Updated: 2012-04-22

Li Xiaoqi and seven or eight girls, you look at me, I look at you, looked at each other for a long time, waved his hand and said, "Don't be in a daze, the fifth master is me, I am the fifth master." The girl standing at the front hurriedly blessed her: "Yes, master, girl, or fifth master?" ”

"Just call me the fifth master." Li Xiaoqi looked at the girls who were so nervous that they turned pale by what she said, and said in a softened voice: "Take me to the bath, and, remove the incense, open the window for ventilation, I don't like incense, I smell dizzy, make me a cup of tea, if you have it, if not, any tea next to it will do." ”

A few girls were instructed, each performing their duties, busy waiting for Li Xiaoqi to bathe and wash out, and served the brewed pu tea up, Li Xiaoqi sat and drank tea, a girl stood behind, gently twisting her hair, this day of waiting for a girl, in the end, it is different!

The next day, Li Xiaoqi couldn't sleep until two o'clock in the morning, just after the beginning of Chen, he opened his eyes, couldn't sleep anymore, turned over in bed and was lazy for a while, so he had to get up, waited for a few girls to wash, and drank a bowl of red date soup, sat in front of the dressing table, and the girl gave her hair through thinly, and rolled up her hair in a bun, and a few girls came over with four or five pink, white and green gowns, and let Li Xiaoqi choose, Li Xiaoqi flipped through those brightly colored brocade gowns, frowned and asked, "This is prepared by your wife?" ”

"Back to the fifth master, this was sent by Nan Ye last night." The girl holding the clothes replied respectfully, Li Xiaoqi took a deep breath and sighed again, flipped over, and picked out the least bright goose yellow robe from the pile of brightness, the girl who combed her hair just now looked at the color of the clothes, picked a few hairpins such as topaz and white jade and gold from the box on the table, and handed them to Li Xiaoqi to pick, Li Xiaoqi looked at the hairpin and the box, and before she could ask, the girl holding the hairpin had already answered: "Back to the fifth master, this box was also sent by Nan Ye last night, and it was sent over with the clothes." Li Xiaoqi lowered her eyes and picked up a big jade-colored dark yellow cloud-headed hairpin, and the girl picked up the hairpin and carefully inserted it between Li Xiaoyi's bun.

Li Xiaoqi cleaned up and shook out, and had breakfast with Li Zongliang and others, before the meal was finished, Lu Feng yawned and entered the courtyard, Li Zonggui hurriedly got up and greeted him: "Have you eaten breakfast?" Come over for a bite to eat? ”

"After eating, you are free, hey, Xiao Mi looks good in this dress today, and you are so good to wear this color." Lu Feng looked at Li Xiaoqi and praised, Li Xiaoqi stood up, walked in front of Lu Feng, stretched out his head and smelled it, frowned and waved his hand in front of his nose: "It's so fragrant!" Xiang is dead, which girl did you go to? Is it an old acquaintance or a new love? ”

Lu Feng smiled and didn't answer, Li Xiaoqi took half a step back, clenched his fists on his chest, looked him up and down obliquely and asked, "You have always only loved Miss Toupai, what is the name of this Miss Hongpai in Rucheng?" Compared with peony and jade lotus, which one is better? ”

"It's called Qingwan, alas, this can't be compared, each has its own merits, what are you doing with this?" Lu Feng subconsciously didn't want to say more, Li Xiaoqi took another half step back, and motioned to Lu Feng: "You're tired all night, hurry back and rest." ”

Lu Feng walked a few steps to the backyard a little uncomfortably, paused, turned his head to look at Li Xiaoyi, and suggested with a smile: "I'm going to take a shower, change clothes, let's go shopping?" This city is very lively, and there are a lot of good things. ”

"You go and rest, I told the prince yesterday that I will accompany him to the tax today." Li Xiaoqi waved his hand, as if he didn't want to say anything to Lu Feng, turned his head to look at Li Zongliang and Mr. Fan and suggested: "Big brother, let's go out for a stroll too, and Mr. Fan, take Sister Fan and buy a few plain silver hairpins for Sister Fan or something, Sister Fan's hairpins are too old." ”

"Let's all go out for a walk, it's rare to be able to hang out together like this." Mr. Fan smiled and agreed: "You all go, Miss Sun, Yueting, and a few of you, go shopping." ”

Li Erhuai looked at Li Zongliang excitedly: "Big brother, go!" Li Zonggui pushed Wei Shuisheng: "Let's go too, I heard that there is a good weapons shop in Rucheng, and my knife is not very handy, let's see if I can find a good knife." Wei Shuisheng smiled and nodded.

Li Xiaoqi was hesitating to go shopping together, Nanning entered the courtyard with a smile, Mr. Fan signaled to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi paused, or quit everyone, and followed Nanning out of the courtyard.

