My Sisters Excel in Both Literary and Martial Arts - Chapter 1101

[Chapter 1068 Forced Buying and Selling]

The Peach Blossom Temple is built on the mountain and is very large.

The thin monk was afraid of being watched, so he pulled Jing Zhe and walked straight along the wall of the Peach Blossom Temple. He came to a deserted corner surrounded by thick peach trees and stopped.

Jing Zhe kept following him, wanting to see what he wanted to do.

“Are you going to buy it or not?”

When the thin monk stopped, he turned to look at Jing Zhe and asked, holding up the incense with a gloomy look.

“So what if you buy it, so what if you don’t buy it?”

“If you buy it, you pay. If you don’t buy it, you go down the mountain! Anyone who wants to participate in today’s Peach Blossom Poetry Party must buy incense!”

Jing Zhe was noncommittal about this answer.

This Peach Blossom Temple is built on the mountain, and it is named Peach Blossom Temple based on this Peach Blossom Mountain. It has deep roots. Perhaps, the peach blossom trees around the temple were also planted by the monks in the Peach Blossom Temple. That is possible.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the Peach Blossom Poetry Festival being held in Peach Blossom Temple. It is understandable to pay some incense money when entering the temple to participate in the poetry meeting.

So Jing Zhe said: “Since I went up the mountain, I naturally wanted to participate in the Peach Blossom Poetry Recital, so naturally I have to buy this incense.”

After hearing this, the thin monk snorted coldly, as if to say, “You know what you are looking for”, and then put his long The incense was handed over.

But Jing Zhe did not pick it up, but said: “Although I said I wanted to buy incense, what I bought was not long incense, but short incense!”

“The short incense is gone, only the long incense.”

“But I just saw it. Come on, you have a lot of short-term incense at the stall at the door. How can you say there aren’t any?”

“Haha, I might as well tell you that if you buy short-term incense, you can only buy long-term incense.” Fragrant!”

After hearing the thin monk’s stern words, Jing Zhe narrowed his eyes and sneered, “Oh? Are you trying to buy and sell by force?”

“This Peach Blossom Temple belongs to us, and the Peach Blossom Poetry Club is also our Peach Blossom Temple. What’s the matter with me forcing you to buy and sell? If you want to participate, you must buy! If you don’t want to participate, how can I sell you?”

“…”

There is nothing wrong with what he said. After thinking about it for a while, he started to reach into his pocket to take out the money. When the thin monk saw this, he sneered: “It’s already so easy and it’s all over? Why bother?”

Jing Zhe didn’t answer him, but continued to take out the money. Asked: “How much is a stick of incense?”

“How much is it? You are overthinking it, five taels of silver a stick!”

“…”

Jing Zhe withdrew his hand that was picking out the silver.

It’s not like he has never bought incense before, so he also knows the price. Buying a stick of short incense at the foot of the mountain only costs ten cents. But the skinny monk just sold short incense to others at the door for a hundred cents, which is more expensive than that at the foot of the mountain. A full ten times more.

But this is understandable. After all, the things sold in tourist attractions are definitely more expensive than other places. In addition, this is Changxiang, which can be sold for two to three hundred silver, but the thin monk opened his mouth for five taels of silver. He said it was the same as Yamashita compared it, it was more than ten times, a full fifty times more expensive than the short incense they sold themselves!

Isn’t this an obvious robbery?

Jing Zhe took out his hand and found it was empty. When the thin monk saw it, his face immediately dropped.

“What’s going on? Do you want to buy it or not?”

“I want to buy it, but it’s too expensive, isn’t it? Five taels of silver, if we were at the foot of the mountain, this money would be enough to buy all your incense!”

“Haha , you know it’s at the bottom of the mountain!”

The thin monk sneered: “But now we are on the mountain, we have the final say on how much it costs!”

“You have raised the price of incense so much that it is already far higher than the market price. It’s more than a hundred times. If you report it to the government, do you believe that the government will arrest you all according to Da’an law? “

The

thin monk laughed wildly when he heard Jing Zhe say this.

“Your accent sounds like a foreigner, right?”

Jing Zhe nodded and said, “What’s wrong, you can trick and abduct foreigners at will?”

“Keep your mouth clean. Who has tricked and abducted you? Believe it or not, I will report you.” “The government, are you the one who was arrested?”

“I don’t believe it.”

Jing Zhe shook his head: “The government arrested people based on Da’an law, and I didn’t break the law. It was you who broke the law, driving up prices, cheating, and… You’re buying and selling by force!”

“Haha, why don’t you say you’re a foreigner?”

The thin monk glanced at him disdainfully, “If it were anyone else, I wouldn’t even bother to tell you, but for the sake of you being a foreigner, then… I might as well tell you that Magistrate Xu of Jiangling will also come to participate in the poetry meeting later. Magistrate Xu is a long-term guest of our Taohua Temple and has a close relationship with our Taohua Temple. Who do you think he will help?”

“Oh? According to what you say, aren’t your Taohua Temple and the Jiangling Prefect working together? Even if they knew that your Taohua Temple was buying and selling by force and raising prices, the Jiangling Prefect would not stop and punish you. “

” Haha, you are smart! And you dare to retaliate! Officer, you will be the first one to be arrested!”

Jing Zhe crossed his arms and said with a playful look on his face: “Then the prefect of Jiangling is so powerful that he would collude with your Taohua Temple. I doubt that you are selling it at such a high price. If you haven’t given the prefect of Jiangling a lot of benefits, why would the prefect of Jiangling help you? By the way, the prefect of Jiangling also knows that you sell a stick of incense for five taels of silver, right?” “

Do

n’t talk nonsense!”

I didn’t expect Jing Zhe to be so stubborn. He was already “understood by reason and moved by emotion”. He was so ignorant that he still wanted to report the price to the official?

What the thin monk said before was correct. The prefect of Jiangling had a very harmonious relationship with their Taohua Temple, and they protected Taohua Temple everywhere. But in the final analysis, Jing Zhe had actually guessed it.

As the saying goes, if you don’t make money, you can’t start early. Taohua Temple holds more than a dozen poetry gatherings every year. By selling incense, they can make a lot of money. Of course, no one reported them for raising prices privately, but they were suppressed by the government. Over time, everyone also knew that their Taohua Temple backstage was tough, and they stopped reporting it.

If they didn’t give part of it to the government, how could the government protect them? Even the price of these short incense and long incense is jointly set by Taohua Temple and the government, and then purchased through the government. After the poetry meeting is over, the government counts the remaining goods and divides them 50-50.

Of course, it is impossible for the government to set the price of a stick of incense at five taels. This would be too huge a profit. The price of five taels was just set by the skinny monk because he saw that Jing Zhe was a foreigner.

Moreover, he deliberately called Jing Zhe to a remote and uninhabited corner, so that when he asked for the five taels of silver, he could keep it alone without having to share the accounts with the government. Through this method, he could earn a lot of money alone. Woolen cloth!

“There is no one here except the two of us. Who knew that I asked you for five taels of silver? And do you think Prefect Xu will listen to you, an outsider, or to me?”

“…”

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(End of chapter)