The flotilla is back.

The Zhang family is also alive, and the Zhou family is also alive.

The palace suddenly became jubilant.

Empress Zhang's excitement was to go to Renshou Palace to report the good news.

When the Empress Dowager Zhou learned this, she immediately stood up excitedly and trembled slightly.

The news spread all over the capital.

Most people don't feel much about the return of the fleet.

The purpose of going to the West is to find the magic seed, but it seems that the seed has not been found for the time being.

Of course, no one would ever think that seeds could be found by going to the West twice.

But...... Tianjin Wei, but people are crazy.

Yang Jing, the envoy of Tianjin Wei City, personally led people to greet the fleet that arrived in Tianjin Wei.

One ship after another, under the towing of the receiving ship, began to enter the port.

Yang Jing smiled, because the palace had already received news from Pegasus, asking the ambassador Xu Jing and Shouning Hou and others to enter Beijing immediately after arriving.

Tianjin Weili is mainly military households, because it is not only the gateway of Beijing, but also the center of the Grand Canal, the imperial court placed Tianjin Wei, these military households multiply, and now, because of this, and more and more lively.

It's just that because there are too many military households, and at this time, the military guard system has completely collapsed, a large number of military fields, almost all of them have been occupied by military attachés, ordinary military households, almost reduced to serfs, the life of Tianjin Wei military households, miserable and outrageous, many people have yellow faces and thin muscles, and have nothing to do.

At the port, it was the people who were pressed by the black pressure, and the ships docked, and then, first Xu Jing and Shou Ninghou and others got off the boat, Yang Jing was busy coming forward to greet them, but saw Xu Jing and Zhang Heling and others, compared to those military households with yellow faces and thin muscles, it was not much better, this Yang Jing showed admiration and saw the courtesy.

The sailors began to disembark, but ......

"Please prepare for customs and taxation." Xu Jing arched his hand towards Yang Jing and smiled slightly.

Yang Jing was stunned, what do you mean, enter the customs and pay taxes?

Yes, it is to be taxed, the Ming Dynasty has rules, all the passes, all need to be taxed, of course, the commercial tax of this era, it is more ridiculous to say, during the Hongzhi period, the commercial tax is 130,000 taels of silver.

What does this mean, in the revenue of the Ming Dynasty, the total of various mining taxes and salt taxes is nearly three million taels, and the commercial tax accounts for only a few tenths of it, close to nothing. If we add the annual grain income of more than 30 million stones, the merchants who have accumulated the most wealth in the Ming Dynasty pay less than one percent of other taxes.

Now Xu Jing asks to take the initiative to pay taxes, which is a rare thing.

Yang Jing is a eunuch, and the tax court that entered the customs has issued an edict to confiscate the internal debt, that is to say, the ship that goes to the West returns to the port, and it is directly charged into the palace in the form of one out of ten.

How much tax can this fleet collect when it enters the customs?

Yang Jing smiled and said, "In that case, let's ...... Only...... Hey hey ......"

Shou Ninghou and the others were impatient: "Don't be long-winded, hurry up." ”

Yang Jing glanced at Zhang Heling in fear, he was a little afraid of this Shouning Hou, this was the same as the horse commander Fang Jifan, an existence that could not be provoked.

The crowd began to stir, why the people of this fleet have not yet disembarked.

Countless ragged military households, all hippie smiling faces, Tianjin Wei this place, because the vast majority of military households are miserable, so that there are countless flamboyant, bold and arrogant people here, they are in groups of three or five, wandering around, because there is no livelihood, and they must not leave the system of military households, so they have to be idle.

These people have long known that the people who go to sea are extremely miserable, quite a little, and some people have a worse life than their grandfather, haha, one by one, I want to see those poor sailors with yellow faces and thin skin, hungry and hungry.

But left and right, but no one was seen.

So they shouted and scolded one by one, and the voices were loud.

But at this time, a team of city clerks who were in charge of customs clearance were recruited.

All of a sudden, people didn't know what was going on, and they were talking about it.

These scribes also think it is rare, at this time, I don't know what the father-in-law of the city envoy greets the fleet, and tells us to do something?

But they didn't dare to slack off.

When they arrived at the dock, it was a case that was moved, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstones were put up, and the scribes stepped forward in confusion.

The market made Yang Jing look embarrassed, what is this doing, some fuss.

But at the invitation of Ambassador Xu, he had no choice but to do so.

A team of city officers were waiting on the trestle, and even the big scales were ready.

Then someone began to carry the box down.

A huge box, several people can't move, so they can only place logs under this box, and then let the box roll on it.

The first box, out of the trestle.

