"Recruited?"

After intimidating a group of local tyrants and inferior gentry, Yang Dudu then went to the prison of the General Military Mansion, and then looked at the row of assassins who were hanging and asked.

"Back to the governor, he is incompetent."

The brocade guard next to him said ashamedly.

"I told you a long time ago, don't always rely on torture, you have to know that the pain will be numb, there is no point in fighting like this, such people are outlaws, and if their heads fall off, they will be scarred in a bowl."

Yang Dudu said.

Then he walked up to the Assassin who was the leader.

"Raise your head!"

Yang Xin said.

The latter looked up at him as if he were dying.

"I think you're going to confess."

Yang Dudu said.

"If you want to kill, you will be killed, Lao Tzu will be a good man again after eighteen years."

The man said disdainfully.

"Do you hear that?"

Yang Xin asked Cai Yizhong in the back.

"Back to the capital, it's not like it's really a local to Guangzhou, but it sounds a bit Hokkien accent, what he says is indeed Cantonese dialect, but the tone is more like that of Quanzhou."

Cai Yizhong said respectfully.

"Min merchants."

Yang Xin said.

"The Governor is really discerning.

In fact, most of the trade with the Yi people in Macao is now Fujian merchants, although the rule is that the Yi people take the silver to the city to invest in the silver, and the city ship company looks for 36 lines to buy on behalf of them, but the real people who go to the market are only those who don't understand when they first arrive, like the Yi people in Macao are looking for a leader, and these leaders contact the business for them in Guangzhou to trade, and then smuggle directly to Macao.

The governor's new tax law allows for free trade, and businesses can set up shop directly in Macau, and there is no profit for these employers.

These leaders are either local tyrants or Hokkien scoundrels.

These people hated the Governor the most. ”

Cai Yizhong said.

At present, in the smuggling system of Guangzhou, this leader is extremely important, they connect the Portuguese in Macao and a large number of smuggling merchants in Guangzhou, the Ming Dynasty officials do not allow direct trade between the people and Macao, all trade must go to the city, foreign investors to the city, the city to find 36 lines to buy. And this thirty-six lines does not mean that there are thirty-six, it may be thirty-six at first, because the Ming Dynasty firms are all performing their duties, what line sells and what is fixed, and there are actually no thirty-six now, but they are all designated by the city and the city, and whoever is let by the city department come.

But those other than these people are not eligible to participate.

However, who doesn't care about such fat? There was once an article written by an official that recorded three Luzon ships at one time, in fact, Spanish merchant ships went to Canton, and invested 300,000 taels of silver in each of them.

Three merchant ships of 300,000 each.

Merchants from Canton and even outside of Canton wanted to join, and the Portuguese in Macau wanted to avoid the city and buy cheaper goods, so such an intermediary appeared.

That's what you do.

They were all scoundrels at first.

But when their wealth rolled over, the local gentry immediately could not sit still.

Now it has been completely controlled by the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and even those with authorization have come to them, but with the penetration of Fujian businessmen into Guangzhou, the leaders of southern Fujian nationality have also begun to join the industry.

"Here, I'll show you something."

Yang Xin said to the leader of the assassins.

As he spoke, his hand pressed on the head of an assassin next to him, and the leader of the assassins looked at him blankly, including Cai Yi and others, and then immediately followed with the tightening of Yang Xin's fingers, the assassin followed and screamed like a stick. The leader of the assassins trembled instinctively, and soon the screams of the assassins became heartbreaking, but Yang Xin still maintained his indifference, the fingers continued to tighten, and even the head in his hand began to faintly begin to deform, and the assassin's ears and nose began to bleed, looking extremely terrifying......

"I say, I say."

The leader of the Assassins screamed like he had broken down.

Yang Xin immediately let go of the collection.

However, the assassin's head hung down immediately, and Cai Yizhong hurriedly tested his snort.

"Back to the capital, this thief is dead."

He said tremblingly.

"Drag it out!"

Yang Xin looked at the leader of the assassins and said.

The latter looked at him as if he were looking at a terrifying demon.

"Tell the truth, I can spare your family, or I'll let you know that even if you die, you won't be able to escape my hands."

Yang Xin said.

"The little ones are all following the maritime merchants Guo Yuxing, who have always traveled between Fujian and Guangdong, and will ship the goods ashore or to the merchants on the shore to carry the goods to Macao, this time it is Yu Tengcang who is looking for us, and hired us for two hundred taels per person, and the other five thousand taels for Guo Yuxing, asking us to be assassins to assassinate the governor. After the deed is completed, there are still three hundred, and the dead ones are also given to our families, the small ones and Guo Yuxing and others are all from Quanzhou, and the rest of the ship are also of the same clan, and these people will send us the silver home.

As for the other small ones, I don't know.

Everything was negotiated between Yu Tengcang and Guo Yuxing.

Who instructed Yu Tengcang, these little ones don't know, he is the leader in Guangzhou all the year round, but so much silver is also unaffordable. ”

The leader of the assassins said with a shudder.

Yang turned his head to look at Cai Yizhong......

"Quick, go and arrest Yu Tengcang, as well as Xie Yuyu, who has always been with him."

