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If "smuggling the speaker" is not a task sent by Qin Dewei, with Yan Shifan's personality, he is still very willing to engage in such black and white things.

But reason told me, what could Qin Zhongtang have in mind?So Yan Shifan was very resistant to this task.

However, as a "subordinate", Yan Shifan didn't dare to refuse directly, so he asked righteously: "Why do you want to smuggle with Zhongtang's honor? Don't you even want your reputation?"

Qin Dewei responded with a smile, "You Yan Shifan was the smuggler, what has it to do with my reputation?"

Fuck!Yan Shifan forced himself to calm down, and asked again: "Zhongtang should say it clearly, what is the intention?" Qin Zhongtang replied straightforwardly: "Of course it is to make money!"

Yan Shifan felt like a loyal person, and persuaded him earnestly: "You are not short of money, Zhongtang, why are you so greedy? What's the use of money?"

Qin Dewei looked at Yan Shifan as if he looked at a fool, "Of course there are many uses for money! Don't you need money to fight the Japanese? Don't you need money to train recruits? You don't need money to reorganize coastal defenses? You don't need money to build new warships to consolidate the sea?"

Yan Shifan has nothing to say about this. He is also very clear about what the state treasury has been like in the past two years, and the squandering by Emperor Jiajing has begun to bottom out.Just talking about building a large-scale construction project in Xiyuan to build a fairyland on the ground, how much does it cost every year?
If Emperor Jiajing was in a coma, who would feel the darkest, Wang Yiqi, Minister of the Household Department, must be one of them, at least he would not have to deal with the bottomless pit anymore!

Therefore, the state treasury will definitely not be able to afford the huge amount of funds that Qin Zhongtang needs to rebuild the order in the southeast coast, so he has to find a way to raise it himself.

The common practice of officials is to scrape land or cut off the flesh of wealthy businessmen, but Qin Zhongtang's thinking about using power to smuggle is a very strange idea.

Yan Shifan still couldn't help but said: "If Zhongtang wants to imitate Guanzi to make money, just follow suit, but don't lead the subordinates to go astray! What good does this kind of thing do for the subordinates?"

Qin Dewei said in surprise: "Don't tell me, you, Yan Shifan, don't even know how to enrich your own pocket? You are sent to represent the shogunate to manage the smuggling business, and you can make some money by yourself. How can it be said that it is not good for you?"

Yan Shifan looked up to the sky and laughed, "You, Qin Zhongtang, have a good plan! The smuggled proceeds have been included in the public account, and you use them for official business. Even if someone questions you in the future, you still have room to defend yourself!

And all the money I get in my pocket belongs to my personal account.When I am fattened up, you, Qin Zhongtang, can just kill me and take away the money from my private accounts. In the end, you will gain both fame and fortune! "

It's not like Yan Shifan has never done such a thing as slaughtering a fat sheep. How can he be fooled by you, Qin Zhongtang?
Qin Dewei seemed to hate iron and steel and said: "You really have delusions of persecution, and I don't know who turned you into this! You did this kind of thing as a shogunate official. If you are punished by this, wouldn't you Will it implicate the shogunate?

If you think about it carefully, you have the opportunity to fill your pocket and send money to your father-in-law or your hometown on a regular basis!Can others recover it?
By the way, it is recommended to use Yuanfeng bank draft business!You deposit money in Yuanfeng in the southeast, and after the capital receives instructions, you can issue a bank note to your father. "

Yan Shifan suddenly felt that there was something wrong with this matter!
Although there must be great resistance from the local wealthy family, Qin Zhongtang's power is not a vegetarian, and Qin Dewei must have a way to deal with the local wealthy family!This is called fighting poison with poison!
Once you have mastered the smuggling channels, and then seek a way out, you can gradually leave the shogunate!Anyway, my father is the elder of the ruling cabinet, so he can cover me!After making up his mind, Yan Shifan decided to hold back a bit, so that he could ask for more conditions from Qin Zhongtang.

It's not that Yan Shifan is boasting, Qin Zhongtang may have a lot of henchmen, but there are not many who can do dirty work and are willing to do dirty work!Qin Dewei has always established a clean and pragmatic personality, so most of his party members are positive and cherish their feathers.

So Qin Zhongtang had to use Yan Shifan to some extent!As long as this point is mastered, it is not impossible to manipulate Qin Zhongtang a little bit.

After coughing, Yan Shifan said slowly: "Although smuggling is an extraordinary act to raise money, not everyone understands it.

Letting the subordinates do smuggling business, spreading the word will hurt their reputation, the character of the subordinates is not suitable for bearing humiliation.”

Qin Zhongtang shook his head, "I heard that you, Yan Shifan, have already trafficked thousands of bolts of silk to Ningbo Prefecture. Your attempt to smuggle it to the sea failed, and instead you clashed with the local good people, which eventually led to a fire of 300 people?"

Yan Shifan said angrily: "Everyone knows that it is the goods of the shogunate!"

