Chapter 177: The Heavy Tax of the Heartless
There are more and more people in Yuncheng County who can make soap, which is no longer a technical job. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
And because everyone is involved in researching the process, the seeds of ingenuity and creativity have been planted, the process is becoming more and more mature, the cost of production is getting lower and lower, and the output is increasing at a geometric rate.
This is Gao Fangping's real political achievement, because there are indeed hundreds of people because of this industry, from the state of landless and unemployed nomads, to the ranks of eating and living, the most intuitive, now there are many people engaged in the development of soda ash and lime and various vegetable oils, they can not say that it is very good, but it is full of food, better than the ordinary bitter tenants, it is okay.
This business is blank in the Great Song Dynasty, and because it is marked as royal manufacturing, it is a monopoly industry, so the current production capacity of soap is not enough.
The merchants who gathered in Yuncheng and waited to buy soap to sell in various places were still very enthusiastic, and Gao Fangping began to release the goods at the price of four pieces of soap per piece, but no matter how many, they would be sold out as soon as they were released.
In other words, in addition to Lin Chong, the traditional man who is in charge of the family, even Song Jiang was pitted by Jia Xiaohong.
Jia Xiaohong is a black-bellied beauty like Jiang Wen, with a very business vision, she saw this scene a long time ago, and at a very cheap price, she acquired the "labor insurance share" of those wronged leaders in the internal team.
Now is the time to release the goods, although Jia's used to be zero eggs and couldn't divide the money, but this time she also made a lot of money, this time she collected nearly a thousand pieces of soap at a low price was released, and started with more than 2,000 profits, and then finally she had private money, and she was interested in depositing it to Gao Fangping to eat interest.
What is the concept of soap for four dollars, which is equivalent to thousands of dollars a bottle of cosmetics in later generations, properly used to slaughter the luxury of fat pigs.
As for Gao Fangping's production cost, he has always been able to produce nearly ten pieces of soap.
This is monopoly, regulated profits.
For the time being, it can only be like this, even if the profit of Weibo is reduced to 100 yuan a piece, in fact, the real bitter people can't afford it, on the contrary, it will increase their living burden, so Gao Fangping simply set a crazy selling price, directly turned away the smaller local tyrants, and used it in the form of luxury goods to earn money from the upper class.
At the same time, Gao Fangping smashed his right hand with his left hand, and with the reputation of Yun 1 city and county, he extracted heavy taxes from the royal company of "Yuncheng Craftsman Supervision and Field Affairs".
Hehe, the financial revenue of Yun 1 City has also fallen.
Gao Fangping is not a prime minister now, and he is indeed not capable enough to persuade the imperial court to introduce a "luxury tax", but since he has the right in hand, he can just keep his head down. can't be punished by a doctor, Zhang Shangying still has to rely on Lao Tzu to earn money to please the official family, even if he is dissatisfied, he will not gnaw.
What's more, even if he is heavily taxed by Yun 1 City, the craftsman still has a lot of profits, as long as the official family hears that he has made a lot of money, and no one rebels, he doesn't care what your process is, that is Lao Zhang's political achievements, well done, the next household secretary is Lao Zhang's, and he can't run away.
For Gao Fangping's crazy money, many people are also drunk.
Song Jiang is the first guy who can't understand, and this time he hugged his fists in the inner hall and said: "Xianggong, Song Jiang really can't understand, when Xianggong presided over this stall, Song Jiang thought that even two hundred pieces of soap could not be sold, but now, more and more businessmen are concentrated in Yun1 City, waiting to buy soap, and the price of Siguan can't get the goods, which is really incredible." ”
Gao Fangping said with a smile: "It's really outdated." If I tell you responsibly for two hundred yuan, it really can't be sold. The local tyrant squire feels that the grade is not enough, and he can't get the difference from the people, so why use a hair? And for ordinary people, they can't die if they don't use it, so why spend such a lot of money? Pricing is also a science. The trend of my Great Song Dynasty is based on Tokyo, after Lao Tzu's foreshadowing, Zhang Shangying's old fox with the reputation of the royal craftsman as a supervisor, opened this luxury trend in Tokyo, the merchants are sharks, they smell blood, gathered in Yun 1 City to watch for a while, and see that the price has been set to death by the royal reputation, and it is indeed a good price for the rich, so they have basically determined the interests of it. Then this monopoly business will be another monopoly business after my dynasty has been making a living since the salt, iron, wine and tea. Fatty, do you know who are the people who play iron, wine and tea in my court? That's not an ordinary businessman, and now for such a new thing as soap, the imperial court has no law for the time being, this is their opportunity, everyone can participate in making money, and only in this way, relying on their group of large-scale businessmen to quickly promote Lao Tzu's soap to the whole country, even barbarian areas. ”
Song Jiang thought for a while and said: "Knowing the army and worrying about the country and the people is really a masterpiece. It's just that what Song Jiang doesn't understand is that in the end, this is just another royal franchise, and the large profits still belong to the emperor, and it can't benefit the commoners in large quantities. ”
Gao Fangping said: "For the time being, benefiting the royal family is justice. Why? Because the more I give to the royal family, the more the emperor does not need the Southeast Bureau, and the fewer institutions like the Southeast Bureau, the more stable the country will be. This is called the law of conservation of energy, energy will not disappear but will be transferred, the emperor was born to want these things, the difference is the way to obtain, the should be the pit of the gentry is to envelop the powerful gentry, together to loot the people and the emperor to share, but Lao Tzu did the opposite, to let the local tyrants and gentry take the money willingly, and then I shared it with the emperor. ”
Song Jiang said in a low voice with a black line on his face: "What Xianggong said seems to be right, it's just ...... You asked me to post an article on the Craftsman Supervision Branch to extract a heavy tax that has no logic...... The lowly is worried about stabbing Lou Zi, which has no national law to follow, and is also suspected of offending the royal family. ”
"Damn, there is no national law, the law does not prohibit it, with my big head against your little fat man afraid of a fart, give me a fierce tax, cut half of the profits generated by the craftsman and stay in Yun 1 City, this money will be of great use in the future!" Gao Fangping waved his hand and roared.
