From a trade perspective, Yuwen Wen does not like monopoly. Monopoly will only make the market lose its vitality. In addition to fattening a group of fat pigs that are not enterprising and making interest groups eat fat, it has no benefits, and it will also seriously affect fair competition.

Fairness is not absolute, but relative fairness and competition based on relative fairness will give society the motivation to move forward.

If you can easily make profits by relying on monopoly, who will be willing to improve your competitiveness?

Therefore, Yuwen Wen has always been doing business with the purpose of "making wealth together", this is true in Huangzhou, in Lingbiao, and the weaving department and Maritime Department he founded, which is the same.

The Weaving Department is in charge of textiles and has many weaving factories under its jurisdiction. The Weaving Department is not the exclusive territory of Shannan merchants. Big and wealthy merchants from all over the country can also participate in the acquisition of raw materials and the sales of products, and make a fortune together.

The Maritime Trade Department is in charge of maritime trade, not an exclusive trade organization. It also follows the business purpose of "making wealth together" and as an organizer, it absorbs more ship owners to participate in maritime trade as much as possible.

Over the years, the results were very good.

More and more ship owners are making a fortune by doing maritime trade and hiring more and more crew members to go out to sea, so many fishermen with difficult lives have the opportunity to make a fortune.

With the rise of maritime trade, more and more routes have been opened, and the harbors along the route have also developed, benefiting more people.

This is Yuwen Wen’s business purpose, which has gradually become a reality, and the more noble term is “common prosperity”.

Therefore, he does not like the behavior of monopolizing the market, and now he is a little dissatisfied with the current situation in East and West Changan.

Yuwen Wen was not dissatisfied with his benefits, because merchants in Huangzhou and even Shannan were doing a good job in Chang'an. He was dissatisfied with the current management and management status of those east and west cities.

Commercial tax cannot follow the rise in transaction volume, and many small merchants who have no backers or strong funds cannot get too many benefits from the prosperous East and West markets.

Yuwen Wen had the information collected by the "Market Survey Department" and had detailed statistical data on the situation in the East and West City in Chang'an. His conclusion was very clear, because there were different degrees of monopoly behavior in the East and West City, so that small merchants could barely make ends meet, while wealthy merchants made a lot of money.

The poorer the poorer the richer the richer.

The wealthy evade taxes, resulting in the municipal government's tax collection being unable to rise, which is in sharp contrast to the prosperous commercial activities in the East and West cities.

Yuwen Wen had just walked around the East City and saw the prosperous market. While he was happy, he felt helpless.

If taxes cannot be raised, small merchants cannot make profits from the prosperous market, let alone some wealthy merchants already have the ability to manipulate prices. This situation is not what Yuwen Wen wants to see.

The prosperity of the East and West cities should benefit more people, and commercial taxes must be collected, so they need to be changed.

In this small wine shop, Yu Wen's drinks a few cups of "Bozhou Horse Pee" and starts to talk more.

"What is monopoly? You know, first, monopoly the source of goods, that is, the purchase channel, and second, monopoly sales, that is, the sales channel, and a little more domineering, it is monopoly pricing power."

"Some people have the final say about the lowest purchase price and the lowest sales price. The small merchant wanted to negotiate, but got a six-character mantra..."

"I love to buy (I love to sell), but I don't buy (sell)!"

"In the East and West City, those who can do this are either wealthy merchants or tycoons. One or two have backers behind them, and they are very arrogant!"

Yuwen Wen knocked on the food case, and the frequency was getting faster and faster: "Especially, once it became a climate, it would be a disaster for local merchants. The source of foreign goods was monopolized by these people and could not be avoided, so he could only purchase goods from the other party."

"For foreign merchants, Yabushi monopolizes the sales channels. If you don't sell your own goods to these people, don't think about selling them locally."

"I am comfortable and become a middleman, making a profit easily. I lie on the couch and drink wine and humming a song to make money. Why do they do it!"

Yuwen Wen was a little excited as he spoke. First of all, from the perspective of businessmen, he worked hard to promote industry, racked his brains to organize caravans, and worked hard to open up the market. As a result, the hard money earned by middlemen easily made more money.

Secondly, as the ruling man, Yuwen Wen was naturally a little annoyed when he could not raise the business tax. Although the total amount of commercial tax that Chang'an East and West City could pay was not large, and the court did not expect this commercial tax to save his life, he always felt that he had lost several hundred million yuan.

