Chapter 6 Collusion

[6] collusion

This Shijia Hotel has been in operation for about a few years, with a large pavement, upstairs and downstairs. The store is walled with wine jars and tile jars, green bricks and white and gray walls.

Yao Fan sat in the private room and saw that although the all-wood private room was poorly furnished, it was also clean.

He ordered a table of good dishes and waited at ease, thinking about how to abasco about Sun Maowen next.

Before the tea in front of me was cold, I heard someone outside the private room say, "This is it."

Yao Fan understood that it was the voice of Sunfu's family.

Then I heard Sun Maowen's voice: "Let Brother Yao wait for a long time."

Yao Fan immediately stood up from his chair and greeted the door with a curtain.

said, "Where are you? Brother Sun is busy with official business. I should wait for you."

Sun Maowen was still satisfied with Yao Fan's etiquette. He stopped and arched his hand and pointed to the two behind him to introduce to Yao Fan: "This is Lord Liu Ziming, the customs inspector of Qingdao, and this is Lord Wei Guofu Wei, who is guarding Jiaozhou.

Yao Fan saw that the two were both local snakes with real power in Jiaozhou, so he learned the actions in the TV series to bow to the two. The two politely raised their hands and returned the salute, so the four sat down.

Sun Maowen sat in the first seat, cleared his throat, and briefly introduced Yao Fan. Then the restaurant put on the price of the noodles that Yao Fan had ordered before, and the four people frequently exchanged cups and got close to each other, casually talking about some idle articles.

After three rounds of drinking, the self-introduction of the four people has also been completed, and they are familiar with each other.

Wei Guofu, the guard of Jiaozhou, looked a little bold. He held a glass with a pair of big hands and said to Yao Fan, "As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you won't know each other. Brother Yao came back from overseas to look for his ancestors, but he ate a stick of my rabbit in vain. I will compensate my brother for this glass of wine. When I go to school tomorrow, I will definitely have a military stick to serve those blind fools.

Yao Fan raised his glass and said sincerely, "Wei Da's body observes feelings and cherishes the people, and he dares not do it. The soldiers who made mistakes are also loyal. Please don't punish them. After saying that, he drank it all.

Customs inspector Liu Ziming is a thin middle-aged man. He spoke southern dialect. He blinked his eyes and said to Yao Fan, "It is said that Brother Yao's family is all over the western Thailand and is familiar with foreign affairs. Will he do business in our Jiaozhou in the future?"

Yao Fan answered honestly, "That's true."

When Liu Ziming saw that Yao Fan was not on the road, he directly said, "So what about Brother Yao going to go abroad in the future? Or do you want to go to the usual pass?"

Yao Fan was stunned. He didn't know what it was.

Sun Maowen put down his chopsticks and shook his head to explain to Liu Ziming: "The Yao family used to do business among the countries in western Thailand and has never returned to China. This time, he only sent Brother Yao to come back to visit his ancestors. He didn't know anything about the Qing Dynasty."

Liu Ziming nodded and stroked his sparse beard under his chin and said, "It doesn't matter. I said that I know it with Brother Yao. That's how it is. Domestic shipping, going through normal customs, paying money and goods tax, that is, all kinds of cents, Hong Kong donations, license fees, and parking taxes. As for overseas goods, they have to go through the foreign customs. That's the British Hurd's management, which has nothing to do with my self-managed customs in the Qing Dynasty.

Yao Fan woke up and asked, "Which one is cheaper?"

Liu Ziming looked at Sun Maowen and Wei Guofu respectively. Seeing them eating vegetables with a smile, he smiled and said to Yao Fan, "That's customs is harsh. It's cumbersome to declare, inspect, tax and review all kinds of things. However, it is reasonable that foreign goods have to go through the foreign customs of various trade ports. Even if the customs declaration is made at the trade port and transferred to Jiaozhou Port to land, it is also the foreign customs declaration of Jiaozhou Port.

Yao Fan accompanied him with a smile and said, "If my ship does not file customs at several major commercial ports and directly come to Jiaozhou to go to Changguan, can Lord Liu have a way?"

Yao Fan untied his coat and threw it on the chair, wearing a straight suit and staring at Liu Ziming with a smile.

