Win the Ding 1617

A light is like a bean, Zhang Xiaohu and his third brother Zhang Xiaoqi talk to each other.

This house was the house of a small court minister of the Ruan family, and was later rewarded by the Shou Han to Zhang Xiaohu, who was the commander of the left wing of the navy, to live in.His residence is in Yulingang, Qiongzhou, and he may not be able to live in this house for three months a year, but his two elder brothers usually live and take care of it more.

When Zhang Xiaohu was ordered to return to Hue, he received an order from the military commander. Since the general's grand ceremony was about to be held, all the officers and men of the various ministries who did not participate in the sentry and patrol would be given five days off and could make their own arrangements.All the medicines on board were handed over to the Military Division and the General Administration of Inspection and Quarantine for storage.

I didn't think so at first, thinking it was a normal safety measure.But when Zhang Xiaohu came home and saw his third brother Zhang Xiaoqi, it didn't feel right.Zhang Xiaoqi's face was sallow, and his combing was so meticulous that it was so disheveled that the flies' hair was unkempt. He hadn't combed and cleaned it for a few days, and his body smelled like sweat.

Zhang Xiaoqi's appearance startled Zhang Xiaohu immediately, he couldn't figure out why the third brother, who was the supervisor of the Taxation Department of Manchuria, became like this?Since the third brother took office in Malaga, every time he exchanged letters or met each other, the third brother was full of vigor and energy.

Could it be that those people from the General Inspection Office, the Business Investigation Office, and the Law Enforcement Office saw their weird expressions, and they came from my brother?Zhang Xiaohu didn't dare to think about it anymore.

After looking around in the yard, I suddenly found that the yard has become very luxurious under the careful care of the third brother.

He could hardly believe that this was his own home.

There are seemingly endless pavilions, courtyards, and a newly built boat hall made of nanmu. The five-bay houses are all made of whole pieces of glass. Under the autumn sun, they look abnormally bright.In the courtyard, under the courtyard pillars, there are flowers and plants everywhere.Several huge multicolored parrots stood on a shelf made of twisted gold wire and shouted loudly, "We have guests! Pour tea!" [

Shuttle in the courtyard were Korean maidservants, Dongying women, Kunlun slaves with black skin like charcoal, and Tianzhu orchids with high noses, deep eyes, waists and limbs as soft as snakes.

As soon as you enter the courtyard gate, behind the screen wall on the front, there are eight screens standing along the corridor in front of the main hall.It is inlaid with huge shells of pearl and agate, with the pattern of the rising sun and the seal of the Marquis.

Even in the cover room at the entrance and the inverted gate room, there are also tables and chairs of hard and miscellaneous wood. As for the wooden utensils such as rosewood and red sandalwood in each room, it can be found everywhere.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xiaohu was a little terrified.

Colleagues in the Navy privately said that the Lord's mood was very wrong along the way when he returned this time, and I am afraid that something big will happen.The third brother is so ostentatious.I'm afraid that people will miss it.

"Third brother, tell me, how much money did you spend to buy this house, this house, and these wooden maids, Hu Ji, etc.? Has there ever been a document filed in the general's mansion?"

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaoqi slumped down on the chair even more.

"Sixth Brother. Brother Yu is so confused!"

Zhang Xiaohu's third and fourth brothers have no other skills, but they are naturally good at how to make a fortune.However, the fourth brother, Zhang Xiaobiao, went to be the magistrate, but he still looks good. This Zhang Xiaoqi, since he served as the supervisor of the Manchuria Customs and Taxation Department, seems to have fallen into the sea of ​​gold and silver.

Every day, more than a dozen ships go through the customs declaration process under his command, and they have to collect wine and meat from the cargo owners and Jiapitan who handle taxation.Favors are reciprocated, and this kind of life also makes Zhang Xiaoqi reluctant to think about leaving.

It is inevitable to receive some gifts when there is a relationship, from the original local products to the maids and servants who serve the daily life, followed by some furniture and wooden utensils, and later, a few bold sultans and Jiapitan simply used rice to raise gems give it to him.

As for things like gold and silver.It even rushed in like a tide.

However, these things, to use a common saying, "come out to mess around. You always have to pay it back." Whether it is the Sudan, the Tuwang, or those Jiapidans, they are not given to Zhang Xiaoqi as gifts for nothing. coming.

"The ship is passing through the border, please hold your hands high, Mr. Zhang!"

"There are some small contraband items on board, I hope Master Zhang will forgive me!" [

Later, the smuggling was even more blatant and wanton. Several Jiabidan simply told Zhang Xiaoqi, "We heard the news that Mr. Li was thrown into the sky prison by the emperor Laozi in the capital. I'm afraid he won't be able to come back. My lord still Don't you take advantage of this time to buy some belongings for yourself?"

