The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Obviously there are more than one businessman with this idea.

Early this morning, long queues formed outside the entrances of several registration offices of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. These people came to order tickets for the business conference or to book a place for the investment promotion conference.Businessmen have a circle of businessmen. This circle is not big or small. Because of business contacts, these businessmen have cooperated with each other and know many of them.

There are only a few ticket offices in the capital, and it is inevitable that they will encounter them.

"Oh, boss Yao, you're here too."

"Hehe... Boss Zhang, didn't you come too?"

"Boss Yao, are you also here to book tickets for the conference?"

"That's right, we who do business should follow the court's orders."

"Yes Yes……"

There are also regional divisions among merchants. Merchants in the same place like to gather together with merchants in the same place, and they can help and take care of each other when they are away from home.

These merchants met here, and they had to inquire about some news from merchants in other places, so the greeting was not without any purpose.Seeing other businessmen queuing up here to buy tickets, these people couldn't help but have an idea in their hearts. Fortunately, they came quickly and came late, and maybe the tickets were all bought by others.

There are only [-] quotas for the two conferences combined, and there are still many people who want both quotas, so the conversion is definitely not enough for [-] quotas, and even [-] people are probably not enough.There are only a few hundred places, which is not enough for the merchants from all over the place to divide up. Maybe there will be no ones who come too late!

One or two hundred taels of silver is not a lot of money for businessmen like them. In the past, when they did business, they spent more than just spending money on building relationships and buying government officials.

This time the business conference and investment promotion conference were issued by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and hosted by Mr. Li. They can't trust the court, can they still trust Mr. Li?

As the newspaper said, this business conference invites representative businessmen from all over Dacheng to discuss business development and formulate development plans. This is the first time that the government has come forward to plan a way out for these businessmen.And this investment promotion conference, it is said that they will give them preferential policies. What kind of preferential policies are they?So these businessmen want to come and have a look. If the government can give these businessmen some support and preferential policies, then they still worry about not being able to do business and make money?

Since Mr. Li established the Ministry of Commerce, this Ministry of Commerce is dedicated to handling their business affairs. Later, a series of reform systems were introduced for business.They are now exempting a lot of miscellaneous taxes when they escort the goods into the capital. They only need to take the form to the Ministry of Commerce to stamp it and pay the commercial tax according to the number and amount of the goods. This is much higher than some officials in the past. Really much.As far as Li Dali strives to exempt his merchants from miscellaneous taxes, these merchants must support Li Dali.

Therefore, as soon as they knew that Lord Li presided over the two conferences, these businessmen wanted to attend, even if they spent two hundred taels of silver to meet the legendary Lord Li, they were all willing.

They are suffering from not having the opportunity to meet Mr. Li. This Mr. Li is the first official in the court who advocates opening up business and vigorously developing business. After all, he is on the side of their businessmen. One point, this meeting hosted by Mr. Li, they should come to support whatever they say!

At this time, the merchants in the capital city were the first to know the news, so they rushed over to book tickets, and all the merchants who arrived early got tickets and came out.

"Oh, why is this team still so long?"

"Why didn't the people in front move for a long time?"

Those who bought the tickets came out happily, and the businessmen who were still queuing behind were jealous and looked forward frequently, wondering how long it would be their turn.

With the strong support of these businessmen, all the tickets released by several ticket purchase points on the day were sold out in less than half a day, and there were still a lot of people waiting to buy tickets, but they did not buy them.

"what?"

"Is it all over?"

When the people below came back and said that today's tickets were sold out, Li Wen was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, my lord, you don't know, many people have come to buy tickets and reserve places for the China Merchants Fair. All of our tickets for today have been sold out, and there are still many people waiting outside to buy tickets..."

"So we want to ask my lord, can we let some more tickets go out?"

"Don't worry about this beforehand, let me think about it." Li Wen raised his hand to stop everyone from chattering

Asking questions, thinking about this question.

Originally, he was also worried about whether the 100 taels a ticket was too expensive. The ticket for the business conference was 100 taels a piece, and the 100 taels of the China Merchants Association was the reservation fee. At that time, the 100 taels could be deducted from the 300 taels of cash Yes, this is still a marketing technique that he applied to a certain treasure in the later generations, and wanted to get a sum of money in advance as start-up capital.

