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Simply put, the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty went to Guangzhou and Quanzhou to do foreign trade business, and they just had to pay taxes to the Maritime Mansion Bureau.

There is no such thing as tariffs.

The Maritime Bureau, which has a strong background, dare not provoke him. If the background is slightly weak, at most, the Maritime Bureau officials or relevant bosses will be given some money to ensure safety, which is considered an additional expense.

However, now Quanzhou and Guangzhou belong to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If merchants in Jiangnan want to transport goods to do foreign trade business, they must pay tariffs to the Guangzhou and Quanzhou customs under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

No tariffs paid?

Yes, then your products are not allowed to enter Quanzhou and Guangzhou, let alone exports.

Tariffs are collected. When merchants formally trade, they also had to collect a trade tax originally owned by the Southern Song Dynasty Maritime Bureau, so that the goods could leave the port. Two taxes and two collections would be paid off. The Ming Dynasty made great profits.

However, such a situation will have a certain impact on Jiangnan Kingdom, affect their commodity exports, and will also directly affect Jiangnan Kingdom's fiscal revenue and the private income of various powerful and high-ranking officials.

So can we not ship from Guangzhou and Quanzhou?

Is it feasible to ship from other places?

The answer is that it's not that easy.

It is difficult to replace a commercial port that is widely recognized worldwide, especially Quanzhou and Guangzhou already have a large number of foreign-business foundations and strong infrastructure.

Moreover, many foreign businessmen settled in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, and also had a large number of living facilities. They were very familiar with this place and had a certain sense of belonging.

If you want to change the place and reorganize your life and business activities, you will definitely not be able to do it in just three to five years.

Three to five years

The Ming Kingdom could swallow Jiangnan Kingdom.

What's more, the Southern Song navy had basically been destroyed and had no ability to protect maritime trade. The coastal areas were full of Ming army naval forces. Even if they wanted to re-engage a maritime bureau in other smaller ports with foreign investors, they would not have the ability to resist if the Ming Dynasty interfered with it.

The Southern Song Dynasty's warships against the Ming Dynasty merchants made the Ming Dynasty return in a defeat and get nothing. But now, the feng shui changes. After thirty years, Hedong and thirty years, the Ming Dynasty came to revenge them.

Shen Gai was powerless to resist this and dared not resist, so he could only accept it.

Regarding the relatively high tax rate proposed by Ming Dynasty, he tried to persuade Lin Jingchun to cut it a little.

"The Jiangnan Kingdom has just experienced wars and the country is weak and the people are exhausted. I hope the country will be more polite and do not increase too high tariffs. Otherwise, it will probably make many people difficult to eat and wear food and clothing, and business cannot continue. This is too cruel for the people."

But Lin Jingchun was unceremonious and retorted to him.

"Tariffs are targeted at big businessmen, not ordinary people. Great businessmen will have difficulty in food and clothing? Mr. Shen, do you think I am stupid? I have been in this industry for more than ten years and understand very well. Those big businessmen eat less delicacies in the world at a meal, and the tariff money will come back!

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was very short of money because of the war, and you were provoking this war. If you don’t ask directly about the money, it’s already His Majesty the Emperor’s mercy. What else do you want? Your most important salt tax has not touched you, and you are not satisfied yet?"

Lin Jingchun has no good feelings for anyone who makes him spend extra money, so he scolded Shen, making Shen dare not make a fart.

We rely on the Ming Dynasty in military terms and rely on the Ming Dynasty in politics, so how can we be independent in economic terms?

In desperation, Chen Gai honestly signed a tariff treaty, stipulating that Jiangnan merchants would pay an extra tariff when they entered port trade.

Crazy is really cowardly, but helplessness is really helpless. Now Shen should have no confidence in fighting against Ming, so he can only watch Ming use various means to make money.

This will of course cause dissatisfaction among some businessmen, but it is useless.

