Chapter 120 Angry! Shake! Cold!

First of all, Zhu Jinsong has always been thinking about using Kunlun slaves as laborers.

The Tiandihui and Jinyiwei in Guangdong finally found the Western barbarians who could get Kunlun slaves. If it weren't for Zhu Jinsong's castration Kunlun slaves, the first batch of Kunlun slaves would probably have loaded ships and shipped.

This is definitely good news.

Zhu Jinsong has been thinking about Kunlun slaves for a long time.

For Zhu Jinsong, some extremely high-risk jobs such as mining or mountain openings are much more cost-effective than using Kunlun slaves -

All the people of our family are treasures, and they will feel distressed for a long time if they die. There is no need to feel distressed about Kunlun slaves, they can only buy one for a few taels of silver.

Not to mention human rights or not, that thing is simply used by the destitute people who became nobles and used them to fool the nobles who had not yet evolved. Their actual use is even less than that of paper in the toilet.

Whoever believes in it has no brains.

Especially as an emperor, what he should do is to be a sage inside and a king outside, rather than being brainwashed by such brainless remarks.

The second good news is actually closely related to the first good news.

After all, it was mainly because Qian Deaf and Lao Gou played the egg-reducing tactic. The Qing Dynasty completely abandoned seventeen of the 18 provinces in the Han area, and directly confused the Western barbarians who stayed in Guangdong.

Let’s admit that the Qing Dynasty is orthodox, the Qing Dynasty ran away, and admit that the Mei Chunyao regime occupied the Guangdong and Guangxi. Mei Chunyao only occupied a part of the Guangdong and Guangxi. Not only did the thieves in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions want to replace them, but the thieves in the Yun, Gui, Hu and Gan areas also wanted to kill Mei Chunyao to occupy Guangdong and Guangxi, especially Guangdong, which has thirteen ties, are also the hottest thing in the eyes of these thieves.

In other words, Mei Chunyao's territory was not large at all, and he had to fight back and forth with thieves of all sizes, so the business of the barbarians who traded with Guangdong Thirteen Banks was inevitably affected.

If the business is affected, it means that the money is affected. This is absolutely unacceptable to Westerners who have milk but are mothers.

Therefore, after joining the Tiandihui and the Jinyiwei, these Western barbarians were excited.

Mei Chunyao's regime was unstable, but Zhu Jinsong occupied Shandong and Henan provinces, and Lin Shuangwen, who occupied Daliuqiu and Fujian, also publicly recognized Zhu Jinsong as the genuine Ming emperor, saying that the entire Fujian and Daliuqiu were under the rule of Zhu Jinsong's Ming court. What is this?

This means a new trading port, a new market, and a waste of money.

Therefore, the Western barbarians in Guangdong planned to send people to contact Zhu Jinsong to see if they could open trade ports in Dengzhou, Quanzhou and other places.

As for the Qing Dynasty?

Sorry, we don’t seem to be very familiar with each other?

After receiving the relevant information, Zhu Jinsong was also very interested in it.

Although Zhu Jinsong got back books such as "Military Artifacts", "Strange Artifacts", etc. from Qian Dian Laogou, as well as drawings and documents of the treasure ship, there is a way to understand the Western Yi and take the opportunity to get back some more advanced technologies. Zhu Jinsong was unwilling to let go of anyway.

Zhu Jinsonggen Qian is different from old dogs with deafness.

The more Qian Dee Old Dog understands the development and trends of the world, the more he is, the more he is closed to the country, because he is worried that the 30 million Han people who are ruled by him will rebel.

Zhu Jinsong was not worried about this at all.

If one day, the people of the world will unite and let him, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, take the throne, it can only mean that there is something wrong with him, not the people of the world.

But when the so-called "British Envoy" arrived in Jinan first, Zhu Jinsong was not happy.

The "British Envoy" proposed the requirement of setting up trading ports in Dengzhou, Quanzhou, Songjiang Prefecture, Dengzhou and other places, and requesting the Ming Dynasty to establish customs and publish tax rules so that British merchants can pay taxes according to regulations. These two requirements were normal in Zhu Jinsong's opinion, and Zhu Jinsong did not intend to refuse.

But what the heck is the requirement to borrow a piece of land from the Great Ryukyu that British merchant ships can moor ships, live there, and store goods?

What the hell is giving the same rights to the British merchants as the Ming merchants under Zhu Jinsong?

The re-export tax rate between these trading ports and Guangzhou is cancelled. What the hell is the requirement for British goods to be exempted or reduced from taxes when transporting them to Guangzhou?

Looking at the so-called "special envoy document" in his hand, Zhu Jinsong was so angry that he laughed.

Is this regarding my Ming Dynasty as the Qing Dynasty?

The so-called "British Envoy" put forward these conditions, in addition to the addition of trading ports and customs, and the requirements for announcing tax rules, are still normal, the remaining ones are just to treat people as fools!

For example, when our Tartar Qing Dynasty was the leader of the Celestial Empire and regarded trade as a tribute in the process of receiving British missions, this is certainly wrong, but even the old dog of Qian Deaf and Panda knew that it would flatly refuse the UK's behavior of expanding its modern business relationship as a cover-up and attempting to turn China into a British commodity market and raw material production place.

"Everything is not feasible!", "The land of the Celestial Empire is all subdivided, and the border is vast. Even the islands and sandbanks must be bounded and divided, and each has its own exclusives, so this matter is especially inconvenient."

As a time traveler, I can't even compare to the old dog of Qian Deaf, right?

So Zhu Jinsong threw the so-called "special envoy document" directly on the ground and sneered at Ke Zhiming: "I want to rent land? Do you want to be the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty? The tax rate of less than 4% is still high?"

"Are they treating my Ming Dynasty as the Qing Dynasty? Let them get back to me wherever they come from!"

