Mastarlu and his fleet stayed in Macau in this way, neither procuring the goods that were subject to heavy taxes here, nor trying to force them out.

It was there that I was spending time with Yang Xin.

During this period, he often went to Guangzhou, presumably to seek the support of his allies.

But those Guangzhou gentry who were allies with them, after Yang Xin's toss, did not have the courage to confront Yang Dudu at this time, and they could only be helpless for Mashida Lu, and the Fujian merchants who were also allies were helpless, and at this time, the gentry of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou were also planning to form a joint-stock company to contract Zhangzhou Customs.

They are also afraid.

After Yang Xin scourges Guangzhou, the next one must be them.

If the gentry of Canton formed a joint-stock company and took over the Canton customs from Yang Xin, then next year he and his minions were designated to move to Kinmen.

There is no suspense about this.

Then, just like in Guangdong, block the roads on both sides of Kinmen and collect fees.

If the gentry of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou dared to resist, he would also kill the door as in Guangzhou, create trouble and extort again, and finally return with the cries of the gentry.

Then you must not give him this chance to come to the door.

And the only way to keep him out of his house is to contract customs.

Take out the money, and you will pay the money!

At least there is a standard for the customs contracting fee, and Yang Xin doesn't know how much he has to pay when he comes to the door.

Now the Fujian and Guangdong gentry also understand the profound connotation of Yang Xin's words of fire prevention, anti-theft and anti-theft, which can really be said to be stained with blood and tears!

In the end, Mastaru tried in vain.

It's not just him.

Smugglers are also trying in vain.

Since the fighting in Humen, there have been more and more cases of smugglers trying to force their way through the border, and there have even been several battles.

They're not fools either.

Yang Xin's rules seem to regulate the customs and give them the right to trade legally, but the matter of Daming has never been a matter of rules, and it is useless to set the rules no matter how reasonable they are.

Is that really the case?

Don't you give those officials a try?

You're trading legally, and there's a way to kill you if you don't supply to others.

The final result is that Yang Xin's taxes have been paid, and the filial piety that should be given to the officials and masters should not be less.

Those smugglers are smart people, they know very well the discipline of the Ming officials, people want to make money will always find a way to force them to pay for silver, the legal trade of the Ming Dynasty has never been legal at all, in the past, those legal merchants who really abided by the law to get the ship lead, still have to rely on smuggling contraband to make profits? On the contrary, for these smugglers, they are really purely playing smuggling, and they are more happy with their own skills, which is the reason why the smugglers hate Yang Dudu.

They weren't against Yang Dudu's tax rate, they knew it was to turn them from pirates into legitimate merchants.

But......

It doesn't make sense to them.

After becoming legitimate businessmen, they still have to make money illegally.

So the smugglers also have to resist, these guys are all outlaws, they don't care about desperately when needed, and these guys say that they are Haikou, in fact, they have relatives and clans in their hometown as backing, in the case of the interests of the clan, they also dare to fight hard, they are not afraid of death, they dare to make a living at sea, how can they be afraid of death, so they really dare to fight with Yang Xin.

The only problem is that they can't fight Yang Dudu at all.

In this way, after the initial chaos of Yang Dudu's arrival, all stakeholders in this ocean began to be forced to find ways to deal with it, and even began to form an anti-Yang alliance.

Of course, Yang Xin was not interested in caring about this, in fact, the purpose of his trip was almost successful.

His purpose was only to force the Cantonese gentry to pay taxes.

When the gentry in Guangdong collect taxes, they will gradually find out a reasonable system on their own, and there is no reform that formulates a system and then solves it all at once, the reform only forces all interested parties to accept a principle and gives them a framework that must be followed. Then they settle the rest, including tax collectors, maritime merchants, foreigners, local officials, the military, etc., all within this framework that must be observed, to compromise with each other, and finally establish a new balance.

Yang Xin's principle for them was that they must be taxed.

A minimum of 400,000 yuan in taxes must be paid every year, and this principle must be observed.

So under the principle that the tax package must be paid 400,000 yuan a year, how can all these stakeholders re-establish a balance and formulate a system that is acceptable to all parties, that is their own business, and they will always find this balance, after all, the business must go on after all. 400,000 must be paid, if you don't pay, Yang Xin's scourge will come to stir up the situation, and at that time it will be paid more, so in the end, it will be who should pay for the 400,000, the gentry of Guangzhou, the smuggling Fujian merchants, and the European businessmen, who will pay for the 400,000.

And Yang Dudu continued to run between Macau and Guangzhou.

while training the new army in his murderous way in Canton......

