Like this kind of abandoned land in the whole village, the land has long been returned to the government according to the ownerless land, so the matter of buying land can be directly bought by the yamen and the government, and it is rare to have a big business.

The old site of Yanxi Village is about 40 miles away from the land route of Donglin County, which belongs to the suburbs of the county, and Jia Ji Boat Company built a wharf here to engage in land and water transit, which is also equivalent to establishing a home port in Donglin County, and will attract ships to stop here when it becomes famous in the future.

Jiajia Village bought such a large piece of land, so it was naturally renamed Jiajia Wharf, and then made an appointment with the officials of the household to demarcate the border, and the deputy took the paperwork and left.

At the same time, Bai Qing sent the letter and cotton samples sent from Liangshui Town to General Bai Da in Dong'an Mansion, asking him to decide, and informed the village chief of Jiajia Village in the letter that he had written a letter to Qi Ke, and Qi Ke's yarn yard was short of cotton, and the two parties would definitely join forces to divide a part, and Bai Jiajun would not be able to eat all the goods.

Between the lines, it seems to tell General Bai not to want to take all the goods, but in fact, the focus is on taxes, cotton is a thing that can't be sold at all if it is heavily taxed, even if Bai Jiajun buys it and sends it to soldiers to make quilts, the purchase price plus taxes is also very expensive, it is not cost-effective to buy for self-use, and it costs several taels of silver to make a winter quilt, which is enough for a family's living expenses for a month.

Bai Qing remembered the tax incentives that Qi Ke once said, cotton does not happen to belong to the value of low but the necessities of life, or the current shortage of goods in the country, the owner quoted a hundred catties of four taels of silver, the price of local cotton on the market has approached a load of seven taels of silver, this price does not rule out that some people take advantage of the beginning of winter to make waves behind the back, just like the price of grain in the famine is eager to rise all the way to the sky, so that the imperial court has to pay a lot more money when buying grain from big grain merchants. Teenage Classmates Network

Thinking about it, Bai Qing now has to wait patiently for the general's reply, the general knows about taxation, but the matter of tax reduction is not something that local officials can easily decide, the general said at the time that he would ask the excerpt, but I don't know if the imperial court has given a reply since these days.

General Bai's reply arrived three days later, telling his son that he had expected the news that the imperial court did not approve General Bai's proposal to flexibly tax overseas goods, but allowed the Bai family army to take advantage of the dominant position of the nine rivers flowing into Haikou to earn some military expenses, but the tax had to be handed over to the national treasury.

This reply also came down not long ago, when General Bai thought that Liangshui Town had been desolate for so long, and there were no necessary buildings and docks, and even if there were merchant ships passing by, they would not come in, so he didn't tell his son about it.

In the letter, the general told his son bluntly that he should go and bargain with the owner of the goods, as long as the price is lowered, even if the tax is 50%, the total price can be accepted, and then with this transaction, the general can take this practical example and ask the court for tax concessions, to see if he can win a tax reduction for materials related to the national economy and people's livelihood, such as cotton and grain.

After reading his father's letter, Bai Qing wrote to Qi Ke, telling her that the price of cotton on the market was now approaching seven taels of silver, and that if they ate the goods of these five ships, it would still be profitable, and asked her how she planned to bargain, and they joined forces to make a unified price, and the other was that Liangshui Town also took a fifty percent tax on overseas merchant ships, so it was best to pay a little more counteroffer.