Following.

"Boss Wang? What did you say? Fairy tea is on sale? Can we also buy it from these merchants? ”

"Of course it's true! This is the latest news that the old man has gotten, as long as it is a merchant in Lantian County, with the store deed, you can go to the drunken fairy building to buy a pound of fairy tea! That's a pound of fairy tea! In the past, even if you had more money, you couldn't buy a tael, if you don't hurry up, Brother Bai, you won't be able to buy it for a while~! ”

"What? A pound of fairy tea!! Brother Wang, wait for me, I'll go get the store deed, eh! Wait a minute! How much is a pound of fairy tea? ”

"Not expensive, not expensive! Only sixty Tang Yuan! Hurry up, man! ”

“...... Ok, good, good! I'm coming~! ”

If it is left in the past, some people say that a pound of tea sells for sixty yuan, and the merchant surnamed Bai will slap the other party to death, but now, although he also thinks it is expensive, but a pound of tea is sixty yuan, and one or two tea leaves are six times, and one or two tea leaves can be brewed about ten cups, and if you are stingy, you can brew about twelve cups, that is to say, a cup of fairy tea is only 300 yuan at most (always equal to 800 yuan), and at least more than 200 yuan! !

It's all for nothing!

Before, Zuixianlou launched a limited number of activities in the store to spend more than ten yuan to taste a cup of fairy tea for free, which attracted countless tea-loving "local tyrants" to enter the store to rob, when Boss Bai also went to Zuixianlou to taste, although he was a little distressed at the time, but after tasting the fairy tea, he felt very worthwhile and satisfied!

Only after you have really tasted the fairy tea, will you understand that the rest of the tea leaves are all garbage!

And once you drink fairy tea, it is easy to become addicted, especially for those who love the tea ceremony, if you can't drink fairy tea for a day, it will be as uncomfortable as scratching your heart with a cat's claw, unfortunately, this white boss belongs to this kind of person!

For this reason, he went to the Drunken Immortal Building five times, and in the end he really felt that if he drank it like this, the profits of his store for several months would be drunk, so he could only give up, after all, every time he went to the Drunken Immortal Building, it would cost at least ten yuan, even if he had family resources, he couldn't help but waste it so much!

Now I heard that Zuixianlou wants to sell fairy tea, and it only costs sixty yuan a catty, how can Boss Bai not be moved? If he buys it back, even if he directly resells it to merchants in other states and counties, he can make some money, and if he directly sells the brewed fairy tea in a high-end teahouse in the store, he will make even more money!

After all, with the popularity of fairy tea and the reputation of tribute tea, as long as there is a teahouse to launch fairy tea, even if it is 500 yuan for a cup, there will definitely be many people who will come to grab it!

It's a sure-fire deal!

"Shopkeeper Liu, why can't we buy it? Are you worried that we won't give money? ”

"That's right! Why can only merchants in Lantian County buy it? Everyone gives money, what difference can it make? ”

"Yes! Shopkeeper Liu! If you think that 60 guan a catty is too cheap, you can raise the price further, why do you want to restrict only merchants in Lantian County from buying it? ”

Outside the Zuixianlou branch in the county seat of Lantian County, in addition to the endless stream of diners here, there are also noisy businessmen from all walks of life, among these merchants, many of them are not businessmen in Lantian County, they just happened to hear the news that the Zuixianlou here was going to sell fairy tea, so they immediately rushed over.

Obviously, there are many tea ceremony lovers who have tasted fairy tea like Boss Bai and are crazy about fairy tea!

But who would have thought that Zuixianlou would set a rule that tea should be given priority to local merchants in Lantian County, so how could those foreign businessmen who rushed over to grab tea endure it? So they argued with the shopkeeper Liu of the Drunken Immortal Building!

This shopkeeper Liu, that is, the shopkeeper of the drunken immortal building in Chang'an City, now, the drunken immortal building not only opened many branches, but Li Zexuan has also become the marquis of ten thousand households, the fief Lantian, the shopkeeper of the "head office" of the drunken immortal building, but he voluntarily requested to be transferred to the "branch" here in Lantian County, as for the drunken immortal building in Chang'an City, a branch shopkeeper recommended by the shopkeeper Liu took over!

In fact, this is where Shopkeeper Liu is smart, he knows very well in his heart that the place where Li Zexuan is can be called the head office of Zuixianlou, and now Li Zexuan has lived in Lantian County for a long time, and the name of the head office of Zuixianlou in Chang'an City has basically existed in name only!

Besides, Lantian County has now completely become Li Zexuan's own territory, and Shopkeeper Liu feels more at ease staying here!