Liu Ziming's eyes lit up and said to himself that these two devils are really shrewd and can be taught.

laughed and said, "In the ports of Guangzhou and Jiangsu, there are many righteous merchants who are not offical. Big ships are moored on the sea and enter Changguan with small boats. Changguan everywhere knows that it is foreign goods, and it is also unmistakable. There is no need to park the goods in the warehouse of the foreign customs and wait for customs declaration, but they are transported directly inland. Alas, I only suffered from Changguan. I didn't know that there would be so many more official duties out of thin air. It can be said that it helped Yangguan save a lot of consumption, but it was thankless.

Yao Fan forced to laugh in his heart, otherwise he would really spray the wine in his mouth on Liu Ziming's face.

"It's funny, ridiculous, funny and cute for a ** naked smuggler who has the face to say so decently."

Of course, Yao Fan still said decently: "In this case, my Yao family's goods also hope to go to Changguan under Lord Liu's jurisdiction. It's just that in this way, I have added a lot of trivial matters to the adults out of thin air, and I really don't know how to repay the three adults.

Liu Ziming's smiling eyes narrowed into a line like an old fox. He clenched his fingers up and said, "Where are you? You have to worry about the country. Why are you so tired? Hahaha...haha..."

Of course, Yao Fan hopes to smuggle, so that he can make a good profit.

Of course, it's good for foreign goods to sneak out of the customs and pay less customs duties. And Changguan will naturally not admit that he has put in smuggled goods. As for the tariffs collected according to the domestic shipping standards, they will naturally not be included in the public book and all fall into the pockets of officials.

When the three saw Yao Fan's interest, they suddenly became excited. After raising their glasses and drinking together, they began to ask Yao Fan how many goods and what kinds there were in a year.

Yao Fan thought for a moment and replied, "There is everything, cloth, clock, white sugar, iron pot, Lin Lin is always miscellaneous. In short, there are always tens of thousands of boxes a year.

Liu Ziming nodded and said, "If you go to the trade port, it is worth a hundred and five. Although it will be transported to various ports and customs without tax, the value of one hundred and five is already very high."

Yao Fan said, "But I heard that as long as the foreign customs are dredged, such as raw silk, there are also two packages combined into one package."

Liu Ziming shook his head and enlightened Yao Fan and said, "It's still convenient. Although there are more donations, most of them are tax-determined, which are calculated by ship. Compared with the value of the goods, it is only one out of 100. In addition, the regular tax of taking two out of 100, no more than three points, which is always more cost-effective than the foreign customs worth five hundred.

Yao Fan nodded and said, "So that's it. That's it. Please mention more juniors in the future."

Now that the four people have made the words clear and collusiond, they exchanged cups and got drunk. With the rise of drinking, Sun Maowen suggested that everyone recite poems to cheer up, wash the dust for overseas tourists, and experience the prosperous literary style of the Qing Dynasty. Liu Ziming nod his head and agreed with this, and Wei Guofu did not say anything, but obviously he was not afraid of this.

Yao Fanxin said that this is to show their reputation. Although their official rank is low, they are still immersed in sour articles for many years. If they can't show them from time to time, won't they have read more than ten or twenty sages in vain?

Sun Maowen shook his head and came with five words first,

Shifeichun Shuiming,

The wall is long and the summer grass is thin.

The return of Cen Zhongren,

Congratulations on my birthday.

Everyone sang loudly, and Yao Fan also looked at Sun Maowen with new eyes, "It seems that the literary level of officials in the Qing Dynasty is not bad."

Then Liu Ziming still shook his head and followed by seven words,

The water show of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea,

Qilu Scenery Pavilion.

Walking around and watching the flowers,

The fragrance shines on Du Kang thickly.

So everyone sang again, and Yao Fan thought with admiration, "Although these officials are corrupt, they are really good at the beginning of writing skills."

When it was Wei Guofu's turn, he thought for a while and also learned to shake their heads and recite an oil poem.

Admiral is happy,

Go to Penglai immediately.

No name, no progress,

Thousands of miles for officials are only for money.

After listening to Yao Fan's previous two poems, he felt that the literati these days were really powerful. After decades of old paper, he reached out his hand.

But after listening to Wei Guofu's poem, Yao Fan almost spit out the dishes in his mouth, quickly threw his chopsticks, his face turned purple, and blindly clapped his hands to cover it up. It was not easy to swallow the stir-fried pork liver in his mouth, and then he shouted out a pile of good sounds, and the loud voice almost broke the roof.

