In a court trial, Cao Yong died on the spot, and the wife of the Hua family went crazy. Here, Cao Zhan was holding his father's body in pain, and over there, the Hua Pao family was holding their mother's urgent shouts. The government officials on both sides were heartbroken when they witnessed this tragedy.
Unable to bear it, the judge got the order from the Imperial Envoy and gently closed the case: Since the criminal Cao Yong was dead, no one was charged with criminal liability in this case. The Cao family paid seven hundred taels of silver to the Hua family.
This matter has been settled like this. Including the compensation for cutting off Old Man Hua's arm, the total is one thousand taels of silver, which is a lot of money. The Hua family has been hit by this and has no intention of pursuing it any further. Thank you.
Thanks to the great master's kindness, he took the crazy woman and went back to find the doctor.
After the Cao family was wiped out, Liu Ziguang did not beat up the drowned dog. Instead, he mercifully allowed the Cao family's wife, children, and children to return to their hometown. Except for the large property such as the farm and real estate that was used as official property, all the small things in the family were kept. Of course,
These soft items are also leftover after the selection by the red shirt team.
Cao Zhan was acquitted and returned home in confusion, only to find that the servants in the house had been gone for ten times and seven times, and everything was in a mess. His mother, grandmother, and aunts were panic-stricken and at a loss. The men in the family had not been released yet.
, the old man was about to be escorted to Beijing. After Cao Yong died, no one in the family could even organize the funeral.
Now the only male in the Cao family is Cao Zhan, so he has no choice but to be strong and take care of things. He was about to call the book boy Mingyan to help, but he heard that the little book boy had kidnapped a maid and ran away. The world is really bleak.
Cao Zhan gritted his teeth, took the money and went out alone to look for a coffin shop and a candle and paper horse shop.
The Weaving Department is a highly professional yamen. It was originally just a yamen set up for the palace to purchase silk and satin cloth. Now it has gradually developed into a government-run giant monopoly. The private weavers in Suzhou and Hangzhou have been severely squeezed by Jiangnan Weaving. This kind of
The deformed production system is very unscientific. Regardless of the staggering amount of silk and satin cloth sold all over the country and even overseas every year, in fact, profits cannot be maximized because the production and marketing links are controlled by some mediocre people who do not understand the principle of long-term success.
A large amount of silk and satin was sent to foreign countries, and Chinese silk, which was originally a luxury product, was sold at a carrot and cabbage price, resulting in the current situation that the higher the output, the lower the profit. The officials took the kickbacks and didn't care about it, they just kept going.
The government imposed heavy tasks on the craftsmen and households below, and did not provide sufficient rations and subsidies, leaving one hundred thousand Jiangnan Weaving craftsmen in a state of poverty for a long time.
Although Liu Ziguang brought a group of technical officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, they were separated from each other, and asking them to manage Jiangnan Weaving was obviously a bit of a rush. Therefore, Liu Ziguang had to re-appoint the original Weaving Department officials and retain technical personnel.
Next, the administrative staff were driven away, and the two large factories of the suspended Dyeing and Dyeing Bureau and the General Weaving Bureau were restarted as soon as possible. Hua Pao re-entered the factory as a secret agent stationed in the Weaving Bureau of the South Factory, and Hua Laohan was also re-employed.
As technicians, in addition to doing their jobs well, the father and son also have the task of monitoring the officials of the Weaving Department.
Liu Ziguang was not worried about anyone trying to antagonize his foreign workers. He could not kill Cao Yin casually, but the following small foremen were not so lucky. Within two days, several foremans were arrested for sabotaging production and spreading rumors and causing trouble.
The factory boss was beheaded in public, and who wouldn’t be afraid of the bloody head hanging on the flagpole? In the past, workers were killed, but now they are killing supervisors. In addition, with the full rations and the imperial envoy’s original excess bonus, the workers
They are very motivated and the output increases very quickly. The output in one day can catch up with the output in the previous three days.
The Suzhou Weaving Bureau has an annual output of 30,000 pieces of silk and satin, and the Songjiang Weaving Bureau has an annual output of 30 million pieces of cotton cloth. In addition to supplying these pieces of silk and satin cloth to the imperial court and selling them nationwide, a considerable part of them are exported from Shanghai and sold to overseas countries.
Shanghai was originally a county under Songjiang Prefecture. Later, because of the Wusong deep-water port, overseas cargo ships loaded and unloaded goods here for consumption, and gradually developed into the largest and richest city in the south of the Yangtze River. The administrative level was also changed from county to road.
, Dao is not the name of an administrative district but a supervisory area. However, Shanghai is just a huge port city and does not have prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction. In view of the uniqueness of this city, the imperial court specifically gave Shanghai a level of Zhili Dao. The chief of the Dao
He is called the governor, and his rank is the same as that of the governors of other provinces. He is a second-grade official.
Shanghai has the largest port promotion department in the country. The port promotion department is a specialized agency of the imperial court to manage overseas trade. It has been established in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Quanzhou, Fujian, and Ningbo, Zhejiang since the third year of Hongwu. The one in Guangdong is specially for Annan.
(Vietnam), Siam (Thailand), Manchuria (Malaysia), and Chenla (Cambodia) were set up to pay tribute to various countries. The one in Zhejiang was specially set up for Japanese tribute. The one in Fujian was specially set up for Ryukyu tribute.
