Chapter 307 Chamber of Commerce with headaches

After waiting in the backyard for more than half an hour, Ma Chun ran over to repay him, You Qinxiang had already left.

Lin Dong did not dare to delay and immediately found several elders of the Gu Huanzong who were still staying in Qiufeng City to secretly follow and escort them. After finishing his work, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Ma Chun licked his lips and couldn't help but tentatively: "Shopkeeper, Miss You's face doesn't seem to be very good..."

"Have all the branches in Qingfeng City been arranged?" Lin Dong asked back.

"All have been arranged." Ma Chun nodded quickly.

"The factory construction matters have been arranged." Lin Dong glanced at Ma Chun and said.

"All of them have been arranged." Ma Chun found that something was wrong, and he already understood in his heart that his curiosity was a little too much.

Lin Dong said lightly: "Before the news of the Business Association ended, the matter of closing several other restaurants has been arranged?"

"Shopkeeper, I know I'm wrong..." Ma Chun was in tears. He believed that if the arrangements were made, the shopkeeper would immediately mention selling more than three million taels of silver treasures, and then promote the pastries of Linji Inn and purchase third and fourth-level spiritual beasts... Anyway, this attitude would never stop without asking about the things he had not arranged.

"By the way, what do you think are there in me that can attract girls?" Lin Dong said suddenly.

Ma Chun smiled and said with a smile: "The shopkeeper is handsome, handsome, extraordinary, strategic, strong, calm and generous... Looking at the Han Dynasty, Fu Zizhou and others are not even worthy of carrying shoes compared to the shopkeeper. If the shopkeeper is not the number one young talent, all the young people in the Han Dynasty are shit."

Lin Dong was speechless, which sounded quite elated, but in fact, he said it was just like not saying it. He really wanted to be so awesome, and the rate of turning back on the street was not so low.

"Shopkeeper, how can we guess the girl's thoughts?" Ma Chun said, "Miss You is beautiful and has a likable personality. There is also a Xingli Sect behind her. If the shopkeeper can convince her to be the second wife of our Linji Inn, coupled with the strength of Gu Huanzong and Li Jiancheng, our Linji Inn is in Qiufeng Mansion, no one dares to mess with her."

"This idea is good. I will mention your idea later." Lin Dong laughed. Ma Chun's words were similar to nonsense, but he had figured it out. Even with Yun Lan's identity and strength, he could fall in love with him. Although there were reasons for falling in love over time, compared to You Qinxiang's inexplicable love for herself, it was not a strange thing.

I was confused about why You Qinxiang liked her, but she just wanted to have a headache. Her temperament was very different and she was not lethal to ordinary girls. She might even fall in love with her at first sight.

Ma Chun said in surprise: "It may not be good to talk to Miss Yun directly? No matter how generous Miss Yun is, she has not married the shopkeeper, and she will definitely not agree to this kind of thing before she can marry the shopkeeper."

"It's okay, please note that you asked me anyway." Lin Dong said lightly: "Yun Lan wants to chop you, but she will chop you."

Ma Chun's legs became weak and almost fell to the ground. His whole face suddenly turned green like a bitter gourd: "Shopkeeper, I really know that I was wrong. The shopkeeper was wholeheartedly devoted to Miss Yun, and he was the most dedicated man in the history of the Han Dynasty. He would never be bewitched and did something about Miss Yun."

"It's good to know. Miss You will not gossip about it, right?" Lin Dong said with a smile.

Ma Chun shook his head quickly.

The warning was already warned, and Lin Dong waved: "Okay, go and do your business, I'll go back to Qingfeng City first."

"Shopkeeper walked slowly." Ma Chun hurriedly saw him off.

Returning to Qingfeng City, he found Liu Hua and Wu Guang back, and the carriage continued to move forward.

The seventh branch, the eighth branch, the ninth branch..., including the time wasted to Qingmeishan, after three months, the branches of Linji Inn were finally spread throughout all the county towns of Qiufengfu.

The autumn was clear and the leaves were falling. After Liu Hua and Wu Guang returned to Qiufeng City alone, Lin Dong and Yun Lan, with Cheng Bao who had been tied up for more than a month, arrived at Qiufeng City's main store through the portal.

