" Zhao Han's smile disappeared, "Shanghai Shipbuilding Division's tariff" Qian Ruyi said, "Exactly, Your Majesty, please forgive me."

    Zhao Han said with a gloomy expression: "Calculate the time, people from the Procuratorate, the Ministry of Finance and the bank, I'm afraid they have just arrived in Shanghai right now, how did you know the news?"

    Qian Ruyi said, "Xie Sanbin told you." "Very good, very good." Zhao Han gritted his teeth.

    Just as Qian Qianyi guessed, compared to customs corruption, the emperor was more angry about leaking the news. This is because there are ghosts among the court's investigators! Zhao Han suppressed his anger, "Tell me everything you know."

    Qian Ruyi hurriedly poured beans out of the bamboo tube, and vomited out all the beans that were missing.  Not much is known about this guy. He is mainly responsible for the supply in the company, and Xie Sanbin is responsible for evading customs duties.

    However, he reported the second in command of the Shanghai Platinum Division.  It is said that this man's son is very ostentatious in Shanghai, and travels in extremely luxurious carriages. It is rumored that there is an orchid in his family worth five thousand taels of silver.

    Zhao Han found that he could not get the important inside story, so he said, "You go to the National Security Institute and explain the case." Qian Ruyi opened his mouth wide, "National National Security Institute." Who the hell doesn't know, the National Security Institute is Jinyiwei.?Operation.

    However, he reported the second in command of the Shanghai Platinum Division.  It is said that this man's son is very ostentatious in Shanghai, and travels in extremely luxurious carriages. It is rumored that there is an orchid in his family worth five thousand taels of silver.

    Zhao Han found that he could not get the important inside story, so he said, "You go to the National Security Institute and explain the case." Qian Ruyi opened his mouth wide, "National National Security Institute." Who the hell doesn't know, the National Security Institute is Jinyiwei.
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