Chapter 107: Song Itchy
"Ahh I've heard of these things, but I didn't think it had anything to do with Naoro. ”
"Yes, otherwise can you call Su Million? Hey, I don't know how much money he has. ”
People seem to have a penchant for talking about others, especially the rich, and they will become the focus of people's discussions.
And just when these people were sighing about how much money Su Shi had, in the corner of the tea shop, another man spoke, "What do you know, Tong Naolang doesn't have much money, he just looks rich." ”
"Well, how did you say this, if Brother Ren knows, might as well tell me?" In the tea shop, these words attracted everyone's attention, and at that moment, all eyes fell on the man who spoke.
"Huh." The one who was watched by everyone did not answer immediately, but only laughed and did not say anything.
The tea guest on the side saw something, so he smiled and said: "Okay, shopkeeper, I am serving a good pot of tea and some snacks to this benevolent brother, and all the accounts are on me." ”
This is the custom of the Great Song Dynasty, if you want to hear something that you are interested in, you must pay something and have a good attitude.
The shopkeeper on the side immediately agreed, and while looking at the person who spoke, he hugged his fist to the man who paid the bill and said, "Thank you." After that, he continued to speak: "I said just now that Tong Naolang doesn't have much money, you may not believe it, but my ancestors used to be in business, but now the family is in the middle of the road, and I still know some business things." But when it comes to business, you have to pay taxes, costs, and the cost of collateral all these must be counted..."
"As far as I know, the tax paid by the Tongzhilang Rencha merchant is 30%, and the tax on burning knives, cigarettes, and what kind of rouge is 20%..."
As soon as the words were said here, someone couldn't help but exclaim: "So many? It seems that the commercial tax of our Great Song Dynasty is only 10% at most, and even most of them are less than 10%. ”
"So, this is the selflessness of Naolang, even if he makes money, why not pay more? If this money is given to the imperial court, more elite soldiers can be trained and our safety can be protected. Even if it is used in other places, it is beneficial to the people. By the way, I haven't finished talking yet, except for paying taxes, all of Tong Zhilang's businesses are not exclusive, and they need to be distributed to others, so that a few percent of the benefits are taken out, so that if it really falls into his hands, I am afraid that there are not even two percent. ”
"Of course, some people will say, even if it's a lot. Well, it seems to be a lot, but Tong Zhilang's expenses are also very large, before he personally went to the south of the city to give porridge, for three whole days, he spent tens of thousands of dollars, even now, there is still a legend among the homeless people that the young master in white is a great good man..."
During the time that Hanzi was there for a while, he told everything he knew, until it was heard by more and more people, and it also caused more and more controversy.
That is, whether Tong Zhilang Su Shi has any money and how much money he has?
It is certain to have money, after all, it is necessary to hold the channels of such rare goods.
But the problem is that after others calculate it like this, it seems that they don't make a lot of money.
This discussion is not limited to this one teahouse, but at the same time, the same scene is also being played out in more than a dozen teahouses with good business.
Will there be such a coincidence in the world?
The answer is, of course, no, the reason why this is the case is all arranged by Su Shi.
In order to build momentum, to let others know his contributions, or to let everyone know that he is not as rich as people think, just last night, Su Shi found a loudspeaker who can be good at spreading news and gave him a full 50,000 yuan.
There is only one requirement, that is, within ten consecutive days, he will spread what he wants to say to Bianliang City.
50,000 kan, if you divide it into 10 days, that day is 5,000 kan, and I don't know how many people I can hire.
Dahara gladly accepted the task, which was also what he was good at and what he liked. And just last night, after taking the money, he began to get busy, especially those who were hooked and tiled, there were a lot of idlers in it, just by passing a few words, they could get a lot of valuable copper coins, which they usually didn't dare to dream of.
Money talks.
Money can make grinding ghosts.
Under the powerful money offensive, there was this scene this morning. And that's not all, it's just the beginning, at least for the next ten days, and this will happen more often.
After the three brothers of Zhao Shimai got the strategy of killing from their father, they handed over the matter to the second Zhao Shirui after discussion.
How to say that Zhao Shirui is also a businessman, what he is best at is to do more with the least amount of money. For this reason, the eldest Zhao Shimai and the fifth Zhao Shishe also took out 2,000 yuan each and handed it over to Zhao Shirui.
If Su Shi is defeated, it is possible to get the best source of goods from his hands, and Zhao Shirui knows better than the other brothers how big the benefits are. When he got the money, he spent the whole night, and when it was dawn, he called the housekeeper and others, and told them to do things.
