The people who live near the west gate of Yongxian County have discovered a strange thing in the past few days.

It has always been deserted, not many people pass by on weekdays, and even under the city wall where most of the time the city gate is not even opened, there is quite a lot of movement these days.

At first, they thought that the government had enough money to support and had no place to spend to repair the city wall, but later they heard that they were going to build a "shopping mall" here, create some kind of "business district" or something.

They don't know what shopping malls and business districts are, but they roughly understand the meaning.

The newly appointed Lord Thorn drew a large circle on the western city wall, intending to build a row of shops here, and as for why he didn't build it on the street and surrounded the city gate, they attributed it to Lord Thorn's brain.

Yongxian County already has a Fang City, and it is enough for the people to use daily, and Lord Thorn Shi has to work hard and lose money to build a big one, isn't this sick?

But if you think about it carefully, it can't be said that it is a waste of money for the people, after all, not only do you not ask the people for money this time, but anyone who comes to work here can still receive a salary of 20 wen a day.

Twenty Wen, for the peasant people who only rely on farming for a living, they have to earn it for a while, this is a matter of copper coins falling from the sky, and it just so happens that it is now a farmer's slack, and if you don't do such a good job, it is simply the same brain as Lord Thorn Shi.

For a time, the threshold of the Yongxian county government will be broken every two days, and the people who come are all people who want to go to the west city wall to work.

The government does not refuse to come to the people who want to work, and they will receive as much as they come, but there is no way, the construction period is tight and the task is heavy, and those shops will be put into use before the New Year, and now there are only three months before the New Year, that is, at most two months, they have to finish, otherwise, up to the officials, down to the officials, will be punished.

It is said that this is all the idea of the new Chen Tingshi, and the people who have money to make money in the agricultural slack are happy in their hearts, but the officials of Yongxian County dare not be angry, so they can only secretly curse the Chen Tingshi in their hearts......

The officials and officials of the workshop were responsible for supervising the construction of the project, and because there were not enough people, they had to borrow from several other houses.

In addition to the workshop, the official errands of the household are not good.

Chen Tingshi didn't know what kind of wind he was smoking, so he had to let them try to keep the merchants from all over the world in Shuzhou, which was no better than building a house by an overseer, and he couldn't do this kind of work without a three-inch tongue and perseverance......

A household servant had just sent off a caravan, and when he walked back to the city gate, he pursed his lips, which had become dry from talking too much, and couldn't help but scold in a low voice: "Chen Tingshi, what a fucking ......"

As soon as he looked up, he saw that a guard at the city gate was looking at him, looked at him, shook his head, and said: "Chen Tingshi is so thoughtful, for the sake of the people of Shuzhou------ I don't know if his mother's health is good......"

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Yongxian, the eastern gate of the city.

The caravan stopped outside the city gate, and a wealthy man at the head turned back to a bald head behind him and said, "Big brothers, thank you for this journey." ”

The bald head waved his hand and said: "Open the door to do business, what is there to thank you for, you will cooperate in the future, and find us, you know how to contact us, right?" ”

"Yes, yes." The rich man nodded and said, "When we come back, we will find a few big brothers." ”

The bald head nodded, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, see you later!" ”

"Let's go, a few big brothers!"

Saying goodbye to a few people, the rich man looked at the gate of Yongxian County, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

Ever since the land of chaos had changed for the better, they had to save a lot of money in this business.

Listening to the caravan encountered on the road, the bandits in Shuzhou have now been completely eliminated, and there is no need to worry about coming from Qi with great difficulty, all the goods and money are buried in the hands of the bandits, and the road in Shuzhou will be able to go boldly in the future.

From the chaotic land to Shuzhou, the people are good, and the road is good, and when he sees the bald head now, a sense of intimacy will rise in his heart.

This intimacy disappeared as soon as they saw a man in a government uniform walking towards them.

If you can hide from the first day of the first month, you can't hide from the fifteenth year, you can't hide from the Qi country, you can't hide from the Jingguo, Shuzhou is a place they can't bypass, and the tariffs here are so strict that many small businessmen are afraid to hear about it.

"This official ......" He smiled on his face, and just as he spoke, the official came over quickly, with a smile on his face, and asked, "You are businessmen from Qi State, right?" ”

Seeing such a terrifying smile on the face of the official who had always ignored them and always had a coffin face, the rich man immediately chuckled in his heart.

There must be a demon when things go wrong, this official is actually smiling so brightly, it seems that they are in big trouble this time!

He was worried in his heart: "The official ......"

"Hey, don't be so polite, come first, come first......" The smile on the official's face became even brighter, leading them into the county seat, and the rich man was even more apprehensive in his heart.

Whether it is in Jingguo or Qi State, the government is to set up cards to collect taxes, Qi State is seriously suppressed business, ten taxes two, as for what is ten and what is two, it is also the official master who has the final say, so in Qi State, if there is no official background, it is very difficult to do business.

Since the reform of the tax law of Jingguo, under the condition of stable agriculture, the merchants are far from being suppressed and suppressed like Qi State, but to a certain extent of guidance and encouragement, therefore, more and more Qi businessmen are willing to come to Jingguo to do business.

Of course, the people of Qi are naturally different from those in Jingguo, and the merchants of Jingguo have twenty taxes and one tax, and they have to pay ten taxes and one, of course, it is still more cost-effective than in Qi......

When he arrived at the official treasury and counted the goods, the official took a list to him.

He was used to this process, and the list was the total amount of goods and the amount of tax they had to pay.

The attitude of the official just now made him extremely worried in his heart, and he wondered in his heart whether Jingguo's tax law had been changed again, and this trip was afraid that it would be in vain......

However, when he saw the tax amount at the bottom of the list, he couldn't help but be stunned.

During the time of Qi, the government would value the goods and convert them into silver taels, and they would deliberately raise the price of the goods to increase the amount of taxes for the merchants.

In fact, the governments everywhere do this, the difference is that one is much darker than the other.

But the number on this list was more than half lower than he had expected.

He has always paid more taxes, and this is the first time he has encountered a situation of paying less taxes.

There is fraud, and there must be fraud in this.

Thinking of this official's attitude, he was even more sure in his heart.

This is a temptation, this must be a temptation, if you are greedy for cheap, pretend not to know about it, and intend to confuse the past, maybe this time you will be empty!

He looked at the official and said with a straight face: "My lord, we didn't hide the goods, these truckloads of goods are all, there is no problem with the valuation on this list, but this tax amount, this tax amount is ......, is it ......, I mean is it possible, my lord was careless, accidentally miscalculated?" ”

He looked at the official's expression, and without waiting for the other party to speak, he immediately said: "Of course, don't misunderstand, my lord, I definitely don't mean to blame the adult, don't blame the adult, don't blame ......"