As early as more than ten days ago, the news of the Business Association had settled, and the ending was beyond everyone's expectations.

It is not necessary for county towns, prefecture towns and counties to establish business associations independently. Nearly a hundred regulations on business associations have not changed much, but where there are any changes, they are all earth-shaking.

For merchants from the Han Dynasty, among the major changes, the biggest impact on them was undoubtedly that the decisions of the business association were left to all merchants from all over the country. No matter which industry or industry giants were, their control over prices was no different from ordinary merchants.

This news is no less than shocking news for big and super big players. It is great news for small businessmen.

Next, the second biggest impact was that the silver and tuition operated by the business association were all allocated by the court. Moreover, the funds were not passed through the government offices of each county, prefecture and county, but were allocated to the Beijing Business Association. Then the Beijing Business Association was allocated to the county-level business association in batches, and then the county-level business association was allocated to the county-level business association, and then the government-level business association was allocated to the county-level business association. Because there were too many levels, it took at most one year to reach the most remote county town in the Han Dynasty, so the funds allocated at one time also reached a huge amount of three years.

In addition, the escort of this silver was handed over to the Ministry of War to dispatch troops, which completely eliminated the relationship between the silver and the local government.

It has nothing to do with local yamen, which undoubtedly means that business associations can completely ignore local yamen and are independent.

Like the previous article, this news is also a bad news for big and super big businesses, and a blessing for small businessmen.

These two are combined, no less than a giant axe to open the sky, killing the dream that the wealthy families had longed for half a year. If they really don’t give any sweetness, even Emperor Qianwei would not dare to do such things rashly. After all, with the joint efforts of these wealthy families, their destructive power is no less than that of civilian violence, and they are even better than that. Although Tianwei Pavilion is here, the great violence can be suppressed, if this is the case, the national strength of the Han Kingdom will definitely be greatly affected.

The sweetness given by Emperor Qianwei is a privilege, not inferior to that of famous warriors.

In the Han Dynasty, merchants had a very low status. Although the real status of wealthy families was second only to officials by money, they were always inferior to those of civilians and military people, even worse than civilians.

A rule introduced with the regulations of the Business Association is that merchants can buy virtual titles, county merchants, government merchants, county merchants, and famous merchants. These virtual titles are not like before, but only a better title is given, but there is no substantial benefit.

County merchants have 1,000 taels of silver a year. It can be seen that the county magistrate and officials below the county magistrate do not kneel down and cancel the regulations that children are not allowed to be officials. All crimes are reduced by half except for the crimes of treason such as treason... The government merchants have 10,000 taels per year, and the county merchants have 100,000 taels per year, and various privileges are also increased. As long as they are willing to spend 10,000 taels per year to the court, the privilege of the famous merchants with false titles is not inferior to those of famous scholars and warriors.

The amount of silver is a little too high, but for many big investors, it is an irresistible temptation. Just like Lin Dong, although he has the identity of a warrior, after studying the privilege of the false title, he decided to buy a county merchant who needs to donate 100,000 taels of silver every year.

Compared with this, the privileges of warriors are much higher than those of county merchants, but the privileges of county merchants in terms of operation are not comparable to those of warriors. One hundred thousand taels of silver a year, the area height of a manor manor is only slightly lower than that of county yamen. For Lin Dong, it is completely cost-effective. Just spend some money to let the government yamen set up a bamboo pole on the roof, and Linji Inn can take advantage of loopholes to build four or five floors. What's more, the identity of county merchants also has a certain amount of tax reduction and other privileges. If the bank is not tight, Lin Dong will definitely get a famous merchant's title.

The warriors add famous merchants, and the two privileged identities do not stipulate that they cannot overlap, which means that Lin Dong can even blatantly beat officials, and the consequences are only fined a large amount of silver. This privilege doesn't seem to be anything but has a great deterrent power for officials. There is no need to worry that the business of Lin Ji Inn will be suppressed by the officials in the future.

While benefiting small businessmen, it can appease big households and curb collusion between officials and businessmen. In addition, although the autonomy of the business association is high, the operating costs are in the hands of the court. Lin Dong has seen Emperor Qianwei's methods. Although he could not judge whether the emergence of the business association was more beneficial than disadvantages or more harmful than benefits to the Han Dynasty, he was sure that in the short term, it would definitely be a good thing.

