The article signed Nan Lei spread in the city, and the attitude of the General Military Office seemed to be self-evident, and the rumors of Shanxi's heavy business were quickly swept away. The pros and cons of this cannot be seen in a short period of time, but the current stimulation of Taiyuan Mansion has an immediate effect.

Taiyuan Mansion especially Taiyuan City suffered the least damage from thieves, and now gathered a large number of miners and road builders, these people are usually with their families to work, but there is no self-sufficiency in life, from which a large number of business opportunities have been generated, around food, clothing and housing, a large number of traders gather here, the scene is so vast and prosperous, even the locals of Taiyuan sigh, this is a hundred years of unseen situation. This situation was also greatly assisted by a series of measures implemented by Li Xin, such as the fact that as long as the Shanxi merchant pass was legally applied for and the goods were paid once, they could pass through the entire Shanxi territory unimpeded.

There are even merchants in Zhili who have made a special trip here to inspect the market after hearing the rumors. Among them, Gu Anlin is one of them, in recent years, Zhili has suffered disasters one after another, natural disasters and man-made disasters, coupled with the tax cards set up for more than ten miles, he has been busy surviving all year round, and more than half of the silver money is earned for others. After hearing that Shanxi has now settled down, and will ban the tax card and replace it with the law of passes, his mind is also lively, and he said that the tree moves the dead and the person moves, since the business of Zhili can't go on, why not go to Shanxi to try his luck.

So after Gu Anlin ended his half-dead business in Zhending Mansion, he entered a large number of northern and southern miscellaneous goods and drove trucks from Jingcheng into Shanxi. It is said that the tax card was directly dispatched by the General Military Office and the Taiyuan Mansion, and did not belong to any prefecture or county.

After weighing his goods, the tax card officer filled in the detailed information of the goods and the owner of the goods, and gave him a certificate of customs clearance stamped with the seal of the General Military Office and the seal of the Taiyuan Government, and also marked on it the amount of tax owed, and then allowed him to pass.

Gu Anlin was puzzled, how could he not collect taxes?

But the tax collector smiled and said, "Didn't the customs clearance diploma clearly state the tax money you owe?" When the goods are sold, they will go to Taiyuan Mansion to make up for it! ”

After a lot of effort, Gu Anlin realized that Shanxi's tax silver was not only paid once when they met, but even the tax silver itself could be owed first, and then he would go to Yousi to make up for the tax arrears after the goods were sold. However, Gu Anlin still has doubts.

"If I sell goods, but I don't go and don't pay taxes, won't the government lose money?"

The tax collector bared his teeth and smiled, "I see that this is the first time you have come to our Shanxi, and the general said that business should be based on integrity, so at the beginning of the implementation of this set of tax collection regulations, the law of integrity was set." The vouchers of the tax arrears are in duplicate, and both record the official documents of the tax debtors. After the settlement here, it will be sent to Taiyuan Prefecture, with a period of one month, if there is a default, the information of the defaulter will be sent to each station, once the person is found to appear again, the money and goods will be confiscated, not to mention, but also sent to the official law, whether to be trustworthy or not are weighed separately. ”

Gu Anlin, who listened to the words "confiscation of money and goods, and sent to the official for justice", gave a cold war, hurriedly bid farewell to the tax collector, and embarked on the road of seeking wealth and gold in Shanxi.

However, along the way, he still pondered various methods of how to evade taxes and avoid taxes, such as the information quoted by the official is not impossible to fake, as long as the county officials are bought, it is not up to them to fill in how they want to fill in?

After arriving in Taiyuan, Gu Anlin found that the sale of goods needed to go to a yamen called the Yamen in charge of industry and commerce to apply for a license, and when he applied for the license, he found that the yamen divided the surrounding districts of Taiyuan into several large blocks, and after each piece of quota was full, if you want to sell goods in this area, you must wait for a new quota to be issued before you can apply for a license. Gu Anlin couldn't afford to wait, so he chose an area with a lot of places left to apply for a permit.

One thing that surprised him was that this permit was actually free, and when he got the permit that he got without spending money, he was like picking up a big bargain, and he was a little excited and proud. However, his excitement was shattered by the local situation when he arrived at the place where the sale was permitted.

It was clearly a refugee camp in front of him, and I really doubted that they would be able to buy his groceries. This is a concentration of workshops, and a large-scale iron factory will be built, which is said to be preparing for the construction of railroad tracks, and tens of thousands of workers gather here every day with their families to rest and live.

The more you walk inside, the more you can experience the complex feelings of a vibrant and crowded and dirty environment. It's already a small town, a small city without walls, and it's an exciting sight to see vendors gather on the side of the road, shoppers rub shoulders with each other, and there is a lot of traffic coming and going.

But he soon found that the people here bought and sold goods not with copper coins or silver, but with a kind of paper coupons, so he inexplicably went to an old man who sold mutton to inquire.

