Regarding the second departure, Li Chen had an idea, he didn't plan to go the same way this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info plan to skip Guangzhou, hoping to make more money and save more time.

All ships that go to sea must be registered with the city envoy in Guangzhou, and then when they come back, they must also dock in Guangzhou for cancellation. Then there's the tax extraction. Li Chen planned whether he could make a direct flight to avoid the city envoys from Lingnan and Guangzhou.

If you say that Li Chen wants to smuggle, that's right, but it's hard to explain the inside story. First of all, in terms of tax collection, the Tang Dynasty got tariffs, also known as the foot of the ship, or the ingot tax. The tax rate is as high as 30%. That's right, thirty percent. That's a staggering number.

Secondly, to extract trouble, like Li Chen, who came back in June, the two Suleimans were sold to Li Chen at about the same time. Thirty percent of the tax revenue will be withheld for months.

In the Tang Dynasty, taxes were collected like this, and after your ship came, no matter how fast you ran or how early you came, it was the same. As the eunuch of the city, he will detain it first, and only after the wind has changed and all the ships have entered the harbor will he take 30% of it as a tax, and the rest will be returned to you.

Li Chen was really made to vomit blood by such a tax method, not to mention the high taxes, and it would be delayed for several months. It almost didn't kill him.

He originally thought that it was the eunuch temple that made it difficult. also gave a generous gift, but only in exchange, after a few months of return, Li Chen will be the first to row, that is to say, Li Chen gave a heavy gift, and people still have to detain you for a few months, this is the rule. Heavy gifts will only be exchanged for your tax first, and the rest will be refunded first.

Oh, by the way, the gift is not completely in vain, in addition to collecting 30% of the tax, the temple will also buy your spices and jewelry at a low price, because it will pass through Sri Lanka, which is now known as the Lion Country.

Anyone who has played the Age of Discovery knows that Sri Lanka is rich in gemstones, and it can be sold for a lot of money if you buy it and ship it back to Europe, and Li Chen also bought a lot of it. The heavy gift was not given in vain, and Li Chen escaped this layer of exploitation.

In the end, after a few months, the tax was pumped and the things were returned, congratulations, you can sell it in Guangzhou, and you can go to the market in Guangzhou. Well? If you want to sell it inland, you need another permit, and you can't get it right away.

Is it really enough, how many layers of skin does a layer of cattle have to be peeled before being willing? The tariff alone has reached 30 percent, and it needs to go through layers of checkpoints and exploitation to sell it.

Li Chen just thought that this time he would fly directly, and finally docked at Guangzhou and then paid taxes. Next time, he simply didn't even enter Guangzhou. Directly across Lingnan and Guangzhou (Lingnan also has a city envoy, with the same function), and then docked in Mingzhou, transported back to Yangzhou for sale.

If you think about it, it can be very economical. Both in terms of time and money. Save the feet, save the eunuchs to eat and take the card, so that you can save about forty percent.

Money is fine, the main thing is time, no matter when you enter the port, you will be detained for months. With these few months, he might be able to take a run. Of course, this is debatable, and whether the bow and crew can accept such a desperate run is a question. But these are all possible to overcome, except for the seizure of goods, which cannot be overcome.

This is very difficult for the seafaring technology of this era, because they all run according to experience, and it is a disaster to not be able to see the land for a long time.

Only Li Chen can do it, and if he measures accurately, he can ensure that he will not get lost on the sea. As for long-distance voyages, the possibility of scurvy and low mood of the crew, is the former a problem? For a traverser, a traversal of the crowd, a little understanding of the Age of Discovery, this is not a problem at all.

Besides, it wasn't really like Columbus, who had to sail across the ocean for 30 days in a row, and scurvy was not a big problem. As for the panic and low mood of the crew, it is up to the bow to get the incentive and the owner to get the reward, and I don't think it's a big problem.

Since the problem was not big, Li Chen decided to do it. Otherwise, what was the use of spending so much effort to study those latitude and longitude and astrological measurements? Before entering the Americas, it was almost useless.

Finally, there is the question of how to sell if he does this. A certificate of approved sale is required. In this way, you can sell in the storefront.

But now it doesn't seem to be a problem, Suleiman is coming back. Originally, his shop and industry were given to Li Chen. Li Chen originally planned to use his original shop to continue selling.

Then, Suleiman sold him several ships, which he intended to continue running as he had been. The tax will be paid as usual, and then the transportation and sales license of Datang will be obtained. In this way, he could cover the source of his other goods.

Well, this situation is so familiar, it seems that he once played a game called Tianxia Imperial Exemption. There is also a smuggling option in this game. Except for some things that cannot be sold in Japan through regular channels, many other smuggled things are already available in Japan, but these things will be much cheaper, and they can be put on the shelves for sale in the normal way. This way the profit is greater.

But now that Suleiman is coming back, he had planned to start anew when he returned. But Li Chen thought that since Suleiman had connections and experience, he would simply let him run it and hide behind the scenes.

