Chapter 95 Fishing Tax
In addition to Zheng Yiguan's matter, another object of close attention to the sea wolf is the attitude of the current Fujian government towards the sea wolf.
Due to the reason that Zhu Qinxiang, the governor of Fujian who took office last year, wanted to use the blood of the sea wolf to add to his political achievements, Yu Xiaotian showed surprisingly toughness, first attacking the shore on a large scale and then fighting the official army, and destroying the warships of the official army and naval division assembled in Nanri Water Village, which led to Zhu Qinxiang's plan to attack Nanri Island and ran aground, and was impeached by all sides.
Due to various reasons, Zhu Qinxiang was finally dismissed from office, and Zhu Yifeng, the original Fujian political envoy who participated in politics and served as a judge, was appointed by the imperial court as the new governor of Fujian, and was ordered to take office on the spot.
After Zhu Yifeng took office, his attitude towards the sea wolf is also a priority that the sea wolf must pay close attention to, after all, the sea wolf is fighting against the power of the entire Fujian province with its own strength, although the sea wolf has a great technical advantage, but in terms of economy and manpower, it does not have a little advantage.
And Yu Xiaotian doesn't want to fight with the Fujian government immediately, the current situation on the sea is complicated, Zheng Yiguan's sudden rise has added an unstable factor to the sea, making the situation on the Fujian sea change.
In addition, Yu Xiaotian is now concentrating on expanding his various industries and agriculture in Tamsui and Keelung on the island of Taiwan, not only to invest energy, but also to consume a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
Most of the soldiers are now being sent to Taiyuan Island by him, these soldiers are not only soldiers, but also a group of very good laborers, except in wartime, these people can not all be raised, only let them do some drills, otherwise it will be a serious waste of manpower.
So with this in mind, Yu Xiaotian began to move the soldiers of the war camp to Tamsui in batches, in addition to continuing to maintain training, he also asked the soldiers to do some infrastructure things.
These soldiers are all young and strong, and the organization and discipline are very strong, once they do some basic work, the next person can be used by a few ordinary immigrants, especially for many projects that require large manpower, after the soldiers are put into work, they can play a great role.
Recently, Tamsui and Keelung are carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction, the main work is focused on road construction and canal repair, as well as pioneering, which is the basis for the future Seawolf explosion of population, food, and industry on the island of Taiwan.
Therefore, the current garrison on Nanri Island has decreased a lot, and the barracks of the original lively and lively war barracks have gradually become deserted, and every few days a boat will leave Nanri Island with a boatload of soldiers, or go to Tamsui, or go to Keelung, so that the number of soldiers stationed on Nanri Island after March of the sixth year of the Apocalypse has been sharply reduced to about 400 people, and these manpower can only meet the needs of guarding the Dazhai and Shangzhan areas of Nanri Island, making the defense of Nanri Island weakening day by day.
In addition, after the end of the Battle of Puxi last year, a large number of sea wolf's sailor warships were also transferred, and some of the elites were used as smuggling ships and sent to the Liangguang area to earn more financial resources for the sea wolf.
Therefore, six years after entering the Apocalypse, the sea wolf's strength on Nanri Island was already very small, and the strength of the main sailors was scattered everywhere, strengthening the control of their territory.
In order to meet the huge financial consumption, at the suggestion of the council, the sea wolves began to implement the method of imposing a fishing tax on the territory they effectively controlled.
The fishing tax is levied directly on the fishing vessels that go out to sea, and each fixed fishing ground along the coast has sent fishing patrol vessels, which patrol the fishing grounds, and require fishermen to pay fishing tax to the sea wolves when they enter the fishing grounds.
There is no fixed amount of fishing tax, but it is required that fishing boats must pay one-sixth of the catch to the sea wolf as a fishing tax after fishing, and these fishing boats must also fly the small red flag issued to them by the sea wolf when they enter the fishing grounds, before they can enter the fishing ground for fishing operations.
The sea wolves are responsible for protecting the boats and ensuring that they are not attacked and raided by pirates while fishing.
After the sea wolf took control of Xinghua Prefecture in Fuzhou and the coastal area of Funing Prefecture, the sea wolf has begun to vigorously crack down on the large number of pirates operating in their territory, making the sea much calmer and the fishermen much safer when they go out to fish.
But after all, the ships of the sea wolves are small and can only focus on some larger pirate groups, but the small group of pirates with only one or two ships and dozens of people is a little weak.
These small groups of pirates, with few people and small boats, usually mainly fished for a living, but they only did a vote for a cold man, and they could not do great things with their strength, and they did not dare to rob large merchant ships easily, so fishing boats became their main targets.
