After Mulan finished saying those words, she was already exposed, and the shopkeeper Han was also a "little brother", and never mentioned the word "Sister Ling" again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 When it comes to this, the two of them can be regarded as tacit, and Wangcai is a little eager to cover up when he says this.

Only he had good intentions, and Shopkeeper Han didn't mind, so he smiled and passed.

As Wangcai said, people in remote towns live a fine life, and they would rather save a few silver coins in their hands to fall into ashes, rather than exchange them for valuable things, and wear them on their heads or hang them on their bodies. If it is an ordinary jewelry store, it may not be able to sell a hundred pieces in a year and a half, and Mulan proposed to divide a hundred pieces of a profit with one mouth, which is inevitably a bit of a lion's mouth.

But Duobaoxuan is different, its focus is not on retail sales.

The current saint of the Great Jin Kingdom was addicted to wine when he was young, and he was extravagant, but fortunately, the prince Xue Liao was diligent and motivated, and he was assisted by loyal ministers and good generals like Chang Huaiyuan and Xie Kuan, but there was no big mess.

Subsequently, the crown prince was deposed, the loyal ministers were imprisoned, and the good generals became thieves. The old ministers of the court were sad and disheartened, and they returned to their hometowns one after another. The rest are either trembling and silent, or some people who see the wind and steer and tend to the flames. For the vacated throne, the princes did everything they could to fight openly and secretly, and did not hesitate to use the community and the people as gambling chips.

In this way, countless rats and moths have been raised, and there are countless corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Taxes are increasing year by year, and conscription is becoming more and more severe year by year, and the life of the people is becoming more and more miserable.

In particular, the peasant households who dig in the soil for food have worked hard for a year, paid the taxes, and there are not even a few grains left in the stomach. God just didn't open his eyes, either there was no rain all year round, or a flood simply wiped out the field house.

Many peasant households could not bear the natural and man-made disasters for many years, and abandoned their fields one after another, and even the south, which was originally known as the land of fish and rice, appeared to be bare for thousands of miles, not to mention the surrounding places.

Today, the Holy One is nearly seventy years old, and he is becoming more and more incompetent. But he firmly dominated the throne and refused to let Xian go. As the lord of all peoples, he does not think about the administration of the dynasty, but he is dedicated to the pursuit of immortality, and spends his days in the company of alchemists and young concubines.

In order to curry favor with him, the princes intensified their efforts to loot the people's fat and ointment, set up clever names, levy grain and taxes, and remove a layer of meat from the legs of ants. After many years, agriculture, mulberry, animal husbandry and fishery have long been scraped, and the only ones who can scrape oil and water are merchants.

The residential tax was raised from 1 out of 30 to 1 out of 20 and then to 1 out of 15; the tax that had been abolished for many years was seen again, first from 1 out of 50 to 1 from 25 to 1 from 25. There are a number of miscellaneous taxes below, such as economic money, general money, monthly pile money, royalty money, and so on, and so on.

In the spring of this year, "Bright Lessons" and "Detailed Lessons" were added. These two are actually the same thing, the so-called Ming lesson is piecework tax, each commodity must be taxed according to a certain percentage of its selling price. For example, if rice, flour, oil, wine and the like cannot be counted by piece, the tax money will be drawn according to the catties, which is called a fine class.

The amount of tax collected varies from place to place, with the capital and the major state capitals drawing higher, and the convenience of a remote and barren small land like Sanshui Town being much lower.

After collecting the tax money, a tax bill stamped by the government will be given, and the total amount will be checked to determine whether there is tax evasion. The lesson is much simpler, with a special stamp on the tax-billed items. If it is sold without a mark, the penalty will be doubled if it is found. With the imprint, it will not be charged twice.

The so-called policy has countermeasures, and many businessmen have seen the loopholes in the Ming class, so they have the idea of a non-local differential tax.

Take Han's shopkeeper as an example, he opened a jewelry shop in Sanshui Town, took the initiative to apply to the government, and after paying the clear tax, he marked all the jewelry in the shop. In the name of transfer, it will be transported to the capital and the shops in the major state capitals for sale, which can save a lot of tax money.

Therefore, the real business of Duobaoxuan is not in Sanshui Town, but in the bustling capital.

No matter how poor and miserable the people are, those people in Zhumen will not worry about food and clothing, and they will not be able to enjoy themselves. As long as it is in their eyes, according to their taste, not to mention a hundred, thousands of eight hundred pieces can be sold.

In the eyes of Shopkeeper Han, the idea of profit that Mulan wants to share is really insignificant. He was entrusted by others, and he admired Mulan's boldness and cleverness in his heart, so he agreed without much hesitation. Ask someone to send a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and write the deed in triplicate, and sign their names respectively.

Blowing dry the ink, but the action of handing it over is a meal, "Little brother can read?"

"Recognize some. Mulan generously stretched out her hand to take it, read the deed carefully from beginning to end, and then transferred it to Wangcai, "Uncle Wangcai, can you help take a look?"

Wangcai didn't expect her to be literate, and she was shocked again. However, remembering her posture when she talked about business with Shopkeeper Han, it is not unusual for her to be literate. After fixing up, I took the deed and looked at it, but there were a few places that were half-clear.

He was originally illiterate, but after marrying Yun Cui, he asked Yun Cui and Yun Cui's father to read some books. After studying for many years, I can know simple words, and I can write and calculate, and I will be blind if I don't use words often.

Afraid that Mulan would suffer a loss, and she didn't care about losing face, she pointed to the deed and asked the shopkeeper Han for advice. waited until Shopkeeper Han answered for him carefully, and did not feel anything wrong, so he handed it to Mulan again, "Then make a contract." ”

Mulan thought about it for a while and signed all the pseudonyms of Mulan and Shengzi. As a Chinese, Wangcai also signed his own name. Each of the three takes a copy, and the contract is established.

The business was going well, so Mulan struck while the iron was hot and told the shopkeeper Han about Haizi's situation.

She didn't want to make a fuss about Haizi's life experience and physical imperfections, and sell pity and sympathy for him, but to tell Shopkeeper Han how valuable and hard-won his talent was, and try her best to give him a chance to play and show.

She said sincerely, and the shopkeeper Han really liked Haizi's exquisite and delicate carving, and after a little groaning, he called his illustrator to redraw a drawing according to the appearance of the makeup box, carefully marked the wedge pit and the blank part, and handed it to Mulan.

“…… First of all, I asked the person to make ten wooden blanks of makeup boxes according to the pattern, and bought them at a price of five hundred dollars each. How about doing this and then thinking about making a covenant?"

"Good. Mulan agreed, holding the drawing that was a hundred times more detailed than what she had drawn, and looked at it carefully, both ashamed and happy.

I am ashamed that she gave Hai Zi a shoddy drawing before, and I don't know how much his talent has been damaged; happily, with this fine drawing, Hai Zi will definitely be able to give full play to the carving, and I am not afraid that the shopkeeper Han will not make a contract with him.

After putting away the drawings, he opened his mouth a little embarrassedly, "Shopkeeper Han, can I advance a little silver? and Uncle Haizi's share, can you give a part of the money first?"

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