open sea

Chapter 145
Under the high platform, the merchants sat compactly, and the western barbarian merchants, the eastern Japanese merchants, and the Nanyang overseas Chinese merchants were also divided into three sections. The closest row has only three seats.

This should be the person with the highest status among all the merchants in Haojingao. If Chen Mu is not mistaken, all three faces are Ming people.

Li Dan whispered next to Chen Mu: "Father, the one on the far left is Li Yuxi from Quanzhou. Behind him are fellow merchants Chen Douyan, Ke Zhiyu, Shi Xiaolou, and Confucian merchant Zeng Youquan. It is Quanzhou where Haidao Wang Bai made his guest guideline in the past." Merchants, Quanzhou merchants enter the sea, and Huizhou merchants travel, they are government merchants, and children used to rely on them for food, and they also helped to rob the ship this time."

"In the middle is the big merchants in Zhao'an. They have the most people and the most fierce on the sea. In Zhao'an, there are three surnames Lin, Tian, ​​and Fu, with a total of more than a thousand families. Men don't farm, but eat sorghum meat; women don't weave silkworms, but dress Jinqi is considered a pirate."

"The leader on the right is Lin Feng, a native of Raoping, Zhangzhou. He grew up in the green forest on the sea. He used to be a subordinate of the old Tai. , he should be the younger generation of Xinhui...how did they get together?"

Interesting, Chen Mu looked at the three chiefs with different sitting postures and appearances, and the foreign businessmen behind him, and shook his head slightly, it was really interesting.

Japanese pirates are blatantly doing Haojing, appearing in front of him, can it be boring?

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

"Brother Zhou, please!"

Zhou Xing didn't know who the people were sitting in front of him, even if he knew, he wouldn't be stage frightened, so he took out the articles of association he and Chen Mu had made, and read out: "Since Haojing has been stationed by foreign merchants, the management has been chaotic. Guest guide, the new guest law, from today onwards, all merchants who go to the island's mutual market must have registration, licenses and flags. People without registration are not allowed to trade, people without licenses are not allowed to go to the island, and ships without flags are not allowed. Ashore."

As Zhou Xing's words fell, many translators of the Ming Dynasty told the barbarian merchants what they said, and there was a sudden commotion, some people were happy and some were worried.

Chen Mu was worried that some people would not understand, so he coughed lightly, cupped his hands and said, "The applicants are for Haojing to attract and sit with merchants, and only those who attract merchants can not go out of the island and sit with merchants can open a shop; the dealers are merchants of Haojing, and only merchants pay Only ships can be bought and sold in Haojing.”

"How to become a merchant? How to get a card? How to get a flag?"

The Ming interpreter beside Pereira asked loudly, and many merchants around echoed the question. This is what they want to know most. If it is difficult to get these things, it is undoubtedly telling them to get out now. This will definitely cause a frying pan .

"Don't worry, in addition to rights, there are also obligations. Let's talk after listening."

Chen Mu smiled, and Zhou Xing continued: "Anyone who attracts merchants, sits on merchants, or merchants is a citizen of Haojing on the island. When Haojing encounters an enemy, he must lead a boat to go out with thousands of households in Xiangshan."

hum!
Fryer.

A group of barbarian merchants and translators were arguing loudly, and the faces of the first three were not good.

It is inevitable that Quanshang's face is not good. In the past, they were responsible for attracting business. Now that Chen Mu and Zhou Xing want to redistribute benefits, they must be touched, but it is not unacceptable.

As long as they are still attracting business, there will be no problem.

On the other two sides, Lin Feng and the merchants from Zhao’an looked bad because of Zhou Xing’s second sentence, they are all pirates. Once Haojing barbarian merchants pass this guest law, it means that Haojing will have a large number of people from the West at any time. Armed merchant ships can be driven by them, and even the entire sea area near Guangzhou is under their inspection.

It is conceivable how much this hinders other 'Maritime Merchants'.

There were almost no objections among the Japanese who had the smallest number, and the Nanyang merchants were also very quiet. The most intense debate was still among the Western merchants from Franji. As the debate intensified, the merchant leader Pereira and several priests including Peresi settled down. situation.

Pereira got up and asked Chen Mu a few words, stretched out a finger, and his translation said: "We can help prevent the crime, but we pay taxes for business, just doing business here can't let us help the crime again." and fight."

"Give us back the city hall and the fort, and release Sir Maiartu. Only when your army is not stationed here can we fight for Haojing."

As soon as Pereira's words fell, the surrounding Western businessmen nodded their heads and said 'yeah' in approval.

Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, and said, "The city hall will be changed into the court's yamen in Haojing to handle many affairs. No one can forgive Mai Yatu for breaking the Ming law. Just like if I use guns and cannons today No one will forgive you for taking you captive and selling you elsewhere."

Pereira retorted very simply, "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 Maiyatu, you can't return our fort and city hall. The [-]% tax rate is also the same. Very good proposal, if not, we will never fight for Hao Jing."

The tax rate for Hao Mirror transactions used to be [-]%, but was later changed to [-]%. Now they hope to reduce the tax rate back to [-]%.

Chen Mu found out that he was cheated. Pereira and the others didn't want to go back to the fort and the city hall at all. The proposal including the release of Mai Yatu was their bargaining chip. Maybe he didn't intend to let Chen Mu agreed.

It's just a habit in negotiations, first throwing a proposal that the other party will never agree to, and then expressing your true intentions after being rejected.

This often increases your chances of being accepted.

Pereira is well versed in how to get along with officials in the Ming Dynasty, because taxes are not paid to officials personally, but to the court, which is irrelevant to officials, which leads them to often pick up big leaks from officials.

But this is Chen Mu, he just laughed, you mean you will never fight for Hao Jing?

Chen will give you an irresistible reason!

"This doesn't seem like a good proposal to Chen." Chen Mu shook his head slowly, very different from Dongfang's open hand: "I seem to have a better proposal here, do you want to hear it?"

"Haojing will only have ten merchants, each of whom will be awarded five business licenses and ten merchant licenses, and each merchant who holds the license will receive ten flags. In other words, Haojing will There are only ten merchants, fifty shops, one hundred merchants and one thousand merchant ships."

Chen Mu smiled, Hao Jing didn't have fifty shops at all, nor did he have a thousand merchant ships, but he thought there might be in the future, even if there weren't, it didn't matter.

"Hao Jing's tax rate will not be [-]%, nor [-]%, but [-]%." Chen Mu raised his hand and swept everyone in the audience, saying: "At this [-]% tax rate Among them, one point of the tax rate paid by the shops and merchant ships under the merchants will be used as a reward for the construction and management of Haojing by the merchants! The other point will be saved as the captain and sailor's enemy in the event of war. Reward!"

"Now tell Chen, who is going to attract business!"

(End of this chapter)