Zhang Xiaoqi thought about it too, if Li Shouhan couldn't come back, and the court sent a new official to take over Nanzhong, wouldn't the ten thousand li country change its owner?If you don't take advantage of this time to add more gold and silver to your pocket, when will you wait?

Just when Zhang Xiaoqi was happily hugging the anti-smuggling fleet and the Kapitans who handled taxation, a bad news came from the north.Not only was Li Shouhan not thrown into prison, but on the contrary, he was promoted and made king! (This is a rumor that ordinary people can't figure out the difference between rewarding a prince with a guard of honor and being a prince.)

"Third brother! How much money did you get?!"

Zhang Xiaohu was not so afraid when facing the Dutch gunfire, but now, a huge sense of fear made him feel helpless and timid, as if all the strength in his body was sucked out with the opening and closing of Zhang Xiaoqi's two lips .

"I don't know." Zhang Xiaoqi shook his head, "At first, each boat was charged a fee of 2000 yuan from Kapitan, the tax agent, when it crossed the border. Later, every time a boat was sent to cross the border, there was a benefit of [-] yuan. In the past few months when my lord went north, I don't even know how much money I got every day."

"How many?!"

Zhang Xiaohu spat out these two words with all his strength. From these numbers, he instinctively felt that his third brother might be on the way to Huangquan.

"However, I am also afraid that these people will plot against me and give me less money, so I kept an account and prepared to make a voucher when reconciling with them."

Zhang Xiaoqi took out a small notebook soaked in sweat from his underwear pocket, on which most of the notebooks were written with various symbols and marks.

"This is a Dutch ship, this is a Portuguese ship, this is a Sudanese ship, and this is a Kapitan ship." Zhang Xiaoqi instructed the sixth brother to decipher the logos and representatives on the ledger one by one, " This is cotton, this is armor, this is gunpowder, and this is spice."

The symbols of the goods are also vivid on the paper.

After roughly estimating the number of ships and the types of cargo, Zhang Xiaohu found out sadly.My third brother is dead.

The amount of tariffs involved in these goods is as high as tens of millions!What is the concept?Even if all the ships of the Navy of the Nanzhong Army were replaced by his three-headed tiger standard ship, there would still be a slight surplus!

"Third brother, what are you going to do?"

"Six sons! You are the number one general in the lord's navy, and you have been the vanguard for the lord in several foreign battles! In this way, you go to the lord to ask for mercy, and say that I am willing to return the spoils, and I will never dare again in the future. As long as If the lord can let me go, I am willing to be his cow or horse for the rest of my life!"

"It's late! Third brother! In your opinion, my face in front of the lord is better than Li Changshi's two brothers, which one has more face?"

"Of course it's Li Changshi. Qin and Jin are good friends between them! If it wasn't for the girl from the Li family who died as the master, she must have been included in the imperial order this time! And Li Changshi belongs to the South Central Army." Chief Steward, a figure like Prime Minister Xiao He!"

"But do you know that when he was in Hejing, the second master of the Li family trafficked some goods and failed to pay taxes in time, and was reprimanded by Mr. Changshi! The second master of the Li family was forced to go to the office early the next morning. Taxation procedures. For this reason, the lord also wrote a plaque for the study of the most happy studio to the second master of the Li family. Third brother, do you think I will be more useful than Li Changshi if I go to plead with the lord?"

After hearing Zhang Xiaohu's narration, Zhang Xiaoqi's face was ashamed.

After a while, he suddenly jumped up, his face was flushed red, and his eyes were bloodshot. "Six sons, since we are going to die here, why don't we brothers go out to sea with a boat, I am a hero at sea. At worst, I continue to find an island to settle down and continue to do my career at sea! It's like being treated as a fish on the chopping board!"

"I figured it out, those Sultans, Tuwangs, and Jiapitan have at least 4000 to [-] million yuan in property. Let's go to sea on your Three-Headed Tiger, go to Qiongzhou to gather a fleet, and say that we are going to Manchuria to suppress bandits and rob them." Take the property of these fucking dogs, and then the sky is high and the earth is wide. The end of the world, where is not the place where our brothers use their means?!"

"Third brother, I advise you not to make such an idea! I'm afraid people have already set up a big net and waited!"

Zhang Xiaohu smiled wryly.

