Sir, you have to pay more

Tianjin Customs Yamen, late at night.

"Bang Bang Bang!"

The sound of shifting outside the house alarmed Jia Liu who was reviewing the documents. He looked up at the glass window and found that it was already dark, so he asked the sleepy Shuan Zhu next to him what time was it.

"Master, it's midnight."

Shuan Zhu rubbed his dazed eyes, then took out the pocket watch the young master gave him and looked at it, and said it was 11:30.

"Is it so late?"

Jia Liu frowned, sighed softly, took off his presbyopic glasses, and took a "Gudu Gudu" foaming thermos with ginseng and goji berries. He drank a few swigs, but he still felt that he was not in a good state, so he went to the washbasin and used cold water. After wiping his face vigorously, he went to the desk again, put on his reading glasses, and continued to review the mountains of official documents on the desk.

These official documents were all transferred from Beijing in the past two days. Although the cabinet gave advice on how to deal with them, as the emperor, Jia Liu still read them all.

When you see that the cabinet’s handling opinions are not to your liking, you should also write your own opinions on a piece of white paper with a red pen and paste them on it, so that the cabinet will re-discuss after receiving the return, and give new handling opinions before submitting to the emperor. His Majesty.

If the emperor has no opinion, he will forward it to the relevant department for implementation, and if he has any opinion, he will call back.

It sounds like a bit of a joke.

However, Jia Liu made a rule that he, the emperor, only had the power to reject the cabinet's opinions three times.

If you want to refute the fourth time, you must organize a political meeting, and the princes and ministers who discuss the political affairs will vote to decide whether to do it according to the cabinet or the emperor.

If the result of the meeting of princes and ministers is to support the cabinet, the emperor must obey unconditionally.

If the result of the meeting of princes and ministers is to support the emperor, the cabinet will obey unconditionally.

If the cabinet refuses to obey, the emperor exercises the power to dismiss the cabinet and re-appoint new cabinet members.

If the emperor refused to obey, the Conference of Princes and Ministers, as the highest authority in the Qing Dynasty, had the right to exercise the power to impeach the emperor.

When necessary, the emperor can be respectfully invited to step down.

This system was personally summoned by Jia Liu to the five cabinet leaders, and then he explained it to them word by word.

At that time, the five big brothers were stunned, and then they raised their tea bowls and toasted together, unanimously agreed to this plan, and planned to announce this system to the whole country in an imperial decree to ensure that the six emperors would not go back on their word.

How could Jia Liu go back on his word? His purpose of becoming the emperor was to regard the emperor as a position, a job, not a son of heaven who said what he said.

He has to do it even if it makes his children and grandchildren a mascot.

Because China doesn't need an emperor.

Europe has entered the initial stage of the industrial revolution, and humanistic ideas are exploding. China will inevitably have revolution in the future. If the fire of revolution does not let the six emperors die, then he should do everything he should do while he is still young.

Just as his next step is to do a shocking event that has never been done before—announcing himself as the king of the subjugated country, and at the same time declaring himself the king of the founding country.

Pretty, right?
People are also him, ghosts are also him, and gods are also him.

Progress is him, reaction is also him, and the people who eat melons are also him.

I am such a man!
Just the right description.

Shuan Zhu yawned, and couldn't help persuading him: "Master, it's getting late, you'd better go to bed early, and you have to meet foreign business representatives tomorrow."

"Go to bed if you're sleepy,"

Jia Liu raised his head and looked at Shuanzhu, who brought him up with him, and said affectionately: "It doesn't matter that I, the emperor, sleep less, as long as the people in this world can sleep peacefully."

As soon as these words came out, the room suddenly became extremely bright.

In the camera, Jia Liu, who is sitting at his desk, exudes a great aura all over his body.

Holy as Guevara.

"Great, great, your majesty, you are such a good emperor that no minister can bump into you in your life!"

Lao Ah put a large glass mirror on the left side of His Majesty's desk, and asked people to put the other mirrors in a scientific position.

Not to mention, the light in the house with this arrangement is obviously much brighter than before.

"Old man, you came just in time. What's your opinion on the candidates for the supervision of Tianjin Customs?"

Jia Liu put down the official document he was writing and motioned for Lao Ah to sit down and talk.

In terms of establishment, the Tianjin Customs Yamen and the Guangdong Customs Yamen in Guangdong are both tax agencies directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

According to the regulations of the customs office formulated during the Kangxi period, the customs office is not only responsible for the management of foreign trade in the location, but also responsible for the management of the coastal waterway trade in the location.

