The Reborn Wife is Farming

"Ma'am, this is from Andre in the foreigner's club." Zhu Liang presented a box.

Mu Yangling opened it and saw that there were two precious stones inside, one blue and one red, both the size of pigeon eggs, the key is that the color is bright, and it is the best at first glance.

She closed the box and asked, "What does he want? Counting this time, he sent me three gifts, right?" Each time was more expensive.

Zhu Liang bowed his head and said, "I heard that Andre's boat has been floating outside for four or five days, but it has not been able to enter the port."

Mu Yangling raised his eyebrows, "Why?"

"Andre felt that the tariffs imposed by the imperial court were too heavy. He wanted to meet the prince and bring up the tariff issue again."

Mu Yangling sneered, closed the box, and said, "Go and tell him, I can let him see the prince."

Zhu Liang was taken aback. The princess never interfered with the prince's business. No matter how many people came to her, she always asked him what he meant. If she could help, she would accept the gift. Receiving a gift of the same value, this was the first time that he decided to meet a foreigner without asking the prince what he meant.

Zhu Liang hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Madam, do you want to ask the prince?"

Mu Yangling shook his head, "Since Andre can find me here, he can naturally find someone else. It's better to talk to the prince than to talk to the Secretary of the City and the government. I don't think our tariffs are high. .”

Zhu Liang understood that the princess was afraid that the people in charge of the city and the government would not be able to bear Andre's sugar-coated bullets, and opened the door for the other party to make things easier or write a letter to reduce taxes on his behalf. Andre here, let the other party retreat in spite of the difficulties.

Zhu Liang hurriedly responded, and turned around to reply to Andre's people.

Mu Yangling looked at the gemstones on the table in thought.

It has been nearly a year since the ban on opening the sea. Qi Xiuyuan divided the region into thirteen provinces, and set up two levels of local government, prefecture and county, and opened ports in the coastal areas for sea trade. control.

After quarreling for a long time, the court finally introduced import tariffs and export tariffs at the beginning of spring. On this point, the court adopted Mu Yangling's opinion, sub-category tariffs, luxury goods, daily necessities, etc., import and export tariffs It's all different.

Among them, the import tariffs on luxury goods are particularly heavy, but no matter how big the merchants are, they don’t think it’s a problem. Compared with the previous tariffs of half of the tax on all goods of the sea merchants in Dazhou, this is considered to be lower.

Luxury goods are only taxed at 30%, while import tariffs for other products are lower. Most importantly, their export tariffs are lower, and some items are even free of tariffs.

This is great news for the merchants of Daqi. It is said that the merchants who are interested in maritime trade gathered together and donated a lot of money and goods to the court to build ports and support the poor fishermen along the coast. Only Fan Zijin and Qi Xiuyuan knew about it, Qi Haoran never cared much about it.

This is good news for the merchants of Daqi, but it is mixed for foreigners. The joy is that Daqi, which always closed ports before, has opened so many ports to them at once. The worry is that they also have to pay taxes.

You must know that in the past, Da Qi only paid taxes to merchants from their own country. Although they looked down on feudal merchants, they did not tax them to show the favor of the heavenly court.

But now, not only do they have to pay taxes, but some of them also have to pay extremely heavy taxes. What's the matter?

The first time Andre paid the tax was the batch that he was unwilling to sell to Fan Zijin last year. At that time, the tariff had not yet been decided, and Fan Zijin said he would charge as much as he wanted. But still reluctantly paid.

This time he was here with the boat, because he knew that overseas goods would be very popular when the sea was banned in Daqi, so this time he brought three boats at once, and the goods on each boat were of extraordinary value.

When he heard that he had to pay so much tax at Shibosi, he was so heartbroken that he didn't want to. In addition, after more than half a year, his temper of remembering to eat and not to fight made him temporarily forget the horror of King Rong. Some people came to the door to ask for grace, either to exempt him from taxes, or to reduce some taxes.

Don't blame Andre for thinking this way. He has been doing business with this country for more than ten years. Although the ruler has changed now, he doesn't think it makes any difference. The humanities and ideas of this country have not changed. The previous one When the emperor was in power, he could enter Hong Kong with only one request. Sometimes he could get more than ten times the reward if he offered some not-so-precious gems and glazes. The rulers of the celestial dynasty are very stupid.

Qi Xiuyuan, who is considered stupid, has insisted on the principle of paying taxes for merchants under the bombardment of letters from his brother and sister-in-law. My brother is right, why should a businessman in Daqi pay taxes when doing business, and an outsider comes to my house to do business without any hindrance? ?

As for the prestige of the Celestial Dynasty, even taxes are not collected, so how can there be prestige at all?

Mu Yangling knew that some literati like to chatter, so he specially wrote to Qi Xiuyuan, telling him that in the hearts of foreigners, our Daqi is a fool, the emperor is a fool, the ministers are fools, especially the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs It's even more stupid, because they don't charge our taxes, only their own people's taxes.

This letter was edited and polished by Qi Haoran, it wasn't that rough, but the scolding was even more severe, and there were people in the court who objected to paying taxes to the merchants, Qi Xiuyuan directly threw the letter on the opponent's head.

The courtiers were blown up, especially the household officials who were named. They jumped on the spot and took the initiative to ask Ying to say: "Your Majesty, the import and export duties of the vassal merchants will be formulated soon. Please rest assured, Your Majesty."

As a result, the foreigners were forced to work hard.

Mu Yangling was originally afraid that the difference between the two sides would be too great to allow domestic businessmen to collude with foreign businessmen to evade tariffs, but Mu Yangling was relieved when he saw the tax rate table formulated by the Ministry of Households. The tax rate of merchants is not high, and it is not cost-effective if they entrust Daqi merchants to register their names, because the extra tariffs may be enough for them to pay for labor services.

On the side of Daqi merchants, strict laws have also been enacted. Anyone who colludes with foreign businessmen to harm Daqi's interests will be punished as a crime of treason, and the crime will affect the three clans.

Although a businessman loves money, it's not worth it to harm his family and life for such a little money. Therefore, Andre can only turn to Mu Yangling when he has nowhere to go.

In his heart, Qi Haoran is the emperor's younger brother and can give them preferential treatment, while Mu Yangling is Qi Haoran's wife and can persuade Qi Haoran. Moreover, Mu Yangling's original heroic image is deeply rooted in his heart. A woman who is not weaker than a man.

Mu Yangling took the things, and when Qi Haoran came back with his four children covered in mud at night, Mu Yangling mentioned this matter and said, "You can meet him sometime."

Si Xiao immediately shouted: "We are going too."

Mu Yangling stared, "My lord is going to talk about business, what are you doing with me?"

Qi Haoran was protecting the children, "What's the serious business of talking to foreigners? I don't want to take care of business matters. That's fine. Let's meet that Andre later when I take them to the beach."