The governor's cold warning woke up many businessmen. He gave them a simple multiple-choice question: either accept our tax policy or pack up and get out.
Pang Gang wants to use such a tough attitude to tell businessmen that the almost free tax rate they have enjoyed for more than two hundred years will be changed starting today!
As soon as Pang Gang's tough attitude came out, many merchants actually withdrew from the health center at first. Seeing their attitude that if they don't leave the master here, they have their own place, Pang Gang did not try to persuade them to stay, because Pang Gang knew that this was a
The process allows merchants to adapt to the process of paying taxes on time. Of course, some people will not adapt to this process until later generations, but what Pang Gang wants is to implant the concept that doing business requires paying taxes into people's hearts.
After a round of shocks, although some of the merchants in various health centers withdrew, some merchants still stayed. After all, the business opportunities here are very high. These people also stayed with the attitude of giving it a try. If they can't do it,
It’s not too late to withdraw. However, facts have proven that although you have to pay taxes when doing business in various health clinics in Qingzhou, you only have to pay the tax once for a batch of goods. As long as you pay the tax, then you will be able to do business at various health clinics in Qingzhou.
You will be protected by the officers and soldiers of the guard station. If you have any disputes, the guard stations will help you deal with them. Even if you have to pay taxes, your business will still be very profitable.
The reputation of merchants is the best advertisement. In this way, through merchants from various places, cement from Lingshanwei, refined salt from Wanghaibao, and livestock from Antonwei slowly circulated to several nearby provinces through merchants. At the same time, commodities from various places
It also slowly flowed into Qingzhou, forming a virtuous cycle of development. Such a result is what Pang Gang expected to see. After all, the biggest function of merchants is to circulate goods. This is the biggest role of merchants.
In mid-November of the ninth year of Chongzhen, another wave of refugees began. Refugees from Hebei, Henan and even Shanxi entered Qingzhou, which became increasingly famous.
In the same year as Pang Gang and Wei, Weng's son-in-law also became nervous and mobilized the Qingzhou government and various health stations to accept and arrange for the refugees. Because of the preparations, the resettlement work of the refugees was carried out in an orderly manner.
Hu Sanniu is from Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan. He is the third eldest son in his family. Due to the difficult life, he is only 22 years old and looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties. Although Henan is known as the hinterland of the Central Plains, it has a strategic position.
It is extremely important, but it is also the place of the Four Wars. Since the first year of Chongzhen, this place has experienced nearly ten years of turmoil. Bandits, officers and soldiers, and rogue bandits have been raiding this place one after another, especially after the end of this year.
It's getting more and more difficult.
Since the second half of this year, Hu Sanniu has often heard people say that there are jobs in Qingzhou, near Henan. As long as they join the Military Household Guard, they will find jobs for them and distribute them land. Hu San is really unable to survive.
Niu Yi became fierce and took his wife and daughter with him to beg all the way to Qingzhou.
"Dad, is this Qingzhou?" Hu Sanniu's daughter-in-law Cuihua is a dutiful rural girl. She holds the little hand of her five-year-old daughter with one hand and her husband with the other.
asked timidly.
"That's right. I'll ask when I meet someone." Hu Sanniu responded angrily, put down the burden on his shoulders and began to rest.
After a while, Hu Sanniu saw a group of businessmen walking on the official road. Seeing this, Hu Sanniu hurried over to inquire. After a while, he came back and said to Cuihua: "My dear, I asked, here
It’s Qingzhou Prefecture, and half an hour’s walk east is Andong Guards Station.”
"Oh, thank God, we're finally here." Cuihua, a Buddhist, clasped her hands together happily and said, "We will have work to do when we get to the Anton Guard, and we will have a way to survive."
"Well, let's hurry up." Hu Sanniu said angrily, picking up the burden and putting it on his shoulders, and the family of three walked eastward.
After walking for half an hour, Hu Sanniu and his family were surprised to see that the dirt road under their feet had turned into a flat road that they had never seen before. The road surface was extremely smooth and hard, and there were no traces of people walking on it.
That feeling of clicking your feet on a dirt or gravel road.
"Hey, Daddy, this road is really big. It's so comfortable to walk on." Hu Sanniu's daughter Daya broke free from her mother's hand and started running up and down the road.
"Da Ya, come back quickly, be careful not to fall." After Cuihua saw it, she quickly chased after her and pulled her daughter back.
At this moment, a checkpoint appeared in front, and there was a row of people standing on the checkpoint. After Hu Sanniu Fu passed by, he discovered that there was a row of sergeants in full armor standing in front of him. The iron armor was shining in the sun.
The cold light made these sergeants look unusually majestic and solemn.
Hu Sanniu timidly approached a sergeant and was about to speak. The sergeant looked at Hu Sanniu and pointed to the side and said: "If you come to Qingzhou to find a job, those who have military registration should register aside."
When Hu Sanniu took a look, he discovered that there was a table placed not far from the row of sergeants. Behind the table was a middle-aged man who looked like an official. In front of him were more than a dozen people who looked like Hu Sanniu.
The people in the Niu family are all in ragged clothes, including men, women and children.
Hu Sanniu and his family waited in line at the back for a long time. When it was their turn, the middle-aged man who looked like an official looked at the family for a few times before asking: "Where are you from? How many people are in the family?"
?Do you want to work part-time in Qingzhou or join the military?"
Hu Sanniu asked cautiously: "Sir, we came from Kaifeng Mansion. We can't live any longer. We want to find a way to survive in Qingzhou. I wonder what the difference between doing part-time work and joining the army is what the master said?"
The middle-aged official said patiently: "To work part-time means to work part-time in several guard posts in Qingzhou, and you will go back in a few months. To join the military is to officially join our military in each guard post in Qingzhou, that is, to become a soldier.
Registered."
"Military households?" Cuihua on the side was so frightened when she heard that she was going to join the army that she waved her hands and interrupted: "Sir, we are not military households. We will still have to go home in a few months."
"Is that so?" the official asked Hu Sanniu formally again.
"Yes, sir, we will still have to go home in a few months." Hu Sanniu and his wife-in-law had the same idea, and they waved their hands again and again.
"Really?" The official took a deep look at their husband and wife, and then said with a meaningful look in his eyes: "Okay then, take this wooden sign and go to a recruitment site in front of you.
, I heard that there is still a shortage of coolies there, so just go and report there."
After saying that, the official handed a wooden sign to Hu Sanniu. Hu Sanniu received the wooden sign with great gratitude and went forward. However, at this time, Hu Sanniu did not expect that he would do anything for him in the future.