Looking around, various types of cargo ships, large and small, single-story boats, and double-story building boats, stretching a few miles away on the river channel outside the ferry.

In the era of Xianheng, there was no official maritime envoy who managed merchant ship taxes, and this job was not held by eunuchs.

However, because at this time, the cargo traffic at the Luoyang Ferry was already quite prosperous, the court allowed the servants in charge of the ferry to collect taxes and manage ship navigation.

In order to facilitate movement, Minmin changed into a bright red dress, wore an indigo shirt, and tied up her hair bun on her head.

Although she did not deliberately dress up as a man, with the long knife around her waist and neat outfit, ordinary idle people dared not move forward.

The two stood under the banyan tree not far from the ferry. Pei Fanxian sighed: "Although there are many cargo ships, they seem to be managed in an orderly manner and there are no omissions."

Minmin nodded: "Indeed, look, the tax collectors are very terrified. All the small boats that attempt to get through are arrested, let alone the building boats. The tax money they should pay must not be missing."

Not far away, within sight, the officers and a group of guards were orderly regulating the entry and exit of merchant ships.

Fan Xian retorted: "It's not entirely true. In fact, those large building ships may not necessarily pay much tax."

"Why?" Minmin couldn't figure it out.

Fan Xian patiently explained: "Because behind such large cargo ships are wealthy and powerful business companies, their cargo ships often come and go at the Luoyang ferry, and generally have a good relationship with the ferry service."

"Give the staff more money, and you can save some taxes."

"It's such a thing!" Minmin clenched her fists, and she was so angry that she was so angry that she didn't expect that these seemingly conscientious and responsible officers would do such greedy things behind their backs.

"That's so hateful!"

"No! We have to take care of this matter!"

"Hey, no need, we don't have any real evidence, how can we manage it, let alone, don't forget that we came here this time to investigate the whereabouts of the copper cargo ship. The cargo ship has not been found yet, so where can we have time to meddle in these matters."

Minmin's face changed, and she suddenly thought, yes, there is still something serious to do.

"But, will we let them continue to do evil like this?" Minmin stepped forward and argued with him.

Fan Xian smiled, with a bit of a scheming and concise taste.

"Strictly speaking, this is not a crime. These people's greed will not be large. Even if they report to the court, they will usually turn a blind eye and probably won't care, because the matter is too small and it is not worth fighting for it."

"Minmin, Minmin, thanks to your blessing, you have been influenced by your childhood and have rich experience in the court. It's still so simple."

"Just like what we are going to investigate today, the court is going to mint new coins and increase the amount of coins used in the market. Isn't this a good thing?"

"Why did the copper material used to cast new coins disappear and could not be transported into Chang'an for a whole month?"

"Why do you think it's?" When encountering serious things, Minmin was also very serious. Pei Fanxian felt that since he had fallen Luoyang, it was necessary to spread the matter they were going to investigate, and told Guo Minmin.

"Of course it's because someone is obstructing the casting of new money. I believe you also know that there are hundreds of millions of bad money circulating in the two cities of Chang'an and Luoyang. These bad money are either short of weight or private stolen money. The court has repeatedly declared orders to prohibit it, but it still has little effect."

"I know this. A few years ago, the saint deliberately dealt with this matter and specially forged a Qianfeng Chongbao, but it was cancelled in less than a year. I think it was not successful."

If Minmin knows this, it will be much easier to deal with.

"During the Qianfeng period, it was because of the obstruction of evil people that the saint's Mingduo failed. Now these people want to make a comeback and continue to make plans to block new money."

"We just want to find out their tricks and expose these people's conspiracy."

So that's what happened. For the first time in a few days, Minmin has figured out what they are going to do.

Unexpectedly, what she had to do during this trip to Luoyang was like this important thing. She suddenly felt aroused and felt that she had played a huge role.

"Then where can we check it?"

Since the direction has been determined, don’t delay. It’s best to act quickly. Guo Minmin is full of enthusiasm. Only by completing the investigation quickly can she get rid of the fate of living in the same room with someone.

After entering Luoyang, Pei Fanxian chose to go to the ferry first to see what was going on. He always had to know what was going on at the ferry before he could start an investigation.

After observing here for a while, looking around, although there were many cargo ships blocking the river, there were no traces of cargo ships carrying copper materials.

This ship belongs to the Money Making Courtyard, and the ships that transport goods back and forth are marked as the Money Making Courtyard, but after he looked carefully, there was no such ship.

Moreover, the amount of copper materials from Yizhou is huge and cannot be transported by one ship. Looking at the current ships on the river surface, none of them can be related to the minting courtyard.

"It seems that as I expected, they would not just park the cargo ship near the ferry and let people see it."

"Then where are we going to find the copper material? If we can't find them, there is no way to investigate this case."

"Don't worry, take it step by step."

The observation on the ferry is still very useful. You can confirm it at a rough look that the so-called clearing of river channels and blocking ferry crossings is purely nonsense, and it is all lies from Dushuiguan.

Looking at the busy scene at the ferry, where are there any signs of shutdown?

The cargo ships are in and out in an orderly manner and move naturally. It can be judged by the ship's draft. There is no amount of silt under the river, let alone the need to clear it.

The most urgent task now is to determine that the so-called temporary suspension of operation of rivers is false.

"There are a few boatmen over there. Let's go and find out!"

Collecting evidence is an important step in investigating cases. At this time, Pei Fanxian misses modern mobile phone devices more and more.

I hold the small mobile phone in my hand, take a photo and record a short video, and have both personal and physical evidence. Do I need to work hard to write a report?

A team of boatmen pulled a building boat to the shore, unloaded the ropes, and finally had a breath of rest. People like them who do physical work can hardly stop all day long.

Eat, drink water, and rest are basically all done near the ferry, do an errand and pay a portion of money. If you are a little lazy, your income will drop a lot in a day.

The boatmen were shirtless, their dark skin shining in the sun. Their shoulders had long been worn through the ropes. The new scars pressed against the old scars, but they didn't care and were still working hard to live.

"We will pretend to be a merchant couple later."
Chapter completed!