They said that they could not have a navy, and Hokkaido and its fishing grounds were cut out, and it was a country with insufficient resources, so what did they use to develop?

As long as the sea area is still dominated by Zhao Yan's navy, he will not want to turn over for a day.

At the same time, the Tokugawa shogunate had a strong ruling surname, as long as soldiers and horses were sent on land to help them maintain their rule, it was said that Ben would always be in darkness, and if those radicals jumped out, they would inevitably be the target of Zhao Yan's strangle.

The tariff exemption for trade, and the merchant ships of other countries cannot pass, which means that the tariffs of the book are in the hands of Zhao Yan.

Of course, it would be too unrestrained to blatantly go to other people's territory to collect tariffs, but when exporting, tariffs can be increased.

As a result, the export tax on the book was raised to around 40%.

The news spread quickly, and many businessmen were moved, Zhao Yan finally opened up the sea trade, and some businessmen in Shandong had been waiting for a long time.

Hearing that Zhao Yan was about to open up sea trade, many merchants went to Zhaojiabao to inquire about the news.

At this time, the news of the reconquest of Taiwan reached Shandong.

The territory controlled by Zhao Yan has expanded to Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island in the east, to Monan and Mobei in the north, and to Moxi in the west.

As the territory expands, the map needs to be replaced. Zhao Yan immediately asked people to draw and publish the "Map of the Ming Dynasty in the Eleventh Year of Chongzhen", which added ten provinces to this map.

They are Liaodong Province, Dingdong Province (Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido are one province), Nurkan Dusi (northeastern Liaoning), Korea Province, Monan Province (later Inner Mongolia region), Mobei Province (later Mongolia), Moxi Province (Xinjiang Province), Taiwan Province, Xiangshan Province (Hawaiian Islands), and California Province (west coast of North America).

Each province will send a governor, but his authority is different from that of the governor of the imperial court, that is, the governor, and he does not have the power to meddle in the military.

The provinces of Xiangshan and California have governors with certain military powers, and there are already governors in these two regions, so there is no need to send them.

There are 7 new provinces in the north, east and west, and the other 3 are Taiwan, Xiangshan, and California, of which Mobei and Moxi are not yet fully controlled, and these two places will fall into their hands sooner or later.

The new map was not very precise, but the general areas of the provinces were indicated on the map, which was then published.

The new map also identifies agriculture and resource types on the provinces. For example, in Taiwan, the label is a rice and sugarcane. The Hawaiian Islands are labeled with sugar cane, and there is also a tourist sign, and the California region is labeled with wheat, cotton, and gold.

The Hokkaido Fishing Grounds, on the other hand, marked a large fish.

In Mongolia, livestock is labeled as animal husbandry.

The Northeast and Nurgandus regions are marked with timber, minerals, rice, corn, soybeans and livestock. It is accompanied by a detailed introduction to the resources, as well as the mode of transportation and immigration incentives, mainly to facilitate businessmen to do business and attract people to immigrate.

At the beginning of May, Zhaojiabao officially issued the "Atlas of the Ming Dynasty in the Eleventh Year of Chongzhen", and at the same time passed and promulgated the "Regulations on the Administration of Ocean Trade".

The regulations stipulate that Ming merchant ships can go to Yueben, Korea, Dingdong Province, Taiwan, and Xiangshan Islands to trade, and Taiwan will be used as a concentration of trade with Xiyi, and no trade with Xiyi will be allowed in other places without permission.

Generally, 20% will be charged for commodities that are not restricted and commodities that are not encouraged for export, and 40% of the import and export tax will be charged.

All merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty are subject to this regulation, and those who evade taxes will be beheaded.

In terms of tax collection, in addition to setting up tax collection points at each port, there are also checks at sea.

Each merchant ship must first register detailed information, what is the name of the owner, how old he is, where he is from, where he lives, and what he looks like.

When going to sea, the goods are registered at the port.

Then the sea will be checked, the offshore fleet will conduct an inventory in various waterways, and all the merchant ships that are inspected must present a list of goods and tax payment bills.

