Although the Han family has always been a wealthy family in Yin Island, if it is divided by composition, it can be regarded as a larger landlord. But generally speaking, it is a very benevolent family, and it has not relied on the power of the family to oppress other families on Yin Island, and often helps the poor people on the island, and also takes the lead in leading the villagers, funding the construction of roads and bridges, building wharves and ancestral halls, and also doing a lot of public welfare things, and even organizing the villagers to resist pirate attacks, so the Han family has a good reputation on the island, and it is almost the hereditary chief of Yin Island.

A few days after the traverser captured Qingdao, it was just in time for Han Quanming to go to Qingdao to pay this year's salt tax to the Germans, but after arriving in Qingdao, he found that Qingdao had changed hands. Qin Zheng met Han Quanming at that time, accepted the salt tax, and told him that the traverser would take over all the power of Germany in Jiaoao, which means that Yin Island would be under the control of the traverser from now on.

After Han Quanming returned to Yin Island, he spread the news all over the island, and not long ago, he brought a valuable gift to Qingdao to meet the traverser, begging the traverser not to disturb Yin Dao. This time, Qin Zheng did not accept the gift, but he also assured Han Quanming that he would never intrude on Yin Island, and that he would send someone to Yin Island to inspect and inspect in the future, and asked Han Mingquan to return to the island to prepare.

Today, Han Quanming was sitting at home reading a book, and heard that Han Gaocheng sent someone to report that the Qin political commissar of the overseas Chinese had come to the island, which frightened Han Quanming, who was the biggest official of the overseas Chinese in Qingdao, but he didn't expect him to come to the island in person, so he hurriedly changed his clothes and rushed to meet Qin Zheng, and before leaving, he ordered the family to kill pigs and sheep, and prepare a banquet to entertain Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng smiled and said, "Let's just go to the island and take a casual look, Han Baochang doesn't have to be polite." ”

Han Quanming said with a smile: "It's almost noon now, and Chief Qin will come to this Yin Island, no matter if you want to go to the villain's house to sit, the villain will prepare a little thin wine and respect the landlord." ”

Qin Zheng said with a smile: "I'm not busy, I still want to take a walk around the island, eat dry food outside at noon, if you have something to do, go back to work first, and when we finish transferring, we will naturally look for you." ”

Han Quanming hurriedly said: "Not busy, not busy, even if Chief Qin is intentional, the villain should accompany him." ”

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "That's fine, if there's anything unclear, we can ask you, but you will have to eat dry food with us at noon." ”

Han Quanming also smiled: "It is also an honor for the villain to be able to accompany Chief Qin to eat dry food together." Then he hastened to his servants and told his family to save the feast he had prepared for the evening.

Qin Zheng turned to Han Gaoxiang and Han Gaozhi again: "You brothers are busy, I will send someone to you in a few days to discuss the construction of the salt field in detail." ”

Later, Han Quanming accompanied Qin Zheng and the others to watch two other salt farms and several fishing villages on the island, and at the same time, Qin Zheng and others also learned some about the situation on Yin Island from Han Quanming.

Generally speaking, there are not many residents on Yin Island, only a dozen villages, about 10,000 people, although there is a small amount of farmland on the island, but it is still mainly fishing, salt production, most of the families are both fishing, salt production, most of the daily necessities need to rely on the island supply, so the market in Langjun Port has always been very prosperous. In the past, most of the businessmen who came to Yindao were mainly in Jiaozhou, but after De Guoqiang leased Jiaoao, Qingdao began to develop, and there were more businessmen from Qingdao, and a small number of businessmen from Rizhao, Yantai, Dengzhou, and even Dalian and other places. Generally, the salt purchased by merchants who come to Yin Island can be bought at twice the price outside the island.

Although the annual salt tax and other taxes that Yindao needs to pay are very high, because Yindao has the pillar industry of salt making, the income of the residents on the island is generally good Compared with ordinary farmers, the life is higher, and some wealthy islander families are not willing to stay on Yin Island, so that businessmen around the country can earn the difference in price, so they have also invested on the land, purchased industries, sold salt fish and other products, but the islander family's industries are basically concentrated in the coastal areas of Jiaozhou Bay, mostly in Jiaozhou, Jimo and other places.

Although Yin Island is rich, it has naturally become the target of the green forest robbers from all sides, not to mention that Shandong has been a place where robbers haunt since ancient times, but at this time Yin Island is still an overseas island, which isolates most of the green forest forces, and the pirates in the coastal areas of Shandong are not many, and the power is not large, although they occasionally come to intrude and plunder some people and property, but they do not pose a big danger to Yin Island.

After Germany forcibly leased Jiaoao, it still followed the tax system of the previous Qing court, and did not build on Yin Island for the time being, so there were some other miscellaneous taxes such as additional consumption and additional donations, and the taxes paid by the residents of Yin Island in the past two years were less than those under the rule of the Qing court. However, the Huayi concept formed by thousands of years of Chinese civilization still made the residents of Yindao very disgusted with the rule of the Germans, after all, Han Quanming's family was more or less a person in the Qing court system, and Germany's lease of Jiaozhou Bay also affected the Han family's business.

