The bleak autumn wind brings coolness from the water surface, blowing on the face, giving it a hard feeling.

Xu Ping sat in the Jiugui Pavilion, laying on the railing and looking at Jinshuihe, his face gloomy.

Since Shi Yannian went to work outside Jinxiang County and Cao Wei arrived in the northwest, few people in the capital have come to the Jiugui Pavilion to drink. Baijiu also has some fixed customers in the capital, mainly some high-level military officers. These people are not very interested and will not run dozens of miles to drink wine. Most of them rely on several companies to secretly smuggle white wine supplies to the capital.

Xu Ping knew that there were several powerful large-scale companies who smuggled liquor into the capital for profit, but they were too lazy to care about them, just pretending that they didn't know. Some people even tried to cooperate with him, but Xu Ping refused without thinking. He would not make money for such illegal and criminal matters. If he wanted to live a hundred years old, safety must be the first priority. After all, Xu Ping has too many ways to make money, which is really not worth taking risks. Of course, there have always been many people asking people in Xujiazhuang for the brewing methods of liquor, but since the people involved are all close friends and the merchants in the village are really good to the merchants, it has not been leaked so far, but this is a matter of time.

The worst thing is the sugar shop. Since it opened, all kinds of dirty things have emerged one after another. Xu Ping is really annoyed. Making money in sugar is to make money, but it is too easy to make too much. In the capital, a place where people from all walks of life have been targeted by people from all walks of life, and all kinds of methods have been used.

Two days ago, someone in the capital asked Xu Ping to hurry up and go to the city to talk about something about the sugar shop. Xu Ping refused because of the busy affairs in the village, but just wrote a letter to his father, asking him not to care about everything, just share the money every month, and not to get involved in the whirlpool.

The so-called thing to talk about is nothing more than a wealthy family who wants to get a share of the sugar industry, either want to invest or open a branch. How can Xu Ping have the time to deal with them? The Li family is engaged in business, so of course they can settle these things. If you don’t have the ability, don’t eat such a big bite of meat.

Anyway, Xu Ping doesn't care. At worst, he can just close the shop and move his whole family back to Baisha Town. With the money he earns now and a farm and a restaurant, he will be comfortable enough to live a lifetime.

Xiuxiu hummed a song and guarded a small coal ball stove. While warming wine, she cooked a large pot of fish soup. The fish was a big carp caught from the Jinshui River. It tasted delicious and had been cooking for more than half an hour.

The Li family couldn't hold it in, so they had to ask Zhang Tianrui to come to Baisha Town to discuss some of the matters about the sugar shop. Xu Ping brought Xiuxiu over and waited for Zhang Tianrui in the Jiugui Pavilion.

The sugar shop could earn 70,000 to 80,000 guan for the Xu family this year. Xu Ping also felt that the amount was too large. Without a strong background, it would be difficult to keep the business. At this time, the prime minister's monthly salary was only 400 guan. After a year, with various subsidies and rewards, he would not exceed 20,000 guan. How could an ordinary merchant like the Xu family keep a profit of nearly 100,000 guan a year? Moreover, the salary of officials in the Song Dynasty was always discounted. How much did he say, but he would actually get 60,000 guan off.

It would be nice to have Zhang Tianrui come and talk. Xu Ping didn't mind transferring the sugar shop and the method of making sugar at a suitable price, which saved so much trouble.

As for the idea of ​​attracting a few powerful families to support themselves and then making a big profit, Xu Ping never had it, it was actually a ridiculous idea. The literati and officials who were really in power in the court were the literati. Those so-called wealthy families were just pets in captivity and there was no possibility of protecting such a big business. As for cooperation with literati, don’t mention which prime minister would open a shop at home? Isn’t that uncomfortable? The Song Dynasty strictly prohibited officials and literati to lend money for profit. Although it was not prohibited to do business, it was actually a hidden rule and he could not directly participate in commercial activities. At this time, there were no such chaos in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and literati and officials were relatively clean and loving.

The longer you stay in this world, the more powerless Xu Ping felt. His pride in pointing to the history textbooks in his previous life had long been cleaned up. At that time, he thought that the ancients were all stupid. If they were matched, they would not make them mess around with just a little trick? Especially in the past life, the thick black learning was popular. In this era, it was not like a fish in water. What a pedantic scholar-official, a villain who only had money in his eyes, and he would not let them do whatever they did with just using some means. He had to count money for himself after selling them. Only after he really came into contact with it did he know how ridiculous that idea was, the popularity of those knowledge

It was just a fool who treated the ancients as fools. In fact, there were very few fools. In terms of being smart, studious, and capable, how many people could compare to Ding Wei who was still suffering on Hainan Island at this time? Even those who thought they were smart in later generations, such as those who were so ruthless and cruel, and few people could compare to him. Ding Wei had a famous saying: "The affairs of loyal ministers and filial sons in ancient and modern times are not worthy of trust. They are historical works, and they want to talk about future generations." This was many years earlier than the statement that history was like a little girl. But what was the result? He was not just demoted to Hainan Island and never set foot in the capital in his entire life.

People in Xu Ping's previous life always thought that he could use his cleverness to play the ancient scholars and officials, which was just a joke. If you want to gain a foothold among them, you must have great wisdom to be invincible. The so-called cleverness is just a gamble on luck and going through the tightrope of fate. This is not the day Xu Ping likes.

