Macau.

"Don. Francisco. Mr. Mastaruya, I have some doubts about your identity. ”

Yang Dudu lay on his desk, holding his cheek with one hand, looking at the commander of the Portuguese fleet, who had not yet been allowed to sit down.

The latter had only three ships.

They didn't go straight to Macau from Goa's north.

The reason why this fleet was assembled to act together was only because of the attack of the Dutch, and the latter's attack was mainly in the Strait of Malacca, and it was impossible for the Dutch to search for them in the vast sea, and only the special place of the Strait of Malacca was suitable for the Dutch to attack the Portuguese merchant ships.

The other is the Taiwan Strait.

But beyond these two choke points, the Portuguese merchant ships did not have to worry.

So after sailing out of the Strait of Malacca, the Dutch merchant ships would disperse and trade throughout the South Seas, including to Manila, and eventually they would arrive in Macao with a full load of goods, and there would be loaded with all kinds of goods and sail north to the Japanese kingdom, while exchanging all the silver for gold as much as possible. They then took the goods and gold to the Wa Kingdom to exchange for silver, and then returned to Canton with the silver exchanged for the Wa Kingdom to purchase goods and exchange the remaining silver for gold as much as possible, and returned to Goa with the goods and gold and shipped back to Lisbon.

Because the ratio of gold to silver varies from place to place.

After hundreds of years of silver influx, the Ming Dynasty still has not broken through one to ten, and this key point is the Chongzhen period, which is still floating at one to eight.

But the Wa kingdom is one to thirteen.

And Europe is also 1 to 13.

European merchants exchanged one tael of gold for thirteen taels of silver in Europe, one seven taels of gold in Daming, twenty-two taels of silver in the Wa Kingdom, and then nearly three taels of gold in Daming, and then took out one tael of gold for thirteen taels of silver to complete the next cycle, and then ......

And then now I can't play anymore.

Yang Dudu banned the export of gold, and in fact did it in the past, but it was extremely easy to smuggle.

"Don. Mr. Mashida Luye? ”

Yang Xin asked the commander of the Portuguese fleet in a daze.

"Your Excellency, please forgive the contemptible gaffe, I am just surprised by your Portuguese."

The latter hurriedly said.

"So we need to discuss your title, and if I'm not mistaken, your title should mean Governor, right? It was surprising that His Excellency the Viceroy of India, King of Portugal, sent a Viceroy to the land of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty......"

Yang Dudu said gloomily.

"Are you going to declare war?"

He slammed the table to his feet, roaring like a tiger at his maximum volume.

Mastarlu was also caught off guard, and sat directly on the ground with a scream.

"I hereby warn you unequivocally, this is the land of the Ming Emperor, your compatriots live here under the grace of the Ming Emperor, they need to accept the rule of the Ming Emperor, not the rule of the King of Portugal, only the Emperor of the Ming can send officials here, you have no power, this is not the territory of the King of Portugal. Do not think that I am one of those magistrates who do not understand your language, who does not know the words and language games you play, that the King of Portugal has no right to send any officials here, and that your compatriots can only accept the rule of the Ming Emperor here. ”

Yang Xin continued to roar condescendingly.

Mastaru, who was sitting on the ground, also looked at his hideous face with a roar in amazement, and endured the saliva that he squirted three meters into his face.

"Of course, I welcome trade."

Then Yang Dudu sat down and said in a gentle drizzle as if he had changed people.

"However, you must abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and you also have to pay taxes, here is a tax rate table you can take a look at, you can't not pay taxes, you will be hanged if you don't pay taxes."

He lay there and added like Xiao Bury who had switched states.

Mastaru also got up with a red face, and then took a deep breath to suppress his anger and fear.

"Your Excellency Tsudo,"

He said.

"This word is not for me, you can call me by the word Governor."

Yang Dudu said.

Actually, the term is not suitable for him, because the Portuguese word for governor is actually a ruler, a chief, a high-ranking official, and the like.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the contemptible people have come precisely for your tax rate."

Mastaru also said.

"What about your identity?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Envoy of His Excellency the Viceroy of India."

Mastaru also hesitated and said.

"But as the envoy of His Majesty the King of Portugal to the Viceroy of India, you have no right to make any opinion on the tax rate set by us, because it was formulated by me as the head of the customs of Canton under His Majesty the Ming Emperor, which was approved by His Majesty the Ming Emperor, and you, as foreigners, can only abide by it, and have no right to interfere. This is the internal affairs of our Ming Dynasty, no foreigner has the right to interfere, and it is not okay to put forward opinions, how much tax rate we set, you have to pay taxes according to this rate, no matter how much we formulate, you have to obey. ”

Yang Dudu said very dryly.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we have been doing business here for nearly a hundred years, and there has never been such a tax."