Outside the yard, there was a big car that Li Xiaoqi sat in yesterday and the day before yesterday, the curtain was lifted, Beiqing stood in front of the car door with his hands down, saw Li Xiaoqi come out, took a half step back, and let Li Xiaoqi get in the car, Li Xiaoqi stepped on the step and jumped into the car, Su Zicheng was dressed in a silver and white brocade gown, tied with a sheep fat jade belt around his waist, his hair was tied with a clear Ruyi hairpin, holding a book, leaning on a pillow at will, seeing Li Xiaoqi coming up, the book in his hand hung down, and greeted with a smile: "Did you sleep well last night?" ”

Li Xiaoqi straightened his robe, sat upright, nodded and replied seriously: "Very good." ”

Beiqing also got into the car, knelt in the corner of the door, poured a cup of tea and held it to Li Xiaoyi, Su Zicheng looked at the book, Li Xiaoqi didn't dare to be too casual, sat and drank tea boringly, fortunately, it didn't take long for the car to stop, and the tax in Rucheng arrived.

Li Xiaoqi jumped out of the car neatly, turned around and looked around, the car was parked dozens of steps away from the tax, which is a huge courtyard, the courtyard wall is low, the gate is open, and people come and go.

Su Zicheng got out of the car, Li Xiaoqi followed him half a step behind, Changming, Dongping and others guarded, and the group entered the tax gate unhurriedly, there were several queues in the courtyard, there were not many people, the tax officer came out with a robe, but was stopped back by a few small guys, Li Xiaoqi carefully looked at the merchants in the courtyard and the courtyard, Su Zicheng shook the folding fan, pointed to a few spacious rooms and introduced: "The business endowment in Beiping is very light, one hundred taxes, only rely on them to report themselves, I just need them to come to do business." ”

"Well, I'd like to see the breakdowns." Li Xiaoqi looked at Su Zicheng and said with a smile, Su Zicheng signaled to Dongping, Dongping took a few steps into the nearest room, after a moment, he took a thick booklet and handed it to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi took it and slowly turned a few pages, there were not many things to remember, but which business, how many cars and what goods, tax and silver geometry, Li Xiaoqi looked carefully page by page, Su Zicheng slowly shook the folding fan, and looked at her patiently looking through the booklets, Li Xiaoqi looked straight at it for nearly two quarters of an hour before closing the booklet and handing it back to Dongping, turning his head to look at Su Zicheng:" I read that in this booklet, there are more goods entering Beiping than going out, and silk accounts for nearly half of the goods that come in, and most of the goods sold from Beiping are medicinal herbs. ”

Su Zicheng motioned to Li Xiaoyi, and the two walked back while talking: "Well, two years ago, I asked people to go to Wu to learn how to weave silk, and let these people come back to the weaving workshop in Beiping to teach their skills, and the silk that can be woven is not as good as that of Wu Guo." ”

"What's wrong? On the color pattern? ”

"Well, the texture is also a lot worse, just learn the same two, Wu Di has a fresh look, in recent years, Wu Di's new woven gold satin, smoke yarn, cicada wing yarn, in Beiping sold very well, silver water generally flowed out." Su Zicheng frowned, Li Xiaoqi looked up at him and smiled: "I don't understand the tax law, but this tax is definitely not the lighter the better, the silk of Wu is so popular in Beiping, since it is not what you want to see, it should be levied with heavy taxes, five hundred taxes, or even ten hundred taxes, one can fill the treasury, and the other is good to subsidize the weaving mills in Beiping, reduce the taxes they have to pay, if there is a new product no less than Wu Guo, not only will not collect taxes, but also reward them, profitable, there are heavy profits, naturally someone will do it with their hearts, Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. ”

Su Zicheng paused, pondered for a long time, and turned his head to look at Li Xiaoyi: "You really think about it?????? Different, let me think. ”

"What is this commercial tax used for? In addition to the abundant treasury, it is used to illustrate your attitude, you want the weaving mills in Beiping to weave good silk, and you don't want the silk of Wu to earn all the money of the rich people in Beiping, then use taxes to show your attitude, businessmen pursue profits, use taxes to adjust profits, and induce them to follow your ideas. Li Xiaoqi tried his best to explain the principle of tax leverage in later generations, Su Zicheng wrung his brows, the folding fan in his hand stopped in mid-air, and he stayed for a long time before he came to his senses and looked down at Li Xiaoyi, but Li Xiaoqi was a little worried, in this world, there is no information collection, there is no regulation of bank credit, this tax law, in case??????

"Your idea is very novel, it sounds very reasonable, just think about it, there are countless troubles in the middle, back to Kaiping Mansion, I will discuss with the household department to see if it can work, if it can work, it is really good." Su Zicheng thought as he spoke, shaking the folding fan and laughing, Li Xiaoyi felt uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly explained: "I don't understand the tax law, I just talk about it casually." ”

Su Zicheng laughed, stretched out his hand and gently pushed Li Xiaoyi: "Go back to this matter and let the household department discuss it, even if you do it, you must be extremely cautious, taxes are the foundation of the country, and it is easy to move." Let's not talk about this, turn the front corner, it is the most lively place in Rucheng, let's walk slowly over, go to invite Yuelou to eat, the crabs in Yuelou are okay, and now is the time to eat crabs. ”

The word 'crab' caused Li Xiaoyi's mouth to salivate, but it's not the time for chrysanthemum crab to get fat, when I was in Taiping Mansion, I could still eat a bowl of fried crab noodles from time to time, and in the past two years in the mountains, this Fu Ke has been greatly discounted! Li Xiaoqi smiled so much that his eyes bent into crescents, and he nodded again and again: "Crabs have to be eaten slowly, the most effortful, let's go early, go quickly!" ”