"Führer, give orders! The subordinate 100 Baozheng and 400 Baoding are ready, just waiting for your order! ”

Seeing that Wu Haogu was silent, Ximen Anguo, the patriarch of the Ximen family, was a little breathless, and opened his mouth to ask for battle.

It turned out that before today's Senate meeting began, Wu Haogu asked Ximen Anguo to convene the "vegetable field security"! 100 knights and 400 part-time guards mobilized from the construction team led by Huang Zhisheng were deployed at the first time. The knights mounted their horses, armed with bows and arrows, and straight knives, while the "temporary baoding" armed with sticks and rattan signs, were on guard in various parts of the Jiehe Merchant City.

But the force still seems to be a bit weak!

Listening to Ximen Anguo's shouting, Wu Haogu suddenly found that the military strength of Jiehe Shang City was not enough at the critical moment...... If you don't count the "Mamluks" who haven't grown up yet, the "standing army" of Jiehe Shang City is 200 "knight Baozheng", 200 divination war slaves, 200 sailors, and hundreds of police patrols, with a total of no more than 1,000 people.

And the police patrol is also responsible for maintaining law and order in the city, not an army that can be pulled out at any time!

As for the registered Baoding, there are several thousand, but can they really be mobilized when the time comes? And these Pauling...... Most of them are working in the trading houses under the eighty-eight guilds, right? Can these guys really go to war at a critical moment? They weren't Western Zhou nationals and Roman citizens!

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu laughed: "An Zhi, just get ready, what orders do you want from this official?" It's just a petition...... Whether we are accurate or not, we don't have to hurt the peace. After all, Jiehe Commercial Market is a transaction, and buying and selling is not benevolent! Tell me if that's the reason? ”

Wu Haogu spoke, but his eyes were coldly cast on Ji Sheng, Xiang Bao and Zhang Kexiang.

"Yes! Buying and selling is not benevolent! Ji Sheng replied with a smile, "It's a big deal...... They didn't kill people and sell goods, what can we do? Can you still buy and sell strongly? ”

Xiang Bao also said: "Ximen Anzhi, you are also impulsive!" What if your bodyguard really kills people and people go to Kaifeng Mansion to beat the drum? Are you really the head of martial arts a town? ”

Zhang Kexiang sneered: "Fuhrer Wu, I think there is something wrong with the government office this time, Du Wenzhong's guy is ugly, and he asked for a bribe of 3,000 from Qinglou Wazi and 8,000 from Shipbuilding...... How much do the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce share in a year? It's just 10,000 horses of silk, he's good, just open his mouth in case of 10,000! Moreover, he still has 600 horses a year, and he still lives in a free house, and the seven-rank officials of the court are not as much as him!

And this guy is still running! Hehe, I think he probably received money from other families, maybe he can have tens of thousands! Otherwise, what else would he run? ”

"Yes, if the tax business is the same as his, how much will our chamber of commerce lose in a year?"

"He's not an official, how dare he make money like this? It's no wonder that the guilds below are not convinced. ”

"I think the Guild's request is also reasonable, and the tax does have to be discussed publicly."

"It's better to discuss ......"

A few of the elders present actually began to echo Zhang Kexiang! But Zhang Kexiang's words also make sense.

Du Wenzhong is a company salesman who eats kickbacks, and he still expects shareholders to speak to him?

Moreover, there are indeed many problems with the tax model controlled by the financial department, and Du Wenzhong is not the only one who is greedy for money, but he wants too much of this goods, which has caused the shipbuilding industry to resist.

"Führer," Pan Xiao'an's nephew Pan Qi also spoke at this time, "In my opinion, this tax is indeed unreasonable, it is better to cancel the tax and increase the land tax...... Pay as much tax as you have as much property as you have. ”

If the Pan family opens a bank, paying bank tax is definitely not as cost-effective as paying land tax! How much land does the bank occupy, how much tax can it pay? But it's different to collect bank taxes, everyone knows that the bank has money, how can it be less paid?

"That's not going to work!" Objected to BMW, "The land tax is already very high, more than 60,000 yuan was paid last year, the real estate bank also paid more than 30,000 line taxes, and the real estate deed tax is more than 20,000 yuan, a total of more than 120,000 yuan, which is already very heavy!" ”

His family's Poly Real Estate is the second largest real estate developer in Jiehe Commercial City...... Of course, I don't want to pay more land tax.

"Elder Xiang," Wu Haogu said with a smile, interrupting Xiang Bao, who was arguing with Pan Qi, "You support the establishment of the Guild Academy?" ”

"I think it's okay," Xiang Bao said with a smile, "It's not okay to collect so much money from people in a year, and it's not okay to always be blindfolded?" Besides, now one-third of the seats in the Jingdong Merchant City are for the head of the bank, so why don't we follow suit? ”

The situation of Jingdong Commercial Market is actually different from that of Jiehe Commercial Market, which first has "vegetable sellers" to set up stalls to do business, and then has "vegetable market" to standardize management. In this case, it is natural that the "vegetable sellers" have a relatively large say. Otherwise, if you don't have a commercial market, you can just let the Haizhou government collect taxes? In addition to the money collected and all the money went to the pockets of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, there is nothing wrong with it.

