After seeing off a group of businessmen, Li Hongfei got up and went to another meeting room, intending to meet the group of bosses in the consumer industry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhou Furen had nothing to do, and he also wanted to go over to take a look, since Li Hongfei told him about it, he didn't plan to avoid Zhou Furen.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just discussed something important with your guests, so I delayed, and I hope that the bosses will forgive me, come on, and serve tea to the bosses." Li Hongfei laughed and snorted.

The bosses were impatient, and when they saw Li Hongfei appear, they originally wanted to complain, but when they saw Zhou Furen following behind, they were immediately relieved.

Zhou Furen has a strong influence in Suzhou, and he can indeed be regarded as a distinguished guest, and it is understandable that he will receive priority reception.

"There's no need to drink tea, Master Li has something to say." Lu Bin, the owner of Hongde Restaurant, said.

After Lu Bin finished speaking, the bosses next to him also echoed and said, they had already drunk tea all morning, and no one could stand it.

"Okay, since everyone is in such a hurry, then I'll talk about two questions." Li Hongfei organized the language for a while, and then said: "First, everyone knows that the imperial court is fighting against the anti-thieves and the Manchu Tartars, and it needs a lot of military funds to recruit troops, so I hope everyone can donate generously and support the imperial court to fight against foreign enemies." ”

Li Hongfei is simple and straightforward, straight to the point, that is, he came to these people to ask for money.

"Lord Li, this fundraising also needs to be voluntary, isn't it a bit too much for you to send troops to invite us over like this?" Lu Bin said.

Since ancient times, it was the uncle who had been rich, and now this group of people knew that Li Hongfei was coming to them to ask for money, and now they finally became angry.

"That's right, this early in the morning, arresting people for no reason, everyone still thinks that we have committed something, if this matter taken away by the government spreads, it will affect our business!" The brothel bosses are so strange that they are worried about their reputation.

"Didn't you just raise donations some time ago, why do you want to raise donations again?" The owners of gambling houses are even more distressed about their money.

"Where is so much nonsense, I ate yesterday, and I won't eat today?" Guo Sheng looked like a bandit.

His meaning is obvious, the previous prefect is the prefect, and this prefect also has to collect cash.

"Master Guo speaks well, now it's the government fundraising, don't make it look like a robbery." Li Hongfei began to sing white faces.

Then he took a ledger from Wu Hao's hand, and while flipping through it, he said to the businessmen present: "This is the silver you raised last time, hehe, it's all quite neat, all of them are one thousand taels of silver." ”

"Boss Zhou, you are the richest man in Suzhou, and you are a businessman, can you help me calculate how much money you can earn in a month in this gambling house, or a brothel, or a restaurant?" Li Hongfei turned his head and asked Zhou Furen.

"Suzhou is a rich place, literati, rich gentry and local tyrants, countless, the worst business restaurant, excluding the cost, a month's net profit, at least more than 500 taels, as for gambling houses and brothels, the monthly net profit will not be less than 2,000 taels." Zhou Furen cooperated with Li Hongfei to assist.

Such profits, in the Ming Dynasty at that time, only belonged to the upper middle, and the restaurant may still be able to clearly mark the price, but there is no shortage of local tyrants who spend a lot of money in the brothels.

As for the gambling house, not to mention, most of the usury in it are the gambler's own people, and the black income of these usury is not included in the turnover of the gambling house at all.

Of course, if you make money in business, you will lose money, the food in the restaurant is not to your taste, and you may lose money, and the oiran in the brothel does not know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and it is also difficult to attract business.

And these bosses invited by Li Hongfei are basically profitable stores, so Zhou Furen's words are basically the same.

"You are more or less in this Suzhou City, you have been doing it for several years, the imperial court is fundraising, but you only take out a month's profit, don't you think it's a little little?" Li Hongfei asked.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty attached more importance to agricultural taxation, and most of the people who suffered were ordinary people who suffered when taxes were increased during wars.

Because the number of ordinary people is the largest, and the tax is levied on a per capita basis, it seems very "fair" that no one will be offended, and the amount of silver taels raised is also the largest, so officials everywhere have not put their minds on these high-consumption industries.

"And how much do you want us to donate?" Lu Bin asked.

With Zhou Furen, a business giant, here, everyone is too lazy to continue to cry poor.

"In this way, I don't want more, just half a year's net profit, major restaurants, each raising 3,000 taels of silver, gambling houses and brothels....... Make up a whole number, 10,000 taels per family, and if you agree, sign and pledge with our Lord Wu now. Li Hongfei introduced Wu Hao to everyone, and continued: "This fundraising is voluntary, and those who don't agree can leave now, and when this matter is resolved, please leave unrelated people, and we will talk about the next thing." ”

Li Hongfei said the word voluntary very seriously, as for whether he wanted to emphasize voluntariness or implicit threat, only Li Hongfei himself knew.

Fortunately, Li Hongfei gave a clear price, and it was very reasonable, without a lion's big mouth, so as not to make these people hurt.

"What's next?" Someone asked.

"Of course, didn't I say that there are two problems, and I like to solve one problem at a time, and only after the first thing is finished, can we continue to talk." Li Hongfei pretended to be mysterious.

Cutting meat should be done slowly little by little, and it is the right thing to get the negotiated money first, once the note is signed, it is impossible for these people to repay the debt.

As Li Hongfei thought, taking out half a year's profit did not make these businessmen break their muscles and bones, and the tense atmosphere created throughout the morning successfully broke everyone's psychological defense.

These businessmen are not stupid, engaging in such a big battle, they can easily leave without paying this money?

No one would have believed that there was such a good thing, and in order to deal with this uneasy young prefect, all the people present had signed the contract honestly, and none of them planned to leave like this.

"Well, that's good, it seems that everyone has a loyal heart!" Seeing that everyone had signed the contract, Li Hongfei said with a smile.

"Now that the matter of fundraising has been discussed, let's move on to the second matter, which is about the issue of evading the imperial court's taxes in the past few years." Li Hongfei's opening immediately detonated the atmosphere in the entire living room.........

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