That is to say, the Tianjin Customs Office not only levied taxes on merchant ships from Western countries coming to China, but also levied taxes on goods transported from their own countries to Tianjin Port via the canal.

It is a two-way fee, and both imports and exports have to pay taxes to the court.

Jia Liu personally reviewed the Tianjin Customs Functional Regulations and found that it was no different from the customs of later generations. They were responsible for customs declaration and registration, filling out tax forms, collecting taxation, and also responsible for inspecting import and export ships and goods.

Jia Liu didn't know what the Guangdong Customs Yamen in Guangdong looked like, but he paid close attention to the Tianjin Customs Yamen from project approval to completion.

Even the blueprints of the customs office building and its ancillary facilities were drawn by him in his busy schedule.

It is equivalent to a large government compound.

There are two floors above and below, covering an area of ​​less than ten acres.

There is a main building, two auxiliary buildings, and the other is the dormitory for customs staff to eat, sleep and rest.

It looks like a tube building.

If the building materials and construction level of this era were not enough to allow Jia Liu to develop freely, otherwise he would build the Empire State Building by the Haihe River, which would give Western countries a little bit of Jia-style shock.

The top leader of the customs said that he was "Imperially appointed to supervise the department of trade and tax households in Tianjin coastal areas and other places", but there was a dispute between the cabinet and the six emperors as to whether the supervisor of Tianjin customs should be selected by the Ministry of household affairs or the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In the past, customs supervision was directly appointed by the emperor, and each term was only one year.Before the expiry of one year, please appoint a messenger in advance to replace it.If you are briefed again, you will stay in office.

Therefore, since the establishment of the customs yamen in the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the customs supervision of each trading port has been designated by the emperor from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, usually by personnel from the bureau such as Yuanwai and Langzhong.

Jia Liu wanted to follow the old practice and let him appoint the supervisor of Tianjin Customs.

But it was strongly resisted by the cabinet.

The reason is that this customs supervision is really too fat.

Although it is only a third-rank setting, the money passed from his hands is tens of millions of taels every year!

Jia Liu finally synthesized it.

The chief and deputy supervisors were set up in Tianjin Customs Yamen.

The day-to-day business is in charge of the supervisor, but the financial aspect is in charge of the deputy supervisor.

However, the cabinet and Jia Liu have different opinions on who will be the chief supervisor and who will be the deputy supervisor.

The cabinet is planned to be supervised by Qian Shougu, the current fourth-rank secretary Zhang Jing, who is not only talented but also good at managing money.

A few years ago, Qianlong mobilized a large army to conquer Jinchuan. Qian Shougu had been coordinating the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households and related provinces' money and food work, so he was a good candidate.

However, Jia Liu wanted Zhu Dawen, the prefect of Tianjin who was recruiting business in Macau for him, to be the supervisor of Tianjin Customs. Firstly, Zhu Dawen was familiar with foreign businessmen and it was convenient to deal with them.Second, it also means rewarding merit.

As a result, the cabinet was hard-pressed, and now the Tianjin Customs Yamen has been established, and the staff have been transferred, but the first and second leaders are empty.

Lao Ah thought for a while, and suggested that the emperor should let Qian Shougu be the chief supervisor, and Zhu Dawen be the deputy supervisor.

"Alright."

Jia Liu didn't want the stalemate between the chief and deputy director of the customs and the cabinet to continue, so he agreed to Lao Ah's proposal. When he was about to ask Shuan Zhu to draft an order and submit it to the cabinet for implementation, he noticed that Lao Ah was holding an official document in his hand and asked what was the matter. .

"Your Majesty, the power of the Eight Banners outside the pass has just been received!"

The old general will power on and submit it.

"Have you figured it out outside the pass? Are they planning to talk to me in the capital, or will I send someone to Shengjing to talk to them?"

Jia Liu turned on the emergency phone and scanned, but his face became serious.

The power-on of the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai was not to support him, the Six Emperors, but to demand the restoration of the titles of the relatives and county kings who had been deprived of their ancestry, and to return the confiscated property to the kings. Otherwise, the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai will enter Shanhaiguan to replace the sky Walk the way and restore the ancestral system.

In addition to Shengjing General Hongxiang, Jilin General Fu Chun, and Heilongjiang General Fu Yu, there were also 68 Manchurian and Mongolian officials above the Deputy Capital Commander and above on the list who jointly signed the telegram.

"I am not Chongzhen, let alone Li Zicheng, the Eight Banners outside the Guan, how dare I be such a clown!"

Jia Liu threw the electricity on the table casually, "Tell the cabinet that I will go back to my hometown next month to worship my ancestors."