But Qin Zhongtang said: "But the old Mr. Tu Ren who came to see me from Ningbo Mansion insisted that it was your Yan Shifan's goods. Presumably all the local people think so?"

Sure enough, he became the cannon fodder who might be pushed to take the blame, Yan Shifan sighed resignedly, "In fact, the lower officials can bear the humiliation without paying any conditions!"

It's okay for so many aristocratic families to smuggle, so what can happen if you smuggle yourself?

Qin Dewei snickered, asking Yan Shifan to engage in smuggling was not only for raising funds, but also for the political purpose of killing two birds with one stone.As far as the current situation along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian is concerned, it is completely impossible to completely eradicate smuggling without officially opening the sea.

The main reason is that the participation of the coastal people is too high, which means that the law is difficult to blame the public, and it is impossible to punish all the people once.Those aristocratic families dared to smuggle in a semi-open manner, but the imperial government still had no choice but to coerce the will of the people?Even Qin Zhongtang could not disobey the opinions of the people, so after thinking and thinking, he could only fight poison with fire.

Go the way of others, let others have no way to go!Isn't it just smuggling? The shogunate can do what the local wealthy family can do, and they can do it even better!

Stealing the share of the smuggling trade from the aristocratic family can not only hit the wealthy family, but it will not affect the livelihood of the people who are begging for the sea.Yan Shifan is a person who is quite suitable to be pushed out to do such bad things, and it can be regarded as another kind of fighting poison with fire.

Qin Zhongtang continued on his boat from Cixi County and entered Yin County.Yin County is the seat of Ningbo Prefecture, and Ningbo City is also the county seat of Yin County.

According to official rules, after a bigwig like Qin Zhongtang enters Yin County, all officials in Ningbo who can stand on the stage must go to the county boundary to greet him, as well as representatives of the local gentry.

Qin Zhongtang was already a little bored with this procedure of welcome and delivery.

The main reason is that Qin Zhongtang's status is too high, and he has a wide range of borders. Wherever he goes, almost all the officials will come to visit him, and the number of entertainment far exceeds that of ordinary senior officials.Whenever he was forced to do business and often met with dozens of cats and dogs who were useless to him, Qin Zhongtang thought, no wonder so many officials in the government like to visit incognito, and there is also a realistic psychological basis.

After Qin Zhongtang glanced over Shen Kai, the prefect of Ningbo Prefecture, Liu Jie, the commander of the Ningbo Guards, Feng Mou, the doctor of the household department and the governor of the city, and Hu Moumou, the censor of patrolling the sea, he suddenly found a special person in the crowd behind him. .

"Monk Ceyan! Why are you here?" Qin Zhongtang shouted with a downcast face.

The monk named by Qin Zhongtang is Ceyan Zhouliang, the envoy of the Japanese Tribute Corps this year, last time he was the deputy envoy, and he met Qin Dewei, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Since Ce Yan and Zhou Liang landed in Ningbo, due to various reasons, one was that the nine tribute boats did not comply with the discipline and became Japanese pirates, and the other was that Emperor Jiajing fell into a coma, which caused Ce Yan and Zhou Liang to stay in Ningbo.

Now hearing Qin Zhongtang's unceremonious roll call, Ce Yan and Zhou Liang hurriedly lined up to pay respects.

Qin Zhongtang reprimanded sharply: "Last year, I thought about what Er Guo asked, and I sent out more research and cooperation. I originally thought that Er Guo could get more artifacts from the Ming Dynasty, so I am grateful for Da Ming's kindness!
Unexpectedly, there were three batches of nine ships, who came here under the guise of paying tribute, but turned into bandits across the sea!How did you become an envoy?Is your country so ungrateful? "

Hearing this sentence, the local gentry all glared at Countermeasure Yan Zhouliang, if it weren't for you Japanese people making trouble, Qin Zhongtang would not have come to Zhejiang!More than a thousand people on nine tribute ships became Japanese pirates, causing the largest Japanese riot in recent years, and they are still looting in Fujian.

When the imperial court pursued the responsibility, it fell to Qin Zhongtang who advocated expanding trade with Japan, so Qin Zhongtang was forced to clean up the situation himself. This was the direct trigger for Qin Zhongtang to come to the southeast!
Ce Yan and Zhou Liang quickly opened his mouth to explain, and the interpreter next to him said: "I also have other difficulties, there are too many surveys and cooperations, it is inevitable

There are mixed fish and dragons from various families.

I'm called Zheng Shi, but in fact, I can't restrain the batches of tribute ships at all, and the nine ships in the three batches are all Satsuma."

"Needless to say!" Qin Zhongtang interrupted Ce Yan and Zhou Liang's explanation, waved his hand and said, "I don't have time to deal with you today, you go down first! Go back to the post house and think about your mistakes behind closed doors, and wait until I have time to ask!"

Ce Yan and Zhou Liang sighed helplessly, turned and left.

After that, other people of various colors came forward to pay respects to Qin Zhongtang in turn.Among the local gentry, the leader is an old man in his seventies.Qin Zhongtang frowned. With his rich experience in fighting, he knew the old man's age was not good.

