Chapter 261: Ministry of Revenue Robbery

Dayu's Ministry of Revenue was in charge of land tax, customs duties, likin, public debt, currency and everything related to money.

Among them, tax officials are responsible for handling various tax issues.

Tax collectors now face a very tough opponent.

Tianxu Tower!

As the saying goes, although escaping is shameful, it is useful.

Faced with a strong enemy named Tianxu Tower, the tax officials pushed each other, and finally the challenge fell to a young tax official.

The young tax officer was called Tie Qian. Although he was young, he had worked as an assistant to the Minister of Revenue. Born into a peasant family, his family was destroyed by the greed of merchants, so he hated evil since he was young.

Tie Qian had heard of the name of Tianxu Tower from the Minister of Revenue a long time ago.

In order to promote the sect registration system, Dayu established a multifunctional business organization in cooperation with a mysterious sect. Dayu was only responsible for investment materials and did not take care of anything else.

Let the sect borrow the power of Dayu to do business? How can this be like letting a tiger go back to the mountain?

Tianxulou must have evaded taxes and abused his power for personal gain!

"Everyone, rest assured, I will find all the evidence of Tianxulou's crimes!"

Faced with Tie Qian's confident assurance, the tax officials who had taken over the account books of Tianxu Tower looked at each other in bewilderment.

Tie Qian did not notice the subtle expressions of the tax officials. He waved his hand and took out all the account books from the establishment of Tianxu Tower to the present nine years. He flipped through them and was stunned.

In all his years as a tax officer, he had never seen such a clean account book.

It is so clean that even people who cook the books would find it fake.

Tianxulou was not profitable at all, and it barely managed to maintain a balance by purchasing on behalf of others. In addition, there were several times when the unknown sect paid out of its own pocket to expand its business. On the contrary, Dayu absorbed a lot of spiritual stones from Tianxulou by using various unused magic weapons, techniques, and vests.

Of course, the most terrifying thing is that there are nine years of such account books?

Did Tianxulou bribe the entire Ministry of Revenue? !

"Everyone, these account books...has the Shangshu...read them?" Tie Qian's face gradually twisted together.

The other tax officials nodded very slowly.

Tianxu Tower is related to the sect registration system, so the account books of Tianxu Tower must naturally pass through the hands of the Minister of Revenue.

"This account book... is it real?!"

The tax officials nodded.

Tie Qian was confused. "There is no problem with this account book. What else needs to be dealt with?"

“…”

The tax officials' strange silence made Tie Qian guess an absurd possibility.

Finally, a senior tax officer spoke up, "Tie Qian, you should know about the commoner marquis."

Tie Qian snorted coldly, "Of course, those sects are simply ignorant of their own danger! And those commoner marquises who have sided with the sects are also ruthless and heartless!"

"Tianxu Tower proposed a plan to build a cave in the place where we will go on the expedition to exorcise demons, and put enough resources in it..."

When Tie Qian heard this, his eyes sparkled, and he understood the power of this plan. "I guess Tianxu Tower must have proposed that Tianxu Tower be the contractor for this project, right?"

"Exactly."

"I see. Tianxulou's goal is getting closer and closer. I'm afraid there will be a lot of money to be made from this," Tie Qian snorted. "Do you want me to keep an eye on the account book and prevent Tianxulou from being too greedy? Don't worry, I have my own judgment."

"…Regarding this matter, the Shangshu's intention is for us to find a way to get some money out of the account book and feed it to Tianxu Tower."

Tie Qian was stunned, and the tax officials explained the detailed project plan to Tie Qian.

Tie Qian's expression gradually became subtle, "That is to say... the contractor of Tianxu Tower has to pay for the construction of the mansion himself?"

"right."

"Did Tianxulou pay for the supplies inside?"

"right."

"If it's not enough, write an IOU to Dayu?"

"right."

"Tianxulou not only has to pay Dayu's labor costs, but also has to pay rent for renting Dayu's land!?"

"right."

Tie Qian held his forehead with his hand, and after a long silence, he said faintly, "How much profit can we, Dayu, make from this project? Can it withstand scrutiny?"

The tax officials' eyes flickered. "So, Lord Shangshu, isn't this asking us to work hard and find a way to make some money? But... that Master Li is extremely difficult to deal with."