The Jiehe Commercial Market is the first "vegetable market", and then the "vegetable sellers" are recruited, and the Jiehe Commercial Market theoretically has no official participation - there is no official patriarch! It is all the shareholders who operate and manage it. But such a commercial "vegetable market" has a population of 100,000 in just a few years, almost reaching the level of a state!

In other words, the current Jiehe Commercial Market has become a medium-sized city managed by the board of directors.

In the city governed by the board of directors, the ruling foundation is actually relatively weak, that is, 33 shareholders. Moreover, most of these 33 shareholders are not "bourgeois", but aristocratic bureaucrats...... At least their main identity is aristocratic bureaucracy!

The leaders of the guilds, although not necessarily capitalists with dark consciences, did not have the qualities of aristocratic bureaucrats, and most of them were citizens engaged in industry and commerce.

"Second Brother Pan," Wu Haogu asked Pan Qi again, his age was similar to Wu Haogu, but he was a generation younger, and he was the second in his generation. "What do you think?"

"I think it's okay," Pan Qi smiled, "as long as the tax is collected clearly, the public will discuss it!" ”

"Senior Official Hao, what do you see?" Wu Haogu remained silent, and threw the question to Hao Sui, the internal official of the Jiehe Ying Feng Bureau.

Hao Sui was the confidant of Empress Dowager Liu, but he was defeated by Pang Kuan, Yang Jian and Liang Shicheng in the struggle between internal officials, and was kicked to Jiehe Commercial Market.

"We also think it's okay," Hao Sui said, "Anyway, there is already a precedent for Jingdong Commercial Market, so it's okay for us to follow it." ”

Jingdong Mall has not yet opened! However, the management method of the commercial market has been discussed for some time.

"Cao Dianzhi, what do you think of the old man?"

Wu Haogu is now asking an old man from the Cao family's Jiangmen, a descendant of Cao Bin, but he is a concubine who is not popular, so he was sent to the Jiehe Commercial Market to do business.

"Okay," Old Man Cao smiled, "With a head meeting, let's talk to the heads in person in the future, how can it be better than now?" ”

Wu Haogu thought to himself: This old man really thinks that those guild merchants are very talkative, right?

"Brother Ma," Wu Haogu asked Ma Zhi again, he was the leader of the eight Liao elders, "Do you think you can open a guild house?" ”

The eight Liao elders are all aristocratic guys, four of them are from the Yan family, a clansman of Xiao Baoxian's brothers and sisters, a merchant Langjun of Xi Wangfu, a merchant Langjun sent by the Twelve Palace Tents, and one is the nephew of Li Yan (also known as Yelu Yan), the prime minister of Liao who can roll dice.

However, the dignitaries of these eight Liao kingdoms are relatively weak here in Jiehe Commercial City, because they have no business vision, and basically can't do anything except sell horses, sheep and wood. And most of the land allocated to them in the eight squares was sold early for cash, and it was not sold at a good price, only Ma Zhi handed over the land to Ximen Qing to operate, so he hoarded most of the land, and also earned a lot of silk, and now he is probably the richest man in Liao.

"Open it!" Ma Zhi also looked indifferent, "Aren't they just some businessmen!" Can you still turn the sky upside down? It seems that they are also unbearable to be blackmailed by the officials to make such a request. ”

Just some harmless businessmen? Wu Haogu smiled in his heart: Ancient Chinese merchants didn't seem to be too powerful...... However, if the lower courtyard of the commercial market is really opened, it is not a matter for a few businessmen to participate, because the head of the business is not necessarily only for capitalists. As the saying goes, three hundred and sixty lines, the first to travel! These 360 lines are actually a general term for social work, representing the masses who are mainly urban citizens.

Once there is a lower house of the head of the line, it is equivalent to the citizens of Jiehe Shang City have the real right to discuss politics. And the citizens who have the power of parliamentary power will become the citizens of the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, the citizens of the West...... A good "Jiehe vegetable market" is going to become a beacon city for citizens!

You decaying feudal aristocracy and bureaucrats really don't understand anything!

Wu Haogu shook his head and said with a smile: "Since everyone is in favor of opening the first court, then it is better to agree to their petition...... Do you have any objections? ”

No one objected. How could a board of directors object to a better, more transparent way to make money?

"Then it's passed!" Wu Haogu continued, "But we can't give those council taxes for nothing! ”

Rights and duties should be reciprocal! It is not appropriate for the leaders to get the power to set up the lower house of the heads of the banks without much struggle this time, so they must be made to pay something! Otherwise, these leaders will be accustomed to being a mess sooner or later.

"That's right! Can't give it for nothing! Ximen Anguo immediately agreed, and then asked another game, "Führer, what conditions should we propose?" ”

Wu Haogu glanced at this rough and tall man, and said with a smile: "This head of state suggests that the citizenship system be implemented in Jiehe Shang City. ”