Chapter 74
The list of the General Secretary was on the table, and Jin San and Ren Ze watched together, frowned.
Jin Sandao: "When goods enter Hequ Road, they must be replaced with special packages and willow boxes. Local prefectures and counties charge fees. When transporting to Shengzhou, they will enter a duty-free area. As long as they do not leave the duty-free area, they will be allowed to trade by merchants and no taxes are collected. - The meaning of the list article, if we trade with Khitan merchants, Shengzhou will not collect taxes. This is a virtue policy, and there is no need to go north of Yinshan to transport the goods to Khitan in the future."
Ren Ze said: "Will there be Khitan merchants in Shengzhou? Look here, foreign merchants who want to do business in Shengzhou must first go to Shengzhou to file a lawsuit, pay some deposits, and obtain qualifications. The Khitan has not yet negotiated peace with the Song Dynasty, how to do business?"
Jin San shook his head: "How to negotiate peace? The Song army beat the Khitan emperor to death, and there were many high-ranking officials and nobles to be buried with him. Which Khitan dared to propose peace? But then again, in Shangyan, business in Shengzhou is a way to make money. Now the two Khitan emperors are united together, and fighting for the world requires money. Who will give up this opportunity? It's just that they don't do it on the surface. Wasn't the Tanglong Town in the past very prosperous?"
Ren Ze nodded and continued to read the book. The taxes for trade between countries were very high. In the early Song Dynasty, it was 15th, and after the Baoyuan period, it was 10th. The officials who handled them were specialized in picking valuable goods to extract them, and the merchants suffered a lot of money. The tax-free area did not collect taxes, and merchants could trade directly, saving a lot of money. If the operation was done properly, they could evade taxes after returning.
After looking down, Ren Ze suddenly said, "Oh, let's take a look. It says that as long as you leave the duty-free area, you must pay the tariffs. And you will no longer extract the physical goods, just pay the money. Either you pay the copper coins used in the Song Dynasty, or use money to attract them, and gold and silver will be counted as goods."
Jin San was surprised and looked carefully, and couldn't help but frown: "This is difficult. If the first time the goods were sold here, how could there be money in your hands? If there was no money to pay tax, wouldn't the goods not be shipped out? How can we sell them if we can't be shipped out? If we don't sell the goods, where did we get the money?"
It is impossible to carry a large amount of copper coins in long-distance trade. It is not good to have the capacity to transport some other things. If you don’t sell goods, you will pay taxes first, and you will not collect physical taxes. This is not a dead end for merchants?
After looking further, Jin Sancai let out a sigh: "It turns out that you can borrow money. You can mortgage it with goods and you can borrow money from the savings bank. Well, the profit is not high, and the monthly interest rate is only two cents, which is not a big deal."
Seeing this, Jin San said: "What kind of thing is money entries? If it is just printed and cannot be used as money, business will be difficult. I have read these days. Shengzhou has everything. If you can buy all kinds of goods, it is nothing to use money entries. We will exchange them all for goods, which one cares whether it is money entries or copper coins here. If many goods cannot be bought, it will be troublesome."
Ren Ze said: "When the official looked here, it was stated that in Hequ Road, money entries are equivalent to copper coins, and can be exchanged at various savings stations. If anyone dares not accept money entries, they can report to the officials and the government will punish them heavily. In this way, it can be exchanged for goods."
The two carefully read the list several times, ordered the people to accept it, and sat down together to drink tea.
Jin Sandao: "From the list, Shengzhou is a good place to do business. The only thing that is not good is that I don't know how to attract money, and whether it can be used as money. As long as money can be used as money, everything is easy to say."
Ren Ze nodded: "That's it. For the outsider, it's better to go to the yamen to ask tomorrow. If everything is agreed, it's better to submit a letter and get the qualification to do business first. This kind of thing that needs to be submitted and allowed by the yamen is to do, the sooner the better."
Jin San said: "Okay, we will go to the yamen tomorrow morning. Alas, we are not familiar with the place here, so it's better to have a local person leading the way."
Ren Ze couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Next to this place is the restaurant run by the Tibetan leader I knew before. That day, the staff rented a shop, and the staff was impatient to go to the gold and silver shop. He happily made 100 cents. It would be better to do this. Tonight we went to his shop, use some wine and meals, and have a good relationship. If he is willing, he can help us find out the news in the future and give some money."
"I saw that person. For a hundred quotations, I was willing to do errands for people. What good food can such a restaurant have?"
Ren Ze said: "Whether good or bad, just eat a few bites. This person was the former leader of the foreign tribe. He went to Tanglong Town to sell horses to do business a few years ago and was familiar with people from the yamen. With such a person helping him, many things will be easy to do."
Jin San thought about it, and although he was unwilling to do so, he still stood up and went to the shop next door with Ren Ze.
Wang Pu was leaning against the door, watching the shopping malls opposite, making it very lively. Now the sun has not set, there are no customers in the store, and it is boring. In this season, I used to be riding on horses and watching the leisurely flock of sheep, but now I am guarding the store. Life is really wonderful.