Even several died of exhaustion during the training, but because his salary was really good, and all the soldiers were full of canned rice and fish, so despite the danger of sudden death during the training, those soldiers still honestly endured his torture.

After all, such treatment has never been there.

It is precisely because of his ferocity that in just half a month, these new troops have already run around the city wall in eighty minutes, which is even the level of a normal person, in addition to the frequent lack of food and malnutrition in the previous two hours, it is largely because they have never carried out such training.

After all, it was 12.6 kilometers.

It is normal for people who have not been trained in any long-distance running to suddenly run like this.

But as long as they are properly trained, an ordinary person with a normal nutritional level can run for an hour and a half at the very least.

Of course, this is ordinary people.

And Yang Xin's Dangkou army passed in an hour.

And those southern slutters, that is, those former shackmen who act as translators, usually only take more than forty minutes to complete this lap, even if they are fully armed, it is only more than seventy minutes.

However, at present, Yang Dudu only trains the new army to run and queue.

He had to run every day, he had to run a lap on the city wall every day, and then train the queue after running, and he was personally supervised by him in Guangzhou, and he was in charge of that battalion of the Swingers in his absence from Guangzhou, who was obviously very passionate about this work, and bullied the new troops with whips and sticks, and for these Swingers who came out of this stage was simply as happy as the top.

As for other training, it is not used for the time being.

The vast majority of these soldiers are in a state of chronic malnutrition, and the Guangdong soldiers are the ones who grab rice, and they never train to lead to no discipline, and such soldiers are trained in vain for any tactics, not to mention arquebuses, it is useless to pull a big bolt for them. So first train them for three months of physical fitness and discipline, when will they be able to run twelve kilometers on the city wall in an hour, and they will be able to run in a neat line without being messy, and when will they train them with spears and arquebuses.

The cavalry does not need it for the time being

The Cantonese battlefield will not encounter a real brigade of cavalry.

In fact, the Morris phalanx system can fully cope with a small group of cavalry.

And Yang Dudu's return to Macao was to refit the warship.

The Portuguese arsenal in Macao, which he forcibly confiscated on the grounds of violating the law, turned it into his own factory, allowing craftsmen, who were mostly Cantonese, to cast thirty-two pound cannons, and at the same time to retrofit the cruisers with sliding gun mounts.

It's a square wooden platform.

But the front of this wooden platform is connected to the hull, the back of the small wheels can be fan-shaped, the base of the cannon is stuck in the middle of the wooden platform in the card slot, there are ropes on both sides to pull, after the cannon is fired, it recoils along the card slot, and finally is blocked by the wooden platform and the rope together. To put it bluntly, this kind of cannon caliber is too large, and the recoiling force is large, but because the barrel is too short and the weight itself is insufficient, it cannot offset such a large recoil, and the gun carriage and rope in the past alone can no longer pull it, and a limited force must be added below.

Otherwise, it will fly upside down on its own as soon as the cannon is fired.

But the slide gun carriage itself is not technically high-end, just a large piece of wood and a bunch of pig iron castings.

Don't underestimate the arsenal of Macau.

This is arguably the largest and most advanced artillery factory in the entire Far East.

Originally, when Portugal broke away from Spain, in order to support the restoration of João IV of the Bragança Dynasty, the Portuguese in Macao presented him with 200 cannons at one time, all of which were cast in this factory, which shows the strength of this factory. After Yang Xin took control, all other operations were stopped, and then all forces were put into the casting of short and heavy guns, and then the conversion of cruisers began, each with a head and tail on the deck, which could fire at a range of more than 180 degrees, ensuring that the sides were fired at the same time.

The other artillery pieces remain unchanged.

After all, his boat is too small, so it is already comparable to a mosquito ship.

With these modified warships, Yang Dudu has complete control over this ocean.

And not only these cruisers, he also built a lot of new ships in Macao during this time, these ships are all oared centipede ships in order to meet the needs of the Tan people, although they cannot be equipped with large artillery, but Yang Huan's previous battle reminded Yang Xin that he can completely turn these centipede ships into rocket ships. The British originally built Congreve rockets for naval use, and this kind of thing is still very scary to put on a Centipede ship, and if you concentrate multiple Centipede ships to launch a rocket salvo, or install an attack sail such as a barb on the front, it will be really fatal for a soft sailing ship.

One rocket ship is not enough, twenty rocket ships are close to a hundred meters in a salvo, and it is estimated that even a real battleship will have to dodge it first.

I don't say if I can hit it.

That rocket salvo is really scary.

In short, after solving the Guangzhou incident, Yang Dudu devoted all his energy to the training of his new army and the transformation of warships, and Yang Dudu, who was busy, did not know that a major war was imminent......