The mountain rain in Yangzhou is coming, and Xu Yanshang can't help but feel sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox, and the people are panicked. However, Shi Kefa, the governor of Jiangbei, ignored the requests of the officials of the Yangzhou Association, and the Jiangbei governor began to impeach the Yangzhou prefect and other local officials one after another.

What made those Yangzhou officials and businessmen desperate the most was that the incident happened for several days, and they had already sent people into Beijing for activities, but no one in Beijing would pay attention to them. Including the backstage of each family at home in the past, the dividends and filial piety have never been broken in the past, but no one pays attention to them at this time.

In fact, what they don't know is that it's not those noble ministers who refuse to help them. In fact, as soon as the Yangzhou incident came out, Jiading Bo entered the palace, but it was a pity that the emperor cried in front of the emperor about Liu Jun's domineering, but the emperor reprimanded him, and it is said that the emperor even shouted out to cut off Zhou Kui's earldom.

In the end, if the queen hadn't come to persuade her, maybe Zhou Kui would have been knighted. Although the emperor finally let Zhou Kui go in front of the queen, he punished him, fined him for three years and fined 100,000 taels of silver, and let him go back to the house to think about it behind closed doors.

It is precisely because of what happened to the grandfather of the country that other people did not dare to accept the silver of the salt merchants in Yangzhou and refused to come forward for them. Everyone knew at this time that what Liu Jun did in Yangzhou was what the emperor meant.

The Jiangbei Governor impeached the officials of the Yangzhou Prefecture, and the Cabinet quickly issued an approval, and more than a dozen officials, including the Yangzhou Prefect, were dismissed from their posts on the spot, and several of them, including the Yangzhou Prefect, were also imprisoned.

As a result, when it reached Yangzhou, the atmosphere in Yangzhou City was even more heavy, and it seemed that the entire Yangzhou City was frozen and lifeless.

Within a few days, Liu Jun also copied the 36 salt merchants, and all the properties were copied out, including more than a dozen people who dared to harbor and transfer the property of the salt merchants. Liu Jun was personally responsible for the raid of the house, and all the soldiers who were dispatched were nine-headed birds, and all the criminal salt merchants' property was confiscated and registered.

Finally, Liu Jun sold and auctioned the houses, furniture, and jewelry of those salt merchants in Yangzhou. Liu Jun deliberately made the auction very popular, and it lasted for half a month.

In the end, all the confiscated property was auctioned off and exchanged for silver.

It was a staggering amount of more than 13 million taels of silver. Liu Jun didn't keep any of this silver, and all of it was reported to Chongzhen, and he was going to send someone to escort it into Beijing to send to Chongzhen.

Liu Jun has been in Yangzhou for more than half a month, but it has made Yangzhou City change color when he hears Liu Jun's name, and even has the ability to stop crying. And after Liu Jun killed him, he and Shi Kefa also built the Yangzhou Customs Yamen in Yangzhou.

Yangzhou Customs is located in Yangzhou Port outside the city, and a large place has been demarcated. Began to recruit craftsmen to build the yamen, as well as the cangcheng. According to the plan, this customs will build a large warehouse city, and a city wall will be built outside. In the future, the goods imported and exported from Yangzhou Port must first enter the customs after entering the port, send them to the creation of customs declaration and verification, and collect the goods after taxation.

There are four types of tariffs: introduction tax, water tax, land tax and additional tax. Among them, the introduction tax is the license tax, and all maritime merchants who import and export from Yangzhou Port. They must first declare the introduction, obtain a license, pay the introduction tax, and register the information of the vessel and personnel.

And the water tax. It is taxed according to the size of the ship, and those who sell ships to the West are more than 1 zhang and 6 feet wide, and 5 taels of silver are levied; For every additional 1 foot, an additional 5 yuan of silver will be levied. The number of ships going to Luzon and other places in the East Ocean is smaller, and it is three-tenths less than the number of ships going to the West.

Land tax, which is a tax on the import and export of goods, is levied at 5% of the value of goods.

Additional taxes. It was because many of the ships returning from Luzon and other places at this time carried more silver taels than goods, so those ships returning from Luzon were taxed an additional two hundred taels of silver per ship. If the ship is returning rice. then the tax on silver per stone of rice is one and two cents.

Customs taxes are mainly these four categories, and there will be some port charges for specifics.

After the establishment of the customs, there will still be customs smuggling, and those who do not have a customs issuance will be investigated and punished.

Rome was not built in a day, and Liu Jun did not expect that this customs would really put an end to smuggling in one day.

However, these things that Liu Jun did in Yangzhou quickly spread throughout the southeast coast.

Many people are silent, and no one can say what it will be if it doesn't explode in silence, but perish in silence. No one wants to watch Liu Jun build the customs all the way, and no one wants to spit out the meat in their mouths again.

But there are 36 salt merchants in Yangzhou who have lost their heads, and no one is willing to be this up-and-coming bird for a while. They were all waiting for others to come forward first, and in this silent atmosphere, Liu Jun clapped his hands in Yangzhou and crossed the Yangtze River with his soldiers and horses to Nanjing.

Nanjing's prosperity is more prosperous than Beijing's.

Nanjing City is very prosperous, but Liu Jun is not a native bun who has never seen the world.

When Liu Jun entered Nanjing, he entered the city with his soldiers and horses. This time it wasn't 3,000, but more than 20,000. Seven battalions of nine-headed birds, more than 20,000 soldiers and horses are fully armed, new and neat armor, sharp weapons, and neat square formations. Liu Jun deliberately asked his subordinates to change into clean new military uniforms, especially the three thousand cavalry, which were divided into more than a dozen cavalry phalanxes, and the mounts of each phalanx were the same coat color.