At this moment, Ren Ze and Jin San walked over together, saw Wang Pu in front of the door, and bowed, "The official is so leisurely."
Wang Pu hurriedly replied: "There are no customers in the store, and there is nothing wrong. How can you two have free time? Go to my store?"
Ren Ze said: "I heard that Mr. Jin had opened a restaurant next to Mr. Jin, and did not congratulate that day, so I felt guilty. Today I came with Mr. Jin, and I would like to give some wine and dinner to congratulate Mr. Jin."
Wang Pu laughed and said, "We are friends next door, so we should help each other. When you come to the store to have meals, you are the customers. Please come in quickly!"
While saying that, he asked the two of them to enter the store and said, "There is a Jianji Chu Pavilion on the second floor, and you can see the door of the shopping mall opposite. When my store opened that day, Du Jieshuai from this road came over and sat in that pavilion."
After hearing this, Ren Ze couldn't help but stop and turned his head suddenly to look at Wang Pu: "When your store opened, did Du Jieshuai come?"
Wang Pu nodded with a smile: "That's right. Speaking of which, Du Jieshuai is the first customer of my store."
Ren Ze and Jin San looked at each other, and no longer dared to look down on the slightest bit of contempt. After Wang Pu arrived at the second floor, he entered the pavilion where Du Zhongxiao sat. The two of them sat down. Ren Ze said, "That day was Du Jieshuai sitting here? What wine and food did he use that day?"
Wang Pudao: "Jingshuai was newly opened when she came, and all kinds of dishes were served. As expected, Jieshuai was not comparable to ordinary people. You can tell what the dishes are good and what the bad things are. After Jieshuai left, I hired a new supervisor. Now the taste is much better than that day."
Jin San heard this and said, "It's like when Jieshuai comes. Any good dishes are served. Let's try them."
"There is wine." Ren Ze called Wang Pu, "What wine did Jieshuai use on that day, and melons and fruits, come up together."
Wang Pu agreed and left the pavilion and ordered the servant to prepare. At Hequ Road, Du Jieshuai's name suppressed all monsters and monsters. When these two people first met him, they obviously looked down on others, thinking that they couldn't see it? When they heard that the first customer in the store was Du Jieshuai, they immediately changed their faces.
After sighing, Wang Pu turned to the kitchen and saw Liang Dupeng, the newly invited cooking manager, was cutting meat. He hurriedly said, "Supervisor, just ask the servant to do these things, why do you have to do it yourself? Be a supervisor here, just watch how to make meat and vegetables, just give me an order."
Liang Dupeng said: "I am used to doing things, so how can I be idle? The official is willing to understand everything, and it is hard to stop if I do it smoothly."
"No, no!" Wang Pu went up to pull Liang Dupeng and signaled the servant on the side to come over to do things.
When he arrived at the small room outside, Liang Dupeng went to the apron, washed his hands, and Wang Pu sat down with him. He poured tea and said, "Supervisor, you are the ones in this store. You can do all the things except me. You can do the rest of the things. I heard that people like you, just take a look at the food in the store and taste it when the food is ready, and that will be enough. Doing things yourself will not make people talk about me?"
Liang Dupeng smiled and shook his head: "Mr. I am not a real chef, how can I afford those? I just joined the army in Suizhou and somehow started cooking. I have been cooking for several years and I am just familiar with it."
Wang Pu shook his head repeatedly: "The supervisor is modest. In Shengzhou City, who has the ability to be a manager in a restaurant like me? He is proficient in everything in the kitchen. When he is alone, the whole restaurant will stand up. And it tastes delicious and the guests are willing to come. Since I invited the supervisor to come, every time the restaurant is served, I have all the customers in my store, so how can this be done?"
The store is located in a very good location, opposite the shopping mall is the gate, with people coming and going. Wang Pu’s real material, with Liang Du Peng, the taste is particularly good, but it is rare that most people come to accept it, and the business is getting better day by day.
Military food does not pay attention to the taste and the characteristics, but does not pay attention to the fact that people do not hate and are willing to eat. This kind of restaurant is suitable for this kind of feature, and Liang Dupeng has a place to use it. Another thing is that the army has its own characteristics. Liang Dupeng and others may not be able to make top-notch dishes, but they can do everything. They can cook, cook all kinds of cooking techniques, and they can also make cold dishes, pickles, and even drunk shrimps and fish sashimi. Except for the army, only Wang Pu’s shop can make it.
That day, Du Zhongxiao said casually, and Wang Pu heard it, and the next day he invited Liang Du Peng from the village next to him. Unexpectedly, he picked up a treasure, and the taste of the food changed, and the business was indeed booming.
Liang Dupeng was a slim-shaped army. After being selected into the Yingtianxiang Army, he became a chef in the army because of the good cooking taste. After the service, he did not return to Jingxi Road, but instead went to Yingtian here. When he was in Suizhou, he was nearly thirty years old and had never been married. Later, he married a husband and had sang music in a restaurant to make some money that he shouldn't have made. Everyone knows this, and it is inevitable that he can talk a little bit, so he simply took his family and didn't go back there.
Chapter completed!