Chapter 95: Bullying the Barbarians and Resisting the Troublesome

Qing domestic treasury transit division, is the most famous independent kingdom within the country’s borders, although the officials are dispatched from Kyoto, but due to the far south of the Yangtze River, and itself within the temptation is too much, no matter what level of foreign officials, in the end, will be assimilated by this huge and attractive gold nest, the officials of the Supervisory Board may still be better, but the officials within the transit division, but it has long since become one of the pillars of the independent kingdom, there are no One would like the inner treasury to change even a little bit.

Even now his majesty has decreed that the inner treasury by the hands of the princess of xinyang transferred to the arms of the Fan Tisi, these inner treasury officials, although when the princess of more than ten years of cronies, but also not very scrupulous about the arrival of Fan Xian, they thought that as long as the surface of the kung fu is good, must be a small fan of adults will not be moved to the inner treasury of the fundamentals of the one day, one day, one day of the emperor of this kind of trick should not be staged.

What is the root of the inner treasury? Not those mountains of gold and silver, not those laborers, not the periphery of the businessmen, but the three major workshops of senior craftsmen and treasurers.

The three major workshops of the inner treasury are distributed among the states of Jiangnan, and workshop A is responsible for the production of glass products, handicrafts with extremely high requirements for precision, porcelain goods, extremely expensive perfumes, famous spirits that have been steamed again and again, as well as many …… and like the category of glass products, which can be extended into countless commodities, and in short, it can be named as a luxury goods producer.

And B Square is responsible for the mass production of cotton cloth, gauze, research on rice seeds, create good steel, the big production …… of the primary industry and the secondary industry together, mainly out of the means of subsistence.

C workshop is the most heavily guarded workshop of the three major workshops, here is responsible for the production of ships, as well as the military needs of advanced ordnance, such as the black cavalry is currently equipped with light crossbows, is provided by this workshop. And farther away, the three departments of the Supervisory Yuan and the research department of the inner treasury are still developing gunpowder, but since the beginning of the Ye family workshop, the development of gunpowder seems to be on the wrong path, so that the current Supervisory Yuan can only take a carload of gunpowder as a gun to make, and did not invent a hot weapon to. I don’t know if it was because the cleverness of the people of Qing was not enough, or that woman surnamed Ye, who had once made something bad.

The three great workshops are just a rough expression, and the production related to this is countless, scattered densely in the land of northern Fujian, constantly producing goods, and then through the folk merchants to carry goods, sold to the northern Qi, Eastern Barbarians, small vassal states, the barbaric kingdoms beyond the ocean, greedily and aggressively seized the whole world’s money and grain, and at the same time will be a better quality of life, more luxurious enjoyment spread to the whole world.

After the Ye family had been included in the inner treasury back then, although the various industries had been greatly impacted, the legacy was still there, and the treasurers at all levels had really come up with a lot of wisdom to carry forward the Ye family’s industries. This curve peaked seventeen years ago, the entire financial income of the Qing Dynasty, there are 40% from the treasury, only in recent years, this number is only a little bit back to the water, but is still the largest financial source of the Qing Dynasty, set a sentence of a certain world’s commonly used words, the treasury is the desire to push the Qing Dynasty forward the engine.

Precisely because the treasurer of this kind of officials, for the production of the inner treasury has a very important role, coupled with the Princess herself is a conspiracy to walk the world of women, do not excel in and do not care to use the mountain to manage, so over the years, a variety of situations overlap, so that the treasurer of the most special group of bureaucrats in the country of Qing.

The bottom of the inner treasury workers can not earn much money, even the officials responsible for the management is not how arrogant, only the treasurer, in addition to a generous salary, but also enjoy a variety of names of allowances, as well as a variety of dividends. This can not be said to be the consequences of the Princess’s high salary to raise wolves, but also with the court over the years the management of the chaos related.

The treasurers in the treasury transit division, really some like the emperor, although they are not how arrogant on the surface, but secretly eat deductions to take the silver, exploitation of workers, will get the money through the periphery of the money bank to the four wild spread in the neighboring states have been disked a lot of land, as for how many unseemly means in which to use, it is not known. In addition, these treasurers in the inner treasury to oppress the lower class workers, bullying men and women things, there is no less to do.

