My Sisters Excel in Both Literary and Martial Arts - Chapter 50

[Chapter 50 Commercial Tax]

When Jing Zhe went out and saw the people from the government that Hanhan had mentioned, he felt relieved after being tugged.

At first, looking at Hanhan’s nervous look, Jingzhe thought that their identities as Mangshan bandits were exposed and they were surrounded by a large wave of officers and soldiers. But when they came out, they saw, well, there were only two policemen!

“The presence of these two officials will make the shop shine!”

Jing Zhe stepped forward and said with a smile.

The policeman glanced at him and said expressionlessly, “Are you the owner of Qingliang Yixia?”

“It’s me!”

After receiving the affirmative answer, the policeman couldn’t help but look at him twice more, thinking to himself, what a young boss!

“You two officers, don’t stand outside. Come and sit down in our store. I’ll send someone to get the officers some mung bean popsicles. It’s delicious and refreshing. It’s very cool!”

One of the agents was about to extend his hand to refuse, but He was winked by another lean agent and stopped moving.

The hot scene of selling popsicles in Qingliang Yixia has long been spread in the city, and it is hard to find a stick – this is the most intuitive understanding of Qingliang Yixia by many Yongzhou people.

The two detectives are not rich people, and naturally they have never tasted popsicles. Only a fool would refuse the opportunity to eat for free!

After a while, Hanhan came out carrying two popsicles.

“Just two?”

The lean detective took one look and raised his eyebrows.

What Hanhan didn’t like to see the most were these public servants. They were not satisfied and wanted to push even further. Hanhan was immediately ready to take action, but Jingzhe quickly stopped him.

“The officer doesn’t know. The weather is hot and the popsicles are easy to melt. If you take them out for too long, they will turn into water after a while. When the officer leaves, I will ask someone to prepare a few more popsicles and the officer will take them home. !”

After listening to Jing Zhe’s words, the lean detective beamed.

“Not bad, not bad.”

He patted Jing Zhe on the shoulder and started eating popsicles with a smile.

“It’s delicious!”

“It’s refreshing!”

The two of them ate quickly. It didn’t take long for them to finish the popsicle, and they looked at Jing Zhe with greedy eyes.

Jing Zhe understood and asked Hanhan to get two more sticks for them. They finished the second stick before they calmed down.

At this time, Jing Zhe asked with a smile: “You still don’t know what the two officers are here for?”

As the saying goes, eating people is soft-mouthed and taking advantage of others is short-handed. Jing Zhe gave these two agents a benefit in advance, thinking that they would The two will take care of it.

The lean detective casually threw away the bamboo stick in his hand, stood up and said, “We’re here to collect taxes!”

“Collect taxes?”

Although Jing Zhe is a time traveler, he also roughly understands that most of the ancient taxes were agricultural taxes. , after all, land tax is large and easy to collect, while industrial and commercial taxes are difficult to collect, or basically not collected at all.

Is Anguo’s tax policy already so sound?

However, even if commercial tax is collected, it has to be near the end of the year, right? It’s a bit far-fetched for him to come to collect it just after it opened.

But as the saying goes, people don’t fight with officials, especially when they are bandits, and they can’t have conflicts with officials in the city. Seeing that the sales prospects of popsicles are so good, he can leave in a few days if they are on track. It’s Jingzhou.

At this juncture, he didn’t want to cause trouble.

Collect taxes, then collect them!

So Jing Zhe asked, “May I ask, sir, how much is the total tax?”

“Twenty taels!”

The lean agent said without even thinking.

“Twenty taels?”

Everyone in the room exclaimed.

They had seen tax collectors before, but this was the first time they had seen such high taxes.

Hanhan, Pangqiu and others were already furious. Fortunately, Big Face was still someone who understood the overall situation. He was afraid of delaying Jing Zhe’s important event, so he secretly pulled them away.

“May I ask, sir, how the tax is calculated?”

Jing Zhe asked calmly as the smile on his face disappeared.

“How to calculate? It’s very complicated. Even if you tell me, you don’t know!”

The lean detective waved his hand, “Besides, I heard that you earned more than two hundred taels of silver in one day, and you only received twenty taels.” That’s all, just have fun!”

“…”

Jing Zhe bought two hundred and twenty taels of silver today, but what he actually earned was half of it. Most of it was deposited here by others.

What’s more, even if he really earned two hundred taels, he wouldn’t have to pay that much, right?

Chen Mo, who was standing next to him, couldn’t stand it anymore and asked aloud: “The business tax imposed by the Holy Spirit today is just to regulate the business order and fill the national treasury. The tax rate is 23 cents per hundred cents. How do you calculate these 20 taels?” “

Come out?”

“Who are you?”

The lean agent didn’t expect that there was someone knowledgeable here, and was speechless for a moment, so he looked at Chen Mo.

“You don’t need to worry about who I am, just answer my questions! The amount of taxes levied is clearly stipulated by imperial law. Please show us the provisions and let’s confront him!”

Chen Mo was not afraid of him at all and asked questions one after another.

“Confrontation? Just you?”

The lean detective sneered twice, “You are just a common man, why should you confront me?”

“Then I will go to your magistrate! I want to ask, who gave you the courage to corrupt the Holy Order like this? Law, ask him who is so unafraid of death!”

Chen Mo was really angry, and his chest heaved violently.

“Looking for our prefect?”

The lean detective was not frightened and continued to sneer: “Today’s matter is our prefect——” Before

he could finish his words, the detective next to him pulled him and hinted that he should stop talking. .

The lean detective was startled, and then changed his words: “Twenty taels, not even a penny less. If you don’t pay, haha, you won’t be able to open this store anymore!”

“No! Let’s go to the Yamen! “

Go on, I’ll arrest you and make you talk nonsense. You’ll feel better in jail!”

the policeman said harshly.

Jing Zhe hurriedly stopped Chen Mo. This incident all happened because of his store. If Chen Mo went to jail for this, it would be really not what he wanted.

“Twenty taels of silver, right? I’ll hand it over!”

Jing Zhe took out twenty taels of silver from his pocket and handed it over.

The lean detective’s eyes were shining, and he was about to reach out to take it, but Jing Zhe retracted his hand and looked at him coldly: “If we pay this money, can our store continue to open?”

“That’s natural. ! Once the tax is paid, who will care about you?”

The lean agent said, but his greedy eyes did not move away from Jing Zhe’s hand.

I asked them their names again. Perhaps he was eager to get the money. The lean agent didn’t even think about it and directly reported their names.

Jing Zhe threw the silver to him and said coldly.

“It’s better to leave without sending it away!”

The policeman who got the money didn’t bother to talk to Jing Zhe and walked out happily.

Jing Zhe followed him outside to see the watermelon shop diagonally opposite. Lin Tong was standing at the door, looking furtively this way. When he saw Jing Zhe looking towards him, he shrank back in fear.

Xiguapu, Lin Tong, Lin Wenyao, Lin Zhifu.

Jing Zhe sneered, already thinking of the cause and effect.

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Thank you to the boss with the tail number 4527 for the 100 starting coin reward! If you are a Qidian book lover, you should have seen that this book has been recommended in the new book selection of the historical category, but the collection has not increased, and the mentality is a bit explosive. I don’t know if the book is really bad or what happened. I am upset. I don’t care. , go to bed, good night everyone.

(End of chapter)