Chapter 63 Port of Peso

The Peso Legion is the only player legion in the Philippines, with exclusive access to the best player resources in the Philippines, and his attitude is the vane of all guilds in the Philippines. In this East Asian naval war, the Philippines, as the vanguard of the anti-hegemonic alliance, has the most direct relationship with the strong anti-Han attitude of the Peso Army.

In fact, the East Asian naval battle is the most harmful to ordinary players in the Philippines. The output of gold coins is an important source of income for a large number of Filipino players, and now the Han trade route is cut off, and the gold coins earned by players have been greatly reduced, and the local tyrants of the Han Dynasty have also imposed "economic sanctions" on the Philippines, and no longer smash RMB to the Philippines to collect gold coins.

The anti-war voices of the lower-class players in the Philippines became louder and louder, but the Peso Legion was domineering and sent a fleet to sink several merchant ships of openly anti-war guilds, forcibly suppressing the anti-war sentiment.

"The pain now is just the pain of getting rich, how powerful our anti-hegemonic alliance is, as long as we can defeat the remnants of the Han players at sea, our members of the anti-alliance can monopolize the East Asian maritime trade, and the gold coins we earn will be several times or dozens of times the current ones, the world's richest people are not only the Han family, as long as we continue to export a large number of gold coins, the United States, Europe, and Arabs will naturally send rice dollars to the door, and the goal of our Philippine gold coins is to go out of Asia and the world to earn rice dollars."

"But the rice dollar is depreciating, so we want RMB!"

"Someone comes, destroy him."

The Peso Corps used future temptation and force to suppress and maintain the overall unity of the Philippines' attitude towards the Han.

On the Han side, the Jiuzhuo merchant group organized the merchant fleet to go south with great fanfare, adding a quick knife to the already tense relationship between the two sides. In particular, Gangzi carried out a large-scale group ridicule of the entire Nanyang, which made the Nanyang players jump like thunder, and he would never stop until the Jiuzhuo caravan was annihilated.

The Great Han White Shark Fleet and the Archangel Fleet applauded Indonesia for the armed support of the Jiuzhuo Caravan, so they began to call friends in the alliance.

The Philippine Peso Legion was the first to respond, as the White Shark fleet in the East China Sea was divided into most of the remaining warships to join the escort of the Jiuzhuo caravan. The Peso Corps in the eastern part of Dahan and the northern waters of the Philippines did not have much pressure, so the Peso fleet left four brigs to stay in the port of the territory, and the rest of the main force rushed to the Zhongsha Islands of Dahan first, which was the meeting point negotiated by the navy of the Nanyang Road, and Indonesia and Malaysia were ...... The fleets of the nations are heading north.

In the port of the peso, the main force of the peso fleet raises its sails and moves away from the coastal players. The news was then sent to Dahan by a radio wave.

"The hamster is out of the hole."

The Dahan Jiuzhuo caravan has been heading south along the coastal sea, and the bloated queue composed of merchant ships is not fast, and they have to stop at every big port to purchase local specialties. Qian Duoduo, Gangzi and others will also make friends with local player organizations, and the Jiuzhuo business group is mainly engaged in business. Of course, multiple friends, multiple paths.

Along the way, the atmosphere of the Jiuzhuo caravan was very relaxed, and it was not at all nervous because the fleet of Nanyang players kept gathering in the waters of the Zhongsha Islands.

In this way, the Jiuzhuo caravan stopped all the way and finally arrived at the town of Archangel not far from Victoria Harbour.

The Nanyang players also got enough time to gather reinforcements from all walks of life, so the Nanyang Fleet formed a front line with sloops in front, and the entire fleet's main force of eighty brigs took an offensive posture and headed north together.

The Han side is not weak, the Jiuzhuo fleet left all the merchant ships in Victoria Harbor, together with the white shark fleet and the archangel who came from the south to form the southern fleet with forty brigs as the main force, under the command of the host archangel corps commander Mu You, the Han Southern Fleet all attacked, and attacked the northbound Nanyang fleet.

Philippine Peso Port.

As the only legion in the Philippines. The Peso Legion occupies one of the finest ports in the Philippines, and the open water and deep water make it easy for even the largest sailing ships to dock at the pier.

Private domains can have lords set taxes, and the port of Peso sets the tax at 50% lower than the official port. This fifty percent is a lot of money for a large ship, so not only the merchant ships of the Peso Legion loaded and unloaded their cargo in the port of Peso. Other merchant groups are also willing to put back in their pockets fifty percent of the tax savings in the port of peso.

The low tax rate made the port of peso unrivally competitive, and soon the port of peso became as prosperous as any official port in the Philippines.

But low taxes also mean a significant reduction in the income due. The construction of the territory and the development of the legion require a large amount of gold to maintain, and the maintenance of the port and the wages of the personnel who load and unload the goods are also not small expenses. In order to attract merchants to Hong Kong, the average private territory lowered the tax to 80% of the official rate, and if it was as low as 7%, it would be cutting its own flesh. Even more ruthlessly low to six achievements are that there is no balance in the balance of payments at the port.

Fifty percent of the tax in the port of Peso is good for the merchants, but as far as the lord is concerned, it should be poured into it, but how can the Biso Legion not only protect the expenses of the port but also maintain the development of the legion?

