This shop is not very large, and it specializes in selling pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. The proprietor behind it is a jinshi. This shop has never paid a penny by virtue of the identity of the proprietor's jinshi! The reason is that the imperial court treats scholars well, so there is no need to pay taxes!

In fact, when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, he did not exempt these scholars from taxes, but only gave them some preferential exemption policies. The purpose is to train more readers. Because the war was interrupted at that time, there were too few scholars, and even officials in various places could not get together, so there was a preferential and exemption policy.

However, as the days of peace went by, there were more and more scholars, and after they took power, they used the power in their hands to expand the preferential and exemption policy indefinitely, and finally made it a practice that scholars did not pay taxes and did not accept forced labor!

With the help of this reason, these scholars have never refused to pay taxes, and their business is naturally quite competitive compared to other normal tax merchants, and the result is that there are fewer and fewer regular businessmen! Especially after officials at all levels began to meddle in commercial affairs, there were even fewer businessmen who only ran on their own! There are also businessmen, in turn, who take advantage of the preferential exemption policy for scholars, to evade taxes on a large scale, so that the already small tax revenue becomes less and less.

As soon as Huang Shuncai and the two of them entered the shop, a guy came up to greet him, but the guy was a little stunned when he saw the two people. In his impression, these brocade guards don't look like people who can buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstones. There are not many of them who are literate and literate, and at most they are only coarse and can read proclamations.

But the guy still smiled and greeted him, completely unaware that they might have come to collect the money, because they had never paid for it! The guy greeted him with a smile and said, "Two masters, what do you want?" ”

Huang Shuncai also lost the smugness he had just now, pointed at Tan Jianyu and whispered, "It's he who has something to tell you." ”

The guy blinked and looked at Tan Jianyu. I only heard him say slowly: "I inform you of one thing, starting next month, your shop will also pay a monthly bill!" Twenty taels of silver a month! ”

As soon as the guy heard this, he subconsciously dug his ears and said, "This master, please say it again, I really didn't hear clearly!" ”

In fact, the first thing that people who do as buddies pay attention to is their ears and eyes, and now that the two are not more than a step away, how can they not hear what Tan Jianyu is saying? It's just that this guy thinks he is working for Master Jinshi, and at the same time, the shop is not like other people, and after a long time, he really thinks that he is superior, at least much higher than those small traders outside! So when he heard that he was asked to pay for this shop, he didn't believe it at all! That's when I asked more.

Tan Jianyu could certainly guess what he was thinking when he saw him, so he sneered and said loudly: "In the future, you will have to pay ten taels of silver a month for this shop!" ”

The guy opened his mouth wide in surprise, and then he burst out laughing! And after he laughed, he said: "This master, I see that you are very kind-looking, you should also be patrolling the streets on this street, don't you know that this is Zhao Jinshi's shop?" When will Master Jinshi have to pay money? ”

Tan Jianyu said: "Are you the shopkeeper of this shop?" Do you have what you say? ”

The man said, "I'm definitely not the shopkeeper!" ”

Tan Jianyu said impatiently: "Then what are you talking about?" He's not here, you're responsible for telling him! ”

The man sneered and said, "You don't have any money in your pocket, don't come here to disturb it!" This Zhao Jinshi is a well-known figure in the Beijing Division, and he has a wide range of contacts, even if he has face in Shuntian Mansion! So you should do what you want to do! ”

At this time, Tan Jianyu's right hand holding the handle of the knife pulled violently, and the waist knife was pulled out almost half the size! At the same time, he also stepped forward to close the distance between him and the guy, and the handle of the knife hit the guy's stomach hard! The guy screamed strangely and squatted on the ground with his stomach in his hands!

Tan Jianyu pressed the knife back into the scabbard and said, "Your host can talk to me like this, you can't!" In addition, hurry up and inform your host, you can't do this! ”

After speaking, Tan Jianyu took Huang Shuncai directly out to the next store. When he arrives at each shop, he will explain to the shopkeeper or buddy how much your family has to pay, and the standard of payment.

The shopkeeper and the guy who were notified were all very surprised, but the reaction was different! Some just said lightly, "Got it!" Some tried to theorize, and some scolded! However, everyone who scolded was cleaned up by Tan Jianyu.

After they notified all the shops and walked out of this street, Huang Shun wiped the sweat on his forehead and said, "Why are you so violent today?" But if there is a call, you will fight, I have never seen you so fierce in the past! ”

Tan Jianyu also wiped the sweat on his head and said, "Uncle, I'm actually scared in my heart!" But Liu Zongqi said that if the other party talks well, let's talk well, but whoever dares to stab will hit it directly! He also said that this kind of person has to take the most inches, and if he doesn't clean them up, they still think that Jinyiwei is afraid of them! ”

Huang Shuncai thought about it and said: "The truth is this truth, but I'm afraid that Shangguan won't support you!" When the time comes, you won't be able to collect the money, what will you do if he sells you again? ”

Tan Jianyu hesitated for a moment and said, "Won't it?" I think Lord Liu has even arrested those gang figures in the past few days, these people should be easy to deal with, right? ”

Huang Shuncai stomped his feet and said, "What do you know? There are no big people behind those gangs, but the shops on this street are at least watched by a person from a Jinshi background! You must know that reading people are not easy to mess with! ”

Tan Jianyu was also a little scared when he heard him say this, and the excitement of beating people just now disappeared. However, he thought about the eight taels of silver that he had sent to his hand, so he said with a heart: "No matter, we will do whatever Shangguan says!" Anyway, I have already received eight taels of silver, and I won't be able to get so much silver after I can't do it! ”

Huang Shuncai was taken aback when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Eight taels of silver!" Why so many? How much did Shangguan smoke? ”

Tan Jianyu shook his head and said, "Shangguan didn't smoke!" At the beginning, it was said that it was eight taels of silver, but now it is really given! ”

Huang Shuncai said with a grief-stricken face when he heard this: "I knew that the salary was so high, so let's go and sign up for the selection!" Eight taels of silver, it's worth going crazy! ”

Tan Jianyu saw that he was envious, so he smiled proudly and said, "Yes, it's a pity that the gendarmes don't recruit people now!" If I want to recruit someone, I will tell my uncle. But let's go down the street and do the errand assigned by Shangguan first! ”