When Zhu Yuan was still in Mingzhou, he thought about the tea tax because of the salt tax, and then he also mentioned it to Lao Zhu, and he has been paying attention to it.

To put it simply, the tea tax in the Ming Dynasty was too low.

Like the salt tax, this could have been a way to take measures to make up for the deficit when the state was financially constrained, but unfortunately, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, salt and tea were not used.

At the moment, there is another case around me.

A few simple words, coupled with some sporadic perceptions before, Zhu Yuan knew that a certain green tea girl next to him was a smart person, and as for other thoughts, Zhu Yuan didn't mind.

In fact, it is said that once, 'green tea' or something has become not a good word. The question is, standing in the class where Zhu Yuan once was, who cares if the flowers and plants around him are green tea?

Green tea is convenient.

There is no burden, just play it, while trying to be beautiful, while trying to make money, fair trade.

So, you still have to make money.

So he took out a few pages and pushed them to the pick-up lamp opposite: "Help me take a record of the conversation and pick out the key points." ”

Nodding his head.

Zhu Yuan turned to the green tea girl: "The imperial court has been brewing a new tea policy, and it just so happens that your family is a tea merchant, as a case, don't mention the present, just talk about your family's previous affairs." ”

The green tea girl accurately grasped a certain 'don't mention the present', relaxed a little, nodded, and whispered: "Cha'er is only afraid that if you can't say it well, let the little prince blame." ”

"I won't blame you," Zhu Yuan said, glanced at the young lady who was hanging his head opposite, and said with a smile: "I will count it on your mother." ”

The young lady's body trembled, looked up at her little man, saw him smiling, turned to look at her daughter, and lowered her head again, her face even redder.

Zhu Yuan has also begun: "Tell me, when did your family start selling tea?" ”

"Starting from the great-grandfather," the green tea girl showed a reminiscing expression and said, "It's roughly the room of the great-ancestor in front of Jiazi...... After the family was separated, he took a small amount of land, which was not enough for his family, so he thought about making a living. ”

Jiazi front ...... About 60 years ago.

This year it is 1368...... Well, no, according to the Gregorian calendar, it should have been 1369 by now.

Anyway, the Gao family started selling tea around 1310.

At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty had been destroyed for many years, and the Yuan Dynasty was considered a stable period, and the people's minds were inevitably more active.

After a little combing, Zhu Yuan gestured: "Next, the trading situation at that time, the origin, the price, the sales, and so on?" ”

The green tea girl said: "At the beginning, I was just a great-grandfather, and I brought domestic servants as helpers to buy tea all over Shandong. ”

Zhu Yuan knew that the distribution of tea in China was very wide, and he really didn't notice that there would be tea in Shandong, so he subconsciously asked: "Shandong, where is the tea?" ”

The green tea girl blinked her eyes and said, "Where there are mountains, there is tea, Mount Tai has Taishan tea, Yishan has Yishan tea, and Laoshan has Laoshan tea." ”

"As soon as you say that, I understand."

Zhu Yuan was stunned.

Maybe this statement is not entirely true, but with the ability of the girls around me to summarize in this era, it is already rare.

As he spoke, he looked at Zhuang Liuniang beside him: "What kind of tea do you have?" ”

Zhuang Liuniang rubbed his side like a cat, and said: "Liu'er grew up in Shaanxi, where there is no good tea, just some in the mountains of southern Shaanxi." Afterward...... Marrying in Shanxi, it's the same, it's all kinds of coarse tea sold outside the Saiwai. I drink tea on weekdays, and I still buy it from the southeast. ”

Zhu Yuan pinched the woman: "When you hear it, you will be happy, no wonder you have developed this brutal temperament, and you will beat people at every turn." ”

"Liu'er is wrong, don't dare anymore," Zhuang Liuniang's body was softer: "Being able to get to my father's side is Liu'er's greatest blessing." ”

Ignoring the coquettish people around him, Zhu Yuan turned to the green tea girl: "Continue?" ”

The green tea girl retracted her subconscious gaze at a certain woman, thinking that her mother could speak well if she could do this......

Hearing the little prince ask, he hurriedly retracted his thoughts and said: "At the earliest, the great ancestor just went from Dongchang to Tai'an to collect some Taishan tea, and it was only one or two hundred catties back and forth. If the price is ...... I don't know about tea, but I happened to hear the elders say that the tea tax was still low at that time, and the business was easy to do, and my grandfather ran tea for less than ten years, and opened two shops in Dongchang, and the family also bought a lot of fields. ”

Zhu Yuan cooperated and asked: "Then what?" ”

The green tea girl said: "Then it came to my grandfather, who expanded the family's shop to six, and also purchased more family properties, and introduced good tea from the southeast every year. It's just that business is gradually getting worse, and the tea tax is getting higher and higher, and the government is ...... It's also getting harder and harder to deal with. ”

"Remember the numbers, the prices, the taxes, that and so on?"

