Domineering husband

Chapter 114 The Salary of Dasheng's Strange Salary

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, shopkeeper Jia from the Royal Dessert Shop sent Li Qiao and Tao Zhu the share of the previous four months.

Before Li Qiao Taozhu returned to his hometown, the two got the first month's share, only 1,300 taels of silver, not too much.

Now that four months have passed, the business of the Royal Dim Sum Shop is getting better and better, and the share that the two get is increasing: 1,700 taels, 2,300 taels, 3,000 taels, and 3,600 taels.

Four months added together, a total of 10,600 taels.

Not really much.

However, the two of them only got half of the share, that is, 5%. Therefore, after the shopkeeper Jia left, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went into the study and began to count the income of the Royal Dim Sum Shop for the past few months .

From the money they earned, it can be seen that the net profit of the Royal Pastry Shop in the past four months was 34,000 taels, 46,000 taels, 60,000 taels, and 72,000 taels.

A dim sum shop can have a net profit of 70,000 taels of silver a month, and this number is still increasing. In Li Qiao's opinion, this shop is very good.

Moreover, Sheng Hong has been trying to find ways to expand production. The cattle and sheep company has too little milk to meet the demand, so he buys milk from Quan Shengjing, and plans to set aside a piece of land outside Shengjing for cattle breeding.

At this time, there are no cows, and only relying on cattle to supply milk obviously cannot meet the needs of the entire Shengjing.

However, the old-fashioned chicken cake does not need milk, and the old-fashioned chicken cake is the best-selling of the three types of bread, so the pressure on milk is not very great.

But the market is not infinite, because the total population of Shengjing is only about three million. Most of these people are ordinary people, and the rich are a minority.

Moreover, eggs need to be beaten to make old-fashioned egg cakes. At this time, there is no electric egg beater, and the old-fashioned egg cakes made every day are limited.

Therefore, all kinds of reasons add up, although the business of the Royal Dim Sum Shop is booming, the sales volume is also limited.

According to Li Qiao's estimation, the maximum profit of the Royal Dim Sum Shop should be around 100,000 taels a month.

A month is 100,000 taels, so a year is 1.2 million taels.

Throwing away the half of the share given to him, only a little over 1.1 million taels went into the treasury.

This number is actually not small.

Because according to the information that Li Qiao has recently obtained, Dasheng's fiscal taxation for one year is not counted as food, but only silver, and what can finally enter the Shengjing treasury is only more than 20 million taels of silver.

Because after each tax collection, the local government has to keep some for daily expenses.

In addition, since the establishment of Dasheng, it has followed the path of low taxation. At the beginning, the tax was 1 in 30, and the tax was reduced and exempted from time to time. Later, after the population increased, the tax increased a little, but the tax was generally low.

Therefore, the tax revenue in recent years has finally flowed into the Shengjing treasury, less than 30 million silver per year.

Now a dim sum shop can account for one-twentieth of the national treasury revenue, which is really great.

Furthermore, this is only the main store in Shengjing.

Sheng Hong will definitely open branches in other provinces.

It doesn't matter if there is no milk in the branch, because the old-fashioned egg cake does not need milk, only eggs, flour, sugar, and oil, so this branch can also be opened in remote areas.

There are more than 300 prefectures in Dasheng, and the combined income of these 300 prefectures must exceed that of the main store in Shengjing, because the affluent areas in the south of the Yangtze River alone can be almost as good as Shengjing.

Therefore, if this dim sum shop develops well, its annual income can surely account for one-tenth of the national treasury's income.

This...

I don't know if I don't know this account, but I was shocked when I calculated it!

When Li Qiao wrote this method on the test paper, he thought that if the imperial court came forward to monopolize the cake shop, it would be really cool, and the profit would definitely be greater than that of vermicelli.

But in fact, due to various restrictions, the profit of the cake shop is not as large as that of the vermicelli. Last year, the half of the vermicelli was divided into two hundred thousand taels. The profit is more than four million taels of silver.

But it's true that death is cool, and one-tenth of the national treasury's income can be earned by relying on this item alone, which is even more exciting than he imagined.

