Chapter 29 Collusion Yu Tonghai moved very quickly, and after a moment, he led a middle-aged man in his forties and seven feet tall into the main hall.
Then he straightened his face and threatened loudly, "The person sitting in the hall is my lord.
You'd better not play with your little thoughts in front of him, otherwise you'll be humiliated."
"I don't dare, I don't dare.
Even if the ordinary people borrow three courages, they don't dare to stroke the beard of the general manager."
Zhang Zhao, the head of the trading bank, immediately took half a step back and waved his hands in response.
Immediately, he turned his body to Zhu Chongjiu, knelt down on the ground with a bang, and kowtowed heavily, "Zhang Zhao, a common man, has seen the Grand Steward.
I wish the Grand Steward a long career in martial arts and victory in every battle."
"Well, get up and talk."
Zhu Chongjiu frowned, tried his best to look dignified, and ordered in a deep voice.
"Tonghai, let someone bring him a chair."
"How can there be a seat for ordinary people in front of the chief executive?"
Zhang Zhao quickly raised his head and waved his hands vigorously, "I'll kill you.
I'll kill you.
Please take back your life, the chief executive."
"Sit down if I ask you to."
Yu Tonghai stretched out his hand and grabbed the man's arm, pulling it upwards.
"Stop talking nonsense.
We, the Huai'an Army, are not allowed to kneel down."
"Then, thank you, Chief Manager, for your kindness."
Zhang Zhao pretended to struggle for a few times, then stood up and bowed to Zhu Chongjiu again.
Finally, he looked around and sat down on the wooden chair that the soldiers had moved.
"Tonghai, go to the backyard and ask the kitchen to bring a pot of tea."
Zhu Chongjiu looked at him up and down and continued to give instructions unhurriedly.
Lai was born with a typical northern face, honest and honest with a bit of fortitude.
However, Zhu Chongjiu, who had the memory of two lifetimes, would never dare to take it lightly just because the other party presented a simple and honest face.
In his opinion, any white-glove person who can collude with high-ranking officials to plunder the people's wealth and anointing is nothing but a treacherous and evil person.
Anyone who thinks they are loyal and honest will definitely end up having their bones and dregs eaten clean.
"Common people, how can they be so virtuous and capable?
I'll kill you if you dare to give tea to the general manager.
I'll kill you."
While Zhang Zhao was spitting out polite words, he secretly looked at Zhu Chongjiu.
What he saw was a bronze smiling face.
There is not much murderous intent, and there is even a hint of childishness that is difficult to conceal.
Thick fingers and an overly burly figure prove that this person was indeed born in the market and worked in a lowly industry for a long time, just like the legend.
But the light in his eyes occasionally flashed, but at the same time it put a lot of pressure on Zhang Zhao.
It was as if whatever he was thinking in his mind was clearly seen at a glance.
"Shopkeeper Zhang, please relax.
Since you are here to discuss business with Zhu, you are Zhu's guest.
So, don't be too polite."
After looking at the other person up and down for a while, Zhu Chongjiu waved his hand and smiled in encouragement.
"Well, then, ordinary people, I would like to thank the general manager for his kindness."
Zhang Zhao stood up quickly and bowed to Zhu Chongjiu again.
Both sides have temptations in their hearts at this moment.
So a few polite words were extremely boring, and in a blink of an eye, the atmosphere in the room became awkward, and everything else said was wrong.
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Fortunately, this awkward atmosphere did not last long.
Soon, Yu Tonghai ran back carrying a huge copper pot.
Three close advisers, Chen Ji, Zhang Yi and Feng Guoyong, were also ordered to arrive.
Zhu Chongjiu introduced the three people to the "distinguished guests", and then the guest and the host exchanged some empty politeness.
After all the red tape was gone, the awkward atmosphere was gone.
"Shopkeeper Zhang, please use it with caution.
Our Huai'an Army will never intentionally cause trouble with anyone.
Even if your boss is a high-ranking official in the capital city, as long as you don't take the initiative to cause trouble and the caravan does not violate the rules of our Huai'an Army, there will be no problem."
You have to think about those miscellaneous things."
Zhu Chongjiu drank a few sips of hot tea, then smiled and gave Zhang Zhao a reassurance.
"The common people are far away in the north, and they have heard of Manager Zhu's kindness.
Therefore, the common people are not worried about their goods at all."
Zhang Zhao immediately put the tea cup on the ground, raised his hand, and said loudly.
"I just want to ask for my colleagues.
In the future, when goods are released from Jiaozhou Bay to the sea, how much water will be pumped by the general manager as usual?
After the grassroots people know, it will be better to have a charter to arrange the loading of their respective goods."
"It is a rule to draw one out of ten.
