Outside the Suzaku Gate, a long convoy of carriages was heading towards the city gate. At a glance, there were at least a dozen carriages and more than a hundred people. Each carriage had a yellow flag fluttering in the wind, with three words written on it. Big characters, Yingfengju. High-quality updates are here
"Stop, stop, stop!"
The group of soldiers under the city gate suddenly stopped in front of the car, and the leader asked in an arrogant tone: "What do you do?"
At this time, a middle-aged man rode up to him and asked, "What's going on?"
The non-commissioned officer was not afraid at all and asked again: "What are you doing, where are you from, and what are you doing in the capital?"
The middle-aged man shouted angrily: "You must be blind, can't you see such big words? How dare you stop Ying Fengju's motorcade?"
"What about Ying Feng Bureau?" The sergeant said, "Master Qin has already given instructions that all goods entering and exiting the capital must be inspected. Don't waste any more nonsense. Hurry up and get off your horse for inspection."
The middle-aged man seemed to have encountered this for the first time. He couldn't help but blush, and said angrily: "Master Qin, calling him out to see me is really unreasonable. Don't you all want to live?"
"I ordered them to do this."
I saw Qin Hui walking over in official uniform, pointing at the middle-aged man and saying, "Get down here first."
When the middle-aged man saw that Qin Hui was wearing an official uniform and he was not a young official, he did not dare to be too presumptuous. He got off the horse and asked, "Who are you?"
Qin Hui said: "I am Qin Hui, deputy economic envoy."
When the middle-aged man heard this, he couldn't help frowning, but he said: "I don't know what the Deputy Economist meant by doing this. This is the Yingfeng Bureau's motorcade." He took out the document from his arms and said: "You see clearly."
Huh. I checked and you are the ones who should serve. Qin Hui smiled and said: "I can see clearly, but now is an extraordinary period. In order to be able to make a complete statistics, the economic envoy can control prices and implement new laws, so he ordered me to wait. Here we count the number and types of goods entering and leaving the capital, but don’t worry, we are just checking and registering. Once the records are completed, we will let you in. High-quality updates will be here."
The middle-aged man said arrogantly: "These are all treasures dedicated to the emperor. Why does your Commerce Bureau investigate them?"
Qin Hui smiled and said: "You don't need to remind me about this. Although this is a contribution to the emperor, it is also shipped from other places. This statistics is also of great use to our Commerce Bureau. Now I would like you to unpack it."
"Which of you dares? I must tell the Prime Minister about this."
Qin Hui smiled slightly and said: "If you want to tell the king quickly, then cooperate with us quickly."
The middle-aged man said sternly: "You--do you know that you are seeking your own death? The Prime Minister will not let you go."
Qin Hui was too lazy to pay attention to him and said loudly: "Here comes someone!"
"Who dares!"
Hearing a swish sound, the middle-aged man pulled out a big knife from his waist.
Swish.
All those who were in charge also drew their swords.
Qin Hui chuckled: "Why are you so nervous? There may be contraband hidden inside. And you are showing off your weapons under this city gate, maybe you want to rebel."
The man said angrily: "You are the rebels."
Qin Hui suddenly pointed his hand upward and said, "See for yourselves."
The man looked up and his eyes were full of horror. He saw that the soldiers on the city wall had entered a state of emergency alert, with arrows pointing at them. The man pointed at Qin Hui and said in a trembling voice: "You---what do you want to do?"
Qin Hui said: "I said, we are just making records. We have no other intentions. Please take back your weapons now, otherwise they will regard you as traitors. If there is any accidental injury, don't blame me for not reminding you.
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"You---you dare."
Qin Hui, who was able to face Wang Fu with ease, how could he be frightened by a little guy like him? He shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter whether I dare or not. What matters is that they dare."
The man was sweating profusely and thought to himself, this seems to have been premeditated. A good man will not suffer the immediate consequences. I will bear with him for a while. After reporting to the king, the king will make a decision. He snorted angrily and put away the knife.
He turned back and winked at his subordinates again. High quality update
Those people immediately took back their weapons.
The man smiled again and said: "You have to pay attention. There are treasures in here. You can't afford to pay for any one of them. Also, I have so many goods here that you may not be able to finish them all in a day. It will be delayed."
When the time comes, can you bear this sin?"
Qin Hui smiled and said: "Don't worry, as long as you cooperate, one hour will be enough." He said suddenly loudly: "Here comes someone!"
Boom, boom, boom!
I saw dozens of officials walking out, with pens and papers ready.
The man began to understand that this was definitely a conspiracy, and it was a conspiracy against Ying Fengju. However, he had just returned to Beijing and did not know much about the situation in the capital, so he did not dare to act rashly for a while.
Qin Hui said: "You have a lot of goods, please stop aside first and don't block the people in the capital."
The man weighed it up and nodded to his subordinate.
The drivers drove the carriage aside, and a group of soldiers stood guard around the carriage to prevent anyone from getting close. Then the clerks went up to register each piece of goods.
But once those boxes are opened, they are full of rare treasures, pearls and gems, which makes people not only excited but also scared.