Some senior treasurers still pay attention to some face, those intermediate thirty-year-old treasurer is nakedly shameless, Fan Xian night found a treasurer, the family is actually stored twelve concubines! And how did those concubines who are no more than twenty years old come to be …… Who can say it clearly? I only know that every year there are workers in trouble, as for the complaint is countless, but the special library, often these complaints of the victims simply can not get out of the library, even if by chance to the city of Suzhou, but also always be the court fooled down.

Offend the good people is small, offend the treasurer is big, this is the Jiangnan Road officials consensus.

So when Fan Xian, the new ambassador of the Inner Treasury and Transit Department, arrived at the Minbei Yamen, the lower class workers and the people, who had a deep-seated hatred for the treasurers, no longer beat the drums to voice their grievances, but indifferently looked at the door of the Yamen, with their eyes flashing with a dark fire.

Once the fire appeared, the sound of firecrackers was loud, red flakes flying in the sky, the main door of the Yamen of Minbei Inner Treasury Transit Division was slowly pulled open, dozens of officials dressed in formal clothes, in the slightly smoky odor, fish line in, divided into two rows, bowing respectfully to the young official in the middle.

Producing the holy decree, inviting the bright sword, brightening his identity as an imperial official, and clarifying the statutes of stewardship, Fan Xian looked at these subordinates under the hall, pressed his hands together, and said, “Take a seat.”

“Thank you, Your Honor, for giving me a seat.” The inner treasury crowd of officials straightened their clothes and sat down, there were not enough seats in the Yamen, so some of the subordinate officials stood at the back side, the crowd looked at the gentle smile on the face of young Lord Fan, their hearts were slightly settled, and they did not see those wolf-like Kyoto Honored Officials of the Supervisory Yuan, so their brains that had been slightly wary were instantly relaxed.

Fan Xian narrowed his eyes and looked downwards, easily finding his target among the officials.

Under about five or six people, there were three dark-colored, wearing regular clothes, waist belt tied tightly, extremely respectful sitting there, but these three people obviously do not have official positions in the body, but sat in the crowd of officials, and a look at the appearance, is often in and out of the workshop of the characters.

Fan Xian especially sharp eyes, from the other side of the seemingly respectful, see a trace of carelessness and their own disdain, that is a kind of extremely bottom of the god of the flow – he smiled slightly, calm and ruthless as he, of course, will not be the other side of the god of the anger, but the other side since the Princess has been raised for so many years, they want to completely control the inner treasury, but also have to knock them. Had no choice but to knock them as well.

First, he put those three people aside, and spoke with all the officials about the meaning of the court, and then chatted with the military representative sitting on his right hand side, this military official is a distant relative of the Ye family, although the Ye family seems to be forced by his majesty to the side of the second prince, but due to the existence of Ye Ling’er, this marvelous character, Fan Xian’s relationship with the Ye family is still quite good, so that Ye general is also very respectful of Fan Xian, and he thinks that the family in the capital has had something to say. The family in the capital had once commanded something.

When the official business was almost said, Fan Xian suddenly quieted down and lifted his tea bowl to take a sip.

Qing Guo did not have the rule of serving tea to send off a guest, all the officials knew that Lord Fan must have something important to say, and they all quieted down, all of them already knew that on the edge of the great river, in the bamboo hut at the Suzhou dock, little Lord Fan’s inaugural speech had already astonished the officials of the entire Jiangnan Road, and they could not help but be a little curious about what he had to say today.

“The Inner Treasury, what a marvelous place.”

Fan Xian said with a smile.

The officials also compensated with a smile, and the deputy envoy chimed in, “A wilderness place, where all there is is knocking about, it’s farcical, but it’s better than anything else.”

Fan Xian also laughed: “I think the reason why it’s marvelous is because …… this time I was ordered to go south, and every time I passed through a place, whenever I opened the yamen and made my identity known, there would always be a local sufferer banging on the drum to voice their grievances and saying that there were many unlawful things done by the local officials… …I didn’t expect that today’s opening of the Yamen has already been half a day, such a big place, even a petition of the people are not.”

