The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 246 Taxation
The battlefield is full of corpses with different death patterns!

There is the Qing Army, and there is also the Restoration Army!
The medical team in the army stepped forward to help clean up the battlefield, take care of the wounded, and arrange the remains of their own soldiers.

The remains of the soldiers of the Restoration Army were sorted out and neatly placed together according to different organizational systems.

There are even people who specialize in arranging the remains of soldiers who died in battle!
Grass-roots officers of each unit identify the corpses through identity cards to determine the identity of the war dead.

The corpses of the Qing army were randomly piled up together as if they wanted to be thrown into the trash.

Just wait for a while after counting the heads, pour oil on the fire, prepare firewood, and then burn it with a fire.

The military judge of the Restoration Army entered the battlefield and began to sort out the results of the battle and calculate the military merits.

The wounded battalion was set up not far from the battlefield!
The military doctors got busy and tried their best to treat every soldier of the Liberation Army.

Zhu Hongyu glanced at the battlefield, and then spoke.

"This victory, order people to report victory to the rear!"

The orderly took the order to do it.

Subsequently, the recovery army in Tanzhou Town also received good news.

After a Qing army escaped from the battlefield, it wanted to flee westward, but was blocked by the Tanzhou guards.

The two sides fought fiercely, and then, the Qing army was wiped out in one fell swoop!
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At the beginning of May in the lunar calendar, the weather is already very hot.

A big sun hung in the sky, wantonly releasing its own light and heat, scorching the earth.

The people on the ground are busy in full swing.

Workers are carrying goods, and businessmen are coming and going more frequently, and a large amount of goods are handled through the port of Macau.

The tax officers of the Liberation Army went ship after ship at the port, carefully and detailedly registering and calculating the tax.

The Liberation Army's three-year exemption and five-and-a-half years of taxation are aimed at farmers and merchants who open shops.

It was Zhu Hongyu who did it in order to recuperate and restore the prosperity of the market.

For maritime merchants, as well as import and export tariffs, they must be collected!
At this time, the port of Macau was even busier than when it was controlled by the Portuguese.

The number of merchants coming and going has increased greatly!

The reason for this is that a large number of merchants felt that since Daming regained Macau.

In order to deal with Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty must block and counterattack Macau.

In addition, now that the Portuguese are gone, there is a high probability that the business in Macau will not be able to continue in the future!

If you don't take advantage of Macau's stability now, and make the last fortune quickly, then you won't lose money?
With such a deformed mentality of the merchants, Macau is more prosperous than ever.

Shang Jinren boarded a sandboat with the tax officer of the Liberation Army, and checked and calculated the tax issue with the tax officer.

The owner of this boat is a Korean. Facing the officials of the Celestial Kingdom, even if Daming is a bit downcast now, this North Korean businessman is full of flattery.

Although in the Wanli Year, the Ming Dynasty resisted the Japanese and aided the DPRK, and the grace of rebuilding the DPRK was in it, but more of it was the tactful behavior of the businessman!

"The boat is pulling tea, sugar, and some raw silk, right? Apart from the two, is there anything else?"

"If there is, please consciously report it as soon as possible. If you conceal it and then we find out, you will be punished at ten times the price of the goods."

"If you can't pay the fine, the boat will be detained!"

Shang Jinren asked the merchant sailor beside him, he spoke with a Shandong accent.

He is from Shandong. After the Yuyuan Anti-Qing Uprising broke out, he fled south with a large number of refugees.

All the way to Guangdong to seek a living!

Because he can read and write, and is proficient in arithmetic, he settled in Macau and worked as an accountant for the Portuguese!
After Daming regained Macau, he changed from a Portuguese accountant to a clerk of the Ming taxation department.

After working as an accountant for so many years, he knows too much about all kinds of tax twists and turns.

The sailor said with a flattering face.

"Also... there are some cotton cloth and ironware!"

The sailor's Chinese is not bad. Although he has a bit of a stick accent, his enunciation is quite clear.

Shang Jinren gave the sailor a sideways look, ordered his men to go and check, and asked in a bad tone.

"Hehe, how much is your "some"?"

The tax officer on the side had already turned black, as if he was about to order someone to be arrested at any time.

The captain hurried over to smooth things over.

"Don't be angry, officer, don't be angry, the people below are ignorant!"

"Hold your hands high, hold your hands high!"

While speaking, he was about to put an ingot of gold into the hands of the tax collector.

The tax official didn't even look at the merchant, and instead of accepting his gold, he spoke.

"Deploy a team from the pier to inspect carefully to see how much the cargo is!"

The tax collector's eyes are not so shallow, and a bar of gold can't buy him off.

The tax officer collects taxes, and there is a share reward according to the tax income!

After sharing the reward with the people below, it will be much more than this ingot of gold!

More importantly, the tax sharing rewards are legal income, approved by His Royal Highness Jian Guo himself, and given to the tax department as a benefit.

It can be taken out to spend openly, without fear of being investigated.

And if he took this ingot of gold, he might be invited to Jin Yiwei's yamen for tea later.

The North Korean businessman wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with an apologetic smile.

"Perhaps the people below didn't count the goods carefully, so there were some deviations!"

"It's definitely not our deliberate tax evasion, our North Korean businessmen are all honest businessmen!"

The tax collector just nodded.

"Paying taxes honestly is better than anything else!"

Shang Jinren on the side immersed himself in counting and checking the quantity of goods, and spoke after a while.

"My lord, according to the latest tax rate stipulated by my Ming Dynasty, this merchant ship paid 430 seven silver dollars less."

The tax officer's face darkened, and he spoke.

"According to the regulations, 400 silver dollars for tax evasion is enough to meet the standard of life imprisonment!"

"If it's more, more than 500 silver dollars, hehe, then he will be beheaded!"

Hearing this, the sweat on the North Korean businessman's forehead suddenly increased, and his face began to turn pale.

Fortunately, the tax collector added.

"Hmph, if it wasn't for the fact that your ship hasn't declared to leave the port, it wouldn't be considered a real tax evasion, hehe..."

"But even so, I can't spare you lightly!"

The North Korean businessman said as if grasping at straws.

"Officer, please spare the young one!"

"I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore!"

While speaking, he wanted to kneel on the ground.

The tax officer of the Restoration Army supported him, and then spoke.

"You don't need to plead with me, I can only deal with it according to the regulations!"

"The missing part of the tariff will be made up three times, and then a fine of [-] silver dollars will be paid!"

"Pay them in as soon as possible, or your ship will not be able to leave the port!"

When the North Korean businessman heard this, he slumped on the ground with a wry smile on his face.

If I knew today, why was it in the first place!

Pay taxes obediently, the most is more than 400 silver dollars!
But now he was fined nearly [-] silver dollars for playing tricks.

Be greedy for petty gains and suffer big losses, regret not at the beginning, regret not at the beginning!

After the tax officer and his team issued a ticket to the merchant ship, they disembarked swaggeringly.

Not afraid of North Korean businessmen escaping!

Because they can be sure that North Korean businessmen can't escape!

(End of this chapter)