According to this rule, there is no charge for ships entering the port, but half of the port tax is payable for carrying landed goods.

After the landing, they can enter the city or other settlements to live, but trade activities must be carried out in the designated area of the government, and then the turnover will be transferred to the government, which is called profit tax.

That is to say, no matter what rules there were in the past, they were all abolished, and these businessmen no longer had to give any personal benefits to officials, and what he needed to do now was to pay two taxes in the open.

When the goods enter the border of the Han Empire, half of the entry tax is paid, and after the goods are sold, one percent of the profit tax is paid.

In addition to these two taxes, their treatment and other tax requirements are the same as those of the local people, and they may need to pay a poll tax for daily life, and nothing else.

Officials and officials were strictly forbidden to solicit bribes from these foreign maritime merchants, and Fa Zheng, as the Taishou, and Ma Chao, as the commander of the county soldiers, had the duty to guide and supervise these matters.

They need to strictly implement the payment of taxes and fees and the elimination of private bribery, and strive to build Ninan County into the No. 1 commercial and trade county in the South China Sea, and welcome visitors from all over the world to come and do business.

If you want to use agriculture to revitalize the place, it will take a lot of time, but if you choose the blessing of commerce and have the help of business, then the process of revitalizing the place will be accelerated.

Using Rinan County as a springboard, Liu Bei could complete many tasks that would have required a lot of effort to complete with relative ease, so those foreign merchants who were not coming to Rinan County for the first time were a little surprised.

Compared to before, Ninan-gun seems to be a little different.

Once upon a time, Ninan County was also their happy land, as long as they gave the officials a little money, they could exchange for the right to do business, sell some goods here, and then buy some goods back and sell them to their hometown, this time and again, they could make a very rich difference.

But since three or four years ago, the officials here have become more and more greedy, and the commission of goods has reached an outrageous level, not to mention the rebellion in Xianglin County more than two years ago, which broke the safety bottom line of many merchants, forcing them to bypass Rinan County and go to Hepu County and Nanhai County to seek safer landing sites and more favorable landing policies.

It's a pity that corrupt officials and corrupt officials are everywhere, and the extra section of the water road is not peaceful, and the extra sailing costs are really uncomfortable.

But some time ago, some deaf and clear-sighted maritime merchants heard that the boss empire was at war, and it seemed that they had launched a very powerful blow to the rebels in Ninan County, and the rebels in Ninan County were defeated one after another, which made the maritime merchants very happy and immediately sent people to inquire about the news.

After this inquiry, they learned that Ninan-gun had really won a military victory, and the rebels who had launched the rebellion had been wiped out by the official army.

It's safe.

The maritime merchants were very happy and immediately organized a trading team, the target, Ninan-gun.

Although corrupt officials are vicious, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are not a specialty of Ninan County, and they are everywhere in the world, including the hometowns of these maritime merchants.

Of course, they also hope that through this war and the decline of Ninan County, those corrupt officials can reflect a little and charge a little less.

Then they learn that their dream seems to have come true.

At the same time, Nichinan County issued a new policy that strictly forbade officials from soliciting bribes from maritime merchants, and at the same time, Ilnan County also prescribed the types of taxes that maritime merchants were required to pay to conduct normal trade operations.

Entry tax, profit tax, and poll tax.

In addition to these three taxes, they don't need to pay more taxes to the government, and the government won't ask them for extra money, they just need to make sure that they don't break the law, they don't deceive the Han people with shoddy products, and if they break the law, they will definitely be punished.

Don't really want money?

Maritime businessmen who are accustomed to seeing corrupt officials and corrupt officials soliciting bribes have never seen any big scenes, but they have really never seen this kind of display that they do not accept black money.

It is a very interesting move to put the unspoken rules on the table, although the same money must be collected, but at least there is a limit to the collection, there are rules, there will be no random collection, extortion, and there is a certain amount of protection, which makes many businessmen willing to pay money for peace.

After these foreign merchants entered Ninan-gun, they sold their goods in the designated areas, and Fa Zheng arranged for some of the staff to be stationed in their trading places, and he himself went around from time to time.

Unlike the relatively strong productive forces of the Han Empire, most of the goods he saw here from foreign countries were actually primitive agricultural products, or primary processed products after simple processing.

