This scene suddenly appeared in front of everyone, whether it was Wang Fulin, Baron Franco, the murderous person involved, or Jia Nailao and the idle people around him, they could not help but be stunned.

After Wang Fulin gave out the attitude of Baron Franco and Bishop Jia Nailau, although he ordered Ma Shi to immediately deploy troops to enter a state of alert, he felt from the bottom of his heart that the situation should be controlled, so in addition to the safety of the three small businessmen, even he naturally developed a sense of idleness to watch the fun without much trouble. Therefore, he really did not expect that the impostor would adopt such a decisive self-rescue method after being seen through.

Although he couldn't understand Portuguese, he vaguely realized that Baron Franco had gritted his teeth at the fake guy, but he seemed to have an indescribable fear. Therefore, he had originally expected to see a good show of fighting between the two sides, but now one side escaped cleanly and the excitement was no longer possible.

Not only were the guys watching the fun, but also Baron Franco himself. He had already confidently prepared all the preparations. With the support of Wang Fulin, the representative of the Ming Dynasty government, and Jia Nailao, the bishop of the Catholic Jesuit, he would definitely be able to kick that shameless guy into hell. But just when he finally caught the handle and showed his power, he jumped into the sea and jumped into the sea! It was like he had enough strength to punch directly on cotton, and he had to worry that due to insufficient evidence in the future, he would face a big quarrel and become a laughing stock in the social circle after arriving in Lisbon!

At this moment, he heard Wang Fulin's voice coming from behind: "It was not just the fake guy who came forward at that time. He also brought about seven or eight people. As long as the others on the boat were able to come down and let me take a look, I would be confident that I could recognize all those involved. Also, the whereabouts of those merchants and the whereabouts of their goods, I need a clear answer."

Thank God!

Baron Franco forgot that this was Wang Fulin's holding him accountable because for him, it was the best opportunity for a legitimate purge. Therefore, he looked at Jia Nailau next to Wang Fulin, and saw that he nodded slightly, and immediately turned his head to greet his trusted sailors. He boarded the boat through the rope ladder hanging from the bow. However, not long after he got on the boat, a loud gunshot sound came from the boat.

Now, although the idle people from the two countries who were watching the fun suddenly became turbulent, even Jia Nailou immediately jumped. After a moment of shock, Wang Fulin frowned and said to himself: "I thought it was the fake guy who escaped for fear of crime. Now, maybe he just found someone to jump into the water, and then lured the real captain to board the ship and then seize power."

It seemed to confirm Wang Fulin's statement. After this gunshot, several gunshots came from the ship one after another, followed by the sound of swords, killings, and screams from the glamorous Lisbon. For a moment, the local idle people who were running to watch the fun looked at each other and all escaped. The Portuguese didn't care about watching the fun anymore. Some ran out of the dock to call people, and some ran to other ships, but more people immediately came up and surrounded Jia Nailau.

Faced with this chaos, when he heard the shouts that he couldn't understand, Wang Fulin had to think about the consequences of the riot on the big ship. He didn't worry much about the life and death of the old acquaintance Baron Sebastian Franco, and it was useless to worry about it. Things had already happened. After all, he underestimated the courage of the fake guy. He dared to make a fuss and then start a furious attack on the ship! But deep down, he was happy to see such a riot. After all, with this matter, he had the excuse of intervening in Hao Jing!

Theoretically, Haojing is the territory of the Deputy Envoy of the Maritime War Department, Xiangshan County, and the Haidao Department. Even if he is the inspector and censor who can manage anything, there is no sufficient reason. Even with the support of Ling Yunyi, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, it is difficult to intervene rashly.

But at this moment, he happened to hear Zhao Sanmazi muttering in a low voice: "What happened when I came to Haojing. Could it be that the disaster star shines again? That real Captain Franco is really unlucky."

The disaster star shines

Wang Fulin couldn't help but glared at Zhao Sanmazi fiercely. Seeing him, he immediately closed his mouth with guilt. He couldn't help but wonder, thinking that it was his own disaster star halo that had not stopped for a few days and then he did it again immediately? Although this was a battle between the Portuguese, the small merchants before were unpredictable because of their greed for a while, and now that the riots are in trouble, it is even more difficult to say.

