Chapter 330 Chapter 330: Leeks, so green [Please vote]
“Madam, do you think this wine is expensive?”
Wu Xian waved his hand to signal the messenger to step back.
The wife was stunned: "Forty-six taels a jar is not expensive?"
She has been in charge of the Zhongfu for so many years, and she is in control of the house's incoming and outgoing accounts. How much does each item cost? She knows the price and quality. Even if the wine is the best stored in the wine cellar of the house, a jar can only cost more than twenty taels at most!
The more expensive wines are either very old or extremely rare, or they are tribute wines used to pay tribute to the king.
There is no place to buy this kind of wine for a hundred taels!
Wu Xian smiled and said: "It's not expensive, not expensive at all."
"What kind of wine is this?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Zheng became a little more curious.
"Of course it's a good wine that all the scholars and warriors in the world can't resist." Wu Xian took the cloth handed over by the Madam, dried his feet, put on the new socks, walked to the Madam and sat down next to him, chatting like a normal person. , "I thought that when this thing got into Wen Zhu's hands, it wouldn't stop selling it for a hundred and eighty taels, but I didn't expect that it would end up hastily at just forty-six taels. It was unexpected."
Mrs. Zheng didn't understand Wu. virtuous attitude.
A jar of wine can be sold for a sky-high price. Isn’t this something Wu Xian is very taboo about? How do you think he meant it, but regretted it?
She asked: "Isn't this a good thing?"
Wu Xian leaned on the table with a lazy expression: "How can it be a good thing? After selling a jar of the annotations, he He has to pay high city taxes and liquor taxes... He sells them at a low price, and pays less. The value of the fifty jars of wine sent by Wen Zhu has also dropped..."
The first lady was speechless.
I didn’t expect that my husband had this idea.
Alcohol is mostly brewed from grain, and the common people still cannot have enough food and clothing. How can there be any excess grain to satisfy the alcohol addiction? Whether in Tianhai or elsewhere, wine is a strictly controlled “light luxury”.
It doesn't matter if people make small-scale wine in private, but if they want to buy and sell it, they must pay high city tax and special liquor tax. To put it simply, if Shen Tang's liquor is bought and sold here, he has to pay tax to Tianhai!
Well, there is still no tax refund in March every year.
Wu Xian was willing to betray Xu Jie to save face, and it was for this reason that he did not interfere in this matter. Why should he be beaten to death for a good thing that can generate income? This is a good thing, killing two birds with one stone! Wu Xian also had another plan in mind.
Tianhai and other aristocratic families live a prosperous life, and secretly engage in some secretive ways of amassing money, but they also try to test the bottom line of what is allowed by law. He can't beat these people openly, but he can make their wallets slimmer in a roundabout way!
Of course, these ideas cannot be expressed directly to Madam.
The lady is not only his wife.
She is also the sister of his brother-in-law and brother-in-law.
The daughter of her father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Wu Xian could not say as much to Mrs. Zheng as he did to Mrs. Mi. Most of the time, he could only say so much.
He sneered and said: "I wonder how Shen Youli would feel if he knew about Tianhai city tax and liquor tax? Wen Zhu is doing business like this. Next time, he should send more people to protect him to avoid being caught by Shen Youli. Li was so angry that he raised his sword and chased him..."
To be fair, it's not that he didn't value Qin Li's proposal.
Shen Tang’s team is indeed a Caotai team.
But Shen Tang fought against Gong Xiqiu alone in front of the battle line, which shows how strong his ability is in individual combat. If he really listened to Qin Li's suggestion and overturned someone else's stall, and someone came to assassinate him with a sword - when Wu Xian thought of this scene, My neck feels a little chilly.
The best policy is to divert trouble to the east and kill people with a borrowed knife.
The wife watched her husband habitually squint his eyes and pretend to take a nap, but hesitated to speak. After a while, the air was so quiet that only the breathing of the couple was left. Wu Xian asked: "Madam, is there something on your mind?"
The wife took the opportunity to mention: "This morning my brother and sister suddenly sent an invitation, inviting me to a plum blossom banquet..."
Wu Xian : "... Prepare the congratulations, no one needs to go."
The lady moved her lips.
Wu Xian added: "The wine sent by Wen Zhu tastes good. Let's add five more jars, and you can take care of the rest."
Mrs. Zheng said softly: "Yes. ”
My brother-in-law gave it to me, but my brother-in-law couldn’t treat one favorably. He might as well ask the principal wife to give it to the other family as well. After lying down for a while, Wu Xian didn't feel sleepy and stood up,
"I remembered that I still have some things to deal with. Madam, go to bed first."
Without waiting for the lady to say anything, he put on his clothes and left. The wife looked at her husband's retreating back, her eyes almost red with anger, she held the handkerchief with her fingers and silently endured the astringent feeling on the tip of her nose.
The dowry maid whispered: "Madam..."
It took a long time before the wife said quietly: "He finally came here, but he was angry and left again..."
