When we arrived at Kinmen, everything was fine.

Since the focus of the island's defense was on the fortress, Zhou Lang also sent Chen Zhizhi here before.

This played a big role, after Zhao Wen's disappearance, Chen Zhizhi, as Zhou Lang's confidant and highest-ranking officer, reluctantly took over the management authority, and soon the Qing army launched a counteroffensive, but was thwarted by the combined forces of the battery and the fleet. After that, the other party never launched an attack again, and remained calm until Zhou Lang arrived.

But Zhou Lang, who learned of these circumstances, was not in a better mood, because he confirmed one thing, Zhao Wen did defect.

Chen Zhizhi found a letter from Zhao Wen's room, which was a letter for Zhou Lang.

Zhao Wen showed in his heart that his ambition was not to rebel, and politely said that he was different from Zhou Langdao, and thanked Zhou Lang for his promotion and reuse.

This is a retired employee who is not optimistic about his prospects, or a mediocre person who has no ambitions and is a small wealth, Zhou Lang does not know how many such people there are under his command, and such people cannot go to the end with him on the road full of thorns.

It suddenly dawned on him that none of his men seemed to be reassuring.

This is his current dilemma, because he is going against the trend in a peaceful era, so he can't get the support of the Lord **Ying, and those who are willing to follow him are often marginalized people in society.

Not to mention the illiterate Hong Jiuzhi and Ma Dalei, a few literate cadres, in fact, their identities are also very humble. Wei Lianli was born in Qinglou, and his mother is a woman in Qinglou, and she is alive and well with Wei Xiaobao; The best born is Chen Yizhi, who was born in a big family, but he is a concubine who is not recognized by his son-in-law, and belongs to a person who is excluded by the grievances of a wealthy family.

Coupled with those subordinates of the Heaven and Earth Society, all of them turned out to be marginal people who were excluded by society, and such people, in desperate situations, can be kept warm, and in good times, it is easy to part ways, this is a group of people who can share hardships and hardships but are difficult to share prosperity.

After Zhao Wen's defection, Zhou Lang found that at least Wei Lianli had signs of betrayal, he was far away from the Tiangao Emperor in Guangzhou, and what he did was to deceive the superiors and subordinates, using the funds he provided to empty gloves and white wolves, these Zhou Lang knew it, but he acquiesced, because he couldn't control the other party, and what the other party did was consistent with his own interests, but this was by no means the state that a team should have, that is, a common goal.

He suddenly understood what the ancients said, if the name is not right, the word is not good, although building a high wall and slowly becoming the king will keep the enemy's attention from focusing on you, but it will also make like-minded forces not turn to you, because you don't even dare to fight the banner, who will know your goal.

Moreover, now that he has occupied the two islands of Jinxia, I am afraid that Zhou Lang's threat has surpassed Chen Zhouquan and become a big problem for the Qing court, and it is already difficult to keep Taoguang in obscurity.

It's time to put a big flag and give a direction to like-minded forces.

Chen Zhouquan has already done it, and it makes no sense for Zhou Lang to put forward this slogan, and the pattern is too small.

He had to come up with a slogan that would be acceptable to the intellectual elite, at least a small minority, or a very small group of people with the general intellectual elite.

After thinking about it, Zhou Lang found that it was still the anti-Qing slogan during the Republic of China, and the slogan of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" was more acceptable.

But how many people can accept it, I really don't know the bottom of my heart. Because more than 100 years have passed, how many scholars still have the idea of Huayi's great defense in their hearts, and even their braids have been left, and the fear of Yiyi changing Xia no longer exists. After all, this has not gone through the process of national awakening at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and this slogan may not play much of an inspiring role.

But the slogan still has to be shouted, because he is a banner, at least openly shows Zhou Lang's attitude.

Thinking of this, Zhou Lang already had a plan in his heart, and he had to ask Zhu Lian to do a small favor.

Before that, he had to stabilize Jin Xia's military morale.

One by one, he met with the main generals.

Needless to say, this slightly timid landlord has grown up now, although he has not yet developed the courage to advance the cannon to the enemy's chin and fire, but he has been able to turn a blind eye to the tragic situation on the battlefield, and the army is indeed a university that reshapes people.

Zhou Lang also met with naval officers, especially those captains, and he had to meet each of them.

With the exception of the three pirate leaders, most of the other captains were later recruited refugees, and only among these refugees were scholars who were willing to serve as soldiers.

However, most of the children of these refugees who served as soldiers were born in landlord families, and were forced to leave their hometowns and flee to Fengshan County under Chen Zhouquan's counteroffensive.

How much recognition does such a person have for Zhou Lang, who also has the identity of the Heaven and Earth Society?

