"One-two-three-four, two-two-three-four, swap poses, do it again."

Early the next morning, Chen Xin hummed the trumpet, shook his head and tailed back to the inn, and slapped vigorously on the door of Liu Minyou's room, "Get up and have breakfast." ”

Liu Minyou opened the door, Chen Xin went in and sat down, while talking proudly about the woman last night, he was still unsatisfied, Liu Minyou washed his face with water, and didn't tell Chen Xin that he had been there last night.

The two waited until the sea dog came back, went out for breakfast, and then walked all the way to Yangzhou City, and took a hasty tour in the city, although Yangzhou is in Jiangbei, but the scenery and customs are similar to those in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the same prosperity as Nanjing.

Chen Xin and others mixed until noon, and gathered Zhou Laifu and Song Wenxian in the Bell and Drum Tower, Song Wenxian bought a few more books this time, and as soon as he stopped, he read the words on the side, and raised his head and squinted from time to time, as if it was still very difficult to read. Zhou Laifu only turned around hastily in the morning, he still hoped to buy a store by the canal, Chen Xin remembered the Ding Ding yesterday, and took everyone back to the banknote customs and saw Ding Ding waiting there.

Chen Xin invited Ding Ding to a teahouse, and Zhou Laifu, Song Wenxian and Liu Minyou sat at the same table.

Chen Xin first introduced his party, only saying that it was a wealthy businessman from Dengzhou, and then asked Ding Ding with a smile: "What you said yesterday, Brother Ding can think about it?" ”

"Back to Childe's words, the villain knows that Childe is a rich and noble family, but what exactly to do, please ask Childe for guidance, if you can do it below, you can only agree in the next, otherwise it will be a big matter for Childe to be mistaken."

Chen Xin said: "Brother Ding is right. He nodded to Zhou Laifu.

Zhou Laifu said to Ding Ding: "My master plans to open a shop here, sell southern goods, and purchase some other materials, if Brother Ding is willing to come, he will be the shopkeeper here, responsible for sales and procurement, but the money is managed by the account office, and the monthly salary can be discussed with me. ”

"And what about the transport on the canal?"

"The initial stage is not under our control, the southern goods are transported by someone, and if the merchants come to buy, they will be responsible for transporting them."

Ding Ding listened, lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked Zhou Laifu: "That's okay, but I've been here for a long time, and some shipowners also know that if they are in trouble, the villain can also help them contact them." ”

Zhou Laifu didn't know much about Ding Ding, so he just followed these words and asked: "Naturally it's better, Brother Ding has these ways, and he was originally doing a tooth line here?" ”

Ding Ding nodded and said, "Exactly." He said and took out a post to show Zhou Laifu, and Zhou Laifu read it and handed it to Chen Xin.

Chen Xin flipped it over and smiled: "It turns out that Brother Ding took the tooth sticker." ”

When Liu Minyou was in Tianjin, most of them were direct sales, and the business on the canal was run by Deng Keshan, so he didn't know much about these canal tooth shops, so he took it and asked: "Please ask Brother Ding, do you have to sell in Yangzhou through guò tooth shops?" ”

Ding Ding arched his hand and said: "I don't dare to ask for advice, according to the rules of Yangzhou Mansion here, all fish, salt, bean valley, vehicles, ships, mules and horses, non-brokers are not allowed to start, in addition to the purchase and sale of various banks, and the payment of commercial taxes, they are also declared by the tooth bank." ”

Chen Xin was slightly moved, didn't this tooth shop become the assistant manager of the tax bureau, and asked: "Don't hide it from Brother Ding, our business was originally in the north, and someone took care of it, and no one dared to talk about business taxes, but Yangzhou was founded here, so I asked Brother Ding to talk about the matter of the tooth shop in detail." ”

"Chen Gongzi asked, the villain naturally speaks endlessly, the tooth line is divided into official teeth and private teeth, and the official teeth are also pasted, most of them are the relatives of some officials, and the villain is a private tooth, Yangzhou, Yizhen, and Guazhou are all thousands, and the tooth stickers are changed every year, and the silver is five coins."

