Zhen Qian just wanted to open his mouth to speak, when the voice of Wang You, a scholar outside the door, came: "Da Lang, the wine shop grabbed two more just now, is it going to be sent to the official tomorrow!" ”

Later, when his biological mother returned to his mother's house to visit relatives and saw that Wang You was clever, he asked him to follow him as a scholar, which belonged to Zhen Qian's private property, so he often followed him, even if he knew that Zhen Qian and his second daughter were enjoying a big meal in the room, they could only report things outside the house.

"Or those Hu people? How did you catch it? ”

Wang You, who was outside the door, said with disdain: "It's not those Hu people!" Relying on the close relationship with the Jiedu envoy, he does whatever he wants in Hebei...... As soon as the two Hu people arrived in the village, they were discovered by the second housekeeper, and when they infiltrated the winery, one was caught in the thigh of the beast, and the other was covered by a fishing net, and now they are all thrown into the dungeon......".

"Break one of their legs, let the second housekeeper send the official early tomorrow morning, and reward each of the meritorious people for arresting them tonight, and arrange a carriage for me by the way, and go to Luquan County tomorrow afternoon to visit my parents!"

Wang Younuo disappeared with a sigh.

I really don't know why these Hu people are still ghostly, and in two months, six groups of strongmen have peeped into the wine shop, and they are really thieves. It is said that the husband is not guilty, Huaibi is guilty, he just got out to burn knives and brandy to collect money, if he takes out the glass, he will not break the sky.

There was no distilled liquor in the Tang Dynasty, most of the liquor was low-degree "turbid wine" and "sweet wine", what Yingzhou Fushui, Wucheng Ruoxia, Hezhong Sangluo, Yuanzhou Yichun, Xingyang Tuguo Spring, Fuping Shijing Spring, Jiannan Burning Spring, Hedong Qianhe Grape, Lingnan Yunxi Boluo, Yicheng Jiuyu, Xunyang Huangshui, Qidilu Wine, ......, the higher degree of the state banquet Sanle pulp also came from the palace nourishing secret recipe (similar to medicinal wine, with anti-fatigue, immune regulation, hypoxia resistance), and the degree was around 20 degrees.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the price of grain soared, first the eighteenth road anti-king, and then the Turks and Goguryeo, and the imperial court issued a ban on alcohol, prohibiting folk winemaking.

By the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the grain was abundant, and the wine shops were scattered from the bustling towns to the countryside, showing a prosperous scene, which was unprecedented in the previous generations. This also proves that the Tang Dynasty was not only a prosperous economy, but also a rich period of wine culture, and the folk winemaking industry was thriving.

Wei Yingwu tried his best to lay out the luxury and magnificence of the newly built restaurant in Chang'an in "Wine Shop": "The Haojia sells wine in Chang'an Mo, once the building is 100 feet high. The blue and exquisite spring breeze and the silver inscription color banner were handed over to the guest ......", and the wine shops at that time often used the fluttering wine flag as an eye-catching symbol. Pi Rixiu's "Wine Flag" cloud: "The green banner is several feet wide and hangs on the road. It is mostly blown by the wind, and the name of the wine is seen from time to time". Liu Yuxi, Tortoise Meng, etc. all wrote famous sentences describing the wine flag: "The wine flag looks at the head of the embankment, and the embankment goes upstairs with the embankment"; "Only the sun is slanting on the stream, and the wine flag is falling in the spring."

At that time, there were still many wine shops with women as shopkeepers, such as Li Bai's poem "Farewell to Jinling Wine Shop": "The wind blows the willow flowers all over the store, and Wu Ji presses the wine to call the guests to taste"; "Sending Pei Eighteen Tunan to Songshan": "Orchid beckons plain hands, and Yanke is drunk with gold bottles"; Li Shangyin's poem: "The wine CD can be sent to the old, and the person is still Zhuo Wenjun", the above are all good sentences describing a woman as a shopkeeper of a wine shop.

The liquor industry in the Tang Dynasty was both tax-based and locally official-selling. The liquor tax in the Tang Dynasty was quite considerable, especially after the Anshi Rebellion, the military expenditure was huge, and the tax was even heavier. According to the "General Examination of Literature, Levy Examination", it is recorded that in the second year of Zong Guangde in the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that "taxes are drawn on a monthly basis"; In the second year of the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, the tax rate for selling liquor was stipulated, and the seller of liquor was charged "one hundred and fifty yuan" for each bucket sold. In the eight years of Tang Wenzong's Taihe, the country's liquor tax amount reached more than 1.56 million, which is quite a considerable amount.

Since Zhen Qian made wine for sale, he naturally couldn't get around the Luquan County Government, in addition to sending ten jars of wine to the county government every month, he also took out 30% of the dry shares of the wine shop and gave it to the county government.

Nothing that can be solved by spending money is a thing!

As long as it is a feudal dynasty, salt, iron, wine and tea are a profitable industry, and heavy taxes are inevitable, and the imperial court is very strict in the management of liquor tax.

