"The mercury in the bilge has also seen it, count your poplin, take out 12,000 taels of silver, and let you go!"

Since he understood this, Wang Tong was not ambiguous, and went to the deck to offer the price directly, the captain and several leaders of this sea ship had bitter and dark faces, and they were silent for a long time.

Wang Tong saw their faces, this was really the appearance of stealing chickens and rice, and couldn't help but quip:

"You have to make a profit of more than 30,000 taels inside and out, and is it more than 12,000 taels of fines? If you really meet someone with a black heart, you will not give 20,000 yuan. ”

The words were a joke, but the people who could listen to it did not dare to take it as a joke, and a few people on the ship understood that if the twelve thousand were not given, the draw would rise to twenty thousand.

Everything can be discussed, but this money is not negotiable, although the leader of this ship is still a prisoner, accompanied by caution for fear of dying here, but when it comes to this, it is also careless.

"Big lord, the little ones are doing things for the Three Water Kings, and they lost so much money at once, and the little ones can't explain it... Even for the big man, I'm afraid it's a little hindered to the big man. ”

It has not been 24 hours since I stopped these sea ships yesterday, but I have heard a lot of knowledge and anecdotes that I didn't know before, including the huge profits of certain goods traded between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese Kingdom, as well as this "Three Water King" that I had never heard of.

Because there was no impression in his mind, Wang Tong turned his head directly to look at Tang Shan, Tang Shan's dark face was much lighter at this time, and when he saw Wang Tong looking over, he hurriedly said:

"Sir, go away and talk."

His voice was actually a little trembling, he was a rough man and he didn't understand the politeness of "borrowing a step to speak", but it could be seen that this Tangshan was already extremely scared.

Wang Tong frowned and Tang Shan bypassed the cabin on the deck, and walked to a place where the sight of those few people could not see, and when they got there, Tang Shan knelt on the flute with a plop, kowtowed again and again, and said:

"Damn the villain, damn the villain!"

"If you have anything to say directly, you will know when the time comes, whether you should die or not!"

Wang Tong was a little impatient, what kind of strange thing did this make, Tang Shan trembled, and then he wanted to understand who was in control of his life and death now, and replied in a trembling low voice:

"So much mercury, the little one should have thought that ordinary maritime merchants couldn't do this business, but I didn't expect it to be the business of the Three Water Kings, this is the villain who is confused and damned, and he will call for trouble for the eldest lord!"

"Who is the Three Water Kings?"

"Have you ever heard of the name of the owner of the Five Peaks?"

"Don't sell it, it's to be clear!"

People in this era always like to talk about the ins and outs, which makes people anxious, Wang Tong is already angry, this Tangshan kowtowed and said:

"The owner of the Wufeng ship is Wang Zhi Wang, this Sanshui King is said to be the descendant of Wang Wang, and now he is also the leader of the largest sea power, in order to avoid the taboo of Wang's surname, the name is dismantled and called Sanshui, everyone calls him Sanshui King, it is said that he has thousands of boats, more than 10,000 men who work hard for him, sailing on the sea, they have to get a flag from him to sail, such a character is offended..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Tong laughed out loud and said coldly:

"Why do you think that the three-headed and six-armed figure is just a strongman on the sea, like a miscellaneous fish, is this kind of person also worth caring about?"

Immediately turned out from that side, I could see that the faces of several people who had just reported the name of "Sanshui King" were quite relaxed, faintly a little proud, and when they saw Wang Tong coming, they hurriedly became serious, Wang Tong came to him and said with a smile:

"Since it is the king of the three waters, the official doesn't say anything, fifteen thousand taels, after paying the money, he will sail away and traffic goods to the Japanese country, since there are heavy profits, the official can't just draw two, mercury, poplin, oxtail medicine, raw silk, etc., must be set at different tax rates."

After saying this, the faces of several people on the ship changed, the smile on Wang Tong's face disappeared, and he said in a cold voice:

"Who do you think you are, this official is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, the thousand households of the Ming Jinyi Guard, what are you, you dare to bargain with the official, with your share of the silver, the official is earned, and there is no loss without your share, weigh it yourself!"

As soon as the group stepped off the boat, a shipowner came over with a smile on his face, and the soldiers did not stop him, the shipowner had already knelt on the ground, kowtowed respectfully, and said with a smile when he looked up:

"Big lord, the little ones have paid the tax, and they are going back to the south, and they are estimated to come back twice a year ago, and I don't know if the big man has anything he likes in the south, and the small ones will bring filial piety to the big lord."

"You pumped so much money from you, and thank me so much!!"

Wang Tong joked with a smile, and the shipowner took out a scroll from his arms and said with a smile:

"It's covered with the big seal of the adult, with this tax payment paperwork in hand, back to the south has been able to pull more boats, buy more goods over, anyway, it is earlier than others, and you can make more money, this is the blessing of adults, besides, adults take taxes and small ones are not not not not earning, earn more and earn less, and make a lot of money in the future, this is all the kindness of adults!!"

