Guo Ziren smiled and watched as his goods were quickly bought by the vendors, and he didn't have to worry about it at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

They don't sell in small quantities, they only go in volume, except for big merchants, such as those who come to buy in advance like the Lu family, the rest are ordinary traders.

The ordinary traders of the Great Song Dynasty are living a good life.

In fact, no matter what time and space, the first factor that determines the income of a vendor is profit, and the government's tax has an important impact on its profit.

There are two kinds of commercial taxes in the Great Song Dynasty: the tax collected on passing traders who pass through the tax collection point is called "overtax", with a tax rate of 2%; The tax levied on shops and street vendors in towns is a "residential tax" with a tax rate of 3%.

In addition, for a small number of specific goods, the government will charge 10% of the tax in kind as a levy, but the taxable goods will no longer be taxed and residential tax will be levied after the levy.

On the surface, the tax rate is low, but because the same goods can be repeatedly taxed at different checkpoints, the actual tax is often higher than the residence tax.

All things add up, and the business tax sometimes exceeds 10% of the value of the goods, which is definitely not low!

Of course, if it is much lower than the way of collecting invisible taxes in the world over there, the reason ------ you know, at this time, the average commercial tax amount of the whole country in the Great Song Dynasty is less than 500 Wen.

Moreover, after the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, daily necessities such as rice, tea and salt, firewood and charcoal, regardless of normal and extraordinary times, were exempted from general commercial tax except for those with monopolies.

For example, hawkers like Wu Dalang in "Water Margin" are not likely to deal in those tax-charged goods, and due to their small capital, they rarely have the ability to undertake long-distance trafficking business, and are generally only in towns or a few towns not far away.

The Great Song Dynasty government clearly stipulated that it was forbidden to collect taxes from passing merchants five miles away from the city without reason, and violators would be punished with 80 rods.

As a result, the amount of tax that hawkers can afford is negligible. A 3% residential tax and a small over-tax burden do not have a material impact on their income.

Therefore, although Wu Dalang's wife stole people, resulting in the destruction of the family, as a vendor selling cooking cakes, that is, steamed buns in the Great Song Dynasty, Wu Dalang lived a well-off life: he could afford to rent a two-story building on the street. Usually wine and meat are not worried.

This kind of life is just earned by Wu Da picking two baskets of steamed buns every day and selling them on the street, he was not heavily taxed, and second, he did not have a servant to kick the stall, and his life was peaceful and leisurely.

Of course, if it weren't for Ximenqing, the disciple, I am afraid that this family would have been able to live a small life in peace and tranquility.

This may be more of a personal tragedy.

Guo Ziren calculated that he had passed six checkpoints on the Yangtze River waterway and exceeded 18 percent of the tax, if he didn't know his actual cost. That's high enough, so ordinary traders can't afford the cost of long-distance trafficking, unless it's a big business.

Because of this, ordinary traders absolutely like this kind of home delivery, for them, a mere 5 percent living tax solves everything, so they increase the price and sell it.

In the beginning. The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business proposed to cover it all, but Guo Ziren politely refused with a pursed mouth. Because their purpose is not to earn money, but also to promote the name of Liuqiu Island.

So, they have to reach out to the ordinary traders.

A vendor may not be able to afford the cost of going to Liuqiu Island to buy goods, but if they go in a group, the cost will go down. As long as they make enough profits.

At that time, the big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business looked at this half-grown boy curiously and said, "Young man, when you go out to do business, it's all money, why don't you hand it over to my Lu family?" ”

Guo Ziren crossed his hand at the elder and replied: "My master has made an explanation before leaving. Let the people of the world know all the goods of my Liuqiu Island------"

The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business laughed and said, "The head of the young man's family, may supply all the world's commercial goods?" For example, what does the stream beg for cotton? And the whale lamp oil? ”

Guo Ziren said proudly: "As long as the cotton is enough, as long as the manpower is enough, I can do it on Liuqiu Island!" ”

The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business looked at Guo Ziren's expression, and immediately believed it in his heart, this young man's expression did not look like a fake------

The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business stroked his gray beard and said, "Young man, have you ever heard of the name of my Lu family?" ”

Guo Ziren immediately said respectfully: "When I was in Lin'an, I had heard of the name for a long time------

The chief shopkeeper of the Lu family's business said, "What do you need on the island?" Let's talk about it. ”

Guo Ziren hurriedly said: "Good iron, copper, lead or cold water stone are all needed, and cotton is needed, the more the better." ”

As mentioned above, during the Great Song Dynasty, cotton was promoted to the interior from Fujian through the north and south roads very early, mainly in the Yangtze River basin and the Yellow River basin.

Although now, the North Road production area has been lost, but in the Yangtze River Basin, it can still be seen everywhere.

The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business looked up to the sky and laughed, and said: "Except for copper, everything else is easy to say------ can you exchange them for your family's goods?" ”

Guo Ziren nodded again and again and said, "Exactly, exactly." ”

The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business pondered for a while, and said: "Young man, I will give you the same benefits, and when you return to the sea, let's go with my ship, they are warships, and you don't have to pay taxes-----

Guo Ziren was overjoyed at first and said, "Very good! ”

However, I immediately remembered that Liuqiu Customs was coming, and said: "------ but when I get to Liuqiu Customs, I have to pay customs duties, even the operation of my head of my family, and the customs duties cannot be bad at all!" ”

The eyes of the big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business flashed, he was not short of these taxes, but he was curious, and said: "Listen to what you said first, the head of your family claims to be the owner of Liuqiu Island------ does he also have to collect his own taxes?" ”

"Yes, there is no one there who can go without paying taxes------ and the money is used for public works."

The big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business smiled, he shook his head and said it was funny, but he didn't want to pay attention to it anymore.

Then the two discussed, and the big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business decided to send someone to go, especially the one who begged for cotton cloth and whale oil, and he was ready to exchange some more.

As soon as Liuqiu cotton cloth appeared in the Great Song Market, it immediately attracted the attention of many merchants, especially the kind of four-foot width.

This kind of cotton cloth has fine warp stripes on the surface, the cloth is thick, and the surface is much smoother than that of Da Song cotton cloth.

And the colors are diverse, and after soaking in water, scrubbing it, it is not easy to fade!

Although Jing Jing thought that the cotton cloth of the Great Song Dynasty was of poor quality, the amount of labor required to plant cotton was small, and the cotton fabrics were tougher and more durable than silk fabrics.

This is not to say that cotton cloth completely replaces silk and linen, after all, there are different needs of various classes.

The price of Liuqiu cotton cloth is just in the middle of the price of silk and linen, so as soon as it is launched, it is a hot sale everywhere.

Therefore, how can the big shopkeeper of the Lu family's business not see the importance of this stream of cotton cloth? (To be continued.) )