Through the ancient dark horse strategy

Ye Xiaoyi was teaching Xiao Mo how to make wine in the backyard, and Grandma Ye was very worried: "My dear grandson, do you really want to sell wine? The tax on wine is heavy, and there is a big article in it. I heard many wine girls who have made money say, They all lost in the end.”

Grandma Ye is over fifty years old and has experienced many things.Paying taxes is the worst thing. The imperial court has regulations on how much to charge, but the officials will definitely charge more.How can it be possible to hand over all the clean things to the court if you don't scrape off some grease?

Even the yamen servants under the hands of the officials can wantonly oppress the common people and demand tax money.This tax is a bottomless pit, and the official will never be able to get enough to feed him. Not only is he greedy for tax money, but he also pays tribute layer by layer to honor the officials above.

Those wine maids are miserable, and they still have to pay how much they earn in the end.If you don't pay, your business qualification will be cancelled, and you will not be allowed to sell alcohol.

Grandma Ye was very worried about conflicts between her grandson and the government. The three of them were lonely and widowed, and they really couldn't afford to offend the officials.

Ye Xiaoyi looked at the sky and said, "If there is a gold rain today, do you believe that tomorrow the government will ask everyone to hand over twenty gold?

There is nothing you can do about tax collection. Although the tax rate has remained unchanged, you can't resist being flexible.Today the emperor builds a palace, tomorrow the queen mother's birthday, or the court is about to fight, the actual taxes of the people will increase.

As long as the emperor wants to raise money, or the treasury is empty, there will be many tax items and various exorbitant taxes.There is a field tax for farming, and a liquor tax for wine sellers.It would not be surprising if one day, everyone who owns a house has to pay property taxes.

Or the emperor had a whim, and the common people were helpless to pay taxes according to their weight, or pay taxes according to their age.

The government will not refuse your tax just because you don't have so much money.If there is a war, the per capita tax will definitely be raised in practice.People who couldn't stand the looting had to starve to death or join the army.

If our family wants to live well all the time, the thighs must be thick and able to withstand the strong wind in order to stand tall.

Now our family is far from this level, and we can't stop making money because of fear of taxes.I already have a backer for this liquor business, and the yamen only bully the people who have no resistance, so grandma doesn't need to worry that I will suffer. "

How could Ye Xiaoyi not have expected the darkness of the ancient officialdom?He wants to do big business, if he doesn't get his allies as backers, it's like a child crossing the market with money.It's like telling a hooligan: Come and grab me.

Xiao Mo is also very clear about the rules and regulations of local officials. In order to prevent them from messing around, Xiao Mo picked up the elephant leg of the Lanling Xiao family and let that little boy hug it.

Although Bengong is a big backer, it is not appropriate to show up now.

Grandma Ye sees that her good grandson is confident, so she doesn't intervene anymore, and instead cooks soup to nourish her good grandson.

Grandma Ye felt that the good grandson had suddenly become smarter since the hole was opened in his head.But the good grandson's forehead has always been injured. Now that he has money, he should use more good things to make up for it, so as not to make any mistakes in the future.

On the other side, Xiao Qian was really itchy, he brought back two gourd wine, and shared a glass with his friends.

Everyone's reaction was very popular, and the wine "Zhu Bi" was mentioned many times on the wine table.The ancients chanted and sighed three times very long-winded. To get a novel treasure, one had to say it at least three times on different occasions.If you are talented in writing, you can directly compose a poem to express your emotion.

Before Ye Xiaoyi's wine was on the market, it became popular in Xiao Qian's private circle.The old drinker who heard that Lanling Restaurant had released a new product specially ordered two glasses of Zhu Bi from Xiao Qian, and they kept drinking it in glass cups.

Soon there was a saying "Look at Zhu Chengbi" in the literati circle.Because the old drinker was fascinated by Zhu Bi's color, he kept staring at the liquid to observe the intoxication and refused to drink.Later, I found that after looking at red wine for a long time, everything else turned green in an instant.After looking at the green liquor for a long time, everything turned red again.

Literati and elegant guests relished talking about this, and rumors spread among them that there is a kind of Zhubi wine that can confuse people's eyes just by looking at it, causing people to have illusions, and spreading it miraculously.

It made everyone want to experience it, but unfortunately this wine has not yet been listed.Literati come to Lanling Restaurant every day to ask, "When will your Zhubi wine be available for sale?"

People who have tasted Zhubi wine all show off to others that they have drunk "Zhubi" wine.For example, Ye Fangtian's group of crooked friends, the two gourd wine that Ye Fangtian snatched back, he and a group of cronies drank it all in one meal.

Even though they just swallowed the jujube and drank it whole, these people also gave Zhu Bi wine a good evaluation, saying that it is like a young woman's wine, the smoke is moving, and the emerald green is enchanting.It is even more desirable.

Xiao Qian finally couldn't bear it and came to Ye Xiaoyi, "You are so capable, you can manipulate speech? I actually walked into your trap and was used by you. I, Xiao, really underestimated you."

I just shared the new wine with my friends, but it spread out unexpectedly, and even became the spokesperson for promoting the new wine.Even if a colleague finds out that someone is manipulating speech, he will only think that Xiao Qian did it.This kid is really easy to use him!

Ye Xiaoyi smiled and said, "Then are you ready to cooperate with me?"

