Chapter 348: It's all the coal to blame

Zhang Guoan received a report from Captain Guo Beyu that An Nanguo wanted to be unfavorable to Halong Bay. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

There were some signs of this.

Captain Guo Beyu usually honored the Annan Navy from time to time, and also maintained friendly relations with local officials who were far away from the local area.

In the beginning, Halong Bay developed very smoothly and quickly, especially after they cleared out the surrounding pirates, large and small, and more large and small maritime merchants came here.

Because it is impossible for a ship carrying coal to return to the sea empty, even if it is a rudder, it must carry goods.

Soon it became another place of commerce for the Champa and Annamite people, but of course, it was not very large.

But not long after, a local official in Annam sent someone to collect the commercial tax.

This was originally what Captain Guo Beyu wanted to collect, and he also built a small market here.

He really wanted to get rid of the other party, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still endured it, because Zhang Island Master definitely took a fancy to the charcoal here.

He knew that how much he dug up, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, would say that it was not enough, and he had to dig more.

Although Captain Guo Beyu didn't understand the fundamental difference between coal-based economic development and charcoal-based economic development and even oil-based economic development that Zhang Guoan said in his letter, he always felt that his words were always reasonable.

Therefore, he can only focus on coal, and those taxes are not needed.

Although the scale of the business activities here is small, it also solves a lot of problems and attracts people to relocate here to serve the place.

Of course, Captain Kwak Beyu also knows about Captain Bao Wei's development on Jeju Island, and he believes that if he gives himself a few more years, he will make this place even better than Jeju Island!

The ideal is plump, the reality is skinny, and soon another problem arises.

The magistrate saw that the tax situation was very good. So they sent a small official to act as the magistrate here, and asked their Annam Emperor Chen Rixuan to establish a Halong Bay county.

Captain Guo Beyu was angry for a while, it's hard to even call a village here, and you have been upgraded to a county all of a sudden?! That's too uncounted!!

However, he soon understood that people didn't know how to count. They really collect taxes by the size of the county!

I see!

Captain Guo Beyu immediately wrote a letter to Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, and sent it as soon as possible.

After receiving the letter, Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, was also annoyed and helpless.

He calculated that if the tax was paid at the county level, it would be okay, and it could be calculated as the normal price of buying coal.

What we developed, what we developed, has not been mined and used for a long time, and we have to pay to buy coal, which is somewhat uncomfortable.

And. In this time and space, if Liuqiu Island says that it does not want coal, the mining area opened here will have to stop.

But Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, gritted his teeth and agreed, without coal, there would be no tomorrow for the island, and he endured it.

Of course, Captain Guo Beyu also stopped the supply of the Annan naval army, because the tax has been paid to the Annan government normally------ there is no reason to pay two taxes, right?

He did not consult Zhang Guoan about this matter, in his opinion. It's all common sense.

As a result, the Halong Bay area was quickly retaliated against. The Annan Navy took all the large and small warships to dock at the dock here, and threatened to treat this place as a naval army!

Captain Guo Beyu was on fire at that time, and they occupied the dock where the charcoal was transported, and the charcoal here could not be transported out at all!

He wanted to give the order to drive them away, but he was afraid that it would cause a war, and if this place became a battlefield. All work must be stopped.

In the end, he consulted with one of the lieutenants led by the navy, and promised to pay double supplies before sending them away!

Captain Guo Beyu became angry after that, and he began to see the ugliness of human nature. Don't be so embarrassed!

They're a bunch of pirates!

But something even uglier came along.

The commander of the Annam Army believed that this Ha Long Bay mine should be recovered and used as military funds for the war against the Cham people!

They sent an adjutant general with two war elephants and dozens of soldiers to come here and say that they would take it back to the Annan government.

Two reasons were also given, one was that there was a road between here and the county seat more than 200 miles away; The second is that the Cham people are still being accepted here as laborers, and I don't know that we are fighting against the Champa people!

Captain Guo Beyu faced the triumphant lieutenant general and said angrily:

"I let the elephants step on that road first, and then let the people repair it manually, just to make it convenient for people to come and go! The people of Champa work here just to earn wages, and if you don't let them, I can let them go back!" We've been here for so long, why did you become yours as soon as you opened your mouth? ”

The lieutenant general saw that the other party was a half-sized boy, and was happy, and said, "Why? Just this steel knife in my hand! ”

Captain Guo Beyu desperately resisted the idea of taking out a handcuff to kill him, and said calmly: "The charcoal produced here is only needed on Liuqiu Island, if we don't want it, you will take it, and there will be no place to sell it------ the goods here are also transported from my Liuqiu Island, as soon as we leave, you will have nothing------

Ah, that makes sense!

The lieutenant is starting to scratch his head, how does it sound right?!

Captain Guo Beyu said coldly: "It's better to be like this, you can let people go back and report it, drink some good wine here, eat some good venison, there is something to discuss, you don't have to go the road." ”

Makes sense!

The lieutenant nodded and said, "You kid makes sense, how old are you?" ”

Captain Guo Beyu said: "I am sixteen years old in Xiama, I don't know if you like to drink coconut wine or banana wine?" ”

He soon lost interest in Captain Guo Beyu, and hurriedly said, all of them, all of them!

Captain Guo Buyu sneered and watched him get into the big tent and sit comfortably on the mat, waiting for him to be served wine and meat.

If his eyes could shoot a fire cap bullet, that guy would have been beaten into a sieve long ago!

Later, when the commander of the Annan Army also figured this out, he really gave up the idea of occupying it as military funds.

However, he offered to cooperate, and that the laborers could be used as prisoners of war------

The matter is serious, this time, Captain Guo Beyu hurriedly sent a letter to Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, took a serious look at the development process of the whole matter, and felt that Captain Guo Beyu's behavior at the beginning was still too naΓ―ve, why bother to send that little thing to the water army?

Judging from what happened to others later, he was still calm, which was very good for a young man.

The coal resources in Ha Long Bay are extremely poor, and those open-pit coal mines are just right for manpower mining, and there is no technical content at all.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, immediately replied to agree to the cooperation between the two sides, and even suggested that there should be a cooperative relationship with the navy, and in addition, let him find a way to communicate with the important ministers of the court.

He believed that Captain Guo Beyu could understand his deep meaning.

He carefully studied the map and the information gathered from the Annan and Champa areas, and he felt that he had to do something for the coal mines there, and not let the Annanites be too idle, or they would always want to find something for themselves.

On the battlefield between the Annam and the Cham people, they have always had the advantage, it's too easy! (To be continued.) )