A group of priests fainted to the ground, this is good, yesterday's policy was to levy a three-tier tax on the division of the craftsman's supervisor, and this time it has become half.
After all, Zhang Shangying, the old fox, is a good witty opportunist, and it was a good chess piece to get him to judge the craftsman as a supervisor at the beginning.
Otherwise, if Grandpa Zong is in charge of the craftsman as a supervisor, Gao Fangping dares to pit half of the profits in Yun 1 City, and then change hands and go to the craftsman as a supervisor in his private capacity to share a layer of profits, he will definitely be caught and hung up by the cool official of Lao Zong......
After the Shangyuan Lantern Festival passed, the various ministries of the imperial court returned to their normal order and began to deal with the squeezing documents nervously.
In front of Zhang Shuye, the head of the household department, there was a huge pile of documents, a general outlook for the entire year from each state and county, and a brief report on the situation of the first month.
Uncle Zhang casually looked at these cookie-cutter and timeless format documents, and put them aside without interest when he looked at them casually.
Suddenly, Zhang Shuye asked a household member Wailang: "Have you arrived with the documents in Longyou County, Jiangnan?" ”
"Uncle Hui's night talk, it's here." Yuan Wailang found out the document of Wang Huang, who was demoted to Longyou County, and handed it over.
Uncle Zhang got up after watching the case at night and said, "Damn, Wang Hao, this mallet, is he really not afraid of death or what?" When he was in Jeju, the old man looked at him extremely unpleasantly, and now he actually treats the old man as a mallet again? ”
Wailang knew that Lao Zhang Zilai had such a thunderous temper, so he quickly picked up Wang Hao's paperwork and looked at it, but he felt very good, and said curiously: "Uncle Yexianggong, Wang Hao has more Longyou's yield per mu in previous years, and looks forward to this year's yield of 5,000 catties per mu, which is a good thing...... Oops! ”
couldn't finish speaking, he was slapped by Lao Zhang like a gourd on the ground, and rolled aside.
Uncle Zhang said angrily at night: "A group of mallets, you are also an out-and-out mallet, how did you get admitted to become an official?" Have you ever farmed in a farmhouse? ”
Wailang covered his face and shook his head weakly: "I haven't planted it." ”
"You haven't planted the old man but you have planted, the backyard of Kaifeng Mansion is the old man's experimental field, maybe the old man is also a mallet, and he has tried everything he can to calculate it, and there is only a yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu!" Uncle Zhang said with a blushing face: "During the Longyou period of Zong Ze, the highest yield per mu in Longyou County was still lower than that planted by the old man himself?" If this continues, will the yield of 10,000 catties per mu come out? The old man one day took the paperwork of 100,000 catties per mu, did he think of himself as a fool? Or do you take the emperor as a fool to report? The former household department is really not exquisite, let Wang Huang such a scum, every day report what mu yield of 3,000 catties, actually as a meritorious document submitted to the ministry, so easy for him to know Jeju, if this goes on for a long time, can the dynasty still be saved! ”
"But the humble post doesn't see any harm to the country, and if he reports it, he will take out this grain?" Wai Lang said.
"Yes, of course it's good for the household department, and of course it's good for the emperor. But does this grain fall from the sky? Do you think Wang Hao will pay for the household department himself? Do you think he will be soft on the common people? It's not all from the common people! I don't know how big the hole in Jeju is, but I think about it, I sent Gao Fangping, a cool official, to guard the water for the imperial court, and did the right thing. Otherwise, the people who can't get along in Jeju will rebel sooner or later! Uncle Zhang said coldly, "Forget it!" Wang Hao and other scumbags were fucked down by Pork Ping! For this reason alone, Gao Fangping is the hero of my household department! ”
"Xiang Gong is wise!" Wailang said with a smile.
Uncle Zhang looked at him with ill intentions at night and thought: I am wise and your sister is used as a mallet, and you are still wise to use 5,000 catties per mu to fool you.
Referring to Gao Fangping, Uncle Zhang sat down again on a whim, made tea and said: "Put forward the Yongle Army's newspaper, and the old man will review it." ”
Wailang hurriedly went to find it and handed it to Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang only opened it and looked at it twice, and he just happened to drink tea and sprayed a sip of water on the newspaper, all wet.
Uncle Zhang doesn't want to talk about him at night, that kid is so virtuous, but it is two extremes with Wang Huang, the mother is a swollen face and a fat man, blindly fooling what Jiangnan grain is like mountains and clouds, as for Gao Fangping's entire scoundrel, one complained that the situation in Yun 1 City this year is extremely bad, and find a hundred or dozens of reasons to say that the food situation is not optimistic, and the financial and taxation tasks are a long way to go.
In short, the central idea is that the pork is poor and does not want to submit too much money and grain to the household, so it should be intercepted in Yun 1 City.
Wang Hao's mallet, and Xiao Gao's scoundrel, are really heaven and earth, yin and yang, two extremes. (To be continued.) )