Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 133 Growing Prosperity
Those workshops that are too small can only make a profit of 200 taels a month, and some only make a few dozen taels.It was designated as the last file by the tax department, and the monthly tax was more than 80 taels, and the profit was so small that it went bankrupt directly.Some smaller workshops were afraid of being included in the last category, so they went out of business directly.The country's basic processing industry has been greatly reduced, which has led to complaints from the people, and the country's tax revenue has also gone from bad to worse.

Ruizong sees that the tax reform at the beginning has achieved great results. The national tax revenue has doubled for three consecutive months, but since July, the tax revenue has dropped sharply. This is the effect of policies above and countermeasures below.He was very angry at the actions of these speculators, but they were normal transactions with clearly marked prices, and the transaction tax was paid a small amount. Those who went out of business or quit, can't make a loss-making business?

As the various shops and workshops sold by Jinfu began to operate, the tax department staff at Jinfu Wharf was obviously not enough. As a last resort, manpower was mobilized from around the capital to enrich the tax collection team.It is necessary to refine the taxation of various commodities and maximize the money for the court.Ruizong saw that the lower the ranking of merchants, the more they were greatly reduced. He could only try to improve the ranking of the top-ranking merchants.He issued rigid targets to the local tax bureaus, where the amount of tax collected increased, and the salary there increased accordingly.

On this day, three fresh faces from the Tax Division came to the Jin Mansion. They wanted to enter the warehouse in the front yard to check the inventory of the Jin family's goods and value the goods. The output value of the goods, so as to improve the tax payment ranking of Jinfu.

Lao Huang didn't let them enter the front yard, telling them: "The front yard is the important place of Jinfu. If you want to enter, you must be accompanied by the young master's family, or you can send a message from the young master's family. If you don't have both, you can't enter privately! "

A chubby middle-aged man said to Lao Huang: "You idiot, open your dog's eyes and see, we are the court's tax department, if you don't let us in, I think you are not comfortable living." ?”

Lao Huang asked his wife to go to the young master's house, and said to him tepidly: "I'm a little itchy, why, you want to loosen my muscles and bones?"

For the smelly and hard-tempered Lao Huang, this middle-aged man was very angry. He said that he would see him with a dagger, and Leng Ding kicked Lao Huang's stomach. Two slaps.

Although Lao Huang's legs and feet are not good, but the crutches are neat, and he doesn't dodge the kicked feet, and hits his knees with the crutches.As he fell back to the ground, the black dragon and two paparazzi who were barking around them rushed forward and opened their mouths and tore them apart.

The middle-aged man was bitten by a dog, and his clothes were torn apart. Seeing that the officer was bitten by a dog, the remaining two subordinates rushed over to chase him away.At the moment when there was a quarrel, Liu Tao and Lao Huang's wife ran over and stopped the three dogs, and the middle-aged man regained his strength.

"You, you let the dog commit murder..."

"What do you mean by letting the dog do the murder? It is clear that you are the one who is taking advantage of the power of others. You are the one who hit me first."

Seeing that they were blaming each other, Liu Tao asked with a dark face, "Uncle Huang, what's going on?"

"They said it was someone from the tax department, and they wanted to force their way in (the front yard). I stopped them from entering, and he started to attack me."

The person who was bitten by the dog said angrily: "Are you the owner of the Jin Mansion? Your family is very unreasonable. How dare you let a vicious dog bite someone when you treat an official of the court?"

"You are an official of the imperial court, what rank are you?"

The middle-aged man talked about his official position, and said proudly: "I am the eighth-rank tax official, and I have the right to search your warehouse..."

"Eight rank, do you know what rank I am?"

"You are..." The middle-aged man thought for a while, and suddenly realized that he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. Without saying a word, he led his two subordinates to kneel down and kowtow.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the villain is in a daze, I'll make an apology to my aunt!"

What he said about being "stunned" was true, it was just because Liu Taojinxun didn't want to publicize easily with a third-rank official title. After a long time, people forgot about it.They didn't think too much when they came today, thinking that Jinfu is just like other businesses.It was only when Liu Tao confronted her face-to-face with full confidence that she remembered that he had a third-rank official position granted by the late emperor.

Following a few "dongdong" kowtows, Liu Tao smiled contemptuously: "You are the tax department and have the right to pay taxes on the goods of the merchants, and we will not stop you, but this Jinfuqianyuan is not allowed People can enter casually, even the tax department. If you want to check the goods, you can count the goods. After the goods of the Jinfu leave this gate, you can count them casually... "

Liu Tao turned around and left with Wu'er, leaving behind the middle-aged man who looked at Lao Huang bitterly, then looked down at the wrist bitten by the dog and the torn clothes, and led his men out angrily.The three officials of the tax department were newly transferred from the north of the city, and they returned after suffering a big loss because they didn't understand the situation here.They came to the Jin Mansion because they were instigated by the original tax officer, and they accidentally fell into the pit dug by their colleagues.

They wanted to revaluate the goods, Liu Tao guessed that the imperial court felt that the monthly tax of [-] was not enough, and sooner or later they would increase the tax of the Jinfu.