As long as Jiaozhou Bay is still under the control of our Huai'an Army for one day, it will not change again."
Zhu Chongjiu quickly accepted the move without thinking.
Immediately, the kindness on Zhang Zhao's face disappeared in an instant, and with a hoarse voice, he begged in a low voice, "General Manager, please have mercy.
The sea is very rough and there are many dangers along the way.
Ten ships were sent out, and five of them came back safely.
It is a blessing."
In several cities and towns in the south, if the general manager draws one out of ten, the ordinary people will lose all their money."
"Really, one out of thirty, it's just in Quanzhou Shipping Department.
In other shipping departments, Zhu remembers it should be fifteen.
Could it be that Zhou remembered it wrong?"
Zhu Chongjiu smiled and counterattacked slowly.
"So, the number of shipping departments in the imperial court has been reduced from more than ten at the beginning to three now.
But the common people are still forced to secretly go to sea."
Zhang Zhao's face turned slightly red, and he did not dare to force the answer and quickly moved direction.
This sentence has a strong sense of threat.
The city shipping department of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty was drawn once every 15, so they had to find ports to go to sea on their own to escape customs duties, making those city shipping departments useless, and finally had to be abolished by the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty court itself.
If the Huai'an army insists on drawing one out of ten, they will cope with it in the same way.
Abandoning Jiaozhou, an outlet to the sea, the Huai'an General Manager's Office would not be able to receive a penny.
Immediately, Chen Ji, Zhang Yi and Feng Guoyong frowned and glared at Zhang Zhao, the head of the trading company.
Just as he was about to reprimand, Zhu Chongjiu's faint voice came to his ears, "In that case, why don't you let your goods go to Zhigu in the future?
It seems that there has never been a shipping manager.
As long as it is managed properly, it won't matter."
If you need to pay another penny to Zhu, there is no need to add any more manpower.
I will take care of the troubles of you traders."
"This" Zhang Zhao didn't expect that the legendary Zhu Fozi, who was only interested in profit, suddenly found it troublesome to count money.
He was stunned and felt a slight sweat on his forehead.
"My side is single-drawing, no matter entering or leaving the port.
It doesn't matter how much your goods sell for elsewhere."
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Zhu Chongjiu glanced at him lightly, then slowly returned the move, "If you ever go If you travel through Huai'an and Yangzhou, you should know that the rules Zhu mentioned are not temporarily set up just for you."
Having said that, regardless of Zhang Zhao's reaction, he picked up the tea cup and savored it carefully.
"Where to go, shopkeeper Zhang decides for himself.
Our Huai'an army will never force anyone."
Feng Guoyong also smiled and helped, and then imitated Zhu Chongjiu and drank tea slowly.
Although Chen Ji and Zhang Yi were confused after hearing this.
But seeing his lord so calm, he knew in his heart that Zhang probably didn't get the slightest advantage in the first round of negotiations.
He also smiled and turned his attention and energy to the tea cup.
The entire Daruhua Red Yamen main hall became extremely quiet in the blink of an eye.
Except for the occasional sound of waves and wind coming through the window, there was no noise at all.
The ratio of drawing one out of every ten is a tax rate that has been tested over time in places such as Yangzhou and Huai'an.
Although at the beginning, many vendors jumped up and expressed opposition.
But with the implementation of the new tax system, everyone slowly stopped.
The reason is very simple.
Although the tax rate of the Mongolian and Yuan government was 1 in 30 on the surface, internally, it added several tricks such as single tax, double tax, customs consumption, miscellaneous donations and line tax.
After all, we have to calculate that even the Quanzhou Shipping Department, which has been given preferential treatment by the imperial court, has a tax rate of more than 20% on exported goods.
As for the tax rate on imported goods, it will be doubled.
And the tax rate of the Huaiyang General Manager's Office.
But it's a real one-out-of-ten draw.
After all goods have been drawn once, they will not be drawn a second time.
No local government has the right to set up cards to take advantage of the situation.
Therefore, comparing the two, the real tax rate stipulated by the Huaiyang General Manager is much lower than that of Meng Yuan.
Take Meng Yuan's superficial tax rate as an example, it's just nonsense.
Zhu Chongjiu is not afraid of his opponents messing around.
The guy named Zhang must have put in so much effort not just to save some tariffs.
Don't look at the lively exchange of words between the two sides at the moment.
In fact, they are just continuing to test each other.
The real business we want to do is not Haimao at all.
On this point, Zhu Chongjiu believed that he had guessed correctly, and he also believed that the other party knew it well.
Sure enough, after just a minute or two, Zhang Zhao began to give in.
He gritted his teeth and pretended to be in great pain and said.
"Well, since the rules of the General Manager cannot be changed, ordinary people can only accept it."