Outsiders say that Wu Xian and his wife are a loving couple. This evaluation was worthy of the name in the past, but it has been very different in recent years. One of the root causes that affected their relationship as a couple was her two unsatisfactory elder and younger brothers.
Ten percent of the family fortune is in their hands.
Later, Wu Xian discovered that the brothers were secretly instigating Wu Xian's two legitimate sons to fight and treating their younger brother harshly, which happened to be Wu Xian's taboo. What's even more bizarre is that these two brothers used one scheme after another to get close to Wu Xian's other brothers.
There are other saucy operations...
The relationship between the two families is very tense.
The wife felt sorry for her eldest brother and her younger brother, and the relationship between her and Wu Xian also became tense. After being assassinated during an impromptu hunting trip, Wu Xian rarely came to Madam Zheng's place.
I rarely come to the backyard and sleep in other people’s houses.
It's not that Wu Xian suspected that Mrs. Zheng was assassinating him, but he still knew about his wife - as a married woman, her brothers were unreliable, and her natal family was declining year by year, her husband was the eldest of the children she gave birth to. rely.
But it is very possible to trust Wu Xian's current situation too much and inadvertently reveal Wu Xian's current situation.
Wu Xian couldn't force her to break off with her mother's family or completely give up her two useless brothers. It was impossible for her to do it because of her temperament, so she just stiffened up.
Actually, as long as the wife doesn’t mention the pair of terrible brothers from her parents’ family, the couple still has a lot to talk about.
Wu Xian braved the wind and snow to go to the study.
The attendant asked: "My parents are really going to spend the night here?"
Wu Xian said angrily: "Is it possible to spend the night in another lady's room, and then the next day everyone in the house will know that we had a quarrel? Young Master Nonsense, let’s go and see if there is anything else we can do.”
Attendant: “…”
But the parents came out of the wife’s room and spent the night pitifully in the cold study. , it would not sound good if it was spread out.
Unlike Shen Tang, the hard-working involution king, Wu Xian has a complete team and can basically complete today's tasks today, and he can also get paid vacations every once in a while. The attendant searched around but couldn't find any mundane matters that Wu Xian needed to handle.
This is the difference between people.
Wu Xian could only read the local dialect books to pass the time.
Seeing this, the attendants could only sigh - the parents were having a hard time, and the wife was also having difficulties. The two unsatisfactory brothers did not want to correct themselves and revitalize the family. A married sister cries, makes trouble, and hangs herself.
After more than ten years of hard work...
Even a couple whose love is stronger than theirs will be broken up.
The first batch of ten jars of wine was an unexpected hit.
The second batch exceeded the five hundred and two mark.
After several batches, it gradually increased.
But the total price is not too outrageous.
After deducting the city tax and liquor tax, as well as costs such as labor, share sharing, and transportation, Xu Jie fiddled with his abacus and calculated the accounts, converting them into similar seedlings, farm tools, and cattle.
Of course, this matter must be approved by Wu Xian.
After all, we can’t leave any clue to Qin Li.
Wu Xian just glanced at it and agreed.
For the sake of Shen Tang paying so much tax to himself.
Wu Xian's gentle smile these days makes people feel like spring breeze. People who don't know about it may think that his family has another imported child. He handed the order back and told Xu Jie: "You can also ask Brother Shen later if Heyin is short of food. If so, Tianhai can offer cheaper prices. The two families should help each other. Yes. Whatever the difficulty is, feel free to tell me.”
He fully interprets the four words "Tangdi is deeply affectionate", and several brothers will have doubts about who is his brother.
The corners of Xu Jie's mouth twitched slightly.
He said: "Wei."
"As the saying goes, 'Every man is not guilty of having a jade in his possession.' Of course, no one from the Tianhai, Heyin and other families would covet the wine in the hands of Brother Shen. A good remedy, but if it is spread, It’s hard to guarantee that other people with good intentions will have undue thoughts. Not only do we have to hide it, but Brother Shen should also be careful in choosing people to cooperate with. Brother Shen is young and makes many mistakes. Please remember to remind him this time. "
Xu Jie replied: "Wei."
Wu Xian continued to talk a lot.
Xu Jie wrote them down one by one.
After he left, Wu Xian recruited his confidants to accompany him.
“Give you a task.”
What task?
Of course I brought the wine to trick Gu Ren and Zhang He.
Especially Zhang He, this guy is very rich!
When Xu Jie arrived at Heyin Fugu for the second time, he found that Fugu City had undergone earth-shaking changes compared to before. Most of the snow a few days ago has melted away. Although it is freezing cold, busy figures can still be seen in many places.
Xu Jie reported his identity and was taken to the prison.
He arrived with his front foot, and Shen Tang came back with his back foot.
"Wen Zhu is back now?"
Xu Jie: "..."
Why does this sound weird?
He still said: "Well, Shen Jun is well."
"Hey, I'm very fine. Is this trip going well?"
Xu Jie took out a few volumes of account books from his sleeves and handed them over. The accounting method he used was still very old-fashioned, and Shen Tang could see it. It was a bit difficult, but there was a clear record of how many jars were sold on any given day and how much they cost. Shen Tang made a lot of money when he added it all up!