"As soon as my ship arrived in Hue, people from the Military Division and the Battalion Office told me. In order to celebrate the general's promotion, the troops and ships not on duty patrol missions are on holiday. Right now my Three-Headed Tiger , It’s an empty ship. The sailors are all going home, or looking for a good friend. The medicines on the ship are jointly sealed by the General Inspection Administration, the Military Division, and the Law Enforcement Department. You want to escape with the fleet? It’s wishful thinking! When the lord was still in the north, Wang Bao passed down the military order, and half of my left-wing fleet was stationed in Taiwan to guard against Zheng Zhilong. Chu Tianlei's practice fleet and Xu Huanshan's right-wing fleet also had ships in the name of supplementing the defense gap. Stationed in Yulingang. God knows if they have any secret orders?!"

"And the current sailors are not like us back then, they are all sea brothers of the same color. Now, they are recruited fishermen, and those Arakanese, students of the Naval Academy, a few groups of people gathered together! I am afraid that there is no one yet. When I got on the ship, I was notified to the law enforcement department!"

Zhang Xiaoqi, who was still very excited just now, was completely broken by Zhang Xiaohu's words, and sat slumped on the rosewood grand teacher's chair, panting heavily.

"Whether it's from the speed of the ship to the number of cannons, we can't compete with others! When the lord built the army, I'm afraid he was on guard against such things as defection and mutiny!"

"Six, then, what do you think should be done?"

There was no way to escape, but he didn't want to wait for death, Zhang Xiaoqi had no choice but to continue to turn to the sixth brother for help.

Standing up and pacing back and forth in the room, after a long while, Zhang Xiaohu suddenly rushed in front of Zhang Xiaoqi.He stuffed the ledger that recorded the most original data on smuggling and evasion of customs duties into Zhang Xiaoqi's hands, "Go! Third brother, come with me!"

"where to?"

Seeing Zhang Xiaohu's behavior, Zhang Xiaoqi couldn't help being a little surprised and a little surprised, and his tone of voice trembled uncontrollably.

"Didn't you say you couldn't run away?!"

"What nonsense, when did I say I was going to run away! I will take you to surrender! Go to sue! In this way, even if the lord wants to punish you, you must consider your surrender. I will plead again, no matter what, I have to find a way to save your rotten life!"

On the seventh day of November in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xiaohu, the left-wing commander of the navy, persuaded his brother Zhang Xiaoqi to make the first complaint, uncovering the shady scene of corruption, bribery, and sale by the Manchurian Customs and anti-smuggling fleet.

Shou Han flipped through the account books and statements submitted by Zhang Xiaoqi, as well as the materials collected and organized by the three intelligence agencies.Instead of showing any rage, there was a smile on his face.

However, those who have been around him for a long time know that this is exactly the precursor of his impending explosion.

This is a huge network, involving customs, anti-smuggling, Hanyuan merchants, Tuwang of Manlajia, Sudan, Jiapidan and many other people.

"Please tell the Lord! How should we handle it?!"

"What should I do? Didn't I already transfer everyone to Hue City? Those who should be arrested, those who should be interrogated, and those who should be ransacked. Those who should be dispatched to destroy them will be wiped out! They just wiped out those messy small countries!"

A bright smile appeared on Shou Han's face.

The three secret agents who killed without blinking an eye, saw this smile that was a bit brighter than the summer sun, and their underwear was drenched in cold sweat.

Overnight, a big prison broke out in the city of Hue.

Before counting, people who were still arrogant and showing off their wealth.In an instant, he was thrown into prison by the law enforcement department like a rabbit, and became a prisoner.

The staff of the taxation department of the customs originally wanted to deny it, but Zhang Xiaoqi, the taxation department, said, "I have already sued, what else can you say?" Things are confessed like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

The captain of the two-masted sailing ship in charge of anti-smuggling, and the head of the Han Yuan Company.Then they were taken care of and interrogated how those heavy artillery and other weapons were quietly transported out of the warehouse, and were sold to Zheng Zhilong, the Spaniards, and the Dutch after going through layers of supervision by the Customs, Military Division, Battalion Affairs Division, and Law Enforcement Division.

Kapitan Xu Meizhen, the official of the Sultan of Sumatra and tax agent, stood in her extravagant and outrageous yard, listening to the door knocking outside in horror.This mansion, which entered and exited frequently, was magnificent and magnificent, even compared to the Sultan's palace. In the past, it was proud that the guests were always full and the wine in the pot was not empty.Every day is singing and dancing to promote peace and prosperity.But at this time, everyone in the mansion is not scared.Everyone looked anxious, and everyone felt that disaster was imminent.

When the housekeeper was about to step forward to ask whether the door was open, the door was knocked down from the outside with a bang.

