Section 219 Shops in antiquity

The Kitchen was in charge of collecting the shop tax, excise tax, contract tax, fines, and municipal house tax from the market, and paid the collected taxes to the Izumi Prefecture. Anyone who slaughtered livestock, the people would collect the skin, horns, sinewbones and bones of the livestock as a tax, and then pay it into the jade mansion. If there are unsalable rare items, the kitchen is responsible for purchasing them, and then handing them over to the chef's house.

He was in charge of the decrees of the local government to make the prices of goods fair in the shops, and he was responsible for announcing the penalties and prohibitions. The master will detect and punish those who peddle fraud, counterfeit and clever disguises. He will accept some small matters and small disputes, so as to adjudicate.

Jia Shi is in charge of the management of goods in the jurisdiction, distinguishing the goods in the jurisdiction, so that the classification is reasonable, so that the price is fair. Jia Shi will look at the goods that will be sold, so as to estimate the price, and then make them close. In times of natural disasters, they are forbidden to sell at high prices, so that the price is stable. For the precious items of the four seasons, Jia Shi also forbade them to sell expensively. Whenever the state sells or buys materials, Jia Shi will lead his subordinates and take turns to take charge of the business on a monthly basis. All conquests, servitudes, and associations also need to be in charge of the public in this way.

He is in charge of promulgating bans on the market, prohibiting those who make noise about soybeans and those who disturb the market with violence, prohibiting those who enter and leave the market to bully and violate each other, and prohibiting those who gather in the drying field to wander and eat and drink. If it cannot be banned, it must be arrested and punished.

The Inspector is in charge of inspecting the market, and is responsible for detecting those who violate the ban, as well as those who are dressed in strange clothes, snooping, peeping, and taking strange things, and if they are found, the Inspector will arrest them. The inspector was also responsible for apprehending the thieves in the market and punishing them.

The officials, each in charge of the affairs of the shops under their control, patrolled the front of the shops with whips, and were in charge of the prohibitions concerning manners and entry and exit in the shops, and at the same time would take advantage of their unpreparedness to arrest those who violated the prohibitions. Anyone who is guilty of a crime will be whipped and fined at the same time.

Ran, each in charge of the company's decree, is the meaning of the store. The director is responsible for displaying the goods in the store, so that the goods with similar names but actually different are separated from each other, so that the goods are similar in substance but have different names and are placed together, so that the goods are classified correctly and the price is fair. The chief is responsible for collecting the excise tax of his own shop, and is in charge of the precepts of his own shop.

The Quanfu is responsible for using the collected market tax to wait for the goods in the market that cannot be sold and are unsalable but suitable for the use of the people, and purchase them at the original price, and label the price one by one, waiting for those who need it urgently. The purchasers each took a certificate from their governor, the one who collected the fief from their ruler, and the one from the capital and the people of the suburbs from their officials and sold it to him.

Those who are not paid for the time being and used first shall be returned on credit for the purpose of sacrifice within 10 days, and those taken on credit for funeral purposes shall not exceed 3 months. Whenever the people borrowed money or goods, the Quanfu would identify the money and goods with his chief officials and grant them to him, and collect interest at the rate prescribed by the state. Whatever money and goods are needed for state affairs, they are taken from Quanfu. At the end of the summer year, the Izumi government would calculate the income and expenditure of money and goods, so as to pay the surplus money to the official currency.

The Simen is in charge of the keys and locks given to subordinate officials, and is used to open and close the gates of the national capital. The priest was responsible for inspecting those in strange costumes, snooping, and taking strange things, collecting taxes on the goods entering and leaving, and confiscating any property sold in violation of the prohibition. The priest will use the accumulation of the state to raise the parents and children of those who have died in the service of the state. The sacrificial cattle were tied to the priest's gate, and the prison gate was responsible for feeding. Throughout the year, the state worships the gods who guard the gates, and the priest is responsible for the rest of the money after receiving the sacrifice and keeping it. When guests from all directions arrived, the priest was responsible for reporting to the king.

The secretary of the customs is responsible for checking the trade documents of the king's goods on the border, and comes to unite with the division and the city. The customs officer is responsible for inspecting the people who carry goods in and out, and is in charge of the prohibition of governance and the collection of excise taxes and the rent of the warehouses where the goods are stored. If the goods do not enter and exit through the gate, the customs officer will confiscate his goods and punish the owner of the goods. Anyone who arrives with goods, but has not been granted a trade certificate by the city, the customs will grant him a trade certificate, and then release after research. In the event of a famine or plague in the country, the customs will exempt the merchants from customs duties, but they still have to be inspected. Whenever guests from all over the world came to see the officials guarding the gates, the officials would report to the king for them. If there are orders to transmit tributes or documents outside or within the country, the customs will grant them the honor and examination, and let them pass.

The knots are the keepers of the kingdom so that they can be used to assist in the execution of the king's commands. The princes need to use jade knots when they send envoys to the country, and the lord of the tribe needs to use the horn knots when he sends envoys to the emissaries. All the festivals used by the envoys of the princes to leave the country, the tiger festival in the mountainous countries, the human festival in the flat land, and the dragon festival in the land of Zedi, are made of copper and held in painted boxes. When entering and exiting the gate of the capital and closing the gate, it is necessary to use the charm festival, when transporting goods, when using the seal festival, when passing the road, and the use of each section has a valid date so that it can be returned on time. Those who pass through the world must hold the festival and use rumors to support it. Those who do not have a festival will not be allowed to pass the examination when they are examined.