Chapter 211 Mr. Miao is very short of money(1/2)
In the end, Liu Mingqi got into Miao Yan's sedan chair.
"Tell me, Lord Miao, what can attract you in our business?" The young man asked directly about the excuse Miao Yan said just now.
Miao Yan sat down on his knees and said, "Your Highness, the white sugar and the big white rabbit milk candy in Prince Yu's mansion, can you find a den for selling fake goods?"
As soon as he talked about this, Liu Mingqi immediately became interested, "Mr. Miao, Baitang didn't find any fakes, but the big white rabbit milk candy has endless fakes. Can you help check it?"
The reason why white sugar has no counterfeit products is that it is a pure white particulate matter. Although it is similar to salt, it is much whiter than salt and has much larger particles.
People can recognize such things as soon as they recognize them.
If you can't recognize someone, you can tell what sugar is by taking a little and trying it.
This is something other malt sugar cannot be replaced at all.
But malt can be used as a big white rabbit milk candy.
The Big White Rabbit Milk Candy has been sold to the public these days.
However, because of the small number, Prince Yu’s mansion prioritizes its own old customer group.
Any noble ladies who often come to buy floral essential oils will be sold to them in exquisite packaging with twenty big white rabbit milk candies and sold them for one or two silver taels.
This price is actually very, very expensive.
Originally, the price set by Liu Mingqi was that a pack of one pound of big white rabbit milk candies was sold for two taels of silver. According to five grams of a big white rabbit milk candies, one pound was about one hundred.
But after Princess Yu knew that the production capacity was insufficient and she could not ship large-scale goods in recent months, she directly raised the price soared.
At this price, a big white rabbit milk candy costs fifty cents.
You can buy one liter of rice or wheat flour, two and a half pounds of lean meat, and four liters of bran, which is enough for the whole family to eat for two days.
Ordinary people are afraid that they will never be willing to buy one to eat for the rest of their lives.
But for those rich women and young ladies, they were extremely happy and they had to buy them every time.
Unfortunately, everyone is limited to one pack, and there are only one thousand copies per day, which makes them feel quite unhappy.
There is strong demand, but there is no goods on the market. Such things are the easiest to produce fakes.
The fakes are also geniuses. They bought the big white rabbit milk candy and went back to study it. Then they thought of a way to make the malt sugar into similar shapes, rolled around in the flour, and then formed the same appearance.
Although the surface is not as smooth as the Big White Rabbit Milk Candy, it can be confused at first glance, especially those who have never bought it, who are most likely to be deceived.
When they bought it back, they found that it was malt sugar in it and there was no "milk candy" at all, and they realized that they had been cheated.
Some people also ran to the store of Prince Yu's Mansion with fake goods, wanting to return the goods.
So Prince Yu's mansion discovered that there was such a crooked talent who could pretend to be a big white rabbit milk candy.
According to Tian Rong's news, in the Gyeonggi area, at least such counterfeit goods have been sold out for tens of thousands of copies, and I don't know how much bad money I have made.
Liu Mingqi was of course indignant about this kind of damage to the image of Prince Yu's Mansion. When he met Miao Yan, he also talked about this matter and asked for a strict investigation.
Miao Yan refused, "The production bases are all outside the city. How do you ask us to check? You might as well go to the Embroidered Yiwei Yamen to get information and hand it over to us, and we will arrest them."
Liu Mingqi stared at her eyes, "Mr. Miao, you said that last time. I spent so much favor to find Governor Gao, but in the end, the biggest benefit was you. Why are you here again now?"
"Are you just watching your interests suffer? So many people who sell fake goods are not afraid of destroying your brand?" Miao Yan said in a temptation: "Your Highness, don't reverse the causal relationship. Isn't we going to protect your interests in the end?"
"hehe!"
Liu Mingqi has a deeper understanding of the shamelessness of this Legal giant.
To put it nicely!
Our Prince Yu Mansion pays the largest commercial tax in the capital!
Isn’t this what you should protect taxpayers?
Prince Yu’s Mansion enjoys legitimate rights, but you sold it and made millions of taels of silver. I didn’t give a penny of the silver to me. Is your conscience painful?
Miao Yan, a counterfeit workshop that had previously grasped soap and flower essential oils, received the news from the Embroidered Uniform Guard Office. He destroyed more than 50 workshops and arrested more than 1,000 people within three days.
That's not all. Later, Miao Yan followed the clues and dug out all the main messengers behind them. It's not okay to be honest about it. A cruel person like Miao Yan always has his family sent to the frontier. Who can afford to offend?
The bosses behind the scenes are in trouble now.
Depending on their size and their level of wealth, Miao Yan fined them a total of 1.7 million taels of silver in two months.
