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At noon on the second day, at the Phoenix Mountain Wharf, Feng Zhang's people arrived as scheduled with three boats.

They brought 30,000 ransom and 10,000 pensions as agreed, as well as 300 sets of equipment. The people sent by Feng Zhang to be in charge of this matter are the head of the family, Feng Lin, and Cangcao Zheng Anmin, both of whom are also old acquaintances, and it was these two people that Li Jing saw when they went to Da Xie Yan last time.

Li Jing personally brought Zhang Hong and Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong and a group of people to exchange, seeing that it was an old acquaintance coming, Li Jing smiled and stepped forward to say hello, but Feng Lin was very different from the enthusiasm last time, just snorted coldly, and turned his head away. On the contrary, Cangcao Zheng Anmin is still very polite. Zhang Hong stepped forward with a few officials and counted the things that the Feng family moved off the ship one by one. Forty thousand yuan is not a small number, and due to the serious shortage of money in the late Tang Dynasty, it is impossible for so much money to be paid copper. This time, they brought 50,000 pieces of silk, and the copper was just 40,000 yuan. The other 300 sets of equipment are also very complete, spears, horizontal bows, longbows, armor, etc. are all available. However, Li Jing just glanced at it, and found that these weapons were basically used for a few years, and all of them were eliminated from the army. The armor also did not have iron armor, but old leather armor, which was sewn in many places.

However, Li Jing didn't care too much, originally this was just a rabbit beating grass, and being able to get these was already an accident within an accident. If you repair it and give it equipment to the logistics troops, it will still have a lot of effect.

Zhang Hong counted very carefully, and ordered back and forth three times. looked at Feng Lindu's face dark. Extremely impatient. But after Li Jing handed over Feng Ming and more than 600 other people to them happily. His face was much better. In the end, Li Jing proposed to Feng Lin that if Da Xie Yan still had some extra weapons, he would be willing to bid for them, whether they were old or new, and if he could get grain, cattle and horses, farm tools, seeds and other things, and even iron, copper, horns, tendons, lacquer, fish glue, wood, white wax rods and other materials, he was willing to buy them at a price higher than the market price, Feng Lin's eyes suddenly lit up. His face became eager again.

Feng Lin patted his chest and said that he would go to Zhang Luo immediately after he went back, and he would get as much as he wanted for Li Jing. When leaving, Li Jing and Feng Lin were almost brothers, and it was quite difficult to separate. However, Cangcao Zheng Anmin is still as good as before, and he is very kind to Li Jing. Before leaving, Li Jing gave him a hundred taels of silver collars, which meant it. After receiving Li Jing's gift, Zheng Anmin was a little embarrassed. said with a smile: "Listening to General Li's tone, it seems that he is preparing to make his own ordnance." If so. In terms of various raw materials, I also have some ways, if needed, I can help you introduce one or two. ”

"That's so polite. Brother Zheng also saw that my island suffered heavy losses this time, and now Da Xie Yan is only willing to pull out some broken weapons for me, if there is a next pirate attack, then I don't know what to do. Now I have to find a way to get some by myself, although there are a few craftsmen, but the raw materials are not easy to get, thank you Brother Zheng for your help. ”

After some agreement, as long as the materials sent by the person introduced by Zheng Anmin in the future, Li Jing will buy them at a price higher than the market price.

The people who had just sent off Feng Zhang, and the ordnance and silk cloth piled on the dock had not yet arrived and been transported away, and several boats under the banner of the sailor had arrived again. Wang Jin finally withdrew yesterday evening, and before leaving, he asked Li Jing to return the craftsmen to him, and was willing to pay money to redeem them. This request was rejected by Li Jing in one breath, there is no money to be made, but it is not easy to gather talents like craftsmen for a while. Finally, there were more than 700 craftsmen, and Li Jing was willing to let them go. After several bargains, the two sides agreed to an agreement.

Li Jing confiscated the Wang family's property on the island, and the Wang family will no longer pursue it. Moreover, the 700 craftsmen were presented to Li Jing by the Wang family, and then the families of the craftsmen were sent to Shamen Island. Correspondingly, Li Jing had to return the original letters and account books held by the one-eyed Jiao to Wang Jin, and in addition, the bodies of Wang Fu and the two hundred guards had to be returned to the Wang family. In addition, the shopkeepers and men of the shops and warehouses on Wangjia Island, except for those who voluntarily stayed, and those who are willing to return to Wang's house must be returned. In addition, regarding this pirate attack, Li Jing is not allowed to say at any time and place that the Wang family has something to do with the pirates. As compensation, the Wang family paid Li Jing 50,000 yuan as a sincere agreement between the two parties. And it was agreed that from now on, the well water of the two sides would not interfere with the river water, and they would be friendly to each other and not offend each other.