Therefore, he immediately stepped forward and pushed away the Portuguese who were surrounding Ja Nailau: "Biss Jia, I remember you mentioned before that this real Captain Franco is a baron?"

Jia Nailau was dizzy just now by a group of people. When he heard such a question, he immediately reacted and shouted to the people around him in Portuguese: "Captain Franco is from Duke Braganza, and this Lisbon is also sponsored by the Duke. If you have time to ask the whole story here, it is better to find a way to stop the riot on that ship as soon as possible, otherwise it would be too late!"

In today's day-to-day sailing and looking for the pioneers of the New Great Six, most of them are small merchants who dream of wealth, at most they are down-and-out nobles. For example, Columbus, who is in the Americas, and Magellan, who sails around the world, are all from ordinary backgrounds. As for those great nobles, of course, they will not risk going out to sea, but they will often generously support some lucky people. Baron Franco was very popular because of the last time he brought Portugal silk, and finally succeeded in bribery. As a son of a co-sect, he inherited the rank of baron of the legitimate branch, and at the same time married the niece of the Duke of Braganza and a daughter of a viscount.

The reason for going out to sea again was only due to the factors of adventure and greed, and the Duke of Braganza generously sponsored the Lisbon ship.

Even though many people know that the battle on the Lisbon is probably just a ridiculous contest between two rivals in love, this ship that is about to sail in Portugal also brings a lot of gifts to the Duke. Moreover, if Baron Franco really dies on the ship, it will be really troublesome and very troublesome.

Although Wang Fulin could not understand what Jia Nailao said, from the expressions and expressions of the people around him, he could see that he was right. His old acquaintance was indeed a relatively important person. But at this moment, someone on the bow of the ship actually cut off the long rope ladder, which actually cut off the possibility of people on the dock boarding the ship to join the war. Faced with this scene, he had to add a sentence based on his identity as the Guangdong Inspector Censor: "If this Lisbon ship is allowed to leave, the case will become a headless case. It will alarm the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and Guangdong General, then the consequences will be only be taken by all the Folang Ji people!"

Jia Nailau knew that this was a warning, and immediately raised his voice and urged him again. Although there were many Portuguese living in Macau, there was no unified management. Therefore, even though the bishop Jia Nailau had different political views from several Jesuit missionaries in the church, he had a considerable prestige among the Portuguese. Under his command, the people who were still asking for countermeasures were scattered and went to the two boats parked left and right on the Lisbon for help. Soon, there were also banging gunshots on the two boats, but someone fired at the bow of the Lisbon, and the boards and ropes used for sea mount battles were also set up one after another.

With the addition of the new force, the originally one-sided melee of the Lisbon bow gradually turned around. It was not until this time that Jia Nailau breathed a long sigh of relief. Even if there was a riot on the ship, under the first suppression, it would not cause too much problem. He reluctantly squeezed out a smile at Wang Fulin: "Please rest assured, this small riot will be pacified soon."

"I hope so." Wang Fulin said this, but he could hear the sound of gunfire and swords on the Lisbon, and his wails and screams were endless. However, his thoughts gradually flew elsewhere...

According to his search for various documents at the Governor General Office in Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as the news that Xiaobei found when he visited Haojing the previous time, Portugal occupied a huge area of ​​Macau. In addition to the 500 taels of rent paid per year, it was originally calculated based on the draw points. That is, the tax was calculated, and about 30% of each ship of goods were drawn. However, because the Portuguese were accustomed to evading taxes, the problem of physical draws was sold and discounted, so starting from the middle and late stages of Longqing. This draw was changed to direct silver draw, which is the so-called meter draw.

One is zhang, which means measuring the length of the ship, calculating the ship tax according to the ninth level, or it is called ship pay, according to later generations. In fact, it is the ship tonnage tax. Large ships like the Lisbon have to pay taxes of more than 500 taels of silver when they are parked, which means that a ship will be rented for the Portuguese in Haojing for one year.

The second is of course tax collection. Compared with the previous draw, the tax collection rate for imported goods is not high now, generally only one in ten taxes, but the tax collection for spices is relatively higher. The tax collection for pepper is 20%, the tax collection for sumaf is 15%, and most other goods are only 10%. As for those ships that do not bring goods but come to trade with silver, they only pay the ship pay and do not charge taxes. The valuation process is mostly completed by the deputy commander of the Maritime Warehouse Department stationed in Haojing.

