In the Tianzi room of the vertical and horizontal restaurant.

Manager He Bin and the two generals in Guangzhou City were drinking together, but he was drinking the Zhang family's hundred years of loneliness, while the two generals were drinking the Liu family's ......

At the beginning, both parties were a little restrained, and it was a tentative contact, and the wine was not very refreshing.

Zhang Yue, the commander of the army in Guangzhou City, had just been promoted to the military rank, and he was in a very good mood, and after drinking a few glasses of wine, his interest began to rise, and his mind was completely opened......

He gulped down a mouthful of food, swallowed it in a few moments, poured another glass of wine with a bang, and then said in a sullen voice:

"Manager He, it's not interesting to talk in a dodgy way, I'll just say it...... My two brothers have arrested many bandits and their families these times...... The first evil has already been cleared out by us, and the bloody ones have also been punished...... As for the accomplices, they are now imprisoned at the mouth of the Pearl River, and the gentry and good merchants in the city of Guangzhou have donated some silver taels and grain...... I've heard that the Hantang Group still has some guns and artillery in their hands......"

Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, hurriedly took over the conversation at this time, and said hurriedly and slowly: "Fire guns and artillery are not the main ...... We'll have to find a way out for those bandits...... They are not guilty to death, if they stay in place in the future, they will harm one party, if they can be sent to Taiwan, it is the best, I heard that the Hantang Group needs all kinds of labor, this is the first thing I thought...... Those bandits are in this place, there is not a single ridge of land, there is no house, and we have done a good thing by doing this, and we have cultivated yin virtue...... Manager He, are we right? ”

After hearing this, Manager He Bin was secretly happy in his heart, and recruiting people was of course one of his main tasks.

Bandits? Hantang Group can even use the ...... for the disabled Heh, heh.

"Heh, heh, what the two generals said is reasonable, heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs; The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs. In this day, there is a great drought, everyone suffers, some people go to guard righteousness, but there are also people who go to banditry...... From this point of view, these bandits must be some unruly people, what is the price......"

Zhang Yue, the commander of the Guangzhou City Army, couldn't hold his breath all of a sudden, and said: "Fei Ye, Fei Ye, Manager He Bin, Lao He!" Those who were in charge had already been cut down by us, and some of the bloody cases were also dealt with by us...... The rest are honest, and after giving a few full meals, they are obedient and obedient......"

Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, did not speak at this time, he looked at Manager He Bin with a smile.

Manager He Bin had an awe-inspiring feeling in his heart at this time, and concluded that this General Wu Wenmin had bad intentions.

He pretended to think for a moment, and then said righteously: "Since the two generals have such a request, I, He Bin, will not hesitate to go to the soup and fight the fire!" In the next report, I will report to the Han and Tang groups, explain the requirements of the two generals one by one, and make great efforts to achieve this matter, and I will not disappoint the generals' virtue of life and benevolence——"

After hearing this, Zhang Yue, the commander of the Guangzhou City Army, immediately laughed, and his eyebrows and eyes could not be seen.

Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, said with a smile: "Manager He Bin is serious, where can I only ask for extravagance?" I learned by chance that Guangfa Logistics Company organized ships to take the sea route of Taiwan on a regular basis, and also issued flags to the sea ships that joined, which is nothing more than learning from the Zheng family's style back then——"

"Your Excellency General, the Guangfa Logistics Company under Xia has already filed with the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Metropolitan Water Division, and it will pay taxes by ship at that time, and there will be no concealment."

Manager He Bin felt that there was a different flavor in the words of Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, and hurriedly got up and made his words clear.

At this time, the city of Guangzhou still retains the Ming Dynasty's sea vessel tax system.

In the third year of Wanli, probably in 1575, the Ming Dynasty court formulated the "Rules for the Ranking of Eastern and Western Water Salaries".

They measure the length and width of the merchant ships going to sea, and levy the "zhang pump" of the merchant ship "according to the width and narrowness of the ship", and the amount of the "zhang pump" varies according to the destination to the West or the East.

Specifically, ships going to the West are "six feet wide, and each foot is taxed five taels of silver, and a ship should be eighty taels of silver", and every time the length of the ship increases by one foot, the tax of silver per foot will be increased by five cents, such as "a broad ship of more than seven feet will be taxed five taels of silver per foot", and "a broad ship of more than three feet and six feet will be taxed ten taels of silver per foot".

As for "Oriental ships", "each ship shall be taxed according to the tax rules of Western ships, and the amount will be drawn by seven-tenths".

Theoretically, this tax system is quite complete. Like other policies in the Ming Continent, there are some other taxes that are not taxes.

For example, the inspection fee, inspection fee, etc., the specific cost depends on what the goods are operated.

Take Guangdong folk sea vessels and Fujian folk merchant ships as examples.

After they went abroad to trade, when they returned to China, they had to pass through Nanao in Guangdong, the Pearl River Estuary, Huyu in Fujian, Haimen and other places along the way, and at this time, the inspectors of all coastal guard stations had to go on board the ships to inspect them, and they had the right to "carry them in small boats, and search for those who carried the goods", and sent military ships to escort them all the way to prevent the pirate ships from robbing and to prevent the owners and shipwrights of the merchant ships from quietly unloading and selling the cargo along the way.

It's hard to calculate the unspoken rules they have to charge for this, maybe.

Later, after the Ming Dynasty lost Fujian, he made every effort to focus on the taxation of Guangdong sea vessels.

Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, saw Manager He Bin's sincere and frightened appearance, and smiled in his heart, I heard that Er and the others were originally just ordinary maritime merchants, but they just climbed the Hantang Group, so they wanted to push back and go, I lightly hinted, can you bear it?

