The heavy rain fell on the sea and was immediately swallowed up by the waves without causing any waves to stir up.
On a rainy night, several large ships docked at the port, like sleeping giants.
There were lights on the boat flickering dimly, on and off.
A customs inspector wearing a raincoat, with two or three people, impatiently took a small boat and jumped onto the moored ship.
On the big ship, the steward led a few sailors and greeted him with a smile.
"I'm really sorry that I bothered you, Brother Zhang, to come here in person today!" the manager said with a smile.
Then, he quickly waved his hands and asked people to help the tax collectors and others take off their raincoats and serve them hot tea.
The tax collector surnamed Zhang was obviously the leader of these tax collectors. He was wearing a soapy blue public uniform. He opened his mouth and cursed with a smile, "You know I'm working hard, why do you go to sea at this time? You are the same. If you don't go out in good weather, you have to do this.
When the bad weather comes out, isn't it difficult for people?"
"Oh, my dear brother!" The steward of the merchant ship looked older than Zhang Tax Collector, but he still called him affectionately, "I don't want to be a clerk, but my boss said that this batch of goods will be shipped to Quanzhou."
It’s urgent, otherwise, in this weather, who wouldn’t want to have his wife and children at home warming up on the kang!”
The tax collector surnamed Zhang sat down on the big horse in the cabin, and said with a sideways smile, "What the hell, you businessmen, as long as you make money, you will come out with knives from heaven." He sighed, "
Hey, even though I am wearing official clothes, compared with you, you are still living a good life!"
"Look at what you said, you are the one who runs errands for the emperor, and the little ones are just busy working for the sake of chewing grain. One is in the sky and the other is on the ground. Even if the little people make some hard-earned money, how can they compare with you?
Just one word from you can cut off the wealth of these little people!" The manager flattered with a smile.
Tax collector Zhang smiled and said, "Okay, I don't have time to listen to your nonsense." After that, he said to the people following him, "Brothers, you have worked hard, let's start working!"
"Ask all ships to open their cargo holds!" A stern-faced man next to Tax Collector Zhang shouted, "Take out the reported receipts and we will verify them!"
"You should, you should!" the steward said with a smile, "You guys have already prepared these things!" As he said that, he took out the customs stamped sea-going certificate and the voucher for the goods from his sleeves, and handed them over
into the hands of tax collector Zhang.
Tax collector Zhang took it, opened the stacked bills, and immediately smiled.
At the top of the bill, there is a Dade Heng Longtou bank note that can be redeemed immediately at location Z. The letter of the bank note has the character "Five" written on it.
At that moment, Tax Collector Zhang folded up the banknotes calmly, handed the bills to the people around him, and said with a smile, "People from the Zhou family are sensible and know the rules, so we don't have to worry about it!"
"That's it, that's it, you can't see it without looking up. How can we have the courage to cause trouble for you, Brother Zhang!" The manager smiled, "The goods on the ship are exactly the same as those on the ticket. The sea route to Quanzhou
The ticket is also newly stamped yesterday!"
"Go, check it out!" Tax Collector Zhang said to the people around him.
Several of the men who got on the boat with him went their separate ways.
"There's nothing taboo on the ship, right?" Tax Collector Zhang asked in a low voice in the cabin.
"How can you not!" the steward said hurriedly, "How dare you, a villain, to cause trouble for you!"
Tax Collector Zhang pinched the banknotes on his sleeve, nodded, and shouted to a few people working outside, "Brothers, be smart, we are all sticky in this damn weather!"
After a while, several tax collectors came back in the rain.
The so-called inspection is just a show-off. If we really want to investigate, the three ships cannot be investigated clearly by just a few of them.
"It's almost done!" a tax collector said to Zhang.
"Okay!" Tax Collector Zhang stood up and said, "Let us go then!" After saying that, he looked askance at the steward of the merchant ship.
"Then please give me your seal!" The steward handed over a bill, and at the same time quietly took a large bowl of money bags from the hands of the people behind him, and stuffed it directly into the hands of a tax collector. "Thank you for your hard work."
, some tea leaves, you can go back and drink it!"
The tax collector took it with a smile, weighed it, nodded and smiled, and put it in his arms.
This bag of money contains only one hundred if not two hundred. If they divide it among them, they will get most of half a year's salary. When they go back later, Zhang Tax Collector will surely be able to leak it through his fingers.
The customs errand is really something that even a county magistrate would not change.
Get the money quickly and easily!
The tax collector Zhang took out the public seal from his waist and stamped the book.
"okay!"
"Hurry up and send them off!" the steward of the merchant ship laughed and ordered the sailors.
With this book on how to get out of customs, you will not be afraid even if you encounter an official ship on the sea, and you will have a smooth journey after you get out of customs.
"Let's go!" Zhang tax collector put on his raincoat again, walked to the edge of the boat, and climbed up the ladder to get into the boat.
However, just as he was about to start, his movements suddenly stopped and he looked at the dark sea in confusion.
Over there, lights suddenly lit up, and several small boats came against the wind and rain, breaking through the waves.
"What kind of boat is this in this weather?" Zhang the tax collector murmured.
