Not long after Gu Yan dropped the request for an order, the order from the Ministry of Revenue was quickly delivered before it arrived.
Prince Rui took charge of the Ministry of Accounts, and ordered his son Gu Yan to assist in the affairs of the Jiangnan Sea Taxation Department.
The three officers of the Customs and Excise Department frowned at the thin piece of paper.
Shilang Wang is the most indifferent among the three ministers. He is the lowest in rank and the least senior. Let’s first listen to what Shilang Du and Shilang Luo think. He always agrees with them.
Minister Luo lowered his eyelids and concentrated on drinking tea.
The head of the Jiangnan Sea Taxation Department is Du Shilang. Du Shilang has the final say on how to handle this matter!
Minister Du frowned, looked at Minister Luo, then at Minister Wang, and lowered his eyes to drink tea.
The three of them sat across from each other and drank two or three cups of tea. Du Shilang put down the cup and let out a long sigh, "The prince wants to clean up the Jiangnan Sea Taxation Department. This idea is not just a day or two. I don't know how many times he has done it overtly and covertly."
, Now that the prince is really here, you two should talk about it."
Shilang Wang looked at Shilang Luo, and Shilang Luo looked at Shilang Du, "Our Customs and Excise Department has always followed your lead. Please tell us the regulations."
Shilang Du looked at Shilang Luo speechlessly.
Mr. Luo smiled dryly and said, "At least I listen to you."
"Me too." Wang Shilang immediately answered.
"Since Mr. Wang said so, at least, what the three of us do will be up to you. Please tell us the rules." Mr. Luo laughed dryly.
"What can we do? The chief officer of the Customs and Excise Department has been replaced every ten years, then every five years, and now every three years. What can we do?
"The official duties of the Customs and Excise Department are extremely complicated. You can only get started in one year. You can understand a little bit in the second year. In the third year, you have to worry about the next one. What can I do? You think so?" Du Shilang sighed.
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Minister Luo still had a dry smile on his face, while Minister Wang lowered his head and drank tea.
Shilang Du looked at Shilang Luo, then at Shilang Wang, picked up the cup, raised it to his mouth and put it down again, sighing, "Why don't we take a look first and then talk?"
"It's up to you." Minister Luo nodded.
Wang Shilang hurriedly nodded.
"Shilang Luo will first look at choosing a place for the prince to handle his official duties, and choose the best place." Shilang Du continued.
Hearing the sentence "The best place," Luo Shilang and Wang Shilang looked at Du Shilang together.
The best place is the half floor facing the sea on the third floor of Du Shilang's building.
Shilang Du looked at Shilang Luo, then at Shilang Wang, and sighed again, "Make some space for me, and don't move. I don't know how many days I can take it. I'll temporarily move to the west side of the second floor."
In a few empty rooms."
"Do you want to rearrange the arrangement?" Minister Luo asked.
"You have to ask the prince for permission." Du Shilang replied angrily.
Before the prince came, his official room with a great view was gone. This was a sign... bah bah bah!
Du Shilang sighed several times in his heart, unable to bring trouble to himself.
On the day when the Customs and Excise Department received the document from the Ministry of Household Affairs, Gu Yan took a long entourage to escort a large group of people, rushed to Linhai Town, passed the Customs and Excise Department, and went straight to the dock.
Gu Yan wears a gold crown on his head and black embroidered gold python arrow sleeves. He sits on a black horse with shiny black hair. The horse's mane is trimmed into three delicate and proud strands. The horse is the only one in ten thousand, and the human is the only one in ten thousand. .
A man and a horse, surrounded by elite guards, trotted on the pier.
The place where the team passed by seemed to be immobilized by an invisible hand. Everyone stared blankly at the people and horses approaching from far away, and then from near to far. Then there were exclamations and discussions.
Gu Yan walked around the pier, returned to the entrance of the Customs and Excise Department, jumped off his horse, threw the reins to the boy, and strode into the Customs and Excise Department.
When Gu Yan passed by the Customs and Excise Department, the concierge on duty quickly ran all the way to report to Mr. Du. When Mr. Du called Mr. Luo and Mr. Wang and hurriedly arrived at the gate of the Customs and Excise Department, Gu Yan had already passed the gate. , entered the pier.
The three people hurriedly chased into the pier.
When Gu Yan returned to the entrance of the Customs and Excise Department, the three ministers had just chased him to the other end of the pier.
Gu Yan stood on the high stone steps of the Customs and Excise Department, turned around, slowly turned around from the main street leading to the outside of the town, and looked at the endless pier and the forest-like masts that lined the side of the pier. .
He stood here again.
The Customs and Excise Department is still the former Customs and Excise Department, and he is no longer the energetic young man he once was.
Gu Yan turned around, passed through the door of the Customs and Excise Department, which had never been closed, and stopped, looking at the large garden in front of him and the zigzag three-story buildings surrounding the garden.
He clearly remembered the shock he felt when he stood here for the first time and saw this garden and the long, thick zigzag building. Now, he stood here again, looking at the garden in front of him, at the wide and tall buildings. The building is still amazing and shocking.
This Customs and Excise Department was established under Taizong and was built by the founding ancestor of Prince Rui's Mansion.
This is the center of the empire's wealth and one of the most important cornerstones of the empire.
This time, he will definitely be able to clean this cornerstone carefully and clean it thoroughly.
Gu Yan turned around, walked slowly forward along the wide corridor, stopped at the door of each room, met the eyes of more or less officials in the room, smiled and nodded, and then moved forward.
After walking back in a circle and arriving at the gate, Shilang Du, Shilang Luo and Shilang Wang rushed back panting like cattle.
Gu Yan walked up the stairs to the second floor just before the three servants stumbled up the steps.
Gu Yan inspected more than a dozen rooms. The three ministers were short-tempered, pale-faced, and covered in sweat. They finally caught up.
"What's going on?" Gu Yan looked at the three of them with raised eyebrows, extremely surprised.
"Go to the pier to welcome the crown prince..." Du Shilang started coughing before he could finish his sentence. He was exhausted.
"I'm not here, what are you going to meet at the pier?" Gu Yan looked puzzled, then waved his hand and said: "Hurry up and take a rest, take a good wash, this whole body smells like sweat."
"Yes." Shilang Luo didn't care about being polite, helped Shilang Du who was coughing and speechless, took two steps back, and together with Shilang Wang, hurried back to wash up.
Alas, he just said that there is no need to go to the dock, just wait here. Shilang Du insisted on chasing, and look, the chase in this circle has no credit, not even hard work, just two words: deserve it! Gu Yan continued walking and looking, smiling and nodding. From the second floor to the third floor, when he saw Du Shilang's official room with a great view, Du Shilang finally cleaned up, changed into a new official uniform, and came out. p>
Gu Yan stood at the door, glanced, did not go in, but turned around and went out.
"Xiaguan has just discussed with Minister Luo and Minister Wang that this place has the best view. Xiaguan will move downstairs now. I would like to ask the prince to show me how to arrange it here." Du Shilang caught up with Gu Yan.
, said with a smile.
"Huh?" Gu Yan paused in surprise, looked back, and said with a smile: "I have no intention of living in Linhai Town. There is no need to make room for me. What can you do? I will help with the sea tax.
Si, it’s because of the numerous fights and fights on your pier, it’s really too much!”
Shilang Du was startled when he heard this.
The co-manager of the Customs and Excise Department is just because there are too many fights on the pier? This is too childish!
"I'm the best at dealing with these bastards who don't do their job but only fight. You go about your business. Leave the dock to me. Don't worry, no one will dare to fight in this dock in a month at most." Gu Yan shook his folding fan.