The purpose is one, just say how much money Su Shi has made to the outside world, whether it is called Su million, or Su million, or even the words of the rich and rival countries, in short, it is a sentence, that is, to make Su Shi the target of everyone's envy, and finally transform into everyone hating because of jealousy, and attacking it in groups.
The housekeeper took the 6,000 yuan given by Zhao Shirui and went out happily, and found some people to let them go to the street well to let out the news.
I thought it was an easy thing to do, people, as long as someone said, someone would believe it, and the more mysterious it was, the more people would believe, something like this they had experienced before.
They didn't know that this practice was called public opinion orientation in later generations, and they didn't know that Su Shi attached more importance to this piece and took action one step earlier than them. So when these people arrived at the market, what they heard was the statement that Su Shi had just been circulated and didn't really have much money.
This is not what they want, in order to get more money and complete the task well, these people sent by Zhao Shirui naturally vigorously denied it, saying that Su Shi is extremely rich, but it is not like everyone said, his money is used to pay taxes and do good deeds.
And it was their argument that caused more people to jump over. The loudspeaker has a full 50,000 yuan of activity funds, which is more than eight times higher than the 6,000 yuan given by Zhao Shirui, so they naturally invite more people.
In this way, because the Zhao family joined, not only did not play a role in killing Su Shi, but on the contrary, it also helped them and played a role in arguing, so that many people who didn't know Su Shi before knew that in Bianliang City, there was a fourteen-year-old young man in white, who was good at means and was kind to charity, and handed over the money he earned to the imperial court to give porridge to the homeless people.
Su Shi didn't know about these things that happened in the market, he took out the money, and he only needed one result. Now he had more important things to do, and that was to pay the imperial court a commercial tax.
The commercial taxes of the Great Song Dynasty are usually collected by the three divisions, and they are the main departments that manage the money of the Great Song Dynasty.
In normal times, the collection of business tax is carried out uniformly at the end of the month. But this time, the pretty lady rouge shop sold out all the goods in just one day, and Su Shi naturally didn't wait until the end of the month, so he came with the carriage towards Sanji.
Before the carriage arrived, Long Xingyun took the first step to the third division, handed over Su Shi's official poster, and said that this was what Queen Cao meant, that is, if she made money, she naturally had to pay taxes and heavy taxes.
Su Shi deliberately played the name of Empress Cao, in order to attract more attention. As for whether Queen Cao will be angry if she knows afterwards, I am afraid that it will be too late to be happy, so how can she blame herself.
Empress Cao's name lit up, and it really attracted the attention of the three divisions, that is, Song Qi, the governor of the political affairs, the envoy of the three ministers, and the deputy prime minister, also came out of the yamen after knowing about this matter, and saw the money carriage coming from afar.
Su Shi's carriage was at the front, and when he saw that a group of officials wearing purple and crimson official robes were already standing at the door of the third division, he also asked the little white pigeon to stop the carriage, and quickly descended from the inclined board in a wheelchair, and went straight to the place where Song Itch was standing in the C position.
As the deputy ruler of the dynasty, Song Itch is not simple. He is one of the few "Lianzhong Sanyuan" in the Chinese imperial examination, and his style of writing is elegant and poetic. He is the author of "Song Yuan Xian Collection", "Chinese Complement" and so on.
He is also recognized as a writer, but also a politician and educator with his own ideas.
Song Yi greeted him in person, and this face was enough. Of course, he should mostly look at Empress Cao's face, but it is undeniable that he himself should be very curious about Su Shi, who was given a six-grade official by the official family at the age of fourteen.
Since the signboard of Rencha, burnt knives and cigarettes, Su Shi, the person behind it, has naturally come into everyone's eyes. If it weren't for his leg disease, if he wasn't only fourteen years old, I'm afraid he would have already become one of the hottest figures in the court by now.
Song Qi greeted him personally, and there was an official in a purple robe beside him, with a square face, he gave people a sense of righteousness, he was Han Qi, who had just been appointed as a privy deputy envoy by the imperial court.
Han Qi's name is Zhigui, self-named Gansuo, a native of Anyang, Xiangzhou (now Anyang City, Henan Province). Northern Song Dynasty politician and lyricist.
After the defeat of Haoshuichuan, Han Qi began to convince Fan Zhongyan, and the two worked together to support each other. Because the two of them guarded the frontier for the longest time, they were also known as heavy for a while, and they were deeply trusted by the imperial court, so the people of the world were called "Han and Fan".
More importantly, Han Qi was only in his thirties at this time, and he was qualified to serve as a privy deputy at such an age, so it is conceivable that Renzong Zhao Zhen appreciated and valued him.