The green tea girl thought for a while and said, "There is one, the highest one to introduce tea to 12 taels and 5 yuan, if it's just like that, it's okay, it's just ...... It also costs more to dot up and down. Later, the family rarely went south to buy tea, and the longer the journey, the more ...... along the way The more it consumes. ”

Zhu Yuan grabbed a point: "12 taels and 5 money, it's a banknote, right?" ”

The green tea girl nodded: "Yes." ”

Zhu Yuan recalled again that when it came to the grandfather of the green tea girl, it should have been around 1330, and the number happened to remember at that time, because it was also the most stable period for the transportation of grain in the Yuan Tinghai, and the banknotes at that time were about 1 tael equivalent to 3 coins of silver.

The cost of tea quotation for 12 taels and 5 taels is about 3 to 4 taels of silver.

So he asked, "Tea ...... Ordinary, how much is a pound on the market? ”

The green tea girl said: "Earlier, the tea was not very clear, but now, there are good and bad, and buying and retail are also different, if you buy ...... The little prince said that the ordinary one is now, one or twenty wen, and the retail price is fifty or sixty wen. If it is a good bud tea, the purchase price is often one or two hundred Wen, no matter how high it is...... It's about two sales. ”

The green tea girl said, her eyes still pointing to the gift list on the table.

There are several good teas listed separately in the gift list, and my father begged someone and gave a lot of money to buy them. A total of 10 catties, it cost 500 taels, and it was also someone else who knew that they wanted to give it to the little prince, so they gave a discount.

Moreover, this is not the best, the best either...... I can't afford it at home.

On the other hand, Zhu Yuan subconsciously picked up the charcoal pen to calculate.

According to the retail price of 50 Wen, a quotation of tea, 100 catties, is 5 yuan, or 5 taels of silver.

Of course, this is now, and at the lowest level.

Now the imperial court only needs to pay 200 or 300 wen for tea, of which the former is leaf tea and the latter is bud tea, which Zhu Yuan knew in Mingzhou.

In addition, there is a commercial tax of thirty taxes and one tax.

In short, the two items are added together, which is 500 Wen, and the tax rate is only 10%. What's more, the green tea girl said that it is only the cheapest tea, and the court distinguishes between only bud tea and leaf tea.

If it is the average of ordinary tea, Zhu Yuan thinks that if it is doubled, it is 100 wen a catty, and 10 taels of silver for a tea, and the comprehensive tax rate will be reduced to 5%.

This is now.

Pushing to the Yuan Dynasty, as I just said, the highest tea introduction fee is 12.5 taels of banknotes, which is converted into 5 taels of silver, and the average retail price of a tea is calculated according to 10 taels of silver, and the tax rate can reach 50%, which is indeed a bit high.

Moreover, if it is only a matter of taxes, the merchants will continue to operate.

Zhu Yuan has feelings about this.

The problem is that it is not only a matter of taxes, but also a matter of green tea girls, and it is necessary to point up and down. In short, the wholesale tax rate is 100%, the terminal sales tax rate accounts for half, plus all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, business can be imagined.

After calculating, Zhu Yuan signaled: "Continue." ”

The green tea girl said: "Again, it has been passed on to my father's generation, the business is becoming more and more difficult, and the world is more chaotic. ”

When Zhu Yuan heard this, he was a little curious: "Who made the decision to move the family south?" ”

The green tea girl paused and whispered, "Auntie." ”

Zhu Yuan asked again: "You were also taught by your eldest mother?" ”

"Hmm......" The green tea girl nodded even more quietly, remembered again, and looked up and said, "Write...... It's a mother's teaching. ”

Zhu Yuan smiled: "Your mother can only teach this." ”

The young lady on the other side raised her head and hung down embarrassedly.

The green tea girl opened her mouth, wanting to say good things for her mother, and for a while, she ...... Didn't think about it.

The history of the Gao family's tea sales, although they didn't talk much, mainly because the girl opposite didn't want to say much, and Zhu Yuan was not reluctant, just a little, enough for him to sort out a context, and he also changed the topic, and then asked the girl next to him: "You are also old, have you said kiss?" ”

The green tea girl immediately blushed and lowered her head, but opposite Zhu Yuan, the young lady looked up with concern.

After a pause, the green tea girl said, "This year...... There's a lot to say, it's just ...... This is the order of her parents, and Cha'er doesn't dare to ask more. ”

Zhu Yuan smiled: "This is not like the truth, your character, is it not like you dare to ask more?" ”

The green tea girl still hung her head and began to twist her fingers, and after a little hesitation, she finally mustered up her courage: "Tea...... Still thinking, please mother...... Please...... Please ask the little prince to help make the decision. ”

"Don't think about your mother, she can't even be the master herself, I, don't think about it, I don't have this position," Zhu Yuan spread out his words without much concealment, and asked with a smile: "You don't still want to come in here and serve your mother, right?" ”

I didn't expect the little prince to say this, and the green tea girl suddenly didn't know how to speak.

