Great Sui Dynasty

It was completely dark when Yang Hao and his party arrived at the post station, so it shouldn't be too late, but in the late winter and early spring, the day length in the north is still relatively short.

There were only a few older postmen in the station, and when Yang Hao and his party entered, they found two of them still dozing off.Originally, he wanted to reserve all the rooms in the station, but the postman said that some of them were already occupied, and there were only three rooms left.

"Three rooms are three, it's better than none." Since there are only three rooms, then Qinghui, a girl, must have one room alone, and her prince must also live in one room, and the remaining one Only the dozen or so guards could squeeze in.

"My lord, a dozen of us are divided into two groups, and we take turns to rest and watch the night. Please rest at ease, the lord and the princess." The captain of the dozen or so personal guards looked at Yang Hao's thoughts and said.

"Well, pay more attention to the situation, divide into two teams and take four shifts, so that everyone can rest for a while." After explaining, Yang Hao took Qinghui into the room to rest.Of course, Qinghui's room is in the middle, so that no matter what happens, it will not be affected first, and Yang Hao is worried, so he went in to check it.

Lying on the bed, Yang Hao couldn't sleep all the time. He kept thinking about the old man digging the ground he met today and the figures of those refugees. He couldn't get rid of the burden on him.After a lot of tossing and turning, when I was finally about to enter my dream, there was a sigh from the next door.

"Hey, I thought that the new tax policy promulgated by Qingzhou would be beneficial to us merchants, but who knows, hey! It's all a dead letter. Isn't the tax on our merchants the same as before? And it seems to have intensified. I was also too reckless. I only heard this news, and hurriedly organized a large number of goods to Qingzhou without confirmation. Presumably Qingzhou will need a lot of materials to rebuild after a mess. Unexpectedly, it seems that I can't even get back the blood. gone."

"Isn't that right, brother, I'm also a bum here. I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to pave the way even if I didn't make a lot of money. I didn't expect, hey~" Someone sighed.

Hearing this, Yang Hao lost all sleepiness. He didn't expect that he ordered the abolition of the existing merchant tax in Qingzhou and promulgated a new tax. It's not that the new merchant tax is unreasonable, it's just an error in the implementation below.At first, I thought that although there was resistance, others would not dare to commit crimes against the wind based on my majesty, but I didn't expect this to happen.Yang Hao didn't sleep anymore, got up and changed his clothes, and wanted to go to the next door to ask what happened.

"Dong dong dong" Yang Hao came to the next door and gently knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Hearing someone knock on the door, a question came from the room.

"I'll go and see, who could it be so late?"

"Excuse me, who are you?" A person inside opened the door and saw a more handsome and handsome person, so he asked aloud, but the vigilance in his words was very strong.

"Yang Zhong, Huairen, I heard that the new merchant tax in Qingzhou is beneficial to our merchants, so I came here to investigate and see if it is true, so I can decide whether to come to Qingzhou to pave the way. But just now when I was sleeping Hearing what Xiongtai said about the situation is not good, so I came here to inquire about it, please forgive me if I am presumptuous." Yang Hao said in a merchant's tone, and suddenly shortened the distance between the two, eliminating most of the other party's vigilance psychology.

"Oh~ So it's Brother Yang, I'm Jia Yuan, since you're traveling with me, please come in and have a talk." The man saw that he was also a merchant and invited Yang Hao into the room to have a talk, otherwise it would be impolite to let others outside the room .

When Yang Hao entered the room, he saw wine and food on the table in the room. It seemed that he was sober and bored because of worrying.

"This is brother Huairen Yang Zhong, who is also a fellow traveler who came to Qingzhou to inquire about the market." Na Jia Yuan said to the people beside the table.

"Since Brother Yang is also a fellow traveler, please do it." The man sat down after speaking, it seems that the mutual exclusion among businessmen is still obvious.

Yang Hao also sat down politely.

"I just heard two brothers discussing the market of Qingzhou trade routes in the next door, so I took the liberty to come here to inquire." Yang Hao said again.

"How much supplies did Brother Yang prepare this time?" Jia Yuan asked.

"Not much, probably worth tens of thousands of taels, but they are still in Huairen, and have not yet been shipped. We will go back and ship them after we inquire about the news this time." Yang Hao casually reported a false amount.

"Ten tens of thousands of taels?" Jia Yuan and the others said in amazement, tens of thousands of taels is not a small amount, it seems that this Yang Zhong's background is not simple, it would be good if they can make friends, both of them are making plans.

"It's a good thing that brother Yang didn't get lucky, otherwise he would have lost all his money when he came to Qingzhou." Jia Yuan had a lucky expression.

"Oh? How do you say that?" Yang Hao asked.

"Brother Yang doesn't know something, brother, I heard that Qingzhou implements a tax policy that is beneficial to us merchants, so I brought a batch of goods to pave the way. I didn't know that on the way, I was exploited layer by layer with road taxes. I've lost all my money." Na Jia Yuan said sadly.

"How could this be? It is said that this new tax policy was formulated by a prince. Could it be false?" Yang Hao made an incredulous expression.

"Fake is true, but those ambassadors and officials of the Du branch said that the court did not order any changes, and they would not change them. We asked the prince to ask for an explanation. I quarreled with him and was actually accepted. Double the tax and profit, hey~ Don’t you think this is a waste of money for us?” Jia Yuan said helplessly, while the other person remained silent.

"So that's the case, thank you Brother Jia for telling the truth, otherwise brother, I will definitely suffer a lot of losses this time. If Brother Jia wants to develop in Huairen in the future, just look for my Yang family, and I will definitely help Brother Jia." If so, prepare to withdraw.

"Thank you so much Brother Yang." Jia Yuan immediately showed a joyful expression.

"Do you think what she said is true?" After Yang Yan left the room, the person who had been silent all this time suddenly said.

"How could I not know that the first time I opened the door, I knew that he was not from my generation. From his words, it can be seen that he must be a scholar, or an official, otherwise he would not treat merchants like this. I don’t understand. What about Huairen’s Yang family? I’ve never heard of any family in Huairen with the surname Yang. A large amount of supplies has been prepared with definite news, don’t you know that if the news is unreliable, you will lose a lot of supplies if you send them away?” Jia Yuan said.

"Then why did you invite him in, and why did you say such a thing to him?" the man asked again.

"Hehe, even if I don't tell him, he will know, but I think he is probably a subordinate of the prince who came to inquire about the taxation situation he promulgated. Didn't you hear that many people suddenly came outside? And Just now there were quite a few people walking around outside. Probably guards and the like, it can be seen that this person's status is not low. I told him that, but I wanted him to pay more attention to it. After all, our loss is indeed real. " Jia Yuan said, the shrewd energy of that businessman overflowed from his eyes.