Facts have proved that this practice does have a great harvest, when the two jars of sweet potato wine as samples were carried to the trestle by the crew, put at the feet of the tax collector and opened the mud seal, a strong aroma of wine immediately drifted out, not to mention the two tax collectors and three soldiers next to the wine jar, even the natives who were watching not far away smelled the aroma of wine, at this time the soldiers and tax collectors next to them were quite calm, but the people under the far trestle actually rioted, people immediately surrounded them, and some ran up to the trestle, However, these were immediately driven down by several soldiers who shouted loudly.

A small wooden spoon of sweet potato wine was put into the stomach, and the two tax collectors immediately blushed and coughed, and at this time, the aroma of wine overflowed, and the three soldiers next to them couldn't help but come over.

So Zhu Beiguo immediately scooped a wooden spoon in time and handed it over, and as a result, the three soldiers also blushed and swollen like the two tax collectors, but the three soldiers did not cough and looked quite strong.

The soldiers obviously liked this kind of wine more than the tax collector, and when they smacked their mouths and wanted it, Zhu Beiguo didn't give it, he covered it with a mud seal and gestured to the tax collector for a while, the meaning was obvious, how to calculate this mooring fee?

In the end, after a period of comparison and so-called negotiations in which no one could understand what the other party was saying, Zhu Beiguo used five jars of sweet potato wine to offset the berthing fee.

However, the two tax collectors didn't seem to have the intention of leaving, they pointed to the boat, and then pointed to the wine jar placed on the floor of the trestle, and said something more, but Zhu Beiguo had not studied Spanish, and Xu Zhi, a language major who traveled through the crowd, was not around, so they couldn't understand what the other party was saying at all, but the brothers on the scene, including Zhu Beiguo, could roughly understand what the other party meant-the Spaniards were asking if there was any sweet potato wine on the boat, which probably meant that people wanted to buy it.

So Zhu Beiguo turned around and shouted a few words to Li Sanduo, who was watching the excitement on the deck, and after the latter turned around and discussed a few words with the crew around him, he turned his head and said to Zhu Beiguo, there are one hundred and twenty jars in the cabin, if this wine is sold at a higher price than Macao, then sell it! Anyway, there is still Xianrendong milk wine in the cabin that can be sold to Macau, all to earn silver, and it is the same everywhere.

So Zhu Beiguo turned around and nodded at the other party, and then had an idea, took out the small book that had been prepared a long time ago, and used a pencil commonly used by primary school students to write a series of Arabic numerals on the small book to show the other party, while showing it, he also pointed to the wine jar on the floor and the boat behind him, obviously the tax collector can understand these numbers, and basically understands the meaning of Zhu Beiguo, which is nothing more than a large jar of sweet potato wine and wine sold for fifteen taels of silver, and this time a total of fifty jars can be sold to you.

After the other party heard the price, he immediately shook his head, said something, and saw that Zhu Beiguo was stunned and did not react, so he invited Zhu Beiguo to the trestle, stood still on the sand, and took out a dagger, as a result, this move frightened Zhu Beiguo and Liu Yishuang Guan Hongyu beside him, and the brother immediately put his right hand into his arms vigilantly, put his hand on the handle of the Colt python, and stared at the other party with a serious face.

I didn't expect the other party to laugh when he saw this situation, only to see the two tax collectors quickly shake their hands, said a few words, and drew a jar-like circle on the sand with a dagger, and wrote down an Arabic number 8, Zhu Beiguo's brother was relieved when he saw this, and said that Nima was scared to death by his brother, thinking that the other party was going to rob it, and then looked up and saw that the three soldiers did not follow at all, at this time, those few were bending over, staring at the jars of wine, and seemed to want to reach out and secretly open the mud seal on the jar and take another sip, At this time, when Zhu Beiguo raised his eyes, he happened to meet the eyes of the soldiers, so the other party immediately stood up straight, pretending to be ...... as if nothing had happened.

So a business negotiation with painting on the sand as a means of communication began, but in the end, the tax collector could not call the shots at all, one of the tax collectors signaled Zhu Beiguo to wait, and the other tax collector led the soldiers to carry the five jars of sweet potato wine that they had just obtained into the castle.