The Shanghai Ship Lifting Department is the latest one. It was established twenty years ago. It targets merchant ships from all over the world, whether they are red-haired or blond, whether they are barbarians or Rakshasa, as long as they carry gold, silver, and cargo.
, they are all guests welcomed by Shanghai Shipping Company.
The responsibilities of the Municipal Shipping Department mainly include: 1. According to the goods declared by the merchant, the people on the ship and the place to go, issue a public certificate (certificate, public inspection), that is, a sea-going license; 2. Send people on board the ship for "inspection"
, to prevent the entrainment of weapons, women's mouths, fugitive soldiers, etc.; 3. "Read the truth" on the ships returning to the port; 4. Implement a points system for imported and exported goods, that is, divide the goods into thick and thin colors, and the government will draw a number of shares according to a certain proportion. This is actually
It is a kind of physical form of city shipping tax; the goods drawn must be delivered to the capital (drawing); 5 certain goods transported by ships are purchased at the prescribed price (bombing); 6 after drawing points, drawing and buying,
The remaining goods must still be issued with a public certificate according to the shipping company's standards before they are allowed to be shipped to other places.
In other words, the Municipal Shipping Department is equivalent to the role of the customs. In addition to collecting tariffs on imported goods, certain taxes are also charged on exported goods. In addition, it also shoulders the responsibility of anti-smuggling, which plays a very important role. The Shanghai Shipping Department is run by Shanghai Dao
The governor is led by a person promoted from the fifth rank who directly manages, and there are a number of deputy officials and officials below. It is obviously not enough for these people to manage such a large city shipping department, so a large number of non-staff personnel are recruited, and even the city shipping department
There is also a medium-sized naval anti-smuggling fleet below.
The Suzhou Weaving Bureau happens to have a large export order of 3,000 pieces of silk and satin. The contract was signed long ago. Now that Cao Yin's case has arisen, there was a temporary delay. Shanghai has sent several 600-mile express trains over here.
Reminder, the distance between Suzhou and Shanghai is very close. The craftsmen are working hard overnight, preparing to load the truck and send it to Shanghai as soon as it is rushed out.
Also planning to rush to Shanghai with this batch of silk and satin is the special train of the Imperial Envoy Liu Ziguang. The Shanghai Shipping Office is also one of the objects he wants to review. Although this yamen does not have as many people as Jiangnan Weaving, it collects more tax money every year.
It is as high as ten million taels, which accounts for a large proportion of the national fiscal revenue of the Nanming court. Of course, such an important institution must be strictly supervised. If you relax even a little bit, there will be money in vain. According to the Nanchang
Intelligence shows that a low-level official in Shanghai's Shipping Department can build a courtyard with three acres in the city, buy an elegant garden in Suzhou, and have more than three concubines at home who are too embarrassed to say hello to others.
You have to have a gentle woman from the Japanese country to be considered decent. According to statistics, the number of foreign cargo ships entering the port increases by 20 to 30% every year, and the cargo surges. However, the money handed over by the Shipping Department to the Ministry of Accounts is getting less and less day by day. This
But it's very abnormal.
Where did the money collected by the Shipping Department from overseas cargo ships go? Liu Ziguang really wanted to find out, but there was one person who wanted to know more than him. This person was sitting in Liu Ziguang's carriage right now. She was Rishengchang's daughter-in-law.
Shopkeeper Hu Yimin.
Not everyone knows that there is no money in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Hu Yimin is one of the few people. Even the military salary for this year's Northern Expedition to the Manchu Qing Dynasty was borrowed from the Rishengchang bank account by the Ministry of Household Affairs. The imperial court borrowed it.
The money can't be just empty talk. It was the Empress Dowager who made the decision and used the customs money from the Shanghai Shipping Department as a guarantee. However, the money turned over by the Shanghai Shipping Department is getting less and less year by year. This makes shopkeeper Hu Da
They were extremely angry, so they took advantage of Liu Ziguang's inspection of Jiangnan to go to Shanghai to investigate the reasons for the reduction of tariffs. Ri Shengchang and Zhenwu Bo had formed a secret political alliance, and Liu Ziguang naturally agreed to this matter. With Ri Shengchang,
With the addition of Chang, the investigation work will definitely be easier. After all, they have a lot of professional financial personnel, and the number of martial arts masters they recruit is no less than that of Nanchang.
Liu Ziguang's troubles in Suzhou must have aroused vigilance in Shanghai, so he decided to escape from his shell and rushed to Shanghai for a private visit. While the special train was still parked on the Suzhou platform, Liu Ziguang and Hu Yimin's carriage had already entered the bustling city.
of Shanghai Beach.
After the eldest princess and her party set off from the capital, they stopped and stopped, admiring the scenery and culture along the way. They visited Leifeng Pagoda in Zhenjiang, visited Tianning Temple in Changzhou, and tasted famous local snacks and snacks. The leading eunuch thought that since the princess was out to relax,
Yes, you might as well see more of these famous scenic spots. Who knew that people were going specifically to Zhenwu Bo? Although Zhu Cheng wanted to rush to Suzhou as soon as possible, he was embarrassed to say so and didn't want to let down people's good intentions.
So she suppressed her longing and obeyed their arrangements, so the train drove very slowly. When Liu Ziguang had already arrived in Shanghai, she was still wandering around Wuxi.