Captain Wang quickly rode away.

Ning He saw the free and easy look of Captain Wang, so he scattered the meditation tea prepared for him.

Pick up the travel notes again.

After thinking for a while, Ning He wrote today's events into the blank space of this travel note.

It’s a story compiled by Captain Wang.

While I was writing this, a gust of cold wind blew by, rain stars dropped from the sky, and the tea shed made a popping sound from the raindrops.

"Taoist Master Yaxing!"

Came with laughter.

The River God fell from the sky, still holding a storage bag in his hand, "It's the last rain this year, and it will be snow after that. If the Taoist master is not busy, how about a game of chess?"

When Ning He saw his friend coming, he also pushed the book to the corner of the table and said softly: "Please."

The River God returned the favor and sat opposite Ning He. He took out a plate from the storage and put the chess box on it.

Following the moves, one person and one god started chatting while playing chess.

‘Crackling’ raindrops gradually fell, accompanied by the sound of falling.

Not long after, the city god also came, sat beside the two of them, picked up the conversation from the river god, and chatted about interesting things he had seen in the mountains and fields.

Occasionally when they have nothing to do, they often play chess with Ning He.

And as time goes by.

Half an hour later, the River God and the City God left one after another.

Ning He took the book from the corner of the table and continued to write.

More than half a month passed like this.

In early December, the lively atmosphere before the New Year's Eve arrived unknowingly.

Ninghe occasionally saw the travelers coming and going, and they were all beaming with joy.

The merchants also set out from various counties and rushed towards Liangcheng in advance.

Business will be a little better than before, and occasionally you can meet one or two customers in half an hour, or there will be a large group of traders.

But compared to the wave of people returning to the county on the tenth day of the year, and the string of gifts from relatives in the first month of the year, the extra money is not worth mentioning.

And they are also delivering goods to the city with large groups of merchants.

The busiest thing at the moment is managing the guards of the merchants.

He rode his horse around Liangcheng early in the morning, checking these big merchants to see if their goods were consistent with what was on the list.

The scholar also ran all the way, and his body bones were almost shaken by the bumpy horseback.

until noon.

The guard just moved his stiff shoulders, stretched out his fat belly, and led the scholar to the nearest branch in the west of the city, Mihang.

Have a few bites of hot rice.

As soon as the scholar sat down, he became paralyzed and didn't want to move.

The guards are better.

After all, he used to run a business every day. Although he hasn't moved much for more than a year and has gained weight, the foundation of working all year round is still not clean.

But I am still tired, I got up early before dawn, and I was still 50% drunk last night.

Involuntarily, he took the equally tired scholar to the warehouse in the backyard of Mipu, took a small shop to cushion it, and prepared to sleep for a while.

Just when he lay down and fell asleep, the waiter outside hurriedly ran into the backyard warehouse, saying that Mr. Liu was here!

Hear this.

The guard had lost all sleep, so he quickly got up and wanted to go forward to meet him.

"Shopkeeper Zhang." Laughter came from the warehouse door.

Mr. Liu walked to the door of the warehouse under the apologetic smile of the shopkeeper, followed by a good official and a soldier.

When the soldiers came here, they stood guard at the door. They also pretended to stop the rice shop owner and asked him to stay at the door.

Liangwenli followed Mr. Liu in.

"I heard that Shopkeeper Zhang is here." Mr. Liu came in and looked around, "I happened to be passing by, so I came in to take a look."

"I've met you, sir!" the guard saluted. He wanted to invite you to sit down, but the warehouse was full of rice bags.

The only places to sit are the two simple shops behind you.

Mr. Liu waved his hand, looked at the guard, and sighed: "I can only sleep here in the afternoon. It's because of shopkeeper Zhang."

"Sir, what are you talking about?" The guard quickly raised his hands and said, "If it weren't for the support of the adults, this villain would not even have a chance to suffer."

‘Hey...’ Liang Wenli saw that shopkeeper Zhang had not been seen for many days, but he knew how to be flexible and flattery, so he couldn’t help but cast some admiring glances.

