Chapter 31, Batam Free City, King Ming's Money Bag!

Matsudaira Ieri looked at the sign in his hand.

There are Chinese characters on it, "Medium ship, tax one hundred".

"Shangguan, don't you check the cargo on board?"

Matsudaira asked a little strangely.

Shen Ping obviously didn't know what to do with this, and naturally explained: "According to the regulations of the Taxation Department of the Ming Palace, paying taxes only depends on the size of the ship, not the value of the goods. ”

Matsudaira Ieri knew the benefits of collecting taxes in this way after a little thought.

That is, most of the operating space is eliminated.

There is room for bureaucracy to inspect what cargo a ship is carrying

And if you don't look at the goods, only look at the size of the ship to collect taxes.

How big a ship is and how much cargo it can carry is basically visible to the naked eye.

It is more convenient to operate, and it can also eliminate some private operations.

And it's more efficient.

"I see..... Matsudaira Ieri bowed his hand, "Thank you Shangguan for your doubts." ”

Shen Ping also returned the salute: "After your envoy goes ashore, you can go to the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ming Palace, there are too many missions from various countries these days, and the Foreign Affairs Department has no manpower to meet at the port, please forgive me." ”

"It's okay..."

Tokugawa Osakoku, who was standing behind Matsudaira Ietoshi, poked his head out, raised his head and looked at this tax light, who was even bigger than the giant samurai Matsudaira Ieri, and said, with a little surprise in his eyes.

It's just this size in Japan.

How can you be a guard next to a feudal lord?

If you catch up with the love of all.....

With this image, I don't know how many samurai boys in Japan can fall in love.

Shen Ping didn't know what the child in front of him was thinking (Tokugawa Zhiguo was already seventeen years old), seeing that he was gorgeously dressed, although he was a little childish, but he also had a nobility that could not be concealed, so he immediately gave it up politely.

Then I saw a girl next to me staring at the top of her head with fluttering eyes.

Shen Ping was not annoyed.

He simply took off the square scarf hat on his head.

Revealing a bun that could be pulled up.

"Huaxia is well-dressed!"

Tokugawa Mitsuhime blurted out.

Shen Ping put on his hat: "That's right, King Ming wants to help Huaxia, expel the Tartars, rebuild the Celestial Empire, and expel Xiyi." ”

Matsudaira Gyoli was in awe: "Westerners ghost animals, wolf ambitions, many countries in the South Seas have fallen into the hands of Westerners, the king of heaven descended, my luck!" ”

After several people said goodbye to each other.

The ship of the Tokugawa siblings also docked in port.

According to Shen Ping's explanation.

If the ship wants to leave the port.

Then you have to take the license issued by the tax department to pay taxes, and exchange it for the port license plate.

There is no need to rush to pay taxes for the time being.

But the three of them still went to the bank at the port for the first time to exchange a few hundred silver dollars and a thousand copper dollars.

Now the Ming Yuan on Batam Island is divided into two types: silver coins and copper coins.

The silver-copper standard was still in place.

It's something that can't be helped.

Because of the high purchasing power of silver dollars, one silver dollar is equivalent to about one or two halves of silver.

One silver dollar can buy hundreds of catties of rice on Batam.

The basic salary of an ordinary soldier of the Ming army for a month is three Ming silver dollars.

Therefore, it is necessary to have copper coins as a supplement to small consumption.

When exchanging copper coins, the staff of Daohua Bank also suggested that several people directly exchange Ming silver dollar coupons and Ming copper yuan coupons.

Matsudaira Ieri didn't plan to exchange the silver for a few pieces of paper.

But he couldn't stand the Tokugawa statecraft.

I went to redeem three Ming Yuan coupons.

One is a silver dollar coupon worth one silver dollar, with the words "one silver dollar", "equivalent to one thousand copper dollars" and "coupon payment".

In addition to the denomination of one silver dollar, there are two denominations of "ten copper dollars" and "one hundred copper dollars".

