The Quo Pass of Dawanshansi is called Laohu Pass, because it is an intersection that was dug out of the rocks. There are rugged rocks on both sides, above the narrow road, and it seems to be able to be crushed at any time. It is extremely steep, so it got such a name.~~~~

The Qaiguan of Dawanshansi was located in such a location. Relying on the mountainous situation on both sides, a three-door archway was built. After entering, there were left and right drum pavilions and left and right gates. In order to facilitate the passage of vehicles, there was no screen wall before the ritual gate. Only a six or seven-meter-high flagpole was erected on each side. Then there were first-hand service rooms, health-promoting team rooms, money, grain and traders' tax warehouses, etc.

The account room at Laohukou Queguan is also very large, with three lobbys in the middle, with plaques such as "Reform the Disadvantages" and "Clean and Integrity" on it, equipped with ear rooms, wing rooms, etc. At this time, in one of the ear rooms, there was a brazier in the center of the room, and a pile of things in the brazier was burning. Next to it was an old man in blue shirt threw a book of accounts in it, and then used a fire drill to make it burn as soon as possible.

There was a man next to him walking slowly beside the brazier. The sparkling fire reflected his robe. It was the robe of an inequality miscellaneous official. There was only one real official in this quota, which was the tax ambassador. This person should be the tax officer here.

In the dim room, his figure was projected onto the wall. The figure on the wall slowly moved, and his mouth opened and closed, because the amplification and distortion of the projection was like a monster opening its bloody mouth: "Burn it all! Burn it all! The other books must be seamless! There are already accurate news, Tongren Mansion has approved him to cross the border to handle the case. This Ye Xiaotian is not a fuel-efficient lamp. There are many officials who have been cheated by him in Hu County. You must not let him see the flaws!"

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Ye Xiaotian successfully obtained the right to cross-border case handling. This may not be because the prefect Zhang of Tongren and Zhang was thinking about their cheap teacher-student friendship to open the door to convenience for him, but because of the ban on smuggling and trafficking, especially the large amount of smuggling Myanmar's wealth and goods were like enemies. The court also put a lot of pressure on him.

It is undeniable that whether the imperial court's policy can be implemented in Guizhou depends to a large extent on these chieftains. Although they have various thoughts and their own interests, they are subordinate to the Ming Dynasty after all.

Their small actions were just to ensure the interests of their family as much as possible, rather than to confront the Ming Dynasty court, and deliberately plotting against them. From this point of view, the big bosses in the court may not be much nobler than them, and those officials who can climb to a high position step by step are not formed behind which one is not a huge interest group.

It is just that the interest groups formed around these senior officials gathered and dispersed, and it took only a few decades from formation to destruction, and then turned into a new interest group again, unlike these chieftain families in Guizhou, which are as long and very stable as those of Guizhou's chieftain families.

Under such circumstances, under the severe rebuke of the court, the prefect Zhang had to express something in order to give an explanation to the court. In this way, it would be natural for him to agree to Huxian's request. Huxian and Dawanshansi were both under the jurisdiction of Zhang Duo, the local prefect, and he was just a hand-in-hand, and this problem was solved.

County Magistrate Hua received Zhang Duo's handwriting and immediately handed it over to Ye Xiaotian. Ye Xiaotian was ready to go, and as soon as he received the handwriting, he immediately set off.

Ye Xiaotian brought all capable and capable personnel during this trip. In addition to the two tax officers in the Tax Division, namely Hua Yunfei, Ma Hui, Xu Haoran and others, Zhou Bantou stayed in Huxian. Because there must be a smart, capable and loyal person guarding the checkpoints when leaving the customs. Otherwise, even if there is a problem here, all the stolen goods have been sold out, and there will be no evidence.

In addition to these subordinates, Ye Xiaotian also drew some people from Luo Ligao's carriage and horseshop to investigate the matters on the post road. These people are most proficient in the tricks, so Ye Xiaotian borrowed Sun Weixuan. This man who climbed from a coachman to Luo Ligao's carriage and horseshop step by step, rarely did he not understand all the joints on the post road.