On the surface, this agreement seems to be an anomaly for Wang Jin, who has made a comprehensive compromise and concession to Li Jing. Originally, Li Jing thought that if the 700 craftsmen of the Wang family were detained, the 50,000 yuan of extortion money behind would definitely not be completed. But unexpectedly, the Wang family didn't hesitate much, so they all agreed, and even didn't bargain after the end. Although this result made Zhang Hong and others extremely happy, and made a large amount of investment, it made Li Jing more vigilant in his heart.

Wang Jin's unusual move is very likely to indicate that Wang Jin is not retreating and compromising, but temporarily retreating as advance, and there must be some greater conspiracy brewing. However, Li Jing is not afraid, all he needs is time, if Wang Jin really wants to retreat, then it won't take long for him to taste the bitter fruits planted at this time. Wait for the opportunity and fight for time, then it depends on who fights whom.

The Wang family's 50,000 yuan is part of money, grain, and silk, and it took half a day to unload the goods at the wharf. As soon as the cargo was unloaded, the Wang family's fleet picked up the hundreds of people from the Wang family and left directly.

That night, it happened to be the Shangyuan Festival, and Li Jing ordered the whole town to take a three-day vacation as early as yesterday. He also sent Zhang Hong to buy a large number of pigs and sheep wine from Dengzhou, and bought back a lot of materials, and the women of the town worked together to make countless large and small lanterns. As soon as it gets dark, Shamen Town is already full of lanterns of different sizes and shapes. There are dragon lanterns, tiger lanterns, fish lanterns, sheep lanterns, rabbit lanterns and so on. On both sides of the streets of the city, there are also activities to guess lantern riddles and give gifts.

All the soldiers also received a huge reward of ten yuan per person from Li Jing, and the people also received a consistent amount of money and a bucket of rice on the Shangyuan Festival. Although it was another large amount of money, the city rejoiced. When the shadow of the aftermath of the pirate attack is swept away. Even Zhang Hong, the miser, was very pleased.

Although the town of Shamen suffered heavy losses in this battle. But people's popularity quickly recovered. Now, four brand-new temporary camps have been erected outside the city, and there are many tents one after another, which is even better than in the past.

During the Shangyuan Festival, Li Jing did not accompany everyone to enjoy the lanterns.

Tonight, he summoned hundreds of representatives of all the merchants on the island to the town general's mansion to formally deal with these merchants for the first time.

The wide town general's mansion is brightly lit. A team of family members outside the house were heavily armed and guarded on both sides. In the house, Li Jing sat in the first seat of the lobby, Lin Wei, Zhang Hong and other civil and military officers were on the left, and the hundreds of business representatives were all on the right.

At this time, all the merchant representatives were in front of a long scroll. There are countless terms written on the long scroll, and those merchants have carefully read the terms on it, but the faces of each merchant are becoming more and more ugly, and even out of breath.

The hall was silent, except for the unsettling panting of the merchants.

Long. Finally, an old man with a white beard and groomed appearance stood up.

"General Lee. You have just taken over the wharf that was built by us merchants with their own funds, and now you have immediately come up with these Shamen Town business regulations, what do you mean? ”

Li Jing chuckled, "What do you mean, isn't it very clear on this?" This is a management ordinance aimed at managing the industrial and commercial order on the island and safeguarding the interests of everyone. The four docks were reclaimed, and that was a reasonable arrangement made in light of the last pirate attack. This is to protect the town of Salmon, and it is to protect you. ”

"You're basically trying to loot our wealth, and what are you trying to protect your legitimate interests. If you look at what is written on this, all merchants will have to register in Shamen Town in the future, and they will have to obtain a business license issued by Shamen Town. In addition, all shops have to pay the public security management fee, street sanitation fee, town construction surcharge, and comprehensive management service fee to the Shamen Town General Government on time every month. What are these? It's all a disguised scrape of some clever names. ”

Zhang Hong explained with a smile: "The public security management fee means that in the future, we will send patrols to patrol villages, streets, docks, etc., to manage public security and protect safety." The street sanitation fee is that in the future, all villages, streets, and wharves will set up public toilets, public baths, and garbage and waste disposal points, and we will send special personnel to clean them up every day. As for the town-building surcharge and the general management service fee, these are not difficult to understand, everything is aimed at making Salmon Island better. ”

Immediately, someone thought about it and said loudly: "Then in the future, all the shopkeepers, men, and craftsmen of the shops on the island will have to register regularly and receive identity cards." If you stay for a short period of less than one year, you have to apply for a temporary residence permit, and if you don't do it after three days on the island, you will be arrested immediately if you are found by inspection? What's not going on? ”

