Leaving Wu Yuanwai's house, Thirteen Lang said: "As soon as I thought about it, if I followed the officials and couldn't make a name for myself, I would go back to my home to farm." Over the years, I have also saved some money, returned to my hometown to buy hundreds of acres of land, and became a rural worker. I didn't expect that after a few years of hard work, everything will be different, and now I go back to my hometown to buy land, and if I can't be a member, I must have some industry. ”

Yao Shouxin said: "You don't necessarily have to do these businesses. Where I live, the owner's family grows good grapes and sells them for a lot of money a year. In the past two years, I have learned to use grapes to make wine and sell it, which is really good business. ”

Tao 17 said: "Don't look at the winemaking business to make money, it is difficult to do it for a long time. This is a forbidden thing in the imperial court, and the liquor tax is there, and it must be paid. If your business is good, the government will raise taxes, and when taxes are reduced, it is actually difficult to do business. The liquor is better, it is difficult to brew it at home, and the wine is not good, and after paying the liquor tax, the price goes up, and many families brew it themselves. This wine is not good koji, just use sugar, it's too easy. ”

Thirteen Lang said: "It's embarrassing to say. In the past few years, the life of Jingxi Road has been better, and the people have money in their hands. There are shopping malls again, and the prices of all kinds of goods are much cheaper than before, and everyone gets benefits. But the price of this wine, because of the ban on the government, has not been lowered. ”

Tao Seventeen said: "I have heard several officials of the Iron Prison say that wine is not necessary, and you don't need to look at the quantity, only how much wine tax is collected. The life of the people is better, and when they have money in their hands, there will be more taxes on alcohol. If the liquor tax is less, it must be that the people are not having a good time. They don't care about the price of alcohol, when the price is high, there will be fewer people to buy and drink, and when the price is low, the wine will be sold more, and the alcohol tax will always remain about the same. ”

Thirteen Lang spat out: "These local officials are really lazy!" The liquor tax remained unchanged, so they tried to make the price of liquor high and easy to collect. But I don't know that the tax on wine is high, and the price of selling is high, and it is rare for the people to drink it to their mouths! ”

Tao Qiqi shook his head with a smile and did not speak. Wine is not a necessity, because it is made from grain, and the officials have a good reason to raise the liquor tax, and no one can say that it is not. In order to facilitate management, of course, the alcohol tax will not be set too low, and in any case, if you sell too much, it will not increase the total amount of alcohol tax.

Listening to the lively talk between the two, Yao Shouxin said: "When I was in the camp before, I heard Tiju talk about how the government manages businessmen. If we want business to prosper and ordinary people benefit from it, we need to break down all kinds of barriers. The cleaner the barriers are broken, the more benefits the people will receive, and the more commerce will be developed under the rule. But for the government, these rules have all been abolished, and there is less grip on management, which is a dilemma. Why has the business of Jingxi Road developed so fast in recent years? The shopping mall is actually secondary, but the mall is borrowed to knock out various guilds and cancel the tooth people. Between states and counties, between industries, there are no guilds and people who can control the market. With this wind, many people have become rich, and the people have also received tangible benefits. But without the guild tooth people, the government will have less grip on it, and the management of the market will not be effective. Therefore, the people are encouraged to either themselves or several families to form associations and societies, and supervise the officials and private enterprises of the associations. Now is the time for the great establishment after the great break, and everything is alive and well. When some guilds slowly do more, and a few more will unite, new guilds will naturally be formed. As long as there were guilds, commerce was sluggish and prices went up. ”

Thirteen Lang said: "Officials often say that where there is a benefit to doing things, there must be a disadvantage, and the same is true for us to march and fight. It is necessary to write down what it is for, what benefits it will have, what benefits it will produce, and how to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages. For those who are not familiar with it, they can write clearly about the advantages and disadvantages. Those of us who are officials can tell at a glance from here whether they are familiar with it or not. ”

From here, the topic of several people turned to the management of the army. It is not difficult to conform to this official document format, but it is still not easy to write clearly and understand, so that the superiors can approve it at a glance. The key lies in what disadvantages each suggestion will have, how to do it, and how to prevent it in advance. A real expert boss can see at a glance how well his subordinates have mastered their own work from the disadvantages of estimating the disadvantages, promoting the disadvantages and preventing them. On the contrary, the layman of the boss will only look at the advantages that this suggestion can bring, and neither understand nor pay attention to the disadvantages.

