After getting the sketch portrait that Ma San took pictures and passed over, Emperor Chongzhen looked at it for a long time, if this sketch is accurate, this ill-intentioned, can even be said to be a person who wants to sow discord, I'm afraid the origin is not simple. Judging from the physiognomy, it will not be pirates and the like, but more of a shopkeeper or a master of Shaoxing.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little puzzled, who ordered such a person to do this? Who doesn't want the relationship between the Netherlands and Daming to ease so that the Netherlands can have normal transactions with Daming? If you can take such a big risk, you must have a great benefit, or a great hatred, right?

Thinking of the land route, the matter of those Dutch envoys returning halfway, although it seems that in hindsight, these Dutch envoys themselves are suspicious, but there may not be any unknown factors in it. If it is not a coincidence by land and sea, then the energy of the people behind this is very large, and it will definitely not be a personal feud or something.

Emperor Chongzhen thought of this, and remembered that in the Xu Xiang incident, judging from Sun Chuanting's report, there were also people behind the ghosts. Thinking so, he concluded that the resistance encountered by Kaihai began to appear.

I didn't think it would be easy from the beginning. Otherwise, with such a huge profit from opening the sea, why did the emperors and ministers of all dynasties turn a blind eye, is it really to the point of treating money as dung? This is obviously impossible, it can only be too difficult, so that they have more than enough strength to do it!

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but further deepen his understanding of the difficulties of successfully opening the sea. For him, if he wants to truly prosper the Ming Dynasty and catch up in the world in the Age of Discovery, and regain his position at the highest place in the world, then the opening of the sea must be successful.

Thinking of this, he sent an edict to the celebrant and moved all the records related to the opening of the sea, including the approval and the retention, and prepared to go through them again.

This opening of the sea was proposed by He Qiaoyuan, presided over by Wen Tiren, and operated by Sun Chuanting. It stands to reason that these are all capable ministers and should be able to do things well. However, judging from the current actual situation, Emperor Chongzhen felt that he still overestimated their abilities, because he ignored a shortcoming that they all shared, that is, the limitations of the times and the limitations of their vision.

For example, this time, in the process of treating the Dutch, even if he himself was a thief before, he still had a high-minded attitude towards Hongyi, and he was not polite to them in his words and actions.

It's not that you can't do this, when the Dutch invaded the Ming Dynasty, you can do it, you don't need to be polite; But when the Dutch are here to do business, it is not good to have no one in their eyes like this. After all, doing business is mutually beneficial, and if a business is yellow, Daming will also be damaged. To be capable, at this time, you should strive for the interests of Daming as much as possible in the transaction with the Dutch, within the scope of the rules of the game, which is the most correct.

This kind of sense of superiority over Xiyi is not only Liu Guoneng, but also Sun Chuanting, and even the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, this is the limitation of the times and the limitation of vision.

Emperor Chongzhen continued to look at the music while thinking about things. No, he was holding a piece of the book in his hand to open the sea and collect taxes. The content of this recital is actually based on the past practice of the short opening of the sea during the Longqing period.

The Governor's Office, that is, the customs office of later generations, collects customs duties on imports and exports, including three parts, namely the introduction of taxes, water salaries, and land salaries.

The so-called tax introduction is actually the introduction of ships. Ocean-going ships, regardless of the east and west, must draw six taels of tax, and offshore, such as going to Taiwan's chicken coop or something, freshwater ships will draw two taels of silver per bow.

The so-called water tax is a commercial tax levied on exported goods, which is paid by the shipping merchants. The width of the western ship is more than one zhang and six feet, and each bow ship is levied five taels of silver, and each more than one foot of breadth is added five coins of silver. The ships going to the East were relatively small, and only seven-tenths of the Western ships were charged, and the freshwater ships were even smaller, and they were paid five cents of silver according to the width of the ship's surface.

Lu Salary is a commercial tax levied on Chrysostom goods, which is paid by the shopkeepers. Taxes are mainly levied on the basis of the quantity and value of goods. For example, pepper, sumac and other goods are worth one or two silver, and two cents of silver are levied.

There is also a special kind of ships, which are bound for Luzon, most of which return empty, with no cargo, only silver. In this case, it will not be easy to levy the land salary. Therefore, there was an additional kind called an increase in salary, and each ship paid one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

This method of collection can only collect about 20,000 taels of silver a year, just like He Qiaoyuan said in the recital, which is far from the goal expected by Emperor Chongzhen. Of course, most of the reasons here are caused by tax evasion by officials and gentry, and this point, let Sun Chuanting be there, judging from his current performance, he should be able to solve this matter.

However, for this taxation method in the Longqing period, to be honest, Emperor Chongzhen was not satisfied. However, everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is only to let the Fujian side start like this, and the place where Emperor Chongzhen intervenes is that there is no tax on the grain transported by special purpose. In addition, it is necessary to set up a state-owned trading company to conduct docking trade, but this matter has not yet been seen.

According to a common understanding in later generations, taxation must affect the entry and exit of goods. If it is needed domestically, it will be encouraged to import; If it is not needed domestically, exports will be encouraged, and so on. There are also various kinds of goods, which are subject to different taxes depending on the value. And these, in fact, are not sitting in the Forbidden City, listening to what is said below to get an ideal result.

Thinking like this, a thought suddenly popped up from Emperor Chongzhen's mind. And after this came out, it was like the temptation of the devil, and this idea could no longer be abandoned.

At night, even when interacting with Concubine Tian, Emperor Chongzhen was a little absent-minded. Tian Guifei is so smart, she is sensitive at this time, and she immediately felt it. When she crouched on Emperor Chongzhen's chest, she touched Emperor Chongzhen's chest, as if she was a little aggrieved, and tears soaked her chest.

Emperor Chongzhen quickly felt it, looked down, couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly wiped away her tears, and asked in surprise: "What's the matter, who bullied you?" As far as I know, it seems that the queen's side doesn't feel sorry for you anymore, right? ”

"Your Majesty, Sister Zhou is good to her concubine!" Tian Guifei raised her head, looked at Emperor Chongzhen, shouted tears in her beautiful big eyes, and said in a low voice, "Does Your Majesty have a crush on which sister again?" It's rare for a concubine to wait for Your Majesty once, but Your Majesty is so absent-minded! ”

"......" Emperor Chongzhen listened, paused for a while, came back to his senses, and understood what was going on, he couldn't help but reach out and lift Tian Guifei's chin, and said with a smile: "Aifei, do you want to know?" ”