"Shopkeeper Zhang, don't force yourself."
Zhu Chongjiu put down the tea cup and waved his hand with a smile.
"Since you are here to discuss business with Mr.
Zhu, of course the love between you and me will last forever.
If Mr.
Zhu is only happy on one side, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble sooner or later."
After the words fell, Zhang Zhao's face suddenly became better.
After changing several colors in succession, he smiled and handed over his hands, "The general manager is joking, ordinary people, how dare you go back on your words to the general manager.
The ordinary people just, were anxious just now, so, so they said the wrong thing, ordinary people, please sir Forgive me, Chief.”
"Forget it, if we are talking about business, it is inevitable that we will ask for a high price and have to pay back the money on the ground."
Zhu Chongjiu waved his hand with a smile and responded pleasantly, "But" "Nothing."
Zhang Zhao immediately trembled in his heart and blurted out his questioning words.
"But if someone is always not sincere, no matter how hard you bargain, it's just a waste of words.
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It's better to be serious from the beginning.
Shopkeeper Zhang, do you think what I'm saying makes sense?"
"Yes, the chief manager is absolutely right."
The beads of sweat on Zhang Zhao's forehead seeped out one by one.
He quickly jumped off the stool and responded with cupped hands.
Although from the beginning, he never dared to underestimate his opponent.
But he never expected that Zhu Fozi's business skills were far beyond those of marching and fighting.
After a few rounds, he, a veteran in the shopping mall for many years, was stretched to the limit.
How could he have imagined that the Zhu Fozi in front of him was a man with memories of two lifetimes.
In addition to manufacturing all kinds of money-making items, what he is best at is probably doing business with people.
From Xuzhou to Huai'an, and all the way to Yangzhou.
Even when he fought against Shen Wansan, he didn't suffer any losses.
What's more, with him, a typical "in-system" official businessman.
But for businessmen, winning and losing are normal things.
As long as you haven't quit, it can't be considered a complete defeat.
Therefore, after a moment, Zhang Zhao, the head of the Jiaozhou Commercial Bank, cheered up again, and smiled and handed over his hands to Zhu Chongjiu, "General manager, forgive me, the common people were greedy just now.
The general manager should actually know that the common people originally came from Jiaozhou."
I have never paid taxes to anyone while shipping goods.
Therefore, I was confused just now and felt a little offended because of my confusion.
I hope the general manager will forgive me."
"It is the Yuan Dynasty's business that the Yuan Dynasty does not collect taxes from you.
Zhu will never make exceptions for anyone here.
If you feel that you are at a loss, just look for a port to go to sea elsewhere.
It must be easy for your master.
"Very well."
Zhu Chongjiu smiled and pretended.
"I won't look for him again, I won't look for him anymore.
My master has always admired Mr.
Zhu very much.
He would rather spend more money and make friends with Mr.
Zhu."
Zhang Zhao immediately took over his words and responded loudly.
The drama is here.
Not only Feng Guoyong, who used to help green forest figures sell stolen goods, but Zhang Yi and Chen Ji, two relatively pure scholars, also understood that the negotiation was finally getting to the point, so they cheered up and watched the battle attentively.
Zhu Chongjiu slowly drank a few more sips of tea, then turned his eyes to his opponent again, and asked with a smile, "Oh, how about this, shopkeeper Zhang, can you explain it in more detail?"
Zhang Zhao looked around quickly, then blinked and responded, "My master actually always believed that the reason why General Manager Zhu raised the army was because the imperial court was forcing him too much.
But now, in the court, there are a bunch of open-minded people from top to bottom.
Blind.
Let the heroes have all their abilities, but no future.
Although my master sympathizes with the plight of Manager Zhu and other red scarf heroes, he is alone and does not dare to express it openly. " "Having said that, your master is a far-sighted person."
Zhu Chongjiu shook his head, showing a doubtful look.
Zhang Zhao puffed up his chest and responded proudly, "More than just having foresight.
My master's magnanimity, ability and vision are far beyond that of that country-stealing kid.
Under his rule, the people almost never closed their doors at night.
"Don't pick up lost things on the road"
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"Poof!"
Chen Ji, Zhang Yi and Feng Guoyong quickly put down their tea cups and turned their heads to the side.
It took a lot of effort to avoid spraying tea on their front lapels.
The world does not close its doors at night and does not pick up lost things on the road.
There is such a beautiful place in the world.
Since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, there have been corrupt officials and numerous thieves in the countryside.
Even in the metropolis, there are only a handful of days without curfew in a year.
How could it be possible to have the kind of paradise Zhang Zhao mentioned?
If it really had to exist, ordinary people would have flocked to it with their families.
How could it be possible?
, it has not yet been known to the outside world: