Chapter Sixty-Eight: Double Return
The people from the Tax Bureau are gone, the history is gone, and Mao Qing is still standing in Li Feibai's shop in a daze.
What's going on today? He had no clue! Wang Wu's arrogance and domineering, he knows. When he knew that Li Feibai was in the stone carving business, because he was afraid, he went to report to Wang Wu as soon as possible, so as to prove that he was on Wang Wu's side.
When he returned home afterwards, he was very remorseful, how could he do such a thing? Li Feibai is a good person, unlike other people, who are extremely disgusted when they see him. Not only is he not disgusted, but he also agrees that he should be the economy. This is definitely a kind and good person, after he knows what kind of business he is doing, as Li Feibai's economy, he should persuade Li Feibai to change careers without Wang Wu knowing, how can he do such a thing.
He felt sorry for Li Feibai, so he didn't have the face to see Li Feibai again, and he didn't even dare to come to the street where Li Feibai's shop was located in the past two days. But things didn't hide after all, and someone from the Tax Bureau came to him and asked him to falsely report the price of Li Feibai's goods.
Mao Qing refused. After being punched and kicked three times, he was threatened by the Tax Bureau, saying that he had collected the wrong taxes and that there was corruption, and that he would be arrested and interrogated.
In fact, there is no corruption! The money taken from the tax collected is only a rebate of 10% and 5, but this kind of thing was only a verbal agreement between the two parties at the beginning, and there is no evidence in black and white.
The so-called people don't fight with the officials! Mao Qing was afraid of being beaten and the threat of the Tax Bureau, so he had to come to Li Ji Stone Carving Shop with his conscience. He thought that Li Feibai was done playing, and this time he must have been forced by the tax bureau to close the store and leave. But what he didn't expect was to bite the gold halfway, and Master Dian Shi intervened sideways and forced the tax bureau away!
As a small common man, he doesn't understand the twists and turns of officialdom, such as what powerless officials fight but have more power than powerful petty officials, he only knows that the four masters in the yamen belong to his officials, except for the county order, the county cheng, and the lord.
A classic history would defend Li Feibai so much, Li Feibai's background can be imagined! But he will offend Li Feibai twice, and this time it is estimated that there will be no good fruit to eat. There is no way, it seems that he can only go to his uncle, and no one can save him except his own uncle.
Just when he was thinking nonsense, he suddenly heard someone calling him, and when he looked up, it was Li Feibai.
Mao Qing licked his thirsty mouth and said, "Li ...... Shopkeeper Li, what's the matter! ”
Li Feibai introduced: "This is the shopkeeper of Daxing, Mr. Tang, he wants to negotiate with you about the price of the stone lion!" ”
Mao Qingdao: "Let me talk?" ”
Li Feibai said: "You are the economy of my store, who are you talking about?" Isn't it possible for me to change the economy now? ”
Mao Qing knew that Li Feibai would be angry when he looked at him, otherwise his face would not be so serious. He was afraid that Li Feibai would be angry, so he had to settle accounts with him now, and said, "Okay, okay!" ”
As an economist, how can you not know that Mr. Tang is the shopkeeper, who is a figure with hands and eyes! In the past, I have always heard people say that no one has ever seen this living god of wealth in the world today!
Mao Qing looked at Tang Xin'an more timid than Li Feibai, as if looking at a mortal immortal, his hand trembled and stretched out, about to negotiate the price. His hand was only halfway out, and he was slapped down, and he turned his head to see that it was the guy who was following Tang Xin'an.
The guy said, "What is your identity, and you dare to talk to our old shopkeeper?" After a pause, he added, "It's just such a small business, and it's still worth the help of our old shopkeeper?" Come, talk to me! With that, the two of them pressed their sleeves against each other, and their hands were drawn in their sleeves.
Tang Xin'an smiled and said, "Brother Feibai, the two of us are talking?" ”
Yesterday, Zheng Haoran led the mule driver and donkey driver to finish eating, and saw that there was no place to sit in the store to discuss business, so he bought a chair and a coffee table and put it in the store so that the host and guest could talk. Li Feibai led Tang Xin'an to the side and sat down, and made tea for Tang Xin'an.