The officials were stunned, and said, “You’ve been traveling all the way south, so there’s no need to complain about the injustice! But when Fan Xian said that, he must have something to say afterward, so he couldn’t help but raise his heart.

Fan Xian’s words were, of course, just an introduction, “I am very pleased that the inner treasury is clear and free of any wrongdoing under the governance of your colleagues, which is indeed rare.”

The officials’ faces were hot, and they said that they did not dare to do so.

Fan Xian also did not black face, just smiled and said: “But there is a pile of questions, I do not know is the inner library really do not have any problems, or …… some officials official authority is too heavy, so that the people workers even if there are complaints, but also do not dare to say with the official to listen to?”

This statement is too no sense, is a nakedly prepared to frame people to the crime of the style, the officials regardless of faction, are the inner treasury of the local officials, the heart of a flinch, will be born a few trace of resentment, thought even if you want to burn three fires, but also can not be used in this kind of ridiculous tactics ah? With the deputy envoy at the head, all the officials stepped forward and said loudly, “Your honor, there is no such thing, there is no such thing.”

Fan Xian lowered his head, his fingertips gently rubbing the cuffs of Si Si’s newly sewn cuffs, and asked, “There is no such thing? This official heard that over the years, the three major workshops owed a lot of salary to the workers below, and there was a big incident a year ago, is this true?”

The officials froze, years ago due to the treasury exploitation is too severe, the workers of the three major workshops did make a fuss, but also died two people, this matter has been hidden by the officials up and down the Transit Division, I did not expect that the wind is actually spread to Kyoto! But since Lord Fan has already said it out loud, it must be the real news, it is difficult to cover up.

The deputy ambassador hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: “The funds flowed back a little slower a year ago, and the wages were paid three days late, and the result was that those unruly people took the opportunity to cause trouble, and even made the three major workshops stop working for a day, which brought about irreparable losses for the imperial court, so after the Transit Division’s deliberation, the Senator General Ye was asked to suppress it a little bit, and fortunately there weren’t too many lives lost, and the thought that it’s almost the end of the year, and that His Excellency will be arriving soon, so he didn’t rush to report it. There is no rush to report.”

In fact, where is the late payment of wages, accurately is the treasurer will be sent down the wages pumped too much water, under the accumulation of anger, public anger gradually rise, the workers have caused trouble. The officials of the Transportation Department do not want to offend the treasurer, and do not want to pull out the public silver to make up for the account, so play deaf and dumb, until the matter is big, only to deploy troops to suppress.

Fan Xian turned back and spoke softly with that Senator Ye, who looked embarrassed and answered softly, thinking that the role he played in this matter was not honorable.

Fan Xian will frown, gently knocking on the table beside him, said: ”Lords, this inner treasury is, to put it bluntly, a merchant house, only it is His Majesty’s merchant house, the merchant house of my Great Qing Dynasty, since it is to do things, the most important thing is the people who do things …… dragging out the workers’ wages year after year, who is still willing to come to do things for you? Who is willing to come to work for you? Even if you do and how willing to heart? In the end, the loss is not the court?”

The officials said yes, have said that in the future must be strictly according to the treasury regulations, there will be no delinquency in the payment of things, as for the future, that is the treasury to deal with the small Lord Fan, these officials only seek to the scene in front of them to quickly fool the past.

Only those three dark-faced, wearing no official clothes but sitting in the chair figures, face a little ugly up.

“Talking all the nonsense.” Fan Xian shook his head and sighed, “Naturally, you can’t default in the future, but what about what you owed before?”

The main hall of the yamen was suddenly plunged into deathly silence.

The officials, alarmed and fearful, no longer dared to say much. There were tens of thousands of workers in the inner treasury, plus a series of logistics for food, housing, drinking water and clothing, the number of people was even more to a horrible degree, the imperial court gave the workers of the three major workshops extremely generous wages, from which pumping water had become one of the biggest sources of wealth for the officials of the inner treasury. If Fan Xian really wants these officials to spit back all the deductions from previous years, this is really a lot of money.

