Chapter 11 Taxation

[11]Tax

Yao Fan continued: "There are 204 large boxes of soap, each containing eight small boxes, 72 yuan per box, a total of more than 110,000 yuan."

Wei Guofu said in horror, "There are so many soaps!"

Yao Fan said, "It's about 5,000 taels worth half a dollar."

Wei Guofu said, "You are a foreign soap, aren't you an earth pancreas? Foreign soap is expensive. I heard that in Shanghai and Beijing, foreigners can only buy ten yuan for a liang of fine pancreas, that is, foreign soap.

Yao Fanxin said that Wei Guofu looked like a big and rough dog, but he was really shrewd about the market price and said, "This is because there are few in the market. I have shipped a lot here. Naturally, the price will be cheaper and can't be calculated according to that kind of expensive place."

Yao Fan understands that his fragrant soap is 50 cents per piece. If it is sold at a piece of silver, this is also more than 50 times the profit, but he doesn't know how many people in the Qing Dynasty are willing to spend money to buy soap to take a bath. He is not sure about the market.

Wei Guofu asked, "What is a bicycle?"

Yao Fan said, "That's an iron car for rich people to ride and play, strengthen their bodies and enjoy their time. I heard that the British sold a few cars to Beijing. The price was too high, and naturally there were few people playing. I bought 330 cars here and planned to sell them at a low price.

Wei Guofu said happily, "That's worth 33,000 taels."

Yao Fan thought that if these bicycles with a price of 300 can really sell one hundred or two, his profit will be nearly 200 times, but he is still subject to the confusion in his heart, sales...

Yao Fan continued: "There are also Western mechanical watches, a total of 4,000. At present, there are about 30 taels of silver on the market, and these watches are worth about 70,000 to 80,000 taels."

Wei Guofu bowed his head and calculated roughly. He raised his head and said with satisfaction, "Brother Yao's value of the goods shipped in this time is about 123,000 taels of silver, and you have to pay about 3,000 taels of silver in tax."

Yao Fan said, "Brother Wei, I dare to ask, how much of this 3,000 taels of silver do you know?"

Wei Guofu said, "Since everyone is an acquaintance, I won't hide it from you. The customs is big, accounting for 60%, and I sentenced the state to 20%. Brother Yao, how many times can your boat come to Jiaozhou a month?

Yao Fan knew that Wei Guofu was busy calculating his monthly income and said with a smile, "Now this business road has just opened up. Next, we have to get rid of the goods and return the payment for the goods. After calculation, there can be two times a month."

Wei Guofuxin said that this is a good thing. He can get more than 1,000 taels of silver a month, which is more than 10,000 taels a year! Compared with the salary silver, salary silver, vegetable bamboo charcoal silver, lantern red paper silver issued by the court, the combined mosquito meat of about 100 taels this year is hundreds of times stronger!

The number of soldiers in Qingdao is only 1,500, which is pitifully small. Although I eat 1,000 empty meals, I also have to take out half of them to honor the superiors of the government. No matter how much I eat empty meals, I can't eat 10,000 taels a year!

The smugglers he colluded with Sun Maowen and Liu Ziming before always beat pieces every time they came to the ship. They competed with the lower-priced ports around them, and the annual entry added up to only 10,000 taels. Now that Yao Fan has the rough road, he is willing to take the road of Jiaozhou for smuggling, but he is very happy.

"Brother Yao, just let it go! Make a big deal! With your three brothers in Jiaozhou Port, you can't make a demon moth.

Yao Fan smiled and said, "Then I will thank Brother Wei first. In the future, we will be business partners who share the same difficulties. If we have money, we will make a good day to make a lot of money together."

When Wei Guofu heard the words, he laughed and his beard trembled happily.

Brother Yao is a cheerful person! Your brother, I'm sure."

That's it. On that day, the carriages and Lifu brought by He Wannian finally carried all the 1011 boxes of goods into the small city of Qingdao. The watches and soap were placed in the courtyard on Taiping Street rented by Yao Fan, and the cloth and bicycles were piled in the temporarily leased port warehouse.

Then Yao Fan and Liu Ziming, the customs inspector who came to inspect the goods, counted the quantity and types of goods.

Liu Ziming stared at Qian Zi's hand to check the box and said dissatisfiedly, "Brother Yao, you are really worried and unnecessarily. In Changguan, your brother Liu always said, not to mention these 1011 boxes of goods, even if it is ten times more, no one dares to fart.

Your caution makes people misunderstand what you have brought and think how much money I have embezzled with you. Although I take 60% of this silver, half of it will be spent on the upper and lower points of Changguan. Didn't you spend this hard money on the stone beach?

With that, Liu Ziming shouted at the Qianzi hand he brought from the customs, "Open the dog's eyes and see the number clearly. If anyone goes back to brag, I will not let him go."

After shouting, Liu Ziming said to Yao Fan, who was constantly apologizing, "You took the freight ashore without going to the dock, and there are some dogs in the gate to chew my brother's tongue. In the future, you must remember that with how many boxes of goods it has, you just have to boldly enter the port and don't add any more trouble.