Xu Jing stepped forward and said: "The Marquis of Shouning, on the orders of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, has obtained a will, and stated in advance that all overseas property will be rewarded to sailors and sailors, etc., but since it is overseas income, it is necessary to pay customs duties to replenish the national treasury. ”

Yang Jing smiled and said: "No, no, no, now the rules have changed, changed, now it is to fill the interior, not the treasury." ”

"Oh." Xu Jing nodded, but it seemed that it didn't matter whether to charge the internal treasury or the treasury: "Then, please ask the city department to convert, from now on, convert the tariffs payable on the spot, and then distribute the soldiers." ”

As he spoke, he slowly uncovered the first box......

For a moment, Yang Jing's eyes flashed.

Then...... Yang Jing's legs were a little soft.

“……”

Silver......... The silver of the white flowers, the silver of the white flowers, is so dizzy that people are dizzy, it is a full box, look at the fineness of this silver, it is the best silver.

Those servants and scribes were also confused, where did this money come from, overseas...... And the silver?

"Hurry up, get to work!" Zhang Heling was annoyed, although the silver is good, it's a pity that it's not his own, and he still has to fool these damn guys to continue to go to sea, so I, Zhang Heling, want to be honest, but when I think of the silver in front of me, it's a pity that the master is not me, so my heart hurts like a knife, and I have nowhere to vent my anger.

Yang Jing had to settle down: "Come, weigh the silver!" ”

The officers did not dare to slack off, and in full view of everyone, they began to take out the silver and weigh it!

At the end of the mission, the number was announced: "Total, seven thousand two hundred and ninety-four taels!" ”

The scribes were busy writing them down.

But their pen and ink were not dry, and then there was a second box, a third, and a fourth......

Now, I was stunned......

"Hurry up, there are several more ships." Zhang Heling urged: "You are so grinding, three days and three nights, it can't be counted." ”

At this moment, Yang Jing's breathing stopped.

He's a eunuch.

And luckily, he was assigned to the City Division, Yang Jing is a person who has seen the world, after all...... After passing through the tribute, there will be tributes from all countries, they will pass through the port of Tianjin, and those envoys will also mix in the merchants of various countries, in the name of envoys, and there will be many envoys, who will carry some private goods. All in all, Yang Jing's oil and water are very rich.

To be honest, a person like Yang Jing who has a fat difference, he can't look down on ordinary things.

Can ...... now He was stunned.

the groove.

Immediately afterwards, one by one, the servants reported the number: "Box B, five thousand two hundred and fifteen taels of silver!" ”

"Box C ......"

People sweat like rain.

One by one, the scribes bowed their heads and counted, and their hands holding the barrel of the pen were trembling.

I feel like I'm going crazy.

How many boxes are there?

On the other side, another wharf, a ship docked, and had to send a scribe to another wharf, and on this wharf, there was another mouthful of boxes...... It's gold......

When the box was opened, everyone was going crazy.

It is genuine gold.

The golden gold, the piercing eyes can't be opened......

If you take a small piece from this box, it will be enough for people to squander.

The scribes were shocked at first, but trembled all over, and had countless reveries, but this reverie was instantly pulled back to reality by the fierce sailors.

These sailors gave them a very bad feeling, although they were yellow and thin, and their clothes were ragged, but they gave people a strange feeling, their skin was tanned, and many of their skins were even peeled off, as if they were burned, so that the new skin and the old skin were mixed together, and their eyes, especially sharp, were the kind of uncomfortable feeling after being swept away by them.

Murderous......

These people who were born and died, fighting with the waves in the sea, killing people and goods, who had a few lives in their hands, they endured the pain that no one could bear, and what they saw was the pattern of life.

The servants and scribes did not dare to raise their heads to meet the eyes of these people, in the past, these officers were the most slippery, and often secretly stuffed some things into their private pockets when clearing customs, but now, they all had clean hands and feet.

"Six thousand three hundred and seventy-three taels, gold!"

"Box B ......"

The officers, with smoke in their throats, shouted hoarsely and diligently.

In addition, more and more ships began to dock, and some ships carried down boxes of huge ivory and countless spices...... There are even crystal clear things, but they are taken out one by one. It is a diamond, an emerald ...... and rhino horn......

These things are all extremely valuable, and they are the most scarce things in the Ming Dynasty.

But here, it's like sand, and boxes are being taken off the ship.

The knocking on the trestle one by one, constantly shouting: "Ding box, 1,534 catties of spices......"

"Onyx...... Three catties and seven taels. ”

"Ivory...... Seven hundred and fifty-six pounds ......"

Yang Jing listened from afar, one by one, the numbers were accumulating, and he felt that his heart was about to jump out, this ...... This...... How much is it...... How much gold and silver jewelry, this gold and silver jewelry...... Was it picked up?

Yang Jing felt that her cognition had been refreshed all of a sudden, and she had seen the world today, and since then...... What a thousand pockets, poor ghost!

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The weather is getting colder and colder, and the heart is getting colder and colder, come to a monthly pass, support it, and let the tiger's heart warm up.