At this time, a voice calling "officials" suddenly came from behind.
Hearing the sound coming from far away, Liu E quickly wiped the corners of her eyes, and then took a few deep breaths.
The officials are here.
She couldn't let the officials see her current state.
After gathering her emotions, Liu E turned around and glanced behind her, only to see a slender young man with widening eyebrows walking towards her in the sunshine.
Bathed in the sunshine, the young man smiled gently.
"Big empress."
"Brother Six, come."
Liu E smiled slightly and waved to Li Jie. This time she did not call her "Guan Jia", but "Sixth Brother".
This title is obviously a bit closer than before.
Li Jie moved forward and immediately noticed something strange about Liu E.
The reddish eye sockets could not be covered no matter what.
Liu E must have cried.
In addition, her attitude suddenly became a little closer. If Li Jie couldn't guess the reason at this situation, at this place, he wouldn't have plunged into the pond not far away.
Obviously, the idle work he left behind before worked.
No matter how strong Liu E is, she is still a woman in the final analysis and prone to sentimentality.
Seeing the official walking in front of her, Liu E took a step forward and gently helped Li Jie straighten his clothes that were messed up by the wind.
"Brother Six, why did you suddenly think of coming here today?"
Li Jie glanced at the rice fields in front of him and said in retrospect.
“The rice in the fields is ripe and it’s time for harvest.”
Seeing that the official family seemed to be lost in memories, Liu E also recalled the past.
In previous years, when this field was not yet abandoned, the late emperor and she would come here with hundreds of officials every harvest time.
"Brother Six, go with the eldest lady to change clothes. The eldest lady will take you to cut the rice together."
After a long time, Liu E came to her senses, took Li Jie's arm and walked to the Anfu Hall on the side.
Liu E was not the kind of young lady from a famous family who didn't know the hardships of the world. Her family background was not good when she was young, and she had to do a lot of farm work.
She still remembers that when she was six years old, her grandfather took her to the fields to do farm work.
At that time, she was still young and could not do heavy work, so she could only pick up wheat ears behind the adults.
On the other side, Mrs. Lin couldn't help but smile knowingly when she saw the Queen Mother holding the officials' hands while teaching them how to harvest rice later.
How long have you not seen such a scene?
It seems like only a few months?
However, Lin felt like many years had passed.
Not long after the late Emperor Mingming left, the relationship between the Queen Mother and the official family became like this.
'well.'
Mrs. Lin sighed quietly, no wonder there was a popular rumor among the people that there was no family affection in the Tian family.
Is that seat really that good?
Lin didn't know how to answer, and didn't dare to think about it deeply.
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Ding Mansion.
In the evening, when he learned that the officials and the Queen Mother were harvesting Champa rice in the Houyuan today, Ding Wei immediately fell into deep thought.
What's going on?
Isn’t the relationship between the Queen Mother and the official family becoming more and more tense?
Why did it suddenly get better?
This change happened so fast that Ding Wei was caught off guard.
He had previously thought of playing both sides, betting on both sides, but the relationship between the Queen Mother and the official family suddenly became warmer?
"Ding Xiang?"
Seeing Ding Wei thinking deeply for a long time, Zu Shiheng beside him couldn't help but call him softly.
Zu Shiheng came to Ding Mansion today to report on the tea method.
Nowadays, within the Three Divisions, there are roughly two mainstream voices regarding how to reform the tea law.
One is the cash method, which means giving a certain amount of money, paying the actual value in cash, and paying in cash when you go to the capital.
This is also the method mentioned by Yushi Xie Tao before.
Another sticking method was proposed by Quandu Zhiguanzhang Dexiang.
The sticking method means that the imperial court no longer pays advance capital to the tea garden growers to purchase tea, but tea merchants pay the official net income to the imperial court.
Taking Shanse Tea as an example, the imperial court deducted all expenses, including prepaid capital, interest discounts, extra charges, transportation, etc.
If the net profit of the court is one hundred cents, and the sticking method is implemented, the court does not need to spend upfront expenses, and the tea merchants only need to pay one hundred cents to the court.
Then, tea merchants can purchase tea directly from tea planters with documents issued by the court.
This is a ‘post’.
Of course, where to buy and where to sell are all designated by the official, this is "shooting".
Although the cash method is what Ding Wei and his colleagues are planning to promote, there is one thing we have to admit.
The sticking method is indeed a win-win solution.
First of all, the sticking method can not only ensure the tea profit for the court, but also get rid of the cumbersome burden of tea tasting.
Secondly, the sticking method is not entirely a bad thing for those tea merchants with background.
Although the officially designated buying and selling limits the price, thus affecting the final profit, there is still room for manipulation in matters such as pricing power.
Ultimately, who sets the price?
Not Sansi yet?
It is also decided by the three divisions to whom the lucrative ‘good tea’ will be distributed.
In this way, when it comes to discussing tea, Sansi's voice has been greatly increased. Whoever controls the voice of Sansi will control the pricing power of tea!
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But now the three divisions are in the hands of Ding Wei and his family.
Therefore, both Zu Shiheng and Ding Wei were very interested in the 'sticking method' proposed by Zhang Dexiang.
In fact, as early as the Chunhua period of Emperor Taizong, the "sticking method" was practiced in the Huainan area, but the sticking method at that time was different from what Zhang Dexiang proposed.
Zhang Dexiang went a step further and made a lot of changes on the original basis.
For example, due to the original sticking method, tea merchants were unwilling to take over those inferior teas with low profits due to pricing.
In order to solve this dilemma, Zhang Dexiang pioneered the distribution method, that is, once the tea merchants 'post' the 'good tea' with high profits, they must match it with a batch of 'secondary tea' with low profits.
This will solve the problem of slow sales.
In addition, these tea merchants operating with licenses are strictly classified into different grades. Tea merchants are divided into different levels based on their past performance and scale.
Different levels of tea merchants also have different amounts of “postable” shares.
Among them, if a tea merchant violates the regulations on tea, the court may reduce the grade of the tea merchant's license depending on the circumstances.
If Li Jie had seen Zhang Dexiang's "shooting method", he would have recognized it at a glance. This is the distribution system that became popular in later generations.
For example, the tobacco industry.
As we all know, tobacco is a monopoly.
Terminals selling tobacco must have a tobacco license, and tobacco licenses are also graded.
Depending on the level of the tobacco license, the terminal can get varying amounts of cigarettes.
At the same time, the best-selling cigarettes will also be paired with some less popular cigarettes.
In a sense, the "sticking method" proposed by Zhang Dexiang is similar to the tobacco system of later generations.