Zhu Yuan has already continued: "Don't even think about it, silly girl, look around you, one by one, they are all goblins, your mother, if it wasn't for me to protect you, you would have been eaten by them a long time ago, you came in with you, not to mention that Yu Li is not compatible, sixteen-year-old Xiao Nizi, that is also the life of being eaten." ”

After Zhu Yuan said this, not only the green tea girl, but also a group of people around him, large and small, all had different expressions.

Zhuang Liuniang also pounced on Zhu Yuan, pitiful: "Dad, Liu'er is not a goblin, Liu'er is also bullied." ”

Zhu Yuan grabbed the woman's chin: "As far as you are the most shameless to say that you were bullied, who was beating the watermelon?" ”

Zhongli Watermelon, who could only dip on the edge of the bed next to him, nodded immediately.

Shameless!

Zhuang Liuniang cooperated to raise Yunzhi's face, and her eyes were watery: "Dad, Liu'er...... Liu'er was bullied by his father. ”

Zhu Yuan let go of his hand, no longer paid attention to the goblins around him, and turned to the green tea girl: "I guess, someone must have said kiss to you, but you definitely can't look at it." It's no problem for my daughter's family to pick some. However, this cannot be delayed for life. Go back and think about it, you are a capable girl, do it well, and you can live well in the future. In the future, if you want to come to see your mother, come here, although she has nothing to see, you won't like your mother with this temperament......"

The green tea girl hurriedly interrupted: "Little prince, no, no...... How could Cha'er not like her mother's ......"

"There's no need to quibble," Zhu Yuan said: "Anyway, if you want to come and see, you can just take it as a tiger skin, but it's just that, don't think about coming to me anymore, it's not appropriate." Again, this tiger skin is pulled back, and you can't do anything wrong, and you can do your business in peace and order, and I believe that this is enough for you to live well. Therefore, you can't do smuggling and tax evasion, let alone other evil things, let me know, your family can pull my tiger skin, and I can also skin your family, but understand? ”

Zhu Yuan's words were faint, but the green tea girl trembled slightly, knowing that it was not a joke, and nodded hurriedly.

"Then let's do it," Zhu Yuan glanced at the gift list again, and said: "I will accept the New Year's gift you sent, but the gift is still ...... exchange" said and looked at Cai Sang next to him: "You go and talk to Freehand, return a set of glass tea sets, and ...... Oh, didn't you make some bags at home, pick one for ...... Cha'er should be given to her by her mother. ”

Cai Sang agreed, but the green tea girl waved her hand: "Little prince, how can this be done, you can't ask for ......"

"There's nothing you can't want, go, follow Caisang," Zhu Yuan waved his hand and smiled again: "Your mother won't send you, I want to stay and teach you a lesson." ”

The green tea girl began to cry: "Little prince, mother...... It's all because of me, if you want to teach a lesson, let's go and teach Cha'er. ”

Zhu Yuan: "......"

Did you really not understand or did you do it on purpose?

Just wave your hand.

Cai Sang stepped forward to pull the green tea girl out.

Seeing this, Gao Green Tea didn't insist, but he gave Zhu Yuan a courtesy in a proper manner, and said goodbye to his mother before wiping his tears and following Caisang away.

Waiting for Cai Sang to leave with the green tea girl, Zhu Yuan took the record written by the lamp on the opposite side, and saw that the woman also marked a lot of annotations in addition to the record, such as the green tea girl said 'Jiazi Qian', which was marked on the paper as 'during the Wuzong period of the previous dynasty', and so on, and said with satisfaction: "Who said that women are not as good as men, I am simply Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." ”

The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuan understood, but he didn't remember it.

Pick up the lamp and bow down on the opposite side: "The adult praises falsely, my daughter doesn't dare to be it." ”

"In this case, I will give you another task, to sort out a list of tea-related materials of the past dynasties...... Oh, I already collected some when I was in Mingzhou, and they should be placed in the West Garden study, and you can discuss it with the sisters around you, in short, the more the merrier...... You are given three days. ”

Nodding his head.

"Also, about the theme of the new year's custom fountain pen, choose "Zhuangzi", this one will be handed over to Luo Shui, you can also talk to her if you have ideas."

Pick up the light and say yes again.

Zhu Yuan thought for a while, and there was nothing else for a while, so he said: "For the time being, it's all gone, huh...... The obedient young lady stayed. ”

Qingniang was still thinking about her daughter who had just left, and she was still thinking about what the adults said to 'teach herself', but at the moment, listening to the little man's words, there was an extra word of 'obedient', and she suddenly didn't panic.

Even, in the envy of other women, when the little man pulled him to the bedroom with a bed the size of a house in the East House, there was still some ...... Inexplicably eccentric.

(End of chapter)