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Although it was just a private visit, Liu Jing finally decided to visit Shou Sufei before leaving, and at least give Jiang Xia an explanation. It was not that he didn't care about Jiang Xia, but that he was paying attention to Jiang Xia's current situation in his own way.

The Jiangxia County Yamen was the former state yamen. Although they were far from comparable to the Jingzhou County Yamen, they were much larger than ordinary county yamen. Therefore, Su Fei dared not occupy it completely. He set aside half as a county yamen, and the other half, including Liu Jing's former official yamen, were all closed as a commemoration.

In front of the county yamen gate, Liu Jing was looking at the government office that he was once very familiar with. He had been here for nearly five years and left many memories. At this time, there was a sound of footsteps behind him. Guard Su Fei, county magistrate Yiji and other senior officials in Jiangxia County came out one after another.

Everyone seemed very nervous. They didn't know when the provincial governor came to Jiangxia. They were not even prepared at all. They were even more worried about whether any official bullying the people and being encountered by Liu Jing. Everyone stepped forward to salute, "See the provincial governor."

Liu Jing looked at them and saw that everyone was very nervous. He smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't notify you in advance, which scared everyone."

Su Fei smiled bitterly and said, "It was because the servants were not good at doing things. The governor of the state came, but no one informed the minister, which made the minister ashamed."

Liu Jing smiled, "If Jiangxia people recognize me, that is a failure. You don't have to blame yourself. I just want to visit my hometown again and not conduct formal inspections."

Su Fei and Yiji looked at each other, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief. The provincial governor admitted that it was not a formal inspection, which made them less stressful. Su Fei hurriedly said: "Previous governors please go to the government office to have a detailed discussion."

Liu Jing walked into the government office happily and looked at the extremely familiar yamen. When he saw a long high wall splitting the county office into two, he couldn't help but ask strangely: "What is that half of it?"

"There is a half of the state patriarch, including the former state patriarch, the official rank and the Political Affairs Hall, and now it is temporarily empty, and the ministers dare not use it."

"Why don't you dare to enable it?" Liu Jing asked with a smile.

At this time, Yi Ji next to him said: "It is mainly because the county yamen is now the largest county yamen in Jingzhou. If the other half is used, it will be huge and a bit inconsistent. Other counties also discuss it. Considering the feelings of other counties, only half is used."

This reason is pretty good. Liu Jing nodded and said, "I happened to consider establishing a Maritime Warehouse Department in Jiangxia to manage the commercial trade in Jingzhou. Since this time has been released, I will leave it to the Maritime Warehouse Department as a yamen."

Su Fei was shocked. Now Jiangxia's business is under the jurisdiction of the county government. If the Maritime Bureau is established, wouldn't this deprive the power of the county government?

But he didn't dare to ask too much, followed Liu Jing into the inner hall, and everyone sat down in the inner hall, and a maid served tea. Liu Jing said to everyone: "Last year, the money and grain handed over by Jiangxia County ranked second in Jingzhou, second in Xiangyang County. Although in terms of quantity, the money and grain income of Jiangxia County was the same as the previous year, Xiangyang County increased by 50% compared with the previous year. This was when the chaos was first settled. Logically, Jiangxia's business was much more prosperous than the previous year, and Jiangdong relaxed trade restrictions. At least Jiangxia County should have a rapid increase in commercial tax, but the actual commercial tax revenue was the same as the previous year. I want to know what is wrong with it."

Liu Jing said it lightly, but in fact he was asking the officials why Jiangxia's income from money and grain did not increase last year, especially the commercial tax. They worked hard to defeat Jiangdong and forced Jiangdong to relax trade, but in the end they did not gain anything. Doesn't this mean that his Jiangdong negotiations failed? Liu Jing was very dissatisfied with this point.

There was a silence in the lobby. Everyone understood the questioning of the provincial governor. Others could be silent, but Su Fei and the county magistrate Yiji could not pretend not to hear it. Su Fei hurriedly said: "The opening of trade in Jiangdong has certainly greatly promoted the prosperity of Wuchang and Chaisang's commerce. This is obvious to all. If we strengthen tax collection, we can indeed collect large amounts of tax money. However, considering that we need to release water to raise fish and encourage business development, we did not strengthen tax collection and maintained the tax amount of the previous year."

"If I were to raise fish in order to release water, I would certainly not object, but why don't I report to the upper level why I didn't explain the reason why the commercial tax did not increase?"

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Su Fei was not good at answering for a moment. After a moment of silence, he finally said with a grim temper: "Charging commercial taxes has always been the power of each county, and there is no system to report to the upper level, so there is no special explanation. If the state and the governor need it, we can write a detailed book."

