After recruiting Mr. Lu Dengwen, the accountant, in the next few days, Tongfu Inn hired more people and successively recruited an apprentice and two waiters.

The apprentice's name is Song Jin'ao, and the two waiters are two brothers, the elder is named Ge Hu and the younger is named Ge Bao.

Fortunately, they are two brothers, otherwise it would be difficult to name a younger brother.

All kidding aside, after recruiting three people, Tongfu Inn is fully staffed, and Chen Yunfu's daily job is to stay in the kitchen and teach Song Jin'ao how to cook.

This kid is a master at cooking. He picked up the cooking skills very quickly. Within a month, he was mastering it and dominating the kitchen.

This time, Chen Yunfu was even more free.

Every day he would lie down at the counter and chat with Lu Dengwen, or go shopping with Shao Ning.

Mu Shiqun and several Jin Yiwei also found a job in Wuzhong County: catch the fast!

With Lao Mu's skills, being a head catcher would be overkill.

From being a guard of thousands of people to being the head catcher of a local county government, Mu Shiqun was wronged, but he did it happily.

Lao Mu was like Ming Jing in his heart, Chen Yunfu would be reused and returned to Beijing sooner or later. What is this called now? This is called Qian Long Zai Yuan.

"Yawn~"

Early one morning, Chen Yunfu was standing outside his shop looking at the crowded street and was dazed when he saw two yamen clerks in soap clothes walking over arrogantly.

"Are you the shopkeeper?"

The little official strode into the shop with his nostrils turned up in the air. He was not polite at all. He poured tea and even grabbed a handful of peanuts to peel.

"Well, something's wrong?"

Chen Yunfu looked funny, but he didn't bother to argue with this little official.

"How long has your inn been open?"

"About a month and a half."

"What are the benefits?"

"I made less than one tael of silver."

"Nonsense!" The clerk immediately raised his eyebrows and said arrogantly: "Bring me the account book."

Lu Dengwen hurriedly took the account book and showed it to the clerk. The latter casually flipped through a few pages and then became difficult.

"Your revenue this day is only two to three hundred cash, and you only make one tael of silver a month?"

"Expenses account for the bulk of it."

Chen Yunfu calculated the accounts on his fingers: "The monthly payment for the four waiters in the store alone costs four taels of silver, so there is no money left.

Just having a balance of one tael of silver is considered good. You two are here just to care about the efficiency of the shop?"

"Who is smiling with you?"

The official slapped his palm on the account book and shouted: "Since we have revenue, why don't we know how to pay taxes to the government?"

I've been making trouble for a long time because I'm here to ask for money. If I'd just said no and ended it, what's the use of it?

Chen Yunfu shook his head, and then said to Lu Dengwen: "Take three hundred and forty-two Wen."

The clerk squinted his eyes and snorted from his nose.

"What do you mean by more than three hundred articles?"

"The store's revenue last month was 6,840 Wen. According to the tax law of 20 to 1 tax, shouldn't it be necessary to pay 342 Wen?"

"Who told you that twenty-one taxes are paid?"

Chen Yunfu was almost angry. He had personally determined the amount of the business tax, so who else could tell him.

Those whose revenue is less than 10 taels will be taxed 20 taels, those with less than 50 taels will be taxed 15 taels, those with less than 100 taels will be taxed 10 taels, those whose revenue is less than 1,000 taels will be taxed 7 taels, those with less than 10,000 taels will be taxed 5 taels, and those above 10,000 taels will be taxed 5 taels.

Only then will they mention four taxes and one tax.

"What do you mean?"

"Of course it's more than that. According to the law of the imperial court, one out of ten commercial taxes is required."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yunfu immediately narrowed his eyes.

When the tax rate was adjusted from 20 per cent to 10 per cent, the Suzhou government was completely greedy at this time.

So courageous.

"If the royal court's revenue is less than ten taels, the tax is obviously twenty taels."

Before Chen Yunfu had time to speak, Lu Dengwen was so angry that he spoke first: "I read the notice from the imperial court last year."

"Changed!"

The clerk raised the door and shouted: "The prefect just changed it this year."

"Liu Zuyi?"

"Yes, that's right...how do you know the prefect?"

The clerk was stunned and looked at Chen Yunfu in disbelief.

"Haha, your magistrate and I are related. According to seniority, he would call me uncle when he sees me."

Chen Yunfu slapped the young official on the shoulder and said, "If you don't believe me, go back and tell your county magistrate. Your county magistrate will have to call me uncle when he sees me."

The latter swallowed his saliva and rationally told him that this matter was not credible, but he just didn't know why, when Chen Yunfu put his hand on his shoulder, he felt inexplicably guilty?

If you really want to retort, your calves can't help but tremble.

"Okay, take the money and go back and report to your county magistrate. I won't make it difficult for you."

Chen Yunfu waved away the two clerks and continued humming a tune leisurely while cleaning up the peanut shells they had just eaten.

At this time, Qiao'er and Song Jin'ao, who had gone out to buy groceries, rushed back. Xiao Nizi was quite diligent. When she saw Chen Yunfu working, she rushed up to grab the broom.

"Uncle, let me do it."

Lao Chen is a very particular person, so there is no way he would let Qiaoer do such rough and tiring work.

"You little girl, don't do this kind of dirty work. There is no water in the water tank in the backyard. Go fill it up."

"Uncle, you are not treating me like a girl, you are clearly treating me like an animal."

At the critical moment, it had to be Ge Hu. This strong young man in his early twenties quickly came over to show his courtesy: "Shopkeeper, I'll go."

After saying this, he ran to the backyard without waiting for Chen Yunfu's consent. He excitedly picked up two wooden buckets and ran out to fetch water, for fear that someone would steal his job.

"This boy."

Chen Yunfu shook his head and smiled.

After busy work until noon, people began to arrive in the store one after another. A middle-aged man in his late thirties attracted Chen Yunfu's attention.

Living with the Qi, nourishing the body, and bearing are something that cannot be faked.

"What would you like to eat, sir?"

The man looked up at Chen Yunfu, with suspicion in his eyes, and said softly.

"I heard that my great-uncle lives here, so I came here specially to visit him."

Chen Yunfu was happy. It seemed that this was the magistrate of Wuzhong County. He turned his head to look outside the store and saw several government officials wandering around.

"If you can't find my relative today, don't blame the county for finding him."

Chen Yunfu smiled. The people in this county had some brains. They didn't get angry and start fighting immediately, leaving room for both sides.

"In that case, you are the magistrate of our Wuzhong County."

The man said nothing and still stared at Chen Yunfu.

"My surname is Chen, the double characters are Yun and Fu."

Chen Yunfu added a cup of tea to the man and pushed it in front of him: "Now that I am a humble citizen, I have many affairs, so I won't pay tribute to you, the county magistrate."

After saying that, he smiled and turned to leave.

The man frowned and thought hard.

Chen Yunfu?

Is it very famous?

Who are you bluffing?

"big......"

As soon as he slapped the table, the man stood up. Just as he was about to curse him for being bold, an impression flashed through his mind like a flash of lightning.

"What's big?"

"Big, big, da da da da da."

The man slapped the table and smiled at Chen Yunfu: "Uncle, look at my rhythm."

"Oh."

Seeing Chen Yunfu turn around and leave, the man ran out of the inn in a panic and got into the carriage with sweat on his face.

"Lord of the County, shall we take someone?"

The clerk who was driving the carriage looked over and asked, and then received a slap in the face.

"Take your uncle, he is really the great uncle of this county."

After he finished scolding, the man felt his teeth gnashing in his heart.
Chapter completed!