The approach of the Peso Legion is very simple. It is to take advantage of the very cheap labor force in the Philippines. Port loading and unloading goods, the NPC labor that receives gold coins is not used, and the player coolies are hired, and the reward is not the game gold, but the real Philippine currency outside the game, and the NPCs that maintain the port can also be exchanged for players.

In this way, the Peso Legion only needs to pay a portion of Philippine currency outside the game, saving most of the taxes collected by the port. Then part of these gold coins were invested in the construction of the army and the development of the territory, and part of it was invested in the European and American gold coin markets to earn rice dollars.

After a round turn, the Peso Legion only needs to convert a small percentage of the earned rice dollars into Philippine currency to pay the players' salaries, and they can keep the port running and keep taxes low.

Now the battles of players in the game are becoming more and more exciting, and the price of gold has always remained high. However, while all the gold mingers are desperately trying to make money, the price of gold in the Philippines is falling, to be precise, the price of gold in the hands of ordinary Filipino players is falling.

On the gradually formed gold coin circulation tower, it is difficult for the lowest gold coin retail investors to get in touch with the international gold coin market. In the past, the distance between Dahan and the Philippines was quite close, and Dahan merchants could directly trade face-to-face with Filipino retail investors when they went to the Philippines, so the income of Philippine gold players at that time was not bad.

Now that the Han merchants could not reach the Philippines due to the war, the Filipino gold miners were jointly suppressed by Fuso and their own gold collectors, resulting in the depreciation of the gold coins in their hands.

The Peso Army is the largest collector in the Philippines, and they buy their own gold coins at low prices. then sell to Europe and the United States at a high price; On the one hand, the depreciation of the price of gold is used as an excuse to reduce the salaries of employees, and both ends are eaten. Therefore, the Filipino players at the bottom hate the Peso Legion, but they are afraid of the strength of the Peso Legion and have to compromise.

The coastal areas of the game won't be too bad, and the sun is shining brightly today, with a few white clouds drifting like silk along the west wind. There is no industrial pollution of the sea water through the primitive clear, standing on the shore can clearly see more than ten meters of sea turtle crawling lazily on the bottom of the sea, there is no obvious boundary between the water and the sky, so that the boat floats on the sea surface as if floating in mid-air.

The port of Peso is as prosperous as ever, with ships of all sizes docked at the pier. The player labors quickly to load and unload the goods, and the owner of the goods keeps telling them to be careful and handle them gently. There was also a bargain for the tax collectors of the Bisso.

The bluestone road of the wharf leads to the nearby town of Peso, and countless carts pull all kinds of goods between the wharf and the town's warehouses. Players who patrol around in purple and with weapons in their hands are members of the Peso Legion, who are responsible for maintaining order on the docks.

In the town of Peso, there are two batteries at each end of the wall facing the pier. At this time, the guns in the batteries were placed in the chambers, and the shells were protected by the most elite troops of the Peso Legion. This is the most important force in the port defense system, as long as there is any disturbance in the port, a total of ten artillery pieces can be quickly deployed, and then the dock can be blocked from the top of the air.

Due to the pursuit of throughput, the location of the port of Piso was too broad. The range of the batteries could not cover the entire port, and in peacetime the warships of the Peso fleet were responsible for filling the gaps in the batteries.

It's just that now, due to the high-profile southward movement of the Han Jiuzhuo merchant group, there are signs of triggering a second naval battle between the Han and the South Seas, and the main force of the peso fleet has been invited to join the Indonesian alliance. So there were only four brigs left in the port of the peso. However, the Peso Legion was notoriously vicious, and four brigs were enough to suppress domestic discontent.

On the periphery was the dhow reconnaissance fleet of the peso fleet, and although most of the warships of the Great Han White Shark fleet followed the Jiuzhuo caravan south, the peso fleet was not too careless. On the contrary, the investigation in the direction of Dahan has been intensified.

Such an arrangement seemed foolproof to the Peso Army, and the main force of the Biso Fleet left with confidence and boldness because of this.

It was noon, and it was time for the patrol ship to take over. The captain on duty handed over the command of the battleship and teleported back to the city. The successive captain will receive the warship to continue patrolling through the emergency assembly flag planted in advance, and this seamless handover can indeed ensure that the entire ocean surveillance system will not be empty at this time.

But the long-term security is easy to cause inertia, and the captain who is anxious to go back hastily makes a handover and hurriedly teleports away, while the newly arrived captain has not yet adjusted his body and mind from the shore, and has not even figured out the position of himself and his companions.

At this time, someone on the regional channel in a certain sea area called for help: "I am a merchant ship of the Fuso Matsumoto Chamber of Commerce, we were chased by pirates at coordinates ***:***, and now we are heading for the port of Peso, please ask the nearby Peso warship to rescue quickly!" ”

The Peso Legion treats the lower-level players as much as possible, and does its best to maintain the merchants, after all, a safe environment for running merchants can attract more merchants to come and earn more gold.

It is not uncommon for a sea runner to encounter pirates, whether as an ally of the Allies or in their own waters, the Piso Legion should rescue the merchant ships that have encountered pirates.

So after asking about the number of pirates, the surrounding Peso dhows began to sail towards the coordinates of the incident, and no one noticed that there was an empty spot in the outermost reconnaissance circle of the port of Piso, and at this time a Philippine-flagged dhow merchant ship drove in from the empty place. (To be continued......)