Japan cannot have a navy, and Hokkaido and Hokkaido fishing grounds have been cut off, and it is a country with insufficient resources. What do they use to develop?

As long as the Japanese sea area is still the navy under Zhao Yan's hands is dominant there, Japan will never be able to turn over in a day.

At the same time, the Tokugawa shogunate was strongly ruled. As long as troops were sent on land to help them maintain their rule, Japan would always be in darkness. If those radicals jumped out, they would definitely be the target of Zhao Yan's killing.

The trade is exempt from tariffs, and the merchant ships of other countries cannot pass through, which means that Japan's tariffs are in the hands of Zhao Yan.

Of course, it would be too unrestrained to go to other people's territory to collect tariffs, but it would be enough to increase the tariffs during exports.

As a result, export tax on Japan was raised to around 40%.

The news spread quickly, and many businessmen were moved. Zhao Yan finally opened up the maritime trade. Some businessmen in Shandong had been waiting for a long time.

When he heard that Zhao Yan was about to open up the sea trade, many merchants went to Zhaojiabao to inquire about the news.

At this time, news of the recovery of Taiwan was sent back to Shandong.

The territory controlled by Zhao Yan expanded to Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island in the east, to the south of the desert, to the north of the desert, and to the west of the desert.

As the territory expanded, the map also needed to be replaced. Zhao Yan immediately asked someone to draw and publish the "Map of the Ming Dynasty in the 11th year of Chongzhen", and ten provinces were added to this map.

They are - Liaodong Province, Dingdong Province (Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido Island are one province), Nurkandus (northeast Liaodong), North Korea Province, South Mori (later Inner Mongolia), North Mori (later Mongolia), West Mori (Zangzhou Province), Taiwan Province, Xiangshan Province (Hawaii Islands), and California Province (West Coast of North America).

Each province will send a governor, but its power is different from that of the court, that is, the governor, and does not have the power to interfere in the military.

Xiangshan Province and California Province have a governor and have certain military power. There are already governors in these two areas, so there is no need to be dispatched.

Seven new provinces are in the eastern and western regions of the north, and the other three are Taiwan, Xiangshan and California. Among them, northern Mo and western Mo have not yet been fully controlled, and these two places will sooner or later fall into their hands.

The new territory is not drawn very accurately, but the general areas where each province is located are marked on the map and then published.

The new version of the map also identifies agriculture and resource types in each province. For example, in Taiwan, it is marked with rice and sugarcane. The Hawaiian Islands are marked with sugarcane, and there is also a tourist sign. The California area is marked with wheat, cotton, and gold mines.

In the Hokkaido fishing ground, a large fish is marked on it.

In Mongolia, livestock is marked, representing animal husbandry.

The Northeast and Nurkandus areas are marked with wood, minerals, rice, corn, soybeans and livestock. At the same time, there is also a detailed resource introduction, and also a means of transportation and immigration incentive policies are marked, mainly to facilitate businessmen to go to business and attract people to immigrate.

In early May, Zhaojiabao officially issued the "The Map of the Ming Dynasty in the 11th Year of Chongzhen" and passed and promulgated the "Ocean Trade Management Regulations".

The regulations stipulate that Ming merchant ships can go to Japan, North Korea, Dingdong Province, Taiwan and Xiangshan Islands for trade. Taiwan will serve as a concentration of trade with Western barbarians and shall not engage in trade with Western barbarians in other places without permission.

Generally, 20% will be charged for unrestricted goods and goods that are not encouraged to export, and Japan will be charged a 40% import and export tax.

All merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty are subject to this regulation, and those who evade taxes will be beheaded.

Regarding tax collection, in addition to setting up tax points at each port, there are also inspections at sea.

Each merchant ship must first register detailed information, what the owner’s name is, how old is, where he lives, and what he looks like.

When going to sea, first register the goods at the port.

Then the sea inspection will be conducted, and the offshore fleet will conduct inspections on various waterways. All merchant ships under investigation must present a list of goods and tax notes.

Notes and cargo lists can be faked, so the offshore fleet must clarify the quantity of cargo on the ship and record it when checking it.

The records are summarized every year, and anyone who commits fraud can see it at a glance, and then they can catch people according to the registration information. If anyone evades taxes, cut off his head and confiscates all his property.

Taxation is the lifeblood of a country.

Strict investigation + severe punishment can scare most people.

Merchants can trample everything for 300% profit. This sentence is a bit too absolute. The reason why there is 300% profit is because some merchants are scared.

Not all businessmen are willing to take risks in the wind of strict investigation, and this danger is very great. Once caught, everything will be over.

Whether the law is one thing, or not is another matter.

If there is a law that does not investigate, then there is basically equal to none.

There are still people who are willing to take risks, but they cannot be said to be very formal businessmen. Many of them may be those desperate people who don’t have much capital and want to get rich overnight.

At the same time, the regulations stipulate that any person who reports the owner of the ship smuggling tax evasion will be distributed to one-fifth of the property confiscated. When the owner is trading, the crew has the right to know the details of the trade.

In later generations, they were given one-tenth of drug trafficking.

Most drug trafficking groups are concealed and the police cannot catch them at all. With the degree of alcoholic bags of those policemen, it is almost impossible to catch the drug trafficking groups.

Those drug trafficking groups have many ways to hide drugs. Even foreign police can get them down from their eyelids with advanced inspection equipment. Chinese police want to catch them?

