The people who often run boats on the sea are well-informed, and they have seen thousands of people building on the banks of the Haihe River, and they have prepared granite wood for a long time, and all the tools are complete. From the morning to the present, each platform has taken on a scale, and the swarthy cannon is placed there. Who hasn't seen a fort by the river? Leave, to put it simply, look at the sunken ship on the river with only the mast left, and then look at the holes in the hull of the two ships on the shore, everyone's heart is cold to the bottom.

The young man looked young, and his words and expressions were all kind, but how many children in the sea in the south and north were in their early teens with knives to kill, and no one would have any luck because of this.

"After checking the goods and paying the tax and silver, you can leave, and everyone will not believe it, but everyone thinks of it, this will not be for everyone to hand over the goods and silver on the ship, and then slaughter everyone, so that everyone's soul can return to their hometown!

Looking at Wang Tong's smiling appearance, these maritime sailors, some even trembled.

"I don't know how much tax the lord has to take?"

Someone asked tremblingly, and everyone scolded in their hearts, thinking that this surname may not be able to save his life, and you still ask how much tax money to draw.

"Two out of ten!!"

There are thousands of people below, and there are only more than 100 people who can call the shots, Wang Tong spoke loudly, and these people could hear it clearly.

It was quiet below, and Wang Tong thought that everyone didn't hear his words clearly, so he had to say it again with his throat, but it was still quiet.

"Master, just two out of ten?"

finally reacted, and someone tentatively asked, this time no one scolded in their hearts, and everyone showed a concentrated expression.

"Nature is not ......"

Wang Tong sold a pass, saw that the expressions of the people below had turned into dead ashes, and he couldn't hold back a smile and continued to say loudly:

"You didn't take the initiative to declare the value of the goods this time, and took the initiative to pay taxes and silver, and the penalty tax was doubled, that is, forty percent."

"Master, these twenty percent, forty percent are just calculated according to the value of the goods?"

The voice of the person who asked below was a little trembling, and the maritime sailors below, all of them stared at Wang Tong with their eyes, which made the guards beside Wang Tong a little nervous, and they were ready to move forward at any time.

"According to the value of the goods!"

Wang Tong's voice was not so loud this time, but he said it with certainty, and there was a bang below, and Fang Cai's fear and despair were gone, and everyone whispered to each other, buzzing into a ball.

"But the gold and silver money carried by each ship when it goes to sea must also be taxed, and whether it is gold, silver or copper, one out of ten will be taken."

"My lord, this money is the private property of the little ones, not ...... business."

People's emotions adjusted quickly, and seeing that Wang Tong was here to talk and discuss, and it didn't look like he was going to rob hard, these businessmen were also bold.

"No matter what you bring in from abroad, it will be a huge profit after you sell it, and when you exchange it for gold and silver, and buy cheap goods from the northland, you will inevitably have a large sum of gold and silver left. If the goods are not unloaded, the goods are not sold, and naturally there are no large sums of gold and silver, but from now on, the next time you trade goods in, if you pay taxes, when you go out, you will only have to pay taxes on the value of the goods by virtue of the documents. ”

"Adults, the little ones always have to bring some money from their own for emergencies, if these are also drawn, it will be too much of a loss!"

"Each ship may have a duty-free quota of three hundred taels of silver."

Hearing his own question, Wang Tongdu answered kindly, and everyone became bolder, and immediately someone shouted:

"My lords, if the little ones brought more gold and silver, wouldn't they be wronged?"

"Bring more gold and silver for no reason, what is the intention, when encountering this, the official will never collect taxes, but he must be arrested in prison to ask the truth!"

Wang Tong's voice rose suddenly, and his face became gloomy, this is to open a dye shop immediately for three colors, I don't know how important it is.

Seeing Wang Tong like this, the people below reacted to their current situation, and stopped stupidly, looked left and right, and everyone quieted down.

Wang Tong's words contained a lot of information, and after everyone calmed down from the panic, they began to wonder what Wang Tong's words represented.

The busyness everywhere is boiling and the noise is abnormal, but it is even more set off the quietness here, this time the quiet time is very long, Wang Tong is not in a hurry, everyone's reaction shows that everyone is digesting his words at this time.

Ma Sanbiao had been gone for more than half an hour, and a cavalryman had already rushed back from that direction, and when he arrived, he dismounted and reported:

"My lord, the commander of the horse has arrived at the weapons workshop, let the villain report to the adult, he has surrounded the group, and no one has escaped."

Wang Tong nodded and said in a solemn voice:

"Go back and tell Ma Sanbiao, hold it firmly, no matter who is inside or outside Tianjin, what officials want to enter, stop me, change a horse, and go back quickly!"

