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One hundred and seventieth chapter outrageous management

Hearing this, Fang Jue took a look. Not far away, there were five people and six officials.

He turned sideways and asked, "Did they ask you for money?"

An Baili smiled bitterly: "Where are we waiting for them to ask..."

He told Fang Jue that these were some potential rules.

"Tell me carefully." Fang Jue frowned, and then he realized that there were some secrets here.

An Baili said: "In the past, the imperial court asked our business to buy grain and asked the government to escort it. We also had to manage it from top to bottom."

"They have already received the salary from the imperial court and the bounty for being sent overseas. Why do they still ask you for money?"

Fang Jue knew that when official officials were sent out, the court would provide them with a lot of subsidies, which were more than their salaries.

"If they don't give it, what will they do?"

Fang Jue knew that there were many rules in officialdom, but they were not just rules, and he planned to tolerate them all.

Hearing what the young master said, An Baili's face changed slightly and he quickly said: "Please keep your voice down..."

"This money is not all for those who are officials. Brothers who are on business trips should also take some, so that they can do their best. If the trip is in vain, then naturally the work will be in vain."

"There are even times when they secretly play tricks and protect each other. There is absolutely no room for reasoning."

Ambry talked about some cases.

Fang Jue immediately knew how many things were hidden here.

According to the rules, at this time, in addition to the bounty compensation from the court, the business also has to pay money.

Otherwise, it would be as simple as not putting in any effort, and deliberately letting the merchants lose some goods when thieves rob them.

What's more, the goods are stolen secretly or damaged so that the caravan cannot bring out enough goods when it arrives... In this way, the merchant's reputation will be damaged, and he may be charged not only with the loss of money but also with the crime.

If you are doing things for the imperial court in this way, if you are not generous enough when the time comes, it will be a crime of deceiving the emperor.

"No wonder yesterday I asked them to send people to help, and each one agreed so happily. It turns out there are benefits." Fang Jue shook his head and smiled. Fortunately, he praised those officials yesterday, saying that they were good officials because they were anxious for the court.

An Baili said: "Ordinarily, my firm should draw the reward money from the profits... But Master, our firm didn't make much money this time. Master asked me to give you a very low discount.

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"If I take some of the 580,000 taels...I can't explain it to the gentlemen in the company..."

In Andoron's business, although he was right in his words, there were also many powerful people who participated in the business.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to grow a business to this extent in just a few decades with his own efforts.

This time, An Daolun made no money from selling grain to Fang Jue, so it was naturally impossible for him to provide more money for management.

"Why didn't you mention this yesterday?" Fang Jue said.

"This is the first time for me to take on such a big business with my own hands. I was so happy yesterday that I forgot about it..." An Baili said embarrassedly.

Fang Jue didn't find fault with him anymore. After all, he was a child who was a month younger than himself.

Then he said: "Then according to the usual practice, how do you give rewards?"

An Baili explained the secrets to Fang Jue one by one.

"Every police officer, petty officer or soldier who is on official business will be given twice the salary according to the time they escorted back and forth..."

"What?"

Fang Jue felt that he was off the mark!

Nowadays, the treatment of officials in the Daxia court is not bad.

The monthly salary of a junior official from the ninth rank is nearly three dan. One stone of 120 kilograms of grain is worth about one tael of silver, which is enough for a family of three to five people to eat for one month.

There is often even more left over.

As for the soldiers at the bottom, their monthly salary is almost the same, only slightly more.

Just calculate it as three taels of silver per person per month.

This trip lasted about a month, so each person had to pay for six taels of silver... At least two to three thousand people were escorted on this trip, and ten thousand or twenty thousand silver was spent.

This is just the cost of managing soldiers and petty officials!

How much money do those officials with smiling faces have to pay?

"hiss……"

Fang Jue took a deep breath, and he suddenly understood why Yan Lanfeng was always crying.

Why is the treasury always empty? It’s because of these rats!

According to previous rules, the firm would have to pay for the transaction, so the firm would have to spend tens of thousands more taels to do this business.

So who is this cost discounted to?

Naturally, it was the imperial court.

The store will include this management fee in the total price and ask the account department for it.

In the end, the people who suffer the loss are the people who pay taxes. After years of hard work, they only benefit from those corrupt officials!

