Li Dingguo and the others were full of food and drink, and the one-armed veteran did not ask them for food money, but told them that they would be paid for escorting this batch of apricots to Lantian.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo frowned and said, "Aren't you afraid that we won't work, and even snatch your apricots and run away?"

When the veteran heard this, he smiled and said, "Where do you think this is, this is Lantian, as long as you dare to do this, I can report to the official, and if you can't survive tonight, you will be sent to the nearest yamen to play the board."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo didn't believe it very much, Lantian is so fast to catch here, it's impossible, if he mixes in with Wang Jiadong like this, why doesn't anyone arrest them?

Li Dingguo thought, but seeing that the veteran was so determined, he didn't speak, since people believed in the government so much, they couldn't say anything.

The two were taken to the backyard by the one-armed veteran, where there was a set of mule carts, and an old man with open teeth, the old man saw the one-armed veteran and said, "What's the matter, why are you here, our apricots can't be delayed."

The one-armed veteran smiled when he heard this: "Master Guo, you have been waiting for a long time, I can't leave this store, so I invited two young juniors to go to Lantian with you to help you unload and unload the goods."

When the old man heard this, he said, "Then hurry up, this batch is fresh, don't miss things."

Hearing this, the one-armed veteran said, "No, no, these two are good boys, they can't be delayed, these are these apricots, you help carry them on the mule cart."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong saw seven or eight baskets of big apricots in the back.

Then I didn't need to say hello to move it to the car, not to mention that this basket is quite heavy, and it can look like fifty or sixty pounds.

No wonder the old man couldn't hold it, and soon the apricots moved into the carriage, followed by Wang Jiadong and Li Dingguo, and followed the pot master with his teeth to Lantian County.

Along the way, the three of them talked to each other, Li Dingguo figured out the reason, it turned out that this Yuxian Lou is the largest and most luxurious restaurant in Lantian County, so it needs the support of various goods around Lantian here, and the rhubarb apricot in Dali County is the most famous, so he ordered a car of rhubarb apricots, this matter is a one-armed veteran They helped Zhang Luo, and the old pot head who drove the car was a handlebar type, and the family raised this mule, and usually pointed to this mule to pull goods to earn some money.

The car went forward, Wang Jiadong was greedy, looking at the big yellow and clear apricots on the car, he couldn't help but take two, the old pot head smacked his lips when he saw this and said: "Housheng, you can take one or two to try it, don't dare to eat more, don't send it enough to scale, we have to lose our reputation."

Hearing this, Wang Jiadong smiled and said, "I know, I just heard from my uncle that this apricot is so good, I can't help but taste it."

When the pot master heard this, he smiled and said, "My old man is not bragging."

Saying that Wang Jiadong threw one to Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo was a little entangled, and the pot master reached out and took one and said, "Each one is normal, whose transportation is not lost."

Saying that, he took the lead in eating, seeing this, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong couldn't bear it, they opened their mouths to eat, and took a bite, don't say it's really sweet, the apricot taste is very strong, no wonder it will be named by the No. 1 restaurant in Lantian.

The pot master ate the rhubarb apricots and said, "Hehe, this apricot is a good thing, this apricot in our county was planted for our children to eat, but later the county brought people from Yuxian Building to us and selected this rhubarb apricot, I tell you, just this rhubarb apricot was cleaned up in Yuxian Building, and then it was slightly chilled with ice, and it could be sold for ten cents."

"An apricot costs ten cents, my good man, I'm afraid this cart of apricots can be sold for more than a dozen taels of silver, right?"

Wang Jiadong looked at a cart of apricots and said.

The pot master nodded and said: "Not only that, I sent a car last time, twenty taels of silver, Lantian has developed rapidly over the years, the people have money in their pockets, and those who were the first to do business have also made a fortune, one by one they are so rich that they set up a table of banquets in Yuxian Building, I heard that it is dozens of taels of silver, and there are hundreds of taels, which is really good to make money."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo said, "With so many rich people, don't you county respect care?"

"What do you care about the rich?"

