As for Yang Xin's new tax law, the foreign tax remains unchanged, but different degrees of reduction and exemption are carried according to the type of goods on board.

Grain, horses, sulfur.

All three of these are entitled to preferential treatment of foreign tax exemptions.

However, traditional imports such as spices still have to be taxed according to the value of the goods.

This has nothing to do with the foreign tax, the foreign tax only allows you to trade at the port, but the goods you bring should be taxed or have to pay another tax, and the tax rate is not the same, for example, if you come with rare treasures, this tax must be heavier, simple pepper can be lower, as for empty ships with silver, this can only pay the tax on the port.

However, these reforms will not increase tax revenues.

Because the vast majority of European merchant ships actually came empty.

They couldn't sell even if they brought the goods, and the result of the first batch of merchant ships of the British East India Company in the Chongzhen period of history was like this, and they themselves lamented that they didn't sell anything, and they threw out 70,000 Spanish silver coins here, and because of the initial conflict, they paid more than 2,000 taels of silver. There was really nothing to import in the Ming Dynasty in this era, that is, some spices and sulfur, but these two things could not fill the swarming European merchant ships, as well as the Ming merchant ships that also swarmed out.

In the end, the result of this tax reform was only to change all the future European merchant ships to rice ballast, and then cheap Nanyang rice poured into the Ming Dynasty.

From here, we headed north.

Yang Xin would buy it here at a low price, and then ship it directly to distant Liaodong.

There he can even earn ten times the difference.

The rice here is only a few dollars of silver, but Liaodong is still five taels even this year, and this business is still very profitable.

But for the foreign tax itself, not only will it not increase, but it may even be reduced, after all, if you have rice ballast, the foreign tax will be reduced, and if anyone can bring a boatload of horses, then even their foreign tax will be directly exempted, so this reform will not increase the foreign tax. However, Yang Xin's goal was not to pay taxes on foreign goods, the most important thing in his tax reform was the export tax, and the export tax rate was astonishing, the largest export product was directly increased to 10 percent, cotton and linen 20 percent, silk 30 percent, and porcelain 50 percent......

"Uncle, this is a bit ruthless, isn't it?"

Yang Huan said in horror.

"You have no idea what this thing is in Europe."

Yang Xin picked up a teapot beside him that was obviously in the style of Clark porcelain and said.

"For us, it's really an ordinary daily necessities, but for the Tessie, it's a treasure, a luxury to show off, and it's worth setting it with gold. Besides, they have traveled tens of thousands of miles and gone through countless hardships, will they go back because of this little tax? The 50 percent tax rate was a reasonable export tax, and the reason for this was that Portugal was at war with the Netherlands, and the Dutch would rob or sink it at sea. ”

He went on to say.

"But our merchant ships are also sold."

Yang Huan said.

"Their tax rate is different, their 40 percent, for domestic merchant ships must be encouraged, but not too harshly."

Yang Xin said.

The encouragement is too ruthless, and these guys will directly become second-class dealers.

"But Zhangzhou is also exporting porcelain, and there are a lot of them shipped there, and Yuegang is also open, and many of these porcelains are from Jingdezhen, and they can even be exported from Ningbo."

Yang Huan said.

"That's not our business."

Yang Xin said with a smile.

It was indeed not their business, it was something that the gentry of Canton needed to worry about.

They will certainly not suffer their own losses, and in the end this skyrocketing tax will have to be passed on, but because those officials can no longer control overseas trade, they do not need to send money to these people, and the end result will definitely be to reduce the bribes of those officials who previously controlled overseas trade, and increase the export price.

Of course, smuggling may also be intensified.

As for reducing costs......

I'm afraid there is no possibility of reducing it anymore, the Guangdong gentry have been working for hundreds of years, and they have long squeezed the cost to the minimum.

If they reduce costs and cause workers to make trouble, then Yang Dudu happened to go to Guangzhou to suppress the purge.

The workers in this city made trouble very frequently, originally once after two years in history, but it was difficult for Yang Dudu to send him away when he entered the city.

And what is the purpose of Yang Xin, to really sort out the customs and establish a reasonable and perfect tax system? No, the purpose of his coming to Guangdong was just to stir up the situation, and then force the Guangdong gentry to take over the tax package themselves, and it was their business to really establish a reasonable and perfect tax system, and now it was only because they didn't do it, so Yang Xin came to Guangdong, and he never thought about the future problems.

He just persecuted the Cantonese gentry.

Of course, the harder you go, the better.

The final tax rate needs to be decided by the tax contractor of each customs.

But first of all, someone has to do it, and if these gentry don't do it, then Yang Dudu will force them to do it, but it is impossible to expect to reform the tax law and solve the customs problem.