"Manager He Bin, I'm just a water master, and I can't take care of the affairs of the water division. However, I, Wu Wenmin, can guarantee that as long as it is a sea ship with your small flag of GF Logistics, it can pass at will on the Pearl River, and the Pearl River Estuary Guard will definitely not search and inspect it, nor will it need to be escorted - what do you think? ”

When Manager He Bin heard about it, he was overjoyed, and he got up again to express his satisfaction.

Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Naval Division, waved his hand indifferently and said: "There is one more thing that will make you even happier-on this Pearl River, my naval division is not limited to the size of your sea boat-"

Manager He Bin was even happier after hearing this.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, a peasant-born guy, led a group of peasants to defeat the Yuan and Meng, became the emperor himself, and began to build official ships, and at the same time forbade the use of sea ships for overseas trade, so as to stifle the development of the commodity economy brought by maritime civilization to maintain the structural stability of the agricultural society.

When the Han and Tang cliques studied the various systems of the Ming Dynasty, they sincerely admired how advanced the top-level designers of these Ming peasants were in an agricultural society, how carefully they dealt with the maritime trade of this nation, and how carefully they controlled the germination of the nation's maritime consciousness -- could they only instinctively realize that the development of the national maritime consciousness would inevitably bury the agrarian society?

The Ming Dynasty introduced extremely strict management measures and systems for the manufacture of civilian ships, the specifications of civilian ships and the goods carried.

Zhu Yuanzhang presided over the formulation and completion of the "Da Ming Law" in 1374, which clearly limited the private manufacture of large ships with more than three masts: "If local tyrants and military and civilian people build illegal ships with more than three masts, they will bring prohibited goods to the sea...... It builds the former seagoing vessel,...... Those who are the leaders will be beheaded, and those who are servants will be sent to the army", and the punishment measures are very severe.

But it also shows from another side that the "brigs", "brigs", and "brigs and sand ships" of the people before Jiajing can all be built.

However, it didn't take long to find the excuse that "the coastal sand people have two-masted ships entering and leaving the rivers and oceans, selling smuggled salt, transporting displaced people, and wantonly plundering", and ordered the coastal fishing boats to rectify and rectify, and they were not allowed to build pointed boats, all of which were flat-headed boats.

From not being allowed to build a three-masted ship with a sharp bottom, to only building a flat-bottomed one-masted ship, the Ming court was still very dissatisfied, and made stricter regulations on the size of civilian ships, and the width should not exceed five or six feet.

Fortunately, there are corrupt people, coupled with the strict bureaucratic style of many coastal counties and counties, low professional skills, poor supervision of civil shipbuilding, many omissions in registration measures, and many sea ban laws have not been implemented, so the Ming court has repeatedly banned this and cracked down, but there are still a large number of two-masted or three-masted civil ships in various coastal areas, and many county and county officials can only turn a blind eye.

As the Ming Dynasty gradually retreated to the south, the major maritime merchants became more bold, and many three-masted ships began to openly exist, but the laws of the Ming Dynasty were still there, and if you don't care about you now, it doesn't mean that you won't care about you in the future.

It's a bit like phishing enforcement.

Of course, at this time, none of the Ming people on the Ming continent knew the final outcome, and the majesty of the Ming Dynasty still existed.

Being able to get the personal promise of the top general of the Pearl River Naval Division is also an excellent gain, and Manager He Bin is of course overjoyed -- this is probably more important than a few big ships.

The two generals were also happy, this person was different from Zhou Fu, who sent the message, and he was not a henchman of the Hantang Group, how could he be sent to work in the city of Guangzhou.

In fact, it's a win-win.

The banquet of these three people has entered a new era, and after the situation is clear, everyone's wine is also up.

Manager He Bin is not afraid of the Zhang family's loneliness for a hundred years, in fact, when these two kinds of wine are produced, in addition to ensuring the internal needs of the Hantang Group, they were not sold at the beginning, but supplied to the Ming staff and Ming security team members on the sea ship in the form of welfare distribution.

Therefore, Manager He Bin usually has a certain supply, and he often drinks it, and it is a product of the Liu family. It's just that after arriving in Guangzhou, I was afraid of drinking and making mistakes, so I only drank Zhang's family.

Although the two generals have inquired in every way, of course they will not know this, they look at the appearance of Manager He Bin is polite, and they think that he is a Confucian who has abandoned his studies to do business - such an opponent, in terms of drinking, even if he is drunk for a hundred years of loneliness in the Zhang family, how can he be an opponent of people like himself?

So everyone began to drink heavily - dry when there was wine, pour it full of drink, and the two generals did not do it first.

Zhang Yue, the commander of the Guangzhou City Army, was the most refreshing, and after drinking it dry, he turned over and fell, and immediately snored like thunder -- Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, had a big tongue and pulled Manager He Bin with a smile and called Big Brother.

When Manager He Bin saw this, he knew that other things were not important, so he pretended to be overwhelmed, and finally broke free from the entanglement of Wu Wenmin, the commander of the Guangzhou City Water Division, and went out to call the two sergeants and send the two generals back to the barracks.

I saw that the two of them neatly put their generals on their backs, and they were able to turn around and salute Manager He Bin, which was regarded as farewell.

At this time, it was already very late, but the bright moon in the sky was very bright, and Manager He Bin refused the kindness of Zongheng Restaurant to send him back.

Under this bright moonlight, Manager He Bin walked slowly back along the whispering Pearl River, occasionally, the moon was obscured by the branches and leaves of the banyan tree on the side of the road, but soon it would be revealed again - this night, the whole city of Guangzhou was very quiet.