The pot master looked at Li Dingguo puzzled, and then reacted and said: "Oh, I forgot that you are a foreigner, our rich people in Lantian are different from foreigners, the rich people here are almost all made from scratch, and after making money, there have never been fish and meat people, bullying the township, and even actively paying taxes to the county government, every year the county government has a county commercial tax list, the list will be posted in the county's notice board, how much does the shop pay in the county, the above county that shop pays taxes, written clearly, the bigger the shop, The more taxes you pay, the higher you are. 「

"The rich people in these counties are actively paying taxes, almost higher and higher every year, and some of the companies at the top of the list are competing with each other very fiercely, and they are not willing to fall behind, and they are painstakingly competing for places every year, but unfortunately the county tax department will go to the shops every year to check the accounts, and these people are not allowed to pay more taxes and compete for the top spot."

"There's no way for some rich people to find a way to start doing charity, just hoping to get a good name."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo's eyes widened and said, "This, can't it, are these rich businessmen stupid? Dig out real money just to grab a ranking on the tax list?"

When the pot master heard this, he smiled and said, "I don't understand, in fact, I didn't understand it at first, until later our senior told us, you are stupid to be this group of rich businessmen, they are all shrewd, and there is a reason why they do this."

"As the most watched list in the county, the tax list has a huge ~ attention."

"Attention?"

Li Dingguo was also stupid by this new word, but he thought about it and understood what it meant.

Guo Ye said: "Yes, it is attention, with attention, there is publicity, and with publicity, their shops have a good reputation, for example, they also sell soy sauce, this year your family is on the list, when people say to buy soy sauce, then the first thing that comes to mind is your family's soy sauce, anyway, they all want to buy soy sauce, why don't we buy what we are familiar with?"

Li Dingguo listened to the words of the pot master, and suddenly realized, it turned out to be like this, this is the same as employing people, some people always say that they have no talents, saying that the leader is nepotistic, you say how can the leader not be nepotistic, the leader wants to promote an employee, then it must be promoted from the people he is familiar with, the leaders don't know who you are, how can you be promoted?

If the leader really doesn't know anything and insists on promoting you, there is only one reason, and the leader is really useless.

This so-called ranking is the same as this principle, you are at least familiar with the list, and when you also buy soy sauce, people will be the first to think of you, which can be regarded as a particularly good advertising opportunity.

In particular, Lantian also focuses on maintaining this so-called tax list.

Guo Ye also said that another important reason why this tax list has attracted attention is that Lantian selects the top ten outstanding taxpayers, the top ten outstanding young talents and the top ten good people in Lantian every year......

and other awards, these awards will be awarded by the county in person, which is a great honor, so countless people are working silently.

Among them, the largest gold content is the top ten outstanding taxpayers, for which the Phoenix Gold Store once broke out of the Phoenix Gold Store tax fraud, that year the Phoenix Gold Store paid 1,000 taels of silver less than the Dafu Gold Store, which made the Phoenix Gold Store miss the opportunity to be on the list, I didn't expect the Phoenix Gold Store to be fake, that year more than 20,000 taels of income, paid 2,000 taels more tax, and successfully surpassed the Dafu Gold Store.

However, it was later found out by the Lantian Taxation Department, and at that time it also alarmed the county zun, and the county zun personally gave instructions to give the shopkeeper of the Phoenix Gold Store a severe criticism and punishment, and refunded two thousand taels of taxes.

This incident alarmed all the Lantian people at that time, after all, there was still a court that did not want money, and Lantian immediately issued an official document saying: "Taxation is the guarantee of Lantian finance, and taxation must be open and fair.

However, because Phoenix Gold Store took the initiative to pay more taxes, it was not a serious situation, and it was just verbal criticism, but this incident also brought great exposure to Phoenix Gold Store that year, and the sales of Phoenix Gold Store that year were almost the same as that of Dafu Gold Store.

After listening to the pot master's story, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong's eyes popped out, my God, can you still play like this?

Indeed, some of Li Chaosheng's business thinking that was common in his previous life is definitely a pioneering level in this era, a tax list, which has mobilized the enthusiasm of all enterprises, in fact, the reason why these companies can be on the list is completely Li Chaosheng's release, because almost half of the companies on the list are added together, and the market value is not comparable to the Lantian Investment Company founded by Li Chaosheng and the first tax leader in Lantian, after all, most of the assets of Lantian are all invested in Li Chaosheng's investment company.

