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Li Dingguo and the two had enough to eat and drink, and the one-armed veteran didn't ask them for food money, but told them that it would be their reward for escorting the apricots to Lantian.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo frowned and said, "Aren't you afraid that we won't work, and even snatch your apricots and run away?"

Hearing this, the veteran laughed and said, "Where do you think this is? This is Lantian. As long as you dare to do this, I can report to the officials. If you don't make it past tonight, you will be sent to the nearest yamen for boarding."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo didn't really believe it. The police here in Lantian are so powerful, it's impossible. If he got in with Wang Jiadong like this, why didn't anyone arrest them?
Li Dingguo thought about it, but seeing that the veteran was so determined, he stopped talking. Since he believed in the government so much, it was hard for them to say anything.

The two were taken to the backyard by the one-armed veteran. There was a harnessed mule cart and an old man with missing teeth. When the old man saw the one-armed veteran, he said, "What's the matter? Why did you come here? Our Xingzi There can be no delay."

Hearing this, the one-armed veteran smiled and said, "Master Guo, you've been waiting for a long time. I can't leave this store. Why don't I invite two young men to go with you to Lantian to help you unload the goods."

The old man Huoyazi heard this and said: "Then hurry up, this batch is fresh, don't miss the job."

Hearing this, the one-armed veteran said: "No, no, these two are great young men, don't delay, come here are these Xingzi, you help carry the mule cart."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong saw seven or eight baskets of big apricots behind them.

Then I went to move it to the car without asking, not to mention that the basket was quite heavy, it could weigh fifty or sixty catties.

No wonder the old man couldn't carry it, soon Xingzi got into the carriage, followed by Wang Jiadong and Li Dingguo, and followed Huoyazi's Guo Ye to Lantian County with the carriage.

The three of them chatted with each other along the way, and Li Dingguo figured out the reason. It turned out that Yuxianlou was the largest and most luxurious restaurant in Lantian County, so it needed the support of various goods around Lantian, and Dali County's rhubarb apricot was the most famous. Therefore, a cart of rhubarb apricots was ordered. This matter was helped by the one-armed veterans, and the old Guotou who drove the cart was a handlebar. The family raised this mule, and usually pointed to this mule to pull goods and earn money. Some money.

The car moved forward, Wang Jiadong was greedy, seeing the big yellow apricots on the car, he couldn't help but took two, Lao Guotou smacked his lips when he saw this, and said: "Young students, each of you take one or two to try something new. Don’t dare to eat too much, if there are not enough scales, we will lose our reputation.”

After hearing this, Wang Jiadong smiled and said: "I know, I just heard that the apricots are so good, I can't help but taste them."

After hearing this, Master Guo laughed and said, "I'm not bragging, old man."

Speaking of Wang Jiadong throwing one to Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo was a little tangled, Master Guo reached out and took one and said: "One and two of each are normal, whoever transports it will not be wasted."

As he said that, he took the lead in eating. Seeing this, Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong couldn't bear it anymore. They opened their mouths to eat, and took a bite. Don't tell me it's really sweet. The apricot tastes very strong. No wonder they were named by the No. [-] restaurant in Lantian. want it.

Mr. Guo ate the rhubarb apricots and said, "Hehe, these apricots are a good thing. In the past, the apricots in our county were grown for our children, but later the people from the county who brought Yuxianlou came to us and chose this apricot. Rhubarb apricots, let me tell you, just this one rhubarb apricots can be sold for ten renminbi after being cleaned up in Yuxian Tower, and then chilled with ice for a while.

"One apricot is ten cents, my dear, I'm afraid this cart of apricots can be sold for more than ten taels of silver, right?"

Wang Jiadong looked at the carload of Xingzi and said.

Master Guo nodded and said: "Not only that, I sent a car back last time, 20 taels of silver. Over the years, Lantian has developed rapidly, and the people have money in their pockets. Those who did business first also made a fortune. You are so rich that you can set up a banquet in Yuxian Tower, it is said that it is only a few tens of taels of silver, and there are also hundreds of taels of silver, it is really easy to make money."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "There are so many rich people, don't your county officials care?"

"Why do you care about the rich?"

