"See you sir!"

After Li Ling got out of the car and walked into the gate of the Sansi Yamen, subordinate officials kept greeting him along the way. He smiled and nodded to them one by one and greeted them. Then everyone started to work on the errands they had.

It has been more than a year and a half since the Three Sessions yamen officially established, and both the personnel and the procedures have been arranged. For example, when the autumn tax matters were needed in the recent period, the yamen was busy from top to bottom, but in order. This was all due to Li Ling, the chief officer of the Three Sessions.

Seeing everyone busy at this time, Li Ling was quite satisfied with a faint smile on his face and went straight into his office. Then he looked at Xiang Daxing who had come quickly and smiled: "How about it, where are the places to send money and food to the capital today?"

When the Sansi Yamen was established, Li Ling transferred a group of subordinates and colleagues from the Ministry of Revenue and Transportation Department that he was familiar with to listen to. Lu You and Xiang Daxing were naturally impossible to ignore them. In the spirit of moving to a higher place, these people were naturally willing to follow Li Ling into the new yamen. After all, these Sansi Yamen are even higher than the two major financial yamen, the Ministry of Revenue and Transportation Department, and their status and power are not comparable to those on the original side.

As for the chief officials from the Ministry of Revenue and Transport Department, even if they were unwilling to do so, those who were chosen by Li Ling were all talented people in the yamen, and letting them go would be a big loss. They could only accept it. Who made the three yamen still above them and still have jurisdiction over the two major yamen?

After more than a year of cooperation, these subordinates had already been working together with Li Ling. They could do anything properly with just one sentence, which made him feel much more relaxed. When he heard Li Ling's inquiry, Xiang Daxing hurriedly replied: "This morning, someone from Jiangnan and Shuzhong came to say hello. Their money and grain had already been put into the warehouse. Do you need to check it out?"

"Oh? Jiangnan's taxes come quite quickly." Li Ling nodded with satisfaction. He originally thought that the money and food there would have to be delayed until next month, but now it seems that he underestimated them. But after thinking about it, he understood that it should be related to the new official law that the court has been vigorously promoting recently. After all, this new law against officials not only cares about the integrity of officials, but also about the ability to handle affairs. Taxation and other things are the top priority of governing ability, so they naturally have to do their best.

"Have you read all the accounts they sent? But are there any omissions?" Li Ling asked casually again.

"The officials asked several people to see it separately. There was no problem. Whether it was food or money, it was not different from the previous decisions made by the Ministry of Revenue, and it was the same as in previous years."

"Well, then go to the warehouse to take a look. If there is no problem, you can transport it directly to the national treasury." Li Ling nodded with satisfaction again, took a sip of water and got up and walked out.

In order to facilitate the handling of the money and grain, the Sansi Yamen also set up a temporary large warehouse to temporarily store the money and grain. After the inventory and inspection, it will be sent to the warehouse where the treasury is located for stockpiling. This is another procedure than when the Ministry of Revenue was in charge of this responsibility in the past, and it will be more guaranteed.

Xiang Daxing agreed and accompanied Li Ling to the huge warehouse next to the yamen. The defense of the warehouse here was more meticulous than that of the Sansi Yamen. There were hundreds of imperial guards holding spears and bows on duty. In addition, people with orders or cards from this yamen could enter the first gate, otherwise they would be taken down on the spot and even killed on the spot.

So even if the person who came now is Li Ling, the chief official who everyone recognizes, the officer in charge will strictly implement the requirements and ask them to take out their cards to check for errors before being released. This recognition of the cards and not the people is a reflection of the seriousness of the three officials' yamen, and it is also the rule set by Li Ling early in the morning.

There were more than a dozen clerks from the government office, Li Ling, the chief officer, and Xiang Daxing, who had been promoted to the fourth rank, could not really check the food and money by himself now, so he just supervised him. The real thing to do is rely on these clerks.

After passing through three gateways that were still tightly defended, they finally arrived at a huge yard with several large warehouses. The officials guarding here came forward to greet him. After learning about Li Ling and the others' purpose, they led them to several warehouses on the left: "Sir, these warehouses are the food places in Shuzhong and Jiangnan, and there are the money left there."

"Um." Li Ling nodded, "Have you counted all the money and grain?"

"Calculated it, it should be correct."

