Chapter 51: Manid Returns

Three days ago, a large group of merchants traveled to the border of Cangzhou. How big is it? The two trucks were not three steps apart, and they stretched for two or three miles. Seven or eight hundred wagons of all kinds, such as carts, mule carts, ox carts, etc. Each car has a small flag of the same color on it, representing that these seven or eight hundred cars belong to one person.

At the head of this caravan was a man riding a tall horse, a brocade hat and a mink fur, and treading the wind and snow, which was the merchant Xu Qing had met before, Manid.

Since leaving Xu Qing, Manid tried to go to Chang'an, trekking through mountains and rivers for more than ten days, and met Xun Fang with Xu Qing's token. After clarifying his intentions, Xun took him to the winery to taste the hot Chang'an's Jiuxian wine. Manid tasted it and praised it loudly, such a fine wine, if the clouds are out of the plug, a jar can be exchanged for a horse! A jar of wine fairy brew in Chang'an only sells for more than one or two, but a horse, even outside the plug, costs five or six taels of silver.

Manid saw the huge business opportunities, and with Xu Qing's handwritten letter, under the banner of the official family, he brought out a few truckloads of Jiuxian Brew, ready to do a big job. When I left Chang'an, there were only five mule carts......

Starting from Chang'an and going to Jiuquan, due to the official escort of Xu Da Thorn Shi along the way, even the customs duties were exempted a lot. As soon as he arrived outside the Saiwai, the brew was really popular, and it was much higher than Manid's expectations. The chiefs of the Sewaido were surprised that the wine fairy was brewed into the fairy wine, and each jar of wine was exchanged for a group of cattle and sheep, and in the end, there was a lot of silver money to make up the difference. You know, in the grasslands, silver is not common.

After getting a big bargain, Manid went a long way west to exchange for a lot of Western Regions products, spices, raisins and other rare items. When I returned to Chang'an, there was still a cart of Jiuxian Liquor that I brought out!

In Chang'an, Manid turned the things he exchanged for outside the plug into silver money. I bought a lot of tools produced in Chang'an, bought a lot of vehicles, and transported them to Sichuan. When I went to Sichuan, I used these cattle and sheep, things from the Western Regions, Chang'an tools, and Shu brocade. Downstream, across the lake, to the south of the Yangtze River, a thousand miles a day.

Money for goods, goods for money, low prices, high prices, because every time Manid buys goods, he has to leave a tenth of the goods not to sell, after the end of the river landing, there are already five or six hundred large and small vehicles.

When I went north, crossed the Huai River, crossed Qilu, crossed the Yellow River, and came to Cangzhou, it was the day of heavy snowfall, and I finally fulfilled my promise to Xu Qing.

When I arrived in Cangzhou, it was different again. At first, Manid found that there were significantly more caravans here. You know, on weekdays, there is no caravan on this snowy day. Unless, unless there is a big business opportunity in Cangzhou...... Actually, Manid was really wrong this time, the caravans he saw were just caravans left behind by Liu Yi and them.

After entering the city, Manid "suddenly realized" that the number of caravans in Cangzhou was large, and it turned out that the customs duties here had been completely exempted. Manid is greater than Xu Qing and dares to go against the times so much and openly attach importance to business.

can be exempted from these taxes, and the government will lose a lot of income, where will Xu Qing make up for this money?

But immediately, Manid knew Xu Qing's method, that is, VAT. When value-added tax comes to the people, the name has been different, some people call it the price method, some people call it the price increase tax, some people call it the differential tax law, and so on. But the name is thousands, the law remains the same, and the value-added tax collected by Xu Qing has been greatly supported by businessmen.

Manid was the most shrewd, and certainly saw the subtleties of this new tax code. This new tax law indirectly separates the cost of taxation from the risk of business to a part of the buyers, and no longer makes businessmen so daunted. When he arrived in Cangzhou City, Manid followed a set of procedures like an ordinary businessman, and every step he took, he couldn't help but marvel at the person who designed this set of rules, that is, his benefactor, Xu Qing.

Along the way, Manid was exceptionally lucky, often earning several times the usual profits. After having more money, he also thought about running away with this money, but he endured it for a day, two days, and endured that impulse, and seeing that more and more money, Manid didn't care anymore. A desire to prove itself in business. Hope, thriving!

After selling most of the goods, Manid inquired about Zhuangzi in the countryside of Xu Qing and brought the rest of the local specialties, so he came to make an errand.

While Xu Qing was still in the same place with the little master Xun Xue'er. While sleeping, Manid cleared the snow from outside Xu Qing's door. Since he didn't see the smoke rising from Xu Qing's house, Manid knew that Xu Qing hadn't gotten up yet and couldn't bear to disturb him, so he stood respectfully outside the door.

God doesn't have mercy on people, and the snow still falls, and in a short time, Manid has accumulated a layer of snow on his body. Manid's subordinates wanted to call him back, but Manid was very stubborn this time, completely losing the merchant's senses, and insisted on not getting into the carriage to hide from the snow.

Xu Qing got up, brushed his teeth as usual, stood inside the house, looked out the door, and said curiously:

"Huh? Who got a snowman here? ”

After a while, Xu Qing's sleepiness disappeared, and he looked at it again:

"Scared, this is not a person!"