After two bags of cigarettes, when Zhu Beiguo's brother and wife were already waiting a little impatiently, several four-wheeled carriages appeared at the entrance of the castle gate, and a person who looked like an official was sitting in it, and Zhu Beiguo found that it was the official who was holding a telescope to observe before the Pride docked.

After a while, the official got out of the car and came to Zhu Beiguo, the two sides bowed their hands, obviously the other party knew that he was a Han Chinese, and used the etiquette of the Han people to meet each other, and then the matter did not need to be repeated, it was another bargaining, and finally, the two sides negotiated at the price of a large jar of silver at twenty taels, and the fifty jars of sweet potato wine were sold for one thousand taels of silver, which was equivalent to 1,350 Spanish silver coins according to the silver content of the special silver coins paid by the Spaniards, which was equivalent to 1,350 Spanish silver coins, and the total price was thirty percent higher than the price sold to Macao. It's really worth it.

However, the tax came immediately, and the Spaniards had to charge 25 percent of the transaction tax, and said that it was because of the good wine that they gave special treatment, and if they wanted to sell silver in ordinary trade, the tax would be more than 30%.

Zhu Beiguo was very depressed when he heard this, and said in his heart that after accounting for this result, it would be better to sell it in Macao, because Macao's preferential tax is 8 percent.

The more Zhu Beiguo thought about it, the more he felt that it was not cost-effective, and he ran to negotiate with that official again, but it was a big deal that I would take back the goods and not sell them to you.

And Zhu Beiguo also knew that in these ports, the actual tax rate could be reduced through negotiations, and sure enough, after Zhu Beiguo gave the officials an extra jar of sweet potato wine, the tax rate was reduced to 17 percent, well, the result was calculated as a bribe, in fact, it didn't save much silver, Zhu Beiguo suddenly had a feeling of being a villain in vain, but after thinking about it, in fact, this is pulling connections, as the saying goes, once born and twice cooked, the coming day will be long, and the two will be much more lubricated when they meet in the future.

Well, I can only think like this, Zhu Beiguo comforted himself in his heart.

After this business, the next thing was to continue to wander around the dock square, and the crew members who disembarked saw this desolate place, they all felt that there was nothing to visit, and most of them just bought some coconuts, wild bananas, and tropical exotic fruits such as snakeskin fruit and devil fruit from the natives, and then returned to the ship boredly.

Because Zhu Beiguo was on an investigation mission, he didn't want to return to the ship without finding any information, and still took Liu Guan and the others to stay in the dock square to hang out, at this time the Spaniards had already returned to the castle, it is estimated that these lonely soldiers are enjoying the rare strong sweet potato wine, plus the language barrier, Zhu Beiguo didn't bother to talk to the Spaniards, but took Liu Yishuang Guan Hongyu and his brothers to walk to the edge of the square, because he found that there were several low thatched huts, and the things in the huts were all kinds of things. Obviously, it was a shop, probably the only one near the dock, Zhu Beiguo thought of this and walked over.

There is really a store, and there is an indigenous woman wrapped in a cyan muslin sitting inside, Zhu Beiguo walked in and found that this woman actually had a fist-sized Han-style bun on one side of her head, and a silver hairpin was inserted on it, and a small blue gem hung on the red tassel at the end of the hairpin. There is also a picture of a lady looking at flowers on the small fan......

Well, in short, this half-earth, half-man dress suddenly made Zhu Beiguo's curiosity aroused, so he stepped forward to talk in Jinling official dialect, and the amazing thing was that the woman could actually understand a thing or two, but if she talked further, she was completely sluggish.

Fortunately, the woman was very awake, turned around and shouted to the back room, and after a while, a Han man actually came out of it! I saw that this man was wearing a blue and gray straight shirt, a short shirt and corner pants inside, wearing a net scarf on his head, not shaving his hair, and his head shoes above his feet, and he opened his mouth to say in Hakka, where is the visitor? How do you call a name?

Speech and demeanor are like a man from a Han family.

Zhu Beiguo was very happy to see this, it seems that there are really Han people here......