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Chapter 51 Customs System

The high-priced wages (100 documents a day) offered by Wan Jiantu finally began to react. Rich and idle laborers from counties around Shanghai flocked to Shanghai. Faced with the crowds of people from all over the country, not only Yinzhen, but Haifeng was so busy that he was not touching the ground, Shanghai magistrate Xu Shizhen and Songjiang magistrate Zhu Yanzhi were also so busy.

Zhu Yanzhi was awarded the title of deputy director of Jiang Customs by Yinzhen before the New Year. He simply went to Jiangning, visited the Governor of Liangjiang and the Governor of Suzhou, and requested to move his office to Shanghai. The two officials were not willing to offend Yinzhen for this little thing, so he naturally nodded in agreement, so Zhu Yanzhi moved the Songjiang Prefecture Office to Shanghai in just a legitimate way. [The latest updates are all in search.]

In order to prevent the sudden influx of people causing prices to rise in Shanghai, Zhu Yanzhi and Xu Shizhen had to mobilize a number of daily necessities from the prefectures and counties near the border. Grain and construction materials are the top priority, while Yinzhen recruited people to build houses in the county town or around the county town.

Because of Yinzhen's habits, Zhu Yanzhi, Xu Shizhen, Haifeng, Wan Jiantu and others all formed the routine of rushing to Liuchunyuan for four hours every day to report. On the 18th day of the first lunar month, Yinzhen said after everyone finished their routine reports: "Next, the next two days will be the day for Jiang Customs, County Government and Government Office to 'open seals'. Although this period is the holiday of 'seal', everyone here is still urging. Yinzhen will remember your hard work one by one."

After saying the polite words, Yinzhen turned to Zhu Yanzhi, "Mr. Zhu, have you read the newly formulated customs system? Do you have any objections or any supplements?"

"The Lord is ashamed." Zhu Yanzhi stood up and bowed, "The Lord thanked the Fourteenth Master for his kindness on behalf of all the ship merchants in the world." He stood up and said with emotion: "The customs system formulated by the Fourteenth Master has made detailed regulations on the declaration, inspection, tax assessment, review, tax collection, payment, and release of imported goods. If you think of cleverly establishing a name as before, it is like a difficult task to ascend to heaven.

In addition, the formulation of systems such as finance, statistics, audit, anti-smuggling, inspection, management of officials and staff, rewards and punishments not only makes the management more standardized and clear, but also gives all officials and staff room for improvement. In addition, the two items of high salary and integrity and public reporting, the subordinates can guarantee that most officials and staff will not dare to be greedy for bribery again. Once this customs system is made public, it will definitely shake the world, and the court will definitely implement it in the country's customs."

This is absolutely true, but Yinzhen said with a stern face: "No matter how good the system is, it must be implemented by others, otherwise it will be nothing more than a piece of paper. Lord Zhu's duty is to fully implement these systems and be selfless. If someone dares to violate the system and resolutely fire it, you must not be lenient. Tomorrow is the day when the customs is "opened" and Lord Zhu must post the new customs system in the county town, port and various checkpoints, organize all the officials and staff of the customs to study, and require everyone to recite it. In addition, the adjustment of import and export tax rates is also posted."

After sending Zhu Yanzhi away, Yinzhen looked at Xu Shizhen again, "Mr. Xu, Shanghai will see more people in the next few months. The pressure on food, clothing, housing, transportation, public security, environmental sanitation and other aspects will be great. You must watch more and leave more, pay attention at any time, report any undecided things in time, and I will support you in the future."

Xu Shizhen bowed, "The emperor thanked the Fourteenth Master for his considerate care and care. He will do his best to ensure the stability of Shanghai and not let the Fourteenth Master have any worries."

Next is Wan Jiantu, Yinzhen said with satisfaction; "I went to check out the progress of the work shed yesterday. It's not bad, but the wages should be considered lowered. Otherwise, the migrant workers will be able to bear this standard in the future. They will slowly drop to a level of 10% higher than the normal wages. The wages can be paid every seven days. It must be ensured that they can get the wages in time, on time, and in full. In addition, have the planning and design drawings of the shipyard completed?"

Wan Jiantu replied calmly, "Return to the master, judging from the current progress of the work shed, in half a month, you can start to slowly lower the wage standard. There is a dedicated person responsible for the payment of wages, and the master has a reporting box at the construction site. No one dares to have the courage to break the master's business. The shipyard's design drawings can be completed in three days, because I am worried about several of them, and I went to Jiangning again after the New Year, which was delayed for some time."