Of course, the so-called good thing is only for ordinary people and small merchants. Business associations are in the hands of small merchants, and the pricing of various goods will undoubtedly be fixed to a moderate level of neither high nor low, rather than as before, when large merchants want to increase sales, prices suddenly drop significantly. When various advantages are used to crush some small merchants, they continue to raise prices regardless of public grievances to increase their income.

In addition, goods such as small merchants can be circulated in various counties, which not only increase the income of small merchants, but also promote specialties in various places. Whether it is small merchants who directly benefit or the people who indirectly accept benefits, there are advantages and disadvantages.

Small merchants and the people benefit, which is not a bad thing for those serious business owners. No matter what, if the living standards improve, purchasing power can be strengthened. Large merchants may make less money in the short term and benefit from it in the long term. However, in the eyes of some big merchants who rely on collusion between officials and businessmen, it is another matter. The money they earn is accumulated by exploiting and squeezing the people and small merchants, rather than by normal profits and business methods.

Although the development of Linji Inn was not accumulated by exploiting and exploiting the people, it did not rely entirely on normal profits. Otherwise, Linji Inn could not develop from a small inn to a giant in a mansion in such a short time.

High profits are the key to the rapid development of Linji Inn.

Lin Dong’s headache is that once the business association is established, the owners of small restaurants and taverns will ask for profit reduction. This possibility is not low. The target of diners in large restaurants is large-scale. Once the profit is reduced, it will not cause much impact on these small restaurants that mainly engage in ordinary diners. On the contrary, the advantages of large restaurants are the characteristics of decoration, chefs, etc., and these things are piled up with silver. Once the profit decreases, the hard power may be preserved, but the soft power of luxury decorations and other soft power has to be reduced. In this way, some of the big restaurants monopolized by large restaurants will flow to small restaurants.

With the strength of Linji Inn, I am not afraid of not being able to attract large diners, but the profits are falling. If you want to raise a lot of money and expand quickly, it will be troublesome.

Next, it is the accommodation aspect. Linji Inn's business line in accommodation is to attract customers at low prices. As long as it can be kept in a profitable state, it doesn't matter if each room only makes a penny. Once the accommodation price is fixed, Linji Inn's attractiveness will be greatly reduced.

It can be said that like those profiteers who are used to collusion between officials and businessmen, Lin Dong was extremely unhappy with the business association.

The problem is that no matter how unhappy it is, there is no way. The civil and military officials suffered heavy losses this time and had no backhand power at all. Not to mention Lin Dong, even if the big and super big players join forces, Emperor Qianwei was determined to win the historical status of a wise ruler, and might even send Tianwei Pavilion to suppress it completely and rebuild it. Although doing so may cause fierce shocks in the entire Han Dynasty, it may also lead the Han Dynasty into a new era.

The only thing Lin Dong can do is to rack his brains to find ways to reduce the impact of the business association on the inn.

In the backyard, Lin Dong was just thinking about it, and Ma Chun ran back again.

"Shopkeeper, big news, Lord Li sent someone to summon the news. Fu Tongshan was promoted to Minister of Personnel and the new magistrate. The Ministry of Personnel did not designate it, but Lord Li temporarily handled government affairs on his behalf."

Lin Dong's frowning frowned a little deeper, and he felt deeply saddened when he looked at Yun Lan beside him.

Although the importance of the yamen to merchants will be greatly reduced after the establishment of the Business Association, some details such as taxation and public security still have a significant impact. Originally, according to Lin Dong's estimate, Fu Tongshan followed Emperor Qianwei and won a great victory, and would definitely rise rapidly in one or two years and re-establish the court. The new magistrate is likely to be led by Li Jiancheng, the Tongzhi.

Unexpectedly, he guessed the beginning but did not guess the ending. Although Fu Tongshan was only promoted to the Minister of Personnel, it was not easy to mention it too quickly because of the fifth-rank magistrate. There was almost no suspense when he was promoted to one level in three to five months. No matter what, Emperor Qianwei could not have lost the hearts of the heroes.

