Doing business, buying low and selling high, and using this to make a profit is the truth that merchants must understand, and it is the simplest and most correct truth, but it is not easy to implement, and a lot of merchants lose all their money in business.

What's the problem?

Apart from luck, it is just one thing: mastering business conditions.

A market with complex business conditions is suitable for middlemen to make profits between sellers and buyers.

Foreign merchants do not know the local business conditions and have no sales channels, so they cannot directly discuss transactions with unfamiliar local merchants. Therefore, they need an intermediary, that is, Yafu, so Yafu has the right to price.

Local businessmen do not know the reality of foreign merchants, and they also need intermediaries to match the transactions. Therefore, the tyrants who monopolize or control the source of goods also have the right to price.

In Chang'an, the prosperous East and West city, Sogdians were born or controlled by the Sogdians, and they had an advantage in making huge profits every day. Their reliance was to monopolize many goods and know the business conditions.

In the near future, most of this advantage will be cut off, and Sogdian merchants will be cut down to blood.

The weapon is called "Commodity Price List".

This is a set of information, which records all the product names sold in all markets in Chang'an City in categories, and there is no omission.

From needles and threads used in daily life to cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, wood produced in various places, and all goods sold in Chang'an City are registered. The types are divided into upper, middle, and special grades, and each level has a price range.

This price range is the approximate price range of such commodities/goals in Chang'an. Although it is for reference only, it has a high reference value.

The types and prices of the commodity in the "Commodity Price List" are updated quarterly, which means that within a year, there will be four versions of the "Commodity Price List".

Although the prices of the same goods in Chang'an will be different due to different market conditions, in general, the prices of goods included in the "Commodity Price List" are very accurate.

When those foreign merchants enter the city, they can know how much their goods can be sold in Chang'an, and they can bargain with Yafu, and they are more confident.

The merchants who purchased goods also knew how to bargain with the yaki.

The market has become "transparent", which is a disaster for Sogdian businessmen who have the advantage in the market...

What a weird thing!

For the powerful Sogdian merchants or other wealthy merchants, this thing is just a stack of waste paper, which is useless. The prices of various goods are clear, but the channels are still effectively controlled by wealthy merchants and tycoons. They can still control foreign merchants and local businessmen at will.

But the government still has a later call. First, all business activities of merchants in the east and west markets must be posted at several designated cabinets.

Secondly, tax collectors will first impose taxes on the goods they carry according to the types and prices of goods on the "Commodity Price List" when they enter the city.

Third, the municipal administration will "monitor" the commodity prices in the east and west cities, based on the "Commodity Price List". If no natural disasters and man-made disasters cause the imbalance in the supply and demand of goods, then if a certain type of commodity has an excessively high price and cannot give a reasonable explanation, he will be punished.

The most deadly thing is to use these three moves together. After reading the "propaganda materials", the Sogdians who were invited by Antulu were shocked as if they were white paper.

Such a cruel approach is contrary to common sense in business and violates "public order and good customs", which makes people shocked and sweated. They wondered whether the "that person" was crazy, and they made such a crazy move.

If the municipal administration really wants to implement such a system, even if they want to find ways to evade taxes and want to manipulate prices as they used to, it will become very difficult and risky.

How to operate, there are specific rules and regulations, and the promotional materials have just been handed over by Antulu to several friends. Many merchants in Chang'an City will also receive relevant information. This is the government saying hello in advance.

The municipal administration will become stricter in its management of dental affairs.

In the business of Yafu (yaku, tooth merchant), it is necessary to set up a guild - Yaku. If a merchant wants to do tooth, he must register at Yaku. Someone guarantees and obtains a license from the city office to apply for a "yaku post", that is, a business license.

Then, an "account" must be opened in one of the designated cabinets and warehouses for registration, and the principal must be deposited in, which is for "registered capital".

The amount of registered capital will be linked to the business scope. The more registered capital the account is, the wider the industry scope that can be operated. If you want to operate a profitable business such as scented medicine, the initial limit of registered capital must not be less than 200,000 yuan (can be a physical discount).

From then on, when Yayi purchased goods from other merchants (traders), he had to post a "flow" at the cabin, that is, to collect the payment from the cabin account to the customer. In this way, the account record and receipt receipt were left.

Similarly, if you resell the goods in your hands to local merchants (sitting merchants), you have to post the income in the counter house, which means you deposit the payment into the counter house. In this way, you will leave a record of accounting and receipt receipt.

This is a mandatory requirement. If you don’t want to, you can do it, and you don’t want to get out of here.

