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Not only are there many fewer smuggling ships, but even the number of regular merchant ships has also decreased by about 30%. In fact, the reason is very simple, even if it is a regular merchant ship, it will always do some smuggling to a certain extent, and there is very little merchant ship that is not completely involved with smuggling.

In fact, when the fortress inspected the merchant ships, it still gave some room for loosening, but Zhou Chengfeng's arrest made many people fearful, and they would rather take a long detour to enter and exit the border from other places than dare to try their luck at the Baishi Fortress.

Among these overseas colonies, Baiwen is also a major smuggling place, and Zhou Chengfeng was arrested by the fortress, which shocked the entire Baiwenxing, so many smuggling activities were transferred elsewhere.

At first, many people in the chamber of commerce clamored for revenge against the fortress, but soon after, the arrested crew members returned to Baiwen, and Baiwen's public opinion was divided into two factions.

One faction believes that revenge should be continued, and the Baishi Fortress must be made to suffer, while the other faction believes that Zhou Chengfeng himself is going to provoke the fortress, and the others are not guilty of sending him to death for his reckless behavior.

What's more, the Baishi Fortress did not indiscriminately kill the arrested crew members, but only handed over Zhou Chengfeng and Liang Song to the court, which was already very moral. Under such circumstances, it would be a bit ignorant to engage in any retaliatory action.

The public opinion on both sides has its own reasons, and neither of them can convince anyone, and gradually the remarks about avenging Zhou Chengfeng have cooled down.

Those people in the Chamber of Commerce had already turned their attention to how to fight for the power vacuum left by Zhou Chengfeng, and who had the extra energy to consider retaliation.

It can be said that this result is somewhat beyond the expectations of Liu Yi and others, originally they thought that Bai Satellite would launch a large-scale retaliation, and they were nervous for a long time.

However, the end result was that the awaited revenge did not come, but the income of the fortress was much reduced.

"Sir, this is this month's financial statements, please take a look at it." At the end of the month, Ye Na submitted the financial statements to Liu Yi as usual.

Liu Yi quickly looked at it, frowned and said, "Why has the income decreased so much?" Are there very few ships passing by this month? ”

Ye Na had expected Liu Yi to have this kind of question, and replied very calmly: "Yes, there are about one-third fewer ships passing this month, so the income has also decreased. ”

"How can this happen? Am I wrong when I strictly investigate smuggling? Liu Yi said with some annoyance.

"Sir, it is our duty to strictly investigate smuggling, and I think the results are normal now." Ye Na said calmly.

"But it's a bit embarrassing to have so little less income." Liu Yi shook his head.

"We're an army, and making money isn't our primary goal, so ......," Ye Na said with a little sarcasm.

Liu Yi smiled bitterly: "Okay, I understand, let me think about what to do......"

After Ye Na left, Liu Yi couldn't help but fall into deep thought. According to Liu Yi's original idea, he first cracked down on smuggling, so as to create a good business environment, and then found a way to let the fortress gain certain benefits from interstellar trade, and finally achieve a win-win situation.

It can be said that the idea itself is good, but Liu Yi still underestimated the proportion of smuggling in the border trade, and once the smuggling is choked, the normal trade will also be greatly affected.

"Do you want to ease the crackdown on smuggling again?" Liu Yi shook his head when he thought of this, if he really went back, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

Liu Yi always believed that orderly trade activities are better than disorderly smuggling, and although smuggling can bring considerable benefits in the short term, it can cause serious damage in the long run, so that legitimate trade activities are eventually replaced by smuggling activities.

However, for the White Rock Fortress to become better, it is impossible to do without money, so Liu Yi needs to come up with a new direction of development to seek more long-term benefits for the fortress.

Liu Yi thought of a lot of ways and discussed these ideas with Tang Jie, but Tang Jie was not very interested in the White Stone Fortress, but complained to Liu Yi about his bitterness.

"Don't mention your broken fortress yet, let me tell you how bad Yaqiu is right now!" Tang Jie said angrily: "Do you know how excessive Ding Kai is now? ”

Liu Yi felt a headache as soon as he heard Tang Jie say this, now that he was in the White Stone Fortress, he was really beyond the reach of Yaqiu, and listening to Tang Jie's complaints would only increase his troubles.

However, Liu Yi didn't dare to say these words explicitly, otherwise it would definitely attract more complaints from Tang Jie, so Liu Yi could only listen patiently, and wait for Tang Jie to finish his complaints first, and then he could discuss the matter.

"Now what kind of tax reform is Ding Kai going to do, to raise the tax rate for our export-oriented enterprises, the more products we sell, the higher the tax rate, don't you say that this is driving Yaqiu's economy to a dead end?" Tang Jie said angrily.