Tao Zhu put one arm on the desk and supported his face, he looked at the numbers on the paper, the more he looked at them, the more incredible he felt.

Relying on small snacks, there is such a big magic power?

But it is true.

He sat up straight, looked at Li Qiao, and sighed sincerely: "Li Qiao, you are amazing."

Li Qiao was also full of disbelief at the moment, hearing this, he turned his head to look at Tao Zhu.

Seeing the undisguised admiration, admiration, infatuation, and admiration on Tao Zhu's face, he suddenly felt a little guilty.

Cough, he didn't come up with these dim sum recipes.

But in this time and space, since he made it, it can only be invented by him.

He smiled and said, "I just have some talent in dim sum. Besides, I just have ideas. You are the one who really does it. You are also very good." "I can't

compare to you." Tao Zhu shook his head , he stared at Li Qiao, the more he liked it, he couldn't help stretching out his hand to hold Li Qiao's cheek, and kissed him hard on the lips.

Originally he only wanted to kiss, but he backed away less than a foot after the kiss, seeing Li Qiao's eyes crooked with a smile, he couldn't help kissing again.

This time, the tip of his tongue lightly licked Li Qiao's lips.

This lick is a lick.

Li Qiao was the hostess, and when the kiss was over, most of his strength was taken away, and he could only sit on Li Qiao's lap, lying powerlessly in Li Qiao's arms.

Li Qiao's back was wider than his, just enough to encircle him. The chair in the study room was a spacious grand master's chair. Li Qiao leaned on the back of the chair, wrapped his arms around his waist with one hand, and gently rubbed his back with the other, making him feel comfortable. Narrowing his eyes, he couldn't help rubbing his cheek against Li Qiao's neck.

He really likes Li Qiao.

What's more, what made him laugh was that Li Qiao also liked him very much!

"Brother Zhu, Mr. Xin asked when our dim sum shop will open? The two adults in my room also asked me today."

Li Qiao pinched Tao Zhu's earlobe lightly and said.

Dasheng's Mid-Autumn Festival is not a statutory holiday, and there is no holiday. When he went to work in the Imperial Academy that day, Tao Zhu prepared a box of mooncakes for him and asked him to save them for lunch.

Considering Master Li and Master Duan in the same room, Tao Zhu put more than 20 mooncakes into the food box.

As a result, Xin Zhi went to find him again at noon, so he shared the mooncakes with Xin Zhi.

Xin Zhi didn't like dim sum very much, but Tao Zhu's mooncakes were really delicious. He ate three pieces in one sitting and took two home.

There are a lot of female relatives in his family, and two mooncakes must not be enough, so he went to work the next day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and ran to him before noon to ask him when the Li's dim sum shop would open.

Lord Li and Lord Duan were both there at that time, and after hearing what Xin Zhi said, they followed Xin Zhi to ask him when the dim sum shop would open.

"Hmm... I don't know." Tao Zhu thought for a while and answered truthfully.

In the past few days, besides cooking, doing housework, and taking care of Li Xiaorui, he and Zheng Qianqian fought against the fifty sets of clothes with Shen Hua.

He hadn't thought about the dim sum shop yet.

"We're not in a hurry. If you don't want to do it, it's okay if the shop doesn't open." Li Qiao pinched his earlobe again as he spoke.

Although his colleagues love to eat, but what his brother Zhu wants to do, Tao Zhu's happiness is the most important thing.

"I'll go out these few days to see if there is a suitable shop. There are only four or five sets of Brother Hua's clothes left and the work will be finished."

Tao Zhu thought for a while and said again.

"Then let's go find Han Ning after I leave tomorrow," Li Qiao said.

"Okay!" Tao Zhu responded.

Even if this snack shop is going to open, it will be in the north of the city. As a native of this area, Han Ning is the most suitable person to find him.

Now it's time to harvest sweet potatoes to make vermicelli, and it's also the season when autumn pears are about to ripen. However, because autumn pear cream doesn't have to be made with autumn pears, Han Ning didn't go to Pingcheng this year and stayed in the capital.