Liu Jing didn't say anything. In fact, this is why he wanted to set up a Maritime Bureau in Wuchang, Jiangling and Xiangyang, and took over the local trade tax rights to the General's Mansion. Liu Jing said lightly: "You can write a report to the General's Mansion, which may not be necessary. Xu Changshi should also know the reason."

Speaking of this, he changed the topic and asked Yiji again, "I want to ask Yijunzheng, Jiangxia had a bumper harvest last year, and the grain production in the military fields increased, but the government's taxes increased by less than half a century. This made me puzzled. What is the reason?"

Yi Ji showed a bitter expression on his face. He knew that this question would be asked, but at this time he had to answer, "Reported to the provincial governor, he did get a good harvest last year, but because a large number of refugees returned to Xiangyang and Nanjun last year, they refused to give up their land in Jiangxia. This problem was delayed until September last year before finally solving, which led to tens of thousands of hectares of land not receiving autumn harvest, so a tax gap appeared."

"Bang" Liu Jing slapped the table hard and said angrily: "Why don't you report such a major incident to the upper level?"

Yiji was so scared that he knelt down quickly, "This is a dereliction of duty by the empress, please punish the state governor."

Liu Jing snorted heavily, "This is not your dereliction of duty, it is your deceiving your superiors and concealing your subordinates."

Liu Jing said this very seriously, which scared all the officials in the lobby to kneel down. Su Fei was sweating profusely. He knew that the problem was serious this time. Once the charge of deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates was confirmed, his official hat would not be protected.

Liu Jing forced himself to calm down and said slowly: "I must find out the truth about this matter. There is no corruption and abuse of power, and the money is filled with personal pockets, so I will give you a chance. You can check it yourself first and hand over the report to Chengdu within a month. How should you punish it? It will be handled according to the rules."

Su Fei kowtowed: "Qi Bizhou's governor, Weichen and others have no corruption and abuse of power, and are willing to use their heads to guarantee it."

"Don't explain to me now. If you don't have one, it doesn't mean that your subordinates don't. I'll give you a month to check yourself, so you can do it yourself."

Liu Jing only stayed in Wuchang for two days before returning to Chengdu by boat. He originally had to inspect Anlu County and Xiangyang County, and also from Fangling County to Hanzhong, but what happened in Wuchang really annoyed him, and he felt that the problem was serious.

It is not just Jiangxia County, but other counties. There is no way to know whether there is any secret hidden in the report they handed to the General's Mansion like Jiangxia County. He needs to establish a system, a supervision system.

In fact, the Han Dynasty itself had a very complete supervision system, and the Censorate was established in the central government. As the highest supervisory authority, a special supervision agency was established in the local area during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Each department sent one governor, called the Ten governors, which belonged to the Central Censorate, and was specifically responsible for supervising counties and counties.

Even the initial arrangement of the post of the prefecture was the inspector sent by the emperor to the local government. However, after Emperor Ling, the central court declined, the local government was strong, and various supervision systems were useless. After establishing the Jiangxia Army, Liu Jing established a military investigation position in the army, specifically supervising the military disciplines of various places and internal violations of the army, but there was no supervision of local counties for the time being.

Now he has dozens of counties in Jing and Yi prefectures, and the previous county. If there is no sufficient supervision, these county officials are actually local emperors. Liu Jing has been in Youqiao. He knows the inside story of collecting commercial taxes. If there is no certificate, how much tax should be collected and whether to pay the tax to be paid into the official treasury is entirely up to local officials. The vacancy here is really big.

All these need to be established and improved. On the ship, Liu Jing looked at the dark river and couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, Cai Shaoyu slowly walked to him and asked with concern: "The general seems to be in trouble. Is it a bad thing?"

Liu Jing smiled and said, "It turns out that there is only Jiangxia County, so there is no worries, but now the area under control is too big and there are more worries. In fact, there is nothing."

He looked at Cai Shaoyu and asked with a smile: "It's already two updates now, why are you not sleeping yet?"

Cai Shaoyu's face turned slightly red, she shook her head gently and whispered: "I can't sleep."

"Are you not used to taking a boat?" Liu Jing asked with concern again.

"Not that, I just feel a little panicked and can't sleep." Cai Shaoyu's face turned redder.

Liu Jing laughed, gently put his shoulder on her and said softly: "Go to sleep and don't worry, Mrs. Tao will welcome you very much."

Cai Shaoyu felt that Liu Jing's warm and powerful hand was placed on her shoulders, and she had almost no strength. This feeling made her extremely attached. She followed Liu Jing to her cabin in a daze. At this time, Cai Shaoyu's personal maid came over, and Liu Jing handed Cai Shaoyu to her, "Take Miss Cai to sleep."
Chapter completed!