Chapter 270 The real breaking point! (Moving completed, updates restored)
All transferred to the Salt Transportation Department.
This is the office of Zhejiang Salt Transportation Division.
It has been two days since Xia Zhibai came to Yuhang, Zhejiang, and Li Benmo still has not handed over the list.
At this moment, Yunshi is in the company.
All officials from the Salt Transportation Department gathered and discussed the final list to be submitted.
In the lobby.
Li Benmo sat on the main seat, his slightly fat body moving slowly, his eyes slightly closed, exuding a gloomy look.
Li Benmo said: "Everyone is here."
"It has been two days since the imperial envoy Xia Zhibai arrived."
"Although he has not urged us to submit the list in the past few days, he has been walking around with the officials of the Chief Secretary. He has found a larger house in the city to prepare for this conference. Xia Zhibai is determined to hold these two meetings. The conference has been held."
"That's it now."
"This list can only be handed over."
"What do you think about this?"
Li Benmo looked down indifferently. There was not much expression on his face, and he could not see any joy or anger.
This matter has actually been decided a long time ago. Now it is just a matter of going through the process and making a final decision. He cannot guarantee the situation of other Chief Secretaries, but he can still make a decision on the situation of Zhejiang Chief Secretary. .
Salt Transport Experience looked at other colleagues, and when no one spoke, he said with a smile: "Master Li, it's already this time, do you still need to confirm?"
"You Don't worry."
"We have already followed your instructions and followed the advice of those people, and they all agreed."
"This time, we will give it to Zuxia. White face! ”
Salt Luck Experience Zhang Tong had a smile on his face, and his eyes had turned into slits.
Li Benmo glanced at Zhang Tong, nodded slightly, and said: "I want you to confirm the opinions of those people, such as Mingzhou Guard Commander Shi Linxian, Quzhou Prefecture Secretary Zhang Zhihua and others. I don't want to agree to it. "It's fine, but you turned around and refused to admit it."
"These warriors are the most unethical!"
Li Benmo looked contemptuous.
Zhang Tong smiled and said: "Don't worry, Sir, we have already agreed."
"They also know that Xia Zhibai is troublesome, so how can they care too much about this kind of thing? Moreover, although the number of rosters we submitted is quite large, the scale is actually not large. If we can use this to block Xia Zhibai, mouth, and at the same time let Xia Zhibai and his party finish as soon as possible, this is what everyone will be happy about."
Li Benmo nodded.
With a half-smile, he picked up a brochure beside him, stretched out two fingers, glanced at it casually, and said: "Then send it up."
"Bu If the Chief Secretary doesn’t want to cause trouble, why would I, the Salt Transportation Secretary, try to cause trouble?”
“It’s still possible to spend money to eliminate disasters.”
Zhang Tong sneered, the flesh on his face trembled, and said rather gloomily: "The main reason is that I don't want to be entangled with Xia Zhibai for too long. This person is a lunatic, and he does things without caring. At the banquet, I thought He said casually that he would send the record to the court."
"The result."
"This guy really sent it."
"But. If it weren't for his trouble, Lin Xian, Zhang Zhihua and others wouldn't be afraid, and we wouldn't be able to get the list done easily."
"It's not bad for us."
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Li Benmo snorted coldly and said nothing about it.
Xia Zhibai started talking, and what they handed over was real money.
And under the bite of Xia Zhibai, the mad dog, the chief secretaries in the south reached an agreement that they would rather lose some money than send Xia Zhibai away. Xia Zhibai is in the south. It is always an unstable factor, especially when everyone keeps reporting on what the local government is doing every day.
It even made all their officials feel numb.
I don’t want to have any contact with Xia Zhibai at all.
They were very sincere this time.
Almost all Zhejiang Chief Secretary and salt enterprises, large and small, are included in it.
Li Benmo closed his eyes slightly, stood up slowly, and said sadly: "Remember to take charge of the people in the city and ask them to keep their mouths tightly closed. What should be said and what should not be said? Say, they should know."
"If things go wrong"
"This is not what you and I can afford."
Zhang Tong felt a chill on his back and nodded seriously: "Don't worry, everything has been arranged. Xia Zhibai has only been in Yuhang for a few days, how much can he learn? I'm afraid that now he is still thinking that we We will fool you on the list.”
“As everyone knows, we are not fooling around at all, and we are sincere.”
