The first writer of Qing Dynasty

Yinzhen's face changed slightly, and when he was pulled to the side of the grove, anger appeared in his eyes: "Stop messing around!"

"Call me Siying," Yinhu said with a smile: "Sibeiler, look, who is staying in the open to pretend that you are going to your destination?"

"Business matters, Four Baylor."

It made Yinzhen choke.

Khan Ama has indulged Yinhu so far, letting him play like this in private!

"You want me to dress up like you?" Yinzhen asked him.

His intuition was telling him that if he agreed, he would be tricked by the eighth brother.

Before Yinhu could answer, Yinzhen continued: "You don't have to bother to disguise yourself, the eighth younger brother is suitable, but I may not be."

"Since you have spared me in advance and came here first, you must have a lot of information before I do, just hand it over to me," Yinzhen also replied calmly, returning to him in his own way.

"Don't play charades with me, I hope you think the business is important."

"Since you are already here, it doesn't matter whether I need to rush over there in a few days."

The news that should be collected, the things that Yinhu had come to explore in advance, as for those that could not be known, since the people who arrived in advance could not find out, then it must have been checked, and Yinzhen must not have been able to find out either.

Yinhu pointed to the outside: "The terrain here is unfavorable, and the enemy even sent scouts to investigate the news so that we can go back and report back. Now you and I are hiding in the woods, covered by trees. If we stay out, they still have to watch four Where is brother?"

Yinzhen's frown never let go: "It's so arrogant!"

"Salt is a huge profit. Jiangnan is well-connected and has a strong network of connections. Fourth brother wants to touch their backs. Will they be on guard against you?"

Yinzhen said angrily: "These thieves will be dealt with sooner or later."

Everyone knows that the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are very rich, but they bribe local officials to get through all kinds of tricks with tolls, rituals, filial piety, etc. Among them, the corruption is huge.

More importantly, in this atmosphere, it is no longer possible for other merchants to fight fairly with legitimate means. The monopoly that should be formed has already been formed, and it has experienced layers of exploitation. There are also quite a few, which are "filial bribes" by the salt merchants to the emperor.

It's a pity that Khan Ama didn't appreciate it, because these corruptions were too obvious, like tarsal maggots, crawling all the way to the capital along the richest place, from the place to the center of the court, and to the prince.

"The fourth elder brother will go out from here in a while, so they have to send someone. If you don't dress up as my maidservant and follow me to the forest, you won't be able to escape their eyeliner."

"I have to go directly to the scene from the bright spot, summon them face to face and ask them face to face to see what monsters and monsters they are." Yinzhen said in a deep voice.

He is quick-witted, and he can tell at a glance that Yinhu "has ulterior motives" and wants to take advantage of him.

Yinzhen glanced at him, not being fooled: "I can leave by myself, you'd better keep yourself!" Being able to dress like this is obviously not going to reveal your identity.

"You are the first to expose your identity here to contact me, and the risk is equally high," Yinzhen folded his arms around his chest: "What do you want me to do with you?"

Yinhu laughed: "I still can't hide it from my fourth brother."

In this matter, they didn't intend to do it alone. They had to communicate with each other in order to complete the errand.

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Yinhu saw that he couldn't say that his fourth brother would go with him, so he didn't insist anymore.

"Since Sibeile is not willing to follow me, I will take a step first, and we will have a chance to contact in the future!"

After speaking, Yinhu whistled and called the horse.

Everyone in the team was talking about Sibaile having a confidante girl, and there were a lot of rumors and rumors, and the rumors were made up in a big way, and it really felt a bit like people's sayings and chasing after the wind.

They said that the heroine was a female bandit, she fell in love with Sibeile, and wanted to catch him up the mountain to be her husband.

Yinzhen didn't explain. If he rushed to explain, he would have said that there is no silver 300 taels here. It's better to wait for the rumors to dissipate on their own.

As for Yinhu's discussion with him about starting work at both ends, Yinzhen also knew it in his mind.

When he arrived, he contacted the local government, and the government issued an edict from the government, ordering salt merchants from all over the country to submit the account books.

Then, Yinzhen contacted the Cao family, a family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Cao Yin worked as a weaver in Jiangning, and he had been in the local business for a long time. He had a reputation as a Confucian merchant and an imperial merchant. The royal family buys property and purchases various palace supplies for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The muddy water of this generation in the south of the Yangtze River is as messy as a porridge. Cao Yin is in a very delicate position, between the officialdom and the shopping malls, between the literati in the south of the Yangtze River and the literati in the capital.Both sides please, neither side pleases.

This time, Khan Aman's southern tour was also a matter for Cao Yin to prepare for his pick-up. After Yinzhen came, he planned to pry a merchant from Cao's house.

This made Cao Yin even more ignorant inside and out, and he was already squeezed out by the local merchant group before completing the task given by Sibei Le.

But even if he is excluded, he bears the name of an imperial merchant, and merchants are after profit, so many people want to cooperate with him.

The Cao family regards Sibeile as a great Buddha, and when they invite the Buddha, they have to make offerings, serve him well, and satisfy his conditions one after another.

The same is true for the local government. When they saw that Si Bei Le came to investigate the case, they gave orders to be reckless and unscrupulous, and they all felt bitter.

"If you want to see someone, you demand that all local officials be summoned immediately, regardless of the fact that everyone still has government affairs to do. This is a blatant investigation."

"No, it's unreasonable to order the government to summon all the salt merchants and arrest those who don't come. Isn't this an unreasonable master?"

"If you scare the snake like this, can you really find something?"

Seeing Si Baylor's behavior like this, everyone complained a lot.

The salt merchants colluded with the local officials, seeing that Sibeile made such a fuss with every move, they laughed and said: "I thought the emperor would send an opponent who was more cunning and tougher than Cao Yin, but I didn't expect one Fool."

