The Reborn Wife is Farming

The pirates on the southeast coast were all shocked. Da Qi actually attacked the pirates twice in a row, and both won. A loss is a victory.

The pirates who were planning to go ashore to snatch things immediately canceled their actions and waited and watched, and the entire coast of Guangdong calmed down.

Qi Haoran was discussing with Fan Zijin how to maximize the interests of those captives, "Since you want to form a caravan to go to sea, then sea charts are necessary. Those foreigners can come to us from a long distance to become pirates. You must be very familiar, you ask people to interrogate them separately, and draw a good chart no matter what."

Fan Zijin nodded, his anger subsided a little now, he no longer wanted to kill all those people, he said: "Why don't you stay in Guangdong for a while and help me clean up the pirates on the sea, lest they always come to disturb the people, I’ve already mentioned that the coast and the sea ban should be reopened, so it should be before the big cousin’s case.”

"We were all worried about you going before, why did we care about the sea ban?" Qi Haoran said: "The gang of sailors under your hands are useless. After practicing in the first half of the year, you may be able to pull out a fight. Half of the victory depends on it. The cannon caught them off guard, and we sneaked up again, and if we fought face to face, they would definitely not be able to defeat the pirates."

Fan Zijin sneered, "It's not all the fault of the navy and Zhou Zhou. They couldn't eat enough to train soldiers. Yu Cheng asked someone to withhold the military rations, thinking that if the account books were wiped out, he would be able to get away with it if he didn't let me go to the navy to ask questions. ? He doesn’t even think about what I do, he can even support the national treasury, and he wants to hide those two books from me?”

"Because he is a local snake, I wanted to draw it slowly, but this time he gave me the handle. It is not in vain. I will investigate him on the charge of blocking news," Fan Zijin said, "Since you don't want to use water Division, then go to the garrison and tell them to be vigilant recently, so as not to cause chaos in Guangdong."

Fan Zijin planned to conduct a thorough reckoning this time, to thoroughly investigate the entire officialdom in Guangdong, so as to change his team.

I'm afraid there has never been a magistrate as lucky as him. Although he has suffered before, the rewards are also generous.

Fan Zijin instructed not to garrison troops, but they would listen to Qi Haoran.

The two of them talked about the entire Guangdong officialdom, and Qi Haoran taught Fan Zijin, "Since the sea ban is going to be opened, you can post an announcement to recruit pirates. All the people in Daqi who have become pirates because of life hardships, have their own body. Those who surrender in a life-threatening lawsuit can be exonerated, and those who are willing to surrender in a life-threatening lawsuit can also reduce their punishment as appropriate.

Fan Zijin sighed, "It would be great if you could stay. Zhou Zhou has little experience, so I'm afraid he won't be able to train very good soldiers."

Qi Haoran moved, and whispered: "Actually, I also want to stay..."

It's not for any other reason, but A Ling said that if they don't pay attention to the sea, I'm afraid they will not only face threats from the land, but also threats from the sea in the future.

And the coastline of Daqi is very long. When the enemy troops land on the shore, they are afraid that they will not be able to defend against it. Now, their navy is a little exhausted from dealing with pirates?

He may not be able to do other things, but he is confident in training and fighting. Even if he doesn't know how to fight at sea, he can still learn. The Guangdong Navy twenty years ago was not bad, and the age is not far away. He doesn't believe that he can't find someone who knows how to fight at sea People, or even uncles, just go to them and ask for some people who are good at naval warfare or ask them for advice.

The two cousins ​​looked at each other, planning to write a letter to the emperor to ask for it when they go back at night, maybe they can ask for it?

At this time, a guard was running to the imperial study room with a secret letter just taken from the pigeon. It was a pigeon from Guangdong, and it was probably about An Guogong.

An Guogong has been missing for half a month. The emperor's mood is getting worse and worse these days. He loses his temper almost every day in the court. When he returns to the imperial study, he always has a blue face and smashes things twice. The emperor Always frugal and caring for public property, this is the first time the emperor has smashed things since he took the throne, so no matter whether it is the eunuchs, palace staff or guards, they all serve with a heart.

Not knowing whether it was good news or bad news this time, the guard sent the letter to the emperor anxiously.

Qi Xiuyuan took the letter and looked at it, it was Qi Haoran's handwriting, it was written in the first line, Zijin was safe, Qi Xiuyuan's heart was finally relieved, and he was free to read the cause and effect of his younger brother's writing.

Knowing that it was all due to maritime trade, Qi Xiuyuan's face remained unchanged, but he was very dissatisfied with foreigners in his heart. He raised prices at will in Daqi's country without restraint, forcing Zijin to go to test the ship himself (obviously he wanted to) Go), it is really abominable.

It is unforgivable that the pirates who besieged and killed Zijin were also foreigners like them (in fact, they were different, they belonged to two countries).

Qi Xiuyuan was heartbroken, knocked on the table and said with a serious face: "Come here, go and invite the left and right ministers and the Minister of the Household Department."

Seeing that the depression between Qi Xiuyuan's brows dissipated, Eunuch Wan knew it was good news, so he responded with a loud voice, bowed and stepped back.

Qi Xiuyuan said to the two Prime Ministers and the Minister of the Household Department: "I plan to reopen the coast and the sea ban, and the customs tax for maritime merchants can be reduced as appropriate, but it is impossible for the ships entering the port to be the only ones that enter the port. I am a big merchant ship. There is no tax to enter the ship, but it is too harsh on the people and the tax is too heavy, this is really inappropriate, so I plan to collect customs duties for foreign businessmen, what do you think of the three lovers?"

Rong Xuan was as thick-skinned as Qi Xiuyuan, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he readily agreed and suggested that such tariffs should be appropriately higher than those of domestic maritime merchants.

This is to generate income for the national treasury, and the Minister of the Household Department will naturally not object, his eyes are shining brightly, and he is already thinking about how much money the reopening of the coast can make for the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Only Yan Du, with the face of a scholar-bureaucrat, hesitated: "Will it appear that my great country is a little stingy?"

Rong Xuan said solemnly: "The right minister's words are wrong. Generosity has nothing to do with taxes. If tax exemption is grandeur, then wouldn't I, Daqi, want to exempt all the people from taxes?"

"Left Prime Minister, I'm talking about foreign affairs."

"I don't think there's a distinction between inside and outside when it comes to taxes."

Qi Xiuyuan raised his hand to interrupt the dispute between the two, and said: "I am generous enough to those foreigners, but they don't want to repay the favor, instead they blindly raise prices to disturb the order of our market in Daqi, and even rob merchants and fishermen along the coast. The crime is extremely heinous, if they are not restrained, I am afraid they will get even bigger."

Yan Du stopped talking immediately. He felt that sea trade was a last-minute plan and didn't deserve too much attention. Since the emperor wanted to levy taxes on foreign vassals, he should do so.

Seeing that Yan Du didn't object anymore, Qi Xiu planned to bring it up in the court the next day.

How much tax to levy and who will levy it all have to be resolved by the courtiers. Moreover, he has to set the fluctuation rate of the price of imported goods, so that foreigners can no longer be asked to raise prices if they want. Are they really easy to bully?