Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Canal Is Blocked

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After exchanging the dots with each other, Luo Da began to sigh: "This matter, I'm afraid that the immortals will fight and mortals will suffer." Blocking the front is the bamboo and wood pumping station in the water gate. The one hundred and ten blocked boats in front of them are because the bamboo and wood pumping bureau does not open the water gate! ”

Luo Da got up, but Zhang Xiaonan suddenly turned into a chatter, and spit out with a stomach full of grievances: "If you want to say that the bamboo and wood draw points, we will admit it, which year did we not pay?" But the bamboo and wood draw points are like crazy, and after a whole day, they are stuck and do not let go of the boat. Many of the shipowners went ashore and did their best, and by noon the sun was shining, it was only three ships! Three ships, don't look at it, up and down this canal, there are more than 100 ships! ”

Zhang Xiaonan just said that, but saw that the whole boat shook suddenly, and then accompanied by a dull "dong" sound.

Seeing this, Luo Da and Zhang Xiaonan, who often walk in the river, changed color one after another: "It's broken, this is a collision!" ”

Hearing this, Hou Qisheng, who was still calm, suddenly changed color and ran to the stern of the boat.

At this moment, Hou Fangyu also climbed out, and when he saw a man behind the stern of the boat with a flustered look and an aggrieved face, he hurriedly saluted: "The villain is guilty, guilty." The ship was inconvenient to maneuver, and it actually crashed into it. One should be damaged, and all the small ones will be compensated. ”

Hou Fangyu looked at the hollow in the stern and waved his hand: "It's also an unintentional mistake, it's just that." Uncle Qisheng, is this a guest who knows the situation? ”

Saying that, Hou Fangyu saluted, lukewarm: "Return to Dehou Chaozong." ”

Seeing Hou Fangyu saluting, Luo Da and Zhang Xiaonan also returned the salute one after another, and they were very excited: "The villain Huizhou Xiuning Luoda." ”

"Huizhou Xiuning, Zhang Xiaonan."

Hou Fangyu nodded, walked to the highest point on the boat, looked far away, and suddenly saw at least hundreds of boats blocked on the river, extending from Hou Fangyu's boat to the water gate of the Zhumu Pumping Bureau in Linqing City.

"Pay the tax and pay the tax, the bamboo and wood drawing branch is set up by the imperial court, who is so blind to the king's law?" Hou Fangyu also thought that this was someone in front of him who did not pay taxes and took points.

Unexpectedly, when Hou Fangyu said this, Luo Da suddenly shouted: "My generation is a good citizen, and the court has set up customs to collect taxes, so how can we not pay it." It's just that there's no way to pay taxes. I heard that there was a dispute between the tax department and the lottery bureau, and now there is no way to pay the bamboo and wood extraction, ship materials and commercial taxes in Linqing. For this reason, hundreds of ships have been blocked! ”

Zhang Xiaonan on the side also sighed: "There are ships coming one after another, I'm afraid that at this moment, the entire Grand Canal will be blocked with hundreds, or even thousands." This business is bound to be delayed. ”

Hearing the two of them say this, Hou Fangyu immediately understood the problem. Unprecedentedly, it turned out that I couldn't pay taxes if I wanted to!

At the thought of blocking so many ships, Hou Fangyu's eyebrows were all twisted.

Of course, he didn't complain about a few merchants, who were blocked for a few days, and at most they couldn't earn a few hundred taels of silver after delaying. But if Hou Fangyu is delayed, it will be the rise and fall of the Hou family for more than ten years!

As soon as he thought of this, Hou Fangyu suddenly became anxious: "Uncle Qisheng, immediately find a small boat and let me go ashore, I want to go up and see in person what happened!" No matter who is bad, I can't spare it! ”

Hou Fangyu was in a hurry, but Zhang Xiaonan and Luo Da suddenly became happy.

Hou Fangyu is the son of Hou Sui, the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, and after the high-ranking officials of the ministry, such a family came forward to deal with a small bamboo and wood draw bureau, and beat the top and bottom of Linqing, it should be correct, right?

As soon as they thought of this, the two of them suddenly said in unison: "The villain has a boat, so take Hou Gongzi ashore!" ”

A short time later, a small boat drove several people ashore.

Subsequently, the group arrived in front of the Zhumu Drawing Bureau.

The Zhumu Pumping Bureau occupies a water gate into the city, and the place is of course much smaller than that of the Linqing Division of the Household Department. However, although the place is small, it is extremely crucial, and if a water gate is not opened, it can block the canal and cause hundreds of businesses to suffer.

When I got closer and looked closely, I could see that there were many shipowners crowded in front of the gate of today's Zhumu Pumping Bureau.

The crowd was disturbed, and the voices of discussion continued one after another. But the door is closed bamboo and wood draw branch but there is no intention to come out to resolve the meaning, in front of the door a fierce face with a fierce face scar hideous scar stout man is with more than 200 people to the bamboo and wood draw branch around the group, from time to time there is a weak shout to hand over the bamboo and wood draw points.

When Hou Fangyu arrived at the front, the sound of discussion was in his ears, although it was noisy and chaotic, but it made Hou Fangyu understand things in a short time.

The canal is blocked, and the matter is simple to say, it is nothing more than the problem that the bamboo and wood cannot be handed over.

But if you look closely, it's getting more complicated.

There is no other, because the bamboo and wood drawing branch does not charge the tax of bamboo and wood drawing!

As for the reason, it is even more speechless.

"The Zhumu Draw Bureau will be withdrawn, and the door is closed and waiting for the order of the court, and it has hurt Tianhe if he does not dare to take the people's interests again!"

Up and down the canal, from the small boatmen, to the shipowners, and the generals, they all knew the orders of the previous household tax division.

Zhu Cihong actually wanted to use the ship material to collect taxes, but in his words, he felt that the collection of ship materials coincided with the bamboo and wood extraction. In the eyes of everyone, this obviously implies that it is enough for Linqing to have such a tax collection agency as the Household Department of Taxation Division, and one more is obviously in the way.

In addition, Zhu Cihong wrote a letter to cancel the pre-levy of the article, which obviously shows that the current head of the household tax division is a lawless master.

With such a master, if the Linqing Bamboo and Wood Pumping Branch of the Ministry of Industry has not moved, it will disappoint everyone.

It's just that as soon as the Ministry of Bamboo and Wood Drawing Bureau came out, it was really too big.

Directly close the bamboo and wood draw bureau!

If it is said that the Zhumu Pumping Branch is really closed, everyone will naturally be greatly impressed by the Household Tax Division presided over by Zhu Cihong, and how the Tax Division will be tossed next, they are also convinced and dare not make trouble.

But the bamboo and wood draw bureau is obviously arrogant, and the whole Linqing is tossed!

Without him, the bamboo and wood pumping bureau occupies this water gate!

Without the water gate of Linqing, how can they go north?

For most of the day, except for a few shipowners with really strong backgrounds, the bamboo and wood lottery bureau reluctantly accepted the bamboo and wood lottery points, and only one of the four products participated in politics to pass the customs duty-free. In addition, there is no one who can successfully hand in the bamboo and wood lottery points.

This made countless shipowners lament, what kind of world is this! I can't give it away if I want to!

Hou Fangyu understood what the whole thing had happened, and he was also depressed: "It's a shame to hand over the silver." is so willful, ruining state affairs with his own desires, this Qin Xia really deserves to be killed! ”