The pearls that were opened were carried back to the palace and separated into the upper, middle and lower grades. Fan Zijin looked at the few high-quality large pearls in Xiaomutong, was very satisfied, and said to the children, "How about selling this pearl to me?"

Xiao Xiong agreed without thinking, Xiao An hurriedly tugged at his sleeve, Xiao Xiong immediately closed his mouth.

Fan Zijin noticed his son's small movements, raised his eyebrows and looked at him, Xiao An raised his head as if there was no such thing: "Dad, we want to keep some for signboards."

Fan Zijin said calmly: "You can also make a sign if you sell it to me. The big deal is that I will let someone walk around Guangzhou city with a big fanfare with beads to promote it for you."

"Then let's choose some to be the treasures of the town store, and sell the rest to you, okay?"

Fan Zijin looked at his son and asked, "Do you still want to open a store?"

Xiao An coughed lightly, nodded and said, "If you open a shop that sells pearls, you can't sell mussels after opening them on the beach. That's too cheap. Put the polished pearls in the shop, no matter what. Whether you buy single or wholesale, the price can go up a lot.”

"Then the pearls are sold out, so the shop is empty?"

The breeding period of the sea farm is about three years, which means that pearls only come once every three years, and the mussels are sold in the year they are opened. What about the remaining two years?

Fan Zijin felt that the child was still too tender.

Xiao An said proudly: "We just agreed, we will contract three more sea farms, and try the two-year, three-year, four-year and five-year cycle, so that we can not only do experiments, but also expand the opening period. Separated, after two years, there will be sea mussels that can be opened every year."

Fan Zijin opened his mouth, then closed it, before asking after a while, "Have you considered the cost?"

Xiao Xiong waved his hand very grandly, "Second uncle, don't worry, it doesn't cost much."

Hutou shouted richly: "We are not short of money now."

is that the thrifty bears all nodded with a smile, they are not short of money now, they can spend and use whatever they want.

Fan Zijin was choked, and Qi Haoran said to him, "You can just choose a few of the best ones. Why do you have to be round? You have to let them have something to fight for their reputation."

Fan Zijin: "Master wants to open a silver building."

Qi Haoran said to him earnestly: "Zijin, you are not short of money now. You should focus on state affairs. How can you always think about business? Grocery store, which one do you not involve? Now you still want to open a bank, will you open a bank next day?"

"Hey, you're really right," Fan Zijin glanced at him and said, "Master is really planning to open a bank."

Qi Haoran opened his mouth wide, and said for a moment: "Welcome to contribute to the national treasury of Daqi. Big brother is re-setting the business tax. No matter who you use, you must pay taxes. With so many industries in your name, you have to pay a lot of taxes. Bar."

Fan Zijin was also in pain. Since he started business, he really hasn't paid any taxes.

Daqi is the same as Dazhou. Officials are not allowed to operate business. However, these are only legal regulations. Who has obeyed them?

It is like the tax exemption for the property under the name of the Juren. Once in the examination, many people go to the Juren with the title deed to record the land in the name of the other party to evade taxes, and give some offerings to the Juren every year, which is counted as a transaction between the two parties.

The same is true for business. Most officials record the business at home in the name of their servants, and then take the name card to the yamen for record. The annual tax yamen will bypass these shops.

And those with titles are not included in this ban, so Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin's business is under his own name, but before Daqi, Fan Zijin used Qi Xiuyuan's famous posts for business, so he said he never Paid tax.

After Qi Xiuyuan came to power, he first abolished the regulations on tax exemption for people above Juren, and made it clear that one person could only be exempted from a fixed amount of land when he was admitted to the imperial court. A lot, but still far worse than the previous full exemption.

First-rank officials were only exempted from 500 mu, and all land beyond 500 mu had to be taxed.

Qi Haoran is a super-ranked nobleman, but he only has an exemption of 800 mu, and he has been paying taxes honestly over the years.

It can be said that the emperor's move added a lot of grain tax to the national treasury. After all, most of the fields are in the hands of these officials. Once this regulation is issued, the base of the land tax will increase several times.

And now, the emperor is going to start the business privately owned by the officials.

Although Fan Zijin felt distressed, he had to accept it. If he sang the opposite, this decree would be even more impossible to implement.

At this time, there were indeed many people in the DPRK who hoped that Fan Zijin would come out and oppose it, and some even went to provoke Fan Zijin's stewards and let them directly resist the tax.

Fortunately, Fan Zijin chose to be in charge, so there was no stupid person, and there was no trouble at this time.

Qi Xiuyuan's methods were as tough as ever. First, he ordered that the slaves should be engaged in business and land, and their taxes would be increased by 20%. Then, he issued an edict that all officials who condoned tax evasion and evasion in their stores would be punished with the crime of greed and cruelty. Beheading directly cuts off the way for those officials not to pay taxes.

Whoever is an official has few shops?

Everyone just thought that the emperor was ruthless, and some people aimed at the shop of King Rongjun, thinking that it would be better to find a way to make King Rongjun and the emperor make trouble.

The emperor loves Prince Rong so much, and seeing how he will collect this tax at that time, under the effect of the upper and lower, this matter can only be broken.

So, just when Qi Haoran felt sorry for Fan Zijin's money, some officials approached his shop and demanded tax payment.

The matter was reported to Qi Haoran first, his face twisted for a while, and he slapped the thing on the table with a "slap", "Using the raft as a raft, it is easy to bully with the master, right?"

As long as the ?? decree is implemented, he will not refuse to pay taxes even if he supports his eldest brother, but now that the decree has just been issued and the Ministry of Household has not yet started to act, someone has come to him.

Qi Haoran knew that they were sowing discord, the purpose was to make him and eldest brother make trouble. He knew that he couldn't make them happy, but he couldn't take it anymore. If he didn't do it, he would ruin his eldest brother's plan and hold Qi Haoran back. He was choked with blood.

Qi Haoran sat in the yamen for a long time with an ashen face, then took a deep breath and said to Feibai: "Let Zhu Liang prepare the money, we will pay as much tax as we need to pay."

The second person to know the news was Fan Zijin. Because Mu Yangling was pregnant, Qi Haoran directly ordered that Zhu Liang would not let Mu Yangling get tired of outside affairs, whether it was business or farm affairs. Therefore, Qi Haoran was the first to receive the news, and most of the managers in Mu Yangling's shop came from Fan Zijin, so he was the second to know.

His reaction was completely different from that of Qi Haoran. He sneered and sneered: "Master, just watch them shoot themselves in the foot."