Under the high platform, the merchants sat compactly, and the Western Yi merchants, the Oriental Japanese merchants, and the Nanyang overseas Chinese merchants were also clearly divided into three pieces, which was not surprisingly weird, and the problem was in the front of the high platform, the closest row to Chen Mu and Zhou Xing, there were only three seats.

This should have been the person with the highest status among all the businessmen in Haojing Ao, if Chen Mu is not mistaken, the three faces are all Mingren.

Li Dan whispered beside Chen Mu: "Father-in-law, the one on the far left is Li Yuxi, a native of Quanzhou, and standing behind him are fellow seamers Chen Douyan, Ke Zhiyu, Shi Xiaolou and Confucian businessman Zeng Youquan. ”

"In the middle is the Zhao'an merchants, they have the most people and the most fierce on the sea. In Zhao'an, there are three surnames of Lin, Tian and Fu, with a total of more than 1,000 families. Men do not plow, but eat meat; Women don't weave, but they are dressed in brocade, which is considered a widow. ”

"The leader on the right is called Lin Feng, a native of Raoping, Zhangzhou, who has been a green forest on the sea since he was a child, and was a subordinate of Tai Lao Weng in the past, and occupied Penghu after Tai Laoweng's death, and often corresponded with Lin Daoqian of the chicken coop, and last year he also led a fleet to attack Zhao'an, and he should be followed by the descendants of Xinhui...... How they came together. ”

Interesting, Chen Mu looked at the three leaders with different sitting postures, as well as the foreign businessmen behind him, and shook his head gently, it was really interesting.

The widows are blatantly doing the mirror and appearing in front of him, can it be boring?

The most interesting thing is this Lin Feng, he knows.

"Brother Zhou, please!"

Zhou Xing didn't know who was sitting in front of him, even if he knew that he wouldn't have stage fright, he took out the charter he had set with Chen Mu and read it out: "Since Haojing quasi-foreign businessmen are stationed, the management is chaotic, and now the guest program is re-established, and the new guest law is established. ”

As Zhou Xing's voice fell, many Ming translators said the words to Yishang, and there was a riot all of a sudden, some people were happy and some were sad.

Chen Mu was worried that someone would not understand, so he coughed lightly and arched his hand: "Those who are registered are merchants and businessmen who sit in Haojing, and businessmen are not allowed to go out of the island and sit in businessmen to open shops; The licensee is a merchant of Ho Ho Mirror, and only a merchant can buy and sell in Ho Ho on a paid boat. ”

"How to become an introducer? How do I get a card? How to get the flag? ”

The Akito translator beside Pereira asked loudly, and many merchants around him echoed the question, this is what they want to know the most, if it is difficult to get these things, it is undoubtedly to tell them to get out of here now, this will definitely be a fryer.

"Don't worry, in addition to rights and obligations, I'll talk about it after listening."

Chen Mu smiled, and Zhou Xing continued: "Anyone who attracts business, sits on business, or merchants, and everyone who is on the island is the people of Haojing, and all Haojing encounters an enemy, and they all need to lead a ship to fight with thousands of households in Xiangshan. ”

Airplanes!

Fryer up.

A group of merchants and interpreters quarreled loudly, and the faces of the first three people were not good-looking.

It is inevitable that Quanshang's face is not good-looking, in the past they played the role of attracting businessmen, and now Chen Mu and Zhou Xing want to redistribute the benefits, which must have touched them, but it is not unacceptable.

As long as they are still a businessman, there will be no problem.

The other two sides of Lin Feng and Zhao'an merchants had a bad complexion, because of Zhou Xing's second sentence, they were all sea bandits, once Haojing Yishang passed this law of courtesy, it meant that Haojing could be driven by a large number of armed merchant ships from the West at any time, and even the entire sea area near Guangzhou was under their inspection.

One can imagine how much of an obstacle this is to other 'maritime merchants'.

There was little dissent among the fewest of the widows, and the Nanyang merchants were quiet, and the most heated arguments were among the Western merchants of Franco, and just as the controversy intensified, Pereira, the leader of the merchants, and several priests, including Pelis, stabilized the situation.

Pereira got up and asked Chen Mu a few words, stretched out a finger, and his translator said: "We can help defend Haojing, but we have paid taxes on trading, and just doing business here can't make us fight for Haojing anymore." ”

"Give us back the town hall and the fort, and release Sir Maiatul, your army is not stationed here before we can fight for the mirror."

As soon as Pereira's voice fell, the surrounding Western merchants nodded their heads and let out a sound of approval from their mouths.

Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, and said: "In the future, the city hall will be changed to the imperial court's yamen in Haojing, to deal with many affairs, Mai Yatu violated the law of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can forgive him." Just as I would have taken you captive and sold you somewhere else with guns and cannons, no one would be able to forgive me. ”

Pereira replied very dryly, "We have a lot of warships and sailors, if you want to hire them, you will have to pay more, since you can't release Meyatu, and you can't return our batteries and town halls, the 10% tax rate is also a good proposal, if not, we will never fight for Haojing." ”

The tax rate on the Ho Mirror transaction used to be 10%, but it was later changed to 20%, and now they want to reduce the tax rate back to 10%.

Chen Mu found out that he had been deceived, Pereira and they didn't want to go back to the fort and the city hall at all, including the proposal to release Maiatu, this was their bargaining chip, maybe he didn't intend to make Chen Mu agree at all.

It's just a habit in negotiations, to throw the other party an offer that they will never agree to, and then say their true intentions after being rejected.

This tends to increase the chances of being agreed.

Pereira was well versed in how Ming officials got along with each other, because taxes were not paid to the officials themselves, but to the imperial court, and were insignificant to the officials, which led to them often picking up big leaks from the officials.

But this is Chen Mu, he just laughed, do you mean that you will never fight for Haojing?

Chen will give you a reason you can't refuse!

"This doesn't seem to be a good proposition in Chen's opinion." Chen Mu shook his head slowly, and spread his hands very differently from Dongfang: "I seem to have a better proposal here, do you want to hear it?" ”

"There will only be 10 merchants in Haojing, and each merchant can be issued with five business number plates and 10 merchant number plates, and each merchant who holds the license plate will receive 10 flags. In other words, in the future, there will be only 10 merchants, 50 shops, 100 merchants, and 1,000 merchant ships. ”

Chen Mu smiled, Haojing does not have fifty shops at all now, and there are no thousand merchant ships, but he thinks that there may be one in the future, even if there is none, it doesn't matter.

"The tax rate of Haojing will not be 20%, nor 10%, but 10% and 5%." Chen Mu said and raised his hand to sweep everyone in the audience, and said: "Among the five-point tax rate, the tax rate paid by the shops and merchant ships under the merchant introduction department will be used as the remuneration for the construction and management of Haojing!" In addition, it will be saved as a reward for captains and sailors in the event of a war! ”

"Now tell Chen, who is going to be the businessman!"