Xu Zhongzheng, the head of the Kaifeng Mansion Meat Shop, Liu Zuo, the Supervisor of the Upper Realm, Yao Zixuequ, and the old shopkeeper of Xue Family Bingxue in Bianjing City were also interviewed.

Xu Zhongzheng was one of the leading merchants who requested the implementation of the Exemption Law. It was because of him that Wang Anshi decided to implement the "Exemption Law" and changed government recruitment to government procurement.

Although this measure had huge drawbacks in the early stage, after being improved by Suzhou Petroleum's public bidding and public notice suggestions, the exemption law was relatively perfectly implemented in Bianjing that year.

Xu Zhongzheng talked about the past in his interview: "At that time, the industry was almost unable to go on because of the government's method of accepting payments, so I had the boldness to apply to Xianggong Wang for 'exemption from payment'.

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"Because our officials are generous and kind, we agreed!"

"After paying the money and being exempted from traveling, we only need to pay the tax when purchasing pigs and sheep from Sanji and Sifu, and life in the industry becomes easier."

"This administration, I think, is actually a change of the soup but not the medicine. It is just a matter of promoting good governance from the Kaifeng prefecture and implementing it in important commercial ports and trade routes."

"I'm a meat shop. In the past, most of the meat in Beijing was mutton, but later there were more fattened pigs. Hey, hey, last month I ordered a batch of canned beef from Shaanxi, and also ordered a shipment of large stones from Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

The head of the fish."

"The price is 30% cheaper than it was a year ago! We must let the people in Bianjing City have affordable canned beef and high-quality seafood!"

Liu Zuonai, the Supervisor of the Upper Realm, was a conscientious businessman who would rather suffer losses for himself than exploit the people when the Market Change Law was first implemented.

At that time, he lost 180,000 yuan from the market. He had no choice but to beg a member of his family to rent a house for a period of two years.

During the interview, Liu Zuo couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Back then, my colleagues at Mengjingzhong Commercial Bank recommended me to be the Supervisor of the Upper Realm of the Yi Department of Kaifeng Prefecture."

"What does the supervisor of the upper world do? I'm afraid you young people don't know."

"At that time, the City Council divided Kaifeng Mansion into upper and lower realms, and I was responsible for collecting the market interest money from merchants in the upper realm!"

"According to logic, this number should be a fixed number. There are only so many merchants, big and small, in the entire city of Kaifeng. Are you right?"

"In the end, the Shangguan was dissatisfied and said that the number was too small and could not demonstrate the benefits of the new law, so he wanted to increase the amount."

"How to add money? Lending, big lending! Even if you are not a merchant, you can still lend!"

"I don't want to be able to get it all back, as long as the numbers on the company's books look good. How can I do this?"

"We merchants all understand that when we chase capital for profit, we must first keep the capital, right? They have the courage to do things that even Huangsong Bank dare not do!"

"I heard that the principal of Shiyi's money was given by the government. Let me tell you, those people just don't regard the government's money as money!"

"I can't help it. We have been neighbors for many years. I really can't do this, so I admit my loss of 180,000 yuan, and I was given a job."

"Don't think that doing errands is a bad thing. That saved me from bankruptcy. I sold some shops and managed to make ends meet."

"But the capital of the official family will be miserable; the people who are extremely poor and take risks to borrow money to survive, just for the sake of temporary relaxation, will be miserable; and those who have prodigal children in their families will be miserable too."

"Two years, just two years, the official family lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the small businessmen in Beijing were just as miserable... tsk tsk tsk..."

"The benevolence of the officials... They also accepted the deficit of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The number of people in Bianjing City who were saved by this is at least close to a thousand!"

"The New Deal this time is different. This time it's right. If the country is kind to the scholar-bureaucrats, it won't be nice to let them embezzle the national treasury, isn't it? No dynasty or generation can change this, right?"

"Look at the results again. Once the trade road is smooth, look at the people running on the road and pulling in the water... We are old people who came from the Xining period. Now this is called the New Deal! It is called refreshment! What did Wang Xianggong brag about before?

...'The people don't pay more, but the country has enough'!"

Yao Zi Xue Qu was brewed by Yao Junyu, a local tycoon in Yibin County, using local spring water and five kinds of grains - corn, rice, sorghum, glutinous rice, and buckwheat. The wine was of very good quality and was sent to Bianjing City because of a poem by Huang Tingjian.