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In a tea shop not far from the city gate, Li Qizheng and Zhao Jingyan were sitting under the thatched shed, sipping tea leisurely.
Zhao Jingyan looked at the city gate and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to see such interesting things when I met you by chance today. It's interesting, interesting."
Li Qi chuckled: "This is just the beginning. If you are interested, I will ask someone to notify you to come and see it every time."
"That's not necessary." Zhao Jingyan shook her head and said, "But if you do this, aren't you afraid that Wang Fu will go to the emperor to impeach you?"
Li Qi said angrily: "You think I am stupid? After all, this is a contribution to the emperor. How could I dare to do this without the emperor's permission? I will go to the emperor to explain this matter this morning."
Zhao Jingyan smiled and said: "You can't really persuade the emperor on the grounds of reform, that would be incredible."
"Of course not, this is just one of them." Li Qi said hoarsely: "Now Wang Fu is in charge of Yingfeng Bureau alone, and he has the final say on everything. You want to say that the emperor is completely relieved, but that is impossible.
.And our Commerce Bureau is directly under the control of the Emperor, and we are the Emperor’s eyes.”
Zhao Jingyan nodded and said, "I understand, but you just said it so bluntly?"
Li Qi hehe said: "Of course not, I expressed it very euphemistically, but the emperor is so wise and powerful, he understood it as soon as he heard it, and immediately agreed, and ordered me to handle it well. Let me tell you another secret, those officials who recorded
There are a few among them who were sent by the emperor."
"Does Wang Fu know that?"
Li Qi laughed and said: "He should still be kept in the dark. If he knew about it, I'm afraid he would have come early."
"Wang Fu will really be angry to death this time. Your move is too sinister."
"I didn't come up with this, it was the deputy economist's idea." Li Qi pointed at Qin Hui.
Zhao Jingyan turned her head to look, nodded and said, "I have heard of this Qin Hui recently. He is indeed a talent. You have struck gold."
Li Qi sighed: "Talent is a talent, but this person is very ambitious. I don't know if I can control him."
Zhao Jingyan smiled and said: "Since you said so, you will definitely kill him when his ambitions expand."
Li Qi laughed and said, "Don't pretend like you know me well. Am I such a vicious person?"
"That's not true. On the contrary, your biggest weakness is your kindness to women. But that is only for women." Zhao Jingyan said straightforwardly.
Li Qi said depressedly: "Come on, I've been going around for a long time, and now I'm here again. Regarding this knowledge, my ears are almost getting calloused recently. It's all the same, and there's nothing new to say."
Zhao Jingyan smiled and shook her head. "But if you do this, Wang Fu will definitely not give up."
Li Qi snorted and said: "How can he give up? His bullshit increase in land tax has cost me half my life. I'm already like this, I have nothing to lose, and I'm still afraid of a ball.
Unless you fucking kill me, I will still make money no matter what."
Zhao Jingyan frowned slightly when she heard that he was talking dirty words, and said: "This increase in land tax is really something that people both love and hate. If you can do it, it will be a good thing for the country and the people, and the tax revenue will increase a lot, Your Majesty."
You will also be happy. But the problem is that once this method is implemented, it will be extremely detrimental to your reform."
Li Qi sighed: "Everyone knows that now that Wang Fu has spread the news, I believe that the landlords will come looking for him soon."
Zhao Jingyan said: "Then do you have a solution?"
Li Qi shook his head and said: "No. We can only delay it first. Anyway, we have to check the land first, and the first thing I will check is the land of Wang Fu and his minions. They have a lot of land, so we can still delay it for a while."
Zhao Jingyan sighed: "But you can't delay it for long. As long as you start a comprehensive inventory of the land, you will encounter resistance from all powerful forces. The same was true for Prime Minister Wang An and Shi Xian at the beginning. In the end, he was forced to stop the inventory work. Then Fang Tianfa also
Let it go, and this increase in land tax is nothing more than Wang Fu's evolution from the Fangtian method, and it has become more severe. I am afraid that the resistance we will encounter will become stronger. There seems to be no solution to this difficult problem."
Li Qidao: "But it is undeniable that this is indeed the cause of the disease. Those powerful landlords concealed their land, harming the interests of the country on the one hand, and invisibly seeking the interests of the farmers on the other. If this goes on for a long time, conflicts will break out sooner or later.
If you want to save it at that time, it will be too late. If you want to make the country rich and strong, you must take this step. It is just the difference between sooner and later."
Zhao Jingyan said: "Then what are you going to do? Even if you can get through this difficulty, Wang Fu will not make it easy for you. He will come up with other ways to deal with you. After all, this is treating the symptoms but not the root cause. This is the same as
It's the same as when you investigate the goods of the Yingfeng Bureau. If you do this, you can only hurt Wang Fu's interests, but it will be of no help to those people. Just the Yingfeng Bureau alone destroys countless people's families every year.
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Li Qi frowned and nodded: "Yes! It seems that the only way to cure Wang Fu is to uproot him." (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature for better and faster novels!
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