The merchants sat tightly under the platform, Western barbarians, Eastern Japanese merchants, and Nanyang overseas merchants were also clearly divided into three pieces. This was expected, and the problem was that the front of the platform, the closest row to Chen Mu and Zhou Xing was only three seats.

This should have been the highest status among all the merchants in Haojingao. If Chen Mu read it correctly, all three faces were Ming people.

Li Dan whispered beside Chen Mu, "The one on the left is Li Yuxi, a native of Quanzhou. Behind him are the fellow sea merchants Chen Douyan, Ke Zhiyu, Shi Xiaolou and Confucian businessmen Zeng Youquan. They were Quanzhou merchants who were set up by Wang Bai, the sea managers of the sea, and Huizhou merchants. They were officials and businessmen. In the past, the children also relied on them to make a living. This time they snatched the boat, and they also helped."

"There are the Da Shangshu in the middle of Zhao'an. They have the most people and the most evil at sea. There are three major surnames in Zhao'an, forest, field and Fu, with more than 1,000 families. Men do not farm but eat meat; women do not weave silkworms, but wear brocade and silk, which is considered to be Japanese pirates."

"The leader on the right is Lin Feng, from Raoping, Zhangzhou. He has been a green forest on the sea since he was a child. He used to be the subordinate of Old Man Tai. After his death, Old Man Tai occupied Penghu and often had contact with the Lindao in the Chicken. Last year, he led a fleet to attack Zhao'an. He should be the younger generation of Xinhui... Why did they get together?"

Interestingly, Chen Mu looked at the three leaders with different sitting postures and foreign merchants behind him, shook his head gently. It was really interesting.

Is it boring that the Japanese pirates blatantly made Hao Jing come and appear in front of him?

The most interesting thing is Lin Feng, he knows.

"Brother Zhou, please!"

Zhou Xing didn't know who was sitting in front of him, and even if he knew, he would not be frightened. He took out the regulations he and Chen Mu and read it: "Since Haojing allowed foreign merchants to be stationed and managed in a mess, we have re-designated the guest guide and established a new quartile. From today on, all merchants who land on the island and trade with each other must have a registered, a licence and a flag. People without a registered account cannot conduct business, people without a license are not allowed to land on the island, and ships without a flag are not allowed to do shore."

As Zhou Xing finished speaking, many Ming people translated the words to the Yi Shangs, and there was a sudden riot, with some people happy and some people sad.

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

The Mingren translator beside Pereira asked loudly, and many merchants around him echoed the question. They wanted to know the most. If it was difficult to get these things, they would undoubtedly tell them to get out of here, and this would definitely be a fuss.

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

Chen Mu smiled and Zhou Xing continued: "All those who attract merchants, sit merchants, and merchants on the island are all people of Haojing. Whenever Haojing encounters an enemy, they must lead a ship to fight with the thousand households in Xiangshan."

Buzz!

Frying the pot.

A group of barbarians and merchants quarreled loudly with the translator, and the three people at the front looked bad.

It is inevitable that the Quan Shangs looked bad. In the past, they took on the responsibility of attracting merchants. Now, Chen Mu and Zhou Xing want to redistribute their interests, which will inevitably touch them, but it is not unacceptable.

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

Lin Feng and Zhao'an merchants on both sides looked bad because Zhou Xing's second sentence: they were all pirates. Once the Haojing Yi merchants passed this habit, it means that a large number of armed merchant ships from the West could be driven by it at any time, and even the entire sea area near Guangzhou was under their patrol.

It is conceivable how much obstacle this will be for other ‘maritime merchants’.

There was almost no objection among the Japanese with the smallest number of people, and the merchants in the South China were also very quiet. The most fierce debate was the Western merchants of Franchise. Just as the debate was getting worse, the merchant leader Pereira and several priests, including Pereith, stabilized the situation.

Pereira stood up and asked Chen Mu a few words, stretched out a finger, and his translator said: "We can help defend Haojing, but we paid taxes when we traded. Just doing business here can no longer let us fight for Haojing."

"Return the town hall and the fort to us, and release Sir Maiatu, and if your army does not garrison here, we can fight for the Mojim."

As Pereira finished speaking, the Western merchants around him nodded and said a "yeah" sound of praise.

Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, saying, "The city hall will be changed to the court's yamen in Haojing in the future to handle many affairs. Mai Yatu violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can forgive him. Just like if I use guns and cannons to plunder you and sell you to other places today, no one can forgive me."

Pereira was very straightforward, "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 it to us for the fort and the city hall. The 10% tax rate is also a good suggestion. If it doesn't work, we will never fight for the Mojing."

The tax rate for Haojing transactions was 10% in the past, but later it was changed to 20%. Now they hope to reduce the tax rate back to 10%.

Chen Mu found out that he had been cheated, and Pereira and the others did not want to go back to the fort and the city hall. The proposals including the release of Mai Yatu were all bargaining chips for their negotiations. Perhaps he had no intention of asking Chen Mu to agree if he said it.

It’s just a habit in negotiations. First, I give the other party a proposal that I will never agree with, and then express my true intentions after being rejected.

This will often increase the chance of being agreed.

Pereira was well aware of the ways of getting along with officials in the Ming Dynasty, because taxes were not paid to officials, but were given to the court, which was irrelevant to officials, which led to them often being able to pick up big holes from officials.

But this is Chen Mu, he is just laughing, are you saying that you will never fight for Hao Jing?

Chen will give you a reason that cannot be refused!

"This seems not a good proposal to Chen." Chen Mu shook his head slowly, very different from Dongfang's open hand and said: "I seem to have a better proposal here. Do you want to hear it?"

"There are only ten merchants in Haojing. Each merchant can issue five merchant license plates and ten merchant license plates. Each merchant who has the license plate will receive ten ship flags. In other words, Haojing will have only ten merchants in the future, fifty stores, one hundred merchants and one thousand merchants."

Chen Mu smiled. Hao Jing now has no fifty stores and one thousand merchant ships, but he believes that there may be one in the future, and it doesn’t matter if there is not.

"The tax rate of Haojing will not be 20%, nor 10%, but 10% tax rate." Chen Mu said as he raised his hand to scan everyone in the audience and said, "In this 50% tax rate, the tax rate paid by the merchant's businessman's shop and the merchant ship will have one point as the reward for the construction and management of Haojing! The other point will be saved as the captain and the sailor's reward for killing enemies when encountering war!"
Chapter completed!