Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1408 The Commerce Department was established! (Thanks to Hans for the bounty!)

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the next day.

"Boss Wang? What did you say? Immortal tea is on sale? Can we merchants buy it too?"

"Of course it's true! This is the latest news from this old man. As long as it is a merchant in Lantian County, with the store deed, he can go to Zuixianlou to buy a pound of immortal tea! That's a pound of immortal tea! No matter how much it used to be in the past. You can’t even buy a tael with your money, if you don’t hurry up, Brother Bai, you won’t be able to buy it in a while~!”

"What? A pound of immortal tea!! Brother Wang, wait for me, I'll go get the store deed, eh! Wait! How much is a pound of immortal tea?"

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive! Only sixty Tang Yuan! Brother, hurry up!"

"...Okay! I'll be right here~!"

If it were in the past, someone said that a pound of tea sold for 60 ounces, the merchant surnamed Bai would definitely slap the other party to death, but now, although he also thinks it is expensive, but a pound of fairy tea is 60 ounces, a tael It is six cups, and one or two fairy teas can be brewed for about ten cups. If you are more stingy, you can make twelve cups. That is to say, a cup of fairy tea is only three hundred cents at most (it is always equal to eight hundred cents), at least it can be To more than 200 words! !

This is completely for nothing!

In the past, Zuixianlou limited the promotion of a free cup of immortal tea after spending ten thousand dollars in the store, which attracted countless "local tyrants" who love tea to enter the store to snatch it up. At the beginning, Boss Bai also went to Zuixianlou to taste it, although he was a little distressed at the time. But after tasting the Immortal Tea, he felt that it was worthwhile and satisfying in his heart!

Only after you have truly tasted Shenxian tea, will you realize that the tea leaves you drank before are all rubbish!

And once you drink fairy tea, it is easy to become addicted, especially for those who love the tea ceremony. If you can't drink fairy tea for a day, it will be as uncomfortable as a cat's paw scratching your heart. Unfortunately, this white boss is Belong to this kind of people!

For this reason, he had been to the Zuixianlou five times. In the end, he really felt that if he drank like this, the profit of his shop for a few months would be wiped out, so he could only reluctantly give up. It would cost at least ten taels of money, even if he had little money, he couldn't help but waste it!

Now that I heard that Zuixianlou is going to sell immortal tea, and only 60 ounces per pound, how can Boss Bai not be moved? Even if he buys it and sells it directly to merchants in other states and counties, he can still make some money. If he builds a high-end teahouse in the store and sells the brewed fairy tea, he will make more money!

After all, with the current popularity of Shenxian Tea and the reputation of tribute tea, as long as there is a teahouse offering Shenxian tea, even if it is five hundred cents a cup, there will definitely be many people coming to snatch it!

This is a sure-fire deal!

"Manager Liu, why can't we buy it? Are you afraid that we won't give you money?"

"That's right! Why can only merchants in Lantian County buy it? Everyone is giving money, so what's the difference?"

"Yeah! Shopkeeper Liu! If you think that 60 ounces per pound is too cheap, you can raise the price even higher. Why limit the purchase to only businessmen in Lantian County?"

In addition to the Zuixianlou branch in the county seat of Lantian County, today, in addition to the endless stream of diners, there are also noisy merchants from all walks of life. Many of these merchants are not businessmen in Lantian County, they are just in Lantian When the county was watching the game, I happened to hear the news that the Zuixianlou here was selling immortal tea, and rushed over immediately.

Obviously, there are many tea ceremony lovers who have tasted immortal tea like Boss Bai and are crazy about immortal tea!

But who would have thought that Zuixianlou had set a rule that tea would be given priority to local merchants in Lantian County. How could the non-local merchants who rushed over to grab the tea could bear it? So they started arguing with the shopkeeper Liu of Zuixianlou!

This shopkeeper Liu is the same shopkeeper Liu who used to be the Zuixianlou in Chang'an City. Now, not only has the Zuixianlou opened many branches, but Li Zexuan has also become the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households, the fief of Lantian, and the shopkeeper Liu is the owner of the "head office" of Zuixianlou. The shopkeeper voluntarily requested to be assigned to a "branch" in Lantian County. As for the Zuixianlou in Chang'an City, a branch shopkeeper recommended by Shopkeeper Liu took over!

In fact, this is where the shopkeeper Liu is smart. He knows very well that the place where Li Zexuan is located can be called the main store of Zuixianlou. Now Li Zexuan has lived in Lantian County for a long time, and the name of the head office of Zuixianlou in Chang'an City. Basically it's gone in name only!

Besides, Lantian County has now completely become Li Zexuan's own territory. Shopkeeper Liu feels more at ease staying here!

