Lin Zhe set his sights on Jianghaiguan, which was not a long-planned plan, but an idea that he came up with after he arrived in Shanghai.

When he led the army into Songjiang Mansion to suppress the Little Knife Society, the most direct factor was that Xu Naizhao promised Lin Zhe 80,000 taels of silver for the defense and 300 war horses.

This condition is the most direct reason why Lin Zhe did not hesitate to travel hundreds of miles to enter Shanghai.

After arriving in Songjiang Mansion, a series of sieges in Tongguò allowed Yu Shengjun to harvest a large amount of booty, as high as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver harvest made Lin Zhe have a more intuitive feeling of the wealth of southern Jiangsu, in order to capture more booty, he led the army to sweep the area of Songjiang Mansion, and even in order to avoid letting other Qing troops share these booty, he did not hesitate to launch an attack on Shanghai after a few days of hurried preparations.

From a purely military point of view, Lin Zhe's decision was a bit reckless, but in order to capture Shanghai before Xu Naizhao led the army to arrive, and keep all the spoils for himself, Lin Zhe couldn't control it so much.

After the capture of Shanghai, the value of the captured booty did not disappoint Lin Zhe's expectations.

After taking Shanghai, it also means that a series of military operations by Yu Shengjun into the Songjiang Prefecture area has come to an end, and as for Liu Lichuan with the remnants of thousands of knives, he is still active in the southeast of Shanghai, which is nothing to Yu Shengjun.

Before taking Shanghai, Lin Zhe once considered returning to Zhejiang after taking a handful, but after he really won Shanghai, Lin Zhe's thinking changed to a certain extent.

There is too much money in the Songjiang area, especially in Shanghai, if you can occupy and control this place for a long time, how much military spending can you bring to yourself? How much army can you allow yourself to expand?

In order to give himself a clearer understanding of the situation in Shanghai and the surrounding areas, Lin Zhe also had a deep talk with Pan Lixuan, the chief manager of the Shanghai branch of Lin's Commercial Bank.

During the conversation, Pan Lixuan's words touched him greatly!

At present, the treaty port of Shanghai exports almost countless goods every year, taking the main raw silk of the Lin firm as an example, the raw silk sold by the Lin firm to the Xinde foreign firm every year is as high as tens of thousands of bags, of which about 2,000 bags are exported to Ningbo, and the remaining 8,000 bags are exported to Shanghai, and the annual raw silk transaction volume of the Lin firm and the Xinde foreign bank alone has reached more than 3 million taels of silver.

The Lin firm is just one of the many domestic silk firms, and there are not a few in Ningbo and Shanghai, two treaty ports, that surpass the Lin firm.

And Xinde is just one of many foreign firms, and the scale is far less than that of those large-scale foreign firms such as Jardine Matheson.

Pan Lixuan told Lin Zhe that even the most conservative estimate was that last year, the export of raw silk from Shanghai reached at least 130,000 bales.

However, the problem arises that not all of these raw silk are legally exported after paying taxes, and in the context of rampant smuggling in contemporary China, no matter which port it is, it is common for merchant ships to leave the port secretly without paying taxes when they leave the port.

For example, of the tens of thousands of bales of raw silk they ship each year, only about half of them pay export taxes, and the remaining half are smuggled for export. Not to mention the fact that Sindh & Co. just smuggled out 2,000 bales of raw silk last month.

Expanding to the whole of Shanghai, only talking about the direct export and foreign merchants, at present, the official record of paying taxes on the export of raw silk is maintained at about 80,000 bales a year, but those who are engaged in the raw silk business in Shanghai know that this year, those foreign companies have purchased and ordered at least 130,000 bales of raw silk, of which at least one-third are smuggled exports, and it is impossible for Jianghai Beiguan to collect taxes from them.

This is the case in the raw silk industry, and the smuggling of porcelain and tea in the traditional export industry is also rampant.

Smuggling is rampant in China's export industry, and imports are no better!

At present, among the materials imported by China, in addition to traditional foreign goods such as spices, the biggest head is naturally opium, but at present opium is still not legalized in China, and the management of the opium trade varies from place to place; after some ports find out the smuggled opium, officials sometimes take 5 percent of the tax according to ordinary goods in order to avoid trouble, while some are seized in the name of smuggling, and some are simply let go, and the actual situation in various places is different even from day to day.

In the late Qing Dynasty, China's coastal smuggling trade was rampant, and despite the special case of opium, it still affected customs revenues.

China's tariff revenue has great potential to explode, which also means that there is a great possibility that the tax increase in Jianghai Beiguan in Jianghai Customs is very likely.

This also made Lin Zhe see a glimmer of possibility, if he can intervene in the customs, especially the Jiangbei Customs, and then vigorously crack down on smuggling, even if it is not the opium trade, but the import and export trade of ordinary goods can still create a huge amount of tax revenue for the Jiangbei Customs.

It is naturally impossible to increase several times on the current basis, but it is promising to increase it by five or six percent, and it is not impossible to even double it.

According to the current monthly tax of about 60,000 taels of silver in Jianghai Beiguan, if it is only increased by even 50 percent, then the total tax amount can reach more than 90,000 taels.

