Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 31 Batam Liberty City, King Ming's Money Bag! 【For collection, for follow-up】

Chapter 31, Liberty City, Batam Island, King Ming's wallet!

Matsudaira looked at the sign in his hand.

There are Chinese characters "Medium ship, tax one hundred".

"Shangguan, don't you want to check the cargo inside the ship?"

Matsudaira Jiali asked a little strangely.

Shen Ping obviously got used to this for a long time, and explained very naturally: "According to the regulations of the Taxation Department of the Ming Palace, taxation only depends on the weight of the ship, not the value of the goods."

After thinking about it for a while, Matsudaira knew the benefits of collecting taxes in this way.

That is to eliminate most of the operating space.

There is room for bureaucracy to check what cargo is on a ship

And if you don't look at the goods, you only look at the size of the ship to collect taxes.

How big a ship is and how much it can carry is basically visible to the naked eye.

The operation is more convenient, and some private operations can also be prevented.

And more efficient.

"So that's how it is." Matsudaira Jiali cupped his hands and saluted, "Thank you, Shangguan, for clarifying the confusion."

Shen Ping also bowed his hand in return: "Your envoy can go to the Foreign Affairs Department of Prince Ming's Mansion after landing. There are too many missions from various countries these days, and the Foreign Affairs Department has no manpower to meet them at the port. Please forgive me."

"It doesn't matter."

Standing behind Matsudaira Iari, Tokugawa Zhiguo poked his head out, raised his head and looked at the tax light who was bigger than the giant samurai Matsudaira Iari, and said, with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

Just put this body type in Japan.

No matter how you can be a guard next to the feudal lord.

If you catch up with Xizhongdao's love
Just this image, I don’t know how many samurai teenagers in Japan can love it.

Shen Ping didn't know what the child in front of him was thinking (Tokugawa Zhiguo was already 17 years old), seeing that he was dressed gorgeously, although he was a bit childish, but he also had an unconcealable extravagance, so he immediately bowed his hands politely.

I also saw a girl next to me staring at the top of my head with fluttering eyes.

Shen Ping was not annoyed either.

He simply took off the square scarf cap on his head.

Revealing the hair bun that can be rolled up.

"Huaxia Clothes!"

Tokugawa Miki blurted out.

Shen Ping put on his hat: "That's right, the King of Ming wants to help China, expel the Tartars, rebuild the Celestial Dynasty, and expel the Western barbarians."

Matsudaira was respectful: "Westerners are ghosts and beasts, and wolves are ambitious. Many countries in Southeast Asia have fallen into the hands of Westerners. The king of heaven descended, and we are lucky!"

After several people said goodbye to each other.

The boat of the Tokugawa brothers and sisters also docked at the port.

According to Shen Ping's explanation.

If the ship wants to leave port.

Then you have to pay taxes with the ship license issued by the tax department in exchange for the ship license issued by the tax department.

There is no rush to pay taxes yet.

However, the three of them immediately went to the bank at the port to exchange a few hundred Ming silver dollars and a thousand Ming copper dollars.

Now the Ming Yuan on Batam Island is divided into silver coins and copper coins.

The silver-copper standard is still implemented.

This is also impossible.

Because the purchasing power of the silver dollar is very high, one silver dollar is roughly equivalent to one or two and a half silver dollars.

A Ming silver dollar can buy hundreds of catties of rice on Batam Island.

The basic monthly salary of an ordinary soldier of the Ming army is three Ming silver dollars.

Therefore, there must be copper coins as a supplement for small consumption.

When exchanging copper coins, the staff of Daohua Bank also suggested that several people directly exchange Ming silver dollar certificates and Ming copper dollar certificates.

Matsudaira Jiatoshi didn't intend to exchange the vain money for a few pieces of paper money.

But he couldn't hold back Tokugawa's temperament of governing the country.

I went to exchange three Ming Yuan coupons.

One is a silver dollar certificate worth one Ming silver dollar, with the words "one silver dollar", "equivalent to one thousand copper dollars" and "payment upon seeing the certificate" written on it.