But the smile has not yet risen...
When she saw the final settlement, the smile disappeared instantly.
“Wait a minute——Wen Zhu, this account is wrong!”
Xu Jie pretended to be shocked and puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Shen Tang said: "Look, the first batch is 460 taels, the second batch is 530 taels, the third batch... let's take As an average, just assume that each batch is five hundred taels. There should be fifty taels in the altar...but how can I have a balance..."
She pointed to the pitiful two thousand three hundred taels at the end, although more than two thousand three hundred taels was still a sum of money to her. A huge fortune, but the amount is far from what was expected!
Xu Jie had to explain patiently.
Tianhai’s city tax plus liquor tax is almost half. In order to let his lord Wu Xian sell strategic materials such as seedlings, cattle, and farm tools, he privately paid a small sum and deducted other zeros. Broken pieces, here they are.
Seedlings are all good seedlings.
Although the farm tools are not brand new, they are better because of their low prices.
The farm cattle have served for many years and have rich experience.
Shen Tang’s hands holding the account books were shaking.
Wu Xian was gnashing his teeth in his heart as he went over and over to greet his ancestors for eighteen generations, but on the outside he had to be considerate and embody the sincerity, naivety, silly sweetness to the extreme. Is Wu Xian cutting leeks? When she thought that she was the leek, Shen Tang's blood pressure rose.
In terms of darkness, the sky and the sea are dark.
Pay double portions of city tax and liquor tax, get 5 out of 10!
Xu Jie also truthfully relayed Wu Xian’s diligent advice.
But what Shen Tang heard was a combination of hard and soft tactics. If Shen Tang could accept it, the business would continue, everyone would close down and make a fortune, and she would not have to worry about the treasure being exposed and attracting covetous attention from the outside world. If you don't accept it, the consequences will be unpredictable.
An ordinary man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade.
There are literary scholars and courageous warriors all over the world.
Shen Tang swallowed the old blood clogged in his throat.
I originally wanted to trick Wu Xian and dig out the family's small treasury with nothing, but I didn't expect Wu Xian to use this opportunity to make a fortune and make a lot of money.
Of course Shen Tang is not afraid of the so-called external covetousness.
The worst thing is to confess the magical nature of those wines.
Crisis can naturally be resolved.
But if you want to cut leeks or gather wool, you will no longer be able to do it.
The wine produced by Yan Ling is not worth the high price.
In the blink of an eye, Shen Tang has made a decision.
Why don’t you want the money that came from a free hand?
More than two thousand three hundred taels is pure profit!
How many seedlings can I buy?
Shen Tang is also very good at changing faces, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "Hey, I got distracted and forgot about the city tax and liquor tax. Please don't blame me. Brother Zhaode's worry is not unreasonable. , Don’t worry, I will only do business with one family in the future.”
The knife will only kill your family!
My back molars grinded loudly in my heart.
Seeing that Shen Tang had no objection, Xu Jie was surprised.
He thought he would see Shen Tang furious. After all, Wu Xian was really damaged by this incident.
“It’s just——”
Shen Tang changed the subject.
Complaining in a low voice and aggrievedly.
"This liquor tax and city tax are too high..."
Xu Jie said: "This is also a hopeless thing. It is like this everywhere. There is little food. If it is not controlled, the common people will go to make wine for huge profits. By then, more people will starve to death, and food prices will rise sharply...which is not conducive to the stability of people's livelihood..."
What he said was sincere.
Shen Tang thought hard: "Can't we avoid taxes reasonably?"
Xu Jie: "Avoid taxes reasonably...?"
Shen Tang slapped his thigh and said, "Yes."
Xu Jie couldn't figure out how to exploit the loophole.
Shen Tang said: "We can't be as rigid as you in business. The tax on selling wine is high, so if you sell wheat rice, buy a bucket of wheat rice and get a jar of wine. Wine is given as a gift, not sold. Taxes Shouldn’t we just pay the city tax on wheat and avoid the wine tax?”
Xu Jie: “…”
Shen Tang asked tentatively: “Isn’t this possible?”< br>
Xu Jie said with difficulty: "This, this..."
He thought about it and realized that he could really do this.
Shen Tang sneered inwardly, playing tricks on her, she has a hundred reasonable ways to avoid taxes!
She put her hand on Xu Jie's shoulder, and the two brothers conspired and discussed: "In addition to selling wheat rice, there are other ways, let's play 'distribution'. You ask customers to charge money, that's it Put the money into your hands in advance and then spend it like a thousand. If you buy something in your store with two taels, if you buy a certain amount, you can get it at a low price. For example, if you can't buy a bottle of wine with one tael, you can do a blind box lottery. If you draw one hundred taels, you will get a bottle of wine for ten consecutive draws... …”
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The next chapter is the spring plowing ceremony. Guess which line?
PS: After carefully reading the readers’ comments in the previous chapter, Yingying (she’s a little beauty with silver dots) must not be in heat. She barked at me all night. Maybe, maybe, maybe, she was just scolding me. _(:з)∠)_
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