If a direct tax is also levied on opium, which imports a large amount, it is entirely possible that its tax revenue will be guaranteed several times.

It was precisely because of the great potential of this Jianghai Customs that Lin Zhecai led the topic to Jianghaiguan today.

So when Xu Naizhao said that Lin Zhe couldn't fight the idea of 60,000 taxes per month, Lin Zhe didn't care, everyone understands people, you want to take away the original 60,000 monthly taxes that belong to Jianghai Beiguan, not to mention that Xu Naizhao will not agree, even Xiang Rong and Qi Shan will not agree.

It is important to know that at present, the system of donating money is not perfect enough, and the scale of promotion is not large enough, and the Jianghai tariff, which costs tens of thousands of taels of silver every month, is one of the main sources of military spending for the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp.

Lin Zhe smiled and said: "Even if I want the 60,000 taxes, I'm afraid they won't agree to the adults, the adults can rest assured, I won't take any of the 60,000 taxes per month!" ”

When Xu Naizhao heard this, his face was puzzled: "Oh? ”

To be honest, now Xu Naizhao still doesn't understand what Lin Zhe wants?

Officials? Plotting to supervise the Jianghai Customs Road? , this is not very likely!

Because this superintendent of Jianghaiguan Dao is not an independent official position, it has always been concurrently served by Su Songtai Bing Beidao, and Su Song's Tai Bing Dao is actually just an ordinary Zhengsi Pin, and it is unlikely that Lin Zhe wants this Su Song Tai Bing Dao.

Because now Lin Zhe is the minister of the Qincha regiment training in Zhejiang Province, supervised by the Huzhou Li Donation Bureau, and more importantly, he has an army of 3,000 troops, although he does not have any local administrative power on the surface, but his actual power Su Song is too much prepared, Wu Jianzhang can only pretend to be a grandson in front of his eyes, Xu Naizhao has to politely say Lord Lin, and occasionally say Brother Lin Xian in order to get close, you must know that Xu Naizhao's age can be his grandfather.

In his capacity, he is not aiming at a four-grade Taoist, but a position of real power such as the governor of a province.

As for asking for military expenses from the taxes of the Congjiang Customs?

He has already made it clear that whether it is the tax in the old checkpoint outside the east gate or the tax in the Jianghai North Pass, these taxes have already been used as intended, that is, to supply the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp for military supplies, which is not something that Lin Zhe can change, and even Xu Naizhao cannot change.

If there is no hope for these two items, what else does he Lin Zhe want from Jianghai Beiguan?

At this time, I only heard Lin Zhe say slightly: "If Lord Futai can let the lower official run this Jianghai North Pass, I will not only guarantee that I will return this Jianghai North Pass from the foreigners within a month, but also the lower official can also guarantee that the Jianghai North Pass will continue to supply the 60,000 taels of taxes to the governor of Jiangsu in the future." ”

Xu Naizhao didn't answer, he was waiting for Lin Zhe to continue, because often this kind of words will have a twist like 'but' and 'and'.

Sure enough, after saying this, Lin Zhe paused and continued: "And all the officials ask for is that in addition to these 60,000 taels, if the taxes of Jianghai Beiguan increase in the future, then the remaining part will be used for my Yu Shengjun's monthly defense expenses!" ”

Xu Naizhao was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Lin Zhe to say this!

Lin Zhe said this very clearly, that is, the original cake will not be moved, how to use it or how to use it, Lin Zhe is asking for the increased tax part!

If you want to increase taxes, this kind of thing is not something that no one has thought about, and it is not that no one has done it, but the vast majority of them have failed, because this involves the overall smuggling environment in China, and if you don't crack down on smuggling, then it is impossible for tax revenues to increase significantly.

However, Xu Naizhao also guessed that since Lin Zhe dared to say this today, he probably already had some plans in his heart, and it was estimated that even if he could not raise taxes significantly in the end, he would add a few thousand taels or even tens of thousands of taels per month, which would be enough to support Yu Shengjun's defense expenses.

Although Xu Naizhao also thought that it was possible that there would be a large increase in the tariffs of Jianghaibei after Lin Zhe's rectification, but these are things that will not be seen in the future, and if the taxes of Jianghaibei Pass are really increased by a large margin, it will be a big deal to increase the amount of taxes to Jianghai Beiguan at that time.

The most important thing now is that this Lin Zhe wants to stay in Shanghai, as long as he can solve the problem of the assistance defense fee for him, and since Lin Zhe took the initiative to rectify the Jianghai Beiguan and use the surplus part as the assistance defense fee for Yu Shengjun, Xu Naizhao is naturally happy to see it.

As long as he didn't make his governor yamen pay tens of thousands of taels of silver every month for assisting in the defense, the other problems were not a big problem.

So he only thought about it for a moment and said, "Are you sure that you will get Jianghai Beiguan back from the foreigners in a short period of time?" Are you sure that the tax will increase after the rectification? ”

"If you can do it, it's not impossible, it's just ......" When Xu Naizhao said this, he dragged a long tail note!

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