“Not only on the list, but also on the resettlement of kitchen households. The factory's salt production and salt sales account books are all in place, ensuring that Xia Zhibai can't find any problems."
"There's nothing wrong with it!"
Zhang Tong looked confident. In order to deal with Xia Zhibai this time, they spent a lot of money. Not only did they make Lin Xian and others spit out the meat in their mouths, but they also asked the officials of the Salt Transportation Department to mess with all the local account books. There is nothing wrong with the roster or the account books.
It's impossible to see the problem.
Because these data are real.
The only problem is actually the incomplete roster.
But Xia Zhibai has just arrived and has not even visited Yuhang. How can he know the situation of the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang?
As long as they handle it properly and Xia Zhibai solves the problem of going south, there will naturally be no excuses or reasons to stay, and they will naturally have no choice but to go north and return to Beijing. By that time, all the disturbances will have passed.
Li Benmo clasped his hands behind his back, his back slightly stooped, raised his eyes to the sky and said: "I always have an ominous premonition."
"I feel that Xia Zhibai is not that simple."
"This person It gives me a very dangerous feeling. It seems that he came prepared." Zhang Tong curled his lips and said disdainfully: "Prepared? What can he prepare? His little thoughts and tricks are all clear. Have you spoken out? If he hadn’t made this happen so smoothly, how could we have given in so much?”
“He should be satisfied.”
Li Benmo shook his head and said nothing more about the matter.
Many things have been decided long ago. It was just Xia Zhibai’s arrogant behavior that disrupted their original layout. However, after a day or two of adjustments, they had already been adjusted. They are not a group of people. Short-sighted people have already discussed various countermeasures before Xia Zhibai arrived.
We are still following the countermeasures.
Li Benmo turned around and reminded cautiously: "Tell the officials, big and small, to be more honest recently, and to be polite to me when they see Xia Zhibai and this group of people from Yingtian Mansion. , If anyone dares to stab Lou Zi, I will have to skin him personally!"
Li Benmo also said a harsh word.
Zhang Tong nodded repeatedly.
He also knew why Li Benmo was so nervous, because this list was not that easy to obtain. If what they wanted to plan did not succeed, the anger of the Zhejiang Chief Secretary officials would be enough to engulf them. .
This is not a matter of thousands of taels of silver.
But a stable business worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of silver. Li Benmo waved his hand and said impatiently: "Send it over, your attitude must be good."
Watching Zhang Tong and other officials leave, Li Benmo paced back and forth in the lobby. He was always a little uneasy and felt that he had missed something. However, he thought about it many times and couldn't remember what he had missed.
Xia Zhibai's every move is under their surveillance.
Even Xia Zhibai and the officials he brought knew exactly what he said and did every day. It can be said that they knew what he did in a day better than Xia Zhibai. At present, it can be said with certainty that Xia Zhibai has not received any precise information and cannot grasp the real situation.
Everything developed as they expected.
It’s just that he always felt a little uneasy. This feeling was weird and unsettling.
other side.
Xia Zhibai and his party are now staying in a temporary official residence.
After Xia Zhibai issued the ultimatum, officials successively submitted the list of salt factories in the southern provinces in the past two days.
Hua Lun and others became busy because of this, and began to audit the production and sales quantity of the salt factory, as well as the quantity reported to the Salt Transportation Department and the Chief Secretary. The liquidation of the quantity is very tedious and tiring, Hua Lun As soon as I wake up every day, I lie down on the desk.
Xia Zhibai can't help much with this kind of thing.
Data auditing has always been cumbersome and troublesome.
Especially now, we can’t pull tables with one click, nor can we scan and read data. We have to do calculations one by one.
Although Hua Lun and others were very interested, Xia Zhibai didn't think they could find anything.
In the past, when Hua Lun was not well-known, there might have been officials who tried to trick him and prevaricate him. However, after the Guo Huan case, Hua Lun had already become famous. If he had not been too young, he would have been entrusted by Zhu Yuanzhang. He has a heavy responsibility, and even if he deliberately suppresses it, his official position is still not low.
As the 'chief culprit' who handled the Guo Huan case and even exploded the Guo Huan case at the official level, Hua Lun's accounting ability is well known to the world.
No matter how confident the southern officials were, how could they dare to falsify the accounts?
The risk is too high.
Not a good deal at all.
If it is discovered, it will be more than worth the loss.