Mr. Guo looked at Li Dingguo in confusion, and immediately reacted and said: "Oh, I forgot that you are foreigners. Our rich people in Lantian are different from foreigners. The rich people here are almost all Started from scratch, and after earning money, I have never exploited the common people, bullied the village, and even actively paid taxes to the county government. Every year, the county government has a list of commercial taxpayers in the county, and the list will be posted in the county. On the bulletin board, it is written clearly how much tax is paid by which shop in the above counties, the bigger the shop, the more tax the higher the front."

"The rich people in these counties are actively paying taxes, almost year after year, and some companies at the top of the list compete fiercely with each other, and they are unwilling to lag behind. They will go to the store to check the accounts, and these people are not allowed to pay more taxes and compete for the top spot."

"There is no way that some rich people have found ways to start doing charity, just hoping to gain a good reputation."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo widened his eyes and said, "This, can't it, are these rich businessmen stupid? They spend real money, just to grab a tax ranking list?"

After hearing this, Master Guo laughed and said: "I don't understand, in fact, I didn't understand at first, until later our chief told us, you think these rich businessmen are stupid, they are all shrewd, they There's a reason for that."

"As the most watched list in the county, the tax list has a huge amount of attention."

"Attention?"

Li Dingguo was also confused by this new word, but after thinking about it, he understood what it meant.

Guo Ye said: "Yes, it is attention. With attention, there will be publicity. If there is publicity, their shop will be well-known. For example, it also sells soy sauce. This year, your family is on the list. When people say to buy soy sauce, it must be The first thing that comes to mind is your family's soy sauce, anyway, we are going to buy soy sauce, why don't we buy what we are familiar with?"

Li Dingguo also suddenly realized after hearing Guo Ye’s words, it turned out to be like this, it’s just like employing people, some people always say that they are underappreciated, and say that the leader is nepotism, how can you say that the leader can not be nepotism, if the leader wants to promote an employee, that’s for sure You need to be promoted from people you are familiar with. The leaders don’t even know who you are, so why promote you?

If the leader really doesn't understand anything and insists on promoting you, there is only one reason. This leader is really useless.

This so-called ranking list is in common with this principle. You must at least be familiar with the list. When you buy soy sauce, people will think of you first. This can be regarded as a particularly good advertising opportunity.

In particular, Lantian also focuses on maintaining this so-called tax list.

Guo Ye also said that another important reason why this tax list has attracted attention is that every year Lantian selects the top ten outstanding taxpayers in Lantian, the top ten outstanding young talents in Lantian, and the top ten good people...

Waiting for the awards, these awards will be issued by the county officials in person. This is a great honor, so countless people are working hard silently.

Among them, the top ten outstanding taxpayers are the ones with the highest gold content. For this reason, the tax fraud case of Fenghuang Gold Store once broke out. In that year, Phoenix Gold Store paid 1000 taels less than Dafu Gold Store. Unexpectedly, the Fenghuang Gold Store actually cheated. That year, it reported an extra income of 2 taels and paid an extra tax of 2000 taels, successfully surpassing the Dafu Gold Store.

However, it was found out by the Lantian taxation department later, and the county lord was alarmed at that time. The county lord personally ordered to severely criticize and punish the shopkeeper Wang of the Phoenix Gold Store, and refunded 2000 taels of tax.

This incident shocked all the people in Lantian at that time. After all, there was an imperial court that gave money but didn’t want it, and Lantian immediately issued an official document saying: “Taxation is the guarantee of Lantian’s finances. , less will never be allowed.”

However, because the Phoenix Gold Store took the initiative to pay more taxes, it was not a serious case, and it was just a verbal criticism. However, this incident also brought a lot of exposure to the Phoenix Gold Store, and the sales of the Phoenix Gold Store that year The amount is almost the same as that of Daifuku Gold Store.

After listening to Master Guo's narration, the eyeballs of Li Dingguo and Wang Jiadong popped out, my God, how can this be played like this?
It is true that some of Li Chaosheng's business thinking that was commonplace in his previous life is definitely pioneering in this era. A tax list has mobilized the enthusiasm of all companies. In fact, the reason why these companies are on the list is completely due to Li Chaosheng's release. , because almost half of the companies on the list are added together, and the market value cannot reach the Lantian Investment Company founded by Li Chaosheng, the largest tax leader in Lantian. After all, Li Chaosheng's investment company has participated in most of Lantian's assets.

