The owner of the ship was about to pay the tax for the commercial tax, and he saw that he quickly handed over a piece of broken silver, mixed with a stack of treasure money, if it weren't for the angle at which Zhu Cihong was standing, he could not see this hand.

After receiving the tax money, he weighed the silver inside, and his face looked much better, and he gave the owner a stamp. This stamp is the key thing used to get the cargo ship in the banknote customs clear.

With the printed ticket, handed over the shipping bill, and found a teller to verify and get the receipt, the owner finally relaxed a little, and took the printed ticket to the shipyard to write the list.

The ship has not been handed over yet.

However, Zhu Cihong, who had done his homework, knew that even if the shipowner handed over the ship materials and got the wooden sign as a customs clearance certificate today, it would not be finished.

The money customs collect taxes twice a day, and it's not time yet.

When the customs are released, the clerk on duty runs to the fence to sing the size, and then the owner has to sing the things on the ship list, such as someone loading a certain cargo on the ship, and the beam head is a few feet and inches, so that it can be cleared at this time.

Looking at the back of the shipowner leaving to relax, Zhu Cihong sighed slightly: "This is also tired enough." ”

At this time, the calligrapher found that there were suddenly a few people in the public hall who seemed to be inexplicable, as if they were not here to be grandsons.

"Well, who are you? If you come to the tax branch of the Ministry of Household Affairs and do not report the tax bill on board, is it to disturb the court by staying here? "The teller has a white face and is slightly fat, with a straight complexion, and a straight face to accompany the background of the household tax division, which is actually a bit majestic and not offensive.

Zhu Cihong commented in his heart, and then chuckled.

It's a pity...... This guy is his boss.

Well, the future, the upcoming one.

"What is the matter with my lord's family coming to the household department to collect taxes, but it's not for you, a little official, to ask." Si Qi on the side suddenly strode forward and stood in front of Zhu Cihong like a protector, his eyes blazing, glaring at the calligrapher in front of him.

Zhu Cihong bowed slightly, and sighed in his heart: It feels good to have a little brother.

The teller was glared at by Si Qi, and suddenly woke up and found a few key words: Adult?

It's an official!

"Is it Shangguan? But I don't know what the government office is? Linqing several party offices, that is, official business, should also be informed by correspondence. A certain tax division, have you never heard of any official coming on official business today? I have heard that some fierce people pretend to be eunuchs. "It's a soft and prickly handword, and I'm not scared.

Si Qi and Lao Seventeen glanced at each other, and they both felt slightly bad. This household tax branch is located in Linqing, and I am afraid that all high-ranking officials and eunuchs have been in contact. Ordinary seven-grade petty officials have passed through the tax division, and it can be said that they can be exempted from the pain of banknote customs and pass directly. But if you want to go to the household department to play prestige, don't even think about the duties of a noble and important person.

Just when the two of them felt that the lord had humiliated the ministers to death, they listened to Zhu Cihong's voice in a gentle tone, and his eyes stared at the teller with sharp eyes: "A certain Qin Xia, who was appointed as the head of the tax division of the Ministry of Households. Please meet the senior Chu Lushan and Chu Lushan. ”

"Master, this is going to be just frontal!"

Such a feeling rose in the hearts of the two of them.

The arithmetic hand was originally still brewing, and it was very calm. It doesn't seem to take such a small young official as Qin Xia in his eyes. In his mind, such a young man, even if he was copied out of the Jinshi class by Wenxuan Jinghua, he was at most a seven-grade county commander who went south to serve. The tax division of the Ministry of Household Affairs is absolutely not shameful to play prestige.

But the teller never expected that the young man who came turned out to be Qin Xia, who had been talking about it a lot these days and had been talked about thousands of times by everyone!

"Qin ...... Qin's director? The teller was stunned for a moment, his complexion changed suddenly, and he said, "Subordinate...... Yan Wei ......"

The person who was called Yan Wei saluted, and just wanted to run back to the back office to pass on Chu Lushan, the head of the Household Department's tax division, but suddenly saw the other remaining reckoning hand in the hall retreating, and shouted: "Subordinate Wu Yin, this is going to pass on Lord Chu." ”

Suddenly, Yan Wei only felt the wind behind him, and suddenly only he was left in the hall to face Zhu Cihong. And the clerk who led the shipowner to handle the ship's merchant tax didn't know when he also ran away!

For a while, only the famous Yan Wei's teller was trembling, looking at Zhu Cihong, and recalling the gossip he had heard in recent days in his mind.

"I heard that there was a ruthless man named Qin Xia in it. Specifically to attack our officials. ”

"It's no better than those civil officials who don't know anything, this Qin Xia is proficient in general affairs, and he overturned the officials in the household department, and even promoted a group of people by himself and occupied all the positions. There's no way for us to live! ”

"I heard that those Shaoxing people in the Beijing Division raised hundreds of white flags overnight, and they ......were miserable."

"What should I do, what should I do, I actually provoked such a living Hades ......" Yan Wei couldn't wait to slap himself hard. Similarly, Yan Wei felt extremely wronged, how could such a ruthless person come when he worked hard? After his thoughts turned, all that remained in Yan Wei's heart was endless confusion and fear.

However, Zhu Cihong didn't care about Yan Wei who was in a daze, but looked through the official documents in the official room at will. Especially when I flipped through the stacks of tax bills and ship bills that had been accumulated, my eyes were slightly bright, and I was concentrating on reading them, and I was engrossed, only feeling that there was nothing outside my body, and no one else existed.

As if to deliberately test Yan Wei and Zhu Cihong, after the calligrapher named Wu Yin ran away, there was no one else in this room. No one else dared to come in again.

Yan Wei was naturally depressed, and he didn't dare to disturb Zhu Cihong to read it.

As for Zhu Cihong, it seems that he has no consciousness to be ignored at all, and he reads it attentively and carefully. Especially when Zhu Cihong flipped through the stacks of ship bills and tax bills in the middle of March of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Subsequently, when Zhu Cihong read it again, he just flipped through it casually, and did not pay much attention to the details.

At this time, nearly an hour had passed since Zhu Cihong shouted out his identity, and his lunch break had already passed, when a middle-aged man walked slowly, staring at Zhu Cihong and looking carefully.

And Zhu Cihong naturally took this opportunity to observe the visitors.

This is naturally the head of the Linqing Tax Division of the Ministry of Households, Chu Lushan.

Chu Lushan looked at Zhu Cihong with an innocent and apologetic face and said, "It's really embarrassing to make Lord Qin wait for a long time." I really have the habit of taking a nap in the next place, so I delayed it a little. The teaching is not effective, I didn't expect these idiots to dare to wake me up, and when I woke up, it had already made Lord Qin wait for a long time. ”

Saying that, Chu Lushan coldly pointed at Wu Yin and said, "It's all stupid, they actually delayed me to greet Lord Qin!" In case Lord Qin Xia can handle it with the needs of the court's secrets, wouldn't it delay the court's major affairs even more. Hmph, I'll bother you for a while, and I'll clean you up after welcoming Lord Qin Xia! ”