And these officials know in their hearts, they are in the way of the Qing law and the supervision of the Supervisory Yuan, so they never dare to eat openly, just the treasurers to eat the leftovers on some of the small filial piety, Lord Fan targeted, I’m afraid that it is still those treasurers.

Therefore, the eyes of all the officials, consciously or unconsciously, swept the three together.

Fan Xian, as if he didn’t notice the dark waves between the scene, said in a harmonious voice: “The court can’t be indebted to its people, and the debts of the previous years must be gradually made up. Just things are a bit complicated, certainly can’t be in a hurry.”

Can not rush …… The hearts of the officials were once again relieved, but they were frightened by the next words!

“Three days.” Fan Xian smiled and stretched out three fingers, looked at the officials and said, “Give all of you adults three days to fill all the accounts back to me, owe the workers below the wages are made up back, remember …… to use the interest money of the Taiping money bank shall prevail.”

“After three days, if there is still a worker who comes to this official and says he hasn’t gotten his wages.” Fan Xian said, “Or let the subordinates of this official’s Supervisory Court find out …… Sorry gentlemen, this official is going to show some ruthlessness.”

Although he smiled, the officials already felt a chilling flavor begin to spread around.

The three brothers who had been sitting peacefully as if they were vegetarians finally couldn’t sit still, and stood up with a humble face, saying, “Your honor, the next official has something to report.”

“Speak.” Fan Xian glanced at him with great interest.

“There may be cases of delinquent wages, but the numbers are not large, and often the accounts are done poorly.” The man laughed, “Your honor came from Kyoto, perhaps you are not aware of the power of the unruly people in these places, those people who dragged their families to do labor, obviously it is one person who is doing work in the workshop, but he preferred to report three people, it is not that we are in arrears with the payment of wages, it is really that they are trying to cheat the imperial court out of its silver.”

“Oh?” Fan Xian yelped, “There’s such a trick?”

“Yes.” The man obviously didn’t see the sarcasm in Fan Xian’s words, and said with great joy, “My lord, those workers are treacherous and devious, relying on the imperial court’s heart to care for the people, so they dare to ask for a lot of money, but whenever some of their demands can’t be fulfilled, they’ll slack off on their work, and there are even some worse fellows who dare to tinker with the work processes, so I don’t know how much silver they’ve caused the imperial court to lose in all these years. ”

This person is vigorously pouring dirty water to the body of the workers, is not thinking of how good the Fan Tisi again clean name, but after all, it is an official a genus, how will the butt sit on the side of the workers? As the saying goes, the ass determines the head, so there’s no worry that you won’t be able to stand on the right side.

Fan Xian, however, laughed coldly in his heart, saying …… that he had pushed all of his often-criminalized bitchiness onto the workers, but his face remained unchanged as he sighed, “Ah, I can’t imagine that with His Majesty’s benevolence, these people are still so unaware of what’s going on.”

The man smiled and said, “Indeed, the matter of unpaid wages, when my official goes back, I will definitely look into it in detail, but those workers who made trouble cannot be lightly forgiven, Your Excellency mustn’t be fooled by the words of these treacherous people, those people are treacherous and ruthless, and they really aren’t a thing.”

Fan Xian looked at this person and suddenly frowned: “May I ask who your honor is?”

The deputy envoy hurriedly introduced himself on the side, “This is the chief officer of the A-Fang, Lord Xiao.”

“Lord Xiao?” Fan Xian seemed a bit surprised, “The head official of A Fang? The head of the treasury?”

The officer-in-charge of the three major workshops surnamed Xiao hurriedly saluted, “It is precisely my humble servant.”

Fan Xian stared at him for a long time, then suddenly spoke, “You’re a district chief official, just a small treasurer, the court has given you an unimpressive rank, you don’t even have an official body, how do you dare to call yourself …… an inferior official in front of this official?”

The crowd was stunned.

His voice was steeply cold: “Mouthing the lower official …… and what kind of official are you? This Yamen opened the door for the first time today, you a district master not waiting outside the Yamen to pass the question, actually dared to enter the hall with a big smile, and also dared to sit between the court officials, really …… good courage! Dare to ask, and what kind of asshole bold thing are you?”

Hmm?

