On the morning of the day of delivery, Dongzhu Wu got the last one hundred tons of Sanqi, and finally got all the one thousand tons of Sanqi. The capital was 45,000 Guan. He sold 90,000 Guan, making a net profit of 45,000 Guan. This is
The biggest business he ever made was also the most profitable one he ever made.
It was almost noon, but he still didn't see his nephew arriving. He was stamping his feet anxiously. This guy must have gone out to fool around last night. It was really impossible to hold the wall up, and something went wrong at the critical moment.
Helpless, he had to ask two men to find two ox carts, and he personally escorted the three thousand people to the dock outside the city.
When they arrived at the dock warehouse, they saw Pi Xiangyang leading a group of his men to greet him with angry faces, "Dr. Wu, the agreed time has already passed."
Wu Dongzhu quickly clasped his fists and apologized: "I'm working on the last batch of goods. I have no choice, otherwise I won't be able to get it all together."
Pi Xiangyang's expression softened slightly, he looked at the goods on the cart and frowned, "Why is it so small?"
"This is the last batch. The others are all in the warehouse. One thousand tons are all gone. It's not easy to handle!"
Pi Xiangyang ordered his men to unload the goods and send the bullock carts away. Dongzhu Wu led a group of people to the warehouse and said angrily: "The key to the warehouse is with my nephew. I don't know where he died. Please pry open the warehouse door!"
Pi Xiangyang winked at his men, who spat under their hands, picked up a big ax and hit the lock fiercely, "Dang! Dang! Dang!" After hitting it three times in one breath, the big lock was broken open, and everyone then
Entered the warehouse.
Wu Dongzhu pointed to the baskets in the warehouse and said: "This is 1,800 baskets, 900 dans, plus the 100 dans just now, it is exactly 1,000 dans, each load is 100 catties, a total of 100,000 catties.
Eighteen thousand taels of silver. After deducting the five thousand taels of silver you paid me before, you still have to pay me thirteen thousand taels of silver."
Pi Xiangyang and his men carefully tested the medicine. Sure enough, they were all good quality Panax notoginseng. They were all dried and the weight was right. Pi Xiangyang was overjoyed. He ordered his men to bring the camels, unloaded thirteen large boxes of silver, and put the lids on the boxes.
When you pry it open, it's full of white silver.
"Each box contains one thousand taels of silver. The proprietor can count it himself, or I can ask my subordinates to help me count it!"
Dongzhu Wu's eyes were dazzled by the white money. He smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth and said repeatedly: "No need! No need! I know the number. I'll know it at a glance."
"Well, I will come back and continue to look for cooperation with you!"
Pi Xiangyang ordered his men to carry a thousand loads of Panax notoginseng onto camels. They had already checked out the inn, rented more than 20 large carts, loaded them with Banlangen and Cortex cypress, and headed east in a mighty procession.
Wu Dongzhu roughly counted the silver and covered it with an oilcloth. At this time, his nephew Zhou Mi hurried over and said with a smile on his face: "Uncle, I drank a few too many drinks last night and overslept a little. I'm late."
,I'm sorry!"
Dongzhu Wu said with a serious face: "Because you came late, all the guests left, the business was ruined, and I lost tens of thousands of taels of silver."
Zhou Mi was so frightened that he lowered his head and said for a long time: "Otherwise, give me less."
"You have the nerve to ask for money, who will pay for my losses?"
Zhou Mi immediately jumped up and yelled, "I've worked like a mule for you these three days, and I'm as tired as a dog. Even a dog needs a bone!"
Dongzhu Wu took out a small ingot of silver, about five taels, and threw it to him, "That's all, get out of here!"
Zhou Mi picked up the money, threw away the key, and left bitterly.
It's not that Dongzhu Wu didn't want to give his nephew money, it was just that this bastard made mistakes at the critical moment, which made Dongzhu Wu extremely angry, so he wanted to teach this ignorant nephew a lesson.
But he was a little confused about how to transport the thirteen thousand taels of silver. Also, the lock was broken and he had to buy a new one.
