"That's what you're capable of?"

Yang Xin stood in the midst of the wailing Tan people, spread his hands and said with a look of contempt.

However, the latter was not killed, nor was he really seriously injured, and basically raised for three or five days before he was alive again.

But even that silence reigned around.

Whether it was the Portuguese, the traders who came to trade, or the former cottage defenders who had been driven over to serve Yang Dudu, they all looked at this non-human fellow with trepidation.

"Men and women are detained separately, and they will be sober for a few days before they are spoke."

Yang Xin said.

Those soldiers quickly stepped forward and picked up the young men on the ground, while the other part went to forcibly separate the remaining men and women and drove them directly to several warehouses, and none of them dared to resist, after all, they also saw that this terrible guy did not want to kill them. Not far from them, a simple gallows was being quickly erected, and then Xu Yi was dragged over and put on the noose, and under the silent gaze of the Tan people, several soldiers dragged the rope to hang him......

"Uncle, these guys are wild and untamable, are they really useful?"

Yang Huan asked.

"Wild? Even the beast in my hand becomes the most faithful dog! ”

Yang Xin took the handkerchief and wiped his hands and said.

"One official!"

A voice suddenly sounded in the distance.

Yang Dudu immediately turned his head and saw a lucky boat on the dock docking, and a young man on the deck was looking at this side in amazement.

"Yiguan, you're finally back!"

A Portuguese shouted at the young man.

A smile immediately appeared on Yang Xin's face......

"You, come here!"

He pointed to the young man.

Yang Huan hurriedly shouted, and the soldiers on the dock instantly pointed their guns at the man.

"Du Du, Du Du, this is the villain's nephew, who just shipped goods from Fujian."

A Ming businessman in the crowd hurriedly walked out, walked up to Yang Xin, saluted with a smile, and said.

"Fujian has shipped goods here?"

Yang Xin looked at him and said.

Cold sweat immediately broke out on the man's face, and then he knelt down with a weak leg.

"Are you thirty-six rows? Only the people of the 36th line of Guangzhou were allowed to trade with the Portuguese, and you should also go to Guangzhou to transport goods, so what do you want to do with your goods here? ”

Yang Xin said.

The man lay there shivering.

"Haha, just kidding you, get up.

The Governor of Pontus does not care about your affairs, as long as you pay your taxes according to the new tax laws of the Governor of Pontus, you will trade with whomever you like, and you will sell your goods to whomever you like, but if you dare not pay taxes, then I will have to hang you here. The rules of the Pontus are very simple, you can do whatever you want, you have the ability to drive the ship to Tessie, and the Pontus will give you a plaque, but the tax must not be less. ”

Yang Xin said.

"Xie Du Du Kai Grace."

The man wiped his cold sweat and got up and said.

"What's your name?"

Yang Xin asked.

"The little Quanzhou merchant Huang Cheng is doing maritime business here, and this is the little nephew Zheng Zhilong."

Huang Cheng hurriedly said.

Zheng Zhilong, who is only eighteen years old now, was brought over and saluted at the signal of his uncle, Yang Xin looked at this sea hero in history, who was somewhat creepy by him, and did not dare to move with his head down. However, Zheng Zhilong at this time was of little value to Yang Xin, after all, he had not yet gone to Japan, and he was supposed to go to Japan next year, and then participated in the negotiations between the Ming army and the Dutch in Penghu as a translator as a close confidant of Li Dan.

Thus began his great cause of maritime supremacy in East Asia.

But now he's just a fledgling young businessman.

"Take your goods and pay your taxes, you should have evaded a lot of taxes over the years, right? Pay 1,000 taels and pay taxes honestly in the future. ”

Yang Xin said.

"The little one will go and prepare the silver."

Huang Cheng said.

Yang Xin nodded, and then walked to his temporary yamen.

"Zheng Zhilong."

When he walked past Zheng Zhilong, he said with a strange smile.

The latter lowered his head and did not dare to move.

In the afternoon of the next day, the two battalions that went to the Xiangshan area to sweep up, and the local garrison that cooperated with the operation, drove thousands of Tan people back, and it was obvious that there was no battle between the two sides, after all, these Tan people are still good citizens of the Ming Dynasty, as for the dozen heads, it is estimated that they were coaxed down and then cut down. These Tan people were also detained separately by men and women, and those who were only detained before were still in charge of three meals a day, so their emotions were very stable, after all, they didn't have many days to eat well, especially Yang Xin was open for them to eat, and many people were obviously in a good mood.

But on this day, Yang Xin still did not see anyone from the Guangzhou authorities.

There was no written communication.

It's as if the big and small officials in Guangzhou, the governor of Liangguang in Zhaoqing, these local officials of the Ming Dynasty in Guangdong did not know about his arrival, nor did they know that he had put a deputy envoy of Haidao, a fellow intellectual, a magistrate and a general in prison.

All in all, nothing happened.

"Uncle, they're demonstrating to you."

Yang Huan said.

"Whatever they want, put up this notice tomorrow."

Yang Xin said.

This is the new tax law he designed.

