Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 366 The Trip to Foshan (Twenty)

Liu San's trip to Foshan was a rewarding experience. Not only did he purchase enough raw materials to make heat medicine, he also purchased many precious medicinal materials that were difficult to obtain in Lingao and even Qiongzhou, especially musk, bezoar and rhinoceros horn.Especially the musk, all are from Du Shengxing in Henan.The brand's musk has always been known for its authenticity.In the past, Liu San had only seen musk stock samples under this name in the library of the university. Now that he will see it with his own eyes and purchase it, he is really excited.

He even bought some of the Pien Tze Huang he coveted.This kind of medicine is sold on a consignment basis in Foshan, and the price is very expensive. You can only buy a small piece of it for a tael of silver.And Liu San wanted to buy more pharmacies, but he refused—the stock is limited, and each person is limited to five tablets.

"I sold it to you when you are old, what should you do if people are in urgent need?" The man refused straight away, "This is a life-saving medicine!"

Liu San left in dismay, but this kind of traditional business ethics is really good.

As for various traditional Chinese medicine processing equipment and the like, I also bought countless.In addition, many drug dealers were recruited.Yang Shixiang was a little tongue-tied, even though he had made a few big deals, Run Shitang didn't need so many people and things.

"Brother Yang, it won't be long before you think you don't have enough people." Liu San smiled confidently.Yang Shixiang originally wanted to persuade him, but he thought that although this person was very close to him and had a job as a leader, he was an out-and-out "kun man".There is no one in Kun who is not confident and complacent-of course, it is not surprising in terms of their various deeds.

Thinking that since I made friends with Dr. Liu, life seems to be getting better every day, and even things have become surprisingly smooth——Yang Shixiang didn't know that Li Yongxun's incident was purely accidental, and thought that Liu San was hiding something. He did it only when he saw that his elder brother was not cooperating.I am more and more impressed by the methods of this group of Australians.

As long as the Australian is in Lingao, his business will definitely flourish.Yang Shixiang felt it vaguely.

Before leaving Foshan, it was unavoidable to have some entertainment. Hearing that they were leaving, the prominent figures in the Yang family came to hold a banquet one by one to practice. Even Lin Ming also sent several gifts over to see them off.The group bid farewell to wine and ate for three days before setting off.

Foshan is dozens of miles away from Guangzhou by waterway, and it is very convenient to take a boat.Liu San and his party didn't need to escort the goods. The master and servant hired seven or eight people to hire a Jiangshan to return all the way.The return trip was again arranged by Qiwei, which was convenient and comfortable by the standards of this time and space.Because the connection of each link along the road is quite accurate, Liu San is very suspicious. Does Qiwei have a transmitter?Tried to inquire,

"It's nothing unusual." The "Quan Escort" who was in charge of the escort—yes, it was called Quan Escort, not a bodyguard, in fact, this person was not doing the job of a bodyguard.

"It's all sent by carrier pigeons," he said.

Qiwei Escort took advantage of the network established over the past year to combine its subordinate Escort cabinets, chariot and horse shops, car dealers, boat dealers, warehouses, inns... all, and set up Huitong Stations in several transportation hubs across the province. , the information from all over the country is sent by carrier pigeons, and it is scheduled three times a day in the morning, afternoon and evening.Although it is not as good as the telephone and telegram, it can be regarded as an extremely accurate message transmission at that time.

Arrived in Guangzhou, boarded the Guangjia, and the medicinal materials purchased in Foshan had already been transported to the wharf warehouse in Qiwei, Guangzhou.Accompanying Quan gave him the manifest, and Liu San and Yang Shixiang checked that the goods were not missing or damaged, and they stamped and shipped them.The level of efficiency in it made even Liu San feel dumbfounded.

A group of people returned to Lingao on the boat of Gaoguang Shipping Company.Just entering the port, I saw that a fence had been erected on the newly renovated passenger terminal, and there were several newly built stone houses. Several people in navy uniforms were on duty beside the fence.

When they got off the springboard, they realized that these dark-skinned natives were not navy, and each of them was wearing an armband: "Customs".

"It's really rare." Liu San said, although he knew that the customs was set up when the organization was adjusted, and a person named Majia was appointed as the head of the customs, but the customs has always been a department with a weak sense of existence among the travelers.For a long time, the General Administration of Customs only had a vest and an indigenous customs officer at his disposal.

Vest painfully realized that this loud-sounding customs officer had nothing to do at all.First, the import and export goods of the traversers do not need to pay export and import taxes, and the ships entering and leaving do not need to pay tonnage tax.The Ministry of Maritime Forces dominates the surrounding waters, so the "one-fifth" that the fishermen hand over is naturally not needed.As for the few merchants who come to Gao to do business—in order to encourage them to come to Gao to do business, the business department adopts a tax-free policy. Besides, most of these merchants are small traders, and there is nothing to talk about.Looking at the "Customs Law" and "Customs Tariff Rates" written by himself, Vest couldn't help sighing.