"Everyone! Be quiet! Liu has a few words to say!"

Faced with the siege of many "out-of-town" merchants, Shopkeeper Liu had to come out to maintain order. He first shouted, and after everyone was quiet, he quickly lost his smile and cupped his hands:

"Guests, we don't have much stock in Zuixianlou for this batch of immortal tea, so we only give priority to the shop owners in Lantian County. This can be regarded as the care of the businessmen in Lantian County by my lord. Liu knows you all. My heart is unhappy, but the amount of fairy tea is still too small. My Houye just wants to give some favors to the people of the fief. Whether it is a farmer, a craftsman, or a businessman, they are all the subjects of my Houye's fief, and the Houye will treat them equally.

Recently, Lord Hou has been repairing canals and building waterwheels for the common people. Now Lord Hou just wants to use fairy tea to bring some benefits to the merchants on the fief. I hope you can understand! Liu knows that all the guests are very fond of immortal tea, but please wait patiently for a while. After a long time, after the production of immortal tea rises, Qiqu Pavilion in various places will begin to fully supply it! At that time, you can buy as much as you want~! "

Ahem, Mr. Liu's shopkeeper

In these words, a lot of private goods can be entrained, and many of them were taught by Li Zexuan!

After the shopkeeper Liu said, the merchants below were suddenly full of annoyance.

"Ah? So that's how it is! Lord Hou treats the merchants in the fief so well. I really admire him!"

"Hey! It turns out that opening a shop in Lantian County still has such benefits? I knew that I bought two shops in Lantian County last year!"

"Hey! Brother Sun, it's not too late for you to buy it now?"

"It's too late, it's too late! Now the prices of shops in Lantian County have risen so high, I can't even afford to buy them!"

The merchants from other places sighed and annoyed, but the "indigenous" merchants in Lantian County couldn't help but want to applaud and rejoice:

"Haha! Marquis is benevolent and righteous! Fortunately, I have foresight! At the beginning of the year, I came to Lantian County to open a shop~!"

"Haha! That's right! It's really rare for Lord Hou to treat me like the common people and treat me equally! I'll stay in Lantian County to do business in the future, and I won't go anywhere~!"

"That's it! I'm just looking forward to this kind of good thing, and it can come a few more times!"

"I will, I will!"

"It would be better if Lord Hou could drive away all the hooligans in the market!"

Since Shopkeeper Liu has said this for the sake of it, and there are many shop owners in Lantian County who are supporting Shopkeeper Liu, those businessmen from other places, although they are unwilling, can't say anything else, so they can only keep silent. Step back behind the crowd!

And those local merchants in Lantian County happily lined up to prepare the "big red envelopes" that Li Zexuan distributed to merchants in the county!

Of course, there are also a lot of out-of-town merchants with flexible minds, who stay behind the team. After the people in front have bought the fairy tea, they will go directly to ask for a price increase!

That is to say, the local merchants in Lantian County don’t have to go to other prefectures and counties to re-sell it after buying Shenxian tea, and sell it directly to the out-of-town merchants who are guarding the surrounding area, and they can make a small profit!

In this world, there is simply no easier way to make money than this~!

However, there is no free lunch in this world. Gains and losses are often balanced with each other.

While the businessmen in Lantian County were enjoying this "red envelope feast" to the fullest, they unknowingly fell into the "tender trap" set by Li Zexuan. Staying in the "trap" and being tricked, don't want to come out!

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Due to the large number of immortal teas sold in Zuixianlou in Lantian County, there are many temporary teahouses in the county. Tea, drink tea!

Well, there is a tea room in the silk shop, there is a tea room in the porcelain shop, and even a coffin shop, which has actually set up a temporary tea room in a frenzy!

As for the price they sell immortal tea, bosses with a bit of "conscience" usually sell a cup of tea for more than 400 cents, while those who are "ruthless" directly raise the price of immortal tea to about 500 or 600 cents.

Because these people know very well in their hearts, although Zuixianlou sells a lot of fairy tea today, they will definitely not be able to sell so much in the short term! In other words, the market stock of immortal tea is only so little. When those immortal teas with lower prices are sold out, customers can only buy the "high-priced" immortal tea in their store!

No matter whether it is four hundred cents a cup, five or six hundred cents a cup, in any case, it is much more direct and more affordable than the activity of "consuming ten points and getting a cup of fairy tea" in Zuixianlou!

Moreover, Shenxian tea is a rare court tribute tea among the people. Is a cup of 400 pennies really expensive? Last year's Zuixianlou's plate of chicken cost all the money!

At least this price is completely affordable for those "petty bourgeoisie" families!

