After all, Mao Yi is not one of those civil servants, and he doesn't talk in circles.
In front of Xu He, he told his plan.
"If you do this, tomorrow morning, there will be a grain ship from Chang Yingcang heading to Beijing. At that time, I will ask the commander in charge of the escort in the camp to directly deduct your share of grain from Hailing County. At that time, you can ask your people to go Just move the grain!" Mao Biao said.
Xu He was dumbfounded: "Is this okay?"
Mao Yi sneered and said: "Why not? Those bastards can do the first grade, can't I do the fifteenth grade?"
"But where is Ma Junmen?" Xu He was still a little worried.
"What are you afraid of? Who listens to whom when it comes to water transportation?"
Xu He thought so. In the second year of Taizu Hongtai's reign, he began to set up a general water transport force in Huai'an.
At that time, it was already the Mao family of Marquis Ningguo who was in charge of water transportation.
Moreover, the Marquis Mao of Ning Guo was not only a relative of the emperor, but also a high-ranking official. Even in today's world where culture is used to control military force, as long as Ma Liangbi was not crazy, he would still give Mao Hao some face.
However, Xu He has been spoiled by those gangsters these days. How can he dare to trust people casually now?
Seeing him looking at him longingly, Mao Yi laughed, waved, called a middle-aged man dressed as a general, and then introduced him in front of Xu He: "This is my Uncle Liu. My father can help me." Mr. Teacher, he knows more about things in this camp than me!"
After finishing speaking, he turned around and asked the middle-aged man: "Uncle Liu, who will escort the grain and grass tomorrow?"
"Chi Maoxian, the commander of the ugly camp!" the man named Liu respectfully replied.
Mao Yi nodded and said: "You go down and say hello later, and just tell me what I said. If you don't see the grain ship tomorrow, you won't be allowed to ship it, even if Ma Liangbi is there in person!"
Uncle Liu looked up at his employer in surprise, then nodded and said: "Understood, even if Ma Liangbi comes, the ship will not be allowed to leave until he sees the young Marquis!"
Mao Yi nodded and smiled at Xu He: "Liangsheng, are you relieved now?"
What's the point, everyone has already done this.
Xu He stood up and said: "Mao Junmen..."
Just when he was about to prostrate himself, Mao Yi quickly helped him up and said with a smile: "I have already done this, and you still call me Mao Junmen. Do you mean you don't want to be your brother?"
When Xu He heard this, he felt a little dazed. His uncle told him to stay away from the nobles, but his body seemed to be a magnet for the nobles. How could a young marquis lean on him like this?
However, Xu He had no time to think too much and said quickly: "Mao Junmen has a noble status and dare not make any mistakes!"
Mao Bao pretended to be displeased and said, "What? If you and Xue Yongzhi can be friends, then I can't stand in your eyes?"
Xu He was speechless.
Mao Bao held his hand and said to Uncle Liu, "Uncle Liu, when you go down, ask someone to prepare the incense table. I will chop off the chicken heads and burn the yellow paper with Brother Liangsheng!"
Just now, Xu He would still be a little scared.
But Mao Yi's behavior made him calm down.
As the saying goes, you must ask for something when you are polite to others. He definitely has something that Mao Bao wants. Otherwise, how could he, a general soldier of water transportation whom he met for the first time, become sworn sworn sworn sworn friends like himself, a junior member of the military.
After a while, the incense table was set up in front of the pavilion.
A chicken head was chopped off and the chicken blood dripped into the bowl. Mao Yao burned the yellow paper himself and pulled Xu He to kneel down in front of the case.
"My dear brother, I am a warrior. I am not that vain. From today on, your business is my business. We do not want to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we want to die in the same year, the same month and the same day. Do you recognize me? Brother, it depends on you whether you want to drink this wine or not!" Mao Yi said seriously.
Having already come to this point, Xu Hexin said that as long as you can help me get the food, there is nothing more to say. I will drink this wine.
Thinking of this, he took the first step to pick up the wine bowl, pushed it to his eyebrows and said: "Brother! I'm polite!"