The owner of the ship seemed to have read a book for a few years and spoke in a good manner, but listening to the ears of the owner of the fleeing sea ship, it was touched.

If the ship is detained here and does not go, it will not be able to earn a copper coin, and it will be held for a long time, and once the sea season is over, it will be a little later to go, and I don't know how many times I can run back and forth in the delayed time, and how much money I will make in the delay.

"In addition to the one that was sunk and the other that was detained, there were fourteen ships, and a total of forty-two thousand taels of silver were levied in taxes, and thirty-seven thousand taels were collected. ”

After tossing for three days, Wang Tong returned to the Tianjin Acropolis, the silver was collected quickly, looking at the tight appearance of the treasury, the people were really not short of money.

Those sea ships trafficked goods from the south to the north, and they all made a lot of profits, and the special products of the north they bought were at low prices, and they had a lot of silver in their hands.

As for the five thousand taels missing, it was owed by the ship transporting mercury, and it was really impossible to make up so much silver, and Wang Tong was not ambiguous here, and directly unloaded all the poplin on the ship for discount.

"You don't have to wait for them to come back and buy it, you can sell it directly locally, make the accounts and vouchers as soon as possible, and copy a copy and send it to Jingshi."

Wang Tong sat there and commanded in a deep voice, Cai Nan quickly wrote it down, put down the list here, Cai Nan picked up another account book and reported:

"The property of the firearms workshop Lu Mou was almost confiscated, 11,000 taels of gold, all of which were the money of the Japanese country, as well as more than 7,000 taels of silver ingots, and the rest of the items could be set up to have 80,000 taels."

After reading it, Cai Nan himself also sighed twice and commented:

"Don't hide it from adults, I have also seen a few raids in and outside the palace in the small palace, all of them are more silver and less gold, this Lu Mou is actually upside down, it is really rare."

"There is a lot of gold in the Wa Kingdom, and I don't know how many weapons this surnamed Lu has sold."

Wang Tong said with a gloomy face, the matter was not said, and the result was mentioned as soon as it was mentioned, and Sun Dahai hurriedly took the document into the room and opened his mouth to report:

"My lord, the ship of the Tong Wei has been recruited!!"

There are iron-clad people, but they will never appear in the people who transport weapons to the Japanese for the sake of greed for money, and the people of Jinyiwei have already come to the results before they have used the "advanced experience" of torture brought by Jingshi.

Now the biggest daimyo in Kyushu is the Otomo family, and the rest are all passively beaten, and the original weapons of each family can still be made by themselves, and then buy some with the big merchants of Sakai Town and Ishiyama, which is enough.

However, the oppression of the Otomo family became more and more severe, and the blockade of the sea route became more and more severe, and the big merchants of Honshu Island refused to offend the million-stone name of the Otomo family for some small business.

At the present time when the great names of the Japanese Kingdom were attacking and killing each other, without the supply of weapons, they would kill themselves, and at this time, the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty discovered this business opportunity.

The pirates originally tried every possible way to get through the door of Gonggong Lu in order to obtain good weapons for themselves, but later they hit the idea of trafficking.

In order to maintain the situation, they would rather buy weapons from the Ming Dynasty at a high price, and the pirate smuggling and trafficking of the Ming Dynasty also has the advantages that the Japanese merchants do not have, that is, for the Ming pirates with thousands of ships and tens of thousands of people, the Daimyo of the Ming Kingdom did not dare to interfere at all.

This business has only been done year after year, in the recollection of several stewards of the firearms workshop, there were even two years at the price of 3,000 taels each, sold a few small cannons, although the cost of manufacturing is only a few dozen taels, such a weapon is nothing in the Ming Dynasty, and it is called "big cylinder" in the name of the Wa country.

What makes people laugh and cry is that in addition to trafficking weapons to the Wa country, the Ming pirates also trafficked weapons back to the Ming Dynasty from the Wa country, the Japanese knives made by the craftsmen are very popular in the Ming Dynasty, it is a rare one to buy back the Ming Dynasty from the book to sell, and there are goods that can have twice the profit, the pirates' weapons are bought on the side of the Duke of Lu, and there are Japanese robbers to buy, naturally they are all high prices, and later the Japanese Daimyo sent his retainers to buy directly, although the price is cheaper, but they are all gold.

Originally, the Ming pirates took gold from the Wa Kingdom, but what they gave to Lu Gonggong was silver, and the gold-silver ratio between the two countries was very different, which was another profit.

Naturally, all this has disappeared now, and all the accumulated things have been copied by Wang Tong, and the relevant people are inevitably guilty of being killed.

"The physical evidence that can be transported to the Beijing division will be transported to the Beijing division, the confession will be passed on quickly, and a battalion of soldiers will be allocated to escort the prisoners to the Beijing division, this hot potato cannot be left in our own hands, we can start today, and we will leave today!"

Wang Tong didn't hesitate and immediately gave an order.

(To be continued)