Hearing this, Fang Jue glanced at the side, not far away, those officials with five people and six people.

Leaning sideways, he asked, "They asked you for money?" ”

Amber smiled bitterly: "Where are you waiting for them to ask......"

He told Fang Jue that these were some potential rules.

"Tell me about it." Fang Jue frowned, only then did he know that there were some doorways here.

An Baili said: "In the past, the imperial court asked us to buy grain and asked the government to escort us, and we also had to check up and down. ”

"They have already received the court's money and the bounty from the foreign party, why do they still ask you for money?"

Fang Jue knew that when the tolerance personnel were dispatched, the imperial court had a lot of subsidies, more than Yulu.

"If they don't give it, what dare they?"

Fang Jue knew that there were many rules in officialdom, but they were not rules, and he planned to tolerate them.

Hearing the young master say this, An Baili's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly said, "You can be quiet......"

"It's not all for those who are officials, but also for the brothers who go on business trips, so that they can do their best work. If you run for nothing, you will naturally not be able to work. ”

"There are even times when they quietly do something, they protect each other, and there is no place to reason at all."

Amberley said some cases.

Fang Jue immediately knew how many things were hidden here.

According to the rules, at this time, in addition to the bounty compensation of the imperial court, the firm also has to give money.

Otherwise, they will not make any effort to deliberately let the merchant lose some goods when there are thieves looting.

Worse still, stealing or destroying goods so that the caravan could not get enough when it arrived...... In this way, the reputation of the merchant will be damaged, not to mention the loss of money, and it may also be charged.

If you do things for the court like this, if you don't have enough catties and taels at that time, it will be a crime of defrauding the king.

"No wonder I said yesterday that I asked them to send people to help, and they promised to be so happy one by one, it turned out that there were benefits to take." Fang Jue shook his head and smiled, he praised those officials yesterday, saying that they were anxious about the imperial court and were good officials.

An Baili said: "It is said that these tips should be taken by my firm from the profits...... But Master Master, our business didn't make much money this time, and Master instructed me to give you a very low discount. ”

"If you take a part of the five hundred and eighty thousand taels...... I can't explain it to the old men in the firm......"

In Andoron's business, although he is the same, there are also many powerful people who participate in the shares.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to grow a firm to such an extent in just a few decades.

This time he sold grain to Fang Jue, and Andolun didn't make any money, so it was naturally impossible to pay any more money.

"Why didn't you mention it yesterday?" Fang Jue said.

"It's the first time for Xiao to take on such a big business, and I was so happy yesterday that I forgot about ......it," An Baili said embarrassedly.

Fang Jue didn't catch him anymore, after all, he was a child who was a month younger than himself.

Then he said: "Then according to the custom, how do you give rewards?" ”

An Baili told Fang Jue about the doorways one by one.

"Each catcher, servant or soldier who goes out of tolerance will be given twice the ......amount of money according to the time of their escort time."

"What?"

Fang Jue felt that he was off the beaten track!

Now in the Great Xia Imperial Court, the treatment of officials is not bad.

From the small officials of the ninth grade, there are nearly three stones per month, and one stone of grain is worth about one or two taels of silver, which is enough for a family of three or five to have a monthly ration.

Even, there is often a surplus.

And the soldiers at the bottom, the monthly salary is about the same number, only a little more.

It is calculated according to one person a month, which is three taels of silver.

This time and again, the tolerance of this trip is about a month, so everyone will have to pay six taels of silver...... There were two or three thousand escorts on this trip, and one or two thousand silver was spent.

And that's just the cost of the soldiers and the officials!

Those smiling officials have to eat a few dozen pieces of silver?

"Hiss......"

Fang Jue took a deep breath, and he suddenly understood why Yan Lanfeng was always crying poor.

The reason why the treasury is always empty is because of these rats!

According to the previous rules, the money for the dots was paid by the firm, so the firm had to spend tens of thousands of taels to do this business.

So who is this cost discounted to?

Naturally, it was the imperial court.

The merchant will combine this dotted fee into the total price and ask the household department for it.

In the end, it is the people who pay taxes who suffer, and after years of hard work, only those corrupt officials and corrupt officials are cheaper!

"Young Master?" Amberie felt a little guilty.

"I should have calculated this cost into the total price yesterday, and now you have to carry this money......"