All this huge sum of money was put into the relief for the victims by Miao Yan, and the wages were used as supplements. The progress and intensity of the Imperial Palace were therefore far better than that of the Gyeonggi area.
no way.
Xiong Wenqing's methods cannot be as cruel as Miao Yan and cannot make so much money.
Liu Mingqi was angry that according to the rules, they sold counterfeit products from Prince Yu’s Mansion to make profits, so the illegal gains should be my victim.
As a result, when Tian Rong went to ask for it, Miao Yan directly bombarded him.
Princess Yu was so angry that she was scolding her repeatedly, but she didn't dare to settle the score with him.
After all, Miao Heizi is someone who can even confront the emperor in person.
If you suffer a loss in this matter, it's fine.
But Miao Yan now wants to use the old trick again and continue to use Liu Mingqi to gain benefits, which of course made the young man’s new and old hatreds surge in his heart.
Seeing that Liu Mingqi ignored him, Miao Yan was not angry and said, "Your Highness, I did not come to you for personal gain. Now the money and food provided by the court are seriously insufficient. If there is no new extra money and money, the wages of these victims will decline, and their quality of life will also decline. Children and the elderly will not be full. I don't know how many people will die on the way home from spring! You are the first in your daily life, so do you have to see such a cruel scene?"
Liu Mingqi shrugged, "I was almost killed when I did good deeds last time. Lord Miao, you said, good people will be rewarded?"
Miao Yan nodded seriously: "Yes! The people will remember you."
"No! I don't want to live in their hearts." Liu Mingqi was shocked. I was in my prime, so I couldn't say such unlucky words.
Miao Yan didn't understand this meme, and was a little surprised to see this. Could it be that Prince Yu's indifferent fame and fortune have reached this level?
Liu Mingqi didn't believe his words, "Mr. Miao, the court just collected autumn grains and all the taxes were given to the Ministry of Revenue. It was the richest time of the year. During this period, you said you had no money. How big a pit did you dig? The court officials dared not give you enough money?"
Miao Yan smiled faintly, "It's nothing. I want to repair the imperial streets in the capital."
Liu Mingqi: "!?"
Lord Miao, did you have a roundworm in your previous life?
How do you know what I am thinking?
Although my goal is not just Yujie, the first step to take Yujie is also a good start!
Liu Mingqi's thoughts immediately started to move.
Prince Yu, Prince Yu’s Mansion cannot organize the repair of the roads in the capital, but Miao Yan can!
When Miao Yan wants to repair the imperial streets, people will not only not think that he is ill-behaved, but will instead praise him for doing things for the people.
Demon!
What kind of world is this!
Good things must be done by others!?
As long as things can be accomplished, no matter who it is, they are actually the same.
Liu Mingqi doesn't care about reputation, he can live in the hearts of the people.
What's more, Liu Mingqi also wants to use this to experiment with something, so she can be open and upright again.
Seeing Liu Mingqi's face unstable, Miao Yan was a little confused about his thoughts, but he continued to express his meaning: "The total length of the Imperial Street is thirty miles and 500 steps wide. The fifty steps in the middle are the Imperial Road, one hundred steps on both sides are used for chariots and horses, ninety steps on the outer sides are used for walking, and the rest are the shops on both sides.
According to my governance plan, we should directly rammed the earth according to the official model. Even if it takes one or two years or two, even if it costs two or three million taels of silver, we should completely solve this problem, and at least give the capital a long and durable road!"
"Good idea!"
Liu Mingqi clapped her hands: "Did the emperor and the Ministry of Revenue agree? How much does it cost to approve you?"
"Everyone has been suffering from the road for a long time, of course he is happy and has not hindered me." Miao Yan said with a smile: "But since the Ministry of Revenue needs to prepare for the salary increase at the end of the year and the various expenses for next year, they asked the official to raise money by themselves."
"Can you charge yourself?" Liu Mingqi blurted out.
"TOLL?"
"Yes, charge!" Liu Mingqi said: "Since it is the money spent by the Imperial Court, please give me money by following the road I built. It will not be free until I have collected enough costs and then make some profits."
"Your Highness, your thoughts..."
Miao Yan didn't know what to say for a while, but after a while, he said: "You are such a natural businessman."
It would be better to kill Miao Yan if he asked him to collect the toll.
Because I will be scolded to death anyway.
He only thought Liu Mingqi was joking.
In fact, Liu Mingqi just talked about it casually because this matter didn't work in ancient times.
Liu Mingqi said curiously again, "Mr. Miao cannot just pin his hopes on arresting and fines, right?"
Miao Yan is very stubborn, but he is definitely not naive.
It is impossible to make a fortune in cracking down on counterfeit and inferior products, even more than the first time.
The unscrupulous businessmen who were severely fined by him last time have not recovered yet, so how could they invest more large capital?
To be continued...