This is the topic in the official document, whether the boss can see the topic and identify it clearly, the subordinate will know whether it is an expert or not. On the contrary, the boss can also have a rough estimate of the ability of the subordinate from here, whether this person can take on heavy responsibilities, or can only do daily affairs.

Thirteen Lang and Yao Shouxin are both specialized officials brought out by Du Zhongxiao, and they have been trained a lot, so they naturally understand this.

Guilds and yamen, whether official or non-governmental, as long as they monopolize the market and control the price of supply, will inevitably cause damage to commerce. The price of goods is high, but the manufacturers do not benefit, especially ordinary people. Guilds and tooth people will profit from high prices, not only to make more money, but more importantly, to make stable profits.

As a forbidden thing, the government's liquor tax clearly shows this. Raising the liquor tax, raising the price, reducing private consumption, and increasing the number of people who make their own wine, the price increase does not increase the quantity. Lowering the liquor tax will promote the consumption of the common people, and the quantity will increase. Compared with the two, the liquor tax is basically fixed. It's just that because alcohol is a consumer product, the government will not only calculate the economic account, but will set the alcohol tax at an appropriate amount.

Guilds are similar to government behavior, and as administrators, they want to have the highest possible income. They are neither producers nor consumer-facing sellers, and since their incomes are largely fixed, they are naturally inclined to raise prices and save on overhead costs while reaping additional benefits. If the production technology is developed, the chamber of commerce will still give priority to suppressing production, raising prices, and ensuring its own interests.

The initial guilds were mainly producers, and rarely had the character of guilds, and the officials and governors supplemented their deficiencies. With the survival of the fittest, some of them grew bigger and became the new guilds. At this time, the role of the governor was to destroy the new chamber of commerce and maintain the vitality of production and commerce.

Du Zhongxiao has been on Jingxi Road for several years, and this set of business system has been established by himself, which is naturally clearer than anyone else. It's a pity that the time is too short, Jingxi Road has been in a period of releasing vitality, and he can't find a chance to try his hand and destroy a part of the guild power that has grown again.

There are many such examples in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. At this time, the widespread guild tooth people did not say, Jingxi Road had already tasted the sweetness. The big salt merchants in later history, with the help of official power to monopolize the sale of salt, will neither let the price of salt be lowered, nor let the people get benefits, and they are rich enough to rival the country, but it is only convenient for the management of the imperial court. Later, when the industrial society was introduced, the agriculture of some countries developed unified associations, and their existence did not benefit either the producers nor the consumers. It will only be used as a management tool, and it will be great if it has a stable effect.

Tiejian is the most economically vibrant area on Jingxi Road, and the battalion Tianxiang army is concentrated here for training, which has opened the eyes of many officers and soldiers. The camp and field affairs are different from this, they are semi-militarized, everything seems to be in order, and life is stable, but there is no economic vitality that grows uncontrollably.

Carrying the prey, he returned all the way back to the garrison of the Thirteen Lang Ma Army, where Yang Wenguang, Zhao Zi and Dou Shunqing got the news and were already waiting there.

Seeing the ceremony, Shisanlang instructed his subordinates to pack up the prey, cook it in a cauldron, and prepare a wine feast. Yao Shouxin instructed his retinue to go back to his quarters and ask for some good grapes from there to drink. Now is the season for melons and fruits to be marketed, and although the army garrison is a little remote, there is no shortage of it.

Sitting down, Dou Shunqing said: "Rider, the roasted meat you ate that day was good, why didn't you prepare today?" ”

Shisanlang smiled: "How much is a sheep?" If you can, you can save some. These days, the army has settled in, and the price of sheep in the market has risen a lot. How can the meat from the mountains compare to mutton? If you can't eat it when you bake it, you can only cook it in a big pot to taste it! ”