Therefore, on the first day alone, nearly a thousand diners tasted the legendary fairy tea!

And for those who have ever drank fairy tea, there is no one who does not say good things! According to word of mouth, the reputation of Immortal Tea was overwhelming, and a storm of immortal tea quickly blew up in Lantian County. Diners in Chang'an City and other surrounding counties also came for tea, just to taste a cup of Immortal. Tea!

Because at present, in the entire Tang Dynasty, only Lantian County has the largest stock of immortal tea, and even Chang'an City is far behind!

However, no matter how much inventory there is, if there is only going out and not coming in, the inventory will be consumed sooner or later.

Five days! Only five days have passed!

Under the common frenzied "consumption" of thousands of diners in Chang'an City and its more than 20 surrounding counties, the stocks of fairy teas of Lantian County merchants were all purchased in just five days. Those Lantian County merchants of Shenxian Tea have all made a lot of money!

After running out of fairy tea, they also went to Zuixianlou to find shopkeeper Liu, wanting to buy Shenxian tea again, but shopkeeper Liu had no stock at all, so naturally they couldn't get extra fairy tea, but shopkeeper Liu promised them Now, when the next batch of immortal tea arrives, it will still be given priority to the businessmen in Lantian County!

The merchants were naturally grateful to Shopkeeper Liu and Li Zexuan, but they didn't notice that after they left, Shopkeeper Liu showed a sweet smile on the corner of his mouth!

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the next day.

The police of Lantian County were dispatched in unison. At the major intersections in Lantian County and at the gates of the city, a notice was posted about the imminent establishment of the Department of Commerce in Lantian County.

"From today, all merchants, farmers, and craftsmen in Lantian County are classified as civilians, and the government treats them equally! In Lantian County, there will be only civilians and scholars in the future! Businessmen's children can also enter the county school and be admitted to the Yanhuang Academy. In order to allow businessmen to receive fair and just treatment, the Lantian County Government officially established the Commerce Department today in accordance with the Yongan Hou decree.

The Department of Commerce specializes in disputes between merchants, aiming to protect the private legal property of merchants from being infringed, and to create a good business environment for merchants in Lantian County. All merchants can go to Lantian when their own interests are endangered by others. The county's Department of Commerce will report to the official, and the officials of the Department of Commerce will handle it impartially!

In addition, the Department of Commerce is also responsible for the government to fight for business tax for businessmen in the future. Starting from next month, the business tax ratio in Lantian County will be changed from 30 to 1 to 6 to 1. All merchants in Lantian County must pay before the end of each month. , report the profit of the month to the Commerce Department, and take 1 out of 6 out of the total profit as commercial tax!

In order to avoid underpayment or even tax evasion by some merchants, the Department of Commerce will organize personnel at the beginning of each month to conduct random checks on the accounts of shops in the county. The object of attention, any merchant, once the number of tax evasion and tax evasion reaches three times, will be directly expelled from Lantian County, and will never be allowed to open a shop in Lantian County!

In order to encourage merchants from all over the world to open stores in Lantian County, all products of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce will be given priority to merchants in Lantian County in the future! "

"Hey~!"

After reading the announcement of the county government office, the merchants in Lantian County were all gasping for air. Immediately, the merchants couldn't help but discuss:

"What? The ratio of business tax has been changed to six to one? Such a heavy business tax is extremely rare to read through the history books! Why did the county magistrate kill me and other merchants?"

"Yeah! At the beginning, I thought the county government was thinking about our business, but at the end, I realized that the government was trying to suck our blood!"

"Isn't that right? Take sixty percent of the total profit of the month as business tax. How can people live?"

"Well... can't say that? At least in Lantian County, the status of our businessmen has become higher, and our children can still go to the county school! You must know that in this county school, occasionally there will be Mr. Yanhuang Academy to give lectures. Ah! This kind of opportunity, we are in other states and counties, and we can't even ask for it!"

"Hey! That's right! But this six-for-one business tax ratio is still too heavy!"

"It doesn't matter to me! You didn't see the notice saying that as long as someone endangers our own interests, you can go to the Department of Commerce to report to the officials, and the officials of the Department of Commerce will deal with it impartially! This alone is much better than other places. In the future, if someone goes to the store to make trouble or collect protection fees, we can go directly to the officials of the Department of Commerce to help solve it, so that the monthly expenditure may be less than before!"

"That's right! That's true! I just wonder if the Commerce Department is willing to completely clean up those rascals in the market!"

"Hey, didn't you see what's written on the back of the newspaper? The products of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce will be given priority to the merchants in Lantian County in the future! This is the most important thing! If the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce gives us priority, then we will make more money. That part of the money must far exceed the tariffs to be paid!"

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