Yinzhen nodded in praise and said warmly, "It is necessary to be rigorous in doing things. If there are any mistakes in design, the trouble will be great. Well, I will reward you and twenty taels of silver for encouragement, and do it well."

"Thank you for your kindness and reward," Wan Jiantu was a little worried about being scolded, but he didn't expect to receive the reward. He couldn't help but sigh that the master had a long-term vision and hurriedly bowed to thank him.

Yinzhen then ordered, "Go down and call Wu Tianming and Hu Chengkun."

Finally, Yinzhen looked at Haifeng, "The stall in Shanghai is about to be fully launched. As for me, I cannot stay in Shanghai forever. Everything will be captured by you in the future. You must be mentally prepared and start learning to control the overall situation from now on."

"Master." Haifeng said shyly, "This stall is a bit big. I don't have this experience. I'm afraid I'll mess up my master's errands."

"Experience is accumulated slowly. I'm still in Shanghai recently. I've learned and asked more. I have to learn to focus on the big and let go of the small and learn to use people. If people use it correctly, you will be much more relaxed." Yinzhen changed his tone and said in a deep voice, "I'm not in Shanghai. If you don't catch this business, who will catch it? I'm really worried about handing it over to others."

Seeing that Yinzhen was talking about this, Haifeng dared not refuse anymore. He stabbed Qian'er on the spot and said seriously, "The slave must do his best to share the worries for his master."

"Get up, don't be polite at any time." Yinzhen said with a smile.

In a moment, Wu Tianming and Hu Chengkun arrived. After seeing the ceremony, Yinzhen said lightly: "Wu Tianming, you used to be a shopkeeper in Brother Jiu's shop, but now you are still working as an old business. You will arrest the purchase of cotton cloth for yours. In the future, the 'Global Foreign Company' will be handed over to you. All prefectures, counties and towns must set up acquisition points and build warehouses. The cloth cannot be reduced in price or damage the interests of the weaver. This is fundamentally contrary to this. Be careful of the guys you eat. In addition, with so many outlets, you can use your brain to sell points or collect other things. On the one hand, you can maintain the expenses of the 'Global Foreign Company', and on the other hand, you can avoid causing the price of cloth to be too high. If you have a surplus, you can also give some benefits to the client of each semicolon."

When Wu Tianming heard this, his face turned red with excitement, "Thank you, Master Long, I will definitely live up to my master's entrustedness."

"Well, follow me, you don't have to worry about having no future or background, let alone having no money. But if anyone dares to be good at it, I don't mind killing a few people to establish their authority." Although Yinzhen's tone was indifferent, he heard that the people in the room were chilling behind him.

"Slaves don't dare." Even Haifeng was so scared that he knelt down.

Yinzhen glanced at several people with satisfaction and said, "Get up." Then he said to Hu Chengkun: "You are a master of money and grain. First, assist Haifeng to arrest the money, grain revenue and expenditure, personnel allocation, materials in and out of each factory." As he said that, he took out a small notebook and handed it to Haifeng, "This is a detailed regulation on the systems of each factory, finance, statistics, auditing and personnel rewards and punishments of various factories. You should first get familiar with it, and then organize the people below to study. Those brought from the capital and the children of aristocratic families who have recently begun to join us must be brave enough to promote these people, but you must also carefully identify them. If you are a talent, you should use them boldly. If you have poor morals, no matter who he is, you will be expelled."

On the 19th day of the first lunar month, Jiang Customs "opened the seal". The new rules and regulations of Jiang Customs were posted all over the county town and port in Shanghai early in the morning. Zhu Yanzhi not only posted them, but also sent people to explain them one by one. The news immediately spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and within an hour it spread throughout Shanghai County.

Because it was approaching the date of going to sea, many crew owners and merchants gathered in Shanghai. Jiang Customs' new system is closely related to them. Who doesn't care? As soon as the news spread, the announcement points of each announcement were immediately surrounded. As the explanations of the interpreters, the cheers were endless. The owners who had been exploited all the time for many years were naturally ecstatic. When they heard that Yinzhen, who was the supervisor of Jiang Customs, set up a special reporting point in Liuchunyuan and promised to give the reporter a reply within five days, the whole scene almost lost control.

The reputation of Prince Beile Yinzhen's honest and loving people immediately spread from Shanghai.
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