Sun Maowen sighed secretly and was deeply invinced about Wei Guofu's vulgarity, but he did the opposite and praised: "Okay! Brother Wei deserves to be a general's courage, refreshing and cheerful, and breaks through this officialdom in one sentence.

Liu Ziming said that Sun Maowen was purely full. If you want Wei Guofu, a martial artist, to recite poems, isn't it equivalent to calling him a fat pig? This has lost half of our faces.

Liu Ziming turned his eyes and said to Yao Fan with a smile, "Brother Yao, your family has been doing business in western Thailand for a long time. It is also a source for you to come home to learn. I don't know how much you have learned about the etiquette and music culture of my home country? It must be new for you to be influenced by foreign literature every day in the West. You don't have to stick to the rhyme, so you can try a song here, and you can dial one or two for you.

Sun Maowen wrung the wine on his beard and said slowly, "That's right. Brother Yao is young and has a bright future in this moral article. In the future, if he donate another official, he can honor his ancestors and communicate with the gentry. Therefore, this poem and book must not be tempered on weekdays."

How can Yao Fan write poems? The flat and charming feet have not been impregnated for more than ten years, and it is difficult to do it well. After thinking about it, he felt that it would not be shameful, so he had to plagiarize a song.

"The heavy rain fell on Qilu, the white waves were surging, and fishing boats were fishing outside Jiaozhou Bay.

A vast ocean is missing. Who do you know?

For thousands of years in the past, Wei Wu waved his whip, and there was a legacy in Jieshi in the east.

The bleak autumn wind has changed the world again.

A Taizu's "Langtaosha-Beidaihe" was changed by Yao Fan to "Langtaosha-Jiaozhou Bay", but the atmosphere of this word can't be changed by three words!

After listening to this, Wei Guofu shouted "color" and said, "Although I can't do a good poem, I can still hear it. Brother Yao's words are magnificent and excellent."

Liu Ziming twisted his beard and praised, "Good words, good words, tell me the weather of Jiaozhou thoroughly. The heavy rain fell on Qilu... The white waves are surging... Wonderful! It's really like seeing the sea of Jiaozhou! Brother Yao is really full of poetry and family learning.

Sun Maowen was shocked and got drunk. With the help of raising his glass, he looked at Yao Fan and thought, "Wei Wu waved his whip... changed the world... What a big breath! If this son is an official, his future is unlimited. If he is in trouble... then..."

Thinking of this, Sun Maowen first shuddered, and then immediately sneered at himself: "This merchant's family was born. It's just a profit. Even if there is a great ambition in the words, he just looks forward to getting rich in the world. I have a lot of thoughts."

After thinking about this section, Sun Maowen raised his glass, recited the waves and sand chanted by Yao Fanshi in public with a calm atmosphere, drank all the wine, and praised: "Good words! Good words! I'm really happy to meet a young talent like Brother Yao.

According to my brother, it is enough for Brother Yao to have such a beautiful foundation to take the exam. Wang Zi'an once said that there is a confidant in the sea, and the world is like a neighbor. I'm really happy that I can meet Brother Yao today. I'm done with this glass of wine.

Yao Fan also raised his glass with a humble smile and drank it all.

But he lowered his head and thought about it, and his heart became sad.

"Yao Fan, you are dying. Why don't you use your brain! Cao Cao has come out of this word, and the history of Aman's family... Does anyone else not know?

In this word, there is also a posthumous article about the divine horse Jieshi... Xiao Seqiufeng... The flood surged up... Sun, Moon and Xinghan... What are you going to do?

The most brainless thing is the sentence "changed the world"...

It's dangerous! ... If this is placed in Qianlong and other dynasties, I have eight heads that are not enough to write in prison. Fortunately, this table is full of 'thousands of officials only for wealth', small officials in the late Qing Dynasty, otherwise they are really dead now!"

Thinking of the frightening place, Yao Fan couldn't help wiping his sweat secretly and quickly changed the topic: "Little brother, I also saw the wonderful scenery of the sea and sky in Jiaozhou on the boat, and rose to peace under our Qing Dynasty. Today, I, Yao, have to return to my hometown after wandering for a hundred years. It really makes me feel lucky to have a banquet with my parents and officials! At this time, the three adults praised it.

If you want to talk about my loose words, compared with the good poems written by the three big brothers, it's really not worth showing off! Come on, I'll toast to the big brothers!"

The three laughed and even said that Yao Fan was too modest.