Cave Refuge-Chapter 251 - 249: Procurement of Arms (Extra Addition)_1
Before officially trading in the market, you need to obtain a trading permit for goods. To do so, the market management staff will assess the value of the goods you brought this time.
After some time of development, the rules of the Salt City Trading Market have become very mature, and there are hardly any loopholes to exploit.
Dong Tianyu opened the back of the black vehicle, where twenty slabs (one slab = half a pig excluding the pig’s head and tail) of frozen pork were stored.
The trading staff were somewhat astonished as they looked at the pork inside the vehicle. They have seen people trade meat, but those people brought in portioned meat, not whole slabs of pork.
However, the experienced assessors have seen traders bring in whole vehicles worth of meat. So, despite the initial astonishment, they quickly regained their composure.
"Since your goods are uniform, you now have two tax payment options.
Firstly: Given that these twenty slabs of pork look almost the same size, you can choose one slab of pork to be your trading tax, to be turned in directly.
Secondly: You will need to weigh all the pork, and then calculate its value according to today’s market evaluation, and pay 5% of its value as tax.
You are free to choose between these two methods."
Upon hearing this, Dong Tianyu understood that the difference between the two tax payment methods was not that significant. But comparatively, the first option seemed slightly more beneficial to him.
After all, although he had to directly give up a slab of pork, he was allowed to choose which one. Each slab of pork seemed around the same size, but their actual weights varied. As the owner of the pork, Dong Tianyu should have a good sense of their weights.
Under normal circumstances, if Dong Tianyu were to choose, he would certainly pick the lightest slab to pay as trading tax.
In fact, that’s what Dong Tianyu did. The difference in weight between the heaviest and lightest slab of pork was less than 30 kilograms, but he wasn’t going to pass up this small advantage.
The assessment staff’s offering of two options showed that in comparison to other things, Salt City was more willing to slightly decrease its revenue in exchange for food.
After all, at this time, everyone was no fool; no matter how much money one had, it was not as important as food.
Dong Tianyu received the trading certificate from the assessor. It was a simple card, indicating that Dong Tianyu had nineteen unweighed, unportioned whole pigs excluding the head and tail.
The card was produced by a device owned by the assessor. Before the disaster, it was easy to forge, but after the electromagnetic pulse, forging became somewhat difficult.
Also, even if it was copied, it would be useless. This card only proves what Dong Tianyu owns. When a deal is reached, both parties will have to trade face to face. The market might trade based on the evaluated value, but nobody accepts currency during the transaction; it’s all bartering.
Following the assessor’s leave to assess the next goods vehicle, Dong Tianyu also left the black vehicle and entered the Trade Market.
The market’s primary sections are divided into two areas. The Eastern District has fixed stores, and due to the prosperity of the trading market, many powers have set up permanent shops here.
The Western District has relatively small tents. On the left of each tent is a sign indicating whether there are customers in there or not. On the right is a sign introducing the goods sold by the seller.
If the product introduction sign is flipped, it means the tent is vacant. Anyone can enter and set up a stall inside.
The tents provide private trading spaces for temporary traders like Dong Tianyu. After all, people who resell supplies at this time didn’t want unrelated people to know what they had in their hands.
Dong Tianyu walked around the entire market as if on a stroll, but unfortunately, probably due to the market’s long-established business, there was great transparency in the prices of everything in the market. Although he could make a small profit by reselling some items in Pengcheng, the risk was higher and the profits were not as high as he imagined.
Moreover, this was a market organized by the Salt City Officials, and the things sold inside were too standard. Dong Tianyu had almost everything in his storage space.
But since he had already paid the trading tax upon entering, he wouldn’t get a refund if he didn’t trade anything. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂
So, he had no choice but to stroll around the market again. In the end, he chose some fruit seedlings and young livestock that he didn’t have in his cave.
The types of young livestock here were not as complete as those sold in Peach Blossom Paradise.
Interestingly, when he initially built his cave mansion inside the mountain, he named it Peach Blossom Paradise.
In Leisure Manor, where Mace resided, the boss also chose a similar name for his place due to his preferences.
Fortunately, since his cave mansion has been upgraded to a cave, Dong Tianyu has also changed its name to Peach Blossom Cave. Otherwise, the name of the cave mansion would feel a bit strange every time he thought about it.
As Dong Tianyu was about to leave after finishing the transaction under the witness of the transaction center staff, he suddenly heard Mace greeting him.
