Qiming 1158

Chapter 1175 Have you heard of long-arm jurisdiction?

To put it simply, in the original Southern Song Dynasty merchants went to Guangzhou and Quanzhou to do foreign trade business, as long as they paid taxes to the Shibo Division.

There is no such thing as tariffs.

Those with a strong background would not dare to provoke them, and those with a weaker background would at most give some money to the officials of the Shibo Department or relevant bigwigs to keep them safe, which is considered an extra expense.

But now Quanzhou and Guangzhou belonged to the Ming kingdom, and merchants from Jiangnan who wanted to transport goods to do foreign trade business had to pay customs duties to Guangzhou and Quanzhou customs under the control of the Ming kingdom.

No customs duties?

Yes, then your goods are not allowed to enter Quanzhou and Guangzhou, let alone export.

Due to the tariffs, when merchants formally trade, they have to collect a trade tax that was originally owned by the Southern Song Dynasty Shipping Division before the goods can leave the port.

However, such a situation will have a certain impact on Jiangnan, and it will have an impact on their commodity exports, and will also directly affect Jiangnan's fiscal revenue and the private income of various high-ranking officials.

So can we not ship from Guangzhou and Quanzhou?
Is it possible to ship from other places?

The answer is not so easy.

It is difficult for a commercial port that is widely recognized around the world to be replaced, especially Quanzhou and Guangzhou already have a large number of foreign business bases and strong infrastructure.

Moreover, many foreign businessmen have settled in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, and there are a lot of living facilities. They are very familiar with this place and have a certain sense of belonging.

If you want to reorganize your life and business activities in another place, you will never be able to do it without three or five years of hard work.

Three to five years...

The Ming Kingdom will be able to swallow the Jiangnan Kingdom whole.

What's more, the Southern Song Dynasty navy has basically been destroyed, and there is no ability to protect maritime trade. The coastal areas are all Ming army navy, even if they want to re-establish a city ship company with foreign businessmen in other smaller ports. They don't have the ability to resist.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Bureau of Shipbuilding in the Southern Song Dynasty tossed the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, so that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty returned home with nothing, but now, Feng Shui took turns, 30 years in the East and 30 years in the Hexi, the Ming Dynasty came to retaliate against them.

Shen Gai was powerless to resist this, and did not dare to resist, he could only accept it.

Regarding the relatively high tax rate proposed by the Ming Kingdom, he tried to persuade Lin Jingchun to reduce it.

"Jiangnan has just experienced war, the country is weak and the people are tired. I hope that the country will be more sympathetic and don't increase the tariffs too high. Otherwise, I am afraid that many people will have difficulty in food and clothing, and business will not be able to continue. This is too much for the people. too cruel."

But Lin Jingchun rudely slapped him back.

"Tariffs are aimed at big businessmen, not ordinary people. Big businessmen will have difficulty in food and clothing? Shen Xianggong, do you think I'm stupid? I've been in this business for more than ten years, and I understand very well that those big businessmen eat less of the delicacies of the world. , the tax money is back!

Moreover, because of the war, Daming is very short of money, very short of money, and this war was provoked by you, it is already a kind of extravagance of His Majesty the emperor if you don’t ask you for money directly, what else do you think?Your most important salt tax has not touched you, are you still not satisfied? "

Lin Jingchun didn't like anyone who made him spend extra money, so he scolded Shen Ging, so that Shen Ging didn't dare to let one go.

Relying on the Ming state militarily and politically, how can it be independent economically?

In desperation, Shen Gai honestly signed a tariff treaty, stipulating that Jiangnan merchants would have to pay another tariff when they enter the port trade from now on.

The coward is really useless, but the helplessness is also really helpless. Now Shen should have no confidence to fight against Ming Guo, so he can only watch Ming Guo use various means to make money.

Doing so will of course arouse the dissatisfaction of some businessmen, but it is of no use.

The Ming Kingdom is still an absolutely powerful party, and has the final right to interpret all policy actions.