For example, pearls, incense, ivory, rhino horn, coral, hawksbill turtle, etc., as well as some animals, some parrots with very gorgeous coats, peacocks, etc., in addition to jade, glass and other handicrafts are not a few.

Fa Zheng went to look at these goods from the Gentiles and found some merits.

Compared with these goods, which focus on luxury attributes, Fa Zheng felt that what was produced by the Han Empire itself was the most important.

For example, high-quality iron tools and high-quality salt brought great help to the people of the Han Empire.

And do you really want to say what luxury, the luxury of the world, can be more expensive than Shu brocade and Jiuquan wine?

That's gold.

Fa Zheng was not a person who liked luxury, and those foreign merchants gave him a lot of gifts, but he did not accept them all, but picked a piece of jade and put it in his hand to play with, as an ornament and a toy, and occasionally looked at the emerald green color, which was quite pleasing to the eye.

He didn't take the rest, and he was worried about gossip if he collected more.

He was more interested in where the merchants themselves came from than in the gifts, and when he visited the trading lands, he often chatted with the strange-looking merchants about their home country.

Many of these businessmen can speak a little simple Chinese, but their accents are heavy, and they need the help of local translators, who often interact with these businessmen, can speak Chinese and Fanbang, and the translators can also translate everything.

Subsequently, Fa Zheng learned about a series of foreign degrees.

For example, Duyuan Kingdom, Lu Wu Kingdom, Fugandu Lu Kingdom, Huang Zhi Kingdom, Ji Cheng Bu Kingdom, etc., according to them, the location of these countries is either south of Ninan County or west of Rinan County, and they all come by sea, and there is no land passage.

Fa Zheng curiously asked about the basic situation of their country, and what these people said was much the same.

The humid and sultry climate, the relatively abundant products, the relatively poor life, the murderous corrupt officials, the frequent wars, and some things related to religious sacrifices, and some strange taboos, all of these made Fa Zheng feel a little curious, curious that there were many other countries in the world, and the people of the Han Empire lived a completely different life.

Fa Zheng also asked how big their country was, how many armies they had, what victories they had won, and whether the emperor was wise and martial.

When talking about these issues, these businessmen were obviously more cautious and cautious, and their answers were more ambiguous, and they were obviously not very willing to talk about the political problems of their own countries, which made Fa Zheng realize that the intensity of the rule of these countries did not seem to be weak, and even businessmen who were far away were reluctant to talk about it in depth.

Don't talk about politics, let's talk about the economy, according to Fazheng's preliminary understanding, these merchants came to trade with some rare items and rare animals, in addition to selling things to make money, they also needed to buy some things, buy some special products that the Han Empire would provide.

For example, the Nanzhu produced in this sea area was what these merchants liked, and there were also some porcelain, lacquerware and simple silk fabrics that were special products of the Han Empire, which were also their favorite specialties.

The productivity of the Jiaozhou region was relatively low, and the lacquerware, porcelain, silk fabrics, etc., produced by Fa Zheng were relatively inferior in Fa Zheng's view, and could not be compared with similar products in the Central Plains, nor with those things brought by his own house, but even so, these things seemed to be very popular with these merchants.

Fa Zheng smelled a business opportunity from this.

Rinan County, including the entire Jiaozhou, is relatively poor and short of money, if you want to develop and develop in the future, you need a lot of capital investment, if you completely count on the transfer payment of the Luoyang Imperial Court, it will be a little difficult for the imperial court, and it will be difficult for the emperor Liu Bei, Fa Zheng does not want to do this, he wants to show his ability to Liu Bei and lay the foundation for further promotion in the future.

However, self-hematopoiesis is a very difficult thing, and the necessary investment in the early stage cannot be overcome.

So, we need to find a different way.

If these guys are so fond of lacquerware, porcelain, silk fabrics, and other Han Empire specialties, why not give them more of these products, and let them buy more of them, so that they can earn a lot of money to subsidize the government's expenses?

Wouldn't this be able to share worries for the court and Liu Bei?

On the one hand, the land route is difficult and difficult to walk, and on the other hand, the sea route can also be reached directly, and the road is smooth.

Fa Zheng calculated a little, with the speed of the sea ship and the number of materials carried, the time and amount of materials required to set off from the land of Qingxu to reach Rinan County by sea, and from the land of Yuzhou to Rinan County by land, would not be an order of magnitude at all.

