[11] Taxation

Yao Fan continued: "That soap has 2o4 large boxes, each with eight small boxes, 72 pieces per box, a total of more than 110,000 pieces. ”

Wei Guofu said in horror: "There are so many soaps in this place!" ”

Yao Fan said: "According to a piece worth half a penny, it is about five thousand taels." ”

Wei Guofu said: "You are a foreign soap, but you are not a soil pancreas, right?" Foreign soap is very expensive, I heard that in Shanghai and Beijing, foreigners sell fine pancreas, that is, foreign soap, can only buy ten yuan for one or two pieces of silver. ”

Yao Fan said in his heart that Wei Guofu's dog thing looks like a big old man, but he is really shrewd about the market price, and said: "This is because there are few on the market, and I have shipped a lot of them here, so naturally the price will be cheaper, and it can't be calculated according to that kind of expensive land." ”

Yao Fan understands that his soap is bought for eight cents and five cents per piece, and if it is sold for one dollar and silver, this is also more than 5o times the profit, but I don't know how many people in the Qing Dynasty are willing to spend money to buy soap to bathe, and he is not sure about the market.

Wei Guofu asked: "What is the bicycle?" ”

Yao Fan said: "It is an iron car for rich people to ride and play, to strengthen their bodies and pass time." I heard that the British sold a few cars to Beijing, the price was too high, and there were naturally few people playing, so I bought 33o cars here, and I planned to sell them cheaply, and I sold them for a hundred taels.

Wei Guofu said happily: "That's worth 33,000 taels." ”

Yao Fan thought that if these bicycles priced at 3oo could really be sold for one hundred taels, his profit would be nearly two hundred times, but he was still subject to the confusion in his heart, and the sales volume was ......

Yao Fan continued: "There are also Western mechanical watches, a total of 4,000, and there are about 30,000 taels of silver on the market at present, and these watches are worth about 70,000 or 80,000 taels. ”

Wei Guofu lowered his head and made a rough calculation, raised his head and said with satisfaction: "Then the value of the goods that Brother Yao brought in this time is about 1230,000 taels of silver, and he has to pay a tax of about 3,000 taels of silver." ”

Yao Fan said: "Brother Wei, I dare to ask, you don't know how much you can get for the 3,000 taels of silver?" ”

Wei Guofu said: "Since everyone is an acquaintance, I won't hide it from you." The customs is the big one, accounting for sixty percent, and I and the state judge two percent of each person. Brother Yao, how many times can you come to Jiaozhou in a month? ”

Yao Fan knew that Wei Guofu was busy calculating his own monthly income, and said with a smile: "Now that this trade route has just been opened, the next step is to get rid of the goods and return the payment, and after calculating it, there can be two times a month." ”

Wei Guofuxin said that this is not bad, he can get more than 1,000 taels of silver in a month, and it is more than 10,000 taels a year! Compared with the imperial court's silver, salary, vegetables, bamboo charcoal, and red paper silver, the mosquito meat that adds up to about 100 taels this year is a hundred times stronger!

The number of soldiers in Qingdao is only 1,400 people, which is pitiful, although he eats the empty salary of 1,000 posts, but he also has to take out half of the greedy ink to honor the bosses of the general yamen, no matter how much he eats empty salary, he can't eat 10,000 taels a year!

The smuggling merchants he colluded with Sun Maowen and Liu Ziming before always came to the ship piecemeal, and they could not compete with the surrounding seaports with lower prices, and the total annual income was only about 10,000 taels. Now that he has Yao Fan's rough road, he is willing to take the road of Jiaozhou for smuggling, but he is very happy.

"Brother Yao, just let it go! Make this big deal! In this Jiaozhou port, there are your three old brothers, and you will never be able to come up with a demon moth. ”

Yao Fan said with a smile: "Then I will thank Brother Wei in advance, in the future, we will be business partners who are blessed and share difficulties, everyone will earn money, and the good days of making a lot of money together are still ahead." ”

When Wei Guofu heard this, he laughed, and his beard shook happily.

"Brother Yao is a cheerful person! Your younger brother, I'm right. ”

In this way, after a toss and turn that day, He Wannian's carriages, horses and Lifu finally moved all the 1o11 boxes of goods into the small town of Qingdaokou, and the watches and soap were placed in the courtyard on Taiping Street rented by Yao Fan, and the cloth and bicycles were stacked in the temporarily leased port warehouse.

Then Yao Fan and Liu Ziming, the customs inspector who rushed to inspect the goods with a thousand executioners, counted and calculated the quantity and types of goods.

Liu Ziming stared at the executioner and checked the box, and said dissatisfiedly: "Brother Yao, you are really worrying about the sky and doing this too much. In Changguan, your brother Liu has always said that there is no difference, not to mention that just these 1o11 boxes of goods are ten times more and no one dares to fart.

Your caution makes people misunderstand what you are carrying, and think that I have colluded with you to steal how much silver I have embezzled. Although I take sixty percent of this silver, half of it will be spent on the upper and lower points of the regular pass. You didn't leave the smooth and frank Changguan, and you worked so hard to transport it from the rocky beach, didn't you spend all this hard-earned money in vain? ”

Saying that, Liu Ziming shouted at the hand he brought from the customs: "Keep the dog's eyes wide open and see the number clearly, if anyone goes back to blow nonsense, I will not spare him." ”

After shouting, Liu Ziming said to Yao Fan, who was constantly apologizing beside him: "You made your own decision to go ashore without going through the dock, and there will be some dog things in the customs to chew the root of my brother's tongue." In the future, the brother must remember that no matter how many boxes of goods it has, he should only boldly enter the port, and not add to the chaos. ”

Yao Fan said again and again: "Brother Liu said yes! ”

Next, the executioner will open the box and inspect the goods, obviously, they are used to seeing the wooden box, they are a little uncomfortable with the carton, and they are also fussed about the yellow tape paper, and they don't know how to open it, Yao Fan had to take out the key in his pocket and step forward to open it in person.