Ma Dalu also said indignantly.

"So, now I'm here."

Yang Xin said.

"Your Excellency, if that is the case, we will go to another port."

Mastaru also said.

"There is no other port, according to the decree of the Ming Emperor, your merchant ships are allowed to trade in Macao, and other ports are not allowed to go, including Yuegang, so in order to avoid you colluding with coastal smugglers, any merchant ships of your country that arrive in Macao are forbidden to leave until they are full of goods."

Yang Dudu said.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you are kidnapping, we have the right to leave!"

Mastaru also shouted angrily.

"You have no power, I am in charge of my territory."

Yang Dudu said with a smile.

This must be guarded against, otherwise these Portuguese will go to Yuegang, even if Yuegang does not dare to pick it up, they can also go to Ningbo, those merchants in Ningbo will definitely welcome it, they will smuggle and find a way to fill the ship for these guys, in that case, his loss will be great, so when he comes, he will directly detain it, and take out the silver first, as for the future......

In the future, those customs will also include taxes, and they will not be cheap these guys.

As for next year......

There is no next year.

The gentry of Guangzhou have already regretted it, and are currently studying a partnership to set up a joint-stock company, starting to take back the right to package taxes from next year. Moreover, these Portuguese and the gentry of Guangzhou are all hooking up, and they will also contact in private, and then negotiate a mutually acceptable tax rate, and the Portuguese are reluctant to Macau. If the Cantonese gentry were able to agree with them a mutually acceptable rate on the condition of including silver, the Portuguese would certainly still maintain trade with Macao.

They can't bear to be here.

Yang Du Dulai only made both sides afraid of each other as a spoiler, showing the ability to ruin their previous good life, and they both had to accept the reform of the tax system.

In the final analysis, the tax package of 400,000 taels is not unacceptable to them.

But what will happen here in the future is none of Yang Xin's business.

In this way, of course, it is necessary to catch as much as possible.

"Your Excellency the Governor, this is a pity, and I think we need to think about it."

Mastaru also said helplessly.

"Yes, you can consider it, but our principles will not change, ah, by the way, I heard that you brought me a gift, so as a return, I will give you a gift too!"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

Then Yang Huan, who was beside him, hurriedly took a mirror the size of a palm.

"Your Excellency the Governor, we have many of these mirrors in our cabins."

Mastaru also said proudly.

"But we made it ourselves, and it's still very commemorative, and your mirrors don't have to be shipped to Daming in the future, but if you are interested, you can ship our mirrors back to Europe, or to other places. Such is small, we can even make a table as big, how about it, is there any interest? ”

Yang Dudu said with great interest.

"If you can make a mirror that big, we'd be more than willing to buy it."

Mastaru also said.

But looking at his expression, he didn't think so.

In fact, at this time, the French casting method had not yet begun to make flat glass, and it did not appear until the late 17th century.

"Then it's a word, when you come back from the Wa Kingdom, I will let you see such a mirror."

Yang Xin said.

As for the gift that Mashidalu also gave him, it was actually six horses in Wari, just like Yang Xin guessed, this thing didn't need to be shipped from India at all, there were quite a few in Malacca City, and Mashidalu only gave him six horses in Malacca City by the way.

In addition, his three ships were indeed laden with rice, and the three ships brought nearly 400 tons of rice from Hoi An, which were not only purchased by Yang Xin at market price, but also allowed them to enjoy the preferential treatment of exempting half of the foreign tax.

The rice would then be shipped from Macau and loaded by four cruisers and sent directly to Tianjin.

At this time, the era of disaster in northern China had already begun, and in addition to the Luxi earthquake, which lasted until April, not long ago, the Hutuo River was still bursting in Jinju, and the flood leveled the entire county town of Shulu. This year, the price of rice in the capital has not been lower than one tael, and even the price of rice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has stood on one or two, and the arrival of these rice should make the price of rice drop, and then all the rice that arrives in Macao is left to eat except for a small amount, and all the others are transported north.

Yang Xin's second reinforcement fleet is heading south, but the wind is not in the right direction, and it is estimated that it will arrive in a month.

This batch is still twelve cruisers.

His shipyard currently only needs two months to build such twelve cruisers, the only problem is that there are not enough sailors, but it is still no problem to act as a transport ship, and the number of sailors required for the Chinese hard sail is small, and he will continue to use these cruisers to transport rice north.

It will be easy to wait for the autumn harvest.

Because Tianjin's hundreds of thousands of acres of rice fields will usher in a bumper harvest this year, these rice will definitely pull the price of rice back in the capital by one or two.