After putting all the money into the treasury, Zhao Feng prepared two more ledgers. The previous accounts were all ruined and there was no way to calculate them clearly. Fortunately, now that there was so much more money in the treasury, it was time to start again. There’s nothing wrong with starting a ledger.
There are officers and soldiers guarding the treasury, but they usually do not obey Zhao Feng's instructions. They belong to a coordination department that is not managed by Zhao Feng, so Zhao Feng does not need to worry about the safety of the money in the treasury.
After returning home, Zhao Feng found Li Wanyi waiting for him at the entrance of his courtyard.
"Mr. Zhao, you are finally back. Are you tired today?"
"I brought you some cakes, please accept them, Mr. Zhang."
Seeing that Li Wanyi had regained her vitality and was followed by a maid, Zhao Feng couldn't help but smile and opened the door, letting Li Wanyi and the others walk in.
"I feel relieved to see that you have recovered now. How is the situation of the Li family recently?"
Li Wanyi happily put the pastries on the table and then said to Zhao Feng.
"Thanks to Mr. Zhao's help, the Li family's business is now on the right track. We have seized the market in the capital relying on the snowflake salt produced by Mr. Zhao, and the salt produced by Mr. Zhao has also brought us Made a lot of profits.”
Upon hearing this, Zhao Feng suddenly became happy. He was worried that there was no place to collect these taxes, so he took out the account book and said to Li Wanyi.
"You're here just in time. It's coming soon. It's time to collect taxes this year. Calculate the profit rate every month and pay all the taxes."
Li Wanyi couldn't help but widen her eyes, then opened her mouth slightly, and said complainingly after a long while.
"Mr. Zhao, when I come to see you, will you let us pay taxes?"
Zhao Feng burst out laughing, looked up at Li Wanyi's sad eyes, and couldn't help but shake his head.
"Even if you don't come to me, I will come to you and ask you to pay taxes!"
"I've calculated the Li family's accounts clearly. I can probably pay a few hundred taels of silver a month, right?"
Li Wanyi nodded speechlessly, and Zhao Feng recorded the matter directly in the account book. However, it was not that Li Wanyi did not want to pay taxes, but she did not expect that she had just come to Zhao Feng to talk about asking the Li family to pay taxes. .
Zhao Feng looked at the account book and sighed slowly in his heart. He didn't expect that as powerful as the Li family, they could only pay a few hundred taels in taxes a month.
Next year, the Li family will be able to bear the tax of several thousand taels, but now the Li family has just recovered. If they are forced to pay all these taxes, I am afraid that the Li family's business will also suffer some setbacks.
So Zhao Feng said directly.
"It will be easier if you know how much money you have. I will add the money first, and you will vigorously develop your business first."
"But this is still far from enough!"
Li Wanyi came over and asked Zhao Feng curiously.
"Mr. Zhao, there are only two months left until the end of this year, and you have to collect taxes for a whole year, which of course is not enough."
"In previous years, taxes were collected twice in the middle and at the end of the year. Now even if you collect taxes in the past, it is estimated that many merchants will not be able to pay too much money."
Speaking of this matter, Zhao Feng couldn't help but grit his teeth.
Of course he knew that these taxes were collected twice in the middle of the year and at the end of the year, but the taxes collected in the middle of the year had already been wiped out by Liu Cang and the others, and now there were not even a few dozen left in the treasury. Two silver coins.
But Zhao Feng has no other choice now, he can only take one step at a time.
Li Wanyi waved her hand and asked the maid she brought to cook while she chatted with Zhao Feng.
"Actually, Mr. Zhao doesn't have to worry so much. There are so many merchants in the whole city, can't they still collect these taxes?"
"Besides, the treasury in Fucheng also has its own management rights. You can start a business. With Mr. Zhao's intelligence, isn't it easy to earn back all the taxes?"
Li Wanyi's words immediately woke up Zhao Feng. Zhao Feng looked at Li Wanyi in surprise, and then said thoughtfully.
"I almost forgot that the treasury has the right to operate."
"But it's a bit too difficult for us to start a business, but I have a business that is guaranteed to make a profit!"
Zhao Feng thought about this and couldn't help but laugh. He cupped his hands and said to Li Wanyi.
"Thank you very much. I will try this idea tomorrow!"
As the two of them talked like this, the maid brought by Li Wanyi also prepared dinner. What surprised Zhao Feng was that the maid Li Wanyi found was very good at cooking, and the dishes on the table were all delicious and delicious.
Seeing Zhao Feng eating very happily, Li Wanyi was also very happy. She looked for this maid and specifically found one who could cook.
He also told the maid some of the cooking techniques he had seen at Zhao Feng's place, such as stir-frying over high heat.
Now seeing that Zhao Feng was really satisfied with this maid's cooking, Li Wanyi was very satisfied.
After eating, Li Wanyi didn't feel comfortable staying here for a long time, so she returned to Li's house.
Zhao Feng didn't think much about it. The next day, he took Sun Peng and Zhou Fei with him. They went directly to the stores of those merchants and started collecting taxes door to door.
Perhaps because he knew that Zhao Feng was the newly appointed Treasury official, Zhao Feng appeared in the stores of these merchants at this time, and the merchants were very polite in their words.
But when it came to collecting taxes, each of these merchants described their situation as extremely miserable. Some said that they had to support a family, and some said that they were still losing money this year. In short, they just didn’t want to collect all the taxes. Hand it over.
Seeing them like this, Zhao Feng was a little helpless and had no choice but to let them pay as much as they could.
This morning, I ran down to almost all the merchants in half of the city, which made Zhao Feng very tired.
He turned to Sun Peng and asked.
"How much tax did we collect this morning?"
Sun Peng looked at the account book in his hand, then sighed and said.
"Master Zhao, we only collected a total of eighty taels of silver this morning!"
Zhao Feng suddenly shook his head helplessly. It seemed that this method would not work.
If he really follows this method to collect taxes, even if he breaks his legs, he will not be able to collect 10,000 taels of tax within two months, let alone collect a little more tax. The treasury is filling up!
Zhao Feng looked at the merchants I went to. Some of the shopkeepers of those merchants were standing at the door, staring at them closely. This made Zhao Feng grit his teeth and wave his hand suddenly.
"No more, let's go to the government office!"