"Ladies and gentlemen! Be quiet! Liu has a few words to say! ”

In the face of the siege of many "foreign" businessmen, Shopkeeper Liu had to come out to maintain order, he first shouted, and after everyone quieted down, he hurriedly put on a smile and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this batch of fairy tea, we don't have much inventory in Zuixianlou, so we only give priority to the shop owners in Lantian County, which can be regarded as the care of my Hou Ye for the merchants in Lantian County, Liu knows that you are unhappy, but the number of fairy tea is still too small, my Hou Ye just wants to give some favors to the people of the fiefdom, whether it is farmers, craftsmen, or merchants, they are all the children of my Hou Ye's fiefdom, and the Hou Ye will treat everyone equally.

Recently, Hou Ye has been building water canals and water wheels among the people, and now Hou Ye just wants to use fairy tea to bring some benefits to the merchants in the fiefdom, and I hope you can understand! Liu knows that all the guests are very fond of fairy tea, but please wait patiently, or it won't be long before the production of fairy tea rises, and the Qiqu Pavilion in various places will begin to be fully supplied! At that time, you can buy as much as you want~! ”

Ahem, these words of Shopkeeper Liu can contain a lot of private goods, and many of them are taught by Li Zexuan!

Shopkeeper Liu said, and the businessmen below were suddenly full of chagrin.

"Huh? I see! Hou Ye can treat the merchants of the fiefdom so well, which really makes me admire! ”

"Alas! It turns out that there are such benefits for opening a shop in Lantian County? I knew that I would have bought two shops in Lantian County last year! ”

"Hey! Brother Sun, it's not too late for you to buy it now? ”

"It's late, it's late! Now the prices of shops in Lantian County have risen so high that I can't afford to buy them! ”

The merchants from other places sighed and were annoyed, but the "indigenous" merchants in Lantian County couldn't help but want to clap their hands and rejoice:

"Haha! Hou Ye is benevolent! I'm glad I had the foresight! At the beginning of the year, I came to Lantian County to open a shop~! ”

"Haha! That's right, that's right! It is so rare that Hou Ye can treat us like ordinary people and treat us equally! I will stay in Lantian County to do business in the future, and I will not go anywhere~! ”

"That's it! I just hope that such good things can come more often! ”

"Yes! Yes! ”

"It's best that Master Hou can drive away all the ruffians and hooligans in the market!"

Since Shopkeeper Liu has said this, and there are still many shop owners in Lantian County who are fully supporting Shopkeeper Liu, those foreign businessmen, although they are unwilling, they can't say anything more, so they can only silently retreat to the back of the crowd!

And those local businessmen in Lantian County happily lined up in a long line, preparing the "big red envelopes" that Li Zexuan would distribute to merchants in the county!

Of course, there are also many out-of-town merchants with flexible brains, who stay at the back of the line, and after the people in front of them finish buying the fairy tea, they will go up directly to ask for a price increase!

That is to say, after the local merchants in Lantian County buy the fairy tea, they don't have to bother to go to other states and counties to resell, and sell it directly to the foreign merchants who are guarding the surroundings, and they can make a small profit!

In this world, there is no easier way to make money~!

However, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and gains and losses are often balanced against each other.

When the businessmen of Lantian County enjoyed this "red envelope feast" to the fullest, they unknowingly fell into the "gentle trap" set by Li Zexuan, and when they found out, they were completely reluctant to come out, and would rather stay in the "trap" and be tricked than come out!

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Due to the large number of fairy teas sold in the drunken fairy building in Lantian County, there are many more temporary teahouses in this county, and the so-called temporary teahouses are in the original shop, temporarily separated from a small house, specially used to invite the kind of distinguished guests to taste tea and drink tea!

Well, there is a tea room in the silk shop, a tea room in the porcelain shop, and even a coffin shop, and there is actually a temporary tea room in a frenzy!

As for the price at which they sell fairy tea, bosses with a bit of a "conscience" generally sell a cup of tea for more than 400 yuan, while those "ruthless" bosses directly raise the price of fairy tea to about five or six hundred yuan.

Because these people know very well in their hearts that even if Zuixianlou sells a lot of fairy tea today, they will definitely not be able to sell so much in the short term! In other words, the market stock of fairy tea is so small, and when those slightly lower-priced fairy teas are sold out, customers can only buy the "high-priced" fairy tea in their store!

Whether it's a cup of 400 yuan, or 5 or 600 yuan for a cup, in any case, it is much more direct and affordable than the original activity of "spending ten times to get a cup of fairy tea" in Zuixianlou!

