Since Yang Guozhu took office as the general of Datong Town, the strength of the Tiger Banner in Datong has been further compressed.

The new Datong Governor and General were not far away from the Tiger Flag, and even faintly suppressed the Tiger Flag, which put pressure on Zhao Yutu, who was staying in Xinpingbao, increasingly.

"A year has passed so quickly." Zhao Yutu stood in front of the window, looking at the branches swaying in the wind outside the door.

After the New Year, some popularity on the street has been restored. Many shops on the street have begun to open their doors to do business, and the shops with the Tiger Flag in Xinpingbao also began to welcome guests.

Before the first month of the year has passed, merchants from all over the country have come to Xinpingbao to do business.

Many businessmen who do not want to go to Qingcheng want to get all kinds of fur goods on the grassland at a cheap price. There are only two places: Xinpingbao and Zhangjiakou. Xinpingbao is not like Zhangjiakou, and there are not so many messy business taxes.

"Shopkeeper Li, you are here, please come inside." The clerk in the shop greeted a dull man walking in outside the door.

The person who came was breathing heat in his mouth and walked quickly to the stove in the shop.

"It's really cold this day, and the wind wants to blow into my bones." The shopkeeper Li took off his gloves and placed his hands on the fire to burn the fire.

Zhao Yutu turned around and greeted the guy, "Make tea for Manager Li to warm up your body."

The guy ran to make tea.

"I'll thank Mr. Zhao first." Manager Li bowed to Zhao Yutu and then continued to roast the fire.

Soon, the guy made tea and served it to the shopkeeper Li.

Tea burns the mouth and cannot drink it for a while. Manager Li puts the teacup on his legs and holds it on the outside of the teacup to keep warm.

"Get some dried fruits here." Zhao Yutu gave a command to the clerk, walked towards Manager Li, and sat down on the other side of the stove.

Manager Li held the teacup and turned his head to face Zhao Yutu who was sitting here, saying, "It's better for you to use the tiger flag. After making such a stove, the whole room was warm and much better than mine."

"You have to be willing to replace the charcoal basin with a stove, and the storage in the house is as warm as mine." Zhao Yutu said with a smile.

The other party is the shopkeeper of a merchant in Xinpingbao, and the shop is next door. It is just a stingy person and he wants to spend a penny in half.

Manager Li said a little embarrassedly: "I have been used to the brazier for so many years."

"This kind of stove is not expensive. Large stoves like this are only a few dozen taels. If you have one in a shop, you won't have to be frozen for a winter." Zhao Yutu said.

Manager Li said embarrassedly: "Next year, I will get a stove like this in your shop next year. I will definitely ask Mr. Zhao to my place to burn the fire."

"I'll take Manager Li's words seriously. I must go back. Don't let Manager Li keep me for tea at that time." Zhao Yutu joked.

Manager Li shook his head quickly and said, "That's not possible. Mr. Zhao is willing to come to my place. I must treat you well. Not to mention drinking tea, there is no shortage of dried fruit."

As he said that, he looked up to find the guy in the shop, thinking about the dried fruit that Zhao Yutu had just asked the guy to prepare.

The guy walked out of the room next to him, holding a plate in his hand, and placed a few simple dried fruits next to the stove.

When Manager Li saw that the guy brought the dried fruit, he hurriedly reached out and pinched one and threw it into his mouth to eat it.

"The market opens on the first day of today. I believe that the business of Manager Li's shopkeeper should be good!" Zhao Yutu looked at Manager Li who was having tea with a smile.

He held the hook in his hand and put the stove on it.

"Hey, don't mention it. It's been a whole morning, and there is no customer." Manager Li sighed and said, "Buying and dealings are getting harder and harder."

Zhao Yutu was stunned.

I thought there were no customers in the shop with only their tiger flag, but I didn’t expect there were no customers in the shop next door.

"When Liu Shou was there, our Xinpingbao was very lively. Look at it now, there are fewer and fewer merchants coming. If this continues, it will be closed sooner or later." Manager Li complained.

As the tiger flag opened Qingcheng to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, some merchants who came to Xinpingbao to do business chose to go to Qingcheng. In addition, the current Xinpingbao guardian intentionally or unintentionally suppressed Xinpingbao merchants, which made Xinpingbao's business even more and more.

It is difficult to do, so there are naturally fewer business trips to Xinpingbao.

Zhao Yutu comforted: "Maybe it's just because the Chinese New Year has just passed, so it's better to have a while."

"It's okay, I heard that our guard sent someone to collect the city entrance fee at the city gate. All the people and merchants who entered the city had to pay taxes, and merchants also had to pay taxes when they left the city, otherwise they would not be able to leave the city gate at all.

.” Manager Li sighed.

Hearing this, Zhao Yutu frowned and said, "Why do you have to pay taxes when you leave the city? You have never had such a thing before."

Shortly after Li Guangyi came to Datong as governor, Huang An began to collect the counting tax on entering the city, and not only had to collect counting tax on merchants, but also the commodity tax on the goods they brought.

These are the powers of the Xinpingbao guards. Even if Zhao Yutu knows this, he is powerless to stop them, so he can only watch Huang An get benefits from the merchants who come and go to Xinpingbao and destroy the commercial prosperity of Xinpingbao.

"It's just to make money!" said Manager Li, "The notice was posted outside the guard's mansion. No one of the merchants who entered the city knew about it. They were told to pay the city tax when they left the city."

After saying that, he took another sip of tea and grabbed the dried fruits from the plate with his other hand.

Zhao Yutu frowned and said, "If this continues, there will be no merchants coming to Xinpingbao. If the guardian's mansion does this, wouldn't it be a killing chicken to get eggs?"

"We are all ordinary people, so we can't care about the affairs of the general's mansion. If Liu is still there, maybe he can still use his words. Unfortunately, Liu is not here, and the Huang general has the final say in Xinpingbao."

Manager Li grabbed the last piece of dried fruit from the plate and threw it into his mouth.

Zhao Yutu sighed and said, "What a pity. If this continues, Xinpingbao will no longer have the prosperity it once was."

According to Huang An's approach, it can be expected that the transactions in Xinpingbao will become increasingly difficult to do.

Now that there is no mutual market, it is difficult for Xinpingbao to gain benefits from mutual market. Once the tiger flag is broken, Xinpingbao will have no attracting merchants.

Originally, those merchants living in Xinping Fort would move away from Xinping Fort little by little, and in the end, Xinping Fort would only become a pure military fortress.

"Mr. Zhao is Liu's general, so it's better to talk to Liu's general. Maybe Huang's general will cancel the head tax at the city gate for Liu's general's sake." Manager Li looked at Zhao Yutu hopefully.

I hope that the tiger flag can stand out and stop what Huang Shoujiang is doing.

Zhao Yutu shook his head and said, "My boss is no longer an official in the officialdom. He has long been gone and has no conversation with General Huang."
Chapter completed!