my grandmother

Chapter 90
Gu Yan was sitting at the table by the window, holding a cup and sipping tea, looking at Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan stood at the door and saw the upstairs from the lobby.

An hour ago, the upstairs and downstairs of this tea house were full of guests.

"What are you looking at?" Gu Yan put down the cup.

"Your tea house is losing money, right?"

Li Xiaonan sat opposite Gu Yan.

"Huh?" Gu Yan was taken aback. "what's wrong?"

It is often heard that it is quite profitable, but it is the first time I have heard the saying that it is very profitable.

"There were people upstairs and downstairs just now." Li Xiaonan poured tea by herself.

Gu Yan glanced at her sideways, but didn't speak.

Li Xiaonan took a sip of tea, looked around again, and sighed, "Your family has money, so you don't care if this tea house makes money."

"If you don't make money, you don't need to open the door to do business." Gu Yan leaned forward, "Your family's preserved egg shop, how did the business get better?

"My teahouse is always hard to find!" Gu Yan shook his folding fan away.

Li Xiaonan looked at the proud Gu Yan and let out a haha.

He dared to know clearly that he was coming for the golden signboard of his house, and for his face!

Gu Yan snorted.

Li Xiaonan put her arms on the table, stretched her head forward, looked at Gu Yan carefully, and asked with concern: "Are you in a bad mood?"

"Tsk, can you still tell that I'm in a bad mood?" Gu Yan pouted.

"It's quite obvious, don't you want people to see it?" Li Xiaonan turned her head and looked around.

She felt that everyone standing in this circle could tell that their elder son was not happy at the moment.

Gu Yan leaned towards her speechlessly.

When he didn't want people to see it, the former green sleeve could probably feel it, but the silly girl in front of him must be ignorant.

"What happened? Someone made you angry?" Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan with her chin resting.

"Is the smoked fish delicious?" Gu Yan knocked on the table with his folding fan.

"You know?" Li Xiaonan was shocked, and turned to look at Shi Gun.

Shi Gun lowered his hands and eyes, expressionless.

"I don't know what the people around me did when they followed me, so I..." Gu Yan's words got stuck, he didn't know what to say.

"Aren't I extremely dizzy!"

The folding fan in Gu Yan's hand was stretched out in front of Li Xiaonan, and it was banging loudly.

Li Xiaonan glanced sideways at the folding fan that was about to hit her head, took a deep breath, clenched her fists, and pounded on the side of the folding fan that Gu Yan kept banging.

"Since you know, why pretend you don't know? I thought you really didn't know!"

The closer he knocked the folding fan, the louder the knock, she had to fight back, otherwise it would hit her on the head next time!
"I pretended not to know, because you are greedy even for such dirty things. Not only are you greedy, but you even ask for it! You have lost all face!"

Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan who was visibly trembling, but still pounded her fist on the table, her eyebrows raised slightly, what is this little girl going to do?
No matter what she wants to do, she is really brave.

Lu Xiu followed him until the end, but didn't dare to say no to him.

Gu Yan glanced at Li Xiaonan, and the fan beat louder and more urgently.

"I'm greedy for me, it's none of your business! I'm not your servant, it's my own shame if I lose face, it's not your turn to lose face!" Li Xiaonan's heart thumped, and she pounded both hands on the table.

Gu Yan's folding fan paused in the air, looking at Li Xiaonan's two small fists, which stopped moving when they hit the table, Gu Yan raised his eyes and glanced at Li Xiaonan, who was tightly pursing her mouth and tensed all over.

Intuitively, he felt that she was shaking!

Gu Yan leaned back on the back of the chair, looked at Li Xiaonan, for a moment, suddenly smiled, leaned forward, picked up the teapot, and poured tea into Li Xiaonan's cup.

"Drink tea. This is the new tea of ​​this year. It's picked from the mountain behind Bieye. It's fried for a little or two. Try it."

Gu Yan refilled tea for himself, picked up the cup, and raised his hand to Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan's heart relaxed, her shoulders slumped, she retracted her fists, wiped the cold sweat from her hands on the lapel of her clothes, and picked up the cup.

After drinking a cup of tea, Gu Yan put down the cup, "Why don't you ask me why I'm in a bad mood?"