Li Chen planned to sell his property back to him at half price, including the two ships he originally owned. Then, Suleiman followed the old way, so that Suleiman had a certificate of approved sales, while Li Chen did not retail at all, and after all the goods were shipped back, they were handed over to Suleiman for sale, and Li Chen gave him a percentage of the commission, or he could be a wholesaler and sell the goods to other approved merchants at a low price.

Compared with Nanyang, Li Chen attaches more importance to the trade of the Japanese state. Although the Wa Kingdom is still in urgent need of development, but it can bring him a lot of profits, some of the technology, the Wa Guo still has to learn, can provide a variety of minerals.

Japan has a lot of minerals, and although the volcanic zone often puts the Japanese people under the shadow of earthquakes, it also brings them a lot of hot springs and minerals. Although there are not many well-developed mines at present, and many well-known bonanzas have not yet been discovered, they have been developed so far, which is enough to make people enviable.

The most important thing is that there are few people running, and at present, there is only one trip to Japan in half a month, and there is only Li Chen's Pegasus, so that Li Chen is full. Although the profit of a single trip is not as good as that of Tianfang, it can't stand the short distance and fast back and forth. What's more, there is no need to trade with the Japanese countries.

Imports are still some of the Tang Dynasty's lack of gold, silver, copper and other minerals. Li Chen even plans to invest in a paper mill in Japan. Although it is so thousands of miles to transfer back, it seems that it can't be rowed. But Japan's abundant timber resources and cheap labor are more than enough to offset these costs.

Now that the Pegasus has been transferred, Li Chen is instructing Suleiman to replace the ship and take the Japanese line instead. And let Liang Kuai, on the premise of ensuring the safety of the ship, complete the current slipway, the Flying Dragon as soon as possible. When the time comes, I will run the route of the Japanese country to try the voyage.

This Wyvern is also an experimental ship. The length is slightly longer than that of the Takeoff Horse, and the width will be slightly increased. The focus is on the number of masts, which will increase to a staggering eight masts. The three masts in the middle were because Li Chen thought of them during this voyage.

If the hard sail can't be made bigger because of the material, then it's better to stand a few more. The Wyvern's masts will be juxtaposed with the left and right, so that the original three masts will become six masts.

Western soft sailing ships cannot do this because of the large sail area. As for the Chinese hard sail, since the sail surface cannot be very large, before overcoming this problem, Li Chen simply used two masts, which is equivalent to doubling the size of the sail. In this way, this speed may be able to reach the high speed of the flying clipper.

Whether the effect can meet his expectations, Li Chen is not sure. It can only be said that things are man-made. Besides, he also prepared a backup plan, in case the six masts didn't work, what about the metal masts? I got so much copper from the Wa Kingdom, and when the time comes, I'll make a copper mast and see how it works.

After commenting on this report, Li Chen picked up another report. About the theater. During the time he left, probably because he saw the profits of the theater, not only one appeared in the east and west of the city, but several theaters appeared.

The Fomen Theater was not restored, because in the fifth year of Huichang, the imperial court issued a stricter order to destroy the Buddha. Almost wiped out the entire Tang Buddhism. Before that, it only demolished all the temples, Lanruo, Buddhist halls, etc., which were less than 200 houses in the world, and ordered all the monks and nuns to return to the laity.

Now the intensity has been further increased, and in March, an edict was issued that only one temple was allowed to remain in each prefecture in the world. The lower state must be demolished. Chang'an and Luoyang were a little better, and eventually ten temples were retained in each of the two capitals. The rest were demolished, and all the bronze statues and bells of the abandoned temples were handed over to the salt and iron to melt and cast money, and the iron was handed over to Honshu to cast as agricultural tools.

The number of bhikshus in each temple was originally limited to 10 people, but it was later increased to 30 people and retained. The others, all the monks of the Tang Dynasty, who are under the age of 50, are all vulgar, and even those over the age of 50 who have not attained the degree of vulgarity must also be vulgar. He even ordered "more than 3,000 people to return to the customs", so that foreigners can get priests and monks to return to the customs, so that "there is no Chinese style".

In August, an edict was issued announcing the results of the destruction of the Buddha: "More than 4,600 temples have been demolished in the world, 260,500 lay monks and nuns have been returned, and two tax households have been collected; More than 40,000 houses were demolished and Zhaoti and Lanruo, tens of millions of hectares of anointed land were collected, and 150,000 slaves and maids were collected from two tax households. ”

The temples were demolished, and the theater could not have existed. The Buddhist theater no longer existed, and after Li Chen set a precedent, folk theaters were established one after another.

It's just a matter of establishing it, Li Chen is confident that the Buddhist theater can't compare to his theater. However, those folk theaters all imitate Li Chen, sauna is not a secret, and the food area can also be imitated, as a result, Li Chen's theater is facing an embattled situation. (To be continued.) )