"Young Master?" An Baili felt a little guilty.

"I should have included this cost into the total price yesterday, but now you have to bear the money..."

He felt that he was a bit unreasonable.

But that's not what Fang Jue cared about.

A mere tens of thousands taels was nothing to Fang Jue, but this matter made him very unhappy.

"When did these rules come into being in Daxia?" Fang Jue shook his head.

An Baili smiled bitterly: "Young Master, this has been the case since ancient times. It's just that the gentlemen in the capital don't know, and your Majesty has no way of knowing."

In this kind of thing, everyone has a common interest, and the government can't find any crimes.

A company is willing to spend more money to comfort its hard-working employees. Who can say that this is against the law?

"Then according to this, the silver taels I need to pack for this trip must be at least 30,000 taels, right?" Fang Jue asked.

An Baili nodded and shook his head.

"It's enough to take care of these people in Ganzhou, but..."

Fang Jue was slightly annoyed: "Is there anyone else we need to target?"

In the distance, Ye Hongyi and Bai Qing had already pricked up their ears.

Bai Qing looked as if the matter had nothing to do with him and was just looking at the joke.

Ye Hongyi's face turned red and she said angrily: "I don't know these methods."

"You are too young, and you don't know a lot. There are too many ways to collect money." Bai Qing said lightly, being the deputy palace master for so many years was not in vain.

Ye Hongyi frowned slightly, said nothing more, and listened carefully.

Over there, Fang Jue heard An Baili's reply, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"What? Tolls?"

The most ridiculous thing in the world!

"The imperial court is escorting grain and grass for disaster relief, who dares to collect tolls?" Fang Jue was really angry. If he hadn't cultivated his energy well, he would have become sullen.

"In the whole world, whose road is the king's land? How dare you collect tolls!"

Fang Jue could hardly suppress his voice.

"Young Master, there is nothing we can do about this..."

An Baili smiled bitterly. He suddenly felt that this young master did not have enough experience in these details.

Is there anything shocking about this? Isn’t it a matter of course since ancient times?

"This toll is for the heroes from all sides along the way...that is, the bandits and bandits."

"What?"

Fang Jue said angrily: "How dare they accept money from the imperial court?"

"It's not money from the court, it's money from our business."

An Baili explained: "If they don't pay this money, although they won't dare to intercept the escort team, they will create some trouble for us and prevent us from delivering the goods on time and delaying major events... It is also a common thing."

Fang Jueleng said: "How dare they cause trouble?"

How dare some trash that can't be brought to the stage to go against the imperial court?

However, An Baili said that they really dared.

"Young master, you don't know something... After our business started to have a close relationship with the imperial court, everyone in the world said that we were imperial merchants, and no one dared to openly embarrass us."

"But those green forest bandits don't care. Although they don't dare to do anything openly, they sometimes dig up the mainland, block mountain roads... and even knock down bridges across rivers to prevent caravans transporting supplies from passing. As a result, we have lost a lot of money."

"Later, with the help of colleagues, we realized that even those bandits have to deal with business."

As he spoke, his tone was full of helplessness.

Fang felt that his mood had sunk to the bottom.

Even if it is so difficult for the "Imperial Merchant", you can imagine that other businesses will have even more difficulties.

It’s no wonder that the price of many commodities instantly doubled as soon as they were exchanged by the caravan.

You won't make any money if you don't do this.

"Then we can notify the imperial court, send troops to suppress them, and catch all the bandits in one fell swoop. Wouldn't it be done once and for all? At least, it can shock them for a few years, right?"

As soon as Fang Jue asked, he realized that he was also naive.

An Baili smiled: "It's difficult..."

"Many bandits actually don't have fixed camps. They are just ordinary people who gather together to ask for tolls during the off-season. As soon as the government comes to suppress them, they immediately go back to farming. There is no trace at all, and they don't even have weapons.

, I can’t grasp it..."

"and……"

An Baili carefully looked left and right, and when he saw no one was coming over, he said:

"It is said, I said it was said... It is said that some bandits and bandits have the background of officials from various places, so as soon as there is a crackdown by the government, they immediately receive the news and disperse."

"Those officials also collected some silver from it as protection fees for passing news to them."

Hearing this, Fang felt that a golden lock suddenly opened in his mind.

Such a familiar smell...

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