Xiangshan Xiaolan He House.

"How is this still going to be a business?"

Li Chongwen, the regular supervisor of Foshan who hurried here, slapped the table with an angry face.

"Brother Kuoxin, we've all endured it, so you can swallow this breath!"

The owner of this place, the first assistant of Emperor Shaowu's cabinet in the original history, and the son of He Zhundao, the current Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, shook his fan and said.

"How do I swallow this?"

Li Chongwen said angrily.

"A shipload of my goods is sold for a few thousand taels, and the ship led me to buy it, and the county honor, the government and the political envoys, and even the sea and sailors, everywhere are the annual examples, and they have all paid, and now I have to pay what export tax, and it is still so frustrating export tax, who listens to who has the same tax and the value of the goods? 100% export tax, my cannons pay as high as the purchase price, am I selling goods? I'm selling this for tax, so who can I sell it to at this price? ”

As he spoke, he picked up his teacup and drank it down.

"So what?"

Li Guozhi, the son of Li Sunchen, the son of the left concubine of Zuo Chunfang of Zhan Shifu, and the shadow supervisor Li Guozhi said.

"That Yang Xin has a Shangfang sword in one hand, a brocade cloth guard tooth card in the other, and a gold medal on his waist, what can we do with him, besides, he is not not allowed to do business, on the contrary, he also has people open up to do it, no need to worry about any restrictions, no matter what you can sell as long as you pay taxes. Indeed, his tax is quite high, but in the end, it is not Yiren who gives silver, he collects 30% of the tax, let's add 30% of the price, and there is no need to pay the money to Haidao and the yamen everywhere, so it is not much to lose. ”

He continued.

"Of course you say that when you sell rice!"

Li Chongwen said disdainfully.

In fact, the reaction of Guangdong businessmen to Yang Xin was far less exaggerated than those bigwigs imagined.

If there had been no overseas trade control before, and suddenly he came to grab money, those businessmen really couldn't stand it, but the problem was that the tax eunuch had just left for more than a year and less than two years, and the latter could also give Wanli hundreds of thousands of dollars from here every year when he was there, not including filling his own pockets. Yang Xin's 400,000 tax packages, even if he still earns half of it, it is nothing more than two or three hundred thousand more that these businessmen need to pay every year, but the problem is that Yang Xin has all the clear prices and all free trade, and those businessmen will save a lot of money.

Not to mention that the Guangkaido Yamen burns it on the ship every year, how much extra silver does the merchant have to pay?

Not to mention the ship guide.

Every year, there are 110 boat citations.

The tax is indeed six taels of silver, but that is a handling fee, who does a franchise to do a certificate on the tama to pay a handling fee?

It's all about giving gifts.

Yang Xin directly canceled the ship introduction, who is willing to run out and directly fill the goods to pay taxes.

First, there is no need to deal with the seaway yamen, and second, there is no need to send boxes of silver to the homes of officials of the political envoys, and fight for the 110 boat guides like dogs robbing food.

That's a lot of savings.

It is true that everyone pays tens of thousands of taels of taxes every year, but it does not mean that the businessmen pay these tens of thousands of taels for overseas trade, and the governor of Guangzhou and Guangzhou starts with 100,000 yuan a year, and the officials of the three divisions of Guangzhou and Guangzhou, large and small, will not be able to roll up to one million in a year? Where did the money come from, it is not from the merchants, and it is not guaranteed, because it may not be possible to do things after paying the money, such as the ship lead, the gift is given, and in the end, because the gift is not enough, the ship guide is not very normal.

But Yang Xin's rules are different.

He is tax-inclusive, and these messes are not considered at all, as long as the taxes are paid, the rest of the business can be done.

Which is better or worse?

Anyway, the family here in Xiangshan immediately felt the difference.

Before Xiangshan County, Yongmo Camp's coastal defense Tongzhi, the former cottage general, the checkpoints that need to be dotted have all disappeared, everyone does business without worrying all the way, as long as the goods are sent to Macao, and then the taxes that should be paid are paid, then it doesn't matter how you like to trade with whom.

It's the same with big families.

This is also smuggling.

Because trade with Macao is only qualified by the 36 lines in Guangzhou.

But now whoever loves to do it does it.

Yang Xin's tax rate is high, but he does things clearly, he doesn't have so many unspoken rules, and everything he has there is clearly marked.

Of course, Li Chongwen is different.

In fact, he made his profit mainly by exporting artillery muskets.

As for other iron tools, he is only a number, in fact, he mainly provides weapons to coastal pirates, and he also smuggles a large amount of rice, but rice is also used to supply pirates, after all, there are promotions in Macau, and the pirates used to have to pay an extra sum of silver, and they have to be careful, Li Chongwen's business is to provide a safer and cheaper supply service, but now Yang Dudu charges 100% export tax on arms.

He was annoyed.

"But I have to remind you that Uncle Fang has already said that at this time, the Guangdong gentry must work together to drive this traitor out, and not a single grain of grain will be allowed to be transported over Macao in the future.

Li Chongwen said with a sneer.

It was at the behest of Wu Zhongwei that he came down to warn the gentry of Xiangshan.