Except the numerical values are different.

The three Ming Yuan coupons look similar, they are all made of a kind of paper that looks special, and the color is also a very rare purple as the main color, and on the other side is the emblem of the Great Ming Sun and Moon.

In fact, in addition to these three denominations.

There is also a 100 silver dollar denomination.

However, this kind of Ming Yuan coupon, which is too large, is not open to ordinary people to redeem.

Tokugawa handed Tokugawa Mitsuhime and Matsudaira Ieri a Ming Yuan coupon, and took the remaining one and looked through it over and over again.

"Jiali, isn't the Ming Wangfu afraid that others will forge Ming Yuan coupons?"

Tokugawa couldn't help but ask.

"I'm afraid it's not easy." Matsudaira Ieri took the banknote and looked at it over and over, and when he lifted the banknote, the sunlight was shining through, and he could see an obvious emblem of the sun and moon, but after putting it down, it was blank again.

"It's amazing." Matsudaira Ieri muttered, "And this paper should be special paper too." ”

Matsudaira said, removing the kettle from his waist and sprinkling some water on it.

It wasn't soaked with water like ordinary paper.

Matsudaira Ieli, who did not believe in evil, simply stuffed the entire Ming Yuan coupon into the kettle and took it out after a while.

Matsudaira Ietoshi breathed a sigh of relief.

Because this Ming Yuan coupon was finally soaked in water.

But...

The ink inside showed no signs of dissipating.

Obviously, even the ink used for printing is specially made.

Matsudaira said, "Such banknotes should not be forged... No wonder so many merchants chose to exchange Ming Yuan coupons instead of Ming Yuan coins. ”

"I'm afraid King Ming is very rich..."

Tokugawa Mitsuhime.

"That must be very rich."

Matsudaira Gyary thought for a moment and said, "A medium-sized ship enters the port to pay taxes once in white dollars, according to the situation we saw when we entered the port before, there are no less than 100 sailing ships entering the port every day, and it is more than 10,000 silver dollars a day...."

"That's almost 20,000 taels of silver."

"Twenty thousand taels of silver..."

Tokugawa gasped.

The Tokugawa family's stone height is only 3 million stones.

This stone is definitely not worth a silver dollar.

Other words.

The ship tax collected by the Ming Prince's Mansion alone was much higher than that of the Tokugawa family.

In fact, Tokugawa's rule of the country is still a lot less.

Because the Dutch had previously monopolized trade in the South Seas, merchant ships from many European countries could only reach India.

After the news spread that Batam could be "free trade".

This ship tax is not collected for 100,000 yuan a day, I am sorry, Zhu Daohua ordered people to work overtime, and I can't wait to expand the port in 007 - in fact, Zhu Daohua is to operate the Governor's Mansion of the Strait of Malacca as a free commercial city.

In Zhu Daohua's planning.

Free City, Batam.

It is operated as a money bag for going north to attack the Qing Dynasty and investing in mainland industries in the future.

And if nothing else.

Dow Hua Bank and Chris' Bank can absorb large quantities of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper.

When there are abundant reserves of gold, silver and precious metals, plus the key nodes of the East-West trade.

At that time, there will be few obstacles to using Ming Yuan banknotes as the "international currency" for East-West trade.

The Tokugawa siblings hadn't thought of this yet.

However, Matsudaira Ieri vaguely saw something from the Ming Yuan coupon in his hand.

Right now.

A sound of neat footsteps sounded.

Several people hurriedly stepped on their feet and looked forward.

I saw only a group of "giant warriors" carrying flintlock pistols about nine feet long, and the shining bayonets rose and fell with the neat footsteps of the samurai.

Matsudaira Ietoshi breathed heavily.

The personal strength of these samurai will not be said for the time being.

It's the oppression of this neat pace alone.

Let the Matsudaira family see the force of the Ming Palace.