Ke Zhiming picked up the so-called "special envoy document" from the ground without hesitation, and returned it to the so-called "British envoy", and conveyed Zhu Jinsong's original words word for word: "The emperor said, "I am treating my Ming Dynasty as the Qing Dynasty? Wherever you come from, go back!"

Several so-called "British envoys" were also confused by this series of changes.

Is there any problem with requesting to open a trading port? Is there any problem with requesting to establish a customs and publishing the tax rate? Is there any problem with requesting to me, British businessmen, have some human rights problems in your country? Is there any problem with requesting to reduce the tariff?

There is nothing wrong with it.

Besides, even if you cannot agree with certain conditions, let’s discuss it carefully. How come you can get out and get out wherever you come?

This is what you call a country of etiquette?

Angry! Shake! Cold!

After looking at each other, a group of "British Envoys" who were tremblingly angry turned their attention to John Howard, who was in charge.

Howard had to suppress the anger in his heart and bowed to Ke Zhiming, "Dear Mr. Official, I wonder which of your emperor is dissatisfied with these terms?"

Ke Zhiming sneered and said, "What do you think? Do you want to rent land? Want to be the same as the people of Ming Dynasty? The tax rate of less than 4% is still high?"

After Ke Zhiming said this, Howard, who was in charge, was stunned.

I won’t talk about renting land to live in a warehouse, but what’s wrong with you Ming people? What’s wrong with this?

We are not allowed to enter your city, we are not allowed to sit in sedan chairs, we are not allowed to buy Chinese books, we are not allowed to learn Chinese. We are only allowed to enter the city three times a month and there are no more than 10 people each time, and your personnel must follow you at any time. Even the merchant ships have to leave quickly after unloading the goods. We are not allowed to stay. You are not treating us as human beings. Why is it so difficult to want some human rights?

There is also the tax rate, what is the 4% tax rate that is still high? Then it is obviously a 50% tax rate! Okay, it’s okay if you think of us as barbarians. After all, silver is the most important thing, but this trip to the sea has been back and forth for several months. Half of the money you earn has to be paid out for taxes. This is the 4% tax rate? Is this called the tax rate not high?

In desperation, Howard had to explain patiently to Ke Zhiming first, and then tentatively said: "Dear Ming official, I am Duke Howard of the British Empire. I have a gift from Her Majesty the Queen that needs to be given to your emperor, so please be sure to let me see His Majesty the Emperor of your country?"

Ke Zhiming didn't care much about any duke or unduly. If his own emperor wanted to, several of the top leaders from the Qing Dynasty could be taken at any time. Who would still care about the unduly unduly?

However, the issues that Howard explained just now, and the gifts given to his royal family by another country made Ke Zhiming a little hesitant.

After considering it, Ke Zhiming spoke, "Wait."

After listening to Howard's explanation conveyed by Ke Zhiming, Zhu Jinsong realized that he had made a big mistake.

Tariffs are indeed a headache.

The customs duties of our Tartar Qing Dynasty were divided into ship banknotes and cargo taxes, among which the ship banknotes were divided into real ship banknotes and official rites; the real ship banknotes were 1,200 taels of large ships, 960 taels of medium ships, and 450 taels of small ships; the money was given to me by the Qing Dynasty, and the "official rites" were more interesting. No matter how big or small ships were paid 1,950 taels of money, and the money was given to the customs officials.

Similarly, goods tax is divided into regular tax and bad rules. The regular tax is 3.9% stipulated by the Ministry of Revenue, which is also belonged to our Qing Dynasty. The "bad rules" are 6% of the total goods price, which is also belonged to the customs officials.

During the Yongzheng period, the officials were purged, and the "official etiquette" in the ship banknotes belonged to the Tartar Qing treasury, and the income of officials was reduced as a result.

What to do? Of course, the wool comes from the sheep, and adding a "payment" to the goods tax perfectly solves the problem.

The payment is even more ruthless, which is about 10% of the total price.

We calculate based on a large ship of 10,000 taels, the total tax that Chinese or foreigners need to pay is 1,200 (ship notes) + 1,950 (official gift) + 390 (positive tax) + 600 (bad rules) + 1,000 (paid and delivery) = 51.4%, and the tax rate is 51.4%.

Of course, it is not scientific to calculate it all like this, because there are still small boats with less banknotes and less cargo, so the total price of goods is relatively low. However, after looking through various documents, we concluded that the customs tariff rate is between 45% and 55%.

This is just customs. After the goods are shipped to the mainland, there will be regular customs. Even if Chinese agents represent the sale of goods, the freight, warehouse storage fees, and regular customs duties based on this will also be transferred to foreign merchants.

Half of these so-called taxes flowed into the pockets of local officials, more than 30% flowed into the Interior Department of the Qing Dynasty royal family, and only more than 10% entered the Treasury of the Qing Dynasty. Until the 59th year of Qianlong's reign, the income from customs paid to the Treasury was only a pitiful 4 million taels.

In addition, Qian Dee's management regulations for foreigners issued during the 24th year are indeed fucked:

Foreign women are not allowed to come to Guangzhou; foreigners are not allowed to sit in sedan chairs, buy Chinese books, or learn Chinese; they are only allowed to go to the city three times a month, with no more than 10 people each time, and there are thirteen Chinese personnel following at any time; merchant ships are unloading their goods and are not allowed to stay in Guangzhou.

The defenses of our Tartar Qing people for foreigners came from our hearts, and the fear and anxiety in our hearts were also sincere.

No wonder these Western barbarians feel wronged.

After understanding the misunderstanding, Zhu Jinsong's face remained unchanged, and he ordered Ke Zhiming with unrighteousness and strong sense: "Then let's see you."
Chapter completed!