In addition, there is a vast "old army". These old people are all accountants from the families of major gentry in Hu County. They may not be able to do such a large number of things by relying on a few accounts in the government. Besides, since Ye Xiaotian suspected that there were private dealers in the government, how could he dare to use them?

These accountants come from each family and are the private accountants of Huxian gentry, so it is unlikely that they have anything to do with this matter. Even if one of them happens to be a smuggling gentry hidden in Huxian, and his accountants are involved in the matter. He alone can't even cover up the sky.

However, most of these accountants were old and old, unable to ride horses and could not walk, so they were sent to them with cars. When they arrived at Moon Bay, they landed behind Ye Xiaotian and others.

When the post road was dug to Moon Bay, I wanted to bypass the lake, but in that way, I had to go around seven or eight miles away, and at the end were endless mountains and ridges. It was ten times more difficult to drive a road from it than a ferry. Mrs. Shexiang was eager to build the post road to show her loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang, so this section was ferrying.

Nowadays, docks have been built on both sides of Yueliang Bay, and large flat-bottomed ships carry vehicles and cargoes. Because the terrain here is special, it is difficult for cars carrying goods to jump directly onto the deck, so a large number of Strengers gather here to load and unload goods for passing merchants, or carry cars on board. The people around them use boatmen and Strengers as their business, and rely on this Strengers Bay to support countless people.

The accountants waited for the ferry with people and cars. Without Ye Xiaotian and others, they were able to carry horses and board the boat. Ye Xiaotian didn't wait for them, so he rushed to Tiger Pass first. When the three big words "Tiger Pass" on the stone wall of the pass were at their goal, he saw the ambassador of the Customs Department of the Dawanshan Division waiting there with several first-hand servants. In terms of class, Ye Xiaotian was the county magistrate, and his position was far above him, so he needed to welcome him.

Ye Xiaotian held his mount, and the ambassador of the Tariff Division immediately led someone to welcome him and saluted Ye Xiaotian: "Pang Shaojun, ambassador of the Tiger Tariff Division of Dawanshansi, has met the magistrate of Ye County, Hu County."

"Oh! Ambassador Pang?"

Ye Xiaotian looked at him with some surprise, then turned over and got off the horse. When he moved, more than ten riders behind him slashed the horse.

What surprised Ye Xiaotian was Pang Shaojun's name. The current emperor Wanli was named Zhu Yijun, so the two words Yijun were taboo. This character was found in the name before Wanli ascended the throne. Then after Wanli ascended the throne, he should change one character or omit this character.

Fortunately, the emperor is not called Zhu Yitian, otherwise Ye Xiaotian would have to change Ye Xiaodi or Ye Xiaoxiao. Fortunately, he was not born in Zhengde Dynasty. When Liu Jin was in power in the Zhengde Dynasty, he asked for an order to prohibit all subjects and civilians from using the names of Tian and other words. As a result, the doctor Fang Tianyu at that time changed his name to Fang Yu, and the censor Liu Tianhe changed his name to Liu He. When Liu Jin collapsed, this ridiculous order was revoked.

But this article has been passed down, and this ambassador... If this is in the Central Plains, it would never have happened. That is, the emperor is far away from the sky, and he is the tax ambassador appointed by the magistrate of the magistrate, and no one cares about it.

Ye Xiaotian is not a censor, so he naturally doesn't bother with this matter. But for this matter, he knows more clearly in such places. Many times, the imperial power and the deterrence of the court are difficult to do locally. He must have his own set of rules when doing things in such places. If he blindly copy the methods he learned from the Jingguaner who was imprisoned in the heavenly prison, he will sometimes encounter difficulties.

"Ambassador Pang, please get up, be polite, be polite!"