Bills and cargo lists can be faked, so the offshore fleet must find out the amount of cargo on board during the inventory and then record it.

The records are summarized every year, and whoever falsifies can be seen at a glance, and then people can be arrested according to the registration information, and whoever evades taxes, cuts off someone's head, and confiscates all family property.

Taxation is the lifeblood of a country.

Strict investigation + severe punishment can scare most people.

Businessmen can trample on everything for 300% profit, this sentence is a bit too absolute, and the reason why there is 300% profit is also because some businessmen are scared.

Not all businessmen are willing to take risks under the wind of strict scrutiny, and the danger is very great, and once caught, everything is over.

Whether there is a law or not is one thing, and whether it is strictly investigated or not is another.

If there is a law that is not investigated, it is basically the same as nothing.

There are still those who are willing to take risks, but they are not very formal businessmen, and many may be outlaws who do not have much capital and want to get rich overnight.

At the same time, the regulations stipulate that anyone who reports smuggling and tax evasion by the shipowner will be given one-fifth of the confiscated property, and the shipowner has the right to know the details of the trade when the shipowner is trading.

Later generations caught drug trafficking was given one-tenth.

Most of the drug cartels are relatively hidden, and the police can't catch them at all, and with the level of the policemen's wine bags and rice bags, it is almost impossible to catch the drug cartels.

The ways in which those drug cartels hide drugs can be described as full of tricks, and even foreign police with advanced inspection equipment can get through the eyelids, and the Chinese police want to catch them?

Those who will be caught are all reported by ghosts.

After receiving the report, I went to arrest him, and then immediately called a TV reporter and said how powerful he was, which was all nonsense.

Drug trafficking cannot be fully caught by reporting, because drug cartels are very tight-knit and it is difficult to penetrate them.

Ocean trade is different, a merchant ship must have a certain number of sailors, these sailors as long as they pay attention to whether they have paid taxes in the port when they go to sea, or whether the merchant ship has hidden goods in advance on a certain shipment, or whether they have not paid taxes when entering the port, they can report it directly.

After making a report, the whistleblower can change his name and surname, go anywhere he wants, or live under the protection of the police forever without any worries.

Of course, if a merchant ship encounters an accident, such as a storm and landfalls somewhere, that's a different story, as long as the crew unanimously testifies.

Under such a two-pronged approach, there is generally no merchant ship that does not enter the port to pay taxes.

As long as you enter the port to pay taxes, most of the taxes can't run. The only way to evade taxes is to put the valuable province of Dongzang somewhere on the ship, which requires careful inspection and a call on the crew to keep an eye on it at all times.

At the same time, more than half of the crew must have graduated from the 'Navigation Technical College', because the sailors who come out of the technical school are very familiar with the matters to be reported, and at the same time have the means to deal with some emergencies.

In addition to reporting smuggling, you can also report goods and items that are prohibited from export, as long as they are related to things that may improve the quality of foreign technology, they are all prohibited from exporting.

Even books related to science and technology are prohibited from being exported.

All those books need to be registered before being brought on board, and the crew must also supervise the whereabouts of the books.

The technological blockade has reached this level of strictness to the point of perversion.

As far as Britain is concerned, the current annual tax revenue is about 30 million taels of silver, which is higher than the tax of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the silver in the West is not very valuable, and the real tax revenue is still not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, it is also a considerable amount of financial revenue, and most of the 30 million taels are taxes from maritime trade.

Westerners have nothing to match Chinese goods, and as long as the maritime trade develops, Western gold and silver will soon flow into the Ming Dynasty.

Direct trade with Westerners, that's not allowed.

Because that's so lucrative!

Huge profits to the point where it is not clear how much tariffs to charge is appropriate.

In fact, Zhao Yan's open ocean trade is not real ocean trade at all, it is just an internal circulation of goods, and it is simply a famous way to collect business taxes.

After all, a 10% business tax is still too little.

This is called a clever name.

The only thing that can be regarded as ocean trade is the market. The real ocean-going trade is intended to be a complete monopoly. It is tantamount to giving traffickers an additional business route.