Not to mention that his overly divergent thinking and believes that not being able to collect taxes is a precursor to the destruction of the country.

Seeing that Yu Wen Wen was talking a little loudly, Wang Yue quickly lowered his voice and advised: "Don't worry, if you don't have anger, will the rules be changed in the West Market?"

"Reform, it must be changed! These people are middlemen and want to make a profit easily, but they don't even have a chance to make a difference!" Yuwen Wen's attitude was very firm. Whoever dared to control the market and evade taxes would be his enemy.

What Yuwen Wen wants is "win-win". The prosperous East and West Chang'an City must allow governments, merchants and the people to make profits from it.

The government can collect sufficient commercial taxes, merchants can make profits through relatively fair free trade, and the people can purchase materials at relatively low prices. Yuwen Wen’s request is only these three points, but it is difficult to achieve them.

The first question is Yafu's disguised monopoly of market behavior.

Yafu, also known as Yafu, is an intermediary between the buyer and the buyer. In many markets with larger transaction scale, buyers and sellers must use Yafu to make the transaction centralized matchmaking.

In other words, buyers and sellers cannot trade directly, and there must be an additional "intermediary".

This situation often occurs between merchants and merchants. Ordinary people buy daily necessities, so they naturally bargain with merchants in person, without having to make up for each other.

Since Yamo exists, there is naturally a reason for it. Because foreign merchants do not know the local market, they need to inquire about the business situation or ask people to join forces to avoid being deceived and causing the money to be lost.

Yabushi, that's the person.

Yabuyi has a large amount of business information, so this profession has a reasonable foundation and strong demand, but when Yabuyi grows bigger, it will become a cancer, eat both ends, and after eating, sellers eat buyers.

Eating red and full of food has an adverse impact on the development of the market.

That is a series of negative effects brought by monopoly.

When Yuwen Wen was in charge of Huangzhou, he found a good way to eliminate monopoly and regulate the market. One of the ways was to cancel the guild and use guilds to assume the function of guild.

Guilds, namely industry associations, can regulate business behaviors within the industry, coordinate the needs and conflicts of various merchants, and facilitate the government to manage merchants.

A guild with many members, perfect systems and fair behavior can completely replace the situation and bring a good business environment to the market.

Now, Yuwen Wen wants to regulate the business behavior of East and West City in Chang'an and increase tax revenue. He once thought about the practice of "transplanting" Huangzhou in Chang'an, but after careful discussion, he found that the effect after implementation may not be as good as he expected.

Because this is Chang'an, there are many powerful people like dogs and playboys walking around the ground, with various interests complicated, mere guilds and humble members of the association, how can they fight against the powerful people?

The police and academic affairs that Yuwen Wen wanted to implement also face the counterattack of vested interest groups, and if you are not careful, you will have a big problem.

Therefore, how to reform the management system of the East and West City is something that Yu Wen Wen attaches great importance to. It is not easy to solve a problem of standardizing market management.

He was the prime minister and had strong soldiers in his hands, but he could not do whatever he wanted, because he himself was the beneficiary of the system and became the prime minister following the rules of the game within the system.

In the future, if you have three meditations and three merits, everyone will have to cooperate with acting to fill the scenes, so Yuwen Wen cannot do anything and create his own rebellion.

Unless he has the ability to overthrow the old system and re-establish a new system, Yuwen Wen knew that his team was not enough to support such a huge change, so he could only compromise.

Not to mention overthrowing the old system, the process of establishing a new system will inevitably lead to large-scale wars. At that time, the unlucky ones will be the common people. Therefore, Yuwen Wen can only carry out institutional reforms, rather than turning them back.

But reform is easier said than done. Once the new policy is implemented, it will be very strong when it comes to the interests of too many interest groups, Yu Wenwen's counterattack will inevitably not be able to last for a long time.

By then, all kinds of reform measures will end in a hurry and become jokes.

By then, the reputation of "Yuwen Wen's New Policy" will be similar to that of Wang Mang's New Policy.

But Yuwen Wen would not retreat because if even the East and West City in Chang'an could not handle it, he might as well kill him with a piece of tofu.

After drinking another glass of "Bozhou Horse Urine", Yuwen Wen breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wang Yue: "You, let go, things are getting bigger, I will take care of you!"

"Those teeth must be cleaned up, and new rules must be established. If anyone dares to make noise, you can boldly say the six-character mantra!"
Chapter completed!