Chapter 631 explained

The two chatted for a while, poetry, Buddhism, and finally talked about current affairs.

The great monk Daolong pronounced a Buddha horn and said to Wen Yanbo: "Xianggong, there is something I don't know if I should ask for. ”

Wen Yanbo smiled: "The monk is too enthusiastic, I'm afraid he won't be able to become a Buddha." ”

Dao Long's face flushed: "Xianggong said that he laughed, speaking of which, this matter is also a merit." ”

Wen Yanbo nodded: "What's the matter?" ”

Daolong said: "That's the case, the Heavenly Master's Mansion, the Great Xiangguo Temple, the Imperial Pharmacy, and the Tai Hospital have jointly launched a lot of newly made medicines, Xianggong must know about it, right?" ”

Wen Yanbo nodded: "Yes, there are always heat dissipation and wind oil essence at home, what's wrong?" ”

Daolong said: "These things are now all in the city, and there is no need for us to take credit from the city, and there is no need to purchase medicinal materials from the city, and they are produced locally in Beijing, which is not a foreign goods." So no matter which article you say, there is no reason to be included in the management of the Municipal Trade Division, right? ”

Wen Yanbo asked: "These prescription medicines have also returned to the city?" ”

Dao Long nodded: "Yes, and after the city Yi Division took the medicine, the price immediately increased by two percent." ”

Wen Yanbo stood up and said angrily: "How can this be reasonable! ”

The reason why Daolong wants to sue is because there are deeper reasons.

Su You and Dao Long are old friends, and when Su You was a naughty child who had just entered Bianjing, the two had a friendship.

Jingdong Road began to measure Fangtian, and the Jitian of Daxiangguo Temple was called more than one.

So Daolong asked Su You for a plan.

Su You has long told Daolong that all acres of land in the world need to be taxed, which is the right reason. It doesn't make sense for a monk and a heavenly family to be treated.

Many people in the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty believe in Buddhism, and there are many people who donate land and land.

Therefore, Su You charted a way for the Daolong monks, and the Daxiangguo Temple will not take food from Jitian in the future, and pay taxes as well, and the real income can actually come from other places.

Pickle garden, medicine, Manjusri pastry.

These three things are closely related to the lives of the citizens of Bianjing, and if they are done well, the income is far less than the thousands of acres of Jitian that are always remembered by the righteous people of the imperial court without paying taxes.

The prices set by Su Tanhua for the patent medicines are all very particular, such as a pack of 18 Wen for headache powder, 38 Wen for a bottle of Jin Lingdan, and 68 Wen for a bottle of Feng Youjing.

As soon as the price rises, it seems that the producer does not suffer a loss, but when the sales volume comes, the loss will be great.

Wen Yanbo suddenly thought of a question: "What about the Sitong firm?" How do they do it? ”

Dao Long said: "This great monk is not very clear. Presumably the damage is not small. ”

Of course, the damage is not small, but there are many industries in the Sitong firm, and the eggs have not been put in one basket for a long time.

First of all, luxury sales are not affected, and players who can afford those high-end goods do not care about the price of 20% more.

Su You instructed the Sitong firm, which was just right, under the banner of making profits, to set another file for luxury goods.

Just like some luxury goods in later generations, there are also collections that can be affordable even for the working class to grit their teeth.

Secondly, the Sitong business is now in Jinghu, and northern Jiangsu is crazy to invest in infrastructure, land, and port terminals, which are the bulk of the goods.

There is also military products, which are directly settled with the Privy Council, and do not go through the market at all.

There is also the decoration industry and the renovation of old houses, and the City Yi Division cannot interfere.

What the City can intervene in is some low-end and low-value industries in Sitong.

But the blow to the liquor industry, that's quite big.

In fact, the profit of the Sitong firm is not in the wine, but in the koji.

The liquor industry has been hit, and the koji has naturally been unlucky.

However, Su You instructed Cheng Wenying and Shi Dongxiu that we will not fight on this. Regardless of the pros and cons, the new law is first and foremost a national economy, and it is not something that you businessmen can interfere with.

So it's up to the bigwigs to make trouble, but it's not up to you to get beaten.