And the traverser is with the name of overseas Chinese, all of them are indeed like Chinese ethnic groups, and they speak standard official dialect, and some people can speak Shandongfang dialect, which also greatly reduced Han Quanming's resistance, and Han Quanming also saw some of the style of the People's Army in Qingdao, and Qin Zheng did not accept his gifts, which made Han Quanming have a certain good impression of the People's Army, but he was not clear about the attitude of the traverser towards Yin Island, and he was a little uneasy in his heart.

After going around the island, at around three o'clock in the afternoon, Han Quanming led Qin Zheng and the others back home. Han Quanming is the richest man in Yin Island, and his home is naturally very magnificent, with a total of three courtyards, and two branches on the left and right, the main houses are gray tiles and white walls, vermilion lacquer columns, and the doors and windows of the houses that are the main courtyard are inlaid with glass.

Although glass has been introduced to China in large numbers with foreigners in this era, and has also been put into production in China, it is not a rare thing, but it is not an ordinary family that can use glass in a large area.

At this time, it was still early, and Han Quanming ordered the kitchen to start preparing the dinner, and then invited Qin Zheng and his party to the main hall to sit and serve tea.

After the tea was put aside, Han Quanming said: "Chief Qin, now Jiaoao is under the control of the People's Army, and this year is almost the end of the year, and the salt tax has been paid as usual, I don't know what changes will be made to the salt tax in Yindao next year, so that we can be prepared." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Han, we can understand your worries. I can tell you clearly that we will have a new set of administrative tax system, but the overall measures need to be further discussed in our content before they can be determined, and I guess they should be introduced around the New Year. ”

After hearing this, Han Quanming's face couldn't help but be a little unnatural, it turned out that he thought that the traverser would continue to use the tax system of the Qing court like the German country, although there are many loopholes and deficiencies in this system, but after all, it has been used for more than 200 years, and the islanders have long been accustomed to it, and under this tax system, the islanders are also living well, so they can tolerate the loopholes, and Han Quanming does not want to change. But Qin Zheng made it clear that the traverser would have a new administrative tax system, which also broke Han Quanming's hopes.

And the change in Han Quanming's face was seen by Qin Zheng, so he further explained: "Mr. Han, I know that you don't want the previous system to change, but our way of ruling is different from that of the Qing court, so naturally there is a new set of taxation and administrative systems. Moreover, there are quite a lot of problems in the system of the Qing court, both in terms of form and content, and in the way it is implemented, and I think you know this. ”

Although Qin Zheng's words have an attitude of not taking the Qing court seriously, and at the same time he has made it clear that the future Yin Island will be under the rule of the traverser, rather than returning to the Qing court, but Han Quanming does not feel any disgust, first, Qin Zheng's group is not the people of the Qing court, and it is reasonable not to serve the Qing court as the master; second, Yin Island has been leased to Germany by the Qing court, strictly speaking, before the expiration of the lease, the sovereignty of Yin Island does not belong to the Qing court, and the traverser forcibly seized Jiaoao from Germany, so he naturally inherited and took over the sovereignty of Yin Island。 Han Quanming did not think that this group of overseas Chinese would return Jiaoao to the Qing court. It is not surprising that overseas Chinese should implement a new administrative and taxation system in Yindao.

Although Germany did not change the various systems of Yindao after leasing Jiaoao, Han Quanming also knew that it was because Germany had not leased Jiaoao for a long time, and the focus was on the construction of Qingdao, so it did not take Yindao into account, but sooner or later it will change. It's just that what kind of system will this group of overseas Chinese implement on Yindao, and what kind of impact it will have on the social life of Yindao, Han Quanming is naturally worried about this, whether it is out of the interests of the family or a sense of responsibility to the whole island.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "Although we don't have the detailed rules yet, there is one thing that Mr. Han can rest assured, that is, no matter what kind of system it is, we will never increase the burden on Yin Island, but to correct and eliminate the loopholes and shortcomings of the previous Qing court system, and we will also solicit and consider the opinions and attitudes of the islanders, and at the same time, we will do our best to promote the social and economic development of Yin Island, so that the living standards of the islanders can be improved." Just now, I talked with Han Gaoxiang and Han Gaozhi brothers, and next year I will build at least 100 pairs of douxiao salt pans on Yindao and attract the participation of the islanders, which can greatly increase the salt production of Yindao and open up more sales channels, so that the lives of the islanders will naturally be improved. In addition, we will also eliminate pirates in Jiaozhou Bay, maintain the stable life of Yin Island, and so on. ”

After hearing this, Han Quanming was also a little relieved, although he didn't dare to fully believe Qin Zheng's promise, but if the overseas Chinese wanted to forcibly implement their system, Yin Dao would not have the strength to refuse, so he could only try his best to ease the system of the overseas Chinese and reduce the impact, after all, Qin Zheng was still very polite.