These are the main forces of grain smuggling to Macao, and they are also the main force of small-scale smuggling, and these gentry families have a large number of such small-scale smugglers, who buy all kinds of goods to transport all kinds of goods to Macao through the checkpoints along the route.

If you want to starve Yang Xin to death, you must cut this line.

"Since even Brother Kuo is supportive, then what else do we have to say."

Li Guozhi said.

"Then please tell each family on my behalf."

Li Chongwen said.

He also heard that Li Guozhi was very dissatisfied, since there was no need to talk nonsense in this way, he immediately took his leave.

"Really stop?"

After he left, He Zhundao hurriedly asked Li Guozhi.

"Whoever likes to stop, I won't let go of the money and not make money, Wu Zhongwei will arrest me if he has the ability, and I will listen to him as a regular supervisor?"

Li Guozhi said disdainfully.

Indeed, who doesn't know that the regular prison is the least human power in the country.

"......"

He Zhundao hesitated.

His father was in the first subject, and now he is just a gentleman.

"But what, I'm a shadow eunuch, you are a student, which one can Wu Zhongwei arrest us? This kind of thing is not for the two of us to do it personally, tell our subordinates, how to do it or how it is, they can fight as much as they like, we can't put the money and not make money! I think Yang Xin's rules are very good, next month I will also buy a boat, hire a group of people to run business in the country, a boat of sugar is a boat of silver, a tax is just a percent, usually a boat to hand spend is not less than paying taxes! ”

Li Guozhi said.

He didn't know that after going out, Li Chongwen also changed his face.

"These dogs!"

Li Zhijian spat and said.

"Master, Lao Wang is here."

The house slave beside him said.

Li Jijian raised his head, and a middle-aged man opposite him was looking at him.

He walked straight over.

"Master Li."

The latter said.

"This is not the place to talk."

Li said.

The two then went to a nearby teahouse.

"Master Li, the Yiren said that if it goes on like this, none of us will benefit, and according to Yang Xin's tax rate, the Yiren can only change places."

Lao Wang said.

"Where can they change?"

Li Chongwen said angrily.

"Yuegang, Ningbo, Songjiang are all switched, go to Ningbo to buy cheaper, fifty percent of the tax, that porcelain is not only made in Guangdong, in the end, Guangdong porcelain is still Jiangxi, then why don't they go directly to Ningbo, people run tens of thousands of miles, do you care about taking that little more road?"

Lao Wang said.

"What's the best plan for the Yiren?"

Li Chongwen said in a soft tone.

This old king's name is Wang Mingqi, and he has a close relationship with the Portuguese, and can even command the Portuguese to smuggle together.

"They can't move, then Yang Xin is in Macau, they can endure anything, but you can contact those people outside and let them attack Yang Xin's fleet, he can't do anything by himself, just rely on those warships under his command. As long as he sinks a few ships, so that his naval blockade is useless, and everyone can drive the ships out, then he will not be able to collect taxes, and we will only change the trading location, and Macao is not the only one who can trade along the coast. ”

Wang Mingqi said.

"But those people in the Wa Kingdom can't beat him!"

Li Chongwen said tangledly.

"Those people in the Wa Kingdom can't do it, but the red-haired people can."

Wang Mingqi said.

"Aren't the red-haired people the enemies of the Yiren?"

Li Chong asked suspiciously.

"Now Yang Xin is the biggest enemy, not to mention that it is better to let the red-haired people lose both? What the Yi people mean is that if we contact the red-haired people through the merchants of the Wa Kingdom, we say that as long as they can get rid of the scourge of Yang Xin for us, then we can follow the example of Macau and let them get a place in Hong Kong. But after they came, we didn't admit it, at that time, the red-haired people would definitely rob it, so they would fight with Yang Xin, and in the end, the red-haired people won and suffered heavy losses, and the Yiren on the Macau side started to kill them.

Yang Xin won, and the result must have been a heavy loss.

He didn't have enough strength to continue blockading the merchant ships here. ”

Wang Mingqi said.

"Then what are you looking for me, it's not that you don't recognize Li Dan."

Li Chongwen said.

"Red-haired people are not stupid, they can't believe it if they don't see our officials? Li Dan or Yan Siqi can send the Dutch envoy, but how to get the Dutch envoy to Guangzhou to meet the senior official of our imperial court, and this senior official also agreed to give them Hong Kong, then you have to figure out how to do this. ”

Wang Mingqi said.

Li Chongwen understood in an instant.

This is to kill two birds with one stone, the Portuguese borrowed a knife to kill, but a double kill, the idea of instigating Yang Xin and the Dutch to fight, in the end no matter who wins, they will benefit, the Dutch will lose a lot of money to win, then the Portuguese fleet in Macao during the trade season will give them a blow, clean up this main enemy at sea, Yang Xin won a tragic victory, the Portuguese will not be able to hire pirates to give him a fatal blow again, and kill this guy who came to stir up the situation.

But......

It's good for him and the officials in Guangzhou!

(Two chapters, not because of the exemption, but I have to go to my father-in-law's house to give gifts)