Faced with Zhu Xuan's rhetorical question, all the merchants present stopped talking.
It is impossible not to come to Ming Dynasty to do business. I even have a hunch that if there are more taxes, then their products can be sold at a higher price and the price can be increased reasonably.
They don't want to pay taxes, but they want to sell at a high price.
Businessmen pursue profits, not give away profits.
Zhu Xuan said: "If you are not very courageous, why don't you come to Ming Dynasty to do business? Then you can leave now and never come back again. I will record you. If anyone dares to come back in the future, I will directly sink the ship." "
They were not willing to give up doing business in Ming Dynasty, so they could only turn their attention to Wang Yu.
Wang Yu is now a coward.
He completely offended Zhu Xuan. He didn't dare to say anything anymore, at least in front of Zhu Xuan.
Wang Yu led a group of people to force the palace, but they couldn't get anything. Instead, he saw Zhu Xuan's strength, and he must continue like this and collect taxes. Under the strength, he became even more timid.
"Your Highness!"
Another businessman said: "We used to be able to pass through at will, but now we suddenly have to pay taxes, which is very unreasonable."
Zhu Xuan explained: "In my place of Ming Dynasty, in my fiefdom, what is unreasonable about collecting taxes?"
The merchant said: "We already have to pay taxes in Ming Dynasty, and we have to pay taxes here again. One transaction and two taxes. Who can bear this?"
Zhu Xuan said: "The first time, the tax was collected according to the tax law formulated by the emperor. The second time the tax was collected in Malacca, the ratio was very low, only one percent. Your net profit was 10,000 taels, and you only had to pay 100,000 taels. Two, isn’t that high?”
For their merchants, this tax is indeed not high, but they just don’t want to pay it.
The merchant who objected shook his head when he heard this.
"When you returned to Guangdong, it was true that you paid taxes, but can you be sure that you really paid taxes normally?"
Zhu Xuan asked back, and then said: "If you don't want to pay taxes, that's fine! After I go back, I will ask the Jin Yiwei to check thoroughly to see who has committed tax evasion. If not, in the future, when businessmen from the Ming Dynasty pass through Malacca, I can't. What do you think about tax collection?”
As soon as these words came out, many merchants were shocked.
Everyone present, including Wang Yu who took the lead in making trouble, was not clean. They must have engaged in tax evasion and could not withstand investigation.
As long as you check it, the problem will be big.
Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty hated merchants very much. Once punished, their merchants' homes would be confiscated at worst, and their lives would be lost at worst.
"Sun of the Ming Emperor, I am not a citizen of your Ming Dynasty, why do you still need to collect our taxes?"
An overseas businessman was dissatisfied: "The charging ratio is still so high."
Zhu Xuan said: "You are not a citizen of our Ming Dynasty, but when you pass by my territory of the Ming Dynasty, the tax will be higher. Isn't it normal?"
This merchant has nothing to say.
This seems to be the case again.
Zhu Xuan said: "If you pass here, I have to collect taxes. If you don't want to pay, you can take a detour!"
The cost of the detour may far exceed the tax paid here.
Those merchants had already figured it out clearly. If a detour was feasible, there would be no need to cause trouble here.
Zhu Xuan finally asked them: "You have no objections, right? If you have no objections, just pay me all the taxes. I am causing trouble here today, blocking the merchant ships in the strait, and collecting double taxes. Who dares not to pay, and the ship will be sunk."
On the battleship, the artillery is ready.
Anyone who dares to disobey will really be fired.
"Wang Yu, do you think I handled it correctly?" Zhu Xuan asked.
"Yes, Your Highness is right!" Wang Yu immediately agreed.
At this point, he could only agree.
Zhu Xuan said again: "Since you think it's right and you are still the one who takes the lead in making trouble, I will charge you 20% of the tax this time. Yue Changxing, you guys go ahead and do it!"
"Ah? Your Highness, I was wrong, please don't do this!"
Wang Yu regretted his mistake and knelt down and kowtowed to admit his mistake.
Zhu Xuan didn't want to pay attention to this person anymore. After saying this, he returned to the ship. His artillery was still aimed at the merchant ships outside, ready to take action at any time. As long as anyone didn't cooperate, he would hit them.
They dare not not cooperate and pay taxes obediently.
Whoever gives it, Zhu Xuan will let him go.
Those who were not given were left behind. Within today, before the tax was collected, he robbed everything on the ship, leaving nothing for them.
Under this strong approach, everything went smoothly.
Zhu Xuan then sent Yue Changxing to the ship.
"Your Highness!"
Yue Changxing bowed and said: "It's useless for us. If His Highness hadn't come back in time, we still don't know what we would have done."
Zhu Xuan said: "Next time something like this happens, just shoot. As I said, if something goes wrong, I will take care of it. If someone starts a disturbance, I will personally come to quell it. You don't have to worry."
Yue Changxing reluctantly agreed: "Yes!"
"Did anything special happen while I was away?"
"Apart from what happened just now, there is nothing else going on, everything is business as usual."
"It's okay!"
Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "I will return to Guangzhou in a moment and leave this place to you. In addition, if you are free, you can go to Manlajia for a walk and help me win over the king of Manlajia."
When he came back this time, in addition to helping the Guangzhou government build water conservancy and grow new grains, Zhu Xuan was also preparing to plan the Indochina Peninsula and capture the entire peninsula. He had already thought of the specific method.
At the beginning, he gave up the method of military conquest and switched to economic means to control those small countries in an economic way.
After returning to Guangzhou and completing the remaining tasks, he went to Annan to implement the plan.
Turn Indochina into the industrial zone of the Ming Dynasty.
"What do you need to do to find the king of Malaka?"
Yue Changxing asked.
Zhu Xuan said: "Carry out commercial cooperation with them, such as purchasing their minerals, spices, etc., and expand the scope of this commercial cooperation as much as possible so that Manchuria cannot do without our Ming Dynasty, so that we can completely control the strait."
To the north of the Strait of Malacca is Manchuria.
Although Manlajia now does not dare to compete with Ming Dynasty for the ownership of the strait, Zhu Xuan must fully control it so that Zhu Xuan can feel safe.
If you are stabbed in the back by Man La, there will be great losses.
Yue Changxing understood that His Highness was looking for an opportunity to annex Manlajia.
Yue Changxing was also happy to open up territory for the Ming Dynasty. He nodded and said: "Okay!"
Zhu Xuan has no intention of staying at Srivijaya.
Seeing that all the businessmen had paid taxes, he led the team to leave and go back to Guangzhou.
After sailing for a long time, we finally returned to the Pearl River Estuary.
Three warships entered the Pearl River at the same time.
When the soldiers at the coastal guard station saw the battleship, they knew that Zhu Xuan was back, and quickly sent people to run back to Panyu to report the news.
When he returned to the outside of the trading port, Zhu Xuan could see that Xu Qi and the others, leading all the officials in the city, had left the city to welcome him back.
In addition, some local people also came out to greet them.
