I dressed as a witch doll

When Yin Jiu came out of the palace that day, he didn't go to the laboratory again, but went straight to his small courtyard in Beijing.

He returned to the small courtyard, wrote a letter in a hurry, and then casually flicked a hand on the candlelight in front of the table, and a fiery bird flew out of it.

Yin Jiu handed the envelope in his hand to the other party, and the fire bird, which was not as big as his palm, took the letter in one bite, and the flames engulfed the letter in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, the flames burned the envelope, and the resulting ashes were swallowed by the firebird.

Then the bird seemed to have a soul, blinked at Yin Jiu, and flew out of the window in an instant and disappeared.

But Yin Jiu was still standing at the window and staring at Fill in the Blank, with a look of excitement and sadness on his face, as well as a trace of uneasiness.

But this letter, which he placed high expectations on, failed to reach the recipient in the end.

When the firebird flew into Yinshan, the elders on Yinshan had just experienced a fierce debate.

Just the day before, the recipient of the letter led a group of people to break with the current head of Yinshan Mountain and led them down the mountain in a hurry.

But the reason for this breakup started not long ago.

Ever since Emperor Qiancheng raised the taxes on the ports along the southeast coast in order to develop the southwestern trade route, some people saw business opportunities and opened up the commercial route to the southwest.

But another group of people saw the real money flowing out of their hands, and their eyes turned red all of a sudden.

"It's really a good plan!" In a high-end restaurant, several people were sitting in a closed box, and one of them said through gritted teeth, "The import tax on jewelry and spices has been increased from 20% to 50% for the outside world, and the export tax for the inside has been raised." Another 10% increase, this in and out, our boat will earn 40% more in life, the heart is black enough!"

Everyone present had a bad expression when they heard this, but one of them chuckled lightly, "Isn't that trying to pave the way to the west?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his thumb and pointed upwards.

"But we can't help but leave us a way to survive!" The first strong man who spoke sternly said, "Isn't any of our companies just relying on sea trade to earn some hard money, and now not only is domestic competition increasing The more intense it gets, the more we will cut off our money outside, won't it kill us!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present felt sorry for him.

In the past, whether it was domestic or overseas, business routes were difficult to pass, and ordinary people could only be trapped in one township and one city. Only those with the ability and roads could make money by trading.

But nowadays, no matter where the government is, they attach great importance to business routes. No matter how they manage them, they have as much as others have, and they don't have much more than others don't have.

Nowadays, cats and dogs can pull goods to the port, and some even send them to the sea, but they are the ones whose business is not as good as each year.

And Qian Chengdi's move made them worse.

"Xu Laosan is right. We have so many people under our hands. The first one who opens his mouth and shuts up can bite off a big piece of our meat. It doesn't matter if we eat bran and swallow vegetables by ourselves. We can't let the brothers Follow us to drink the northwest wind!"

A skinny man coughed twice, then continued:

"Didn't the big guys come here today because they all feel that they can't live on? That being the case, I, Xue Cheng, would like to say something here - I don't intend to just wait to die like this!"

After speaking, he coughed violently again, as if he was really about to die.

But other people didn't care about his appearance. Everyone gathered here, but they had a very clear purpose in their hearts. They had a private port in a seaport near Nanyue.

Originally, this place was used to do some cheap business, not to sell a large number of goods.

The few nearby ones use it occasionally, and everyone knows it well.

It's just that now, in this situation, several companies have made up their minds about this port, so they sat together to discuss.

So that night, several groups of people came out of the restaurant one after another, either covering their heads or covering their faces, but they all had satisfied expressions.

Then, within a few days, the number of people gradually increased in the nameless port hidden in the cape.

It's just the ghost idea of ​​these people, and it didn't last long.

It didn't take long for Nanyue's shipping department to notice something strange from the data.

Looking at the export and import data that has fallen off a cliff in the past month, the director of the Shipbuilding Department's heart was pounding, but he didn't dare to hand it over.

He secretly held Zhezi in his hand, gritted his teeth and went to the governor's mansion in Nanyue during the night.

On the second day, the number of ships in the coastal waters of Nanyue suddenly increased.

Those ships were not ordinary cargo ships, but fully armed warships.

At this moment, the situation in the offshore sea suddenly became turbulent.

In fact, after Wen Chi proposed import and export taxes, smuggling was not uncommon in southern Guangdong.

Southern Guangdong has strengthened its coastal defenses, and there are often naval patrols in the coastal waters, but smuggling is still repeatedly prohibited.

Not only that, but more and more pirates, like wolves smelling blood, gradually appeared in the nearby waters.

As a result, many regular merchant ships in the southeast coast suffered heavy losses, which also affected the coastal economy to a certain extent.

It's just that the amount of smuggling was not large before, and the governor of Nanyue didn't dare to make a big move.

