This scene suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes, whether it was Wang Fulin, Baron Franco, the murderous party, or Jia Nalao and the idlers around him, they couldn't help but be stunned.

For Wang Fulin, after seeing the attitude of Baron Franco and Bishop Janelau, although he ordered Ma Ti to immediately go back and deploy troops and horses into a state of alert, he felt in his heart that the situation should be under control, so in addition to the safety of the three small merchants, even he naturally gave birth to a bit of idler consciousness that it was not a big deal to see the excitement. Therefore, he really didn't expect that the impostor would take such a decisive way to save himself after being discovered.

Although he did not understand Portuguese, he was vaguely aware that Baron Franco, although he was gritting his teeth at the impostor, seemed to have an indescribable jealousy. Therefore, he originally expected to see a good scene of two sides pinching and even duel, but now that one of them has escaped cleanly, the excitement is not enough.

It was not only a bunch of guys watching the excitement who were dumbfounded, but also Baron Franco himself. He has confidently done all the foreshadowing, with the support of Wang Fulin, the representative of the Ming Dynasty, and the support of Bishop Jia Nalao from the Catholic Society of Jesus, he will definitely be able to kick that shameless guy into hell, but just when he easily caught the handle to show off his might, the person actually jumped directly into the sea...... Jumping into the sea! It's like he punches the cotton with enough strength, and he has to worry about facing a noisy wife and becoming a laughing stock in the social circle when he returns to Lisbon due to lack of evidence!

At this moment, he heard Wang Fulin's voice from behind him: "It wasn't just that impostor who came forward at that time. He also had about seven or eight people with him. As long as I can get the other people on this boat to come down and let me have a look. I was confident that I could recognize all the people involved. Also, the whereabouts of those merchants, and the whereabouts of their goods, I need a clear answer. ”

Thank God!

Baron Franco forgot that it was Wang Fulin who was holding him accountable, because for him it was the best chance to justify the Great Purge. Therefore, after glancing back at Jia Nailao next to Wang Fulin, he also nodded slightly. He immediately turned to his cronies and sailors, and boarded the ship through the rope ladder hanging from the bow. However, not long after he got on the boat, a loud gunshot was heard from the ship.

At this moment, the idlers of the two countries who were watching the excitement at the bottom were certainly in a commotion, and even Jia Nalao's heart jumped. After a moment of stunned, Wang Fulin frowned, as if talking to himself: "I see, I thought it was that impostor who absconded in fear of crime, but now it seems." Maybe it's just a random guy jumping into the water and then luring the real captain to board the boat. Grab the class and seize power again. ”

As if to confirm Wang Fulin's statement, after this gunshot, several gunshots were heard from the ship one after another, followed by the sound of swords, shouts of killing, and screams from the shiny Lisbon one after another. For a while, the local idlers who had come to see the excitement looked at each other, and they all slipped away, and the Portuguese did not care to see the excitement, some ran out of the dock to call for people, some ran to other boats, but more people immediately came up and surrounded Janelau.

Faced with this chaotic situation, hearing the shouts that he couldn't understand, Wang Fulin had to think about what kind of consequences the riot on that big ship would cause. For old acquaintance Sebastian? Baron Franco's life and death, he didn't worry much about it - it was useless to worry about it horizontally and vertically, everything had already happened, and he still underestimated the courage of that impostor, who dared to make a fuss on the ship after a false shot! But deep down, he was happy to see such a riot come to fruition, after all, with this incident, he had an excuse to meddle in Haojing!

Theoretically speaking, Haojing is the territory of the deputy envoy of the city, Xiangshan County, and Haidao, even if he can manage anything, there is not enough reason, even if he has the support of Ling Yunyi, the governor of Liangguang, it is not good to rush in.

At this moment, he happened to hear Zhao San Mazi muttering in a low voice: "Something happened when I first came to Haojing, could it be that it is a disaster again?" That real Captain Franco is really unlucky......"

The Disaster Star Shines High......

Wang Fulin couldn't help but turn around and glared at Zhao San Mazi fiercely, seeing that he immediately closed his mouth with a little weakness, he couldn't help but muttered to himself, thinking that his disaster star aura immediately had another attack as soon as he ran to Guangzhou and didn't stop for a few days? Although this horizontal and vertical is a fight in the nest of the Portuguese, but in the past, those small merchants were unpredictable because of their greed, and now that they are rioting, it is even more difficult to say.

