Chapter 261: Ministry of Revenue Robbery
Dayu's Ministry of Revenue was in charge of land tax, customs duties, likin, public bonds, currency and everything related to money.

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

Tax collectors now face a very difficult opponent.

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

Faced with a powerful enemy named Tianxu Tower, the tax officials pushed each other, and finally the victory fell on a young tax official.

The young tax collector, Tie Qian, was a former assistant to the Minister of Revenue. Born into a farming family, his family was destroyed by the greed of merchants, so he had a deep hatred for evil from a young age.

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 investing in materials and was not responsible for anything else.

Letting the sect borrow the power of Dayu to engage in business? How could this be like letting a tiger return to the mountains?
Tianxulou must have evaded taxes and abused his power for personal gain!
"Everyone, rest assured, I will definitely uncover 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 casually 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 wasn't profitable at all, relying on purchasing agents to barely break even. There were also several instances of unknown sects expanding their business out of their own pockets. Conversely, Dayu, relying on various unused magic weapons, techniques, and fake accounts, siphoned off a significant amount of spirit stones from Tianxulou.

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 completely bewildered. "There's nothing wrong with this account book. What else needs to be done?"

"..."

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

Finally, the more senior tax collector 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 sided with the sects are also ruthless and heartless!"

"Tianxu Tower has proposed a plan to build a cave dwelling in the area where we will be going on the upcoming expedition to exorcise demons, and to place sufficient resources inside..."

When Tie Qian heard this, his eyes gleamed, 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."

"So that's how it is. 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 all want me to keep an eye on the accounts and prevent Tianxulou from being too greedy? Don't worry, I have my own judgment."

"...Regarding this matter, the Shangshu meant that we should find a way to extract some profit from the account books 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. "In other words... the contractor of Tianxu Tower has to pay for the construction of the mansion himself?"

"Correct."

"Did Tianxulou also pay for the supplies inside?"

"Correct."

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

"Correct."

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

"Correct."

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

The tax officials' eyes flickered. "So, isn't the Minister telling us to work hard and find a way to make some money? It's just...that Master Li is incredibly difficult to deal with."

"We have thought about it in the past eight years, but we were discovered every time." Tie Qian was in a strange mood.

Dayu's tax officials tried every means to give benefits to Tianxu Tower, but were sternly rejected by Tianxu Tower.

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

"Mr. Li is probably an upright man. What we need to do is not to give him oil and water, but to reduce the 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 is not even time for comprehension. Not only will the quality of the elixir be average, but there is also no guarantee that the next time the elixir is formed, a better one will be produced.

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

Because of his poor foundation and the temporary switch 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 a pill with just a little stimulation.

No matter how much Huang Shangshang said no, she couldn't be forced to do it, and 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 it from scratch.

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

When it comes to cooking, just practice more.

Just come a few more times if you are just a small group of fish.

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 the highest quality planetary golden elixir 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 collided 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 just hit him with a palm. Huang Shangshang then squatted down, covering her lower abdomen, and tried 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 highest quality. If I hold on for a while longer, I should have a chance to get a top-quality golden elixir."

"it is good--"

Yao Mengyi, who had come to report the situation, was already used to it. "Master Li, the three caves are almost finished. They should be finished in the next few days. Here is the account book."

"It's faster than I thought," Li Yanmo frowned after taking the account book and flipping through a few pages. "This material cost..."

Yao Mengyi didn't 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's the meaning of this material fee?! The materials shipped from Zhongzhou are charged to me based on the cost price in a small state? Isn't this bullying an honest person?"

"And what's with this labor fee? How can it be zero? Do you understand 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. Go back and ask them to rewrite the account books. If they show me something like this again, I'll... 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?

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

"……it is good!"

Yao Mengyi took a look at the Supreme Golden Elixir in her foundation-building platform, 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)

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