Yao Fan said repeatedly, "Brother Liu said yes!"

Next, Qianzi had to open the box to inspect the goods. Obviously, they, who were used to looking at the wooden box, were a little uncomfortable with the carton and made a fuss about the yellow tape paper. They didn't know how to open it. Yao Fan had to take out the key in his pocket and cut it out in person.

When he opened a watch box, Liu Ziming was obviously surprised.

Yao Fan was surprised to see Liu Ziming's watch, as if he had seen a baby. I expected this, so I secretly pulled the corners of Liu Ziming's clothes on the side and winked at him vigorously.

Liu Ziming was impressed and coughed, "These Western watches are so small and too unsumpy. They are far worse than the thirty-two walnuts on the market. Such a short belt is really inconvenient to hang on the waist. Why is there no longer watch chain? What is this thing worth? However, since it is a table, it still has to be taxed according to the tariff of walnuts, so let's tax each worth 20 taels of silver.

After the inspection was clear, Liu Ziming calculated the value of the goods with Yao Fan and finally agreed that the tax on various goods was 3,580 taels of silver. Yao Fan and Liu Ziming agreed that Yao Fan would send the silver ticket to the customs tomorrow.

Yao Fan held Liu Ziming's hand hard when he left. Liu Ziming could not understand, so he put his hand behind his back and went out into the sedan chair. He said in his heart that the monk could not run away from the temple. This extra filial piety was indispensable anyway.

Yao Fan sent Liu Ziming away and saw that He Wannian was still standing aside.

Yao Fan walked up and smiled and said, "Brother He has been helping me handle it all day. I must be exhausted. Let's go. I'll invite you and your guys to go to the restaurant."

When He Wannian saw Yao Fan in a few days, he shipped so many goods to Jiaozhou. He knew that his energy was terrible and said with a smile, "No one can look at so many goods. I think so. How about we ask someone to go to the restaurant to bring wine and vegetables and eat them in the store?"

Seeing Yao Fan nodding and agreeing, He Wannian asked the clerk to order wine dishes.

Yao Fan thinks it's time to get a business helper.

So Yao Fan held He Wannian in one hand and held a long-billed copper oil lamp in the other, and the two turned to the inner room piled with goods behind the yard.

Yao Fan closed the door and turned to He Wannian and said, "Brother He, to be honest, I forgot to bring a silver ticket this time, and I want your help."

He Wannian smiled and said, "To be honest, since there are so many boxes of goods here, anyone is willing to help you deal with this position. If you are willing to give me this business, I should thank Brother Yao."

Yao Fan's eyes lit up and turned around with a smile. He took out a watch box from a cardboard box that had been opened for inspection and handed it to He Wannian.

He Wannian opened it and said strangely, "This Western watch is becoming more and more exquisite now! It's just... Why doesn't this watch chain? But do you have to match it yourself? What's the use of such a short tape..."

Yao Fan didn't say anything and clasped the strap on He Wannian's wrist. He Wannian just realized that he couldn't close his mouth and exclaimed repeatedly: "Wonderful! Wonderful! What a coincidence! What a clever! Brother Yao, how do you think this foreigner's head grows? I really can imagine that a big iron walnut is so small and light! It's actually to wear it on your wrist. Don't say it, it doesn't feel heavy!"

Yao Fan stared into He Wannian's eyes and asked, "Brother He thinks this watch is worth a lot of silver?"

He Wannian tilted his head, raised his wrist, looked at the watch in front of the oil lamp for a long time, reflecting and sidelights, and said in a very firmly: "The iron walnuts imported from England and France on the market are all palm-sized thick fools, which can't be compared with this small and exquisite goods. If Brother Yao hands it over to sell it, it won't be a problem to sell three hundred taels! Brother Yao, if you hand it over to foreign stores in various cities and slowly sell it at a high price, you can sell it at a price of 500 taels. Although the profit is high, the shipment is too slow.

Yao Fan smiled and said to himself that this poisonous eye of He Wannian. He remembered that the first watch sold in China in history was Rolex, which seemed to have been sold to Guangxu's emperor for 500 taels of silver. This He Wannian's pricing ability was strong, but his guess was really accurate.

"If I give it to you, how much will you pay?"

He Wannian smiled and said, "It's worth three bets and one. This is the rule of our industry. We can only pay one hundred and two. If you die, you can get half the price."

Yao Fan nodded and gently patted He Wannian on the shoulder and said, "Brother He, my Yao family is wandering overseas. It is really not easy to return to the Qing Dynasty today, and it is not easy for me to regain root in my hometown. To tell you the truth, from the beginning of the fight, when I saw you for the first time, I felt that you and I were in love.

Yao Fan saw He Wannian looking into his eyes, so he continued to release his kindness and win over: "After I came back to Shandong, to be honest, I don't know many friends, even fewer friends, so I'm really willing to make friends with you, but I don't know if Brother He is willing to make friends with me. Hu?"