"I asked." Li Xiaonan leaned over and picked up the teapot, which was empty.

Shi Gun hurried over, took the teapot with both hands, and went to make tea.

Gu Yan waited for Shi Gun to bring the tea, and raised his finger.

Shi Gun hastily motioned to everyone, and retreated outside the house.

"That Yao Wu stopped several boats from the Hangzhou Weaving Department the day before yesterday, and the boats were loaded with 10,000+ taels of silk."

"She went to Bieye to look for you? Does anyone know that she belongs to you?" Li Xiaonan responded quickly.

"You're a little smarter than her." Gu Yan sighed.

"The extra 10,000+ silver was intentional, right?" Li Xiaonan frowned.

"You're much smarter than her."

"You must not only arrange Ah Wu alone, Ah Wu is not suitable in the first place, she is an escort and has a straight temper." Li Xiaonan explained for Ah Wu tactfully.

Gu Yan looked at her for a moment, then sighed, "Let's not talk about this, what do you want to do with Wan Qing?"

"I have something to do with Wan Qing, of course I have to talk to Wan Qing." Li Xiaonan snapped back.

"You told Wan Qing, but Wan Qing still has to report to me, so you should tell me directly." Gu Yan said bluntly.

"I want to do fine cloth business, so I asked Wan Qing about weaving and weaving workshops, what did she tell you? Could it be that if I asked something, she would turn around and repeat it to you, and if you nodded, she would answer my question again." question?"

"Of course!" Gu Yan replied very bluntly.

"Ha!" Li Xiaonan let out a haha, but swallowed back the words that followed.

He was right, it seemed to be possible.

Alas, the wicked deed of prostitution, the wicked birth of a family!
"What do you want to ask? Wanqing doesn't necessarily know, but I definitely do." Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan who swallowed her breath, a smile lifted from the corner of her mouth, and her mood improved.

"You have to pay [-]% tax to open a weaving workshop. What if you collect cloth from the weaving workshop or other places and sell it? How much tax will you have to pay?" Li Xiaonan thought about it, and asked Gu Yan, who must know.

"Zhou Yicheng said that the tax for the weaving workshop is less, and it is [-]%." Gu Yan took the folding fan away, "Pingjiang Weaving is the imperial court's weaving workshop, [-]% of the tax goes to the national treasury, and [-]% of the profit goes to the For the internal treasury, if it is a private weaving workshop, it will be [-]% of the tax."

"So high!" Li Xiaonan raised her voice.

"When the country was first founded, if the silk and fine cloth woven by private weaving workshops were sold overseas, a [-]% tax would be charged, and if sold within the empire, it would be a [-]% tax. Later~" Gu Yan dragged the end and snorted, "There are tens of millions of silk and fine cloth that go to sea every year, but the number reported by the weaving workshops in the north and south of the river is almost zero, and every family pays tax according to the two transactions.

"When my grandfather was in charge of the household department, the tax rate for weaving workshops was unified, and they were all collected at [-]%." Gu Yan snorted coldly.

Li Xiaonan sighed for a long time, "It's a [-]% spread."

"Well, in those years in the south of the Yangtze River, there were wailing everywhere." Gu Yan laughed, "If in those years, if your preserved egg store delivered goods to Wangfu Bieye, every family would have been splashed with feces and urine.

"Grandfather was riding a horse in the street, and was smashed with rotten eggs. The book of impeachment of grandfather was dragged into the emperor's palace in a cart, and all kinds of false accusations emerged one after another."

Gu Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, and after a moment, he sneered.

"No wonder, there is no weaving workshop in Kunshan County, and there is no weaving workshop in Pingjiang City. There must have been many in the past, and they must be everywhere." Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan with complicated emotions.

As a former financial elite, she has seen similar mourning several times.

"Well. Since the founding of the country, the imperial court has had a rule that the price of silk fine cloth to go to sea must be high enough, at least twice the cost. Only [-]% tax is charged for sales in the empire, just to make up for this price difference, but there is not enough support. However, those weaving workshops falsely reported tax evasion to the court, and they lowered prices to each other to the outside world, even close to the cost.

"Are you planning to open a weaving workshop?" Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan and asked.

(End of this chapter)