The next day, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu came to the door, and after listening to their husband and wife explaining their intentions, Han Ning immediately patted his heart, saying that there was no problem, and everything was left to him, as he was familiar with the land in the north of the city.

However, he is not only thinking about snacks, but also duck products.

"My lord, when will this duck workshop open?" Li Qiao became an official, and he changed his address to Li Qiao, but his casual, relaxed and natural attitude remained the same.

"Wait a little longer, let's build a dim sum shop first."

No one has been bought yet, and only relying on Tao Zhuli and Dashan, they must not be able to take care of two shops.

"Then when will you find Ren Yazi to buy someone?" Han Ning asked again.

Li Qiao smiled when he heard this: "There is no rush, it depends on your mood."

Now he and Tao Zhu are not short of money, and Tao Zhu has a lot of things to do recently, so naturally he is not in a hurry to open a shop.

Besides, he and Tao Zhu are already used to the current life, if he bought a strange servant and came back and lived in a completely unfamiliar stranger, then he and Tao Zhu, including Li Dashan, would definitely not be used to it.

Therefore, the matter of buying someone was listed on the plan before returning to the hometown, but it has been half a year, and no action has been taken.

"Oh, my lord, your husband and wife had a beautiful life." Han Ning couldn't help but sigh.

"That's not true." Li Qiao nodded generously.

There are husbands, money, and officials, and everyone who sees it will say it is beautiful.

During the second rest, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu went to see several shops of Han Ningxun. After looking at them all day, the two finally chose a shop less than 100 meters away from Han's stew restaurant.

This shop is not the most suitable, but because it is close to the Han's stew restaurant, Li Qiao decided to stay here. If anything happens, the stew restaurant can take care of him.

This shop is a yard with two entrances, which is a little narrow. There are only four rooms including the kitchen in the back yard, but even so, it costs a full 1,800 taels, which is more expensive than the yard with three entrances where Li Qiaotaozhu lives at this time. One hundred taels.

Because this shop faces the street.

After the shop is bought, it is time to find the blacksmith to prepare the corresponding tools and buy people.

Now that Li Qiao is an official, the buyer doesn't need to look for Ren Yazi, the Han family found a familiar Ren Yazi, and told Li Qiao's request, after Li Qiao got off work, the prostitute brought the person over immediately.

A total of twenty people, the oldest is fifteen years old, the youngest is eleven years old, there are men, women and younger brothers, the gender is very complete.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu stood in front of these people, glanced at their faces one by one, asked questions one by one, and made an assessment on the spot, and finally bought four people.

A fifteen-year-old, tall and somewhat burly boy, he worked very hard at making noodles. Li Qiao changed his name on the spot, and from now on he will be called Li Shun.

A thirteen-year-old, who is not as strong as Li Shun, speaks in a soft voice, and looks a little dull. Li Qiao also changed his name to Li Li.

One was twelve years old, a little brother. This little brother looked thin and small, and looked malnourished, but he was good at sewing, so Li Qiao left him, and he was called Li He from now on.

One was ten years old, a little girl who was good at needlework, and she made a purse in less than ten minutes. Li Qiao changed her name to Li Le.

These four people all live in the shop, not at home.

In the next few days, after Tao Zhu sent Li Qiao to work, he went to the shop to train the four newly bought servants.

Shen Hua taught him some experience. For the newly bought servants, first of all, you have to keep a straight face and not be too kind, lest these servants will not know what to do or not.

Tao Zhu thought it was reasonable, and he would be bullied if he was too kind, so when facing these four people, he always had a serious face and strict requirements.

His facial features were already sharp, but if he straightened his face, he looked very difficult to mess with. These four newcomers were quite afraid of him.

Li Qiao inadvertently knew how he looked like facing the four of Shunli and Le, so she had to take a look with her own eyes.

After watching it, he really loved her so badly that he kissed him weakly while sitting on the ox cart going back.

In Li Qiao's view, Tao Zhu is not only not ugly, but also looks like a noble son.

It's just that because of the limitations of vision and family background, the nobility on his body was not reflected.

Now their family is close to a millionaire, and he is also rich and peaceful in his heart, and his temperament gradually matches his appearance.