But the ending was not Li Jiancheng's successor.

Logically, whether it is qualifications or the foreign party to which Li Jiancheng belongs, he is the first group of forces to turn to Emperor Qianwei, and the new prefect is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who

Could it be...

Lin Dong suddenly looked up and asked: "How much time is left to evaluate the performance?"

"About one and a half months," Ma Chun said: "It is usually within half a month to one month after the palace examination."

Lin Dong grabbed his head and understood a little.

Li Jiancheng was not promoted to the prefect of Qiufeng Mansion because the reason was probably related to the princes participating in the major shock this time.

Even if Emperor Gan Wei feels that he has had a few years of good life, in order to maintain stability in the Han Dynasty after his death, the heirs can only choose from these princes. However, if he dares to fight against Emperor Gan Wei, whether it is the emperor's power and power schemes, or his anger and dissatisfaction, Emperor Gan Wei must not beat these princes.

If you want to hit these princes, the best way is undoubtedly to put some pressure on them.

For the princes, the biggest pressure is that there are too many brothers.

According to the rules of the Han Dynasty, the prince was sixteen years old and after passing the assessment, he joined the army as a general in wartime and appointed government offices as local officials in peacetime.

Lin Dong is almost certain that the prefect who have been vacant in the Han Dynasty due to serious illness, accidents and other emergencies in the recent period will probably be left for the temporary vacancies. In order to leave a good place for the newly-adult princes.

"Ma Chun, can you find out how many princes are coming to adulthood this year?" Lin Dong asked.

"The shopkeeper thinks that Lord Li has not taken over as the prefect, and the court intends to appoint a prince to come?" Ma Chun said in surprise.

"It depends on how many newly grown princes there are." Lin Dong said lightly.

Ma Chun smiled bitterly: "It may be difficult to find out such a thing in Qiufeng City. You can find out if you send someone to the capital, but it will take several months to come and go. The princes' assessment is the same as the palace examination. When people arrive in the capital, the news is probably already coming."

Lin Dong had no choice but to wait. If he really wanted to send a prince over, the fun would be great.

Not to mention, the chances of being targeted by the royal family by the speed of the inn alone are greatly increased by the speed of development and various advantages of the inn. In addition, the princes sent by them, in addition to pursuing political achievements, most of them will also try their best to cultivate personal power, and if they want to cultivate personal power, money is absolutely indispensable.

If you want money, you naturally have to find a big company. With Linji Inn's status in Qiufeng City, it is thought of by this prince, and there is almost no suspense about the threat of the majority of the shares that are threatened, tempted, and forced, and forced.

If someone else is involved in a relationship with the prince and take out a few percent of the shares to fight the other party to the Dragon Court, that is a worthy deal. Even if you can’t sit in the Dragon Court, you will have a great benefit in the future. It can be said that this irresistible business may lose, but the future benefits may also be quite good.

For Lin Dong, it is another matter. He will not give the shares of Lin Ji Inn to others even if he is beaten to death. Not to mention that it is several percent, even if it is 10 percent, Lin Dong believes that in the future, there will be a mountain of gold and silver that cannot match its value.

In this way, you will inevitably have a quarrel with this prince. No matter how you calculate it, you will lose but not make any profit.

Fortunately, although there must be many princes in the sub-sect this year, because the court lost its power, there should be many prefectures who have been dismissed this year. The chances of a prince in Qiufeng City are not high.

There is no way, I can only wait for the result.

After thinking for a while, Lin Dong ordered: "See a way to talk to Li Jiancheng and ask him if he can help contact friends who are familiar with the capital through the post station. If he can provide us with the implementation time of the business association and the new prefect of Qiufeng City, I will give him another spiritual sword of level 4 or above."

"Well, I'll go find him now?" Ma Chun asked.

"Go and bring a spiritual sword first, bring a few more," Lin Dong reminded: "If Li Jiancheng thinks it is too little, give it to him all."

"Okay" Ma Chun didn't believe that Li Jiancheng would refuse a fourth-level spiritual sword, but he didn't say much and nodded and went straight to his room.

"There are hard times in life."

Lin Dong stretched with a wry smile...
Chapter completed!