Therefore, he immediately stepped forward to push aside the few Portuguese who were surrounding Janero: "Bishop Jia, I remember you mentioned before, this real Captain Franco is a baron?" ”

Janerou had just been dizzy from the noise of a group of people, and when he heard such a rhetorical question, he reacted immediately, and immediately shouted in Portuguese to the people around him: "Captain Franco is the Duke of Bragança's man, and this Lisbon is also sponsored by the Duke, you have time here to ask what happened, you might as well hurry up and find a way to stop the riot on that ship, otherwise it will be too late!" ”

In today's age, most of the people who sail the ocean in search of the New World are small businessmen who dream of making a fortune, and at most they are down-and-out aristocrats, such as Columbus who discovered the Americas and Magellan, who sailed around the world, are just from a mediocre background. As for the great nobles, of course, they do not take the risk to go to sea, but they tend to generously sponsor certain lucky ones. Baron Franco was very popular because of the silk he brought back to Portugal last time, and finally succeeded in bribing, as a collateral son but inherited the title of baron, and at the same time married the niece of the Duke of Bragança, a viscount.

The reason for the resumption of the voyage was only due to the factor of adventure and greed, and the generous sponsorship of the Lisbon by the Duke of Bragança.

Even if many people know that the battle on the Lisbon is probably just a ridiculous contest between two rivals. But the ship, which was about to return to Portugal, carried with it a large number of gifts to be presented to His Excellency the Duke. And. If Baron Franco really died on the ship. Then it will be really troublesome, very troublesome.

Although Wang Fulin couldn't understand what Jia Nailao said, from the expressions and demeanors of the people around him, he could see that he should be right, and his old acquaintance was indeed a relatively important person. But at this moment, someone at the bow of the ship actually cut the long rope ladder with a knife, and actually cut off the possibility of people on the dock boarding the ship to participate in the battle. Faced with this scene, he had to add a sentence by virtue of his identity as the imperial historian of Guangdong: "If you let this Lisbon number go." The case has become a headless case, and it has alarmed the governor of Liangguang and the general army of Guangdong, so the consequences can only be taken care of by all the Francophone people! ”

Knowing that this was a warning, Janellao immediately raised his voice and urged again. Although there were many Portuguese people living in Macao, there was no unified administration, so Bishop Janerou had considerable prestige among the Portuguese, even though he had different political views in the Church from several Jesuit missionaries. Under his order, the people who had just surrounded him to ask for countermeasures hurriedly dispersed and went to the two ships moored to the left and right of the Lisbon for help. After a while, the two boats began to hear the sound of thumping guns. Someone had shot at the bow of the Lisbon, and the planks and ropes for the seaboard were erected.

With the addition of the Forces nouvelles, the originally one-sided melee on the bow of the Lisbon gradually took a turn for the better. It was only at this time that Jia Nailao breathed a long sigh of relief. Even if there is a riot on the ship, it should not cause too many problems under this first suppression. He reluctantly squeezed out a smile at Wang Fulin: "Please rest assured, this little riot will be calmed down soon." ”

"I hope so." Wang Fulin said this, but his ears heard the continuous sound of gunfire and sword collision on the Lisbon, and the wailing and screaming were endless, but his mind gradually flew away......

According to the various documents and materials he consulted in the Liangguang Governor's Palace, as well as the information that Xiaobei had found out when he visited Haojing the previous time, Portugal occupied a huge part of Macao, and in addition to the annual rent of 500 taels, the tax was originally calculated according to the lottery, that is, the tax in kind, which was about 30 percent for each shipload of goods. However, because the Portuguese are accustomed to tax evasion, there is also the problem of selling and discounting points in kind, so from the middle and late stages of Longqing, this kind of drawing points has been changed to direct silver drawing, which is the so-called zhang drawing.

One of them is zhang, that is, to measure the length of the ship, and calculate the ship tax according to the ninth class, or call it the ship salary, according to later generations, it is actually the ship tonnage tax. For a large ship such as the Lisbon, when at berth, a tax of more than 500 taels of silver was paid - that is, a ship would pay a year's rent from the Portuguese in Ho Kyo.

The second is, of course, the tax. Compared with the previous tax draw, the tax rate for imported goods is by no means high, generally only one in ten, but the tax on spices is relatively higher. The tax on pepper is 20 percent, suwood is 15 percent, and most other goods are only 10 percent. As for the ships that did not bring goods, but came to trade laden with silver, they were paid only and no taxes were charged. Most of the valuation process was completed by the deputy director of the city department stationed in Haojing.