The Ming army navy [will always undertake the task of combating smuggling crimes], any person who fails to hand over the trading license issued by the Municipal Shipping Division in the coastal waters of Daming is the target of the Daming Navy, and will be sunk or captured, and all the crew members will be destroyed. All the goods were confiscated.

The order is written in black and white, but to really realize it, it depends on the range of the shells and the ferocity of the sailors.

Coincidentally, in these two points, the Daming Navy is invincible in this era.

Therefore, although Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Jiaxing Prefecture and other coastal areas have not been ceded to Daming, the rules of Daming are the rules of this coastal area.

Have you heard of Long Arm Jurisdiction?

What?Have not heard?
Then you've seen it with your own eyes now.

Su Yonglin also plans to set up a new naval division to increase the number of sailors, and plans to change the number of sailors and the main station.

In his plan, the new navy will have the size of the army corps, but there is no corps for the time being, but the corps-level navy will be increased by one, from two to three.

The Jiangping Naval Division changed its designation to Beihai Division, with three locations, namely Fuzhou Port in Liaoyang Province, Tianjin Port, which was newly established under the Central Government, and Ninghaizhou Port in Shandong.

Changed the name of the Wei naval navy to the East Sea Division, and the station was three points, which were established in the newly established ports of Lin'an Port, Quanzhou Port and Liuqiu Island after the Song Dynasty was destroyed.

The newly established navy was named the South China Sea Navy, and the stations were the same as three points. They were set up in Guangzhou Port, Qinzhou Port and Qiongzhou Port, which was enough to deter the entire South China Sea area.

This is the arrangement after the new navy establishment in the future, which is conducive to defending the entire sea frontier of the Ming Kingdom, controlling the sea routes, and safeguarding the maritime economic interests of the Ming Kingdom.

At present, the number of navy ports of the Ming army is not large, one in Fuzhou, one in Ninghai, one in Quanzhou, and one in Guangzhou. Su Yonglin felt that such a navy could not well safeguard the maritime economic interests of the Ming Kingdom.

It is also not conducive to building a strong navy that can safeguard the commercial interests of the Ming Dynasty at sea.

In the future, if the maritime trade is really done, it may be necessary to take the key nodes of the maritime trade route and build it into a military port to safeguard the maritime trade interests of the Ming Kingdom.

Then a powerful navy equipped with powerful artillery must be required to gallop across the sea, chopping the waves, and the ancient traditions of the Luquan Empire must begin to transfer to the ocean.

But now, to control the ports of Jiangnan's foreign trade, and then control the lifeline of Jiangnan's foreign trade, and then further control the lifeline of Jiangnan's economy, this is what the Ming Dynasty has to do now.

Before Lin Jingchun set off, he brought together the elites of the Ministry of Finance and held a meeting with Su Yonglin to discuss how to fully control the economy of Jiangnan.

Su Yonglin put forward some opinions, and then the elites of the Ministry of Finance completed them, and finally sorted out a set of strategies that everyone thought was effective.

Forcing Shen to sign a tariff treaty is of course not just for that little tariff.

What is that tax?
It is not even a fraction of the profits made by the Ming Kingdom from selling smuggled salt to Jiangnan Kingdom every year.

But tariffs don't stop there.

Lin Jingchun planned to use various restrictions to suppress the profit margins of domestic merchants in Jiangnan, and put them in the predicament of capital turnover, and then introduce the commercial forces of the Ming Kingdom, that is, the Ming Kingdom Commercial National Team under the Ministry of Finance.

Use the Ming national team to buy or forcibly buy the commercial resources mastered by Jiangnan merchants, and eat the high-quality commercial resources of Jiangnan in large quantities, so as to achieve the purpose of gradually controlling the economic lifeline of Jiangnan, and complete the economic control of Jiangnan. .

Tariff collection is only the first step, and there are many action plans that go beyond just tariff collection.

(End of this chapter)