The catering of the inn is now in charge of Aunt Ma, mainly making noodles, dumplings, etc., and occasionally stir-fried dishes, which I also learned from Qin Liu.

Qin Liu ate the meal cooked by Aunt Ma last night, and she can only say that the taste is so-so.

With Aunt Ma's cooking skills, it is a little difficult to carry forward the catering business of the inn.

Qin Liu couldn't help but think of the hot pot business again.

As long as the dipping sauce is adjusted in proportion, the taste will not be too bad.

As for the problem of cutting meat, she can only slowly find a good knife partner.

Alas, the little mute who is a good knife worker and a peaceful person is really nostalgic!

Qin Liu glanced at the tax payment item on the bill again and sighed slightly.

I paid twenty-three taels of taxes in the past month!

The fundamental reason why restaurants are not very profitable is that they pay taxes.

Restaurants are originally facing low-end customers, focusing on a small profit but quick turnover, and have high requirements for refined management. If the raw material management is not careful, it is possible to lose money.

Now from the perspective of the tax rate, it is not one of thirty as Li Laohan said, but a tax rate of 25%!

Qin Liu frowned, not knowing why this tax was not collected at the tax rate set by the imperial court.

Early the next morning, Qin Liu asked Ma Yue about the situation.

Ma Yue said with a sad face: "Not long after you left, there were tax collectors in the town, and there were several others. What you said about one out of thirty is just one of them. Catch the tartars to collect, repair the city wall to collect, build the road to collect, let's still see that my brother is from the face of thousands of households.

I heard that the capital required the eunuchs from all over the city to pay money to the palace, and the eunuchs tried their best to loot everywhere.

Last year, no one came to collect taxes because the Tartars slaughtered the tax collectors, and no one dared to come and collect taxes.

Now that it is more peaceful, the tax collectors are coming again. ”

Qin Liu was helpless.

Ma Yue said: "Sister-in-law Li, you still demolished the signboard of Yanzilou, they wanted to collect taxes last time, but they were fooled by me, and the next time they come, they may not be able to fool them." ”

Qin Liu was stunned for a moment: "Swallow Building has closed down, and you have to pay taxes?" ”

Ma Yue scratched his head: "They don't care if they are out of business or not, as long as they can scrape out oil and water, who cares?" ”

Ma Yue paused and asked tentatively, "Why don't you put Jiangxuezhai and Yanzilou under my brother's name?" You can pay less tax. ”

Qin Liu was surprised: "Can it still be like this?" ”

Ma Yue nodded: "Since ancient times, officials have protected each other, and my brother is now the biggest official in Shabaozi Town, how can they look at a little thin noodles." ”

Qin Liu pondered for a moment and said, "This thing can be done, you can do it today!" ”

Ma Yue answered and left.

But Maang came at noon.

He hesitated a little: "These are your shops, and they are recorded in my name......"

Qin Liu hurriedly explained: "The main thing is to use Brother Ma's reputation to pay less taxes, if you don't want to, then forget it." ”

Ma Ang's face was calm, but his eyes were shining: "How can you be unwilling?" You, you're too outward. ”

Qin Liu mentioned the matter of the private school by the way: "I thought, just buy a piece of land on the street next door to build a private school, and invite a gentleman from Xuanfu or the capital to come over, the gentleman's restraint is out of our inn, and the children in the town can come to school if they want to learn, what do you think?" ”

Ma Ang said: "A private school gentleman also needs more than a dozen taels of silver a year, can our store hold up?" ”

Qin Liu said with a smile: "A dozen taels a year can still hold up, but if it's a dozen taels a month, I'm afraid it won't be able to hold it." ”

Ma Ang also smiled: "I just appointed a thousand households, and those hundred households are not very convinced. If there were more than one private school in the town, and their children could come to school, those people would be much easier to manage.

Also, they are also very active in opening up wasteland last time, some people have already organized their own soldiers to open up wasteland, and everyone wants to have more ways to make a fortune. ”

Qin Liu wondered: "Don't you care about the wasteland government?" ”

"It was meant to be managed. In the past, our guards had tuntian, and when our military households were not fighting, they farmed the land and were self-sufficient, and the imperial court did not need to distribute military salaries, grain and grass.

It's just that after so many years, there are fewer and fewer tuntians, and they are all classified under private names, and because of the many Tartar disasters in recent years, those who farm the land are either killed or taken to the grassland, and a lot of land is abandoned.

We are also getting fewer and fewer military households. Those who have the ability and the means to flee to other places, leaving behind those who are too poor to marry a daughter-in-law or support their children......"

Qin Liu interjected: "Can't even afford to marry a daughter-in-law? ”

Maang said, "Isn't it? In the past, the imperial court also had a wife system, that is, the court paid to help soldiers marry wives. Later, I couldn't even eat enough to eat, let alone this. ”

"Then the imperial court is not opposed to the private opening of wasteland, right?"

"How can it be opposed? It doesn't cost the court a penny to fill the stomachs of the soldiers, this kind of good thing, the adults of the Xuanfu can still see it.

Besides, our situation is special, and the wasteland is mostly thanks to the Tartars. There are no Tartars harassing and killing in the pass, and there is very little land abandoned, which can be regarded as a welfare ...... for us close to the grassland."

That's ironic.

Qin Liu was really powerless to complain: "This court, why is it so rubbish?" ”

Maang shook his head lightly and did not speak again.

Qin Liu didn't understand politics and couldn't say anything else.

Qin Liu found Ma Yue again and distributed the dividends to Ma Yue.

Ma Yue took the twelve taels of silver from the white flowers, and was so excited that he burst into tears.

In the past month, Qin Liu picked his son, the inn was all up to him, and he made his own decisions about everything, he was afraid but he had to do his best.

The hardships are known only to oneself.

He's just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy!

And the rewards of hard work are also very large, and Sister-in-law Li did not hesitate to divide the money, making him feel that his efforts were seen and recognized.

It's so nice to feel respected!

However, in addition to being excited, Ma Yue still said rationally: "Sister-in-law Li, the investment in the inn has not been recovered yet, how can you share the money now?" ”

Qin Liu smiled and said, "I'll start to recover the investment next month." ”

Ma Yue didn't insist, suppressed his excitement and said, "Okay! ”

He has 100% trust in Sister-in-law Li, and she is what she says.

Qin Liu did not implement Ma Yue's proposal to remove the signboard of the Swallow Tower.

Yanzilou has accumulated a lot of her hard work, and she has a lot of affection for it, and it is not so easy to give it up.

Besides, now Yanzilou is Zhu Yue's industry, Zhu Yue didn't speak, and she couldn't take off the brand without permission.

Qin Liu remembered Zhu Yue's instructions, and did not go to the inn to inspect it, but kept looking for Aunt Ma Yuema to understand the business status of the inn.

The inn has three large bunks, each of which can sleep up to 20 people. Twenty cents per person per night.

There is also an inn in town for ten cents a night, but it is not like she can provide hot showers here.

(End of chapter)