Xu Qing hurriedly asked his subordinates to carry the "snowman" outside, if it weren't for Manid himself saying in a low voice, "Grass man Manid visits the assassin Shi", Xu Qing would definitely not recognize him. With that, Manid fell asleep.

After holding Tang Wo and letting Manid wake up and recover, Xu Qing looked at him clearly. Merchants were not allowed to wear silk, so they switched to fur. At this time, Manid had a deep-brimmed warm hat, wearing a mink skin jacket and narrow boots, and he was half a point richer than Xu Qing, completely different from the thin man Xu Qing rescued at the beginning, no wonder Xu Qing couldn't recognize it.

"Grass man Manid meets Lord Thorn Shi...... "Manid wants to turn over and salute Xu Qing. was stopped by Xu Qingyi:

"Don't be polite, why are you standing stupidly outside the door, you don't know how to knock on the door and come in."

"I'm afraid to disturb Lord Thorn's sleep......" Manid felt guilty.

"It's still called Lord Thorn?" Xu Qing glanced at Manid with disdain and told him not to be so angry.

"Lord...... Lord? Manid guessed a title.

"Call me boss, oh no, boss!" After Xu Qing finished speaking, he couldn't help it anymore and laughed.

"Boss?"

"Hey!"

A few days later, among the people in Cangzhou City, there was an additional story that could be used to teach their children, and the name of this story was "Xumen Lixue".

Manid's arrival finally gave Xu Qing some spice in this boring winter. Xu Qing helped him settle in Cangzhou City, and helped him join the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce.

The matter was over, and silence returned. Snow continues to fall meticulously.

Xun Xue'er's belly is also getting bigger day by day, and now she has to be supported when she walks. Xu Qing looked at the scale of the belly, and said in his heart, didn't I hit two with one shot?

Xiaoyue, under the nourishment of Xu Qing day and night, has become more mature and attractive. Person. Fortunately, every time Xu Qing does something, he will leave such a line and give Xiaoyue the opportunity to "take advantage of his tongue", so Xiaoyue is not pregnant yet. Otherwise, Xu Qing will start to live a life of "sitting alone in an empty room" again.

The days are dull and there is no entertainment, Xu Qing reads books in the morning, and tells stories to Xun Xueer Xiaoyue in the afternoon, from the peacock flying southeast, to the story of the West Chamber, and then to the dream of Red Mansions, each story always moves them to death and life.

In the evening, Xu Qing always has to set up a small pot, cut some fresh beef and mutton thinly, and eat it with everyone. This hot pot was also researched by Xu Qing when he was extremely bored, and it was very crude. The Tang Dynasty couldn't just make iron sheets, only the perfusion method, so the iron wall of Xu Qing's hot pot was very thick, and the temperature control was not very sensitive.

Xun Xue'er can't see the meat anymore, so she can only eat radishes every day, stew, steam, and stir-fry, Xu Qing racked her brains to make her radish meal as not greasy as possible.

Fortunately, Manid brought back a few pounds of raisins from the Western Regions, which is a good thing. Vitamin C, sugar and various microelements, Xu Qing's family eats a handful a day, and the bubbles in their mouths are almost as good as they are.

That's how you live......

One day after another, Chinese New Year's Eve is coming soon, followed by New Year's Day, and another year has passed.

In the first month, it is the New Year, the Huang family, Manid, cows eat grass and others, county orders, and officials from the Assassin Mansion all come to Xu Qing to pay New Year's greetings. Feasting and drinking, writing poems and giving gifts, I was busy for a month.

After the beginning of spring, when the wheat fields are green and the wicker will be soothing, this is a good time for all things to grow and the people to work. As a state assassin history, according to the rules, Xu Qing wants to write a poem to persuade farmers.

For a country with a thousand-year-old agricultural civilization, there is no need to mention how important it is to persuade farmers.

Not to mention that the common people have to live by this farming, even if they go up to the Son of Heaven, they have to plant the field once a year, that is, the field ceremony. In order to persuade the peasants, soon, a decree was issued - the book of persuasion of peasants.

This letter of exhortation to agriculture is both a decree and an edification. There is a cloud in the Book of Songs: "The great-grandson will stop with his wife." The south acres of the rice are happy. Pick it up and taste its purpose. He is easy to grow acres, and there is good in the end. The great-grandson is not angry, and the farmer Kemin", the thing mentioned here is that King Zhou Cheng persuaded the farmer.

No matter how good a policy is, it will be played badly and become a mere formality. Later books of exhortation to agriculture ignored the original intention of truly exhorting agriculture. Many officials only pay attention to the beauty of their rhetoric, and even pile up rhetoric, which is so condescending that ordinary people cannot read a single word. This kind of persuasion is posted on the billboard, and there are no more people watching it than the wanted criminal next to it.

Xu Qing's persuasion essay was only written with the farming experience he asked Uncle Zheng for advice, plus some advanced skills that he knew in later generations.

"The matter of rejuvenating agriculture is in the fields, in the water, and in the ...... people"

On the one hand, we encourage everyone to build water conservancy projects to prevent drought and flood, and on the other hand, we encourage everyone to work hard to get rich. Ordinary and simple sentences, without any flashy atmosphere, but every sentence has something to say.

However, just when everyone was preparing for spring ploughing, Haixing had a big mess.