Shi Dongxiu was still quite heartbroken, and after Cheng Wenying read the first phase of the loss report, he pouted and opened new and old banknote exchange counters in several state capitals.

Speaking of which, this loss is not just a matter of a few exchange counters in the bank!

However, the relentless rise in prices has affected the amount of money put in, and the Statistics Department of the Four Links Firm is working with the Huangsong Bank to carry out complicated statistical calculations on how much currency should be in circulation in Beijing this year, so as not to cause heavy losses to the banks.

Of course, Wen Yanbo didn't understand this, he could only see the phenomenon manifested in the market, returned home, and wrote a note.

"The minister went to Xiangguo Temple to make incense, and saw that the city was easy to place dozens of forks in the east corridor of Yujie, accumulating fruits before and after, and sending officials to sell them day by day, and taking the profits. And the melons and fruits are small, the taper knife is a competition, exhausting the patent, damaging the body of the big country in vain, and only collecting the grievances of the small people. What is the widow's qualifications? ”

Zhao Ji summoned Wang Anshi: "The market is easy to sell fruits, and if there is a trial, it is too complicated, how about ordering it?" ”

An Shi replied: "Because the ordinary people were trapped by the lawsuit and the merger and the interest was suffered, the city Yi Si went to the government to beg for official money to pay interest, practice the warehouse law, sell the fruit, and bear the official fruit at the same time. ”

"Since the beginning of the legislation, the income of the fruit sellers has increased compared with before, and the payment to the overseers has been reduced by eight or nine tenths of the money paid to the overseers than in the past, and the officials have been supplied with good fruit."

"These are all conclusions reached by finding people to provide confessions one by one and verifying the facts of the case...... Because they were all poor and did not have anything to do, they sent their own servants to collect money from the officials day by day, and the city secretary did not participate in the business of selling fruits. ”

However, the right secretary admonished the king and said: "The trouble of the market is in the world, the property of the people is destroyed, and the profits are attributed to the tooth and the disciples." ”

Yali is the transaction intermediary fee of the dental bank, which is generally 5% of the transaction amount.

However, Wang Anshi either did not understand the difference here, or he may have deliberately confused the facts and attributed it to "paying official money".

The city is the official tooth, and the tooth is the same as the city money, as the city's official expenses.

The money was not included in the government's revenue, but was disposed of by the city and fell into the pockets of officials.

However, in fact, in the previous dental store in Bianjing, the tooth money was only for businessmen who wanted to buy or sell, and it was counted as a handling fee for providing information and matchmaking, rather than the market access fee that Shengdou Xiaomin had to pay to sell a fruit!

Therefore, Wen Yanbo's recital also said: "Send officials to sit in the column and sell, compete with the small people for profit, down to the vegetable and fruit oil noodles, and the income from the donkey, all of them are taken away, so that the road is complaining, the people are caught and laughed, the business travel is not good, and the liquor tax is lost." Grab the other and this, gain less and lose more. ”

This means that the market change law has changed the traditional market structure of wholesale and retail by large merchants, and has disrupted the normal market order, which will inevitably lead to such drawbacks as forcing merchants and suppressing distribution.

This phenomenon has been reflected in the brewing industry in Bianjing.

Zhao Ji also believes that the city should focus on wholesale, and retail is too fine, which will hurt the national body.

Wang Anshi patiently explained: "Today, there is an official supervising wine, and selling a liter is also selling; Set up officials to supervise commercial taxes, and collect a penny, isn't it fine? But why don't you think it's wrong? Because they're used to it. So as long as you get used to it, it's good......"

"In government, we should only talk about whether the laws established are beneficial or harmful to the people and the Great Song Dynasty, and should not be abolished because of their triviality."

Regarding Zhao Ji's concern about "competing with the people for profit", Wang Anshi also explained: "As for the body of the country, destroying and annexing, collecting its surplus, and promoting utilitarianism and saving hardships, it is the political affairs of the first king, not called good profit." ”

In the end, Wang Anshi criticized Zhao Ji in turn: "If the city is easy to do personnel, it will only be established in seven districts, there are too many such small decrees, if Your Majesty is too strict in these small matters, it will make the courtiers cringe and dare not do things." ”