Lijiazhuang. A car dealership is in the process of opening.

"Bang. Bang. "In order to show the difference. As well as festivity, artillery battles were specially used to celebrate. Arguably. This is already quite grand.

"Big pillar, congratulations." Shang Wu and Jia Xu hugged their fists and congratulated.

"Sir. This. It's unacceptable. I, I can get the sir. It's already counted. Oops, me. I'm stupid. Zhang Dazhu said excitedly.

"Alright. We all know it. You have to develop this car dealership well. In the future, many of the IRA's transportation tasks may depend on you. Shang Wu said with a smile.

"Don't worry, sir, as long as the chief says a word, I, Zhang Dazhu, will definitely come forward." Zhang Dazhu said.

"Hmm. It's still a good development, and you have to be worthy of your family. Jia Xu said. Then he pointed to the young woman standing behind him.

"Sir, this, this is my daughter-in-law. Yun Niang has seen the two chiefs soon. Zhang Dazhu hurriedly said.

"I've seen two chiefs." Yun Niang whispered.

"Good. We, the two chiefs, are still waiting to drink your full moon wine, and we have to produce more. Jia Xu said with a smile. This embarrassed the two of them. The ancients believed that marriage and childbirth were a major event, and if they could give birth, it would be the most important of the great things, which meant that their descendants had great hopes, and in such a situation, many things were good omens. Therefore, Jia Xu is very encouraging to produce.

"Two chiefs, please." Zhang Dazhu asked. Shang Wu and Jia Xu entered the room, and then sat down at a table. Furniture is also one of the products exported from the Republican base at present, but most of this export is the export technology, and more and more carpenters come here to learn the relevant profits, and then invent and spread things such as tables and stools. For them, this is the right way, and it is very non-convincing to build tables and stools here. So the output is mainly technology-based, but this also makes things like tables and stools popularized on a large scale, which is also a good thing.

"Oh. I've seen two. Shang Wu and Jia Xu sat down and saw that there was wine and meat on the table, which was already very rich. The two of them sat down, apparently businessmen, and Shang Wu could just talk to them about the situation.

"You two look like businessmen?" Shang Wu asked.

"Oh. Yes, I'm in the cloth business, and there's a lot of demand here, and the cloth we produce is very thick, and we bring some of the cloth here. Just a little business. A businessman on the other side said.

"Oh. Who is this? Shang Wu asked.

"I'm in the flour business. I have a mill here, and the business is very good, so you can come to me if you need it. The merchant at the mill said with a smile.

"Hmm. Yes, I don't know, how is business here? Shang Wu asked. Jia Xu was silent, he was recording. Or observe.

"Very good, very good, so to speak. My cloth business, there is a lot of cloth production here. In addition, a monochrome floral cloth has recently appeared on the market. This kind of cloth sells very well in Luoyang, so I collect the plain cloth near Luoyang, and then send it here for printing and dyeing, and then sell it back. The cloth merchant said.

"Flower cloth?" Shang Wu looked at Jia Xu and felt that this was a bit surprising.

"yes. Don't you know? In this base, there are newspapers, and it is said that they have a special fuel, which is printed and dyed without fading. It's very good, and the version is good, it's not too much but this color is too single, but this is a flower cloth after all, this Luoyang, rich people, and many more people who love beauty. But the colors of these clothes are too single, they are all one color, and this canvas is very popular. The merchant said.

"Oh." Shang Wu and Jia Xu nodded to show that they understood. In fact, this also complains that Shangwu and Jia Xu are lonely and unheard. But in fact, this commodity has nothing to do with military use, and it belongs to the civilian category.

The advent of movable type printing, especially newspaper printing. Let some printing and dyeing craftsmen notice this, the previous ancients' clothes, most of them were a single color, most of the clothes of the poor were gray, black, or dark colors, even women, most of them were red, or light red, their clothes were very single, there was no such existence at all, but with the popularization of printing technology, especially in the printing factory craftsmen, they began to learn to use, after all, encouraging innovation will get a great reward, They used printing in another place, printing and dyeing. Dyeing is to dye all the cloth into a single color, a single color, there is no such practice as flowers, but craftsmen engrave it. It is made into a cylinder for large-scale printing, and after continuous improvement, a new printing and dyeing technology has been formed, and the key technology is dyes. But the ancient printing and dyeing craftsmen naturally solved such problems.

It is in such a situation that the flower cloth appeared. As soon as the flower cloth appeared, it made the women of the entire base area happy. Because the colors finally appeared on their clothes. In addition, the good days of the base area have just begun, and it is a great honor to be able to have a piece of flower cloth of your own.

Eventually, this kind of flower cloth began to be exported on a large scale, of course. From one factory, to other more factories to start printing and dyeing, this kind of technical promotion, mainly rely on patents to protect them, the more they use, the more benefits they get.

Because the flower cloth is mainly aimed at the civilian market, Shang Wu and Jia Xu naturally don't know that although the flower cloth at this time still looks relatively simple, it has been a lot of progress compared to a single dyed cloth.

"The demand for this flower cloth is still very large, the whole Luoyang, the south is in demand, but the supply of this cloth is not enough, only here, I plan to make some money, I will invest here, I also open a factory, the plan is to open in Handan, I have a thousand black tickets. I got it for 8,000 red tickets. The cloth merchant said.

"Oh. What about this tax? Is it heavy? Shang Wu asked.

