Compete for the Song Dynasty

condition?This Su Xiao is quite interesting, who does he think he is?Wang Pang stood still: "Master Su, if you feel that this mansion needs to be repaired, please explain it to Steward Lu. If you can do it, do it. If you can't, you have to ask Mr. Su to find another good house."

"The condition I'm talking about below is not to repair the mansion, but to discuss a business with the prince."

What a big tone!Wang Pang turned to look at Su Xiao, this Su Xiao was only seventeen or eighteen years old, yet he came to discuss business with Wang Pang in such a bold tone.Wang Pang couldn't help looking up and down at this Su Xiao, a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, if Wang Pang hadn't happened to take care of the burial under the moon these few days, he wouldn't have given this girl the opportunity to not see the mansion with others for three days .

Seeing Wang Pang looking at her, Su Xiao couldn't see any expression on Wang Pang's face. Isn't Wang Pang a businessman?Why is Wang Pang so indifferent when it comes to business.Maybe it's because he doesn't believe that he can buy this house and come to discuss business with him?Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out a stack of silver bills from her pocket and put them on the table: "These silver bills can be exchanged for 200 taels of gold. If a good contract can be made today, I will 'lose', and then I will bother you, my lord." Come with me to the government to seal the deed. But before that, please show me the 'question account', Mr. Wang."

Wang Bang had bought land several times, and at last these terms did not bother him. During the Song Taizu period, there was a clear regulation: "When selling and relying on the property, first ask the house-in-law, if the house-in-law does not buy it, then ask the neighbors. A deal must be made." Before selling the house, the seller must obtain the approval of family members, clan members and neighbors.This kind of approval can't just be a verbal consent. The formal way is to "ask through the account", that is, the owner needs to take a small book and make a "ask account", list the names of relatives and neighbors on it, and state the reason why the owner wants to sell the house. And how much money you want to sell, and then, give it to your family and clan members first, and ask them if they are willing to buy the owner's house. If they are not willing to buy, the owner needs to go to the neighbors and ask them if they are willing to buy. Finally, when " The owner has the right to sell the house to others only when the signatures of the above-mentioned people are densely listed on the "Inquiry Account". Otherwise, it is illegal, and the clan and neighbors have the right to report. If one of them refuses to sign, the house cannot be sold to others. But the refusal must also explain the reasons, for example, the owner ruined the family property, the owner sold the house against the ancestral precepts, the owner damaged the right of first refusal of relevant personnel, the neighbors are unwilling to change the neighbors for strangers, etc. If you enter the litigation process, these reasons can generally be accepted. Approved by the "judge". It is conceivable that no matter how high-spirited a person in the Song Dynasty is, when it comes time to sell a house, he must nod and bow to his clansmen and neighbors in order to get their signatures.[

After passing the level of "asking relatives and neighbors all over the place", the buyer and seller can sign the contract.According to the stipulations of the document, the buyer and the seller have to go to the county government to buy a "fixed sticker", draft a contract, and after being reviewed and approved by relevant personnel, purchase several "deeds" before they can formally sign the contract.

The "Zheng Qi" is in quadruplicate: one to be held by the buyer, one to be held by the seller, one to be submitted to the county government for approval, and one to be filed with the Commercial Taxation Court. The "Commercial and Taxation Court" was the tax collection agency of the Song Dynasty, similar to the current National Taxation Bureau.Commercial and tax courts are generally not located in county towns, and the deed tax is often collected by the county government, and more often it is done by "Fang Ya". "Fang Ya" is not only an intermediary, but also a guarantee, not only an appraiser, but also a registered agent, and also serves as a tax inspector. The work of "Fang Ya" is not paid, and a commission must be paid to them. If there is no special agreement, the commission is usually paid by the seller.

Like all other imperial eras, the Song Dynasty did not have a real estate certificate. After all four contracts were stamped, one of them was used as evidence of the buyer's legal ownership of the property.Whether it is stamped or not is very important to the buyer. The same contract is called "white deed" without a seal, and "red deed" with a seal (renamed "red deed" in Ming and Qing dynasties). It may be useful for folks, but it is equivalent to a piece of waste paper in court. For example, the owner has just bought a suite and has not yet lived in it. If you don't support the owner, you will have to confiscate the owner's house.

Knowing so much, Su Xiao must have been working hard to buy a house these days, Wang looked at Lu Shenyan, these inquiries and other matters must have been done by Lu Shenyan, and sure enough Lu Shanyan saw Su Xiao slapping the bank note on the table, I looked at it with my eyes, and it turned out that there were a lot of silver bills, and I thought to myself that I hadn't prepared breakfast in vain for so many days.He said with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, you two, the account has already been prepared, and even the contract is ready, just waiting for the two of you to sign the contract."

"Wait!" Wang Pang thought that Su Xiao hadn't said what he wanted to say, so he definitely couldn't sign it so easily, thinking that the Su family was also a big family in Meizhou, who knew what conditions this girl would offer.What's more, a girl who is sixteen or seventeen dares to carry a huge amount of money to Jingcheng Land and dress up like this, which shows that she is also a bold and righteous master.

"Hmph, why does the prince want to go back on his word?" Su Xiao raised his brows.