Zhen Qian can't do much industry now, it's not that he can't do it, but he can't do it. Not a single grain of grain produced by the land was reluctant to sell, and a large amount of grain was purchased from other places and hidden in case of emergency.

Wine shop, grain shop, money village, restaurant is Zhen Qian's four pillar industries to accumulate wealth, the wine shop at the beginning of the purchase of some self-brewed wine for sale, but the profit is very low, had to open a grain shop to buy miscellaneous grains, sorghum, soybeans, millet, millet and so on are all good crops for winemaking, can also avoid people's eyes. With grain shops and restaurants as cover, Zhen Qian's purchase of grain did not attract the attention of the county government.

Qian Zhuang belongs to the property of Zhen Mansion in Luquan County, and it was given to Zhen Qian when he was separated, and at first Zhen Qian felt that Qian Zhuang was dispensable, but after understanding it, Zhen Qian was startled.

The main currencies of the Tang Dynasty were copper coins and silk, gold and silver were not the main currency in circulation, and they had to be exchanged at the money bank before use, and the high handling fee of the exchange was terrifying, the handling fee for gold and silver for copper coins was 5%, and the exchange of silk charged 2% of the handling fee, and the entry and exit could make money.

The exchange of money is only the tip of the iceberg, the real profit comes from lending, the interest rate in the Tang Dynasty is different from that of later generations, and it can no longer be simply described as usury. In later generations, the outrageous monthly interest rate of private loans was only one or two cents, and the monthly interest rate of borrowing 10,000 yuan was only one or two hundred yuan. In the Tang Dynasty, the interest rate on borrowing was as high as eight cents, which is not counting compound interest.

Why did the monthly interest in the Tang Dynasty reach seven or eight cents, here we need to first understand what is called public money, which is a difficult thing for later generations to understand.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the capital set up by the government to operate commerce and usury was set up for various public purposes of the government and as money for officials. It is also known as the capital of the public party. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, there were public offices in Beijing and the prefecture offices, which lent money to do business and collect profits for public use. Tang Chengsui system, the first year of Wude set up the capital of the public party, with the commanders in charge, each division of nine people, the number of the history of the money order, which to the product (the descendants of officials below the six grades) as a role, called "catch the money product". Each person has less than 50 strokes and more than 40 strokes; The monthly allowance is 4,000 yuan, and the annual income is 50,000 yuan, which is used as the money of the Beijing officials. Those who can give benefits on time can participate in the selection of officials and be awarded official positions after a certain number of years. Taizong was abolished for a time, and it was restored in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan. At that time, there were more than 70 divisions in Beijing, and there were more than 600 people who caught money. The total capital of the public offices is between 24,000 and 30,000.

The local prefectures and counties and the prefecture also set up the capital of the public office, which was used by the warden to provide for the regular food expenses of the officials below the rank of the secretary and the food for the officials. According to the capital of the state and county public offices contained in the fragment of the Huanghuang Gazetteer in the collection of the Dunhuang County Museum and the amount of the capital of the state and county public offices recorded in the "New Tang Dynasty Book and Food Chronicles", the total capital of the state and county public offices in the country was about 800,000 to 1 million guan at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the early Tang Dynasty, public interest money has always been one of the main sources of information for hundreds of officials.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the public money system continued to be implemented, and the interest money was mainly used for official food, ancestral sacrifices, banquets, miscellaneous uses, pavilions, sick houses, and teaching workshops. The capital of the public party has increased significantly, also known as rentier capital.

The interest rate of public money, Wude and Zhenguan, are all eight cents per month, and seven cents at the beginning of the new century.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the capital of the public party was in charge of the commanders. After Yonghui, they were all in charge of the wealthy households among the people. In the early Tang Dynasty, the high-ranking households who mainly caught money were called "money catchers", "money catchers" or "money catchers", and they could be exempted from forced labor, and those who were guilty of the crime must be sent to the department to be held responsible, and the prefecture and county were not allowed to be punished without authorization. Money catchers often use their private money to add to their official capital, and engage in activities that seek personal gain, and when they encounter debts, they use official money as a name to unreasonably persecute the debtor.

There is a strict management system for the capital of the public office, and the departments must report to the Shangshu Province once a quarter and the end of the year in the state capital, and the criminal department will outline it. At the time of Yuan He, the secretary of the province and other 32 departments of rentier capital, entrusted to the management of the imperial historical platform, at the end of each year, the survey will be punished.

The monthly interest rate of the imperial court loan is seven cents, and the monthly interest rate of private loans will naturally not be lower than this figure, and such a high monthly interest has become the biggest income of the bank.

In the sixth year of Kaiyuan, the secretary and young eunuch Cui Wei wrote: "The number of profits is large, and the bankrupt are numerous...... lies in the common people, and has been re-endowed", which became a cancer in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and in the disaster year, there were countless people who broke their homes.