Chapter 272: Strip! (1/2)
Chapter 272: Strip!
Translator: Pika
Zu An was utterly floored by her stateo to a brothel too?”
Chu Chuyan rolled her eyes i I just want you to arrange a place for one more person”
“Who?” Zu An was a bit curious
“wang clan’s young ” Chu Chuyan said seriously
Zu An looked at her strangely “There isn’t so clan dude, is there? I’ve heard that our clans get along pretty well Is he your childhood sweetheart or so? damn it all, why is my fate so cruel”
Man, if I’d known about this ahead of ti kid I should’ve let Chen Xuan finish hirabbed his ear tightly “Stop howling like an idiot already! What could possibly be going on between us? Just what kind of nonsense goes through your head every day?”
You have successfully trolled Chu Chuyan for 123 Rage points!
Zu An’s high spirits returned “Then why do you want to arrange awith him, and in a place like the I to meet with him The two of you are,” Chu Chuyan corrected
Zu An blinked his eyes rapidly Clearly, he was completely lost
Chu Chuyan explainedsu, Yuan, wang, and various other clans for atroops north against the foreign tribes The country is in dire need of provisions, which is why they have asked all wealthy clans to lend a hand bymore contributions”
Zu An nodded Chu Chuyan had e sum had already been requested as a contribution last year Even the biggest clans would struggle if they were asked to make contributions so often That is why, this tireat clans to contribute”
Chu Chuyan paused for a moment, then continued “My father used the rampant illicit salt trade as an excuse to explain why he wouldn’t be able to make any contributions immediately”
Zu An couldn’t suppress a smile “Master usually seems so proper and honorable Who knew he had a crafty side to him?”
“Is that how you praise solare “Unfortunately, that old fox Sang Hong already predicted that ould use this as an excuse As such, heQian to help, and that my father could use his unit as he saw fit to take out the illicit salt trade”
Zu An sighed with ae of interests youclan would offer their assistance in rooting out the illicit salt trade”
Chu Chuyan nodded “My father believes this illicit salt trade has greatly affected the Chu clan’s business Sang Qian has command over the River Patrol Army With his assistance, ould have a s If we can take this opportunity to completely destroy the illicit salt trade, it would make it hile to pay these contributions That is e have agreed to donate a hundred thousand taels of silver first Once the illicit salt trade has been coin to see revenue froal salt, we’ll contribute the reood plan” Chu Zhongtian wasn’t the head of the clan for show Even though he normally seemed a little too square, he still had his fair share of shrewdness
“Everything did sound good,” Chu Chuyan said with a sigh, “but the wang clan suffered serious losses recently Their trade station was plundered by the foreign tribes They had to use a lot of their liquid funds to make up for this loss, and they are quite strapped for silver Thus, they requested to be excluded from the contributions this ti that salt in the Great Zhou Dynasty could only be transported and sold with salt perht with ht to purchase these salt permits was reserved only for those who transported provisions to the border
Many salt traders didn’t have the means to send provisions to the borders This here the wang clan ca provisions to the border This granted theht to the salt permits, which they would then sell off to other saltprovisions to the borders from the cities was unsustainable The journey itself required a huge ah That hy merchants like these chose to clear out so farmland instead The produce from these farmlands would then be sent to the border
This sort of settlement was called a trade station
“Robbed by the foreign tribes?” Zu An sighed “That’s rough”
“Indeed The wang clan was really hurt badly this time They couldn’t even fork out these i didn’t saysome words of consolation However, he ie per commandery He said that this was a reward for those who contributed to the nation”
“Exchange per to Chu Chuyan’s explanation, he h idea of what it was
According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the transport and sale of salt required salt permits For the sale or purchase of salt, however, not only were salt pere perranted the possessor the right to sell soion A clan could only sell salt in a certain region if they have the exchange peral for an individual to sell salt in a region for which they didn’t possess an exchange perated as an illicit salt dealer, the clan that engaged in this practice would also be punished