The cavalry made a military salute, hurriedly got on the horse and left, Wang Tong was determined in his heart, he didn't expect Tianjin Haihe to set up a fort and set up a card to collect customs duties, and there was such a discovery, Tianjin Wei was only less than three days away from the Beijing Division, I didn't expect these people to do such a lawless act.

"Master, what did you mean just now that entering and leaving the Tianjin Acropolis will be two out of ten in the future?"

I don't know why, the voice of the person who asked was a little trembling, Wang Tong nodded with a smile, but then added a sentence and said loudly:

"This is naturally true for ordinary goods, but it is not for prohibited goods, or goods that are profitable."

"Sir, silk can be counted?"

Wang Tong shook his head, and the voices below came and went, "porcelain can be counted" ......and "bamboo can be counted", Wang Tong denied them one by one, and the questions were all ordinary goods, and they were indeed not the kind he said.

Finally these questions subsided, and the scene was quiet again, and then they were scratched, and the shipwrights and sailors behind were only whispering, but the ship's bosses and merchants in front of them were excited, looking at each other, and the voices of conversation became louder and louder, and finally someone shouted:

"If you pay two percent here, you can sell it, and the small goods will be considered tax-paid, and no one will say that we are smuggled and stolen!"

Wang Tong replied loudly:

"Naturally, this official has worked so hard to build forts and set up checkpoints, naturally it is for the Son of Heaven to levy, if the official himself wants, wouldn't it be better to wash you directly!"

This is rude, but after the people below laughed, they were all convinced, the goods south of the Yangtze River to be sold in Shandong, need to go through four customs customs, if you go to Beijing, you need to go through seven, a penny of goods, to Beijing needs to pay the tax is four Wen, not to mention the price up, but also to compete with those who use the boat to carry the goods, do not need to pay taxes.

For goods by sea, the freight is more than seventy percent cheaper than that of Caoyun, and it is much faster.

But the risk of going to sea is too great, and it is good to have six of the ten ships go to sea unharmed, and the pirates and pirates at sea are even more harmful.

Although Jiangnan has the world's first-class fertile land, but the population is more prosperous, the land is less and there are more people, many people are going to the city to work, industry and commerce is the most developed place in the world, producing a large number of goods, but these goods Jiangnan can not be completely digested, must be sold to other places.

There are only a few most prosperous and wealthy places in the world, the south is naturally Jiangnan and Huguang, the north is around Beijing, Shanxi Jin Shang and Xi'an Mansion are indeed rich, but they are too far away from the waterway, and they are either limited in scale or extremely scattered.

South goods are sold to the north, and the share of sales to Jingshi and Beizhili Prefecture accounts for almost 60% to 70% of all quantities, and to sell Jingshi and its surroundings, you must come to Tianjin, and Tianjin is the most convenient place to go to Jingshi and Beizhili Prefectures and counties.

The Son of Heaven guards the border city, the capital division is in the northernmost border of the Ming Dynasty, the traffic is quite inconvenient, and the intersection of the three provinces, the waterway and land confluence node of Tianjin has become the best commercial city in the Hebei territory, the goods are transported to Tianjin, and transported to the Beijing Division and Baoding Mansion, Yongping Mansion and Jizhen by water, and distributed locally in Hejian Mansion, and can also go to Liaozhen and North Korea by sea and land, and can also go to the grassland through the land through the plug, to Shanxi, to the north of Henan, Shaanxi is possible.

To sell to the north, Tianjin is almost a must-come place, but there are many difficulties, the first Tianjin is not a commercial port, Tianjin City was originally a military port, even fishing boats are not allowed to enter and exit, merchant ships should not appear here, deduct a crime of smuggling, that is, confiscate all the goods, deduct a crime of conviction, then I am afraid that you will be killed.

Although the Haihe side of the river has opened a port privately, the loading and unloading fees are high, the port tap is too heavy, and occasionally officials come to loot and extort.

Miscellaneous expenses, all kinds of risks add up, after many difficulties and obstacles at sea, come to Tianjin, but the benefits can be only one or two percent higher than those of taking the canal, if compared with the risks, the benefits are almost nothing.

But not everyone has the relationship of entrainment through the boat, and not everyone has the ability to sell goods to the South Seas and the East.

If you don't come to Tianjin, if you don't do this, the funds can't be operated, and you can only lose money at home.

But if according to Wang Tong, the official office charges 20% of the value of the goods, one to avoid the trouble of violating the ban, and the second is to the value of the goods 20%, although it is a heavy tax, but the south and the north are transported, the freight is low, but the price of the goods is only slightly cheaper than that of Caoyun, if only these two percent are paid, then at least seventy percent of the profit, at most even more than one or two times.

Ten taels of silver can earn at least seven taels of goods, or even ten taels and twenty taels, what a big profit!!

(To be continued)