"Go and go and have a look." Li Ling was not polite, and immediately came to a warehouse. Someone opened the door for him, revealing the mountains of grain bags piled up inside. Li Ling's eyes glanced back and forth around the grain bags, then pointed to one of them: "What is there?"

"Sir, it's wheat grains."

"Take it out and take a look."

These are common routines for random checks after harvesting grains. Naturally, some subordinates came up to their fate, took out a bamboo tube with a pointed head, inserted it into the half of the bag surface, and then moved downwards. Someone took the basin and connected it, and the golden wheat grains flowed into the basin. Judging from the color, it was obviously the newly harvested food.

After taking the basin and looking at it for a few glances, Li Ling nodded, pointed to the grain bag in the middle of the corner on the other side, and said the same thing just now.

After checking five or six bags of grain, Li Ling nodded with satisfaction, left the granary, and then went to the next warehouse that stocked up the grain in Jiangnan.

Compared with other desk work, such random checks are the most waste of time and trouble. But even so, Li Ling will come to see it in person as long as he has time. After all, it is related to the treasury affairs, so he dare not be careless at all.

In this way, it took more than half an hour to check four or five warehouses without any mistakes. He smiled and nodded: "No, everyone is doing well in their errands."

When everyone heard this, they all showed relaxed smiles. Someone immediately flattered his adults and said that everything was guided by the adults, and we were just obedient to the orders and things... As long as the food was fine, the subsequent storage of silver, money, cloth and other items would be even less likely to be wrong.

After all, compared with the latter two, food is easier to deal with, and it is better to use inferior products as good products. Silver and copper coins can be seen at a glance, and there is no difference between good and bad.

But even so, Li Ling did not relax and went to those warehouses again. He first looked at the quality of the cloth and confirmed that there was no problem, and finally came to the last few places where silver and copper coins were stored.

The tax collection in the Dayue Dynasty was divided into physical goods and money. Most of the physical goods were mainly food, and money was divided into three types: one was silver, the second was copper coins, and the third was cloth. In places like Jiangnan where silk was rich, cloth also accounted for a lot of taxes. However, copper coins, as the Dayue became more popular, it was sent to the capital less and less.

But every year, a considerable batch of copper coins are sent into the treasury, with the number reaching hundreds of thousands of coins, or hundreds of millions of coins, which is quite considerable.

However, the appearance of this copper coin looks quite ugly, dark, and not as pleasant as silver or grain. After all, copper coins cast with alloys such as copper lead can easily oxidize and discolor. In addition, they are constantly circulated on the market and touched by countless people with their hands, so many traces are naturally left behind. Especially those old copper coins issued by this dynasty over the past century are mostly black, and they can't even see which dynasty they cast.

In fact, the inspection of these copper coins was just a few glances. It was impossible for anyone to tamper with such low-value copper coins, which was not enough.

So after seeing Li Ling enter the warehouse, everyone didn't take it too seriously. They just smiled and gave some advice. There was nothing to say about which side came from Jiangnan and which side came from Shuzhong.

These copper coins were strung together by ropes, and Li Ling just took his eyes to scan it casually, and didn't look at it carefully. But at this moment, he suddenly remembered the thing Wan Lang mentioned last night, and his heart moved, as if he had caught something, but he couldn't think clearly for a moment, so he just squinted his eyes and continued to stare.

This action made Xiang Daxing a little confused and asked, "Sir, are there any problems with these copper coins?"

Seeing that Li Ling did not make a sound, there was another official in the warehouse next to him laughing and said, "There is no problem with this copper coin. It's all black, and there's really nothing..."

"Slow down, what did you say just now?" Li Ling suddenly looked at the man and asked.

"I... the official said that there would be no problem with these copper coins..." The man was also stern and said in a low voice.

"No, next sentence."

"All...all black..."

"There's a problem!" Li Ling suddenly shuddered and compared the copper coins in the boxes on both sides. After a closer look, he really saw the difference. "Look at the difference between the copper coins in Jiangnan and Shuzhong?"

"Difference?" Everyone was confused and looked at it, but they couldn't see any problem.

"On this, although most of the copper coins in Shu are black, there are always a few golden embellishments. But looking at the copper coins in Jiangnan here, they are all black, and there is no golden color!" Li Ling took a finger and his tone became quite serious.
Chapter completed!