Chapter 42: A monk and a nun

When Xiaoqian served her to get out of bed, she got up, cleaned her noodles, brushed her teeth, ate a few more pieces of cake made by Chef Ma, took the tea cup and drank two sips of tea. The Chef felt refreshed. Xiaoqian next to her took another blue and white porcelain basin the size of a palm, opened it, and took a piece of frosted peach strips and handed it to the Chef.

This feeling of being served by the little beauty... The good official chewed the candied fruit and made fun of Xiaoqian and said, "Why can't you see you eating fruit these days?" Xiaoqian suddenly turned red, covered the shallow blue and white porcelain basin, and carefully received it to the side. She refused to answer the good official's words, and shouted that she came in and wanted to pack up the things.

"When the tax ship of the Maritime Bureau collects taxes comes, collects taxes and enters the port. It will only take about two hours to help me pack my things and save me the time to get off the boat. "Xiaoqian directs this big head to wrap all the pen, ink, paper, ink, and inkstone. Big head scratches his head, "Sister Xiaoqian, I know I'm scolding you two days ago, but... we should do our own business with Zheng's family!"

Xiaoqian blushed and felt embarrassed to look at the good official, and whispered: "The master said, I'll give me to my little husband." But the voice became lower and lower. Later, there was no difference between mosquito humming, but both the good official and the big-headed master and servant understood.

The good official raised his right eyebrows slightly, and said quickly, "Where can our family afford you?" Xiaoqian was told by him, and secretly looked at the good official. Seeing that the good official didn't speak, she was angry and anxious, and stomped her feet hard, "I... can't I afford to raise it? Haven't I eaten a piece of candy fruit these days? I am also from the Zheng family now, and I know how to make careful calculations for the family."

Uh! After hearing this, the good official said, "I haven't eaten this candied fruit in the past two days because of this!"

He looked at Xiaoqian. The little maid was slinging her hands and looked at him pitifully. She was scattered with double snails and exhaled like orchids. Thinking about the ten days of service, she did not do anything bad. She also had a good impression of this little girl. However, what does this ship owner Yan mean to give him someone?

"Xiaoqian, it's not that I don't want you, but I believe you have heard a saying that you will not receive any reward without merit!" The good official hugged his chest with his hands and rubbed his hairless chin and said slowly.

When Xiaoqian heard this, tears immediately came down. The beaded tears rolled on her pink cheeks, and she didn't say anything. She just choked and sobbed slowly. The diaphragm on her chest was thrusting and unable to stop it.

Seeing this, the good official immediately covered his head. It was a headache, so he had to reach out and signal her not to cry, saying, "Besides, let's talk about it, can we say it again when the ship owner Yan talks?" As he said that, he winked at Datou and walked outside.

A fishy sea breeze blew, and the sun was in the direction of the bow. There was a three-massed ship with a thousand-stock material in the distance. It was obvious that it had a court background. The ship was even equipped with a Franco machine cannon. Because the three-massed ship was in the sun's room on the bow, the light was dazzling, but it was impossible to see how many Franco machine cannons there were.

He held the railing and looked at it for a while, and suddenly discovered something that made him stunned.

The front cabin of the three-masted ship was opened when the sailors were twisted by wheels on the ship. Then, three small boats sailed out of the belly of the big ship. Each small boat had more than a dozen oars on both sides, so it was extremely fast on the sea surface.

Damn Mud Horse, I'm dazzled?

The deceased official rubbed his eyes hard, unable to believe that this was the Ming Dynasty? How could there be such a sci-fi ship?

He rushed down from the boat building to the front deck. The sailors performed their duties, putting their masts down and putting their anchors to be inspected by the maritime tax ship. When he saw that the honest boss of the ship, He Ma, who looked like he was on the bow of the ship, shouted loudly, "He leader, He leader."

"Oh! My little husband, why are you coming out? You'd better go back to the cabin! The tax officials from the Maritime Bureau will be on the boat for inspection later. They are all vulgar and unruly men. If you commit crimes against your little husband, wouldn't it be my fault? Then the master blames you, I can't afford it!" He Maxiang looked at the good official and called him, and quickly twisted his big butt, lowered his head and bowed his waist and talked to the good official, and persuaded him to go back to the cabin.

The good official ignored his words and pointed at the big ship and asked, "What kind of ship is that? Why is it so weird?"

He Maxiang laughed, "It's so good for my little husband to know that the ship was originally a warship of Jinshanwei, called the mother-child ship. It's not old or young. It was built when Hu Xiantai suppressed the Japanese. Unfortunately, the ship had not been built when Hu Xiantai committed the crime. After it was built, the Japanese pirates had long disappeared. They had been in Jinshanwei for ten years. The Maritime Bureau was reopened a few years ago. The governor Li Chuncun, the eunuch of Zhejiang Maritime Bureau, pulled out the ship from Jinshanwei and transformed it. They were specially used for tax ships. The mother-child ship was big and strong. The centipede ship released from the belly was extremely fast and could not escape any ship. Hehe! It was really a monk and a nun for tax collection. "

The good official patted the ship bar, his eyes full of surprise, mud horses, didn’t the experts in later generations say that the ships in the later stages were all shit and poops? Why didn’t I mention such a sci-fi ship? I almost thought it was the cruiser in "Save the Soldier Ryan" who released the landing craft.