The person who is as depressed as him is Fu Bowen. Yes, it is Fu Bowen, the inspector of the Bopu Inspection Department who fled to the county after D-Day last year. Urged by the disgusted Magistrate Wu's stern words, Fu Bowen didn't dare to disobey, nor was he willing to lose his job. After careful consideration, he was forced to return to the bo shop.

The "kun thieves" are generous and sincerely welcome his arrival-the inspection department's return to Bopu is one of the private agreements reached between the two parties.The Crossing Group complied with the agreement and returned the house of the Inspection Department to him, without even removing the glass windows installed in it. Although the electric lights were gone, they still generously provided him with a biogas lamp.

Even his formation of twelve archers was returned to him—of course, the "return" is in quotation marks. The traverser prepared a squad of twelve people for him. I know that they are all selected by the time travel group, and they are essentially serving the vest.This team lived in the inspection department grandly and received the food and salary from the inspection department.Fu Bowen also tactfully did not give any orders.

So the Customs of the Crossing Group and the Daming Inspection Department co-existed in one place, almost two brands and one team.All the traveler's current behaviors of collecting taxes and checking passengers are still in the name of the Bopu Inspection Department. Fu Bowen is a bit like the full-time leader of some units, just signing and not doing routine work.

Fu Bowen is very aware of his status, he is just an overhead signboard.And everyone around him is an enemy country - even in the county town, it is not necessarily safe.Especially when he went home to visit his relatives recently, he saw with his own eyes the head boxes hung in two rows on the road at the gate of the county seat.These names are more or less familiar to the people of Lingao. They used to make children dare not cry. The heads of the people who closed the gates of the county town are now put in wooden cages and hung neatly on wooden poles, grinning. Let the crows eat.

This group of thieves can wipe out even the most difficult bandits, let alone a small county town.Fu Bowen simply came here to be like the light, and every morning after getting up, he did nothing but drink tea, practice swords, read books, and read the newspapers sent by the thieves.For dinner, you can eat in the cafeteria of Bopu—the food here is not bad, and there are also good wines from time to time, which is much better than the bad houses in the county town.He also got used to smoking convenient cigarettes and gave up the dry tobacco rods that need to be cleaned from time to time.

For this reason, he asked his family members to exchange part of the monthly salary he received for consumption with Lingao food coupons.Unknowingly, this kind of consumption is getting bigger and bigger, and the meager salary is gradually unsupported.At this time, Vest will quietly send him some circulation coupons.Fu Bowen also accepted it with a smile - anyway, it is an official rule to collect money.

The vest looks boring. Apart from dealing with his various customs regulations and writing maritime law provisions, he would sometimes sit in Fu Bowen's inspection department-this is also his task, to monitor this key point in the crossing group A small official of the Ming Dynasty.

On this day, Vest and Fu Bowen were playing chess, and in the middle of the game, a customs officer broke in:

"Director Ma! The goods are here!"

"The goods have arrived?!" The vest stood up abruptly. The so-called goods arrived means that a large number of goods that can be taxed have arrived-the first time in Bopu Customs.

"No tax exemption certificate?"

"I haven't asked the people on the Guangjia. The owner of the goods is the shopkeeper of Runshitang in this county. He got this batch of goods from Foshan. It's worth the old nose's money. It's all medicinal materials!"

"Don't panic," the vest ordered, "Tell Ji An to wait for me on the pier."

Ji An was recently promoted from the general public of time travelers.He has been a customs declarer for ten years, and he is very familiar with the supervision process of import and export commodities, which is much more professional than the vest full of maritime law.

"Old Fu, I'll come as soon as I go." He said hello, and hurried to the pier, Ji An had already arrived.

"How about it?"

"This needs to be appraised." Ji An said, "Let's check the tax rate table again."

"Just ask him the value of the product." Hearing the vest, he felt a headache. The valuation is nothing more than a bad product manual.There are everything in the book, but the problem is that no one can recognize the medicinal material...

"There is no invoice here, so how can we confirm the authenticity?" Ji An was talking, and Liu San, who had passed the customs, ran back again.

"What's going on here?"

"Import tax is collected." The vest was quite excited, "Finally, a large amount of goods has been imported..."

"This is the pharmaceutical raw material from the Ministry of Health!" Liu San almost jumped up, "Does this also have to be taxed?"

"No way. If the materials are imported from the Ministry of Health, there should be a notice from the Ministry of Health. Besides, these goods are obviously from Runshitang!" Said the vest.

"The value of the goods is quite large." Ji An flipped through the list, "There are three levels of tax rates for Chinese herbal medicines. The highest tax rate is 50% for ginseng and deer antler..."

"Is there any mistake!" Liu San thought that the Ministry of Health's business has just opened, and the customs will come to collect taxes?He absolutely does not agree to this matter.

(End of this chapter)