Ding Ding continued: "The most important thing for the tooth store is to help the merchants buy and sell, and collect some commissions from it, and the business tax is calculated according to the goods, and reported to the officials for inspection, but now they are mostly concealed and not reported, and the tax and silver are negotiated and shared by the merchants and the merchants. ”

Chen Xin has never paid taxes in Daming, he has a background as soon as he arrives in Weihai, Yang Yunnong can't even collect Tian Fu, let alone commercial taxes, and later Zhou Hongmo set up a card to collect it, but it basically belongs to the type of buying road money. He had always wanted to collect industrial and commercial taxes in the jurisdiction in the future, and when he heard Ding Ding say it, he couldn't help asking: "Can you eat it with your teeth alone?" ”

Ding Ding said respectfully: "Naturally not, the silver of the tooth line has to be shared with the officials of the prefecture and county, most of them are into the pockets of these adults, some of the big tooth lines have an annual income of huge millions, and the villains have to pay dozens of taels a year, and some months have to pay less, Shangguan does not like it, and threatens to not send the tooth stickers next year, so sometimes there is no business, and they have to pay the silver themselves." These are private, and on the surface there is a dental tax to be paid every year. ”

Chen Xin smiled: "It doesn't sound too little. ”

Song Wenxian interjected: "It just so happened that I heard about this last time in Beijing, the annual tooth tax in Beitong Prefecture is more than 4,000 taels, if it is calculated in this way, the annual tooth tax in many states and counties in the world is at least 560,000 taels. ”

Ding Ding said: "There must be." ”

Liu Minyou was surprised: "This is outside of Tian Fu, why does the imperial court always owe us...... Always out of money? ”

"Liu Gongzi doesn't know that these tooth taxes are all retained, not in the shipment."

Chen Xin clapped his hands and whispered to Liu Minyou: "It's the land tax." Liu Min nodded a little, this Ming Dynasty's commercial tax is not confiscated, listening to this Ding Ding say this, at least along the canal there is still a lot of collection, but all of these teeth have traveled into the pockets of adults, and there are more land transportation tax cards in other places, and those who should not be collected must go to set up cards, just like Zhou Hongmo did when he was in Wendeng, so the local people who can engage in business are some gentry and officials, and ordinary people can only be responsible for Lang and retail, otherwise these cards on the road can make him bankrupt.

There are countless merchant ships coming and going from the south to the north on the canal every year, since there is a banner of commercial taxation, there is room for operation below, no wonder Zhou Hongmo has to fight for the Qing Dynasty generals, and it is estimated that there are a lot of benefits.

Zhou Laifu listened, felt that it was good to use the local trick, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with this tooth shop alone, he remembered that yesterday the shipowner said to go to the banknote customs to pay taxes, and asked: "How to pay the banknote tariff?" ”

Song Wenxian replied: "The banknote customs is not a commercial tax, the banknote tariffs are to be paid to the Beijing Division, but it is not how much to collect, every year the household department first a quota, divided into seven banknotes, if the end of the year confiscated all, it will be unqualified Wanli years or 200,000, or 400,000 uncertain, now it is set at around 400,000, as for how to check the details of each ship, I don't know." ”

Ding Ding added: "What Mr. said was that it was paid by the shipowner of the banknote tariff, and it was not to give silver according to the goods, because it was difficult to move on the ship, and it was impossible to check the amount and value of the goods. ”

Chen Xin nodded, after this Ding Ding said, he had a clearer understanding of the ecology of the canal, most of the canal business taxes went into the pockets of officials and tooth shops, and the merchants also benefited, because he himself could pay less, and the only one who suffered was the imperial court, but the imperial court never seemed to have the consciousness of suffering.