From the beginning of the Longqing restructuring, I don't know whether it was the Ministry of Household Affairs of the DPRK or the Municipal Department of Shipping that carried out preliminary calculations, and then went back and forth with local officials in Guangdong, and finally set a figure of 26,000 taels of silver to be shipped to Beijing every year. Compared with the annual rent of 500 taels leased to the Portuguese, this figure has skyrocketed twice as much as the income of the time of the lottery era, which is enough to satisfy the emperor and the cabinet elders and the household department at that time. Moreover, this is also another new source of financial revenue in the Longqing period in addition to the opening of the sea in Zhangzhou Fuyue Port, the collection of ship salaries and import and export taxes.

However, the huge Haojing is Macau, and the tax revenue is really only more than 20,000 taels?

The answer, of course, is no.

Because the Zhang's draw only counted the ship's salary and import tax, but it must be known that the Portuguese were more likely to spend a lot of silver dollars, buy porcelain, silk, tea, sugar and other commodities from the Ming Dynasty, and ship them to Japan and Southeast Asian countries and even Europe and other countries to sell, so the export tax is a larger tax. However, there are also officials from the city department who are responsible, and Xiangshan County has ordered inspection, and there is no department responsible for this export tax. Therefore, every year the Canton government drew up an approximate figure, and then issued Australian bills to the 36 wealthy merchants, who came out to collect 10 percent of the export tax from the Portuguese.

Wang Fulin also saw in the document of the Governor's Mansion that the official who wrote the proposal at that time left a very proud sentence: "Thirty-six lines of silver, lift up and take one out of ten, Gai An sits and obtains, and there is no book, book, and torture rod." After reading it, his biggest feeling was that he clearly wanted to be lazy and wanted to collect money, which was just the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's outrageously low when he was set to be a lu, and he wanted the horses to run and the horses not to eat grass!

The imperial court set a quota to be handed over to the city department below, and these silver taels must be collected every year, which is a disguised tax system; The magistrate of Guangzhou issued Macao bills to the 36 banks, and asked the 36 banks to collect a fixed amount of this export tax, which is another disguised tax package system. It is conceivable that when the imperial court was satisfied with 26,000 taels, the treasury of the government at all levels in Guangdong and the pockets of the local officials at all levels in Guangdong should be quite full; And when the local officials in Guangdong were satisfied, the wealthy merchants of the 36 lines made a lot of money through trade on the one hand, and made a fortune through the concession of Macao bills issued by the government on the other.

A group of people who really make a lot of money, it goes without saying that the main thing is these wealthy businessmen in Guangdong and Fujian! However, while the merchants had money, they had to bear the danger of changing the imperial court's decrees, and they had little ability to resist when they encountered really powerful officials and changes in the imperial court. What's more, there is another biggest enemy of these wealthy businessmen, that is, smugglers who do not pay taxes!

Compared with these first-hand information obtained in the clerical office of the Liangguang Governor's Palace, after Wang Fulin stepped on the mirror this time, he also found another problem.

At this time, Portugal does not have an administrative body in the land of Ho Kwang, only the religious leader of Janero! In contrast, Portugal had a satrapy in Goa and a heavy army in Manraka, which had already been occupied. In the final analysis, today's Haojing is not even a concession in later generations, let alone a colony.

Although the riots on the Lisbon have not yet subsided, due to safety concerns, Janeroo does not want to stay in this place for long, and only hopes that Wang Fulin will follow him out of here. However, no matter how good he said, Wang Fulin seemed to not understand, and refused to move half a step under his feet. And he was in too much hurry when he first came out, and he ordered two priests to stay at the cathedral of Our Lady of Hope, and did not bring a single retinue except for the two locals who carried the sedan chair, and now the dock was empty, and all the men were on the Lisbon to quell the rebellion, where could he find someone to report back?

At this time, he heard Wang Fulin muttering to himself again.

"Could it be that the original riot has subsided, but the people who rushed to the boat to help saw the gold and silver treasures on the ship, and their eyes were dazzled, and they changed from helpers to robbers?"

PS: Two shifts today. After checking countless information, the tax and tax rates in Macao at the end of the Ming Dynasty are probably like this, of course, tax evasion is very serious (to be continued. )