Nearly [-]% of the profits of the Ministry of Commerce come from this company every year, which shows the strength of this company.

However, he did not participate in the election, and even many businesses owned by the Lantian government were not selected. After all, this list is to encourage private commercial organizations to pay taxes, so you can't put your own business on the list, otherwise it will be meaningless.

All businesses in Lantian basically have no competition, so there is no need to compete with the people for profit.

The car creaked and walked towards Lantian. Because Lantian County has encouraged road construction these years, the road from Dali County to Lantian County is particularly easy to travel, so the speed is very fast. After walking for about three hours, they came to Outside Lantian.

Guo Ye pointed to the city not far away and said, "That's Lantian County."

Li Dingguo was a little strange seeing the bustling city with these big chimneys occasionally, because it was completely different from the city he imagined, and why this city was so different.

There are not many farmlands on both sides of the road, but there are many processing workshops, and there are a bunch of buildings with big chimneys in the distance. I heard from Mr. Guo that this is the steel factory in Lantian. It is said that Lantian All steel-related industries, such as steel for guns and artillery, are produced from these smoke-smoking factories.

Li Dingguo really wanted to go in and see what it was like inside. He could manufacture a firearm as powerful as Lantian, but unfortunately he couldn't get in. There were military guard posts around the steel factory. After all, it involved the secrets of the Lantian Iron and Steel Industry.

Passing through the gate of Lantian County, Li Dingguo found that there is no city entry tax here. Mr. Guo saw Li Dingguo's doubts and smiled: "There is no city entry tax in all areas of Lantian, and the people of Lantian only have several types of taxes. For agricultural tax, those who do business only need to pay commercial tax, and those who work for factories or shops, the shops or factories will directly pay labor taxes for them.

In addition, there is a stall tax for stalls in the city. As for other taxes such as head tax, entrance tax, etc., all taxes are gone. Lantian has a very strict implementation method for tax collection.

When a group of people entered the city, Li Dingguo realized that his eyesight was not enough as soon as he entered the city. He swore he had never seen so many rich people in his life. , all of them are well dressed, even their faces are not as gray as in other places, and this hair, each of them has been washed frequently, unlike the people he saw in other places, the hair is all stuck together , looks like a group of beggars.

But the people here are very quiet. Whether a place lives and works in peace and contentment, you can actually look at the mental outlook of the people in this place. People only think of cleaning up their appearance after eating and drinking. With people like this, Li Dingguo knew that the people here must be well fed and warmly dressed.

"Okay, don't even look at it, hurry up and follow me to Yuxianlou, don't miss the delivery time."

Master Guo said to Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo heard this and said, "Where is the Yuxian Tower?"

After hearing this, Mr. Guo pointed to a street with a very busy flow of people, and upon seeing this, Li Dingguo said, "Then let's go there quickly."

A group of people came to this street, and saw the sign on the street: Lantian Pedestrian Street.

Five big characters, followed by seeing the street blocked by stone blocks one by one, Mr. Guo said: "This road can't drive the carriage, so I can only be lucky for you."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo thought, is this right? This method didn't work for him, so he was still puzzled, so this is where he used his strength.

Thinking of Li Dingguo's Wang Jiadong getting out of the carriage with a basket of apricots in their arms, Mr. Guo saw the management staff in uniform nearby and called them to help watch the donkey cart, so he took Li Dingguo and the two of them to Yuxian Tower go.

When he arrived at Yuxian Tower, Li Dingguo was attracted by the five-storey restaurant in front of him as soon as he arrived at Yuxian Tower. He saw red lanterns hanging on the restaurant and two big stone lions in front of the door, which was very impressive.

Seeing that Mr. Guo had already negotiated with the manager inside, Li Dingguo and the two soon sent the apricot basket to the warehouse of the restaurant.

At this time, on the second floor of a tea house not far away, Li Chaosheng put down his teacup slowly and said, "It's time to come, Xiaolei, Guzi, you can accompany me to meet Li Dingguo later."

"Yes."