readx; Since the establishment of the Phi Dao Commercial Bank, Zhu Youzhen intends to continue to maintain the status of the "free port" of Phi Dao, as he did during the Mao Wenlong period. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn addition to the ships of the trading houses that can trade overseas, of course, overseas merchant ships must also be allowed to trade on Phi Dao. This brings us to two major issues: safety and regulation.

The so-called security naturally refers to the defense of Phi Dao. Donggang Town now only has Phi Dao and a number of small islands nearby, although it is a small place, and the number of troops is not very large, but it is between Korea and Houjin, and it can be attacked and retreated, and its strategic position is very important. If Shanhaiguan and even Jingshi are the main battlefield of the front line in the future, then Phi Dao is the second battlefield behind enemy lines, which can harass the rear of Houjin and involve its troops, so that the Tartars do not dare to attack the main battlefield with all their might.

So there is absolutely no room for error in Phi Dao. Since it is an island, as long as the fleet that comes to land is guarded, the Jurchens can only look at the ocean and sigh. And will the cunning Jurchens secretly send people to the island to sabotage under the guise of trade, or even attack the island directly? Zhu Youzhen must take this possibility into account.

Therefore, the first thing Zhu Youzhen asked Huang Long to do was to reorganize the Phi Dao sailors. Originally, there were a total of seventeen warships on Phi Island, among which Mao Wenlong's flagship was the largest, which was a fortune ship of 800 materials, but when converted into a displacement, it was about four or five hundred tons. The remaining three 600-material warships, which were owned by Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming, were now also taken away by the three. The rest are mostly 400-feed boats, and even small boats of 100-material, which are not much bigger than fishing boats.

Zhu Youzhen ordered Huang Long to sit on the flagship and not to disembark unless there were special circumstances. Mao Chenglu is stationed on Phi Dao and is responsible for daily management. In the final analysis, Zhu Youzhen is still not very relieved about Mao Chenglu. If Mao Wenlong had been killed, he would never have left Mao Chenglu on the island. Now that Mao Wenlong is going to be escorted to Beijing, Mao Chenglu should not dare to do anything, and Phi Dao is extremely short of talents, and under expediency, Zhu Youzhen has no choice but to let him stay in office. In the future, as long as there is a suitable candidate, Zhu Youzhen will definitely transfer Mao Chenglu away. Now let Huanglong directly take charge of the fleet, even if Mao Chenglu has different intentions, he can't do anything without a ship.

Zhu Youzhen's short-term task to Huanglong was: For the time being, there is no need to rush to attack Houjin, and the coastal defense of Phi Dao will be consolidated first. The daily fleet had to patrol in the nearby waters, and all ships that traded to Phi Dao had to stop in the open sea for inspection, and only after there were no problems would they be allowed to dock, so that the possibility of a surprise attack by the Jurchens was basically eliminated.

As for the taxation of foreign sea vessels, during the Mao Wenlong period, taxes were collected by ships, and a ship collected dozens of taels of silver. Compared with the transaction volume of tens of thousands of taels at a time, this amount of silver is really insignificant, so it can attract a large number of smuggling ships.

Zhu Youzhen changed this rule and changed to collect taxes according to the value of goods. This was common knowledge in previous lives, because the types of goods were very different and the value of the goods was very different, and the tax on the ship was simple but very unfair.

After changing to collect taxes according to the value of goods, although the supervision work was much more cumbersome, such as the declaration of the ship's owner and the verification of the garrison, and in order to continue to attract merchant ships to come, Zhu Youzhen also set the tax rate very low, which was not much different from before; However, Zhu Youzhen's purpose is to make the trading side develop the habit of paying taxes according to the regulations, and customs tax collection is also a natural right of a sovereign state, and after the total amount of foreign trade becomes larger, tax revenue will also be an important source of fiscal revenue, especially for the current Phi Dao. By self-support, Phi Dao can settle part of the military salary.

After arranging the defense and major economic issues of Phi Island, the next step is to dispose of the rest of the island's personnel. Some of them were workers recruited by Mao Wenlong to do the work, and these people were basically retained by Zhu Youzhen, because they were still indispensable for the construction of the island. And the most difficult problem is what to do with those thousands of women.

There is no doubt that Zhu Youzhen will never allow the technician to continue to exist on Phi Dao. But they were either taken captive by Mao Wenlong, or they came on their own initiative because of extreme hardship, and there were Japanese, Koreans, Jurchens, and even Europeans, and it was impossible for Zhu Youzhen to send them back to their hometowns one by one.

The results of consulting these women also confirmed Zhu Youzhen's judgment. Not to mention that they are homeless, even if they have a home, they have no face to go back. Years of Phi Dao's comedy career have carved deep scars in their hearts; How to heal these scars and let these poor women become normal people can make Zhu Youzhen think about it a lot.

At the beginning, Zhu Youzhen had considered simply leaving them on the island and marrying the soldiers guarding the island. But on second thought, this move was very inappropriate. Because these people have an unbearable past, even if they start a family in the future, but Phi Dao is not much old, and they don't look up to see each other when they look down, and once they meet the "customers" of the past, it is too embarrassing. If there is even "derailment" and other things because of this, it is very easy to cause contradictions between soldiers and soldiers, which is very detrimental to strict military discipline.

In the end, Zhu Youzhen made up his mind: to transport all these women back to Beijing. There, no one knows their past, and they can marry the people there and participate in the construction of the future Jingshi. This migration project is not small, and it will take at least dozens of round-trips to complete it. Zhu Youzhen strictly ordered: While waiting for the boat, no one is allowed to harass these women again, and violators will be immediately punished. and gave each of them twenty taels of silver, which was regarded as a little compensation for the bullying they had received in the past few years.

As for some of the foreign women among them, Zhu Youzhen singled them out, and after the storm subsided, he returned with him on the same boat. It's not that he wants to taste any "exotic", it's that these women know foreign languages.

Zhu Youzhen is now in urgent need of talents who know foreign languages, but the Ming Dynasty has always regarded itself as the superior country of the Celestial Empire, and almost no one knows foreign languages. He could not always count on those few missionaries, because they were too few in number, and second, they had other intentions in coming to China, so they could not rely too much on them. And these foreign women have no political purpose, and after being rescued, they are grateful, and they are really suitable to be foreign language teachers.

These seven days passed quickly in the midst of hustle and bustle. Although the affairs of Phi Dao are still complicated, Zhu Youzhen can't wait for a day, and what he is most concerned about in his heart is always the tens of thousands of border troops in Dalinghe.

He couldn't sleep at night this night, so he simply went to the beach with Yuan Chonghuan and observed the roaring sea against the biting cold wind. I don't know how long later, suddenly there was a bright light on the surface of the sea, which kept shining and changing with the rising and falling waves.

"What's that?" Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but wonder.

Yuan Chonghuan looked at it and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "That's the reflection of the moon in the sea!" Holy Lord, the weather is clear! ”