Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Su Mu entered the scene this time and took charge of the transfer envoy's office. To put it bluntly, he was Lord Wu's second secretary.

It stands to reason that the Tongzhi Office and the Deputy Envoy's Office are responsible for assisting him in his work.However, in view of the extremely bad reputation of Mei Fugui whom he impersonated, Su Mu didn't imagine that these scholars who came from wealthy families in Cangzhou would be of the same mind as him.

Besides, there is Gu Run, a rival in love.

Gu Run is now being transferred to the government office to be the book office, which will naturally have a very bad influence.

In the next two days, Su Mu discovered that the entire Yan Siya did not have any good feelings for him.When something happened, I would hand it over to Gu Run as soon as possible, and I didn't even get a notification.

Su Mu was also mentally prepared for this matter.

Regarding the attitude of him and Mr. Wu, the old people in the yamen naturally kept a respectful distance.After all, because of him and Mr. Wu, Yan Division's major ink corruption case was exposed, and more than a hundred people were arrested and imprisoned, and sent to the capital to await trial.When the interrogation of the case is over, it is unknown how many people will be killed.

So many people have been implicated, more than 100 of them are old students, close friends and blood relatives.It is conceivable that there are countless people in the Yansi yamen who hate Su Mu and Wu Shiqi to the bone, so it is naturally impossible to cooperate with their work.

As for the newly entered yamen secretary office and staff, they also despised Mei Fugui as a person, and felt that they would dirty their mouths if they said a word.

In this way, Su Mu was virtually isolated by everyone.

Su Mu didn't care, he had two main tasks in entering the Salt Division this time.In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a task: fundraising.

Raise funds for flood relief for the court and Emperor Zhengde, and raise dowry for Princess Taikang.

The two tasks add up to 400 million taels.

Must be completed within half a year.

Of course, the most important thing now is to make up enough 30 taels for this month, otherwise the court will have a hard time explaining it.What's more, the victims of Zhending are still waiting for this money to save their lives!

No matter what kind of blind confidence Wu Juren had in him, Su Mu, or Su Mu's confidence, it was impossible to solve this problem right now.

Just as he had gone through several difficult times before, the first thing he needed was information.

Before he thoroughly understood the operation rules of the Changlu Salt Cloud Envoy, Su Mu couldn't even come up with a practical idea.

Therefore, once he entered the official office of the transshipment envoy, Su Mu first retrieved all the documents and accounts of the past years, and prepared to spend time browsing them.

The Changlu Salt Transportation Department is huge, and its salt production accounts for about a quarter of the country.In the Ming Dynasty, Taicang received only 300 million taels a year, and the total tax revenue was just over 1000 million taels.

However, according to historical records, in the 23rd year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, when the salt government checked the accounts, it was found that the salt bureaucrats at all levels had embezzled and withheld 1000 million taels of salt silver.It can be seen that the benefits of official salt are so great that it accounts for an important proportion of national taxes.

Also because of the voluminous data and paperwork, after these documents were transferred, they were placed in half the room.

As Su Mu's colleague, Gu Sangong is in charge of sending the files.

Seeing so many documents, the third son had a look of sarcasm.In his opinion, Mei Fugui is just a vulgar warrior, how could he understand this document, and finally didn't ask him to blame him, then, of course, he would inevitably be humiliated.

Probably with the same thought, the book office, staff and officials in the Yansi Yamen also kept a distance from Su Mu and stood by, hoping to see Su Mu make a fool of himself.

But he didn't want to, as soon as Su Mu picked up the document, he read ten lines at a glance.Looking at his posture, he looked like an old official for many years.

At the beginning, everyone's heart skipped a beat.

But seeing that Su Mu read each document very quickly, he only glanced at it and threw it aside.

There is a sneer in my heart: it's just putting on a show, this guy is a rough, he can't understand it at all, that is, he is trying to put on a show, and he just refuses to lose face.In the end, they didn't beg us.

So, with this in mind, the book offices and masters of the other two government offices simply didn't even do their own work, and directly transferred to Su Mu when they encountered problems.

Gradually, not only did the documents in the government office not decrease, but they accumulated more and more.

Looking at Su Mu's originally healthy and rosy face, which started to look pale after several days and nights of non-stop reading, Gu Run and the others were even more delighted.

In order to continue to cause trouble for Su Mu, these dozen or so book offices kept coming over and urging: "Master Mei, the money and food used by the salt workers at the Huanghua Salt Field this month must be summed up and distributed as soon as possible, otherwise, I'm afraid To stir up a civil uprising."

"Master Mei, there is a lack of tools at the Tianjin Wei Salt Field."

"Master Mei, how to deal with the case of land dispute between the government and the people in the Liaodong Salt Field, I have to ask Mr. Wu to come up with the regulations as soon as possible."

All these things, big and small, even the fight between officials and officials in the salt field were reported to the official office of the transshipment officer in charge of Su Mu to deal with it.

Seeing the mountain of official affairs, Su Mu rubbed his face, and sneered in his heart: "It's so good to get off the horse, I didn't expect that even a little Gu Run would dare to trip me up, you really underestimated me, Su. "

"Well, Mr. Wu is hopeless, let me show my skills this time!"

Mr. Wu has not been feeling better since his molars became inflamed three days ago. Half of his face was swollen into a steamed bun, and he still had a little fever. He hid in the back yamen all day long, pouring bowl after bowl of bitter medicine into his mouth.

After taking the medicine, he just read the book except for sighing, and didn't ask any questions about the world, as if he was escaping from something, and he returned to the old otaku character when he was in Beijing.

He is an old Confucian scholar, and he can recite the words of the saints proficiently.But the salt department is all about economic affairs, and Confucius didn’t teach students how to do business. The monthly payment of 30 taels made the old man collapse.

In fact, Su Mu didn't expect him to be of any help, it would be good if the old man didn't come to make trouble.

In the end, you have to rely on yourself to solve the problem.

After reading the document for three days in a row, Su Mu already had a clear idea of ​​how the Changlu Salt Transportation Envoy should operate.

The salt administration of the Ming Dynasty generally implemented the Gang Salt System, that is, all the salt fields in the world were divided into ten classes according to the region, and each class was quoted as 20 yuan of salt, and each salt was discounted by [-] catties, or silver six. Two or four coins are called nest books, and there is another tax of three liang of silver.

After the salt department requisitioned the salt and mined the official salt, it did not sell it directly to the people, but let the salt merchants underwrite it.

If salt merchants want to legally sell salt, they must first obtain salt quotations from the government.Then use the salt to lead to the designated salt field to pick up the salt and sell it at the designated place.

Among them, six taels of cash and three taels of tax silver are the cost price of every three hundred catties of official salt for merchants.