The next morning, a tall and strong young man came to the Jingzhao Taxation Office, it was Zhou Mi.
His five taels of silver were exchanged for thirty guans on the black market, and after paying off his gambling debt, he was left with nothing. All the promises he had made to his friends had to come to nothing, and he was ridiculed severely.
Zhou Mi couldn't sleep all night. The more he thought about it, the angrier and crueler he became. At dawn, he went out to the tax office and used Gastrodia elata to pretend to be Panax notoginseng to evade taxes. Did he think he had no leverage against him? Since the uncle is unkind, don't blame the nephew.
It's unjust.
"What's the matter with you?" a tax official asked impatiently.
Zhou Mi hesitated and asked: "I would like to ask, if I report someone for tax evasion, will there be any reward?"
"If the amount is large, there is a reward!"
"What if the value of the goods is 90,000 yuan? How many rewards can there be?"
"Ninety thousand guan?" The tax official was startled. He looked at Zhou Mi and couldn't believe it. Does this guy know how much 90,000 guan is?
"What tax is being evaded?"
"He's a medicine merchant. He's obviously selling Panax notoginseng, but the bill of goods says Gastrodia elata. The taxes on the two are different, right?"
The tax official smiled and said: "Medicinal materials are all a kind of tax. Whether it is Panax notoginseng or Gastrodia elata, they all pay the same tax. And it is not taxed by the seller, but taxed by the county where the buyer is located. As you said, merchants selling medicine should not have to pay
There is no tax evasion."
Zhou Mi was greatly disappointed and muttered: "Then what did he lie to me for?"
The tax official said again: "You just said that selling Sanqi for 90,000 guan, you were wrong! It should be 90 guan."
"That's right! It's 90,000 taels of silver. He got a deposit of 5,000 taels of silver and asked me to help him move the silver into the cabinet."
The tax official was startled and asked again: "Then how many Sanqi did he sell?"
"It seems to be a thousand dan, yes, it is a thousand dan. I moved 900 dan for him, and he moved another 100 dan himself!"
"One thousand dan 37?" the tax collector's eyes widened.
Zhou Mi nodded, "Is there any problem with a thousand Dan Sanqi?"
A quarter of an hour later, Wang Hao and Zhong Huan rushed to Prince Yong's Mansion like a gust of wind. They got off their horses and hurried towards Prince Yong's official room.
Chao Qing came up to him and asked, "Is there something urgent to do with King Yong?"
"Please join the army and report to King Yong that there is an emergency!"
"You come with me!"
Chao Qing led the two of them to the door of the official room and signaled them to wait while he went in to report. After a while, Chao Qing came out and said, "You guys go in!"
Wang Hao and Zhong Huan walked into the imperial study. Chen Qing was reviewing the ultimatum. He put down his pen and asked with a smile: "What's the urgent matter?"
Wang Hao stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness, someone is secretly smuggling a thousand tons of Sanqi!"
"One thousand dan Sanqi!"
Chen Qing was so sensitive that he immediately reacted, "Is it the Kingdom of Jin?"
"should be!"
"Please tell me in detail what the situation is."
Wang Hao said to Zhong Huan, "Just tell me!"
Zhong Huan saluted and said: "Today, the internal guard is on duty. Just now, a tax collector hurriedly came to say that a druggist secretly sold a thousand tons of Panax notoginseng. It was the druggist's nephew who came to report and expose their goods.
The order said Gastrodia elata, but it was actually Panax notoginseng. His nephew thought it was for tax evasion. The tax official knew about the ban and he knew the problem was serious, so he came to the internal security guard to report it."
Chen Qing frowned, "There will be a thousand dans of Panax notoginseng in the market?"
"There is not a single businessman, but if we put it together, we might be able to do it. After all, Jingzhao has the largest market for medicinal materials."
Chen Qing immediately concluded: "If it is indeed a thousand tons of Panax notoginseng, then it will be classified as a Class A case. We must recover the medicinal materials immediately and not let them fall into the hands of Jin people."