Now he has a straight face, especially like a domineering prince, handsome and noble, Li Qiao really loves it to death.

Li Qiao always had something to say in front of Tao Zhu, and after the two of them had a good time at night, Li Qiao expressed his opinion.

Tao Zhu was already drowsy, but after hearing his words, he immediately woke up with a smile.

"Me, the overbearing prince?" He pointed to his nose and asked Li Qiao in disbelief.

"It's not like it now, and it's not like it is on weekdays. It's only like when you scold people with a straight face." Li Qiao said and nodded on the tip of his nose: "The way you scolded people with a straight face, if someone who doesn't know your details A little brother or a girl will definitely fall in love with you."

Tao Zhu: "..."

Although Li Qiao was saying that he looks like a man, he wasn't angry at all, he just wanted to laugh.

"Then next time I wear your clothes on purpose and go to the street for a try? See if there are unmarried boys or girls secretly looking at me." "No."

Li Qiao shook his head without thinking, and said in a firm tone: " You can only flirt with me."

"...you are domineering." Tao Zhu poked his heart as he said, "Isn't it?" "I'm

domineering to you." Li Qiao grabbed his hand, He leaned towards him: "You're not sleepy now, let's do it again."

Tao Zhu: "..."

He wrapped his hands around Li Qiao's neck, and the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.

He likes that Li Qiao is domineering to him.

The days slipped away day by day, and soon it was September, and it was time for Li Qiao to pay his salary.

When the salary was paid, the person from the household department first sent him his salary slip for him to check. After confirming that it was correct, he stamped his fingerprints.

In August, Li Qiao only worked for half a month, but his salary was paid for the whole month. As a junior official, his monthly salary was two hundred taels, plus five hundred catties of lumi.

Of the 500 catties of Lumi, 300 catties are wheat and rice, and 200 catties are miscellaneous grains.

These silver and Lumi are enough to feed a family.

Although the prices in Shengjing are higher than those in Pingcheng, they are not exaggeratedly high. After all, although there are many nobles in Shengjing, there are more ordinary people.

Two hundred taels of silver was enough for Liqiao's family to eat meat for three meals a day, plus the food distributed, it was enough to eat no matter what.

After getting their salary, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan, Zheng Qianqian, Li Ershan, and Li Xia were happier than Li Qiao himself. They had so much money, no wonder so many people wanted to be officials!

All the hard work in the cold window is worth it, and the rewards are too rich.

"Huh? Didn't Meng Yue say before that he wanted to save money to pay off debts and buy a house? According to this level of salary, he will soon be able to buy a house." Tao Zhu was overjoyed, thinking of

Meng Yue, he couldn't help but say.

"He is from the seventh rank, and his monthly salary is ninety taels." Li Qiao said.

"That's not a lot. Our house is only 1,700 taels. He can buy a house after saving for two or three years." "

However, there is such a difference between his salary and yours?"

Tao Zhu asked a little surprise.

Li Qiao and Meng Yue were only separated by a Zhengqi rank.

And Xu Ying is the seventh rank, so he asked without waiting for Li Qiao's answer: "How much is Xu Ying's salary?

" Save it all."

"The reason why it is so different from my salary is because Dasheng's salary is rather peculiar. For example, Xu Ying, he is the seventh rank, but his monthly salary is only one hundred and fifty taels. Jiangzhi County I was a seventh-rank official before, but the salary of Jiangzhi County is one thousand taels a month."

"Huh???"

When Li Qiao's words fell, not only did Tao Zhu's eyes widen in shock, but even Li Dashan, Zheng Qianqian, Li Ershan, and Li Xia suspected that they heard it wrong.

The difference is too big!

"The magistrate is at the seventh rank, and you are at the sixth rank. Why is there such a big difference in salary between you and the magistrate?" Li Dashan asked in surprise.

"Jiangzhi County is a local parental official who holds all the power in a county. The Emperor Taishang worried that the local magistrate would embezzle, accept bribes and oppress the people for money, so he specially increased the salary of the county magistrate so that the magistrates of each county would be clean and not because of A good official who caused public grievances due to lack of money." "

Not only the seven-rank magistrate, but also officials in other places who have real power and can influence the people and the situation in a place have higher salaries than officials of the same level or even high levels."