Previously, the Ming Dynasty collected a tax here, the current practice is according to the size of the ship, a total of different grades of points, each foreign merchant ship arrived after the local transfer to Xiangshan County, Xiangshan County reported to the political envoy, and then is currently Yang Xin Prison in Xiangshan County, Haiphong Tongzhi, Haidao deputy envoy arranged people to come to inspect the ship, after the inspection according to the size of the tax. In the past, the goods were divided according to the value of the goods, but these ships were divided up by smugglers before the inspection, and when the inspection officials arrived, there was only a bit of slag left, so in the end it was changed to collect directly according to the size of the ship.

40,000 taels a year.

No matter how many foreign merchant ships came, the Ming officials collected 40,000 taels a year from the emperor.

It's been decades since that number.

This is the customs tariff collected by the Ming court, or the foreign tax.

As for the levy on the country's merchant ships going to sea, one is the introduction tax, that is, the sea license, this tax can be ignored, because a total of several hundred taels a year, six taels per quote, the initial only three taels, a year is rated to issue 110 taels, 660 taels, when the tax supervisor and eunuch are there, he does not issue according to the quota, may collect more a year, but the rating is 660 taels a year.

The second is water salary.

That is, the import tax on the goods of the country's merchant ships.

This can also be ignored, because the tax rate is outrageously low, two percent, this kind of is collected for legitimate merchant ships, one hundred and ten quotations per year is one hundred and ten, and the vast majority of tax evasion in the open sea received the goods in advance, and even later the sailors were like escorting any high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and when they came back, a ship was escorted all the way to Guangzhou to prevent unloading halfway.

But the problem is that the Daming Navy Division is also smuggling, and the Navy Division's battleships are also receiving goods.

How much more money can be charged at this tax rate?

As for the illegal merchant ships......

Illegal, who Tama enters Hong Kong to pay taxes!

The third is a surcharge.

And it's a brain-dead surtax, because it has become a transit point for silver in the Americas, and the owners of those Ming merchant ships can exchange a large amount of silver for the freight there, so they all run to Manila, but there is nothing worth transporting back there. In this way, the previous salary collected by the officials in Guangzhou was reduced, so it was mandatory to add 150 taels per ship, so that those merchant ships simply loaded rice, which was originally a good way to supplement the shortage of local food in Guangzhou, but the officials increased the limit, a maximum of 50 stone, and the excess was taxed according to the trafficking of rice.

Originally, there was a shortage of rice in Guangzhou, and in order to limit the amount of money that was not enough for officials to have a table of banquets, merchant ships were restricted from transporting rice back.

I should have encouraged it.

The smartest way to import rice is to give subsidies, anyway, those ships come back empty, how can they not bring back hundreds of thousands of stone of rice a year, these sea ships are all starting with a thousand stones.

But these are not important, because the import of the Ming Dynasty has never been a big head, the real big part of the loss of customs revenue of the Ming Dynasty is the export tax, and the real core of the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty is export.

Part of it is through the export of Macau, which is the largest piece.

But this tax is not paid by foreign businessmen in Macao, but by domestic exporters, that is, 36 lines to pay on behalf of foreign businessmen, theoretically foreign businessmen pay, but Ming officials feel that a ship inspection and the like is too troublesome, simply 36 lines of their own declaration, just like the modern customs special customs declaration agent. But the modern customs declaration agent is the agent, and the 36 lines themselves are exporters, these old fritters who are all colluded by officials and businessmen, aren't they funny to report it themselves, and the result can only be reported less and less.

In the end, it actually had to implement a package tax, but it was only 20,000, and the Ming exported millions of goods from here every year through the Portuguese, and the export tax paid was 20,000 taels.

The previous export tax was 40,000 yuan, and this export tax was 20,000 yuan.

This was the main tax collected by the Ming court in Guangzhou, which is currently the largest port in the world.

As for the export of domestic merchants, that is the domestic commercial tax, not the export, that is, when going to sea, go to the deputy envoy of the sea route to check the citation, and use a soldering iron to mark the ship, so that even if it has been inspected, it is a legitimate merchant ship and not smuggling.

However, businessmen still have a lot to pay.

Because it is not easy to brand this time, if you don't brand it, it is smuggling, even if it is legal, but the officials don't brand you, you are helpless, and in the end you still have to give the officials a large amount of filial piety, so even if it is really smuggled, you can also brand it if you give filial piety, anyway, if there is this anti-smuggling sailor, you won't check it.

In short, the export of domestic merchants is not cheap for the imperial court.

In the end, the total of these duties, export taxes, import taxes, neighborhood taxes, and franchise taxes, all add up, and the tax revenue of Guangzhou's overseas trade to the imperial court will not exceed 70,000 taels per year. In contrast to this number, the three land checkpoints in Guangdong, Taiping Pass in northern Guangdong, Chaozhou, and Zhaoqing, are 40,000, 60,000, and 40,000 a year respectively, which means that Guangzhou's annual overseas trade tax is only slightly more than a land checkpoint in Chaozhou.