When he opened a watch box, Liu Ziming's lips opened slightly, obviously surprised.

Yao Fan was surprised when he saw Liu Ziming seeing the watch, as if he had seen a baby. I had expected this to happen, so I secretly pulled the corner of Liu Ziming's clothes on the side and winked at him vigorously.

Liu Ziming understood, coughed and said: "These Western watches are so small, too unmagnificent, compared to the thirty-one walnuts on the market, such a short belt, it is really inconvenient to hang on the waist, why don't you have a long watch chain?" How much is this thing worth? However, since it is a table, it is still necessary to pay the tariff of walnuts, so it will be taxed at twenty taels of silver each. ”

After the inspection was clear, Liu Ziming and Yao Fan calculated the value of the goods, and finally agreed that the tax on various goods was a total of 3,583 taels of silver, Yao Fan and Liu Ziming agreed that Yao Fan would send the silver ticket to the customs tomorrow.

Yao Fan shook Liu Ziming's hand vigorously when he left, Liu Ziming didn't understand, so he put his hands behind his back, and went out on the sedan chair with a big thorn, saying that he could run the monk and couldn't run the temple, and this extra filial piety was indispensable no matter what.

Yao Fan sent Liu Ziming away, and saw that He Wannian was still standing on the side.

Yao Fan walked up and said with a smile: "Brother He has helped me cāo for a whole day, I must be tired, let's go, I invite you and your guys to go down to the restaurant." ”

He Wannian saw that Yao Fan had come to Jiaozhou for a few days, and he had brought in so many goods to Jiaozhou, knowing that his energy was terrifying, he said with a smile: "There are so many goods, no one can look at them, I think so, how about we call someone to the restaurant to send the wine and food, and eat it in the store?" ”

Seeing that Yao Fan nodded in agreement, He Wannian asked the guy to order the wine and food.

Yao Fan felt that it was time to pull a business helper.

So Yao Fan held He Wannian in one hand and a copper oil lamp with a long mouth in the other, and the two turned to the back room of the courtyard where the goods were piled up.

Yao Fan closed the door, turned to He Wannian and said, "Brother He, I can't hide it, I came here this time, but I forgot to bring the silver ticket, and I want your help again." ”

He Wannian said with a smile: "I'll tell you the truth, since my brother has so many boxes of goods here, anyone is willing to help you maneuver this position, and my brother is willing to give me this business, I should thank Brother Yao." ”

Yao Fan's eyes lit up when he heard this, he turned around with a smile, and took out a watch box from a cardboard box that had been opened for inspection and handed it to He Wannian.

He Wannian opened it and said in amazement: "This Western watch is becoming more and more exquisite now!" It's just that...... Why doesn't this watch have a watch chain? But what about yourself? What's the use of such a short strap alone......"

Yao Fan didn't speak, and moved his hand to buckle the strap on He Wannian's wrist, and He Wannian realized that his mouth couldn't be closed, and he sighed in admiration: "Wonderful!" Wonderful! What a coincidence! What ingenuity! Brother Yao, how did you say that this foreigner's head grows? I really can't imagine that a big iron walnut can be made so small and thin! It's actually meant to be worn on the wrist, don't you say it, it doesn't feel heavy! ”

Yao Fan stared at He Wannian's eyes and asked, "Brother He thinks this watch is worth a lot of silver?" ”

He Wannian tilted his head, raised his wrist, looked at the watch's positive light, reflection, and side light in front of the oil lamp for a long time, and said in a very firm tone: "The iron walnuts imported from England and France on the market are all heavy and stupid things the size of a palm, and they can't be compared with this small and delicate goods. If Brother Yao hands it over to me, it won't be a problem to sell three hundred taels each! If Brother Yao you hand it over to the foreign goods stores in various prefectures and cities, and slowly sell it at a high price, it can be sold at a price of 500 taels, although the profit is high, but the shipment is too slow. ”

Yao Fan smiled, and said in his heart that this He Wannian is very poisonous eyes, and he remembers that the first watch sold in China in history was Rolex, which seemed to be sold to the emperor of Guangxu for 5oo taels of silver.

"If it is given to you, how much will you give?"

He Wannian said with a smile: "It's worth three bets on one, this is the rule of our industry, only one hundred and two, if you die, take half the price." ”

Yao Fan nodded, patted He Wannian lightly on the shoulder and said, "Brother He, my Yao clan is adrift overseas, and it is really not easy to return to the Great Qing Kingdom today, and it is not easy for me to regain roots in my homeland." Don't hide it from my brother, from the beginning of the fight, the first time I saw you, Brother He, I felt that you and I fell in love. ”

Yao Fan saw He Wannian looking at him brightly, so he continued to release kindness and said: "After I came back to Shandong, to be honest, I don't know many friends, and even fewer have fallen in love, so I am really willing to make friends with you Brother He, but I don't know that Brother He is willing to be close friends with me?" ”

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