The tea came back from Wang Dingyi, and the maid gave it to him when he left. Tang Xin'an took a sip and praised: "Good tea!" He put down the cup and said, "Brother Feibai, do you know Qian Zhenfu?" ”
Li Feibai said: "Qian Zhen was injured in the leg, and the doctor in the county didn't dare to do it when he saw that the wound was too big. My newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and he started to treat indiscriminately, but I didn't expect to hit the big luck and actually heal the injury of Qian Zhen! also got a hundred taels of silver from the county magistrate, and then opened this shop. ”
Tang Xin'an understood. It turned out that Qian Zhenfu thanked Li Feibai for coming to the rescue, and then hinted that he came to take care of Li Feibai's business. Since the relationship between the two is only this kind of relationship, there is no need to be too careful, just buy all of Li Feibai's stone lions. As for why the history defended Li Feibai, it was either to thank Li Feibai for helping the county avoid a catastrophe, or because Qian Zijun had made a special explanation when he left. What is the reason, there is no need to investigate it excessively, he nodded and said, "I don't know how many stone lions like this you can make in a year?" ”
Li Feibai smiled: "I don't know how many such stone lions you can collect in a year?" ”
Tang Xin'an had done this before, and knew that these stone lions were made by a village in the mountains, and the number that could be made in a year was only thirty or fifty. He felt that Li Feibai's tone was too big, so he wanted to make a joke about Li Feibai, and said, "What, how much can I collect, you can do?" ”
Li Feibai said: "If you can take me less, I can do as much as I can!" ”
Tang Xin'an raised a finger and said, "I need this number!" ”
Li Feibai was overjoyed and said, "A hundred? ”
Tang Xin'an shook his head.
Li Feibai said: "A thousand? ”
Tang Xin'an nodded his head at this time!
Li Feibai was silent.
Tang Xin'an smiled secretly: "Boy, you have such a big breath, now you know how powerful I am!" A thousand is twenty or thirty times what you can make, and look at how you look at the silver and you can't eat it. At this time, Mao Qing had finished the negotiation with his buddy, and the two stepped forward, each in front of their shopkeeper, and compared the results of the final negotiation.
Li Feibai saw that Mao Qing first drew a six, and then a four, and knew that it was six thousand four hundred taels. He calculated in his heart that if Tang Xin'an could really ask for a thousand stone lions a year, it would be a business of 60,000 taels, and the profit would be 20,000 taels. That's 20,000 taels, is it possible to earn it so easily?
Tang Xin'an saw that Li Feibai was still groaning, and said with a smile: "Young man, you must be down-to-earth in business in the future, and you must not speak indiscriminately, so as not to make people laugh." You don't have to be embarrassed, I will take as much as you can make. After that, he turned his head and said, "The six thousand four hundred taels of silver tickets for Shopkeeper Li." ”
The guy took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, and was counting them, when he suddenly heard Li Feibai say: "A thousand stone lions a year, can Mr. Tang's shopkeeper sell them?" The guy was not angry, and said: "We have business in Daxing, eight provinces and fifty-two prefectures, not to mention that you have a thousand stone lions, even ten thousand stone lions can be sold!" ”
Li Feibai nodded and said, "Then I'll rest assured!" "It seems that what I was muttering just now was not how to make a thousand stone lions, but I was afraid that the Daxing would not be sold.
Tang Xin'an said: "What, can you eat this business?" ”
Li Feibai said: "Yes! ”
Tang Xin'an said with a smile: "The stone lions I want are the same size as this batch, the same number is ten times doubled, and it has to be the same workmanship." ”
Li Feibai said: "No problem! ”
Tang Xin'an is sometimes very optimistic about a business, but because the output is not at all, the business that is originally very profitable often only makes a little money to spend. He really couldn't figure out how Li Feibai could use that amount of manpower to make twenty or thirty times more than in previous years. If Li Feibai can really do it, it is definitely a genius! He smiled and said, "If Brother Feibai can really meet the amount I want, I will have to make a friend of yours." He turned his head and said to the man: "Then most of the silver tickets of 10,000 taels will be used as a deposit, lest Brother Feibai be afraid that he will make it, and we will not accept it." But next year, what if you don't make as much as I want? ”
Li Feibai said: "The money collected today will be returned twice, and all the stone lions made will be given away, and no money will be taken!" ”
Tang Xin'an shouted "Okay", stood up and patted Li Feibai on the shoulder, and said, "Happy!" I love doing business with people like my brother! How about we make a note? ”