Moreover, fairy tea is a rare palace tribute tea among the people, is it really expensive to pay 400 yuan for a cup? Last year, a plate of chickens gnawed in Zuixian Lou had to be consistently paid!

At least this price is completely affordable for those "petty bourgeoisie" families!

Therefore, on the first day alone, nearly 1,000 diners tasted the legendary fairy tea!

And whoever has drunk fairy tea, there is no one who does not say good! Under word of mouth, the reputation of fairy tea exploded directly, and a storm of fairy tea quickly blew in Lantian County, and diners in Chang'an City and other surrounding counties also came for tea, just to taste a cup of fairy tea!

Because at present, in the entire Tang Dynasty, only Lantian County has the largest stock of fairy tea, and even Chang'an City is far from comparable!

However, no matter how much inventory there is, if it is not in and out all the time, the inventory will be depleted sooner or later.

Five days! It's only been five days!

Under the common frenzied "consumption" of thousands of diners in Chang'an City and more than 20 surrounding counties, the inventory of fairy tea of the merchants of Lantian County was all purchased in only five days.

And after consuming the fairy tea, they also went to the drunken fairy building to find shopkeeper Liu, and wanted to buy fairy tea again, but shopkeeper Liu had no stock at all, so naturally they couldn't take out excess fairy tea, but shopkeeper Liu promised them that when the next batch of fairy tea arrived, it would still be like the merchants in Lantian County to give priority to supply!

The merchants were naturally grateful to Shopkeeper Liu and Li Zexuan, but they didn't notice that after they left, the corners of Shopkeeper Liu's mouth showed a honeyed smile!

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Following.

The county government of Lantian County dispatched all the arresters, and posted a notice about the imminent establishment of the Commerce Department in Lantian County at the conspicuous places at the major intersections in Lantian County and at the city gates.

"From today onwards, the merchants, farmers, and craftsmen in Lantian County are all classified as civilians, and the government will treat them equally! In Lantian County, there will only be civilians and scholars in the future! The children of businessmen can also enter the county school and be admitted to the Yanhuang Academy. In order to allow businessmen to receive fair and just treatment, the county government of Lantian County officially established the Department of Commerce today in accordance with the order of the Marquis of Yong'an.

The Department of Commerce is in charge of disputes between merchants, and aims to protect the private legal property of merchants from infringement, to create a good business environment for businessmen in Lantian County, all businessmen in the case of others endangering their own interests, can go to Lantian County Department of Commerce to report to the official, the Department of Commerce officials will handle it impartially!

In addition, the Department of Commerce is also responsible for the future government to the business tax for businessmen, from next month, Lantian County's business tax ratio from 30 to 1, changed to 6 to 1, all merchants in Lantian County must be before the end of each month, to the Department of Commerce to report the month's profits, from the total profits, six to take one as commercial tax!

In order to avoid some merchants under-filing taxes or even tax evasion, the Department of Commerce will organize manpower at the beginning of each month to conduct spot checks on the accounts of shops in the county, once found, they will be punished according to five times the total amount of tax evasion and tax evasion, and it will be listed as a key focus object, any merchant, once the number of tax evasion and tax evasion reaches three times, it will be directly expelled from Lantian County, and will never be allowed to return to Lantian County to open shops! ”

"Sizzle~!"

After reading the announcement of the county government, the merchants in Lantian County were all gasping sounds, and then, the merchants couldn't help but discuss:

"What? The commercial tax ratio is changed to 1 out of 6? Such a heavy commercial tax is extremely rare in the history books! Why did He County order to exterminate all our merchants? ”

"Yes! When I saw the beginning, I thought that the county government was thinking about our merchants, but at the end, I realized that the government wanted to suck our blood! ”

"Not really! One out of six of the total profits of the month is used as commercial tax, how can people live? ”

"Hmm... You can't say that, can you? At least in Lantian County, the status of our businessmen has become higher, and our son can still go to the county school! You must know that in this county school, there will occasionally be a gentleman from Yanhuang Academy to give a lecture! This kind of opportunity, we can't go to other states and counties! ”

"Huh! That's right! However, the ratio of six out of one business tax is still too heavy! ”

"I don't think so! You didn't see the notice that as long as someone endangers our own interests, you can go to the Department of Commerce to report to the official, and the officials of the Department of Commerce will deal with it impartially! That alone is much better than anywhere else! In the future, if someone goes to the store to make trouble or collects protection money, we can directly go to the officials of the Department of Commerce to help solve it, so that maybe the monthly expenditure will be less than before! ”

"That's right! That's true! I just don't know if the Department of Commerce is willing to completely clean up those ruffians in the city! ”

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