The corner of Wang Pang's mouth smiled faintly, still with an elusive expression that was half a smile but not a smile: "There is nothing to regret when buying and selling a house, but first ask Mr. Su to talk about your conditions. Don't look back, I won't agree to you, you regret buying this house. It's like I'm bullying you."

"Okay! I bought this house in the name of Mayer's Mansion. I'm in Meizhou Suwen. The prince is a good businessman. Every year, the tea profit handed over to the court is 20 taels of silver. I wanted to ask you for advice. But Unexpectedly, I saw that the son sold the Mayer Mansion and closed the tea farm business. I bought this house and wanted to keep the name of the house, so I asked the son to come forward and help my tea farmers in Shu to sell tea in Shu. This is what I said The conditions and the business you want to discuss with the young master." Su Xiao finished speaking in one breath, and took a breath like a heavy burden.

After listening to Wang Ping, he smiled slightly. He knew that the tea business was profitable. Not only the capital city, but also the Xixia and Liao countries regarded tea as a treasure.It's just that he doesn't feel this way at the moment.If he became an official in the Song Dynasty, he could not leave his post without permission. Before he wanted to stay in the capital, he couldn't do it. Now he can only resign if he wants to leave the capital.In order to leave the capital, he agreed to Prime Minister Zeng Gongliang's entrustment, and went south to investigate the lost scrolls.

There is a kind of mentality called drifting with the tide. After traveling to the king's side several years later in the Song Dynasty, he suddenly had such an emotion.It would have been a few years ago, or Wang Pang laughed secretly in his heart, secretly complacent and even agreed, but now it is different: now Wang Pang is at a loss in his heart, since Yuexia left, he himself feels that there is no goal, if Just give up and do nothing, and my savings over the years are enough for the rest of my life.But these people around him made him have to do something, such as going south, hoping from Wang Pang's heart that he could dig gold, so that it would be worthwhile for everyone to follow him; Burn out bricks that can be used to build a house, and realize what I promised to build a brick house under the moon.

Seeing Su Xiao's sincerity, Wang Pang shook his head slightly: "Young master Su, this is not allowed. You also know that tea is sold in every prefecture, and all these are handled by the imperial court except when I was a tea farm in the capital. If your Sichuan tea is sold to other prefectures and affects the tea profits in other places, then the government will not be able to bear the responsibility of you and me."

Su Xiao stood up, walked in front of Wang Pang and looked up at Wang Pang: "Young Master Wang, I am not alone. Our government lowers the price to collect tea, and the tea farmers can only sell it to the government. In the end, the common people I became poorer and poorer, and food was expensive in famine years, so I had to borrow money from rich landlords to buy food. In the end, the income was not enough to pay back the interest, and many people were displaced and their families were destroyed. I have the heart to help them. It is better to find a way out than to spread wealth. I also often hear my cousin mention Prince Wang, so I came here to ask for it."

Listening to this, Wang could not help but look at Su Xiao again. This child seemed very angry, suppressing his anger, but there was a trace of stubbornness in his eyes, but what a girl of sixteen or seventeen knows, it is hard to believe just by listening to one-sided words.

Wang Bang raised his face: "Young Master Su, don't you know that since Emperor Taizong and Zhenzong, in order to prevent disasters, there have been parity warehouses in various places, and part of the money for offerings will be deducted as the principal of grain and grass. When the grain price is cheap, the government buys the stored grain. , if the price of food is high, sell it to stabilize the price or use it for disaster relief, how to make the people displaced. You can keep the name of Meyer Mansion if you want, but my king can't help you. And I have resigned. And closed the tea farm, I think it is really difficult to agree to do this.”

Hearing what Wang Pang said, Su Xiao hurriedly said: "Young Master, I don't know, those parity warehouses have been embezzled, and there are real names."

"In this matter, if there are officials who corrupt and bend the law, Mr. Su can go to the magistrate or go to the high court. What's the use of you coming to me?"

"Even if these things are solved temporarily, they still can't solve the fundamental problem. Didn't you hear that the prince is not helping the poor? Now the people in Sichuan are poor, and there is no market for tea. In the past, they would be secretly transported to Shaanxi, where there seems to be a lot of tea. , now even the Shaanxi Road doesn’t have the demand, if this continues, the tea in Sichuan will be ruined.” Su Xiaoxiao was very anxious.

Wang Pang couldn't help but think that the ancient tea-horse trade in the southwest frontier and northwest frontier flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties when the ancient tea-horse road was divided into Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet routes.Could it be that the tea-horse trade into Tibet has not yet taken shape between Sichuan and Tibet?Since the Song Dynasty, the Shaanxi Pass has been lost, and the tea and horse trade has not been allowed. So it means that the Shu Road has not yet been formed?This is indeed a business opportunity, but with such a fluffy girl, can she persuade Wang Bang to open up the ancient tea-horse road in Sichuan and Tibet with just a few words?

Moreover, Su Xiao kept saying that he wanted to discuss business with Wang Pang, so why did he talk about it?Wang listened to what Su Xiao said about the suffering of the common people, which may be true, but that is not something he should take care of. Even if his family has just been ruined, how can he have the ability and mood to take care of others? [

"Mr. Su's painstaking efforts, I understand that Wang really doesn't have the ability to do this now."

"Forget it, it turns out that the world has said that the prince has lost his will and that the imperial court will no longer serve the people. It seems to be true!" There was a trace of undisguised contempt in Su Xiao's eyes.