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The Ming Kingdom is still an absolutely strong party and has the final right to interpret all policy actions.

The Ming army navy generals always undertake the task of combating smuggling crimes. Any transaction license issued by the Marine Bureau near the Ming Dynasty is the target of the Ming Navy and will be sunk or captured, all crew members are punished, and all goods are confiscated.

Order is written in black and white, but if it is truly realized, it depends on the range of the shells and the ferocity of the navy.

Coincidentally, these two points were invincible in this era.

Therefore, although the coastal areas such as Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Jiaxing Prefecture were not ceded to the Ming Dynasty, the rules of the Ming Dynasty were the rules of this coastal area.

Have you heard of the long arm jurisdiction?

What? Haven't heard of it?

Then you have seen it with your own eyes now.

Su Yonglin also planned to set up a new naval division to increase the number of naval divisions, and planned to change the number of naval divisions and the main garrisons.

In his plan, the new navy will have the size of the Army Corps, but there is no corps organization for the time being. Only one navy with an army-level organization will be added, from two to three.

The Ping Navy Navy's number was changed to the Beihai Navy, with three points in the base, namely Fuzhou Port in Liaoyang Province, the newly established Tianjin Port directly under the Central Government and Ninghaizhou Port in Shandong.

The Wei Navy Navy was changed to the Donghai Navy, with three-point bases, and was established respectively at Lin'an Port, Quanzhou Port and Liuqiu Island after the destruction of the Song Dynasty.

The newly established navy was named the Nanhai Navy, and its garrison was also three-point. It was set up in Guangzhou Port, Qinzhou Port and Qiongzhou Port, which was enough to deter the entire South China Sea region.

This is the settlement after the establishment of the new naval corps in the future, which will help defend the entire Ming Dynasty's maritime border, control maritime routes, and safeguard the maritime economic interests of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, the Ming army's naval ports were not large, one in Fuzhou, one in Ninghaizhou, one in Quanzhou, and one in Guangzhou. Su Yonglin felt that a navy of such a size could not protect the maritime economic interests of the Ming Dynasty well.

It is not conducive to building a powerful navy that can safeguard the maritime commercial interests of Ming Dynasty.

In the future, maritime trade will really be done. It is possible that the key nodes of maritime trade routes need to be taken into hand and built into a military port to protect the maritime trade interests of Ming Dynasty.

Then it is necessary to require a powerful navy equipped with powerful artillery to gallop across the sea, cutting through waves, and the ancient tradition of the Land Power Empire must begin to move to the ocean.

Now, controlling the ports of Jiangnan's foreign trade, and then controlling the lifeline of Jiangnan's foreign trade, and further controlling the lifeline of Jiangnan's economy, is what the Ming Dynasty is going to do now.

Before Lin Jingchun set off, he gathered the elites of the Ministry of Finance together for a meeting with Su Yonglin to discuss how to fully control the economy of Jiangnan.

Su Yonglin put forward some opinions, and then the elites of the Ministry of Finance completed the work, and finally compiled a set of strategies that everyone thought were effective.

The signing of a tariff treaty was certainly not just for that little tariff.

What is that tariff?

It is less than a fraction of the profits earned by Ming Dynasty every year for Jiangnan.

But the role of tariffs goes beyond that.

Lin Jingchun planned to use various restrictions to suppress the profit margins of merchants in Jiangnan, causing them to fall into the dilemma of inability to turn over capital, and then introduce the Ming Dynasty's commercial power, that is, the Ming Dynasty's commercial national team under the Ministry of Finance.

Use the Ming national team to purchase or forcibly purchase the commercial resources mastered by Jiangnan merchants, and eat in large quantities of Jiangnan's high-quality commercial resources, so as to achieve the purpose of gradually controlling the economic lifeline of Jiangnan and complete the control of Jiangnan's economy from an economic perspective.

Charging tariffs is just the first step, and there are many action plans that will not stop at collecting tariffs.
Chapter completed!