But the fight has only just begun.

It is conceivable that once this new tax law is announced, it will have to face a crazy smuggling affair next.

"The war has begun!"

Yang Xin looked at the new tax law in his hand and said.

"Order the fleet to blockade the entire Pearl River Estuary from tomorrow, together with the local naval warships, and transfer six warships to blockade Yamen, and all merchant ships going to sea, whether they have ships or not, whether they have paid taxes in Canton or not, will come here to recalculate and pay export taxes. Go and send this tax law to the political envoy in Canton, and publish it and distribute it to the thirty-six banks in Canton, and inform them that the governor of Bendu has contracted the customs of Canton, and that all the previous tax laws will be abolished and all will be paid under the new tax law.

In addition, the ship introduction will be cancelled.

All maritime merchants who go to sea come here to get another license.

Originally, the overseas trade franchise of the 36 banks was abolished, and all private merchants could trade with any foreign merchant ships as long as they paid taxes according to law, but they had to come to Macao to trade.

Guangzhou merchant ships can go to sea.

Merchant ships from Yamen can also go to sea.

However, all merchant ships going to sea did not need to pay taxes in Guangzhou, and all taxes went to Macao to pay, and the local officials in Guangzhou had obstructors, and the governor of Pontus, in his capacity as the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, accepted their reports and exposés here, and by the way told these to those officials in Guangzhou. Tell them that the customs are contracted by us, and they dare to continue to collect taxes from these merchants, that is, to rob our silver, if it is a military general, then it is better to think about the sword of Shang Fang of the governor's coastal military affairs, and if it is a civilian official, it is better to think about those people in the edict. ”

He continued.

Yang Huan hurriedly took over the tax law and went to Guangzhou.

He is the commander of Jinyiwei, and he is also the criminal officer of Beizhen Fusi, even if he is put in the capital, this identity can make a group of civil and military generals tremble.

As for Yang Xin......

"Are you still eating?"

Yang Xin moved a chair and sat in front of the Tan men in Tanjia dialect.

The latter all looked at him with trepidation, this demonic man, the previous battle in which one person beat a hundred people, caused a serious blow to their hearts, and the image of that time is still vivid in the minds of those who have seen it.

"I know you're all scared, and these people behind me used to be just like you, and they were trembling in front of me.

He rebelled against the court in the past, and I killed their leader, to be precise, their god, but now they believe that I am the god, and in the past they had no land, only a few broken grass huts, and served as tenants for others, and there were only a handful of days to eat a year. But now they have land, and it's the best paddy field, they and their parents, wives and children have enough to eat every day, they have new clothes every year, their children can go to school, and even if they are sick, they have someone to heal.

And he used to be a shantyman.

Every year, I am accompanied by wild beasts in the mountains and forests, living in broken sheds, eating and sleeping in the open air, and I may be bitten to death by wild beasts at any time, fall off the cliff and die, and even sleep may be bitten to death by poisonous insects.

But now, they are just like them.

I gave them theirs.

If you are willing to be faithful to me, you too will have such days.

I will build you a bunch of new fishing boats, and give you a home on land, and you can have your own land, and you will not have to pay fish lessons, let alone be driven away by people on land, and you will not have to worry that one day a strong wind will sweep away everything from you, and you will not even be able to find your bones in the sea. As long as you are loyal to me, and you can do whatever I want you to do, then you will live a good life from now on, and even your children can study and become officials, just like the children of the gentry on the land.

If you don't want to ......"

Yang Xin smiled.

"I'm going to kill you all."

He went on to say.

"Master, the little ones are naturally willing to listen to the master, but the little ones can only fish, and I don't know how to work for the master."

One of them quickly knelt down and said.

The people in the back knelt down one after another, and they had no other choice anyway.

"Go out and drive your little boats, follow those warships, scatter out on the sea, intercept all the merchant ships that try to sail out of the waters of Tuen Mun, Macau, and Ap Mun, and then let them come here, and tell the Tan people in the nearby counties that if they want to live the same good life, then they all come to Macau, and I will accept as many as they come."

Yang Xin said.

"Back to the master, the Tan people are divided into fishing tanks, Lu Ting, Zhu Tan, and Mu Tan, although they are all Tan people, but in fact, they are not the same, do you accept them all?"

The man said cautiously.

"Uh, so many differences?"

Yang Xin said.

"The small one is the fishing tank, along the coast and on the rivers, all the way to the Annan side, all the water boat people are called the Tan people, fishing, pearl diving and putting rows in the mountains, all of them are Tan people, all the way north to Fuzhou."

The man said.

"I want all of them."

Yang Xin said.

These are all talents, pearl diving can not be brought out for a few minutes in one breath, and Mu Tan is also a master of inland river transportation.