"It's not heavy, it's not heavy at all, it's only five percent of the tax point, you think about it, it's just a lot of tax, and you don't know how much you have to earn a year. You don't know, this mill business didn't exist before. The miller merchant excitedly began to introduce his business, as if it were a great show off capital. Shang Wu and Jia Xu like such a kind of show-off, which is basically a kind of public sentiment. This has made them more aware of some changes in public sentiment.

"The people here have gone to work in the factories. In the past, they did the work of grinding flour by themselves, and they would not let people like us do it at all. The merchant said.

"Yes. The people here are rich. Moreover, the standard of living is also much higher. In such a situation, there are things that they can do for a little money. The other party said.

"You can think about what kind of things would be done in a situation like this." The merchant said.

"They all came back from working in the factory and earned a lot of red tickets, and after they had this money, they started to spend it. The work is very tiring, I have to do seven or eight hours a day, I don't have time at all, and it is already late when I come back. If you have money, you can buy something to eat, but there are still elderly people at home, so the best way is to buy it. That's how I started my mill. The other party introduced.

"Oh. So, are there many people who buy it? Shang Wu asked.

"Many, at the beginning, I still brought the grain to grind, and then I simply came over to buy it, how can I sell three hundred stone of grain a day, and this month it may exceed five hundred stones." The miller merchant said with a smile.

"Huh. Good business. Shang Wu said with a smile. Jia Xu also nodded after listening. Praise means that business will get better and better, and in this case, life in the base area will be more prosperous.

"You two, we want to do some business, I don't know what else we can do besides this cloth and the mill business?" Shangwu asked.

"This? There should be a lot of it, and there is a lot of demand in the area, such as this meat, in pork, only this poor family will eat it, and it is also popular here. I heard that the Fourth Infantry Division buys a lot every day, and no one knows what to do, but the soldiers of this Republican Army are very well paid, and we all have some envy. The businessmen said. Hearing this, Shang Wu and Jia Xu looked at each other, the Fourth Infantry Division was really messing around, but they could also understand why they did this, they wanted a lot of pig urine bubbles to make airships, but how could this thing be so simple.

"Or maybe it's this sulfur and saltpeter business, I heard that this business is also good. Convoys of such things are coming from all over the place. In addition to these, it is a business like exporting. A businessman said. Outlet. It's actually a new word, and it's only used in the base areas. Especially in the newspapers, they are the ones who do it.

"Oh. What are you exporting? Shang Wu asked.

"This, a lot. Glass, this thing sells the fastest, the most, in addition to cement, rich families now use this, the house is very strong. Other than that, it's wine. This wine business is the best business. You are not afraid that he will spoil, and besides, many people are willing to pay a high price for this good wine, I heard that this Republican Army can produce that kind of high-grade wine on a large scale, anyway, there are many people who buy wine, and the business of this wine is still very good, if the two of you can, you can do such a business. A businessman explained.

"Oh. How is the business of this car dealership? Jia Xu asked.

"This business is okay, but there are a lot of people doing it, mainly because they don't have technology. It's a bit messy. Anyone can do it. However, this business can only be done here. Because if you run outside, you may lose money. The cloth merchant said. He does a lot of business, so he naturally runs away, he knows that.

"Why is that?" Jia Xu asked puzzled.

"Tax money alone can kill you. The government kept raising taxes, and it could have been loaded with eighty percent, but in the end, it was only twenty percent. If you meet a black-hearted guy, hey, things will be difficult. It could be a loss. The merchant said distressedly. Shang Wu and Jia Xu were puzzled, and the merchant immediately explained. It turned out that the imperial court kept raising taxes in order to buy more arms, after all, this money could not be completed all at once. Therefore, the past commercial tax has become a hard-hit area, and their past commercial tax continues to increase, coupled with the local government's lack of strict control, and finally the commercial tax may reach an astonishing 200%. Because many taxes will be levied repeatedly, the price of goods arriving here will become higher. This is equivalent to the imperial court in disguised ways to rob the money in the Republican Army's base areas. This is an extremely abominable practice. This practice made Shangwu lose a lot of money.

"I didn't expect anything like this." Shang Wu said after listening to this. He was angry, this is a trade barrier, a trade tariff. These taxes will inevitably be added to their heads in the end, which is equivalent to the loss of a large amount of money invisibly, and these money will inevitably be transferred to Luoyang in the end.

Shang Wu was very angry, but they were in different situations, and in the end, Shang Wu and Jia Xu left here after a little sitting, they were very busy, Zhang Dazhu could understand, and it was already very powerful to be able to invite such two big chiefs over.

"Such a tax increase is extremely unreasonable." Shang Wu said angrily.

"But we can't help it, this is the behavior of the imperial court, and many of them are local governments, we can't control it at all, even if it is a protest, this is something that there is no way to do." Jia Xu said helplessly.

"Besides, this taxation is something that the imperial court wants to do, and it has little to do with us, in this case, in fact, our situation is more passive, after all, there are many things in the place that we can't control." Jia Xu said.

"Hmm." Shangwu is also helpless, and in such a situation, sometimes they can only accept that an important barrier to trade growth is tariffs, although most of this is the spontaneous behavior of local governments. However, this kind of tax did bring great trouble to Shangwu, because the arms business was the business of the imperial court, so the tax was not very large, but the import of grain increased a lot. This is very bad for Shang Wu. They have to break that situation and bring food prices down. In other words, if tariffs are reduced, in any case, such a solution can be solved. Where can such a problem be solved? Shang Wu thought.