Cai Yizhong hurriedly shouted to his own soldiers.

"Don't worry, this person still knows that the last general of this person still knows, he and Xie Yuyu are brothers, both of them are Fujian nationals, as long as they haven't escaped from Guangzhou, the last general will definitely be arrested by the governor."

He looked back.

It is estimated that he has cooperated with these leaders before.

In fact, a general of the Ming army like him also wanted to use his head to contact Macao for smuggling.

"Lock them up first."

Yang Xin said.

After saying that, he went straight out of the cell.

Yu Tengcang must be a merchant of the 36 lines behind him, and the Portuguese may also have a share, since Guo Yuxing is engaged in smuggling, he must have a close relationship with the Portuguese, the latter is anxious to scratch his ears and cheeks, after all, their fleet is riding the wind and waves, but the goods they hoard in Macao have become required to pay a large amount of export taxes before they can be loaded onto the ship, according to Yang Xin's estimation that these taxes alone can allow him to recover the 400,000.

His surprise attack made everyone very embarrassed, and it was impossible for the Portuguese to move the goods outward.

In this way, he didn't mistake the threat he had just made.

"Go and tell the prefect of Cheng that the governor of Bendu has been found to be the mastermind of the Fujian merchants in Guangzhou, and there are also many local businessmen in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, and I hope that he, as an official of the imperial court, will not shield these fellow villagers, and the governor of Bendu has asked His Majesty for an order, and by the way, Yuegang will also be covered, and it will be found out in the past, and all the gangsters who dare to assassinate the governor of Bendu will be wiped out."

He said to Cai Yizhong.

"Huh?"

Cai Guerrilla was at a loss for a moment.

"Why don't you go soon?"

Yang Xin shouted.

Cai Guerrilla hurriedly went to tell Cheng Guangyang the bad news.

That's fine, the prefect of Jinjiang, Cheng Zhifu, will definitely notify the families of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou of this bad news as soon as possible, and then what else can these guys do? It is necessary to quickly block Yang Dudu, that is, to rush ahead of Yang Dudu, and a certain family will come forward to package the Yuegang tariff, and the last time the Yuegang Customs package was 150,000 taels, compared with luring Yang Xin over and then making a chicken and dog jump like Guangzhou, it is obviously more cost-effective to pay 150,000 yuan to the emperor.

Even if a certain family can't do it, it can be partnered by the gentry of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, which is nothing more than a joint-stock company to contract.

They know this kind of thing.

These guys are the most business-minded people in Daming.

Anyway, Yang Xin controls Macao, and it is impossible for them to smuggle in Macao, on the contrary, they can trade freely with any country after the monthly tax package in Hong Kong, and pay some taxes compared to this.

After all, it is difficult to say what will happen to Yang Xin as soon as he goes.

In this way, Zhangzhou's tax package will be solved, and the remaining Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Songjiang customs can still be, they must follow suit, anyway, how did the gentry in Guangzhou wail under the trampling of Yang Dudu, and the other gentry who were still watching also saw it, they did not include taxes or Yang Xin came to the door, and Yang Xin came to the door is a nightmare. Fuzhou 100,000, Ningbo 150,000, Songjiang 100,000, this bit of silver is within their bearing, even if Fuzhou only had Ryukyu trade in the past, but after the switch, the tea in Wuyi Mountain also gushed out, and compared with the boxes of black tea that drifted across the sea, 100,000 taels is really not much.

At this time, Wuyishan black tea had been born and exported.

The earliest record of black tea in Europe was ten years ago, when this kind of thing appeared on the list of goods of Portuguese merchants, and according to the information held by Yang Xin, Fuzhou smugglers had also begun to transport black tea to the Dutch, and Yang Xin was also drinking sweetened black tea in Macau, and many Portuguese people had begun to like this way of drinking.

It can be said that the door to Fuzhou's wealth has been opened.

The remaining 150,000 yuan in Ningbo is not worth mentioning, where a bunch of people secretly run to the Japanese and North Korea every year, and the significance of the Songjiang switch is not to mention, and the amount of tax set by Yang Xin has been carefully calculated.

I even consulted the tax supervisors and eunuchs who went back.

In this way, the customs of the entire Ming Dynasty officially entered the era of tax package.

And his tax law is the most scientific, and it is also the easiest to bring large amounts of taxes, so those tax contractors will definitely follow suit.

In this way, the customs system of the Ming Dynasty has also begun to get on the right track.

Then under the auspices of the emperor, the tax contractors from all over the country sat together to agree on tariffs, so as to avoid tearing each other down and eventually cheapening others, but with that package of taxes there, they will have a bottom line, so that the customs revenue of the Ming Dynasty will be truly rationalized. In the future, with the prosperity of trade, the current tax package is too small, it is very simple, Yang Dudu will join the disturbance again, I have to say that these guys have to use whips, and they will not go forward without whips.

Yang Dudu is this whip.

As for Yang Dudu himself, he actually wants Tianjin and Dengzhou.

He had also taken the Dengzhou Customs before, and it would be enough to have these two customs in hand in the future, and the business in the south would depend on the colonial company he had planned.