Valley Emperor

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Seeing Gong Wenbao walking in, Chen Lifu put down the Analects of Confucius, but he did not expect that the director of the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate of the third rank would come to see him in person, um, maybe it was an inquiry.

Although he inspects local taxes all year round, his home is in Chengtian Mansion, and he has returned to Jinling City many times between inspections of local taxes. Although he said that he has never met the high-ranking officials of the inspectorate, he has heard of it many times.

This man came to see himself?

Many possibilities appeared in Chen Lifu's mind. Of course, he still couldn't guess. Now Gong Wenbao is already burning himself, trying to find a breakthrough in him to save himself.

Since Chen Lifu moved into the guest house of the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate, he has been completely cut off from contact with the outside world, and has been de facto under house arrest, so he doesn't know that the outside world is already turbulent.

What's more, the sudden change of things happened in the past two days. Before that, Gong Wenbao was still full of confidence and wanted to use Chen Lifu as a stepping stone to his promotion and fortune.

After Gong Wenbao walked in, he didn't have the air of being a senior official of the third grade at all. Although he and Chen Lifu had different systems, if there was no case, it was almost impossible for the two institutions to have any connection. For Chen Lifu, the third rank is not much different from the fourth and fifth rank.

But although Chen Lifu didn't care, he still clearly felt from Gong Wenbao's attitude that this man was showing his favor and trying to get something out of his mouth.

Seeing this scene, although Chen Lifu's expression did not change, he had already guessed that his case might have changed, and it should be a good change.

Otherwise, Gong Wenbao, as the director of the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate of the third grade, has no need to show affection to himself!

But what exactly happened, he didn't know!

Gong Wenbao tried his best to keep his smile, and then stepped forward and said, "Director Chen, the funds in our guest house are limited, and the conditions are a bit crude, so you are wronged!"

Without waiting for Chen Lifu to reply, he continued: "I know that Brother Chen may have some complaints against my brother, but I can't do anything about it, brother, after all, the supervision regulations are there, and if there is a case, it must be investigated. , but Brother Chen, don't worry, these are all routine investigations, and you will never be embarrassed by Brother Chen!"

After this conversation, Chen Lifu frowned inadvertently, and then said: "Master Gong, please take a seat and cooperate with the investigation of the inspectorate, it is the duty of our officials, this is nothing, but Chen I've been staying at your hostel for seven days, but Chen still doesn't know what happened to Chen?"

Chen Lifu's words are not polite, but he really doesn't know what he has done. What is the inspector's office going to investigate? malfeasance? bribery?

He, Chen Lifu, thought it was nonsense. The people in the inspectorate were not stupid. How could they have rashly brought him here to 'assist in the investigation' under such a name.

Chen Lifu himself is not stupid, he is very clear about his status!

Although he is only a fifth-grade subordinate, his gold content far exceeds that of other fifth-grade subordinates. When inspecting local taxes, his power far exceeds that of any official of the same rank, almost surpassing any local officials.

When he used the title of the fifth grade, the deputy director of the inspection office inspected the taxation of Jiangbei and Wanbei, the two local Taoists would not neglect him, but met with each other!

Why?

Because he has the power to investigate and arrest anyone, as long as the person evades taxes!

Anyone mentioned here, including Jiangbei Daoists and Wanbei Daoists, because officials also have to pay taxes, as long as they dare to evade taxes, then Chen Lifu will dare to arrest them!

And he doesn't have to do anything like impeachment like ordinary officials. He may directly investigate, arrest, transfer to justice, and provide one-stop service. If the tax evasion of officials is convincing, the cabinet bosses can't save them!

To a certain extent, in fact, the inspectors in the Inspection Office of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation are comparable to the traditional imperial emissaries when it comes to taxation!

However, there were few imperial envoys in the Tang Dynasty. So far, almost all of the imperial envoys that have appeared in the Tang Dynasty are related to military affairs.

In addition, there are a very small number of imperial envoys for other affairs. They are usually dedicated personnel, and their functions and powers are very clearly limited. At present, except for the imperial envoys of condolences to the troops, there are only about ten imperial envoys who handle other affairs with the title of imperial envoy, and basically all of them are It is about to become a permanent position.

One of the more important ones was the Nanyang Commercial Commissioner, who stayed in Guangzhou and was responsible for negotiating trade with other countries.

However, this imperial envoy has almost become a permanent post since its establishment, and is generally held concurrently by officials of the Ministry of Commerce.

There are also three flood control commissioners, namely the Yellow River Flood Control Commissioner, the Yangtze River Flood Control Commissioner, and the Pearl River Flood Control Commissioner. They inspect the water conservancy, flood control, and disaster relief of the rivers within their respective jurisdictions. Usually, officials from the Department of Water Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture serve concurrently for a long time.

Come again, there is also the Huguang immigrant commissioner. This person is specially responsible for Huguang, including Hunan and Hubei immigrant settlement affairs, usually by the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Agriculture-->>

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