He felt that he was a little inauthentic.

Fang Jue didn't care about this.

It's only tens of thousands of taels, and the other party doesn't think it's a problem, but this matter makes him very unhappy.

"When did Great Xia give birth to these rules?" Fang Jue shook his head.

An Baili smiled bitterly: "Young Master, it has been like this since ancient times, but the old men in the capital don't know, and Your Majesty has no way of knowing." ”

This kind of thing, everyone is a community of interests, and the government can't find any crimes.

The firm is willing to spend more money to comfort the hard-working tolerance, who can say that this is a violation of the king's law.

"Then according to that, the silver taels I want to pay for this trip will be at least 30,000 taels, right?" Fang Jue asked.

Amberley nodded, then shook his head again.

"It's naturally enough to deal with these people in Ganzhou, but it's just ......"

Fang Jue was slightly annoyed: "Who else do you want to hit?" ”

In the distance, Ye Hongyi and Bai Qing had already pricked up their ears.

Bai Qing looked like he had nothing to do with himself and looked at the joke.

Ye Hongyi's face turned red, and he said angrily: "I don't know these doorways." ”

"You're too young, you don't know much, and there are too many names that can collect money." Bai Qing said lightly, the deputy hall master for so many years has not been done for nothing.

Ye Hongyi frowned slightly, didn't say more, and listened carefully.

Over there, Fang Jue heard An Baili's reply, and some surprise flashed in his eyes.

"What? Tolls? ”

Slippery world!

"The imperial court escorts grain and grass for disaster relief, who dares to collect tolls?" Fang Jue is true qi has arrived, if it is not for the qi cultivation kung fu, he is afraid that he will be sulking.

"Under the whole world, is it not the king's land, whose way? Dare to collect tolls! ”

Fang Jue couldn't hold back his voice anymore.

"Young Master, this is all a matter of imposing power......"

An Baili smiled bitterly, he suddenly felt that this young master did not have enough experience in these details.

What's so shocking about this, isn't it since ancient times, taken for granted?

"This toll is for the heroes of all parties along the way...... That is, the rogue bandits. ”

"What?"

Fang Jue said angrily: "They also dare to collect money from the imperial court? ”

"It's not money from the imperial court, it's money from our firm."

"If we don't give this money, although they don't dare to intercept the escort team, they will create some trouble for us, so that we can't deliver on time...... It's also a common thing. ”

Fang Jue said coldly: "How dare they make trouble? ”

Some garbage that can't come to the table dares to go against the court?

However, Amberley said they really dared.

"The young master doesn't know anything...... After our firm first had a close relationship with the imperial court, everyone in the rivers and lakes said that we were imperial merchants, and all parties did not dare to embarrass us openly. ”

"But those green forest bandits don't care, although they don't dare to speak against it, but sometimes dig up the continent and block the mountain road...... We even tore down bridges across the river to prevent caravans carrying supplies from passing, so we lost a lot. ”

"Later, it was only at the suggestion of our peers that we learned that even those robbers had to do business."

said, the tone was full of helplessness.

Fang Jue's mood sank to the bottom.

Even the "imperial business" is so difficult, and other businesses can be imagined, but I am afraid that there are many difficulties.

It is no wonder that many goods, as soon as they are exchanged, double in price as soon as they are exchanged.

If you don't do this, you won't make any money.

"Then you can notify the imperial court, send troops to suppress it, and wipe out those robbers, isn't it once and for all? At least, it can deter for a few years, right? ”

As soon as Fang Jue asked, he realized that he was also naïve.

An Baili smiled: "It's hard to ......"

"Many robbers, in fact, do not have a fixed camp, and even on weekdays, they are diligent people, and they gather together to ask for some tolls during the slack time...... As soon as the government goes to suppress it, they will immediately go back to farming, and they can't find any traces at all, and they don't even have weapons, so they can't hold it......"

"And ......"

An Baili cautiously glanced left and right, and saw that no one came over, so he said:

"Supposedly, I said supposedly...... It is said that some bandits and bandits have the background of officials from all over the country, so as soon as the government cracks down, they immediately receive the news and disperse. ”

"Those officials also collect some silver taels from them as a protection fee for them to communicate with the news."

Hearing this, Fang Jue's mind suddenly opened the golden lock.

What a familiar taste......