He needs to inject a fire into the hearts of these people, he kindly communicates with each captain, talks about their family history, sympathizes with their suffering, and silently remembers those captains who have families left in Fengshan County, this is not the time to value talent, loyalty is probably more important, and the possibility of defection of these captains is even lower. For those captains who were ruined and alone in the Heaven and Earth Society Uprising, Zhou Lang kept an extra eye on them, and quietly readjusted the officer class according to their files. Whoever is alone in the captain must have a family of deputies.

As a result, in Jinxia, Zhou Lang temporarily made personnel adjustments to the 20 ships left behind to reduce the risk of defection as much as possible.

Then Zhou Lang decided to stay in Jinxia for a long time.

There are very few specific matters for him to deal with.

As early as after the establishment of Donggang, Zhou Lang's affairs have developed, making it difficult for him to have time to deal with specific affairs.

After the Dutch came to Donggang, Zhou Lang communicated with the Dutch consultants every day, but the communication was not about specific port management, but about formulating various rules.

He did not completely copy the port management experience and methods of the Dutch, but carried out some localized reinvention according to modern management ideas.

Some people say that the competition of modern countries is the competition of the ability to create systems, Zhou Lang does not know this truth, but he has a wealth of experience in the establishment of modern industrial companies, he knows that companies that completely copy the management of Western standards are often large companies with a strong bureaucratic culture, and each company should formulate management methods according to its own conditions, and the management experience of the West is worth learning, but what should be learned is their management ideas, rather than copying various management provisions.

Therefore, he did not agree with the Dutchman's proposal to directly tax the type of goods, nor did he accept the principle of taxation according to the volume of transactions.

Because he found too many shortcomings from Guangzhou, Guangzhou's tax system is not complicated, and the management is not precise, but there are still a lot of loopholes that can be exploited. According to the experience of British merchant ships, after the merchant ships entered the port, the customs surveyors first measured from the bow to the stern, and once bribed, immediately changed to the foremast to the aft mast. After measuring, to pay the ship banknotes, first offered 2,000 silver taels, after bargaining and giving 320 silver taels of red envelopes, the result was 500 silver taels. European businessmen generally agreed that there was basically nothing that could not be done with money in Guangzhou.

Zhou Lang didn't believe that the staff he recruited would have a higher moral level by those people in Guangzhou Customs, so he had to eliminate loopholes as much as possible from the source.

Taxes are levied according to the type and number of transactions, and the person responsible for collecting this data has a lot of power in disguise, determining the amount and proportion of the tax.

Zhou Lang is extremely lacking in talents, and he cannot accept that the talents he has cultivated are executed by himself because of corruption, although the execution of corrupt personnel is very pleasant, but fundamentally speaking, this is a serious waste of resources.

Therefore, punishing corruption is not a matter of killing many people, but the basis for eliminating the existence of corruption from the source, and it is also the protection of talents, after all, people's hearts cannot stand the test.

Therefore, Zhou Lang first insisted on adopting a fixed water model, and each ship paid a fixed tax of 300 taels regardless of its size; Then for the shops in the port, the tax is levied according to the length of the store's façade. These are dead, can not do hands and feet, a street measurement, the length of it, if the length of all the shops is not as long as the street, it must be the measurement of favoritism, easy to picket.

Of course, transaction tax, stamp duty and other taxes should also be considered, but it must be established after cultivating a group of dedicated public servants and establishing a set of effective supervision mechanisms before he can gradually implement them.

At present, this simple and feasible fixed water system has begun to be implemented, although the tax rate is very light, but it is better than the efficiency of taxation, and all sailors are effectively entered into the customs account, rather than being embezzled by all levels. Because they are all fixed taxes, the income is predictable and easy to do in the accounts.

Even so, Zhou Lang still established a supervision mechanism and regularly sent third-party supervisors to check the accounts, not so much to put an end to corruption as to train the inspectors.

This mechanism has been working well in Donggang, and what Zhou Lang needs now is to move this mechanism to Xiamen.

Compared with Donggang, Xiamen's potential is undoubtedly much greater, as long as it can open up a trade route to the tea region of Wuyi Mountain, these two islands are Treasure Island.

So Zhou Lang quickly transferred manpower from Donggang, built a trade channel in Xiamen, and also captured Gulangyu Island to strengthen the control of the sea lane, so that fishermen entering and leaving this place must pass through.

Due to conscription and other relations, the established contacts with local fishermen have begun to obtain supplies from the locals, and Zhou Lang publicized the port tax rules on the port, saying that merchants are welcome to come to trade.

He hoped that the powerful smugglers could use their methods to open the trade route to Wuyi Mountain, so that Zhou Lang would be spared a lot of trouble, if the merchants could not do it, Zhou Lang would have to use his army to fight the Qing army for the mountainous Fujian land.

More than a month later, Zhou Lang was waiting for not the smugglers who came enthusiastically, but the envoy of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the other party really came to Zhao'an, but Zhou Lang didn't expect it to be so fast!

After meeting the envoy, Zhou Lang realized that Zhao'an's own was actually Changlin, who had dealt with him in Guangzhou.