After saying that, he drank all the wine in the big bowl in one gulp.
Mao Yi said happily: "Good brother!"
After saying that, he also drank the wine in his bowl.
After finishing the drink, Mao Bao laughed loudly, stood up and helped Xu He to sit down in the pavilion together and said: "Brother, I am Mao Bao, the cursive character is hidden in silk. If anything happens in the future, please send a message to big brother. Big brother will help you if he can." It’s done, even if I don’t have the ability, I’ll try my best to find someone to do it for you!”
Xu He heard this and asked: "The word for eldest brother is [Zang Fu], but the word [Zang Fu] is the same as [to lower one's dignity and be humbled, to hold a seal to hide]?"
Mao Yi gave a thumbs up and sighed: "Sure enough, dear brother, you have learned a lot!"
Xu He thought to himself: "Just because your father gave you such an angry name, you must not be a rude soldier! Why are you so unprepared that you surrendered to me like this?"
Sure enough, after chatting for a while, Mao Yi frowned and said: "Brother, how much do you know about the water transportation of our Great Wei Dynasty?"
Xu He shook his head: "Fur!"
Mao Yi sighed and said: "Many people think that the water transportation of our Great Wei Dynasty was implemented after Yingzong went northward. In fact, this is not the case. When Taizu went northward to attack the Yuan Dynasty, our Mao family was responsible for transporting grain and grass from the Grand Canal. After calculation, the eldest brother’s family has been in charge of water transportation longer than Guo Zuo from the Great Wei Dynasty to the present!”
Xu He saw that his expression was solemn, as if he was thinking about something, so he was not in a hurry, just nodded and waited for the next step.
"Do you know why eldest brother hates the civil servants in Caoyun Yamen so much?" Mao Biao asked.
Xu He shook his head.
"Because our Mao family has been rooted in this Grand Canal for generations, we have put in so much effort during this period. However, in the fourth year of Yingzong Xiangfu, the then governor Yingtian impeached the Cao army for extorting people and overcharging river crossing fees. At that time, Yingzong He was so angry that he issued an edict to reprimand our Mao family, and later stipulated that starting from the second year, the Ministry of Industry would send people to Huai'an to supervise the construction of ships, and the Ministry of Household Affairs would send people to inspect the grain and pay for it."
"Later, during the reign of Emperor Wuzong, the grain harvest in Shandong and Henan was poor, and the local government repeatedly requested to reduce taxes. Moreover, a lot of the grain stored in Xuhuai's second warehouse was rotten, so the proposal to change the tax rate was adopted!"
"My ancestor Mao Hong asked that part of the collected silver be used for the loss of officers and soldiers on the road, as well as the cost of hiring workers and renting cars and ships. There is no need to put it into a pay sheath and seal it."
Xu He nodded when he heard this and said: "This is a good thing. It is difficult to calculate the amount of food loss, but the silver taels can be used to determine the country's plan! This way, not only the officials and people of the water transport will not have to suffer, but also corruption will not breed. ! This is a strategy that has the best of both worlds!”
Hearing this, Mao Yi seemed to have found a close friend. He slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, our Mao family is totally sincere and that's why we proposed such a good method. Who would have thought that the officials from the Department of Science and Technology would talk about it, saying that my Mao family doesn't want food but wants silver?" That’s an evil intention!”
"Haha, have you ever seen anyone who has different intentions and wants money instead of food?" Mao Yi said angrily.
Xu He nodded and guessed: "So the imperial court sent another censor to patrol the warehouse, right?"
Mao Biao looked at him in surprise and said: "It is said that a scholar can know the affairs of the world without going out. That's right. From then on, the censor who patrols the warehouse has become a permanent one!"
"Later on, there was a censor, and the imperial court sent the minister of affairs and the censor of the capital to supervise the transfer. The ministers and Yuanwailang were responsible for the transfer, and the chief officer was in charge of the cash."
"In the late period of Emperor Wuzong, the cabinet simply established a governor of water transportation in Huai'an to jointly manage water affairs with the general of water transportation."
Hearing this, Xu He probably knew why his adopted brother was worried!