Liu Yi nodded and said: "That's right, this will only greatly reduce Yaqiu's export products, and actually receive less tax, this Ding Kai is really short-sighted......"

"That's it, I asked my dad to tell Ding Kai, but guess what Ding Kai said?" Tang Jie said that he would not be angry.

"What did Ding Kai say?" Liu Yi asked.

"What he's saying is that even though the tax rate is higher, you can pass the money on to the buyers, so you don't have to lose." Tang Jie laughed angrily and said, "Listen to what these words are, it's really laughing to death!" ”

Liu Yi saw that Tang Jie was really angry, so he persuaded: "Forget it, it's useless for you to be angry now, let's think about how to deal with it." ”

Tang Jie rolled his eyes and said, "Aren't I just discussing with you?" What do you think we should do? ”

Liu Yi thought for a while and said: "If you want to completely solve this problem, of course, you must move the company away, but this is not realistic, after all, Jieyi has also spent a lot of work to have today's atmosphere." If you do move out, you won't be able to return to your current situation for at least a few years. ”

"I know this, in fact, I have also considered whether to move out, but if I move away, there are no current supporting enterprises in other places, and it may take a long time to restore to the current level." Tang Jie said.

"Since you can't move away, you can only endure it temporarily, after all, there is no better way at the moment." Liu Yi said helplessly.

"Can't you just think of a way? Didn't you have a lot of ways before? Why is it that when you become an official, your brain can't work? Tang Jie said sneeringly.

"Aren't I just trying to figure it out right now?" Liu Yi said: "Otherwise, if part of the production line is moved to Baishi Fortress, I will have the final say here, and no one will dare to bully." ”

"Come on, you don't even have a place to walk on that little broken stone, do you move the factory over and put it on your bed?" Tang Jie sneered with a grin.

"The place is small and you can find a way to expand, aren't many of the super factories that make ships in space? We can expand the fortress and transform this place into a ......" Liu Yi said as he suddenly thought of something, staring blankly at the ceiling, and didn't speak for a long time.

Tang Jie saw Liu Yi looking demented, and couldn't help but ask, "Hey, what's wrong with you?" Is it distracted? ”

Liu Yi slowly came back to his senses and said thoughtfully: "I suddenly thought of one thing just now, if it can really be done, maybe I can really move the factory over......"

"You're not kidding, are you? I don't want to move Jie Yi so far away and let me live in that kind of place, I might as well let me go to an uninhabited planet to open up the wasteland. Tang Jie played the eldest lady's temper, and he couldn't listen to what Liu Yi said.

Liu Yi was not reluctant, after all, he only had one idea now, and there was still a lot of uncertainty whether it could be done, so there was no need to rush to convince Tang Jie.

After ending the call, Liu Yi remembered what Shangguanqi had told him before, and decided to call Shangguanqi to inquire in detail.

"Shangguan, are you busy now? If you're not busy, come to me. Liu Yi said to Shangguanqi in the video.

"Okay, I'll be right over, I just happen to have something to tell you." Shangguanqi said.

After a short time, Shangguan Qi came to Liu Yi's office, Liu Yi invited Shangguan Qi to sit down, and then said, "What do you have to tell me?" ”

Shangguan Qi said: "Let's talk about your business first, I'm not a serious matter." ”

Liu Yi nodded and said, "Okay, I want to ask you, when you went to Baiwen before, did you see many destroyed space cities?" ”

"That's right, in Baiwen, and on the way to Baiwen, the war there has been fought for many years, and many space cities and cities built before have been destroyed, it's a pity......"

Liu Yi listened to Shangguanzaki's story, writing and drawing, as if calculating something.

After Shangguan Qi finished speaking, Liu Yi asked: "Are there any of these destroyed space cities that are well preserved, such as the damage is not very serious?" ”

Shangguanqi shook his head and said: "I don't know much about this, so I just took a casual look at it at the time, and the specific situation is really unclear." By the way, what are you going to do with all this? ”

Shangguan Qi knew that Liu Yi would not ask these questions for no reason, and since he asked, he was afraid that Liu Yi was playing with some new ideas.

"It's nothing, I just want to find out, if there is a condition, in fact, I want to investigate." Liu Yi said.

"Don't do it, it's too dangerous, it's not an empire outside the country, and there are too many unexpected things." Shangguan Qi immediately persuaded Liu Yi to dispel this idea.

"Forget it, it's too early to talk about this, let's talk about you, don't you have something to tell me?" Liu Yi waved his hand.

Shangguanqi smiled: "That's right, I have something interesting to tell you, do you want to listen to it?" ”