Most of the fishermen are deeply affected, the fish that have worked hard to go to sea to catch are robbed by these small pirates, and the boats that have lost their lives are robbed by them, and some fishermen are forcibly coerced into the gang, and the fishermen go out to fish in addition to facing the storm that may come at any time at sea, but also face the invasion of these small groups of pirates, the fishermen hate it, but they have no way.
Now the sea wolves have introduced a fishing tax policy, established a patrol system in some of the main fishing grounds in their territory, and sent some boats to act as pirate boats to patrol these designated fishing grounds, control the fishing grounds, and protect the fishing boats that pay their fishing taxes, so that they can avoid the fear of being attacked by small groups of pirates.
Moreover, the sea wolf's patrol boat in the fishing ground is also engaged in some fishing work when there is nothing to do, and once it encounters a storm at sea, it sometimes makes a cameo role in rescuing some fishermen who are in distress.
Although the sea wolves take one-fifth to one-sixth of the fishermen's catch, for the fishermen, they are free from the risk of being robbed by small groups of pirates.
At first, some fishermen were reluctant to accept this practice of the sea wolf, and refused to enter the fishing grounds designated by the sea wolf, but went to the sea where some sea wolves were not designated as a fishing ground to fish.
After discovering this, those small groups of pirates did not dare to enter the fishing grounds designated by the sea wolves to rob again, so they could only act on the sea that was not controlled by the sea wolves.
And the Sea Wolf tribe also received an order to deliberately indulge these small groups of pirates, leave them alone for the time being, and let them help the Sea Wolf to complete the collection of fishing taxes.
As a result, under such circumstances, many fishermen who are unwilling to pay fishing taxes have increased a lot of risks when they go out to sea to fish, and from time to time they will be robbed by small groups of pirates, making a lot of money.
So some fishermen with a wider vision went to the fishing grounds designated by the sea wolves to fish, and paid the fishing tax to the sea wolves according to the requirements of the sea wolves, but after they did so, they found that fishing in the sea wolves' fishing grounds was relatively high, and even after paying the fishing tax, the catch was larger than the amount of fish they went to the non-sea wolf exclusive fishing grounds.
And when fishing in the sea wolf's fishing grounds, they are also very safe, and there is no small group of pirates who are not eye-opening to dare to run into the sea wolf's fishing grounds to rob.
After doing the math, the fishermen found that it was more profitable to fish in the seawolf-controlled fishery than not to fish there.
At the same time, the sea wolf also sent people to sit in various fishing markets on the shore to act as the so-called fishing tyrants, but they are responsible for the fishing catch of the fishermen who hold the sea wolf fishing ground pass, they are responsible for the overall sale, but they do not care about the catch that is not caught in the sea wolf fishing ground, and let other fishing tyrants continue to exploit them.
The sea wolf people in charge of the fishing market, there is the sea wolf group behind them to support them, although the local fishing tyrants are powerful, they are considered to be the head snake, at first they tried to use some ruthless means to drive the sea wolf people out of their power range, because the sea wolf people touched their interests.
But as long as there are fishermen who play cruelly to the people sent by the sea wolf, the sea wolf will do more than them.
The sea wolf is now in the barracks, specially selected a group of ruthless, and quite good manpower, set up a special service team, the number of about 200 people, Yu Xiaotian did his best, to give these special service personnel the best equipment, in addition to the normal distribution of flintlock pistols to them, but also specially sent people to create a lot of people in the rivers and lakes to fly the eaves and walk the wall of many tools, such as flying tiger claws and other things, short knives and hard swords are also a lot of these things for them to equip, but also made a kind of close-fitting leather armor for them.
This kind of leather armor is a bit like the anti-riot armor of later generations, divided into several large pieces, cut the thick cowhide into a suitable shape, and then decorated it with canvas, which is very appropriate to wear on the body, basically does not affect their normal activities, is light and comfortable, and can also provide some protection for the wearer.
This special service team has become the manpower of the sea wolf to do dirty work, and it is divided into ten squads, a small team of twenty people, and can basically go to land to carry out some small-scale operations.
And this special service team has become the nemesis of these fishing tyrants, some of them rely on their advantage of being local land snakes, trying to disadvantage the members of the sea wolves who operate on their territory, as long as they dare to do nonsense, they will immediately be brutally retaliated against by the sea wolf special service personnel.
In just over two months, several big fishermen in more than a dozen fishing markets in the coastal area inexplicably caught fire in their homes at night, and the whole family, young and old, was spared and was "burned" to death.
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