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"Clear but not thin, thick but not turbid. Sweet but not bitter, pungent but not stinging."

This wine is actually a popular product of Meizhou’s new brewing process. Mainly because Su Mi thought it was too troublesome to pull Yongchun Dew from Meishan, so he found a place in Yibin and cooperated with the local winery to make it using Meishan’s koji and brewing methods.

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However, because Yibin is uniquely endowed by nature, the wine brewed by the Anle Spring is better than Yongchun Dew. Su Mi was so happy that he sent a boatload to all his good friends in Beijing.

That's right, the unit is a ship! General Su Misu and Mrs. Su are still as majestic as ever!

As a result, this shipment of wine was so popular in Beijing that Su Mi simply sent another shipment and asked the shopkeeper of the Yao family to deliver it personally.

The shopkeeper of the Yao family told the reporters about this trip: "This is wine! In the past, it was a special project! Those who make wine are all official wine shops, and those who sell wine have designated places!"

"What was wine called in the past? Looking back now, it was called drinking wine!"

"Why? It's not just sold by the government. Officials are in charge of making wine. They only care about the quantity but not the quality. The quality will not improve."

"We were a little different in Shuzhong before. Tea and wine were sometimes forbidden."

"Since Zhang Gong ordered Shu, the system has changed. Tea and wine have been banned on the four roads of Sichuan Gorge for 20 years. What will happen now?"

"Our wine is made from snow koji from Meizhou. The wine is sweet and mellow. We pay attention to the word 'medium soft'."

"Twenty years ago, if this wine had entered Beijing, it wouldn't have cost 50 pounds per kilogram. Think about it, how big of a detour would it be if we took the waterway from Yibin to Kaifeng? Then we would have to go down to Yangzhou and enter the Bian Canal and transfer here. Thousands of dollars would be lost.

How much tax will be charged on the lot?”

"Yang, Gao, Chu, Si, Su, Huai, Yingtian, Chenliu, Kaifeng. There are nine checkpoints above Guangbian Canal!"

"Even if the tax is thirty percent, after passing the nine levels, it will be exactly 30% of the tax!"

"This is just a tax that is being collected on the surface, but in fact, because of this name, local officials have an excuse to increase taxes."

"For example, in addition to the customs duties, the local government has also set up a gate tax, which is equal to the customs duties! Oh, this is fun. Close the door, close the door, and everyone will stop walking!"

"So your majesty is wise after all! What is the name of the New Deal? It's called one says one, says one means one! One-tenth line tax goes through customs! Only then can Yao Zi's snow tunes be sold in Bianjing City!"

The words of the old shopkeeper of the Xue family ice and snow in Bianjing City are very true: "Everyone in the old neighborhood of the Xue family ice and snow knows that even the nobles in the palace often send envoys to buy some. I, the Xue family ice and snow, do not just rely on business to make a living.

As a family, a reputation is more important."

"The Xue family's ice and snow is frozen with spring water in winter. I wouldn't trust it if it was made from other families."

"The people in Shiyisi are so playful. I am not allowed to use their own ice, so I have to use theirs. How dare I do this? If something goes wrong with the nobles in the palace, will it be Shiyisi's or my Xue family's?"

"The old man has dozens of acres of land and a village in Zhongmou. He can't afford to serve it, so he should just close it down and go out of business!"

"Over the years, I have really failed to treat my neighbors well. All the mistakes I made are all Old Man Xue's fault."

"Now that the rules have changed, the old man dares to come back. He still dares to pat his chest and tell the neighbors that the quality of Xuejia Bingxue is still the same as before. If it is not as good as before, you can come and smash the old man's sign!"

"By the way, hehehe, now Bingxue has another snack, it's called 'ice cream'. It's different from fruit ice. It's soft and has a rich milky aroma. It's made with cream and Nanhai jam sent by Beiyuan Supervisor. Old

Customers, please take care of your business..."

Nowadays, Su You and Xiao Xi are led by servants, holding a small bamboo leaf box in each hand, and eating the new Xue Family Bingxue ice cream with small pieces of wood.

Xiao Xi shook his head while eating and praised: "Buttermilk is a specialty of our northern region, but the taste and texture of Bianjing... The food style of the Song Dynasty is really exquisite!"
Chapter completed!