After the promulgation of the "Regulations on the Administration of Ocean Trade", many businessmen were disappointed, because the restrictions were still very dead, but the opening of the book still made some people very excited.

The market is still profitable, even if it is 40% export tax and 40% import tax, but where do merchant ships come from?

If you want a merchant ship now, there are very few opportunities to buy it in Shandong.

Shandong's clippers are basically supplied to the Ministry of Commerce for ocean-going trade, and if private individuals want to buy clippers, they have to wait for the shipyard in Liaodong!

With the expansion of the demand for merchant ships, the price of merchant ships has risen all the way, which has also stimulated the development of the shipbuilding industry, and in less than a month, the number of shipyards registered with the industrial and commercial bureau has increased from more than a dozen to more than 20, directly doubling.

In contrast, the "Atlas of the Ming Dynasty in the Eleventh Year of Chongzhen" has added ten provinces, which is dumbfounded, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty has expanded from south to north, and has expanded to a very exaggerated level, and even the Americas hundreds of thousands of miles away have the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as the atlas was released, many people bought it.

As soon as 100,000 copies were printed, they were snatched up by various departments, and the Ministry of Education grabbed the most, and they didn't sell much when they were actually taken out.

But when I took it out and sold it, the sales were also very hot.

Intellectuals in Shandong are very interested in this thing, even if they are not intellectuals, it is a good choice to buy a map and hang it back, there is a map to point to and tell a story.

The printing house printed 300,000 copies again, and the printing equipment started work overnight, which temporarily blocked the shortage of supply.

Not too expensive after all.

Zhao Yan's prestige also rose with the spread of this atlas, and more and more people believed that Zhao Yan had the ability to become a prosperous monarch.

Ping said that Zhao Yan often communicated with the literati of the Ming Dynasty in the newspaper.

This time was no exception.

It is a platform for communication that can change the impression that many people have of him.

A Jiangnan scholar asked, where did Zhao Yan have to fight to stop the army?

Zhao Yan's answer in the newspaper was: "Conquer or completely eliminate all alien races that may pose a potential threat to our race, and if conditions permit, the extremely cold north and south poles can be occupied." ”

His answer was surprising.

However, this sentence has also become a respected rule that people believe in later.

However, now, Zhao Yan's words have been criticized by some deeply poisoned literati, saying that it is the wind of violent Qin, and it will eventually perish.

Zhao Yan did not make any rebuttal to this topic.

This is a question of the benevolent and the wise, and everything speaks with facts!

The expansion of the Ming Dynasty territory still attracted many enthusiastic people to Shandong, and they naturally came to Shandong if they wanted to make meritorious contributions, and it was the dream of many people to make meritorious contributions, but the imperial court did not give them a chance.

The problem of fighting a war basically does not require Zhao Yan to worry about anything, but economically it is necessary to keep up, except for Zhao Yan's means of opening up sea trade and monopolizing ocean trade.

Efforts were also made on salt taxes and commercial taxes.

By the end of May, the affairs of the Jin merchants had basically been dealt with, and the armed police forces of the provinces had also been put in place.

Tax collection is about to begin!

The purpose of the armed police force stationed in various provinces is mainly to suppress bandits and collect taxes, and this is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people! The salt tax is Zhao Yan's, and the commercial tax is the cabinet's.

Illicit salt is the focus of the ban, and the salt in Bohai Bay is enough to supply the entire population of Daming, and as long as the market is sufficient, the salt production in Bohai Bay can continue to expand.

The premise is to kick Huaiyan out of the market, and there is no hurry to raid the house.

Jin Shang is still under review! More than half of them have already been sentenced to beheading, and the charge of treason and collaboration with the enemy can be regarded as death.

The confiscated property also flowed into Zhao Yan's pocket.

The amount of cash seized has reached nearly 60 million taels of silver, which accounts for more than half of last year's fiscal revenue.

Those real estate have begun to cash out one after another, a lot of real estate is useless to stay in his hands, Zhao Yan is not in business, that kind of small profits, it is really not eye-catching, and it is a waste of management personnel to operate, and the scale is not professional, it is better to sell it and cash out.