No matter what you want to do, you can't do without the word "money". Money is not everything, but without money is absolutely impossible.The imperial court is very poor now, and the money from the household department is not enough to maintain expenses. It is definitely unrealistic for him to ask the emperor for a sum of money as start-up capital at this time. Not to mention whether the emperor will approve it, the ministers in the court They will definitely block it in every possible way, and then the opinions will be big, it is better for him to figure out a way by himself, so he came up with this trick.

It is already mid-June, and there are only a little more than two months until August [-]th. It will take at least a month for the news to spread from the capital to other places.

These businessmen have a way for them to pass messages to each other, and he has also arranged for people to deliver the news to the state capitals.It’s okay to be close to the Gyeonggi area. After receiving the news, these merchants still have some time to prepare to leave for the capital to attend the conference. If the merchants are far away, they must leave for the capital as soon as they receive the news.

Even some businessmen who are too far away can't make it to the capital, and there is nothing they can do if they miss the conference.

Anyway, the first business conference held this year and the investment promotion conference this time are only held for the first time, and there will definitely be more in the future. As long as you make a good start, it will be easy to hold any business conference in the future.

Because the time was too short, Li Wen didn't want to set aside too much time to come out. It would be best to hold the meeting in August and September, so as not to delay the return of these businessmen after the meeting.If it was scheduled after October, when there was heavy snow in the north, the journey would be more troublesome, so it would be inconvenient, so he set the time after the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was just right.

And it's not just a matter of time, there is also movement from the Hu people in the north. He is worried that the Hu people will take action. The court is really too poor, and fighting means asking for money and food.If this is really fought, even if Dacheng wins this battle, they don't know how many soldiers will be lost. Therefore, their best way is to raise enough money and supplies before fighting, and prepare for it first. , No matter when the Hu people call over, they have enough supplies in the rear to transport them to the front line.

So this is why Li Wen was so eager to set up the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and then started to carry out the following plans non-stop. There was really no time in the middle as a buffer, so he had to proceed closely with the next plan.

"Today is the first day of ticket sales. Those who can buy tickets today are all businessmen from the capital. Businessmen from other places have not received any news yet. From tomorrow onwards, there will definitely be businessmen from other places rushing to the capital. Come, or let someone come to book tickets and reserve places, so let’s not worry about it.” The tickets at several ticket offices are limited to how many tickets can be sold each day, just to prevent the people in front of the ticket and The places were all reserved, and those who arrived later could not buy tickets, so he limited the number of tickets sold every day and the number of reserved places.

In less than half a day, all the tickets released at all registration points have been sold out, which is indeed beyond Li Wen's expectation, "Let's issue tickets according to the original plan. Let’s buy it again tomorrow. Be sure to tell everyone that before the start of the conference, we will open the door and release tickets on time every day until all the tickets are sold out, and those who want to get the tickets just come on time and line up to buy them.”

At this time, Li Wen didn't know that there were so many people queuing up to buy tickets outside, all for his face and trust.

Knowing that everyone gave him face like this, Li Wen would definitely feel flattered.

Hearing what their lords said made the returning staff a little distressed, but they also felt that what their lords said was right.

"My lord, what about those people who can't buy tickets?"

"Just explain it clearly to them. We must have rules for handling affairs, and we cannot change them casually.

"The rules still have to be in place, you can't release all the tickets indefinitely, that would be unfair to the people who came later, so Li Wen rejected the subordinate's proposal to release the tickets.

At worst, if the tickets are really not enough at that time, just add one or two hundred more as appropriate.

However, the force of their conference must be ticked first, so that people can't feel too casual. Then the conference has not even started, and it already gives people a bad feeling.

He wants these businessmen to feel that it is worthwhile to spend such 100 taels of silver to participate in this conference, so that they can continue to hold this conference in the future.But when the time comes, perhaps the imperial court will have the money to organize such a large-scale meeting, and there will be no need for the merchants to spend their own money to buy tickets. He really has no other choice now, so he came up with such a bad idea.

"Oh, yes, since that's the case, let's go back and explain clearly to everyone." The white silver floated away from the front, crying~

"Well, okay, you go." Li Wen didn't know what these subordinates were thinking, if he knew, he must have a wry smile on his face.