"Don't mention these." Mr. Liu also felt comfortable, "I met the merchants outside the city, and the goods they prepared were all from the year before. Don't mention them yet, and I won't ask any questions."

Master Liu said this with a solemn tone: "But today I want to ask, what are the New Year's goods for the New Year? How many have been prepared? How many of the merchants' associations have unpaid dues?"

"Back to your lord! Now all the caravans have paid their travel expenses in advance on time, and the cargo lists are also prepared. They are preparing to hand them over to you in two days for your decision."

As the guard spoke, he looked at the scholar next to him, "After your Excellency seals the seal, I will prepare the shopkeepers according to the list."

When the scholar saw the guard's gaze, he immediately took out a small notebook from his arms.

The guard took it, handed it to Master Liu with both hands, and said, "Please take a look at it."

"Yes." Mr. Liu took the order and looked at it briefly.

Above are all this year's New Year's goods, as well as some daily necessities such as rice, noodles, fish, cloth, firewood, etc.

In some places, three or two corrections were made.

It should be the guards who called many big merchants, discussed with each other, and made rectification and distribution.

This can try to avoid duplicate goods, scarcity, high prices, or loss of goods.

These quantities are all what Mr. Liu has estimated for more than ten years.

The guards only made a general distribution of benefits to the merchants based on this number.

At that time, if any merchant cannot sell all the goods and the quantity is not large, in the last two days of the New Year, the government will collect them at the normal price and distribute them as annual goods to officials in the city and county.
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But if a big businessman brings extra goods with him when he comes to the city, or hires individual merchants to secretly bring goods into the city, and if they are found out, the government will not only not protect them, but will also expel this person from the traveling chamber of commerce.

This is what Mr. Liu thought of as the "Method of the Merchant Association", and it was guaranteed by the Cao Ling of a city's gold, and was funded by the government treasury.

The leader of the Hong Chamber of Commerce is guard Zhang Yin.

Although this was against the law, it brought Mr. Liu the support and love of many wealthy businessmen from various counties in Liangcheng.

It also reduced some of the large-scale business wars and homicide cases that occurred a year ago, and tried to ensure the balance of prices.

Although the magistrate of Liangcheng knew that this matter was not in compliance with the regulations, he tacitly allowed Lord Liu to go ahead and do it.

Mr. Liu is also very cautious and only dares to hire people who are acquainted with people from nearby counties and know their background, and does not dare to win over the rest.

Otherwise, if the stall is too big and you don’t know the details, problems will inevitably arise.

After Master Liu read the pamphlet, he made an estimate and handed the pamphlet to the good official.

The good official smiled and asked the rice shop owner for a pen and some paper.

After waiting for a while, the store owner trotted over to deliver it himself, followed by several waiters with tables, chairs and benches behind him.

When the guard saw the store owner looking so eye-catching, he nodded slightly in appreciation of the store owner like a good civil servant.

The good official began to calculate solemnly.

He has a very good memory, and it may be that he has been exposed to various business processes for more than ten years.

According to the memory in his mind, he soon calculated that the discrepancies on the list were similar to those in previous years.

After the calculation was completed, he reported to Mr. Liu: "If we follow this list and only count the orders of large merchants in previous years and not individual merchants, then there will be 70 kilograms more fish than last year, fifteen kilograms less maltose, and less bacon.

Not bad, four hundred pounds more wild boar meat..."

As the good official said, he reported different data every time.

The guard was worried for a while, and then subconsciously looked at the scholar.

He remembered that the scholar said that after the war ended eleven years ago, people's lives were getting better and better, and more New Year's goods would be sold every year, so it was appropriate not to argue with those businessmen about the one-and-a-half cent profit.

Generally speaking, you can buy more, but this amount is a planned amount.

When the scholar saw the guard coming, he was not worried at all and only listened to the final words.

Wait until it’s finished.

Liang Wenli smiled under the slightly nervous gaze of the guard and said: "Compared with last year, there are 4,500 taels more for the New Year, but considering that there are 3,000 to 4,000 taels more every year, we can ignore these."
To be continued...