A few days later, another group of people from the Taxation Department came and asked Jin Li to show the list of grain arrears from Qinglang Country and Xiaoyan Country. Little Yanguo replaced the right to operate Yawei Port for two years with grain money.

The two of them knew that the grapes would not ripen for more than a month, so they planned to hurry up and go to Yawei Port.

At this time, in Yawei Port, there were more than 20 complete houses relocated from Xianglu Island, all of which belonged to the Jin family, and they were all enclosed in the Jin family compound.The rest of the businesses occupy the wharves they like, and there are dozens of houses under construction, scattered around the Yawei Harbor.

There are more and more cargo ships in the port.Some merchants who came here after hearing the news saw that there would be no more pirates here, and they also found Ji Yanchen to allocate a wharf and choose a place to build a house.After all, this place is in the middle of the coast of Xiaoyan Kingdom, if there are no pirates, there is no need to worry about when the Daqian Kingdom and Qinglang Kingdom will start a war.

A few years ago, when the Daqing Kingdom and the Qinglang Kingdom went to war, Yawei Port was plundered by the Daqing Kingdom's army.Yawei Port is located in the interior of Xiaoyan Country, which is much better than being at the junction of Qinglang Country and Xiaoyan Country. Some merchants and sea merchants in Yajing Port who have a long-term vision cast their eyes here.Even in the Liangshan port of the Daqian country and the port of the Dayan country, some businesses have moved here.

Another advantage of coming here is that those who come first can choose a good pier that is good in all aspects, first come first served.Even the supporting houses, warehouses and courtyards of the wharf can also occupy a large area at will.As a businessman, he has a long-term vision. Everyone knows that when the wharf prospers in the future, the value of the land in the port will greatly increase. Even the fishing boats in Yajing Port have come to visit a lot these days.The fishing boats came, and the seafood peddlers followed. The seafood caught in the morning could be transported to Xing'an City in the afternoon.

Ji Yanchen supervised the housing progress of Jinfu Wharf on the wharf, assigned the location of the follow-up merchants, and beat the back of his head with his busy feet. When he saw the owner coming, he hurried over to see it.

Ji Yanchen gestured while wiping off his sweat: "Young master, more than a dozen wealthy owners have already moved in at the pier, and the number of cargo ships and fishing boats is also increasing day by day, but there is no port management person from Xiaoyan Kingdom, when will we take care of it? "

As he was still talking, Jin Li could see that he was obviously impatient with managing these irrelevant things.

At this time, a row of carriages and more than [-] people riding horses appeared from a distance. Seeing that there were more people on this side, those people went straight here.Some members of the private army immediately became vigilant, secretly paced to the periphery of Jin Li's gang, and stood ready with their guns and crossbows looking at the terrain.

A young Duke of Yan came over dressed up and asked, "Excuse me, is this the wharf of the Jin Mansion?"

Ji Yanchen answered first: "Yes, this is the wharf of the Jin Mansion. What do you guys do?"

"We are the officers of the Department of Shipping and Taxation sent by the Queen to Yawei Port. May I ask who is the young master of the Jin Mansion?"

Ji Yanchen became happy when he heard this. The arrival of their management staff meant that the affairs under his management should be over: "Haha, you are finally here. These two are the young masters of our Jinfu..."

"Ah, it's the little one with poor eyesight. The little one kowtowed to the two masters."

Jin Yan stopped him from kowtowing, and he quickly introduced two other officials who came with him, one was an official from the Shibo Department, and he was a sixth-rank Su Bao.One is Qipin Hu Fuguo, an official of the tax department.Su Bao also handed him the letter from Su Huan himself.

Jin Yan asked Ji Yanchen to explain the dock affairs to them, and returned to the compound with Liu Tao to read the letter.In Su Huan's letter, he still wanted to thank Jin Yan for his strong support for Xiaoyan, and he also mentioned the topic of asking him to be the teacher of Xiaoyan.

Liu Tao dismissed this and whispered to Jin Yan, "Sister Su Huan really figured it out. It's not like she doesn't know about the big stalls in the Jin Mansion. She's so busy every day, how can she have time to take care of their country's affairs?"

"Tao'er, she is also worried about the prosperity of the country. The little Yan country has just started to improve, and she is afraid that natural disasters will cause serious damage to the country. She made me a national teacher, and she is also thinking about the poor people..."

"So, Sister Su Huan is still a good queen who cares about the country and the people. You can't be her national teacher, but you can give her little Yan country some pertinent and reasonable suggestions, as well as the general direction of the country's development."

"Hey, this is a good idea. If we have time in the future, we will give her advice and try to have an effect within a certain period of time."

They saw the big cave below the hillside. Although there was no gate at the entrance of the cave, the ground inside was spacious and flat. It could be seen that the original owner had made great efforts to repair it, and the road leading to the outside of the cave was also ready-made.

"Haha Brother Jinyan, I've taken this place. I want to use it as a super-sized wine cellar. See how low the temperature is. If there is a door to avoid air convection, it's just right for fruit wine storage. Ripe Oak Daxi brought over the fruit, how much fruit wine can’t fill this big wine cellar!”

(End of this chapter)