Now that the situation is getting tougher, he has no choice but to contact Wu Sheng, the Governor of Southern Guangdong, and use tough measures to strengthen the coastal defense of the southeastern coast of Southern Guangdong, increase the frequency of sea patrols, and forcefully crack down on smuggling and pirates.

He advocated that all pirates and smuggling ships from the East should be attacked violently.

Most of the pirates and smuggling ships did not dare to confront the imperial army easily at the beginning, so they tentatively contacted them, and fled quickly when they encountered the regular army.

Most of the pirates escaped without a trace, and some of the smuggling ships were mainly cargo ships with heavy loads. Many of them were caught by the navy due to bad luck.

Wu Sheng, the governor of Southern Guangdong, was greedy for meritorious deeds, and was extremely dissatisfied with this achievement. He ordered all smuggling ships to be marked as pirates and sentenced to death by means of thunder.

This time, everyone was frightened.

Smuggling was not considered a serious crime in Feng Dynasty, and it was usually enough to pay for the sin with gold and silver and then serve a certain period of torture.

Who knew that Wu Sheng's attack was so dark.

Zhu Jinyu, governor of Nanyue, disapproved of Wu Sheng's actions, but he was powerless to stop this matter. In the end, he could only publicize the matter in order to deter other smuggling ships.

Not only that, but he also quickly sent invitations to the leaders of the twelve largest firms in Southern Guangdong for his 45th birthday banquet.

On the night of the birthday banquet, apart from the people from the Shibo Department, there was no other official personnel present.

After experiencing the execution of Wu Sheng's bloody vegetable market a few days ago, everyone was a little apprehensive.

The governor of Nanyue said a few words on the scene, and after leading the people to drink to their heart's content, he waved off the dancer and said with a wine glass: "Your Majesty has a benevolent heart and is sympathetic to the difficulties of people's livelihood. Therefore, it is really a sacred act of a saint to spend a lot of effort to pave the road to the southwest. !"

No matter what thoughts they had in their minds, everyone sitting there stood up, held up their wine glasses and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty is merciful!"

Then everyone drank it all.

The Inspector of Nanyue finished his drink, put down his glass and sat down, ate some small dishes, but shook his head as if chatting, "It's just that we in Nanyue rely on the sea to eat now, without sea merchants, we will eventually have less rations."

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't talk to each other.

After a while, a young man said: "It doesn't matter to us. Recently, the family has sent people to the southwest. It is more difficult to open the business road, but there are more roads."

Governor Zhu Jinyu smiled and pointed at him, "You're the only one who thinks I can't hear you! Are you saying that the people in southern Guangdong are going to suffer!"

The young man immediately stood up and bowed, "I dare not."

Zhu Jinyu laughed.

When he smiled, everyone present became active.

Yes, the decrease in the trade volume in the South Guangdong Sea will inevitably affect people's livelihood, but they are not the ones who should be most worried about this.

Smuggling is profitable, but you have to risk your head. If you can communicate with the governor and think of a way, maybe you don't need to take this dangerous road.

After laughing, Zhu Jinyu restrained her expression, but said solemnly: "Your Majesty has your majesty's plan, but we cannot ignore the people of Nanyue. So, I discussed with all the department ministers for a few days and decided to make a certain decision on the Nanyue firm. subsidy."

As he spoke, he stood up and held his hands behind his back, "A firm with an export volume of 5 taels within a year can get a 5% tax rebate, and a firm with an export volume of 20 taels can get a 10% tax rebate. If a firm departs from Nanyue to the southwest For export, no matter how many preferential policies are given by Southwest, we in Nanyue will subsidize 5%!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone beamed with joy!

Although the import part of this policy has not been relaxed at all, the export tax has hardly increased.

The export volume of 20 taels is not small. Only about half of the companies present can achieve it, but even 5% is enough to keep others away from the no-return path of smuggling.

After all, at the entrance of the largest vegetable market in Dongfu, Southern Guangdong, the blood-red ground has not been cleaned up yet!

Besides, once a few small businesses cooperate, the export volume will also increase, and 10% will be obtained in a blink of an eye.

And what attracted them even more was the last sentence, exporting to the Southwest, subsidizing from Nanyue!

Exporting to the Southwest itself no longer requires export tax. If you add subsidies, you can really give it a try!

After all, for a big business of their size, there are goods coming from south to north. If you buy goods in the southwest and go directly to the southwest pass, you will not only not pay taxes, but also have a 5% subsidy. Silver taels!

Thinking of this, everyone stood up and knelt down to thank the governor for his support of the firm.

Zhu Jinyu stroked his beard with a smile, and looked at the person in front of him who was full of praise, but he had other plans in his heart.

The problem of smuggling is to control these big companies, just catch the small fish and shrimp.

But what troubled him the most was the pirates along the coast.

On this point, he needs to have a private talk with some of these people.