From the beginning of the Longqing restructuring, it was unknown whether it was the Ministry of Revenue in the Central DPRK or the Maritime Bureau that conducted preliminary accounting, and then argued with local officials in Guangdong, and finally set a number of 26,000 taels of silver to Beijing for annual shipping. Compared with the 500 taels of rent rented to the Portuguese every year by Haojing, this number doubled compared with the revenue of the period of the draw, which was enough to satisfy the emperors, cabinet masters and the Ministry of Revenue at that time. Moreover, this was also another newly expanded source of fiscal revenue during the Longqing period in addition to the opening of the sea at Yuegang, Zhangzhou Prefecture, levying ship pay and import and export taxes.

However, the huge Haojing is Macau, and the tax revenue is really only more than 20,000 taels?

The answer is of course no.

Because the slaughter only counts ship pay and import tax, it should be noted that the Portuguese spent more than a lot of silver dollars and bought porcelain, silk, tea, sugar and other commodities produced in the Ming Dynasty, and transported them to Japan, Southeast Asian countries, even European and other countries for sale. Therefore, the export tax was a larger tax. However, the slaughter was also responsible for the official of the Maritime Department, and the Xiangshan County Magistrate inspected it, and there was no responsible department at all. Therefore, every year, the Guangzhou Prefecture formulated a rough number, and then issued an Australian ticket to give 36 merchants, who would charge the Portuguese 10% of the export tax.

Wang Fulin also saw the official who suggested at the time left a very proud sentence: "Thirty-six companies received silver, and they were given ten, so they could get one, so they could sit down and get a stick." After reading it, his biggest feeling was that he clearly wanted to be lazy and wanted to collect money, which was so low that he wanted to be accustomed to Zhu Yuanzhang when he set his salary back then. He wanted a horse to run and not eat grass, and he had a similar effect!

The court formulated a fixed quota to the lower Maritime Bureau, and the silver must be collected every year. This is a disguised tax system; and the Guangzhou local officials issued Australian tickets to the 36 banks, allowing the 36 banks to collect the export tax of the fixed quota, which is a disguised tax system. It is conceivable that when the court was satisfied with the 26,000 taels, the pockets of local officials at all levels in Guangdong should be quite full in the warehouses of the government's government at all levels; and when the Guangdong local officials were satisfied, the thirty-six banks made a big profit through trade, and the government's Australian ticket concession.

The group of people who really make a fortune are self-evident, mainly these Guangdong and Fujian merchants! But while the merchants have money, they have to bear the danger of changing the court's orders every day, and when they encounter truly powerful officials and changes in the court, they have no ability to resist. What's more, there is one of the biggest enemies of these wealthy merchants, that is, smugglers who do not pay taxes!

Compared with these first-hand information obtained in the study of the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi, after Wang Fulin stepped onto Haojing this time, he felt another problem.

At this time, Portugal did not have an administrative agency on the land of Haojing, only the religious leader Jia Nailau! In comparison, Portugal had a Governor's Office in Goa and also had heavy troops in the occupied Malacca. After all, today's Haojing is not even considered a concession in later generations, let alone a colony.

Although the riots on the Lisbon have not yet subsided, in view of safety issues, Jia Nailau did not want to stay in this place at all, and only hoped that Wang Fulin would follow him to leave here. However, no matter how he persuaded him, Wang Fulin seemed to be unable to understand, and he took root and refused to move half a step. When he first came out, he rushed too quickly, and in addition to the two priests, he ordered the two priests to guard the cathedral of the Our Lady of Wangde, and except for the two locals carrying the cool sedan chairs, there was no follower. The pier was now empty, and all the people were on the Lisbon to quell the rebellion. Where could he find someone to report the message?

But at this moment, he heard Wang Fulin mutter to himself again.

"It could have been that the riot had settled, but the people who rushed to the boat to help saw the gold, silver and treasures on the boat, and their eyes were blurred, and they changed from helping people to robbers, right?"

ps: Today's two updates. I checked countless information. The taxes and tax rates in Macau in the late Ming Dynasty were probably like this. Of course, tax evasion is very serious (to be continued.)

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