Hundreds of sergeants swarmed forward with swords and guns like wolves and tigers.

Feng Yixia, who leads the team, is already very familiar with such things as arresting people, pronouncing charges, and ransacking homes.

"Are you Xu Meizhen? An officer in the Sudan? Jiapidan, the tax agent of the Southern Central Army of the Ming Dynasty?"

After getting confirmation, he took out a document from his pocketbook.

"You are suspected of evading customs duties, stealing state property, smuggling arms, and other crimes. I have been ordered to arrest you! Come, take it down! Ransack your home!"

A few soldiers who were like wolves and tigers stepped forward and pressed Xu Meizhen to the ground, binding him tightly like a pig.At this time.On the contrary, Xu Meizhen was no longer afraid. He yelled loudly: "Smuggling? I'm not alone! The sultan, the local king, and your tax department, which one is not taking advantage of this waterway? Why are you just arresting me?" ?! Bully me with fists, military power?! Why don’t you dare to touch that Sudan?!”

Feng Yixia bent down, facing Xu Meizhen who was tied up like rice dumplings like an old cat teasing a mouse under its claws, "To tell you the truth, after copying your house, we will copy the Sultan's palace. I'm not afraid of him Resist. General Wang Bao's army is just outside the city, as long as he makes a slight mistake, even if he shakes his fist at us, it is against the army of the Celestial Dynasty! Immediately destroy the nine clans!"

After hearing this, Xu Meizhen was dragged and thrown into the corner by several soldiers like a discouraged pig urine bubble, and asked him to watch how the wealth he had accumulated with all his painstaking efforts was confiscated. How did wives and concubines become military prostitutes?

"Brothers, search carefully! Don't miss a silver dollar and a foot of cotton cloth. These properties belong to us! As long as they are handed over to the general, they will benefit us. Open mines and build big ships, this is called taking from the people, using it for the people, and benefiting the people!"

"My lord! This wall is weird!"

Following the shouts of the soldiers, a team officer picked up a pickaxe and dug a few times under the flower wall that separated the front yard from the back house. Soon, as the surface bricks were When they opened it, a strange scene appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The silver coins were tightly wrapped in cowhide and placed neatly under the corner foundation. It turned out that the entire wall was made of silver coins. It was paved, and even some gold bars were served to hit the wall with silver!

And this was just the beginning. When the Sultan's palace was searched, everyone's eyes were wide open.

Almost all the indoor courtyard pillars are wrapped with gold leaf. In the fish pond after entering the door, a soldier fished out a stone casually. After wiping off the mud on the surface, it turned out to be a ruby ​​of good quality!

After breaking open the secret door of a dark room and walking down the passage, a huge treasure house appeared in front of everyone.In order to prevent theft, it seems popular here to wrap silver dollars with fresh cowhide after slaughter. After the cowhide is air-dried, the silver dollars will be tightly wrapped. Hundreds or even thousands of silver dollars are transported away quietly by a few people.Here, I don't know how many silver dollars wrapped in cowhide are piled up.

Next to the neatly stacked cowhide, there are densely arranged boxes and cages.

After breaking it open, there are pearl agate, gem tortoise shell, rare treasures everywhere.For a moment, everyone was a little confused by the eyes dazzled by the jewels.

"Registration! Make a book!"

Feng Yixia swallowed a mouthful of spit, and moistened his chapped throat. Everyone likes money, even if they want to take it if they want to, but spend it if they don't!

The activities of arresting people and ransacking homes lasted until the twelfth lunar month of the ninth year of Chongzhen, and then gradually subsided.

The results of this cleansing within the South China Army were surprising.

Judging from the confiscated properties, the number of copies and inspections by Zhang Xiaoqi, the Taxation Department of Manchuria, was as high as nearly 500 million silver dollars!And the property confiscated from various sultans, Jiapitan, Tuwang, etc. is as many as several times.There is no lack of the accumulation of these sultans and local kings for several generations or more than ten generations.

"My lord, how to deal with these property? Also, how to deal with those personnel?"

In addition to the seized property, it is the people involved in the case arrested everywhere, as well as the sultans and earth kings related to them.

The more important achievement is to clean up the messy country within a country in the Manga area, what kind of bullshit Sudan and the like, and select personnel from the general's mansion to form an administrative team for this area.

How can there be toast in such an important place?And is it still a toast with a different belief from ours?Shou Han and his civil and military officials had already reached a tacit agreement.

With the clearing of the property and putting it into the treasury, and the continuous dispatch of officials to take over the vacant positions, another huge shadow shrouded Shou Han's heart.

"How should these people who have been arrested be dealt with?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)