It was not until the sun was at its peak that Xu Ping saw the shadow of Zhang Tianrui riding a horse on the road. I don’t know what Zhang Tianrui had to do with the Li family, and I was very trusted. He entrusted all the matters of the Baitang Shop. He had never seen the Li family come directly to ask about it. Of course, there are also reasons why the Li family, as an official and foreign relative, was not easy to directly participate in commercial activities. I found such a person to make white gloves.

He took Zhang Tianrui to the Jiugui Pavilion and just treated him. Xu Ping said, "I care about the hard work of coming from afar, so I'll drink a glass of wine. There are golden carp cooked there, so I'll take it to drink."

Zhang Tianrui thanked him, drank three glasses of wine with Xu Ping before putting the glass away, and smiled bitterly at Xu Ping, "The little official lives so leisurely, but I don't know that we are about to be sad and turn white in the capital!"

Xu Ping said lightly: "Everyone is talking and joking. I don't know how much I have to do every day, and I have never had a day of leisure. Where does the word leisure start?"

Zhang Tianrui did not bother with this issue and went straight to the topic: "The sugar business is in big trouble!"

Xu Ping didn't care: "Which company is going to cause trouble for us?"

Zhang Tianrui sighed: "Not one? Although Li Fangyu's official position is not obvious, his mother is the eldest princess. None of the dynasties will offend death. This time, the court took action, and no matter who spoke, it was useless."

Xu Ping was shocked: "What does it mean?"

Zhang Tianrui said: "Do you still remember that the young officials still remember that the court caused a storm because they collected Chen tea in the shop at the beginning of the year. How many officials were punished for this?"

Xu Ping nodded. Of course he remembered this matter. Speaking of which, it was the thing that had the greatest impact on doing this matter. He was a little proud to think about it.

"This time, it was because of Ma Jiliang, who was expelled from the capital last time."

After hearing this, Xu Ping suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhang Tianrui: "Why is he involved again? Hasn't he been left alone to Liangzhe and unable to take care of the court?"

Zhang Tianrui just sighed: "It was because he arrived in eastern Zhejiang that something happened! The sugar collected in our shop came from Siming and was under his rule. Because of the good business this year, we almost purchased all the sugar in Siming. I don't know what Ma Jiliang thought, so he counted the amount of sugar we collected, converted it into money, and calculated the calculations, and then wrote a memorial."

Xu Ping still didn't understand and asked, "We are all fair trades. If we don't steal or rob, what can he do if he counts? Could it be that he has violated the law to make money?"

Zhang Tianrui shook his head: "Don't violate the law, Ma Jiliang just told the court that if we just have sugar from Siming, our shop can make 100,000 yuan in a year. If we collect the rules of this business, white sugar and tea salt are generally used as official positions, and the government can increase the income of one or two million yuan in a year. The three departments are not able to make ends meet every year. After hearing this way of making money, they were immediately moved and have sent people to find Taiwei Li."

After hearing this news, Xu Ping was stunned. What does it mean to have the official position? The three departments' thoughts were too advanced. The gameplay that appeared a thousand years later was now created? Turning back, this development was really natural. The official business and commerce in the Song Dynasty were huge, covering almost all walks of life in the economy, and it was an important source of central fiscal revenue. Moreover, the methods were flexible, including official and official-run private enterprises, and even official-private joint ventures. If it weren't for the later invasion of the Mongols, there would have been huge gaps in the political and economic sectors, Xu Ping thought, he might have saved even the reform and opening up, and almost all the systems had appeared at this time.

The central government of the Song Dynasty was extremely under great financial pressure. Except for the decades in the early Song Dynasty, increasing fiscal revenue was almost always the top priority of the court. One or two million yuan a year was enough for Sansi to tear the face and ended up in person. She had thought about some wealthy families taking action, and there was always a way to deal with it, but she didn't expect that the amount was too large to a certain extent, which would attract the covetousness of Sansi, the monster.

At present, the market for sugar is mainly the palace and the wealthy families in the capital. If it is really promoted to the whole country, it is not difficult to make a profit of millions of yuan a year. The worse the living conditions, the more sugar is the more necessary to eat. When I was a child, I always had a sign outside the convenience store when I was a child: "Tobacco, Wine, Sugar, Tea". Tobacco has not yet emerged at this time, so I won't talk about it. In this era of wine and tea, it is natural to include sugar in the franchise system. It's just a matter of blame Xu Ping for not thinking about this direction some time ago.

China's tobacco monopoly income almost handles all military expenditures, which is Xu Ping's previous life. If several franchises are done well in this era, it can actually solve most of the finances. Prime Minister Sanshi is more clear about this than anyone else. The idea of ​​taking sugar is natural.

Thinking of the horror of the monster Sansi, Xu Ping lost his mind to resist. Not to mention him, such huge economic benefits, I am afraid that even the prime minister of the dynasty would not have the power to resist. Even the emperor came forward in person, he might not be able to suppress Sansi's impulse. This monster's desire for money was beyond imagination.

After a while of silence, Xu Ping asked Zhang Tianrui: "What did Taiwei Li say?"
Chapter completed!