Moreover, each cavalryman was also wearing a red cloak given by the Emperor after the review of the Emperor.

When more than 20,000 people lined up in hundreds of phalanxes and entered the city of Nanjing in a column, it really shook Nanjing.

Such a mighty division is indeed rare.

Although it is said that the Ming Dynasty started from the south and unified the north with the south. But over the years, the southern soldiers have been in ruins after all, and they are not as good as the soldiers and horses of the nine sides of the north who have been guarding the border all year round.

Moreover, the Tu doctor in Jiangnan has been keen on business and making money for many years, and the so-called annexation of land is actually just a habit, and there is not much money to be made in the land. In Jiangnan, almost all the people with a little capital went into business. Small capital to do business, large capital to do big business, or open a shop or rent, or take the money to lend to others, or the collective capital to the maritime merchants to go to sea trade, sit on the dividends.

In those places, the powerful capital accumulated more and more, and finally turned to buy land, and the land was finally concentrated in the hands of those landlords and gentry. And those ordinary farmers have also become their tenants, or simply take their own little land to serve those powerful people.

After surrendering, paying rent and farming under the hands of those powerful people is actually easier than paying and serving Yao under the hands of the imperial court, especially when they are under the hands of those powerful people, they can often be less exploited by local officials.

In the south of the Ming River, the cultivated land has been reduced compared with the beginning of the country, and the amount of taxes paid is less. The land endowment is decreasing, and the commercial tax is almost equal to nothing, Jiangnan is a paradise for those local doctors, and even ordinary people are living quite well. The saddest day of the Ming Dynasty is the north.

And now, Zhennanhou is here to move their piece of cheese.

Upstairs in a restaurant facing the street, Zheng Zhilong looked at the proudly martial Chu army on the street, and his face was a little heavy. Zheng Zhilong had earlier received a letter from his brothers, Zheng Zhifeng and Xiong Wencan, saying that the Marquis of Zhennan had invited him to Nanjing for a meeting. He hadn't taken it too seriously and wasn't going to come.

But then he heard that Liu Jun killed more than 30 big salt merchants in Yangzhou, beheaded and raided their homes, and set up a customs office, etc., Zheng Zhilong couldn't sit still.

Salt merchants mainly sell salt, and the establishment of customs will not affect them too much. But for the Zheng Group, which specializes in monopolizing maritime trade and even collecting large protection fees for maritime merchants, this will be a very influential matter.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't sit still, left the matter of Fujian, and hurriedly went north. However, after arriving in Nanjing, Zheng Zhilong did not immediately go to Yangzhou to see Liu Jun, he still had to observe this such a powerful national master.

In Nanjing these days, Zheng Zhilong has determined one thing, the imperial court is not good this time. The governors of the southeast have all changed, and even a new governor of Fujian and Zhejiang has been set up to govern Fujian, Zhejiang, and Taiwan.

Looking at Liu Jun's soldiers and horses, Zheng Zhilong was surprised. In my impression, when did the imperial court have such elite soldiers, look at the equipment and momentum.

Zheng Zhilong's strength has expanded rapidly in recent years, and he is even known as the King of the Fujian Sea, but the total number of soldiers and horses under his command is only about 30,000, and most of these soldiers are merchant sailors. But Zheng's soldiers and horses are strong in naval warfare, but when it comes to land, Zheng Zhilong thinks that there is still a big gap between him and the soldiers brought by Liu Jun.

"It's not that Liu Jun wants to discuss cooperation with us, but why do I think this Liu Jun is not good at all?" Zheng Zhilong's nephew Zheng Cai said that he is the nephew of Zheng Zhilong's own family, but he is only ten years younger than Zheng Zhilong.

"Big brother, this matter, you see?" Zheng Zhibao couldn't help but look at his eldest brother Zheng Zhilong, who was standing by the window without saying a word.

Zheng Zhilong's original name was Zheng Yiguan, and later after he took over the leader after the sea thief Yan Siqi, Zheng Yiguan divided the soldiers and horses into eighteen departments, led by eighteen people, and eighteen people changed their original names, and the new names all used a Zhi character, known as Eighteen Zhi, Zheng Yiguan changed his name to Zhilong, and several of his brothers changed their names to Zhihu Zhibao Zhifeng, as well as Zhiyan, Zhixiong and so on. Since then, Zheng Yiguan has been called Zheng Zhilong.

"It's time to go and meet the Marquis of Zhennan."

As the king of the sea, Zheng Zhilong is actually only thirty-five years old this year. One official. Zheng Zhilong crisscrossed the sea, but was recruited several times before and after. Now the deputy chief soldier of Fujian, he moved his base camp from Taiwan back to Fujian a few years ago. Zheng Zhilong still attaches great importance to the relationship with the imperial court, and when he rebelled after being recruited, it was also because the imperial court did not pay enough attention to it.

Later, the imperial court gave him the position of a guerrilla general, and Zheng Zhilong was immediately recruited again. In these years, he swept away those pirates in the name of the imperial court, waged war with the Dutch occupying Taiwan, and protected the Chinese merchant ships on the sea, which was exactly the life he once dreamed of.

In fact, Zheng Zhilong has always been just a businessman, and he just wants to be a businessman.

"Send a post to Zhennanhou, and I'll visit him myself later." Zheng Zhilong said slowly, no matter what, Liu Jun has already come, and he can't avoid it if he wants to or not.

It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, no matter what, let's meet and see first. (To be continued......)

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