The real estate in hand is estimated to be worth tens of millions of taels, which is not the value of the land, and the land is not intended to be cashed out, and the underground of Shanxi is full of coal.

There are also some pieces of land that have crossed provinces, and those lands have been kept in their hands first, so as not to have to be demolished and relocated for any projects in the future.

Coupled with the tens of millions of taels of goods confiscated from the Confucian Mansion, Zhao Yan will have money to repair the railway next year, and the salt merchants are not in a hurry to check it, after all, the salt merchants have not done anything to betray the country, and it is impossible for Zhao Yan to make a dead hand.

After arriving in the designated provinces, the armed police units of various provinces immediately dispatched intelligence personnel to develop down-line and reconnaissance intelligence, and most of the intelligence personnel brought by the armed police force were not from Shandong, not local intelligence personnel, so it was not very convenient, so it was necessary to develop local intelligence personnel.

It is very simple to carry out intelligence activities in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, because there is no counterintelligence agency, and the intelligence personnel have the support of force, and can even carry out intelligence gathering in the open.

Each province has a quota of 500 intelligence officers who will collect all kinds of intelligence within the province.

The armed police forces that have just arrived in other provinces cannot act without intelligence, and these intelligence officers are equivalent to their eyes.

The most necessary objects of intelligence collection are bandits and remnants of thieves, and once they are discovered, they will immediately organize a clean-up, and the force of 5,000 people in a province will still be enough to clean them up.

The bandits of this era are all cold weapons, and it is generally easy to suppress them. Musket + artillery, even if the bandits are guarding the cottage, it is very simple to break through.

But in the matter of suppressing bandits, bandits will not wait there for people to fight many times, and many bandits are often wandering, which makes people have a headache, and they must rely on pervasive spying, and intelligence personnel are very necessary.

It is easiest to inspect the illegal salt.

This is a very experienced task for the armed police force, and the previous inspection brigade has summed up a lot of experience.

First of all, many of the smugglers have some armed forces, so each checkpoint must be very guarded, encounter a relatively large caravan, first aim with a musket, control the caravan people, once the other party does not lay down their weapons within a certain distance, immediately retreat, and then send someone to follow, while contacting other squads, together to intercept it.

At the same time, when the smuggled salt dealers sell the smuggled salt to a certain place, someone must be responsible for the sale, and once they can't get the bills, they will first arrest the salesman, knock out the local sales point, and then help the salt merchants who sell Shandong salt to occupy the local market.

Generally, when the armed police force enters a province that has never been active, it first exterminates the bandits on the main trade routes, so that those legitimate salt merchants can enter unimpeded.

In contrast, although the collection of commercial taxes is also very strict, they are all caught one by one, and if they are not caught, forget it, and if they are caught, they will be considered unlucky! After all, there are still bandits to be suppressed, and obviously there is not so much time to take care of.

The situation varies from province to province and has different priorities.

Take Jiangnan as an example, the main thing is to collect commercial taxes and inspect illegal salt, after all, there are not so many bandits. In other remote provinces, there are many bandits, and there are a lot of restless toasts.

The various acts of the armed police force in relieving the victims of the disaster, exterminating bandits, and eliminating violence and peace in various provinces have been widely praised, but in the Jiangnan region, they have made those industrialists and businessmen miserable.

It's really a business tax!

And it is not collected by the government, but directly by Shandong.

If it is collected by the government, there is still a leak to drill, after all, those businessmen and officials have friendships, just say hello!

But the armed police force sent by Zhao Yan is different, whoever is caught has to be collected, and the only thing that is acceptable is that a batch of goods is transported to other places, as long as the commercial tax is paid once, and the next checkpoint can be passed with the documents.

At the same time, Zhao Yan also began to collect commercial taxes on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

All the ships that take the canal pay a 10% commercial tax, which is really pitifully low, but suddenly they have to pay the tax, and those industrialists and businessmen are crying bitterly one by one, as if they have died of their parents.

Zhao Yan doesn't care, I have to mention it in the future, 10% is too little!

Where is this money to build infrastructure?

(To be continued)