"That's right!" The steward of the merchant ship was also a little confused. Then when the boats got closer and closer, his confused expression turned into panic, "Jin Yiwei's flying fish flag!"
However, it was too late. Several small boats were extremely fast and approached the big ship directly.
On the small boat, the fans in Feiyu uniforms shouted in unison.
"Jin Yiwei investigates the case, lowers the anchor and lowers the sail, and any offender will be shot without mercy!"
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Bang bang bang, one after another, the tough Jin Yiwei fans jumped onto the ship with knives and crossbows, forming a triangle attack formation on the bow.
The steward of the merchant ship suppressed his panic, stepped forward to meet him, and took a closer look.
"Ah, isn't this Li Qianhu? What kind of wind has brought you here? Are you going to do a random inspection? The villain's boat..."
Bang, the leader of the Ningbo Command Post, Qianhu Li Yi, gave him a big slap in the face.
"Bitch, did you call me my name?"
"It's over!" The merchant ship steward immediately felt desperate.
On the surface, he is the steward of these three ships, but in fact he is highly regarded by his employer, otherwise such important tasks would not be entrusted to him. In Ningbo City, as a steward, he also has a certain face in official circles.
Jin Yiwei had never randomly inspected the Zhou family's merchant ships. Li Qianhu had met him a few times on weekdays, and they were always polite when meeting him. Today, he suddenly came here with a businesslike tone.
It’s over!
"Master Li!" The manager was so shrewd that he smiled flatteringly, regardless of the stars in his eyes, "You are so angry, oh, come into the cabin and have a rest. I have no rules and I have offended you, so don't be angry!"
Li Yi squinted at the people on the bow, including the stewards, sailors, clerks, and a few tax collectors hiding in the corner.
They were just tax collectors, but the sailors were all tall, broad-shouldered men, and they all looked like they were practicing craftsmen.
"Take out all kinds of bills and check them!" Li Yi said loudly.
"This..." The manager suddenly became speechless.
"Take it out!" Li Yi yelled.
The steward looked around and saw that more and more Jin Yiwei fans were boarding the ship, and their expressions were not good, so he could only hand over the bill, "Master Li, the Zhou family's ship, you don't want to look at the monk's face..."
Pa, another mouth slap came.
Li Yi snorted coldly, "It's your Zhou family who are being arrested!"
Before he finished speaking, the bill in his hand had been taken away by Zhang Dabiao next to him, and he shouted, "Brothers, search carefully!"
The silent dock suddenly boiled.
The Jin Yi guards carried rain-proof lamps and began to check in the cargo hold in groups of three to five.
"Tsk, tsk, I'm going to Quanzhou!" Zhang Dabiao looked at the receipt in his hand and said disdainfully, "You're just fooling the devil!"
The merchant ship steward was horrified, "Who is this sir?"
"I am your father!" Zhang Dabiao looked at him coldly, full of ridicule.
Suddenly, Jin Yiwei's shout came from the cabin not far away, "Sir Qianhu, there is something fishy. There is a mezzanine in the cargo hold. It contains cowhide, horns and tendon!"
"Huh?" Zhang Dabiao's face suddenly turned ferocious.
Cowhide, horns, and tendons were strictly controlled items in the Ming Dynasty because these were the materials for making good bows.
Suddenly, Zhang Dabiao rushed over regardless of the rain on his head.
"Didn't you fucking say there's nothing illegal?" Tax Collector Zhang angrily cursed at the merchant ship steward.
"What's the use of talking about this now?" The steward jumped, "Come here, go and notify me!"
"Big boss, brothers can't leave. There are hundreds of guards all around!"
Suddenly, the steward's face turned pale and he shouted, "Quick, let those people in the dark cabin hide!"
But at this moment, before he could finish his words, an exclamation came from the cabin.
"Someone!"
"Bagaya Deer..."
On a rainy night, a ghost screamed.
Several ghostly figures rushed out of the dark cabin waving scimitars taller than their bodies.
"Japanese......"
As soon as the nearest Jin Yiwei opened his mouth, he felt a heat in his chest, and a knife had already been cut across his chest.
Blood spilled on the deck.
"Japanese pirates!"
Zhang Dabiao roared, carrying the nine-ring sword in his hand, and went straight up.
"Bah!"
Holding the knife with both hands, the nine-ring knife struck down in the air.
Under the light, a Japanese man, neither a human nor a ghost, was unable to dodge, so he screamed and blocked with a knife.
With a click, half of the Japanese sword fell into the sea.
The nine-ring sword in Zhang Dabiao's hand not only cut off the long sword in the Japanese pirate's hand, but also directly split half of the Japanese's body.
With a bang, blood and internal organs fell to the ground, and the two separated corpses looked like two pieces of pork.
Zhang Dabiao struck down the sword with a nine-ring sword, turned the handle of the sword upside down, and hit the other Japanese man directly in the face with a bang.
With a pop, the Japanese man fell straight onto the deck.
Swish, swish, the powerful crossbows in the hands of the Jinyi guards were also fired at several jumping Japanese.
"Big Biao!" He Guangyi stood on the bow of the merchant ship and shouted, "Stay alive!"