"We have thought about it over the past eight years, but we were discovered every time."

Tie Qian was in a weird mood.

Dayu's tax officials tried every means to give benefits to Tianxu Tower, but were rejected by Tianxu Tower in a stern manner.

Tie Qian almost wondered if he had fallen into some small world.

"Then Mr. Li is probably an upright person. What we need to do is not to give him money, but to reduce his expenses. Everyone, watch carefully!"

Tie Qian wrote with a flourish, completely unaware of the subtle looks from other tax collectors.

…

In a courtyard in Meizhou, Huang Shangshang was closing her eyes and feeling the fluctuations of the spiritual liquid in the foundation-building platform.

If the speed of forming the elixir is too fast, there will not even be time for comprehension. Not only will the quality of the elixir be average, but there will also be no guarantee that the next elixir will be better.

Huang Shangshang is considered a genius in Meizhou, but looking at the entire world, she is just a small fry.

Because her foundation was too poor, and she temporarily switched to practicing a better technique, Huang Shangshang's foundation-building platform became a so-called small-fry foundation-building platform, which would start to form the elixir at the slightest stimulation.

No matter how much Huang Shangshang said no, she couldn't be forced to do so. She could only watch herself form the pill.

Of course, there is a way to eradicate this problem, which is to say goodbye to your own foundation-building platform and rebuild a new foundation.

But Li Yanmo only had a way to painlessly remove the golden elixir, not a way to painlessly build the foundation, so he could only use the most simple and unpretentious method.

If you are not good at it, just practice more.

If it’s just small fish, just come a few more times.

After some training from Li Yanmo, Huang Shangshang was finally able to form the golden elixir no longer in seconds, and the quality of the golden elixir also stabilized at the top grade.

During this period, Li Yanmo's cultivation level did not improve much and remained at the 396th level.

The further back you go, the harder it is to condense the spiritual energy vortex. Even after helping Yao Mengyi to brush the golden elixir more than 170 times and combining a planetary golden elixir with the highest quality so far, he only managed to create one more spiritual energy vortex.

The quality of the golden elixirs formed by Huang Shangshang's small-scale foundation-building platforms was too poor, only slightly better than those formed by infusing elixirs. Even if a dozen of them were put together, they would not be able to form a planetary golden elixir.

Huang Shangshang opened her beautiful eyes, and a sharp light flashed in them.

"Sir, I think I can do it!"

Facing Huang Shangshang's confident challenge, Li Yanmo simply struck out with one palm. Huang Shangshang then squatted down, holding her belly with her hands, and struggled hard to resist the urge to form a pill, her face flushed.

After persisting for thirty seconds, Huang Shangshang breathed a sigh of relief and calmly faced the stage of Dan formation.

Li Yanmo stretched out his hand and took out the golden elixir. After examining it for a while, he nodded and said, "It's of the best quality. If you hold on for a while, you should have a chance to get a top-quality golden elixir."

"good--"

Yao Mengyi, who came to report the situation, was no longer surprised. "Mr. Li, the three caves are almost built. They should be completed in the next few days. Here is the account book."

"It's faster than I thought," Li Yanmo took the account book and turned a few pages before frowning, "This material cost..."

Yao Mengyi did not look at the account book, but looking at Li Yanmo's expression, Yao Mengyi's first reaction was that someone was taking kickbacks and increasing the material costs.

"What do you mean by material fees? The materials shipped from Zhongzhou are charged to me based on the cost price in Xiaozhou? Isn't this bullying an honest person?"

"And what's with the labor cost? How can it be zero? Do you know how to respect labor?"

Li Yanmo closed the account book in his hand with an unhappy look on his face.

"I can't accept this. Let's go back and ask them to rewrite the account book. If they show me something like this again, I will... file a complaint with the emperor!"

Yao Mengyi was confused. Li Yanmo seemed to be talking about something very normal, but why did it seem more and more strange the more she listened?

"Ms. Yao, please be sure to tell them what I said!"

"……good!"

Yao Mengyi took a look at the supreme golden elixir in her foundation-building platform, simply gave up thinking, and ran back with the account book.

Tie Qian banged his head on the table after receiving the reply.

(End of this chapter)