The hall was quiet for half a day, and it wasn’t until after a long time that the officials heard that Lord Fan …… was cursing?

At that moment, the field exploded with a bang, this is not good enough! Since the inner treasury was returned to the royal family, this is the first time that someone pointed at the face of the three major workshop chiefs to curse! Even the Princess took over the inner treasury, the first time to the Minbei Yamen, the three three big workshop masters are also very gentle, how this Lord Fan dared to cloak his head on the scolding?

That A Square Master Xiao Da Jie also froze on the spot, he did not expect Lord Fan, even if he didn’t enlist himself, to actually give himself so little face, scolding so fiercely! He stifled a grunt, his face immediately ugly up, but to the hall “Prince”, did not dare to say anything, resentful arching a hand, will go back to the seat when the Bodhisattva to be muffled to go.

“Remove his seat.” Fan Xian’s eyes narrowed, and his brows furrowed into a nice little circle as he said in a harmonious voice, “In front of this official, there is no seat for him.”

“Lord Fan!” The officiating official burst into a rage, and before his butt even hit the seat, he re-stood up straight, forcibly suppressing his inner anger and said, “Don’t bully people too much.”

Fan Xian simply ignored this person, sipping his own tea and making small talk with the embarrassed-looking Senator Ye and Vice-Envoy beside him.

While talking, the officials of the Supervisory Court beside him had already gone down and pushed that Lord Xiao to the side, removing his seat. In this way, things were really big, and not only did the officials underneath come out to intercede, even that Senator General Ye lowered his voice and whispered in Fan Xian’s ear, “Young Master Fan, save them some face.”

“Give them some face?” Fan Xian said with a smile, “I’ve come here today specifically to cut their faces.”

General Ye was bored and didn’t dare to continue speaking.

From the time the Inner Treasury opened the Yamen until now, the three major workshop chiefs had their own seats in the Yamen, with a special status, and no one had ever insulted their existence in such a way, at this time, seeing that the A Workshop chiefs had been insulted, the other two major workshop chiefs finally couldn’t help themselves, and got up to stand beside that Lord Xiao, and said in a chilling voice to Fan Xian, who was on top of the table, “Since His Excellency thinks that there is no seat in the Yamen for us, why don’t you just remove it together? Remove it …… Anyway, the three big workshops are just some lowly people.”

It wasn’t a gamble, but rather, he was holding the Three Great Places down.

Fan Xian raised his head, looked at the three masters standing in a row in front of him, and said with a smile, “Of course we have to withdraw together, do you think there is still a place for you? The three major workshops are certainly not full of lowly people, but since you all have admitted to yourselves, this official will believe it.”

“My lord!”

The three great workshops master did not expect Fan Xian to actually step forward, words did not leave themselves a trace of retreat, then realized that the other party is not only to tree prestige, but even to drive to the end of the world, but …… what bottom line do you Fan Xian have? Do you really want to see the collapse of the three major workshops?

The tone of the master of the three major workshops responded again and became ruthless: “My lord, I don’t know what the three major workshops are offended by.”

“Exploiting wages, bullying men and women, threatening the court with their skills, and disrespecting this official, of course ……,” Fan Xian said as he stared at the three of them, “It’s not this official that you’ve offended, it’s the workers in the Three Great Workshops, as well as the court that feeds you and the people of the world. the people of the world.”

“If you want to commit a crime, there is no excuse.” The three masters said angrily, “Your Honor is new to the Transit Division, but you are so reckless, is it true that there are no rules in my Great Qing Dynasty?”

“Rules? I am the rule.”

Fan Xian thought to himself with a smile, but of course he didn’t say it out loud, he just thought that when Fan Lao Er was in Kyoto, he liked to say this kind of harsh words, so it seems that being an official is the same as being a gangster, when encountering a chaotic situation where the situation is not clear, it is always feasible to make use of some brute force techniques.

“Come on, these three people are ranting and raving about the government office, drag them down and give them ten strokes.”

Fan Xian will be in the hands of the tea cup gently rested on the table above, do not pay attention to the words of the officials under the hall to plead for mercy, laugh at the thought of their own Chai bitter, domineering brutality, is a little impatient, where is willing to and these people more words.