Although it is said that the Jiangnan Military Region is currently working on a military water network plan, when this plan is successful, it is estimated that Guan Yu will also be able to use the water network to link Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou, and it may be more convenient to act at that time.

But in any case, it is not as convenient as a full-fledged sea route that can be used now.

Fa Zheng began to think about it.

If I could ship the more sophisticated lacquerware, porcelain, and silk fabrics sold in the Central Plains from the Qingxu region to Rinan County to sell them to these foreign merchants, would I be able to induce them to spend more money and buy more goods, so that the government could earn more operating expenses?

If you go further, can you sell top luxury goods like Shu brocade to them at a higher price, so that they can have more gold coins?

With this in mind, Fa Zheng consulted some of the more senior local officials and asked him about the state of trade.

According to his account, there were still some people who worked tirelessly to transport some luxury goods from the Central Plains to sell to these foreign merchants, such things also existed in Hepu County and Nanhai County, and there were more before Rinan County, but with the beginning of large-scale wars in the Central Plains more than ten years ago, it was already very rare.

The war in the Central Plains, the stagnation of production, the shortage of materials, and the interruption of roads have given Jiaozhou the space for the sale of inferior handicrafts with insufficient technology, which is also an unexpected joy for them.

However, if there is a good one, they must still be willing to buy the good one, these foreign merchants are certainly not illiterate, but there is no way to buy, if there is a purchase channel, they will definitely be willing to spend money to buy, no one will doubt this.

Fa Zheng then had an idea.

Not only to buy from the Central Plains, if possible, he hopes to transfer the production line of these handicrafts to the side of Rinan County, local production, local sale, if it can be successful, it will definitely open a large sales window for Rinan County, earn more development funds, when the time comes, Liu Bei will definitely vigorously commend himself.

With such ambition in mind, Fa Zheng decided to take action and sent people back to the land of Qingxu by boat to ask his friends for help.

At this time, in fact, the importance of officialdom connections is reflected.

And Fa Zheng happens to have the official connections needed to achieve this.

Fa Zheng was a well-known genius in Liangzhou Prefecture, and he was also an important disciple of Liu Bei, so there were quite a few people who were willing to make friends with him at that time, and everyone was optimistic about his future and willing to make friends with him.

And he also thinks about a hero, three gangs, many friends and multiple paths, so he has given many people useful help in exams and homework, and helped many people improve their learning level, so he has a good relationship with many people.

Everyone is classmates and friends, in the past, they just bragged and farted together, drank wine and ate meat, and lived a wanton life, but now, everyone has entered the officialdom, and compared with those strangers, they must be classmates and friends who are more trustworthy and helpful.

Everyone has more or less some power, and if you encounter some difficulties, it is not surprising that it is reasonable to help each other within the scope of what you can help.

Fa Zheng's Liangzhou Prefecture School had a large number of students, and there were 70 or 80 people who had a good relationship with him, and more than 200 people who could be named.

Fa Zheng is the one that has improved the fastest, and although it is the county guard of Ninan County, it is also the county guard, the kind that ordinary people are not afraid of.

And his classmates, except for a few who are still working as representatives of collective farms with really poor ability, most of them have already become county officials, and some excellent ones have also achieved the position of county commander, and even some have been serving two terms as county magistrates and are accumulating qualifications.

According to Fa Zheng's understanding, in the land of Qingxu, he has eight classmates who are county magistrates and county magistrates, and more than 20 classmates who are officials in county governments around the country, each with their own development.

What's more, his old friend Meng Da, who has always had a very good relationship with him, was the county magistrate in Langya County, Langya County, and before he went south to Rinan County, he also met Meng Da in Langya County and complained to each other.

Now that he feels that he has this need, he can contact his old classmates and old friends, discuss with them about this cooperation, engage in commercial trade or something, and take money out of the pockets of these foreign businessmen to subsidize the development of the place.

If the county where they work can't find these good things, then go to other places to ask, inquire, see whose friends have the resources in this area, contact them, help each other, share the benefits together, and receive the credit together.

In this way, it lives up to everyone's expectations of working hard and studying for so long, doesn't it?

In the final analysis, everyone is a classmate, pull each other in trouble, don't forget the past, in this way, the speed of progress may be faster?

(End of chapter)