In addition to the denomination of one silver dollar, there are two denominations of "ten copper yuan" and "hundred copper yuan".

Except the numbers are different.

The three Ming Yuan coupons are similar in appearance. They are all made of what looks like a special paper, and the color is also very rare purple.

In fact, in addition to these three face values.

There is also a face value of 100 Ming silver dollars.

However, this kind of Mingyuan coupons with too large a denomination is not open to ordinary people to exchange.

Tokugawa Zhiguo handed Tokugawa Miki and Matsudaira Jiali each a Mingyuan coupon, and he took the remaining one and checked it over and over again.

"Jiali, isn't Ming Palace afraid of others forging Mingyuan coupons?"

Tokugawa Zhiguo couldn't help asking.

"I'm afraid it won't be easy." Matsudaira Jiali looked at the banknotes over and over again. When he lifted the banknotes, the sunlight just passed through, and he could see an obvious sun and moon emblem, but after he put them down, it was blank again.

"It's amazing." Matsudaira Jiali muttered, "And this paper should also be special paper."

As Matsudaira said, he took the kettle from his waist and sprinkled some water on it.

It was not soaked by water like ordinary paper.

Matsudaira, who didn't believe in evil, simply stuffed the entire Ming Yuan coupon into the kettle, and took it out after a while.

Matsudaira let out a sigh of relief.

Because the Ming Yuan coupon was finally soaked in water.

But
The ink stains inside showed no sign of spreading.

Apparently even the printing ink is specially made.

Matsudaira Jiali said: "Such banknotes should not be counterfeited. No wonder so many merchants chose to exchange Mingyuan coupons instead of Mingyuan coins."

"Then King Ming is probably very rich."

Tokugawa Miki said.

"It must be very rich."

Matsudaira Jiali thought for a while, and said: "A medium-sized ship pays white yuan once when it enters the port. According to what we have seen before entering the port, there are no less than a hundred sailboats entering the port every day, and more than [-] Ming silver dollars a day."

"Equivalent to almost 2 taels of silver."

"2 taels of silver"

Tokugawa Zhiguo gasped.

The stone height of the Tokugawa family is only 300 million stone.

This stone height is definitely not worth a Ming silver dollar.

In other words.

The ship tax collected by Prince Ming's Mansion is much higher than that of Tokugawa's family.

In fact, Tokugawa ruled the country with a lot of underestimation.

Because the Dutch monopolized the Southeast Asia trade before, merchant ships from many European countries could only reach India.

After the news that Batam can "free trade" spreads.

If the ship tax is not collected for one hundred thousand Ming Yuan a day, I am sorry for Zhu Daohua ordering people to work overtime and wish 007 could expand the port. In fact, Zhu Daohua manages the Governor's Mansion in the Malacca Straits as a free commercial city.

In Zhu Daohua's plan.

Liberty City, Batam.

It is managed as a pocketbook for future northward expeditions to the Qing Dynasty and investment in mainland industries.

And if nothing else.

Daohua Bank and Chris Bank can absorb a large amount of precious metals such as gold, silver and copper.

Wait until there are abundant reserves of gold, silver and precious metals, and control the key nodes of the East-West trade.

At that time, there will be no obstacles to using Ming Yuan banknotes as the "international currency" for trade between the East and the West.

The Tokugawa brothers and sisters hadn't thought of this yet.

On the contrary, Matsudaira Jiali vaguely saw something from the Mingyuan coupon in his hand.

Just now.

There was a sound of neat footsteps.

Several people hurriedly stepped on their feet and looked forward.

I saw a group of "giant warriors" carrying flintlock guns about nine feet long, and bayonets gleaming with cold light undulating along with the orderly footsteps of the warriors.

Matsudaira took a breath.

Let's not talk about the personal force of these warriors.

Just the oppression brought about by this neat pace.

Just let Matsudaira Jiali take a peek at the force of Ming Palace.

(End of this chapter)