Chapter 56 A Deadly Mission

Pei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly expressed his position, "As long as the captain gives the order, I am willing to serve him at his will."

Han Qianhu turned his head and looked at Duan Min, "Bring the official documents."

Duan Min hurried to the desk at the back and took out a document.

Han Qianhu turned his head to look at Pei Yuan again, and with an unquestionable expression on his handsome and neutral face, he said, "Sign."

Ok? ? ?
What the hell!

Pei Yuan immediately sensed a strong conspiracy.

Duan Min had already unfolded the document in front of Pei Yuan, revealing a blank space at the end, and placed an ink pad in front of Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan hesitated and wanted to open the document to take a closer look.

Unexpectedly, Duan Min, who didn't know whether he had received instructions from Han Qianhu, pressed the folded part very hard with his fingers.

Pei Yuan was forced by the situation and did not dare to delay too long, so he could only bite the bullet and press his fingerprint on the blank space of the document.

Captain Han stretched out his hand, and Duan Min quickly handed over the document.

Han Qianhu took a careful look at it, picked up a pen and wrote Pei Yuan's name in several places, then handed the document to Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan took the document and unfolded it with a heroic spirit as if he was eating shit.

After watching only half of it, Pei Yuan had the idea of fighting this woman!
The arrangements this time were very simple, and Pei Yuan was particularly familiar with them.

——Escort a batch of tax silver into the transport warehouse!
Pei Yuan clearly remembered that the last colleague who did this was completely wiped out in Nanzhili!

Moreover, after the ambush of the tax inspector, Pei Yuan also served as the most powerful weapon of the East Factory on the planet and participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Plum Blossom Society, a rebel party in Southern Zhili.

Pei Yuanke knew the whole story clearly.

In order to jump out of this pit, Pei Yuan gave up at the very beginning, which made everyone in the East Factory feel extremely happy.

As a result, now the retribution has come. The epic pot of escorting tax silver has fallen directly on his head.

Pei Yuan was scared. He quickly pleaded with Han Qianhu, "Sir, I have just joined the Jinyiwei and am completely incompetent. I am afraid that I will miss the mission."

Captain Han sneered sarcastically, "Why should Captain Pei be so modest? Even in the midst of a chaotic army, Captain Pei could move freely, let alone just transporting some tax silver? Besides, this time, the various prefectures, guards, and transport offices along the way have fully assisted. With Captain Pei's ability, there will definitely not be any major chaos."

Without waiting for Pei Yuan to refuse again, Han Qianhu spoke again.

"The imperial court is now suppressing rebellions everywhere and trying to restore the grain transport system. We urgently need tax support from Jiangnan. You are a smart person and you should understand that there is no room for refusal."

Pei Yuan looked at the official document in his hand that had been fingerprinted, and he really wanted to hold down Han Qianhu and fry him.

He endured it again and again, and asked, "I wonder how much silver you have to escort this time?"

Han Qianhu did not hide it from him, "Eighty thousand taels."

Pei Yuan calculated in his mind that eighty thousand taels of silver was not a lot, but not a little either. It would only take a few sturdy carts to transport it.

Pei Yuan, hoping for the best, suggested, "Then, I can secretly escort the tax silver to Beijing with my men. There's no need to waste time and money and start a war."

Han Qianhu glanced at Pei Yuan and sneered, "Are you playing dumb with me?"

"The last time the tax collector was killed, the people above were completely enraged. That's why they urgently collected a sum of money this time and wanted to escort him to the capital in an open and aboveboard manner. The court is serious this time, and they want to let those people see the situation clearly. Therefore, sending money is a secondary matter. The important thing is to show the court's tough attitude."

Pei Yuan was helpless after hearing this. He was afraid because he understood this.

The imperial court has mobilized so much force this time and is sending this tax silver to the capital in an open and aboveboard manner, in order to use its power to overwhelm those forces that are against the imperial court and completely submit.

This is no longer a case of fishing for justice; this attitude is clearly an attempt to ride on someone's face.

As long as the first batch of silver is successfully delivered to the capital and the morale of those people is crushed, the rest of the silver can flow northward in an endless stream.

But for those forces headed by the Plum Blossom Society, how could they easily let the imperial court take this lead?
As long as the precedent of sending tax money northward is established, those official forces who assist them secretly will be put in a very passive position.

Pei Yuan asked Han Qianhu unwillingly, "Isn't the main responsibility of the Evil Suppression Qianhu Office to track down evil cults? How did you get involved in this kind of thing?"

Captain Han said impatiently, "Who else can escort the tax silver to the inner transport warehouse except the Jinyiwei? It just so happens that our evil-suppressing captain has some influence in the underworld forces, so this matter fell on us."

The composition of tax silver in the Ming Dynasty was diverse, including grain, silk, copper coins, bamboo products, lacquerware and other strange objects.

If many of the bulk materials here were transported to the court in a unified manner, many problems would arise.

First of all, transportation was inconvenient in this era, and transporting bulk materials required a lot of manpower and material resources.

Secondly, in the process of transporting bulk materials, a large amount of losses will inevitably occur along the way.

Furthermore, if the imperial court distributed these large quantities of supplies downwards, it would have to go through the same trouble again.

Therefore, in order to save trouble, the imperial court converted these miscellaneous incomes into local garrisons or government departments that needed money.

If there is any surplus money left, it will be sent to the central government.

Therefore, during the Zhengde era when Pei Yuan lived, although there was nominally nearly 40 million taels of tax revenue, after various transfer payments, very little was actually paid to the court.

Moreover, the messy materials handed over to the court were neither convenient to store nor to use.

Later, in order to increase the flexibility of central payments, the "capable ministers of governing the country" carried out a reform, with the court directly intervening in the management of commercial taxes.

Commercial taxes are levied in the form of silver, which can greatly enhance the payment capacity of the inner treasury.

The eunuchs were in charge of this matter, and the prisoners were transported to the emperor's inner transport warehouse. Of course, they were escorted by the Jinyiwei, the emperor's personal army, which was the most legitimate reason.

Therefore, since the tax silver started from Nanzhili, the Nanjing Jinyiwei naturally had no choice but to do it.

So, how could the Zhenxie Qianhu Division, which is the Nanjing Jinyiwei and has the closest ties with the underworld, be unconnected?
So, for this obvious suicide mission, it is reasonable for Captain Han to choose Pei Yuan, a temporary worker on loan, right?

Pei Yuan felt that he was in the wrong place and at the wrong time.

He could only bite the bullet and refuse again.

"But I am too incompetent to obey your orders."

Han Qianhu tapped the table with his fingertips and said slowly, "I will assign some people from the Qianhu Office to you. You can also recruit people from the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Nanzhi that are under the jurisdiction of my Qianhu Office. By the way, I will assign you two more masters."

Han Qianhu said this and looked up at Pei Yuan, "Anything else you want to say?"

The wood is done.

Pei Yuan was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke, "I'm sure that Meihua will have the help of evil spirits, and we might face that kind of opponent this time. The Evil Suppression Unit has been hunting down evil cults for so many years, so there must be something useful. I wonder if you can give me one."

(End of this chapter)

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