Wang Chong couldn't help but get up, his eyes widened, he glanced at the audience, and shouted: "The issuance of identity cards, temporary residence cards, and all craftsmen, guys, etc. are registered in the register, in order to strictly prevent thieves and spies from sneaking into my Shamen Island, stealing information, and probing secrets." All of this is for the sake of you, if the pirates attack Shamen Town again, can you guarantee that the pirates will not loot your shops first? ”

"What about the charges for this pier? Those four docks originally belonged to our merchants, but now they have been forcibly taken over by you, and you still have to charge them? If you look at the above list of charges, what ship port fees, pilotage fees, berthing fees, berthing fees, unmooring, mooring fees, loading and unloading cargo labor costs, miscellaneous operation fees, cargo storage fees, detention fees, all of which have to be charged. There is also a wharf construction fee, a wharf management fee, and all fees on holidays are doubled, and the night fee is increased by 50%. You took our dock, and now you have to charge all these kinds of fees, you are so shameless! Another merchant representative spat angrily.

"That is, it is also written that all the loading and unloading of goods on the dock in the future can only use the foot strength of the people you designated, what is this? There had never been such rules before, and now you're messing around! ”

Zhang Hong smiled kindly: "Although there are more charging items, in fact, it is just a refinement of the charging items, which is open and fair." For example, if a 100-stone cargo ship docks at the wharf, we charge a penny per stone at a time, and a 100-stone ship docks at the wharf only charges 100 cents, which is not much. ”

Immediately, a merchant shouted: "It's not much, one charge is 100 yuan, but you look at how many items, at least ten charge items, once down, at least you have to pay a consistent fee." This is not in addition to the money paid to the stevedores, which is doubled on holidays and tripled at night on holidays. ”

"Harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are fiercer than tigers!" Someone shouted loudly below.

Li Jing had been sitting there, watching the reactions of the merchant representatives with cold eyes. As early as the first day he landed on the island, Li Jing had already decided that his territory would not tolerate such an existence as a concession that was beyond his control. He didn't have the time and didn't find the right opportunity before. Now, by annihilating the might of the pirates, and by taking advantage of Song Wen's momentum, in the gap between the confrontation between the two major forces, and taking advantage of the opportunity for Wang Jin and Feng Zhang, who were forced to temporarily compromise, Li Jing finally seized the opportunity to move the knife against this merchant.

The first step is to reclaim the four piers, which is the most important point. With four piers in hand, all the merchants on the island will be unable to jump. Having mastered this key, Li Jing proposed the registration of merchants, the registration of shopkeepers, men, and craftsmen, as well as the issuance of identity cards and temporary residence cards, all of which are monitoring the merchants on the island. And these many nominal charges on the dock are Li Jing's weapons to suck blood from these merchants. The merchants on the island don't pay taxes and don't pay all kinds of fees, that's all in the past.

Now, although Li Jing does not collect their taxes, they have to pay money to Shamen Town in the future for each of their various expenses.

The merchants below became more and more noisy, and at the end of the day, they simply became a vegetable market. At the beginning, Zhang Hong and the others still reasoned with them, but when they reached the worst, they simply let them shout there.

Li Jing watched coldly for a long time, until these people became more and more unspeakable and arrogant, he suddenly stood up, suddenly pulled out the long sword at his waist, and cut off the corner of the old case in front of him with a sword.

With the sound of the bell, the corner of the table fell, and the heavily armed family members who were guarding the door rushed in, the tips of the spears in their hands swaying, and the sharp spearheads reflected the frightened pale faces of the merchant representatives.

Li Jing looked at his sword with a slight smile: "My sword is still so sharp, yesterday I used this sword to cut off the head of the sea thief One-eyed Jiao, and there was no damage at all, it is really a good sword, a good sword!" I just don't know whose head is under the next sword! ”

After saying this, Li Jing glanced up at the merchants in the hall and asked with a smile: "Just now I heard that everyone has an opinion on the business administration regulations of Salmon Island that I have drafted?" Whoever has an opinion, stand up! ”

Wherever Li Jing's gaze swept, the merchant representatives turned a little pale, and shook their heads busily.

Retracting his gaze, Li Jing smiled and said, "Since no one has come forward, it means that everyone has no opinion and agrees with this new regulation?" Well, everyone is a reasonable person. Come and celebrate, and serve a fine wine! Today, I am drunk with all of you, but I declare in advance that from now on, anyone will only talk about Fengyue and no longer talk about business. From tomorrow, the new regulations will be officially implemented, and then everyone must remember the attitude you have expressed today, and do not break your word, otherwise, my sword is about to reappear! (To be continued.) )