"Don't relax your vigilance. During this period of time, keep your tail tight and be a man. This matter will not come to an end until the imperial envoy is sent away."

Said to relax vigilance, Sibeile brought the salt merchants to meet him one by one from the outside, and they got into trouble. They just need to avoid the place where Sibeile checked the account books.

For a lucrative business, the account book is at your fingertips, the price is colluded, and there is no problem in presenting some false accounts to fool people and specious.

As everyone knows, every one of them is almost copied from behind.

After discussing with Yinzhen, Yinhu and Yinzhen planned to investigate from three places.

——Salt merchants and local officials manage, one of which is tolls, check from the places that must pass, check the checkpoints that charge tolls, and you will definitely gain something.

Even if the imperial envoy comes, their business still has to continue, right?

——Go to the place where the salt merchants gather, and check the traces of the government asking for rituals.

Corrupt officials who ask the salt merchants for gifts, gold and other finances from the convenience of their positions at regular intervals will not give up exploiting the salt merchants just because the imperial envoys come.

The longer Yinzhen delays, they can't help but show more flaws in the resurgence of rituals, and they will avoid the area where Yinzhen is.

——Looking for traces of the previous officials, the previous officials who were transferred to other places, or promoted to the capital.Because there is an unwritten rule here, after the term expires, officials will receive a "farewell gift" (1)

Yinhu wins the trust of Yinzhen.

[Fourth brother, our private contact may expose my place, you have to come to me in disguise to avoid being discovered. ]

Some things can be hidden from the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth day.

If you want to do great things, you have to be informal!

Here, Yinhu and Yinzhen are busy at both ends, while at the other end, Yinhu, who is eager to see the starling, is stopped by the tenth brother Yinyu.

Yin Qu shouted at the top of his voice, "Brother Jiu, calm down!"

"The starling may not be going with the fourth brother. You are the prince who left the capital without an order, and let Khan Ama know that he will punish you."

The "lively and active" Yinzhen was in a stalemate with him, and the two of them argued back and forth.

The people outside saw the two of them playing in the house and were dumbfounded.

As a result, the two of them were still tugging and rolling on the ground. Those who didn't know thought that Brother Jiu and Brother Ten had fought and smashed a vase!

When Kangxi learned of this, he summoned them to ask them with displeasure on his face.

When Yinzhen saw Kangxi's face, he thought of the chilling things done by his father in the previous life, and it was hard for him not to hold a grudge against Kangxi.

The prince, it is Khan Ama who wastes two things and establishes two things, and the starling is also Khan Ama who has been reduced to the dust with one word.It seems that no matter which elder brother it is, as long as there is a threat to the imperial power, they will fight each other like raising Gu in the matter of establishing a crown prince, and then suppress each other when the father of the emperor knocks a gopher.

In the end, Khan Ama became tired of the government in his later years, and corruption and chaos in the government flourished. The brothers lost both sides in the fight, and the result was not good.

There will be nine sons seizing the heir, and they are all at fault, but it is also the result of Khan Ama's single-handed efforts.

Yinyu shut up and said nothing, seeing that the great opportunity was right in front of him, Yinyu yelled loudly: "Khan Ama, Brother Ninth heard that all the ministers were scolding Myna for Qingcheng, guessing that there must be a ghost in this matter, so I went to see Sister-in-law Ba, but it turned out that Brother Ba was not at the house at all!"

Kangxi said with a dark face: "It was I who confined Lao Ba in the mansion and did not allow him to see outsiders."

Yin Qu: "Hey!"

He grinned and said with a grin: "Sister-in-law Ba is also prevaricating Brother Ninth and my son-in-law in the same way. It is exactly the same. It makes us sure that Brother Ba is leaving the house."

"Brother Nine thought about Brother Four going out to handle a case, so he deduced that Brother Mynah might also be sent out by Khan Ama."

Kangxi was extremely surprised, can you think of this?

"Oh?"

Yinyu said: "Because Khan Ama sat together with the fourth brother before, and let the fourth brother look at the starling. In addition, the starling was scolded as 'Qingcheng' and the time when the fourth brother went to Beijing for business was too coincidental, so we guessed like this. "

Kangxi thought for a moment, and asked Yinzhen: "Why doesn't Lao Jiu talk?"

Yinzhen concealed his embarrassment when he saw Jun's father, and replied: "I am worried about myna's situation, and want to help myna."

Yinhu, who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River, didn't know that his two good brothers volunteered to recommend themselves to Khan Ama, wanting to go to the south of the Yangtze River to help him.

Although Yinhu wanted to tease the fourth brother, but more from the business, the two of them have carried out some development and made a lot of arrangements, and it's time to meet and exchange information.

A man can bend and stretch, but Yinzhen finally succumbed to reality.

Yinzhen is under the watchful eyes of the public, and if he wants to avoid people's eyes and ears without anyone noticing, it is not enough to simply disguise himself.Yinhu gave him this wig headgear, fake breast pads, fake buttocks, and even sent a disguised maid to help him out of everyone's sight.

In order to create evidence that he never left, Yinzhen invited the confidant he brought over this time, and asked the confidant to pretend to be him and stay in the house, and then he disguised himself as a maid and went out with the maids.

The confidant he brought was named Nian Gengyao.

The author has something to say: Note 1

Rules and rituals are also called "conventional rules" and "rule rules".The donations and gifts that government agencies and officials at all levels in the Qing Dynasty demanded from their subordinate agencies and personnel by virtue of their administrative power.In order to meet this demand, the subordinates will allocate additional taxes, such as fire consumption, surplus, and miscellaneous items. In addition to the income for office work and personal enjoyment, the remainder will be given to the superiors.

The farewell gifts and tolls are all checked from Baidu