It is not a good official who is not knowledgeable. At this time, Mao Yuanyi, a strange man from Liaodong, followed Grand Secretary Sun Chengzong twice and praised the painting of Mao Yuanyi, a generation of Liaodong. Not to mention that he had not compiled a masterpiece "Wu Bei Zhi" system depicting various warships of the Ming Dynasty, and they were not even born! What's more, this book was banned in later generations, and it was normal for later generations to delete and modify and dug up again and again, and it was normal for later experts to not know about it.

He suddenly felt proud when he looked at this big ship with such a science fiction comparable to 007. Daming, Daming, I will come here this time, I won’t complain!

"Big Head, Big Head." He turned his head and shouted loudly, "Come out and see the big ship."

Shan Sinan heard the young master's voice and felt that it was really uncomfortable to organize things with this sister Xiaoqian who was wiping tears. When he heard the young master calling himself, he would run away as if he was given a general amnesty, "I'll trouble you, Sister Xiaoqian."

He quickly walked down from the boat building and ran to Zheng Guofan. Zheng Guofan grabbed his arm and pointed at the tax ship on the sea in front of him, "Big Head, look, is this ship big?"

Datou didn't pay attention to the sea just now. At this time, as the good official looked over, he slowly opened his mouth wide, his eyes wide open, "I'm a mother, this ship... Master, why is this ship like a monster?"

The good official stood up straight, as if the ship belonged to his name. "I have told you a long time ago, what is the meaning of reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles, and lying in Daxing County? Look, after walking out, I realized that there are still many things I have never seen before in the Ming Dynasty."

He Maxiang next to him sounded like a child's playful look at new things. He would never think that he was a natural sense of pride as an ordinary person five hundred years later when he saw such a powerful emperor.

At this time, a centipede boat was leaning against the bell. First, two tax officials climbed up. Then, the two tax officials bent down and reached out, and then pulled a white-faced man dressed in a civil servant from the gang.

The white-faced man wore a black hat on his head, a dark blue robe on his body, and a genus trousers on his chest. After getting on the boat, he first put on his hat on his head and brushed his sleeves, obviously paying great attention to appearance.

He Maxiang, who was standing next to the good official, looked at it and quickly stuck out her butt and ran over, with a simple smile on her face, "Oh! Isn't this Hou Tiju? Why are you here to collect taxes in person?"

In the Ming Dynasty, the Maritime Bureau established one person with the fifth rank, two deputy rank, sixth rank, and one subordinate with the deputy rank, and one official and nineth rank.

Generally, those who come to collect taxes at sea will at most have officials of the ninth rank. The Hou Tiju who came here today is from the deputy deputy of the sixth rank. It is said that he is the brother-in-law of Li Shaonan, the governor of Zhejiang.

The Ningbo Maritime Control Department was reopened by the Zhejiang Provincial Administration Commissioner Li Shaonan in a few years ago. In this way, the governor of Zhejiang Provincial Administration Commissioner Li Chuncun would naturally thank Li Shaonan. If it weren't for Li Shaonan, he would have had the opportunity to release such a fat man! Therefore, after he became the yamen of Hangzhou Municipal Administration Commission, he fought with the Provincial Administration Commissioner Li Shaonan in a passionate manner. The two joined forces to protect Li Shaonan's brother-in-law Hou Xiaobai as the deputy director of Ningbo Maritime Control Department. This is a typical reciprocating favor. Of course, there is another one on it, but it is insignificant to just lift a puppet.

What I want to mention here is that Ningbo Maritime Affairs Office has its yamen in the provincial capital Hangzhou, and the admirals and eunuchs often live in the provincial capital, while the service is the Maritime Affairs Office, which is in Ningbo, so it is one yamen and two office locations.

It is precisely because there are two offices in one yamen, the eunuch yamen and the eunuch yamen have their own clever tricks to make money. Generally speaking, the eunuch yamen collects taxes, water taxes, and drought taxes. The silver collected is in the hands of the Zhejiang Provincial Office, and the eunuch yamen! For example, if you want to go out to sea, you have to be issued by the eunuch yamen, and you want to be unfilial! It is hard to say when it can be issued. Even what types of items you can buy and sell, the eunuch yamen must nod, so there is no conflict between the eunuch yamen and the eunuch yamen, and each one will make their own money.

However, due to the different taxes of each governor, the taxes collected by the Chief Executive are also different. At highs, they charge more than 100,000 silver a year, and at lows, they only cost more than 10,000 silver a year, which is very different.

After Hou Tiju got on the boat, he looked arrogant and disdainful of paying attention to He Maxiang. Of course, there is a reason here. Hou Tiju is an official of a sixth rank. He Maxiang is just a servant of a merchant family, and the status gap is too big.

Fortunately, He Maxiang was smart and saw that he ignored him and quickly went to find his master. Unfortunately, he was here to make trouble.

"Stop, who told you to leave?" Hou Tiju looked pretty good. His face was slightly round and his skin was very white, which was quite in line with the face of a scholar at that time. His eyes were a little fluttering, which gave people a feeling of frivolity.
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