The government's approach is very straightforward. First of all, it acknowledges the role of yaku in matching transactions and strengthens the transactions, so that the transactions of bulk goods must be carried out through yaku.

Then, strengthen the management of dentistry, use the cabinet shop as a tool to control the dentistry's "records", use it to track down the accounts in the other party's store, determine the purchase and shipment volume, and serve as a certificate of taxation.

In this way, the gangsters were locked.

At the same time, merchants in the East and West City (merchants with fixed business locations such as Youdidian) must also open an account in one of the designated cabinets and shops and deposit it in the "registered capital". The purchase payment must also be posted through the "release flow" and receipt receipt.

This is also a mandatory requirement. If you don’t want to, you can do it, and you don’t want to get out of here.

Next, the municipal government will reconcile the amount of the goods to whom the merchant sells the goods to and how much the transaction is. It will reconcile according to the amount of the merchant when purchasing goods, and then collect taxes.

As for the transaction of things, there is naturally another process. The cabinet shop will provide other services for this situation, but the reason is the same.

In this way, the merchants will have two accounts, one is the account in their own store and the other is the account in the cashier account.

The accounts in your store are casually compiled, but the accounts in the cabinet cannot be changed at all. Once the two accounts are inconsistent, they will get the receipt. If they find that the store is making a fake account, the store will be in great trouble.

Once this dual accounting method is implemented, it will not be easy for merchants to evade taxes. The municipal administration does not need to send tax collectors to keep their accounts in the store every day. It only needs to get the record from the counter every month to easily distinguish the authenticity of the merchant’s account book.

He used the cabinet shop to strongly intervene in commercial transactions and account circulation, thus adding an account book, which gave the tax collector a reliance.

The merchants are also forced to open an account in the cabin and deposit "registered capital" and get a free amount of funds for lending and interest generation, which is similar to grabbing money.

I don’t know what kind of brain it is to come up with such a bad way, so that businessmen, businessmen and businessmen will inevitably pay taxes. If possible, I really want to pierce this person’s heart.

The basis for paying taxes by businessmen is the "Commodity Catalog", while the basis for paying taxes by businessmen is the "records" left in the counter.

Of course, there are many specific operations when implementing this system, but the new system of the government is not complicated and anyone can understand it.

The merchant’s goods will be paid three taxes from entering the city to being sold by the merchant, and the profits of the merchant will be added to the final selling price.

After adjustments, the accumulated tax rate will not be too high. The profits of the comrades are properly compressed, leaving enough profits for the merchants, and customers can purchase goods at a more reasonable price. The commercial tax collected by the government can increase according to the increase in trade volume.

Is this a happy situation?

No, who will be happy if the profits are getting smaller?

If a merchant pays taxes truthfully, it means that his income is reduced by a piece of meat, as if someone has cut a piece of meat. Who doesn’t feel it hurts?

From beginning to end, I am afraid that only the government with increased taxes will be happy.

For Sogdian merchants and other wealthy merchants in Chang'an, this is bad news, which means that the good days of monopolizing the market and making huge profits will never be returned.

No one is willing to accept such a fate, but if you don’t accept it, you have to accept it, because the two thugs raised by "that one" are not easy to mess with.

One of the thugs is Rixingchang Guifang, which has strong financial resources, and the second of the thugs is Huangzhou Chamber of Commerce, which has strong strength.

These two thugs and their numerous minions have controlled the areas south of Shannan and south of the Yellow River, and have reached Lingbiao and Jiaoguang. There are also government offices like Maritime Bureau that combines officials and businessmen as helpers. They cannot be fought by uniting Sogdian merchants, at least in Guanzhong.

So what should I do?

It's easy to deal with, give in and join the other party.

Good at currying about power, he is also a talent of the Sogdians.

The government needs to strengthen the management of the east and west markets. Although it will lead to a decline in profits of Sogdian merchants and other wealthy merchants, judging from the temporarily proposed tax rates, it has not dropped to an unacceptable level, and it will not cause losses. Therefore, it is no big deal to continue trading.

This is one, and the second is that there is a good opportunity to make a fortune right in front of you, and I don’t know...

Everyone is a year-long businessman and has a different sense of business opportunities. He quickly smelled the smell of profit from this thick publicity material.

Seeing Antuluo calm, the few people couldn't help but look forward to it. Qiqiai Ai asked: "Uh... I don't know... in this designated cabinet, except for the inevitable Rixingchang, there are other places..."

Antulu drank a sip of wine and did not rush to answer. King Bin actually played this new trick in the cabinet, which made him feel really eye-opener.

A powerful monster may appear from now on, and no one can defeat him except imperial power.
Chapter completed!