Atai's father and daughter followed the clansmen for about half a day, and finally arrived at the location of the mutual market.

This is a valley, that's right, it is the nameless valley where the four major families of Yunzhou County secretly traded with the Tartars outside the Guanwai.

When choosing the location of the mutual market, Zhao Jun immediately thought of this place, as soon as he came here, it happened to be a circular valley, sheltered from the wind and rain, and the location of the mutual market was located here to facilitate everyone to rest.

The second is that this place can also be said to be familiar to those old tribes in the southern grasslands, most of whom have had the experience of trading with the four major families.

Put the mutual market here, don't worry about the Tatars in the steppe not finding a place.

So the location of the mutual market was decided.

And this place has also been renamed Lingyun Mutual Market.

After deciding on the location of the market at the end of September, the engineering team of Yunzhou County drove into this nameless valley.

In just one month, the engineering team of Yunzhou County showed the Tatars who had never seen much of the world what Yunzhou speed was.

The original desolate nameless valley has been leveled from the inside out, and some of the more dangerous cliffs have also been reinforced, so that the people in the valley will suddenly be taken away by the landslide when they fall asleep.

Buildings appeared in the depths of the valley, and the most majestic of them was naturally the mutual tax division representing the yamen of Yunzhou County.

The three-story building is made of reinforced concrete, which is in the shape of a pagoda, stacked on top of each other, and the highest part is made of gold and silver in the shape of an ingot, which hangs on the top of the tower.

All the people who come to the mutual market only need to enter the valley, slightly look up and see the pagoda-like building of the mutual market division in the distance, if it is in the sunny day, the golden tower top will exude a dazzling brilliance, full of the atmosphere of the local tyrant!

On both sides of the Mutual Market Division, it is divided into five areas from Taniguchi to the Mutual Market Division.

The closest place to Gukou is the exchange area, where the Yamen of Yunzhou County has set up twenty exchange points, and all those who enter the mutual market can bring their own cattle, sheep, horses, or gold and silver to the exchange point, and exchange them for cloud banknotes that can only be used in the mutual market.

When you go out of the market, you can choose to take the cloud banknotes away, or you can choose to exchange them for gold and silver.

However, it does not support the exchange of live animals such as cattle, sheep and horses.

Barter is not accepted in the mutual market, and all transactions must be made using cloud banknotes.

Cloud banknotes are a kind of paper money specially made by the Yamen of Yunzhou County, with denominations equivalent to one cent, five cents equivalent to five cents, one cent equivalent to ten cents, one dime equivalent to one hundred wen, one piece equivalent to one tael of silver, ten and one hundred pieces of silver equivalent to ten taels of silver and one hundred taels of silver, and one thousand yuan equivalent to one thousand taels.

There are only eight denominations in total, and the next 10,000 taels of transactions will use a special type of gold banknote.

Starting with one gold denomination, there are also hardware, ten, fifty, and one hundred gold denominations.

However, this level of trade is not something that ordinary herders can do.

The exchange of gold banknotes up to this transaction limit is specially received by the officials of the Department of Mutual Water.

The Mutual Taxation Department is also responsible for the exchange of gold banknotes, and the exchange points here do not have the authority to exchange them.

The next area that the herders enter after passing through the exchange area is the cantonment area.

There are dozens of inns in Yunzhou County that have branches here, and there are also Yunzhou hotels set up here by the Yamen of Yunzhou County.

If you want to spend the night here, you can find an inn to stay in.

Of course, ordinary people can only stay in those ordinary inns.

Only medium-sized tribes with a certain status are eligible to stay in Yunzhou hotels, but the accommodation prices of the corresponding Yunzhou hotels are dozens of times that of other ordinary inns.

But the service is also superb.

Walking through the garrison area, the next area you enter begins with the three bazaar areas that belong to the trading area.

The first bazaar was called the Miscellaneous Market.

Miscellaneous market, as the name suggests, there are a lot of things to buy in it, and they are also very miscellaneous, from toothpaste, toothbrushes, hairpins, and headropes that are special products of Yunzhou County, to all kinds of exquisite gold and silver jewelry, jade jewelry, jewelry and other valuables, everything is available here.

Here you can buy anything but salt and tea and iron.

There is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing that you don't have here.

Most of the stalls set up here are merchants who have applied for the mutual market qualification from the Yamen of Yunzhou County.

After the miscellaneous market is the tea market, the tea market, as the name suggests, here is the rotation of tea sales.

Nowadays, tea has almost become a necessity for the grassland people, and in the mutual market, tea sales belong to the monopoly of the Yunzhou County Government.

Except for the Yamen of Yunzhou County, no one is qualified to sell tea in the mutual market, and once caught, he will be punished as a smuggler.

The most common tea bricks here are the most demanded by herdsmen.

After that, the tea is divided into three grades, one tael of silver and one catty is the third grade, ten taels of silver and one catty is the second grade, and one hundred taels of one is divided into three grades of tea.

It was unaffordable for ordinary herdsmen, but these teas were indeed the favorite of the Tatar aristocracy, and they were also the most popular commodity among the Tatar nobles since the opening of the market.

Herders can buy the tea they need at the tea market and then enter the final salt market.

The salt market, like the tea market, is a business exclusively operated by the Yamen of Yunzhou County, and like tea, salt is also divided into several grades.

The most common coarse salt costs 50 wen a catty, and the higher refined salt is 100 wen a catty.

After that, there were 500 wen a pound of green salt and a pound of silver and a pound of snowflake salt.

The salt in the fourth middle grade of the whole salt market is enough to meet the needs of all customers.

Once you have completed your transaction in these three market areas, you will need to go to the Intermarket Division to pay your taxes.

To pay the tax, you need to take out the invoice issued by the vendor after you have traded with the vendor, and after checking it with the officials of the Mutual Market Division, you will be charged half of the amount of the tax you believe based on the transaction amount on your invoice.

The other half is paid by the merchant.

After the tax has been paid, the officials of the Mutual Taxation Department will stamp the invoice with an official seal confirming that all your goods have been taxed.

There is also a tax threshold, and you need to start paying taxes when the transaction amount reaches more than five cents.

Note that there must be no tax evasion here in the mutual market, the mutual market division has a thousand people in the scale of about fully equipped tax horses, every day the mutual division needs to check all the transactions of the day to pay taxes, if you find that someone dares to evade taxes, then with a strong bow and crossbow, the cold face of the tax rider will kick open your door in the middle of the night, drag you out of the room, let you pay taxes.

If you make up for it, if you refuse to pay the tax if you have to live or die, the tax collector has the right to confiscate all your belongings.

If the goods are still not enough to deduct the tax, then even you yourself will become a slave of the mutual tax division and be sold to pay taxes.

Therefore, in Lingyun Mutual Market, you can be deceived and deceived, as long as the other party can't find out, you can rest assured.

But you must not evade taxes!

No one can escape the pursuit of the tax horseman, even if you run to the ends of the earth, you will have to pay the tax owed to the mutual tax department!

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(End of chapter)