Ye Xiaotian laughed and helped Pang Shaojun up and said with a smile: "Ambassador Pang, I'm really sorry. Recently, a large number of private goods from Myanmar have flowed into the Central Plains, and the court has repeatedly ordered strict investigations. It's a pity that my Huxian was stuck at the exit of the post road, so he was repeatedly scolded, saying that I could not fulfill my responsibility. If I had no choice, I had investigated it thoroughly, but I didn't see anything special. Today I came to you, Tiger Pass, just to do as much as possible. The superiors took the responsibility and gave some explanation."

Pang Shaojun was in his early forties, with a long and thin face and two beards. After hearing Ye Xiaotian said this, Ambassador Pang smiled and said without a smile: "Mr. Ye, you don't have to be polite. Since there is an order from Tongren Mansion, the subordinates should naturally cooperate with each other. However, the subordinates asked themselves about their diligence and fulfilling their duties. County Magistrate Ye could not find anything in Gui County. When he arrived at our Dawanshan Office, hehe..."

Ye Xiaotian didn't know that Dawanshansi had received news long before Tongren Mansion authorization. However, he still understood Ambassador Pang's attitude. If it were him, officials from other counties would not be able to solve the case and would be scolded by their superiors, so they would go to their jurisdiction to find out their own faults, and he would not have a good face.

So Ye Xiaotian, who has always been a donkey, smiled very well this time, and said without any offense: "If you have any help from Ambassador Pang, please lead the way."

Ambassador Pang lurked Ye Xiaotian and his party into the Queguan Pass. At the entrance, there were the tax heads of the Tax Department busying themselves. The three gates, the door on the left was a truck coming from the south, the door on the right was a truck coming from the north, and the door in the middle was a road taken by travelers who did not carry a large number of goods.

There were horses in front of the two doors on both sides. The first servant was rushing to inspect the goods. There was a book case next to the door. A secretary sat behind him. He heard that the head servant reported the types and quantities of goods, and then he recorded them one by one. At the same time, he drew the abacus and calculated the number of taxes to be paid and recorded in the back.

The inspector walked around with his knife and his eyes wide open, patrolling the inspection site. The door in the middle was full of travelers and foot merchants, and most of them had only one bag, so the secretary of this door only recorded the number of people passing by and collected taxes according to the head. Of course, the packages they carried were also to be inspected.

The whole process is in order, although Ye Xiaotian and his party must have intentional acts due to the arrival of Ye Xiaotian and his party, it can also be seen that the management of Tiger Pass is not bad at ordinary times, otherwise even if you pretend, you will not be able to do this in order.

Ye Xiaotian and his party watched while walking and nodded frequently. Although Ambassador Pang was not very friendly to them, he couldn't help feeling a little satisfied when he saw their expressions.

Ambassador Pang led Ye Xiaotian into the pass and said to Ye Xiaotian: "Mr. Ye, should you take a break first, drink a little hot tea, and then talk about the matter of checking the accounts."

Ye Xiaotian smiled and said, "No, please ask Ambassador Pang to take us to the account room first. I have received the account books for nearly five years."

"Okay, please come here!"

Ambassador Pang smiled slightly and did not be polite, so he took Ye Xiaotian and his group to the account.

"Open the door!"

Ambassador Pang pointed to a tall portal and said, an account room went up to open the door lock. When he pulled the door, the book piled up inside poured out like quicksand, burying both of his thighs. Ambassador Pang pointed to the book full of books in the warehouse and smiled at Ye Xiaotian: "Sir, this is the account book of goods from merchants in the north and south of my Tiger Pass for five years."

Ambassador Pang said with a smile: "The two rooms on the right are the same. You can check it slowly. After checking this room, it is not too late to check those two rooms!"

Su Xuntian looked at the chaotic books piled up like mountains and said with a stammering voice: "My God, so many!"

Ye Xiaotian was also shocked. Although he had expected it and did not expect that there were so many, in front of Ambassador Pang, Ye Xiaotian remained calm and smiled peacefully, "How? Do you know now why this official has to bring so many accounts?"

Su Xuntian and others said in unison: "Sir, you are, you are, you are wise! You are wise!"

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