Those who will be caught will be reported by insiders.

After receiving the report, I arrested it, and immediately called a TV reporter and said how powerful I was, it was all nonsense.

Drug trafficking cannot be completely caught by reporting, because drug trafficking groups are very strict and difficult to break into them.

Ocean trade is different. A merchant ship must have a certain number of sailors. These sailors can report directly if they pay attention to whether they have passed taxes in the port when going to sea, or whether the merchant ship has loaded goods hidden in advance on a certain ship in the middle of the journey, or if they did not pay taxes when entering the port.

After reporting, the whistleblower can change his name and surname, and can go anywhere you want, or live under the protection of the police forever without any worries.

Of course, if a merchant ship encounters an accident, such as a storm, landing somewhere, it is another matter, as long as the crew testifies unanimously.

Under such a two-pronged approach, no merchant ship does not enter Hong Kong to pay taxes.

As long as you enter Hong Kong to pay taxes, most of the taxes cannot be escaped. The only way to evade tax is to save the valuable Dongzang somewhere on the ship. This requires careful inspection and call on the crew to keep a close eye on it.

At the same time, more than half of the crew members must be trained by the "School of Navigation and Technology" because sailors from the technical school have a good understanding of the reporting matters, and they also have ways to deal with some emergencies.

In addition to reporting smuggling, you can also report goods and items that are prohibited from export. As long as things that may increase the technological water products of different races are in the ranks of prohibited exports.

Even if books about technology are prohibited from exporting.

All those books need to be registered before taking them on the ship, and the crew must also supervise the whereabouts of the books.

The technology blockade has reached this level of strictness and perversion.

The tariffs on ocean trade are a very profitable income link. As for the UK, the current annual tax revenue is about 30 million taels of silver, which is higher than the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Western silver is not very valuable and its real tax revenue is still not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, it is also a considerable fiscal revenue, and most of the 30 million taels are taxed on marine trade.

Westerners have nothing to match Chinese goods. As long as maritime trade develops, Western gold and silver will soon flow into the Ming Dynasty.

It is not allowed to trade directly with Westerners.

Because that's too profitable!

The profit is so huge that it is not clear how much tariffs it will cost.

In fact, Zhao Yan's open marine trade is not real ocean trade at all, it is just internal logistics, and it is simply a famous way to collect commercial taxes.

After all, the 10% commercial tax is still too small.

This is called a clever name.

The only thing that is considered to be a far-area trade is the Japanese market. The real far-area trade is intended to be completely monopolized, which is equivalent to giving traffickers an additional business route.

After the promulgation of the "Ocean Trade Management Regulations", many businessmen were disappointed because the restrictions were still very dead, but Japan's opening up still made some people very excited.

Japan's market is still very profitable. Even if it is a 40% export tax and a 40% import tax, just where does the merchant ship come from?

Now if you want a merchant ship, you rarely have the opportunity to buy it in Shandong.

The production of clippers from Shandong is basically supplied to the Ministry of Commerce for engaging in ocean-going trade. If you want to buy clippers in private, you have to wait for the shipyard in Liaodong!

As the demand for merchant ships expands, the prices of merchant ships have been rising, which has also stimulated the development of the shipbuilding industry. In less than a month, the number of shipbuilding yards registered at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau has increased sharply from more than a dozen to more than twenty, directly doubling.

In contrast, the addition of the "Eleventh Year of Chongzhen" to the Ming Dynasty Map Album by ten provinces is shocking. The territory of the Ming Dynasty has expanded from south to north to very exaggerated, and even the Americas more than 100,000 miles away has the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Once the map album was released, many people bought it.

As soon as the 100,000 copies were published, they were snatched by various departments. The Ministry of Education snatched the most, and it was not much sold when it was actually sold.

But the sales are also very popular.

Intellectuals in Shandong are very interested in this thing. Even if they are not intellectuals, buying a map to hang it back is a good choice. There is a map that can point to it and tell stories.

The printing factory added 300,000 copies again, and the printing equipment started construction at night, which temporarily blocked the supply shortage. Many foreign merchants came to Shandong and would take some back.

It's not too expensive after all.

Zhao Yan's reputation has also increased with the spread of this map album. More and more people believe that Zhao Yan has the ability to become a wise ruler in the prosperous era.

Ping Yue Zhao Yan often communicated with scholars from the Ming Dynasty in newspapers.

This time is no exception.

This is a communication platform that can change the impression of many people on him.

A scholar from Jiangnan asked, where did Zhao Yan fight to stop his troops?

Zhao Yan's answer in the newspaper was: "Conquer or completely eliminate all potential threats to our tribe from the body. If conditions permit, the extreme cold poles of the north and south can be occupied."

His answer was surprising.

However, this sentence has also become the supreme rule believed by later generations.

However, now, Zhao Yan's words have been criticized by some literati who are deeply poisoned, saying that they are the tyrannical Qin style and will eventually perish.

Zhao Yan did not make any refutation on this topic.

This question is that everyone has different opinions and everything is spoken by facts!

The expansion of the territory of the Ming Dynasty still attracted many passionate patriots to come to Shandong. If you want to make achievements, you will naturally come to Shandong. Making achievements is the dream of many people, but the court did not give them the chance. One by one, the defeat and the emphasis on culture and over military affairs were almost self-confidence.
To be continued...