"Uncle, how do you sell this mutton?"

The old man obviously heard his foreign accent, so he reminded: "When the foreigners see that you are a trader like us, the old man reminds you that all we buy and sell is bonds, and we don't collect silver and copper coins!" ”

"How?"

Gu Anlin took a lot of effort to learn that the bonds were also issued by the industrial and commercial yamen, and they could be exchanged for something called grain stamps or equivalent silver.

The old man was puzzled by Gu Anlin's ignorance, so he explained: "The bonds were originally jointly issued by the General Military Mansion and the Taiyuan Mansion, and they were specially borrowed money, and no one dared to buy them at first, but then there were still bold people who couldn't resist the temptation of high interest rates to buy some, and then the government really gave them one by one, and gradually more people bought them." So, the bonds we trade with interest are worth interest, and you can still collect a sum of interest when you go to exchange huàn in the future. ”

The old man said a lot of words, Gu Anlin listened to it, anyway, he understood one thing, that is, these workers and businessmen have a very high degree of trust in this kind of thing called bonds due to some factors, and they can even use it as a coin. From this point of view, I am afraid that I will have to collect this kind of thing called bonds in this transaction, and when the goods are sold, I will take the bonds I received to the industrial and commercial yamen to exchange them for cash.

He immediately understood why the Shanxi government could put forward the law of tax arrears without fear, the root of which was that the bonds could only be taken to other provinces if they were exchanged for cash, and when they arrived at the industrial and commercial yamen in exchange for cash, if they wanted to exchange for cash, they would have to pay all the tax arrears first.

However, he soon thought of a trick to avoid taxes, since this kind of bond has a high credit rating among the people, can he find a rich person to exchange the bond into cash? It's a big deal to pay some price difference, but you still have to make money.

Soon he didn't have time to think about these things, the groceries brought by Zhili sold surprisingly well, and seeing that the vendors around him were all collecting bonds, he also had the courage to collect bonds, and the goods were sold less than half before the capital had been recovered, which made him full of expectations and hopes for the future.

But there are still a few strange things happening in the middle, someone once let out the rumors, all traders are strictly forbidden to sell goods to a certain mine, Gu Anlin was timid and worried about it for a while, thinking that there was something wrong with it, but then he forgot about it when he was safe.

Gu Anlin does not trust the bonds from the bottom of his heart, and the more the bonds are collected, he is not at ease, when half of the goods are sold, he finally can't help it, so he goes to the industrial and commercial yamen in Taiyuan City to exchange huàn cash, and the yamen really cashes out one by one, and after paying the taxes, there is still a very large profit margin, which makes him very satisfied. It happened to hear that Taiyuan City had issued a new batch of permits, so he exchanged the quota for the field mines outside the city for a license that allowed the sale of goods in the city.

On this day, Li Xin took Tian Fuzhen to secretly visit the people in the city, and the rumors and rumors of the general army and heavy business in the past few days seemed to have produced a surging undercurrent inside and outside the city, and he wanted to get first-hand information that had not been screened by the people, rather than being reported by his subordinates.

After being in a high position, he sadly found that it was easy to be blinded and biased when the information was obtained at all levels, and the subordinates were flattered, reporting good news but not bad news, and all kinds of situations that had been thought of before emerged in endlessly, no wonder the emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted to engage in brocade and clothing, and wanted to build a factory, which was forced by the people below. However, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty did this relatively modestly, and they only made a dense fold and weaving, which was regarded as the purpose of monitoring the place.

The weather is getting hotter, Li Xin and Tian Fuzhen will not be covered in sweat for a while, their mouths are dry, and they must not wear decent robes, and they have to dress neatly when they come out to see people on a hot day. Tian Fuzhen had long been accustomed to this, which only made Li Xin complain, and finally couldn't help but find a place to rest.

The restaurant tea shop is the best place to observe the people's feelings and public opinions, Li Tian and the others found an overcrowded tea shop, and just sat down, they heard someone talking loudly about a topic that seemed to be quite interesting and attractive.

The two of them had their own bearing, and Dr. Tea was well-informed, and he could see at a glance that his identity was not an ordinary person, so he accompanied Li Tian carefully and diligently to ask what tea the two of them wanted. Li Xin didn't know anything about tea, so he said that he would come to Hulongjing, and Tian Fuzhen also echoed it, and signaled that he would serve this tea.

Dr. Tea said abruptly: "Two distinguished guests, due to the plague and trouble after the year, the tea before the Ming Dynasty did not come in, and the small shop is only before the rain, I don't know ......."

The two words will only wander around in his mouth without speaking, Tian Fuzhen nodded, and told him to just make a pot and bring it up.

If you drink good tea, you won't come to this tea shop. Looking at Li Xinze, he could already listen to it, and Tian Fuzhen was also interested, and after listening to a few words, he couldn't help but change his complexion, how could this matter have reached such a point of storming the city?