The broken legs of more than 100 maritime merchants from the Ming Kingdom are not the end of the story, and a similar drama was staged at the Nagasaki Prefecture for three consecutive days, and more and more maritime merchants were broken legs, and the face of the town official Amazaki Hyosuke became more and more pale. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Not only did the number of maritime merchants who came to trade with the clan drop sharply, but many townspeople were also privately discussing that the generals of the Ming Kingdom were so unscrupulous on the territory of the Hizen Domain, and the Nabeshima family, as the lord of the domain, was simply disgraced if they did not come forward to stop it. These discussions also reached the ears of Hyosuke Amagasaki, and he finally couldn't sit still anymore and went to the boss Machi to serve Nabeshima Yoshishige.

Nabeshima Yoshishige is a side line of the feudal lord, although he has no ability, he just relies on nepotism to sit in the position of the town commissioner, but he can go up to the heavens and report directly to the old level of the family and even the feudal lord himself, Amagasaki Hyosuke doesn't know how to deal with this incident, so he can only find the leader for something.

When Hyosuke Amagasaki found this boss, Nabeshima Yoshishige was drinking in his own house and looked a little drunk. Seeing Amagasaki Hyosuke coming to the door, Nabeshima Yoshishige greeted, "Hyosuke is here?" Come, just drink with me......"

Amagasaki Hyosuke knelt on the tatami mat and said anxiously, "Why does Nabeshima-sama still have the heart to drink?" That Ming Guo's counselor has already made the commission uneasy, so he can't let him make such trouble, right? ”

Nabeshima Yoshige looked at him with drunken eyes, laughed out loud, pointed his finger at him and said, "Do you think you don't know about this matter?" On the day of the incident, a businessman from the Ming Kingdom stabbed the matter to the elder of the Ito Yoshiyu family through a relationship, and asked him to come forward to stop this 'madman'......"

Amagasaki Hyosuke exclaimed, "Even the elder of the Ito Yoshiyu family was alarmed? "Yoshisuke Ito was the oldest and most trusted patriarch of the Hizen Domain, and Nagasaki, as the most important source of income for the Hizen Domain, was directly under his jurisdiction. He was a 10,000-stone samurai of Ishitaka (Rokumi), who was qualified to meet the shogun, and was above everyone under one person in the Hizen Domain, with a high status and great power.

Nabeshima Yoshishige shook his head and continued: "After the elder of the Ito Yoshiyu family learned about this, he only said one sentence: As a strong man who can defeat Zheng Zhilong, as long as his actions do not endanger the rule of the Hizen Domain, no matter what he does, he will not interfere, besides, he is dealing with merchants from the Ming Kingdom, and it has nothing to do with us, these goods, in the end, will still be traded in Nagasaki, and we have nothing to lose." ”

Amagasaki Hyosuke was thoughtful, since he had to pretend to be deaf and dumb at the top, then he also knew what to do.

The maritime merchants of the Ming Kingdom crashed headlong into the net of the Qiongzhou battalion, not only breaking their legs, but also losing all their cargo. They couldn't deal with the soldiers with loaded guns, and they also ran into a wall when they turned to Hizen Domain, and they ran out of ideas for a while. The merchants, who had arrived two days late, learned of what had happened, and they hid and wandered in the open sea, not daring to go ashore to trade, so as to avoid the pain of breaking their legs. However, there is no way to do this, the wages of the ship boss and his men still have to be paid, and the goods on the ship cannot be transported back, and the loss is too great.

On the fifth day, the merchants finally couldn't hold it anymore and sent representatives to negotiate with the Qiongzhou battalion, and put forward the conditions: they were willing to pay taxes according to the standard, and only wanted to let them get rid of the goods.

"No way!" Xia Nan categorically refused when he learned about it, "The rules are the rules, and you can only go to Bofu or Tainan to pay taxes, and it's not as simple as making up the payment here, and if you break the rules, you must be punished." Tell them that all the goods are confiscated and there is no negotiation. However, as compensation for their voluntary admission of mistakes, the boat can be returned, the legs do not have to be broken, and a good attitude can also give a sum of silver to subsidize the round-trip freight. Don't take the luck of returning to the Ming Kingdom, our patrol fleet is now focusing on patrolling the area around Songjiang Prefecture, once caught, the cargo will not be saved, and there will be no return. ”

The bottom line set by Xia Nan reached the ears of these maritime merchants, and after some entanglement, they split into two factions, one faction obediently entered the port according to the requirements, unloaded the goods and received a freight to return to the sea, and also got a receipt of the list of goods issued in the name of Qiongzhou Yingtiannan Commercial Bank; The other faction directly turned back to Jiangnan, intending to transfer the cheap price to others to reduce losses as much as possible. Different choices led to different fates, the former lost the cargo and suffered a lot of losses, but kept the ship and was also subsidized by freight; The latter was intercepted by the fleet led by Lin Chuanzong at the mouth of Songjiang Prefecture, and all the ships and goods were confiscated, and the bottoms were lost.

On the seventh day of the Qiongzhou battalion's entry into the Nagasaki Commission, almost no merchants entered or left, and there were many people. On the one hand, the merchants were frightened, and on the other hand, the merchants from the Ming Kingdom had been almost "swept away".

Liu Quan happily reported the results of this battle at Xia Nan's residence: "...... The confiscated goods have been sold and the payment has been settled. Coupled with the resale of those confiscated lucky boats on the spot, the two added up to a total of more than 3.6 million taels of silver! ”

Xia Nan just said "um" and didn't show too much joy. He was more concerned not with how much money would come in this time, but with something else.

He asked leisurely: "Liu Quan, you said, we are making such a big move, and the Shogunate Tiangao Emperor is far away, why doesn't the Hizen Domain have any reaction?" We are here to make rules, and we are coming with great momentum, but the opponent doesn't let go of a fart, and hits the cotton with a punch......"

Liu Quan couldn't figure it out, and he didn't come up with a reason after pondering for a long time: "This, my subordinates don't know...... However, isn't it a good thing that we don't dare to stop it? ”

Xia Nan shook his head: "This time I brought a large number of warships to Nagasaki and successfully got things done, but what should I do after the fleet leaves?" Merchants seek profits, there are always people who try to evade taxes, and the patrolling fleet cannot guarantee to stop all the merchant ships, as long as someone successfully evades taxes, and the news spreads, more people will take risks, and a large amount of tax revenue will be lost, and I can't come to Nagasaki twice in three days to arrest people? ”

"What do you mean?"

"Tax collection is not a matter of one or two days, this is one of the main sources of income for the Qiongzhou camp in the future, there can be no mistakes, there must be a long-term effective rule to restrain these maritime merchants." "Although we have a trading house in Nagasaki, it is only for trading, and we can't check taxes. The matter of tax audit must be left to the Japanese. ”

"What?" Liu Quan opened his mouth wide, "Let the Japanese check the taxes for us?" ”