Chen Xin said to Ding Ding: "Brother Ding said clearly, the shopkeeper Zhou has already told us about our business, I wonder if Brother Ding has made up his mind?" ”

Ding Ding hurriedly said: "Thank you Chen Gongzi for looking at the villain, if there is a shop and a business route, it is naturally better than a villain to be a bad tooth like this, and the villain is willing to serve under Gongzi." ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "So good, your monthly money and bonuses, you talk to the shopkeeper Zhou, in the future, your own tooth stickers and tooth taxes, all from the shop, you can do things for me with peace of mind, Yangzhou is a big town, you do a good job here, and the official will be of great use in the future." ”

After making it clear that Ding Ding wanted to take refuge, Chen Xin claimed to be his own official, which was regarded as suing Ding Ding for his background, and Ding Ding quickly knelt down and said: "The villain must do things seriously for the owner." ”

Chen Xin said to Zhou Laifu: "You and the shopkeeper Ding are looking for a store nearby this afternoon, you have to settle down as much as possible, I will give you a day at most, we have to go to Linqing, the articles of our store, you also have to talk to the shopkeeper Ding thoroughly." ”

Zhou Laifu hurriedly agreed, and called his helper, this is the account room cultivated by the clothing store, after all, Ding Ding doesn't know the bottom, the money is managed by his own people, and this person's family is all in Weihai, which is considered a hostage in disguise. The three of them walked out of the tea shop together, Ding Ding has been hanging around the bank for a long time, and he is very familiar with the streets and stores, and it is much easier to find him with him.

Chen Xin and the others continued to drink tea in the tea shop, and Song Wenxian asked with some concern: "Yangzhou is too far away from Wendeng, and my subordinates feel that it is still empty, don't become real." ”

Liu Minyou agreed: "It's just imaginary, the investment is not too big, but this place is not far from Nanjing, so it can be used as a place to stay." ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "There is only one shop here, and there is no way to go to the official, so it is impossible for us to go to Xu Xinsu or Zuo Changhao for help, and it is indeed too far away from Wendeng, so we will go to the next one first, and it will be easy to do when it is turned into a real one." ”

Song Wenxian patted his ass: "My lord is far-sighted, and with a bright future, sooner or later he can become the chief soldier of Denglai or the chief soldier of Shandong, and then he can turn this fiction into reality." ”

Chen Xin laughed, saw that Song Wenxian was still holding the book in his hand, and asked, "Mr. Song has been holding this book today, I don't know what kind of book it is?" ”

Song Wenxian handed it over and said with a smile: "Although the adults look at it, it is not a kind of Ruyi Junbiography, but it is indeed a great strange book in ancient and modern times, and it has always been **, I was wandering around the city yesterday, and I wanted to help the adults look at the classics of the soldiers, but I saw that this book was openly sold in a small bookstore, so I bought it to study." ”

Chen Xin found it interesting, and quickly took it, first looked at the cover, seemed to be a little impressed, then opened the page and looked at it, Song Wenxian did not explain, he turned his head to Liu Minyou and said: "If Brother Liu is fine, do you want to see the West Chamber?" ”

Liu Min agreed, anyway, there was no entertainment in ancient times, only reading books, Song Wenxian really had a lot of books, and I took it and read it, it was really the Story of the West Chamber, but the illustrations in it were all a little pornographic.

Liu Minyou shook his head and said: "Even the West Chamber can have such illustrations." ”

Song Wenxian said with a smile: "If you say that people's hearts are not ancient, I can be regarded as the ultimate now, even monks and Taoists are like this, especially those monks and monks who travel to the side, people call them evil ghosts in color, the color of wine is not tight, and no one thinks it is surprising. ”

Liu Minyou casually flipped through and passed the time, until dinner, Zhou Laifu and Ding Ding came back, Song Wenxian asked Ding Ding to go to dinner together, Liu Minyou asked Chen Xin to go out, even called a few times, Chen Xin actually didn't make a sound, Liu Minyou turned his head to look at him, was staring out the window in a daze, Liu Minyou leaned over and shouted, Chen Xin came back to his senses, put on a smile and said, "Let's go." (To be continued.)