Every year, nearly 50% of the profits of the Ministry of Commerce come from this company, which shows the strength of this company.

However, he did not participate in the election, and even many businesses owned by the Lantian government were not elected, after all, this list encourages non-governmental business organizations to pay taxes, and they can't rank their own businesses, otherwise it will be meaningless.

All the businesses in Lantian are basically non-competitive, so there is no need to compete with the people.

The car creaked and went to Lantian County, because Lantian County has been encouraging road construction over the years, so the road from Dali County to Lantian County is particularly easy to walk, so the speed is very fast, about three hours away, they came to Lantian outside.

The pot master pointed to the city not far away and said, "That's Lantian County."

Seeing the bustling city, which occasionally has these big chimneys, Li Dingguo is a little unfamiliar, because this is completely different from the city he imagined, why is this city different.

There is not much farmland on both sides of the road, but there are many processing workshops, everything is done, and there are a bunch of buildings with big chimneys in the distance, I heard from the mouth of the pot master, this is the steel factory in Lantian, it is said that all the steel-related industries in Lantian, such as the steel of muskets and artillery, are produced from these big tobacco factories.

Li Dingguo really wanted to enter to see what it was like inside, which could make a firearm as powerful as Lantian, but unfortunately he couldn't get in, there were military sentry posts outside the steel plant, after all, there were secrets of Lantian Iron and Steel Industry involved.

Passing through the gate of Lantian County, Li Dingguo found that there was no entry tax here, and the pot master saw Li Dingguo's doubts and smiled: "All areas of Lantian do not charge entry tax, we Lantian people only have a few taxes, and those who farm only have agricultural taxes, and those who do business only need to pay commercial taxes, and those who work for factories or shops will directly pay labor taxes for them.

In addition, there is a stall tax in the city, as for some others such as poll tax, entrance tax, and so on, all the taxes are gone, and Lantian has a very strict implementation method for collecting taxes.

The group entered the city, Li Dingguo found that his eyes were not enough as soon as he entered the city, he swore that he had never seen so many rich people in his life, although they did not say silk and satin, but none of them wore tattered clothes, all of them were well-dressed, and even their faces were not as gray as in other places, and this hair, all of them were often groomed, unlike the people he saw in other places, their hair was glued together, and they looked like a group of beggars.

And the people here are very quiet, whether a place lives and works in peace and contentment, in fact, look at the spiritual outlook of the people in this place, people only after they have eaten and drunk enough, they will think of tidying up their appearance, seeing these people like this, Li Dingguo knows that the people here must be able to eat enough and dress warmly.

"Okay, don't look at it, hurry up and follow me to the Jade Immortal Tower, don't miss the delivery time."

The pot master said to Li Dingguo, and Li Dingguo heard this and said, "Where is the Jade Immortal Tower?"

Hearing this, the pot master pointed to a street with a very turbulent flow of people, and when he saw this, Li Dingguo said, "Then hurry over."

The group came to this street and saw that the street was written: Lantian Pedestrian Street.

Five big characters, followed by the street was directly blocked by stone piers, and the pot master said: "This carriage can't drive in, so I can only be fortunate to you."

Li Dingguo heard this and thought to himself, is this right, this one is not used by himself, he is still puzzled, it turns out that the place to exert his strength is here.

Thinking that Wang Jiadong in Li Dingguo got out of the carriage with a basket of apricots in his arms, the pot master saw that there were uniformed managers nearby, called them to help watch the donkey cart, and took Li Dingguo and the two to Yuxian Tower.

When he arrived at Yuxian Tower, he had just arrived at Yuxian Tower, Li Dingguo was attracted by the five-storey restaurant in front of him, and saw red lanterns hanging on the restaurant, and two big stone lions in front of the door, which was very magnificent.

Seeing this, the pot master had already negotiated with the person in charge inside, and soon Li Dingguo and the two of them took the apricot basket and sent it to the warehouse of the restaurant.

At this time, on the second floor of a teahouse not far away, Li Chaosheng slowly put down the teacup and said, "It's here, Xiao Lei, Gu Zi, you will accompany me to meet this Li Dingguo in a while."

"Yes."

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