Not long after, Zhang Mao stood at the bottom and reported the current situation of the Taiping Huimin Bureau in a serious manner.
"In the two days since the Guanjia Huimin Bureau was opened, a total of 356 sets of cooked medicines were sold, and the number of people who came for consultation was about 500."
"According to my investigation, the people in Beijing highly praise the Huimin Bureau, saying that this is a benevolent policy that benefits the people."
Having said this, Zhang Mao paused slightly and showed hesitation on his face.
"speak!"
"yes."
Zhang Mao bowed slightly and said, "However, there are also rumors among the people that this is a matter of competing with the people for profit."
Hearing this, Li Jie showed a sneer on his lips.
Competing with the people?
joke!
You don't need to think about Li Jie to know who is spreading the news.
When a new thing appears, it will inevitably break the previous pattern. Some people will benefit and some will be harmed.
Most of the existing vested interests will do everything possible to block the emergence of new things.
A small Taiping Benefit Bureau only harmed some of the interests of the medical industry, but now there are people causing trouble.
It is foreseeable that once certain fundamental interests are involved, the resistance will definitely be infinite.
Why did the Qingli New Deal fail in history?
Obstruction from vested interests.
The same is true for Wang Anshi's reform.
Seeing the officials wave their hands indifferently, Zhang Maoze suddenly felt confident.
Nowadays, he oversees the Huimin Bureau. He is just a low-ranking minister. Without the support of the official family, he must have a guilty conscience.
Competing with the people for profit, the hat is too big for his small body to carry.
have to!
have to!
At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps suddenly came from the outer hall, and then Liu Maoqin's voice came from the outer hall.
"Guan family, there is a message from the Queen Mother."
"Xuan."
After a while, Liu Maoqin held a letter in both hands and walked to Li Jie respectfully.
"Guan family, this is the letter submitted by Xie Tao, the servant of the imperial minister."
Li Jie took the note and browsed it quickly.
This letter is addressed to the Taiping Huimin Bureau.
It came really fast.
Not surprisingly, Xie Tao's main argument is that the Taiping Benefit Bureau is an act to compete with the people for profit.
[I believe that the wealth and goods produced by heaven and earth only exist in this amount, and if they are not with the people, they are with the officials.]
[Although the Huimin Bureau is a small profit, it must be guarded against...]
However, the report on the Huimin Bureau is just an appetizer in the essay. The writing at the end of the essay turns directly to discussing tea.
(PS: Quecha, that is, the tea monopoly system)
As early as the reign of Emperor Taizu, the Northern Song Dynasty implemented a tea monopoly system. Initially, the purpose of tea sales was to generate financial revenue, and the scale was also small.
However, the benefits brought by Quetea were excellent, and gradually the scale expanded, and eventually the tea monopoly was implemented across the country.
Of course, the Song Dynasty was not the first to practice tea tasting. It started in the Tang Dynasty, and subsequent dynasties followed it, but the rules of tea tasting were often modified.
Guancha means that the government purchases and sells tea under a unified system. Merchants pay money and goods to the government in order to obtain a "transfer", and then go to a designated place to exchange tea with the "transmission" certificate.
In a sense, "cross reference" has also become a negotiable securities.
From this, a special kind of merchant was born, the Jiaoyinpu merchant.
After the merchant in the middle obtains the ‘Jiaoyin’, he can sell it to the merchant in the Jiaoyin shop, or he can pick up the goods himself.
However, the vast majority of businessmen who enter the market will probably choose the former.
Although selling tea yourself is more profitable, the merchants in Jiaoyinpu are not only powerful but also have unfathomable backgrounds.
While the Jiaoyinpu merchants suppressed the purchase price of ‘Jiaoyin’, they also raised the price of selling ‘Jiaoyin’ to tea merchants.
What you earn is the price difference.
This business can be said to be about making money while lying down.
From ancient times to the present, who can make money while lying down?
I understand everything.
This is true at all times and in all countries.
In this case, unless the 'entering merchants' themselves are strong, the vast majority of 'entering merchants' will choose to sell 'Jiaoyin' to the Jiaoyinpu merchants.
However, how can a businessman with a strong background do the work of a 'businessman entering the Chinese market'?
The merchants who enter the country do all the dirty work and need to transport designated materials to officially designated places.
If any losses occur during transportation, the merchant will bear all the costs.
The entry into China system is nothing more than transferring official risks to businessmen.
Therefore, truly powerful businessmen will never do such hard work. Why should they work hard to earn money when they can just lie down and earn it?
What Xie Tao criticized was the entry system of Quecha.
Since Taizu's reign, the method of tea tasting has been modified several times, but now Lin Te's revised tea method is practiced.
Who is Linte?
Ding means the iron among irons!
Although Linte's tea method corrected the shortcomings of the previous tea method and reduced official losses, Linte himself was promoted to a high official.
However, the Linte Tea Law still did not change the ‘entry system’.
Xie Tao mentioned another "new law" in his letter, in which the official settled the payment in cash to the merchants.
Wait until the merchant gets the money, and then go to the goods service to pay the money and get the quotation.
In fact, this 'new law' is not new at all, it is just old wine in new bottles. The cash law was also implemented for a period of time during the Zhenzong period.
The cash law is definitely damaging to the Crown.
The addition of a formality for giving cash means that the official has pressed a sum of money into the circulation process.
When a businessman gets money, if he doesn't check with the goods service and pay for the "cross-quotation" as soon as possible, the money will be wasted.
In addition, the cash method is equivalent to using the central government as a subsidy, reducing local financial losses.
After reading this note, Li Jie had only one idea.
Xie Tao cannot be of great use.
This person's original intention in proposing the implementation of the cash law was nothing more than several.
The first one is to correct the Linte Tea Law. Once the tea law changes, the middlemen in the original tea trade will definitely change accordingly.
Some people will benefit from this, and some people will suffer from this.
The second type is that Xie Tao is naive and has no brains. The money from the national treasury is not enough in the first place, so he has to use the money from the national treasury to subsidize the local area.
This is not mindless, what is it?
Of course, Li Jie definitely prefers the former.
Xie Tao was able to climb up from the local level to the capital official step by step, and became a high-ranking official. Such a person cannot be without brains.
He is probably a spokesperson promoted by some big businessmen.
The purpose is to take advantage of the tea law reform period to attack a certain group of people.
As for which group of people they are, Li Jie doesn’t know yet.
Xie Tao was a native of Fuyang (now Fuyang District, Hangzhou). He was a Jinshi in the third year of Chunhua (992) of the Taizong Dynasty.
What a coincidence, Ding Wei was also a Jinshi in that ranking, Xie Tao and Ding Wei were of the same year, and both were scholars from the south.
If these two people had nothing to do with each other, no one would believe it!
(PS: Wang Qinruo and Wang Shu [Kou Zhun’s son-in-law] were also awarded the Jinshi title in the third year of Chunhua, and Yang Yi was also awarded the Jinshi title in the same year)