Xiao Qian pushed a stack of "salt tickets" in front of Ye Xiaoyi: "I'm here to talk to you about this matter, divided into aspects, I'll give you six and you four, I can't give you any more. You have to know that you will be charged for a bucket of wine." The tax money worth the price of a bucket of grain, excluding the wine tax, is our share. You can't let Lanling Restaurant get too little money.

If you are useful, how about using these salt tokens to pay? "

The wine industry is a heavily taxed industry, and it doesn't cost a bucket of grain to make a bucket of wine, but the price of a bucket of grain is charged for taxation.

The tax is higher than the cost of wine making, so the consignment has always been the high share of the restaurant.Because the restaurant is only qualified to operate, it has to pay the wine tax on behalf of the consignor.

一斗酒大概八两重，价钱从50文到150文不等，也有千文的名酒。一斗粮食从5文到20文价钱不等，遇到收成不好的年份一斗粮食还能涨至50文到100文。

In this case, there is a cost to brewing wine, and a bucket of wine has to pay a tax of the price of a bucket of grain.The net profit of a bucket of wine is actually only 30 to 100 Wen.If you still want to share the profits with others, you will get even less money. Lanling Restaurant doesn't really care about these drizzles.

What Xiao Qian was interested in was the coquettish position of Lanling Restaurant.

Ye Xiaoyi's kung fu of "asking all over the sky and paying back the money on the ground" is as smooth as Xiao Mo's. He also knows that [-]% to [-]% is impossible, so he waits for Xiao Qian to exchange it with other things.

Ye Xiaoyi looked at the huge stack of salt tickets and restrained the corners of his mouth from curling up.

Yanyin tickets are a good thing, and "salt iron wine tea" has always been a prohibited commodity.The so-called prohibition refers to the authority to prohibit the common people from selling these commodities, and the monopoly can only be carried out by special personnel designated by the imperial court.It is the ridge.broken meaning.

The imperial court did not allow the common people to produce private salt, and did not allow the common people to sell salt without a "certificate".Once the offender is reported, he will be sentenced to death, and almost no one dares to take this risk to sell salt privately.

If you want to be qualified to sell salt, you need to obtain the "Yan Yin" from the government. You can get a "Yan Yin" ticket and a business qualification certificate for selling salt within 100 catties after handing in two hundred shi of grain to the border.

One shi is equal to ten dou. Calculated according to the price of the cheapest grain at three pennies per dou, 200 shi of grain equals 6000 dong, which equals six pennies.Many people will never be able to save so much money in their lifetime, not to mention having to transport it to the border at their own expense.

A "Yanyin" ticket can only sell less than 100 catties of salt, and if you want to sell more than 200 catties of salt, you need to buy more than two salt tickets.

Although the salt tax is so high, merchants will never do business at a loss.The wool comes from the sheep, and the common people are the ones who bear the greatest burden.

The merchant paid six taels of silver to obtain the qualification to sell 100 catties of salt, and a catty of salt had to be sold for more than 60 Wen to get back the cost.

Moreover, the "salt quotation ticket" is only salt tax money, and you have to pay extra to buy salt and sell it, so the market price of salt is generally around 100 ren per catty.You must know that ordinary people can buy a meal and vegetables for a few pennies.

The biggest beneficiary is the official, and a mere salt ticket can be used as a silver ticket.As a result, the imperial court printed and issued salt quotations unrestrainedly from top to bottom.

How much is it to print a piece of paper?The salt merchants have to use the money to buy an acre of fertile land to buy salt tickets.The imperial court created an infinitely vast arable land out of thin air to collect taxes, and the emperor was very happy.

The salt transport envoy in Yangzhou was also very happy. I was in charge of printing and distributing the vast salt bills in the Lianghuai River and Huaihe River.

The reason why Yangzhou was able to dominate the world and concentrate the money in the world was because the Yangzhou Salt Transporter was able to exchange a basket of white paper for the real gold and silver of the salt dealers in the world.

Yanyun made it sell "salt tickets" with limited sales, so it went offline and asked the big salt merchants in Yangzhou to help sell them to salt dealers all over the world.The benefit is to sell one basket and get one basket free. As long as you have the ability to exchange the white paper printed by the official for silver, you will be given whatever you want.

Most of the wealthy merchants in Yangzhou are salt merchants, and their work is similar to today's banks.If you sell the salt ticket, you will get real money, which is almost like buying and selling without capital.As long as they completed the task assigned to them by the salt transport envoy, the more they sold would be their own.

Now Ye Xiaoyi also got a dozen salt tickets, selling them for money.If you don't have a circle, you can't sell it, and you can sell salt yourself.At worst, you can use these bills to buy salt at cost price, and it is not bad to open your own pickling factory.

The price of salt on the market is 100 Wen per catty, which is more expensive than meat.Farmers usually store meat by hanging it under the eaves to air-dry, and they are reluctant to salt it.But buying salt from the salt mine is very cheap, only a dozen cash, the premise is to have a salt ticket to buy salt directly from the mine.

Ye Xiaoyi continued to push forward: "Based on the status of the Xiao family in Lanling, you should be able to get a lot of tickets, right? Is this all?"

Xiao Qian is very generous: "Our family's Yanyin nest is originally qualified to be passed down from generation to generation, so you can come and get as many salt tickets as you want. I just took a stack of them by hand. You can't let me bring a box of white paper over here." Bar?"

ah!Ye Xiaoyi was very satisfied with being able to continuously provide free salt tickets, and finally agreed to Xiao Qian's bid: "Deal!"