Gu Yan, surrounded by guards, rushed into Linhai Town and pressed towards the pier. He Chengze stood by the second-floor window of the He family's old hotel, but did not see his son He Ruiming. He hurriedly asked someone to follow him to the pier.
Looking again, there is indeed no He Ruiming in the clouds.
He Chengze felt slightly uneasy. He looked at the pier in the distance and watched the brocade clouds rolling past like the wind blowing the rice fields. He was silent for a while, called the boy and asked him to take a few to the town entrance to guard it.
He didn't know why his son didn't come with him, so he could only ask someone to wait at the entrance of the town.
He Ruiming is on his way to Linhai Town in a hurry.
The day after the prince threatened to request an order to clean up the Customs and Excise Department, he rushed to Bieye early in the morning to do his duty.
The prince didn't ask him to go back to listen to the summons. After running back and forth for two days, he felt inconvenienced.
Although his family's house in Pingjiang Prefecture is not far from Biyeye, it still takes an hour to come and go. Every time the prince goes out, he does it on the spur of the moment. One time he went out very early, but he didn't catch up. Another time,
As soon as he left his job, the prince went out.
After missing two times, he asked Uncle Hong to ask the prince to show him whether he could live in the house in the other house so that he could serve him at any time. Uncle Hong replied: The prince said that he is not a servant of the mansion and is detained in the house.
It’s not appropriate to not be allowed to go home after leaving work.
This morning, when he rushed to Biye, he said that the prince had gone to Linhai Town and had been gone for half an hour!
He Ruiming, accompanied by several young boys, galloped all the way, sweating all over his face. When he arrived at Linhai Town, the young boys who had been waiting outside the town hurriedly came to greet him.
He Ruiming slowed down his horse a little, and when he heard that Lord Ju was at the Customs and Excise Department at the moment, he hurriedly confessed that he was too late to catch up, and urged his horse to rush to the Customs and Excise Department.
He Chengze frowned when he was told that he was too late to catch up.
The Crown Prince came to the Customs and Excise Department to take up his post today. It could not have been an impromptu decision but he did not explain it to A Ming.
He Chengze leaned back on his chair, lost his mind for a while, stood up, stood in front of the window, and looked at the Customs and Excise Department.
He always felt that the prince had been very wary of the He family when he went to Jiangnan last time. Why? Did someone say something?
He Chengze slowly and carefully weighed everyone and everything.
Gu Yan came out of the Customs and Excise Department and saw He Ruiming, who had a red head and a red face and was holding a handkerchief to wipe sweat from his face. He smiled and said: "I was about to ask someone to call you over. We will live here in Linhai today."
Town, you find a place to live, close to the dock, nothing else."
"Yes, how many days will you stay?" He Ruiming hurriedly leaned over to answer.
"How many days to stay~" Gu Yan seemed to have just thought of this problem, thought about it, and said with a smile: "I don't know, I will probably use it until the dock is cleaned up."
"Yes." He Ruiming asked no more questions.
Since the prince said that it is not good, then he should follow the long-term plan.
He Ruiming hurriedly found a place to stay.
It's past noon now, and the prince will move in tonight. In this half-day, he has to find a place to stay, clean and scrub, arrange furniture, dishes, bedding, hot water and ice...
He Ruiming quickened his pace, time was too tight!
Gu Yan shook his folding fan, went to Zhaoyue Building to have dinner, and returned to the dock.
On the pier, Wang Gui had already led people to set up a shed and set up chairs and tables. At the door of the shed stood Gu Yan's flag with the character "Gu".
Gu Yan stood in front of the shed and looked around. At a glance, he saw Huang Xianzhou and Mr. Yao counting and writing about several large boats. He tapped Huang Xianzhou with a folding fan and ordered: "Call him over."
Huang Xianzhou followed the boy into the shed.
The location of the shed is well chosen and the air is cool.
Huang Xianzhou entered the shed and felt cool and comfortable.
"Sit." Gu Yan motioned to Huang Xianzhou.
Shi Gun put the tea on the table next to Huang Xianzhou.
Huang Xianzhou hurriedly bowed to express his thanks, his eyes fell on the huge cup, he couldn't control it, and his eyes widened.
"Ah Nan said you drink tea from a big cup. I asked someone to find this cup for you." Gu Yan said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, you are really considerate. Thank you so much, sir." Huang Xianzhou hurriedly bowed and said.
Gu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly. His tone is really sinister!
"Tell me what you saw and what you thought." Gu Yan turned to the topic.
"Yes." Huang Xianzhou lowered his head, his eyebrows drooping.
It seems that I didn’t say the right thing just now, alas! Forget it, let’s just talk about errands.
"The porters on the dock unload the cargo and all set prices. How much a worker costs is adjusted once a year. It is jointly agreed upon by the Customs and Excise Department, major trading houses, and gangs at the dock.
"The rules for bargaining are based on how much rice prices, oil prices and other items have risen or fallen each month in the past year. It doesn't matter if this rule is dead."
Gu Yan hummed. In the past, he thought these were all trivial matters...
"When the porters unload the goods, they also count the goods. After unloading a ship of goods, they take a bamboo board, what kind of goods, and a few workers, and the owner of the goods signs it. The head porter takes it to the inspection station to copy the signature, and then goes to the bank with the bamboo board to collect the goods. Money, Yinzhuang settles the unloading money with the Customs and Excise Department every month."
Gu Yan's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this. No wonder He Chengze said that the Customs and Excise Department is complicated and involves hundreds of things. Just unloading goods already involves many things.
"The Inspection Office is affiliated to the Third Division Envoy. Every year, the Ministry of Rites selects candidates who are good at Gezhi Shu. The income is counted and reported directly to the Third Division Envoy every month. In this area, the appointments come every two years. They only count and summarize, so they get started quickly. , I thought it was extremely difficult to do anything."
"There is no difference between the number of the three secretaries and the number of the Customs and Excise Department." Gu Yan said.
"Xiaoguan thought about it." Huang Xianzhou leaned slightly, "The porters on the three docks on the South Bank, Jiangzhou, and North Bank each have their own gangs. Here on the South Bank, Xianguan inquired and found out that there are four gangs in total, each with a main business. Among them
The Silk Gang has the largest number of people and the greatest power.
"The porters from outside who have been pouring into the dock recently can only grab some heavy work and miscellaneous items, such as silk, tea, jewelry, etc., but they can't get in.
"Xiaoguan often chats with the porters. The most common complaint among the porters is that the work is unfair. It obviously takes two trips to finish the job, but the gang only gives one work."
The last sentence, Huang Xianzhou said is very meaningful.
Gu Yan lowered his eyes, stood up suddenly, walked to the door of the shed, raised his head slightly, and looked at the masts standing not far away, like a dense forest.
In the past, He Chengze said that his feet had never really stepped on the ground in Linhai Town. Now, he understands the meaning of this sentence.
"Go on." Gu Yan turned around and motioned to Huang Xianzhou.
"The official thought that these two jobs only count as one job, and they should be where the joints are." Huang Xianzhou's eyes were shining brightly.
"Well, what do you think we should do?" Gu Yan asked.
"First of all, a worker must be counted as a worker, let the porters make a fuss, and then take the opportunity to determine the amount of a worker, how many bolts of silk, a piece of fine porcelain, how much tea, etc., the lower official thinks that these workers
The amount should have happened earlier." After Huang Xianzhou finished speaking, he held his breath slightly and looked at Gu Yan.
Gu Yan lowered his eyes and sipped the tea, carefully stroked it, and nodded, "Yeah."
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?A writer who cares too much about logic, probably no one can see the effort he has put into the last two chapters...