Compared with Hua Lun and Lian Zining’s settlement of accounts, Jie Min and Ding Zhifang were obviously more pragmatic. They took some time to walk around Yuhang City and asked the people in the city about their feelings for the past six months in the city. He also tried to understand the reality of the local salt factory.
The effect is just average.
Compared with the busyness of Hualun and others, Xia Zhibai seemed very leisurely.
Every day I looked at the lists sent by the salt transportation departments of various places, and then looked at the salt factories above, sorted out the general data, and barely had a preliminary understanding of these data. Based on this, he had a general understanding of the situation of salt production in the south.
I also realized that the South seemed to be a strong man who cut off his arm this time.
In fact, the plank road was built openly and secretly.
I want to play Escape from the Golden Cicada.
Hua Lun walked away for a few times, looking a little tired. He looked at Xia Zhibai with a bit of complaint. They were so tired here, but Xia Zhibai seemed to be nothing. I took a look at the general data that day and there was no more news.
Hua Lun walked in, shook his head and said: "I have calculated the data sent by the salt transportation departments of Fujian, Guangdong and other places in the past two days. There is no problem with the data. I have confirmed with the various places that the government envoys will send it to the court. The data is also consistent. The information they sent is probably true."
"You seem to have guessed wrong!"
Xia Zhibai nodded with a smile and said calmly: "I don't think so."
"Data is indeed very intuitive, but if it is not fully grasped, the data will be misleading."
Hua Lun frowned: "Incomplete data?"
Xia Zhibai nodded. Said: "The data you calculated were carefully designed and submitted by them, so there will be no problems. But those that were not submitted? And what about the ones that they deliberately concealed?"
" How do you know there is no problem? "
"You are indeed a calculation expert in the outside world, but you only understand the simplest calculation methods and do not understand the meaning of the data. "
"It is useless to look at a single account."
"We need to look at the salt production in comparison. We should not just look at the salt, but also look at how much iron the court provided, how many steam engines it provided, and how much money the local government handed over to the court. Taxes should not just be calculated as paid by various places, but should be calculated in the general ledger."
"What if I secretly hide the largest salt factory?"
< br>"As the saying goes, anyone who does business will find ways to evade taxes. Even if the business tax in Ming Dynasty is very low, in the eyes of businessmen, it is just taking money out of their pockets. They don't even pay this little tax. Not willing to hand it over.”
"So in salt factories everywhere, you steal a little, others steal a little, all kinds of things, and you steal a lot of money."
"If it is carefully designed, these unhidden taxes may not be able to be followed. At present, the tax paid by all the salt factories in the accounts is the same, so there will be no problem with the accounts. The problem is that several salt factories that are listed in the accounts are missing."
" The amount of tax they should pay is 'divided' among other salt factories. "
"That part is what other salt factories should pay."
"In this way, these salt factories should pay. The factory was immediately out of court control.”
Hear the words.
Hualun's face changed slightly.
He looked at Xia Zhibai in disbelief and said in shock: "How is this possible? Who dares to do such a bold thing? Moreover, it is a salt factory, covering a large area, and it is right in front of people's eyes. How can it be hidden down there?”
Xia Zhibai said: “As long as you want to hide, what can’t you do?”
“This is the south.”
"You know the power of the clans in the south."
"As long as the officials above are working together to deceive, the court will easily be fooled unless it is determined to conduct a thorough investigation."
"You I looked at the accounts that were calculated, and a lot of data was missing from them. The most critical data were the amount of coal used and supplied, the amount of iron allocated by the court, and the specific number of households in the salt factory and stoves, etc. These key data were not included. What you see in the account book is just an account book that you want to see."
"The water in the south is very deep."
"While I am trying to muddy the water, they are also trying to muddy the waters. Waiting for an opportunity to take advantage of it and give it a severe blow."
"Everyone has their own thoughts."
Hua Lun's face suddenly darkened and he said coldly: "What do you want to do?"
Xia Zhibai said with a smile: "Of course, I will take advantage of the plan. They think they can fool them by creating such an 'correct' account book. Why can't I help them? Hua Lun, you always tend to overlook some actual situations."
"I'm not following you this time. Dealing with the government.”
“But the merchants are dealing with households!”
“Officials have the same interests and can easily be bribed.”
“But the interests of merchants and kitchen households are not necessarily the same.”
“They are the real breaking point!”< br>
(End of this chapter)