"Master, in the initial implementation, it may encounter resistance from those tea merchants, but within a few days, they will cease their protests! Tea is a highly profitable business, and those merchants naturally understand how to weigh their options. An arm cannot twist a leg."
Gu Chengyu sneered inwardly. Watching and making connections for resistance would also be futile.
It won't take long before they accept reality. The government has ways to make them submit, and wasting a day is like wasting silver, and the tea merchants are not foolish.
However, his sneer was not about whether the tea merchants would riot.
Rather, these officials, when they were collecting salt tax and poll tax, didn't they enforce it vigorously?
In the end, isn't it because their interests have been infringed upon?
Their opposition is not for the tea merchants or tea farmers, it's for their own selfish interests.