" There are also those real high-ranking officials in the capital who hold real power, the Holy Majesty is afraid that they will take bribes, so the salaries given to them are also very high, the highest monthly salary is five thousand taels of silver." This is what Li Qiao only learned about yesterday

. .

He really didn't know that Dasheng's salary was so wonderful.

But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense.

The Supreme Emperor and the Holy Majesty raised these officials comfortably first, so that these officials would have no worries. If these officials were greedy for money, then the Sheng family and his son could not be blamed for their cruelty.

Knowing this yesterday morning, he couldn't resist running to the household department to look for Xu Ying at noon.

Because he calculated the accounts, the salaries formulated by the Holy Majesty are so wonderful, and there are so many officials in Dasheng, relying only on the treasury, half of the salaries paid to the officials will be consumed every year.

This is somewhat deformed.

The money in the national treasury should be spent on infrastructure, people, and raising soldiers, but half of it was spent on officials' salaries. This really made Li Qiao wonder how to evaluate it for a while.

But Xu Ying told him that he was too worried.

The salary expenditure of officials only accounts for 10% of the total annual expenditure of the national treasury, and the rest is made up by the private treasuries of the Supreme Emperor and the Holy Majesty.

In other words, the officials of Dasheng are now mainly supported by the Holy Majesty, and the expenditure of the treasury is limited.

Knowing this fact from Xu Ying's mouth, he really has mixed feelings.

Taishanghuang and Shengshang really paid too much for Dasheng.

The father and son were so obsessed that he wanted to embarrass Dasheng.

It wasn't just Li Qiao who thought so, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan and the others couldn't help sighing after hearing his explanation: "The Holy Majesty is too kind to support officials from his own pocket." "No wonder our village is getting better and better

. What!"

"Your Majesty is a good emperor, but His Majesty is also very rich!"

To support so many officials, he is too rich.

After hearing this, Li Qiao couldn't help sighing in his heart, if he was really rich, how could he ask the world for a way to fill the national treasury on such a solemn occasion like the exam.

Even if the father and son of the Sheng family were rich when Dasheng was established, after so many years of consumption, their money bags must have been deflated.

However, this has nothing to do with him for the time being. He has already handed in the bread. Relying on the income from the royal pastry shop, the father and son's money bags should be relieved.

Although Li Qiao admired the Taishang Huang and Sheng Hong very much, it was better to let it go.

The royal family is ruthless. When he behaves too strangely, he believes that the father and son of the Sheng family will definitely not be happy, but will raise their butcher's knife against him.

Therefore, he should feel at ease as his sixth-rank petty official. The bread he handed in and the business tax he paid every year have already made a lot of contributions to Dasheng.

After the salary was paid, it soon came to rest and holiday.

This time for Xiumu, Li Qiao and Tao Zhu are going to Xin Zhi's appointment.

Li Qiao doesn't know much about drinking, and he has to bring Tao Zhu with him, so Xin Zhi can only give up the restaurant in Shengjing, and invite the couple to enjoy the chrysanthemum instead.

Now the chrysanthemums are blooming just right, so I can only enjoy chrysanthemums if I can't drink alcohol.

Li Qiao and Tao Zhu didn't have much research on flowers and plants, and they didn't like them very much, but Xin Zhi finally came up with the location, so it's not good to reject it, and the two must go to the appointment.

The place to appreciate chrysanthemums is outside the city. It is the famous chrysanthemum garden in Shengjing, where all the chrysanthemums are planted.

And, coincidentally, not only Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and Xin Zhi went to the Chrysanthemum Garden today, but also Xu Ying and Shen Hua.

An official from the household department also invited Xu Ying to appreciate chrysanthemums.

They went to the Chrysanthemum Garden together, so Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and Xu Ying, Shen Hua set off together.

After leaving the city, after walking for about an hour, we arrived at the Chrysanthemum Garden.

The author has something to say:

So before Sheng Hong said that he couldn't bear it anymore, because he was paying to support a bunch of officials~

In addition, the treasury revenue is based on the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, so please don't be serious~