Atai and his daughter followed a group of tribesmen for about half a day, and finally arrived at the location of the mutual market.
This is a valley, yes, it is the nameless valley where the four major families in Yunzhou County once secretly traded with the Tatars outside the customs.
When choosing the location for the mutual market, Zhao Jun immediately thought of this place. When he came here, it happened to be a circular valley, which was sheltered from wind and rain. The trading location was located here for everyone to rest.
Secondly, this place is familiar to the old tribes on the southern grasslands. Most of them have had the experience of trading with the four major families.
Put the mutual market here without worrying that the Tatars on the grassland can't find a place.
So the location of the mutual market was decided.
And this place was renamed Lingyun Mutual Market.
After the mutual trading location was decided at the end of September, the engineering team from Yunzhou County drove into this unknown valley.
In just one month, the engineering team of Yunzhou County allowed the Tatars, who had never seen much of the world, to see what Yunzhou speed was.
The originally desolate Wuming Valley has been leveled from the inside out, and some of the more dangerous cliffs have been reinforced. Don't worry about people in the valley being suddenly taken away by landslides while they are sleeping.
Buildings appeared in the depths of the valley, and the most majestic among them was naturally the Mutual Taxation Department representing the Yunzhou County Yamen.
The three-story building made of reinforced concrete looks like a pagoda stacked one above the other. The highest point is made of golden gold and silver and is hung in the shape of an ingot hanging on the top of the tower.
All those who come to the stock exchange can see the pagoda-like building of the stock exchange department in the distance as soon as they enter the valley and look up slightly. If it is a clear day, the golden top of the tower will emit a dazzling light, filled with The smell of rich people!
On both sides of the Mutual Market Division, it is divided into five areas from Taniguchi to the Mutual Market Division.
The place closest to the entrance of the valley is the exchange area. The Yunzhou County Yamen has set up twenty exchange points here. All people who enter the mutual market can bring their cattle, sheep, horses or gold and silver to the exchange points, and exchange them for only Cloud banknotes used in the exchange market.
When leaving the exchange market, you can choose to take the cloud banknotes away, or you can choose to exchange them for gold and silver.
However, exchange for cattle, sheep, horses and other live animals is not supported.
Bartering is not accepted in the mutual market, and all transactions must be conducted using cloud currency.
Yunqiao is a kind of banknote specially made by Yunzhou County Yamen. The denominations are one cent equivalent to one cent, five cents equivalent to five cents, one cent equivalent to ten cents, and one cent equivalent to one hundred cents. One piece is equivalent to one tael of silver, one piece is equivalent to ten taels and one hundred taels of silver, and one thousand pieces is equivalent to one thousand taels.
There are only eight denominations of cloud banknotes in total, and higher-level transactions at the 10,000 liang level will use a special type of gold banknotes.
Starting with one gold denomination, there are also five gold, ten gold, fifty gold and one hundred gold denominations.
However, transactions of this level are not possible for ordinary herders.
The exchange of gold banknotes reaching this kind of transaction amount is exclusively handled by officials from the Department of Water Exchange.
The Department of Mutual Taxation is also responsible for the exchange of gold banknotes. The exchange point here does not have the authority to conduct exchanges.
The next area the herdsmen entered after passing through the exchange area was the garrison area.
There are branches of dozens of inns in Yunzhou County here, and there is also the Yunzhou Hotel set up by the Yamen of Yunzhou County here.
If people coming to the market plan to stay here overnight, they can find an inn here to stay.
Of course, ordinary people can only stay in those ordinary inns.
Only people from medium-sized tribes with certain status are eligible to stay in Yunzhou Hotel, but the corresponding accommodation price in Yunzhou Hotel is dozens of times that of other ordinary inns.
But the service is also excellent.
The next area you enter after passing through the garrison area is the three market areas where transactions are conducted.
The first market is called Zashi.
As the name suggests, the miscellaneous market has a lot of miscellaneous things to buy, ranging from toothpaste, toothbrushes, hairpins, and hairpins, a specialty of Yunzhou County, to exquisite gold, silver, jade, and other valuables.
Here you can buy everything except salt and tea and iron products.
There is nothing you can’t think of, nothing that is not available here.
Most of the people setting up stalls here are merchants who applied for mutual trading qualifications from the Yunzhou County Yamen.
After the miscellaneous market is the tea market. As the name suggests, tea is sold here.
Nowadays, tea has almost become a necessity for grassland people, and the sale of tea in the mutual market is a specialty product of the Yunzhou County Government Office.
Except for the Yunzhou County Yamen, no one is qualified to sell tea in the mutual market, and anyone caught will be punished as smuggling.
The most common tea bricks here are the most demanded by herdsmen.
After that, tea was divided into three grades: those with one tael of silver per catty were classified as third grade, those with ten taels of silver per pound were classified as second grade, and those with one hundred taels per pound were classified as third grade tea.
It is unaffordable for ordinary herdsmen, but these teas are indeed the favorite of the Tatar nobles, and they are also the most popular products among the Tatar nobles since the opening of the mutual market.
Herdsmen can buy the tea they need at the tea market and then enter the final salt market.
Like the tea market, the salt market is a business exclusively run by Yunzhou County Yamen. Like tea, salt is also divided into several grades.
The most common coarse salt costs fifty cents per catty, and the next higher level of refined salt costs one hundred cents per catty.
After that, there was green salt worth five hundred cents per catty and snow salt worth one tael of silver per catty.
The salt of the fourth and middle grades in the entire salt market is enough to meet the needs of all customers.
When you complete transactions in these three market areas, you need to enter the mutual market department to pay taxes.
To pay taxes, you need to take out the invoice issued by the merchant after you have made a transaction with the merchant. After verification, the officials of the Mutual Trading Department will charge you half of the tax amount believed to be based on the transaction amount on your invoice.
The other half is paid by the merchant.
After the tax is paid, officials from the Mutual Tax Division will stamp the official seal on the invoice to confirm that all taxes on your goods have been paid.
There is also a threshold for tax payment. You need to start paying tax when the transaction amount reaches more than five cents.
Note that you must not evade taxes in the mutual market. The mutual market department has a fully equipped tax team of about a thousand people. Every day, the mutual trading company needs to check the tax payment status of all transactions on that day. If someone dares to evade taxes, then hold on Armed with a strong bow and crossbow, the tax knight with a cold face will kick open your door in the middle of the night, drag you out of the room, and ask you to pay taxes.
It's okay if you make up for it, but if you have to live and die and refuse to pay the tax, the tax rider has the right to confiscate all your items.
If the goods are still not tax-deductible, then even you yourself will become a slave of the Mutual Taxation Department and be sold to pay taxes.
Therefore, in Lingyun Mutual Market, you can deceive and deceive, and as long as the other party cannot find out, you can feel at ease.
But you absolutely cannot evade taxes!
No one can escape the pursuit of the tax knights. Even if you go to the ends of the world, you have to pay the taxes owed to the mutual tax department!
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(End of chapter)