In the social customs of this era, respecting the elderly is also a very core etiquette.For example, disputes in the countryside are often mediated by the oldest person, hence the term "relying on the old to sell the old".

Local officials will treat the local elderly with respect according to the usual practice, and should not be too mean.

The representatives of the gentry who came forward to greet the arrival of the officials were generally the backbone of the force, and very few people in their seventies and eighties came out to make a fuss.So when Qin Zhongtang saw this old man in his seventies, he immediately sounded the alarm in his heart.

To put it bluntly, even if the old man in his seventies didn't do anything and fell directly in front of him, he wouldn't be able to tell if it spread!

Prefect Shen, as a "landlord", introduced him to the side. The old man's surname was Yang and his name was Meihuang. He was a retired official.Just by listening to the surname, one can tell that this old Mr. Yang Meihuang must be the "famous person" of the Yang family, one of the four major families.

Since the Chenghua Dynasty, the Yang family has been the head of the four major families in Ningbo City.

Because at that time the Yang family published a "record" that shocked the past and the present, and the brothers of the same generation produced five Jinshi, known as "One School and Five Jinshi", which was extremely sensational at the time, and then the Yang family became the head of the four major families .

Mr. Yang Meihuang's grandfather was one of the "Five Jinshi in One School", and his father was also a Jinshi in the middle school and an official. It can be called a family of officials and eunuchs.

Such a person is regarded as highly respected in the local area, one of the most famous people among the squires, so appearing here can be said to represent the locals.

In fact, Qin Dewei didn't want to talk to such so-called sages and celebrities, and wanted to leave after greeting him politely.

But Mr. Yang took the initiative to chat and said: "I heard that my old friend Tu Ren went to visit Zhongtang. I don't know where he is? Why didn't you follow him back? There is no news at all, so I feel worried about this old man."

Qin Dewei replied without changing his face: "Mr. Tu has quite a lot of insights on the Forbidden Sea, and he wants to offer advice and suggestions for the central hall, so he was invited to the Shogunate of Hangzhou City to write a detailed report, which is ready for me to observe and study."

Yang Meihuang certainly didn't think it was true, but there was no evidence to disprove it, and asked again: "Zhongtang suddenly inspected Ningbo Mansion, why did he come here?"

Qin Dewei replied: "I heard that [-] Japanese pirates invaded the city of Ningbo, wounded people and set fire to it. Is it a trivial matter? Ben Zhongtang personally came to inspect and stabilize the place!"

Yang Meihuang persuaded in a more cryptic way: "Although Sanjiangkou had some disturbances a few days ago, it actually revolves around the business of thousands of bolts of silk.

The old man thinks that harmony can make money, and a big fanfare is not a long-term solution. "

Qin Dewei asked back in surprise: "Could it be that the old man thought that the central hall was here for thousands of bolts of silk?" Mr. Yang also wanted to ask back, didn't he?

Then he replied in a toneless way: "Master Qin Zhongtang has a large number of people, and the military and state affairs are the most important. Don't be like a peddler, running around for a few thousand pieces of silk."

You, Qin Dewei, obviously want to smuggle and make money, but you didn't follow the rules to make matters worse!The best way to treat you, Qin Dewei, is to calm things down!
Smuggling is something that can be done but cannot be said. You, Qin Dewei, arguing endlessly, is the worst behavior!

Even if you, Qin Dewei, came to Ningbo with ulterior motives, using the blocked smuggling as an excuse will not be good for your reputation.

Qin Zhongtang sighed to the crowd: "Actually, the silk doesn't matter, it's just some goods! If it's gone, it's gone. Money is something outside of the body, and I never value it."

I don't know what others think, but it's caught in the middle and muddy
Shen Zhifu breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that Qin Zhongtang also wanted to smooth things over?

In fact, it is best to keep things quiet and let others go. If this incident becomes a big one, it will be of no benefit to anyone. Could it be that you, Qin Zhongtang, have made a big fuss over thousands of bolts of silk?

Mr. Yang was slightly proud, twitched his beard a few times, and just wanted to say a few more words.

But Qin Zhongtang's face suddenly became angry, and he said angrily: "What makes me angry is that an official ship has been burned! Your tooth shop in Sanjiangkou, Ningbo Prefecture actually

How dare you be so bold as to burn the official ship of my shogunate at the slightest disagreement!

The nature of this matter is very bad, and it must be strictly investigated to the end!If you dare to burn the official cargo ship this time, you will dare to burn the main ship next time! Mr. Yang: "."

In terms of shamelessness, he, an old man in his seventies, lost to a young man in his twenties!

Qin Dewei looked around, "The shogunate officer accompanying the official ship, there is a man named Xu Weixue, where is he? I want to ask questions!" Shen Zhifu reported: "It happened suddenly, and he is temporarily detained."

Qin Dewei asked coldly, "Who detained it?" Shen Zhifu looked at Liu Jie, commander of the Ningbo Guard.

Everyone felt very intuitively that Qin Zhongtang was really not kind to the visitors, and they just took turns pointing at each other.