With Mao Wenlong's advanced concept of real estate development, everyone immediately asked the store owner to get pen and paper. Then Lu Yixue personally drafted the cooperation shares and everyone signed and pledged them.

This income alone is enough to make all the soldiers in Dongjiang Town laugh so hard that they can't even see their eyes.

After solving the problem of real estate development, the next step is the port. This area is very important. It is living water and will bring a steady stream of fiscal revenue to Dongjiang Town.

"I have built this port, and I hope all brothers can give me your best wishes."

Zheng Hongda replied on behalf of the businessman: "Pi Dao is in a very advantageous location, right on our supply route to North Korea and future Japan. The water I need can be added here. At the same time, the port built by Pi Dao

, is located between two islands. There are many storms in the Bohai Sea. This is indeed a natural haven. So brothers, don’t worry, we come here just what we want. But there is one thing we need to say in advance. Our Ming Dynasty, after all, the sea ban has not been lifted. There is a

The group of people don’t want to lift the sea ban, so we are considered smuggling and may bring you some trouble, brother."

Mao Wenlong smiled indifferently, then picked up the donation gift list you sent and tapped it gently on his hand: "First of all, I will ask the emperor to open the sea appropriately on Pi Island to raise Jiangdong Town's military expenses. Now everyone

As we all know, the treasury is in dire straits. The Ministry of Revenue is always scraping money from the internal funds, and Wei Zhongxian, who controls the internal funds, is a guy who desperately wants money. As long as I can save him money, I think he will agree to my suggestion.

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Everyone nodded, thinking that this indeed captured the root cause of internal money, and it might still be feasible, but it would only take a long time, and it would not be able to solve the urgent problem at the moment.

Mao Wenlong continued to type the bills in his hand, and said to the businessmen with a smile: "Actually, everything can be changed. For example, this time, everyone donated to Dongjiang Town, and the things delivered to my door are justifiable. In my opinion,

The remaining forty shipments of goods outside can be said to be sponsored by me, so what else can other people say? Since it is sponsored, it is everyone’s idea to sponsor me as much as possible. For example, according to the general

I am very happy to sponsor me with four points of the goods. The rest was lost when you sponsored me. That’s what everyone does anyway.”

Upon hearing this, all the businessmen's eyes lit up. Everyone understood that this was actually Mao Wenlong making a fuss based on the conventions of officialdom and setting a tax standard for everyone. Four points was definitely low.

Now, with the efforts and persistence of the Donglin Party, the merchants who rely on the aristocratic families do not have to pay taxes in name, but they have to pay donations. Donations are not something legitimate, and they are more or less based on the words of local officials. The result is

There are no fixed rules for donating money. After traveling across the state and government, the amount of the goods often doubles.

The most annoying thing is that these taxes and fees did not fall into the national treasury, but only enriched the officials along the way.

Mao Wenlong directly set the amount of taxes. Why not make everyone happy?

"One more thing, if the donated goods you gave me want to land in North Korea, then you can land them at Luofengli in Tieshan. Let me make it clear to you, landing here is my goods. No more

No taxes need to be paid to North Korea, because I have reached a contracting agreement with North Korea. I only pay one hundred thousand taels of tax to North Korea every year, plus a reward of 20,000 silver to the local garrison, and everything is fine."

As soon as the news was announced, the whole room was filled with silence, which turned into cheers.

Zheng Hongda directly took Mao Wenlong's hand: "In this way, all merchant ships heading to North Korea and Japan in the future will pass through your place and re-export to North Korea and then to Japan. Brother, you have brought too many advantages to us businessmen.

"Then he patted his chest righteously: "On behalf of these businessmen, I promise you that we will never escape unconscionably for the four cents of donation you collected, and the merchants like my brother will double the payment for the North Korean envoys ashore.

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"It doesn't have to be like this at all. As long as the old brothers stop here, my island will come alive."

"You're wrong. I'm not talking about righteousness. Even if I give you these, it has actually saved us more. The most important thing is that we have a legitimate name when we traffic the goods.

, just for this name, it’s worth spending any amount of money.”

Why do people say that even merchant ships sailing from Japan have to make a large circle along the coast and pass through North Korea for trafficking to Japan, instead of directly sailing from the south of the Yangtze River to Japan? Wouldn't it be more convenient?

There is a fundamental reason here, that is, there is a powerful pirate leader on that convenient navigation line - Zheng Zhilong. His family has monopolized the trade with Japan by force, so other businessmen can only take a detour.

North Korea went to Japan via the Yeonpyeong Sea.

However, there were countless exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes along the way, which made these merchants miserable. Now, when we land here at Mao Wenlong, we only collect 40 percent of the tax, so everyone can save a lot.

"With the name, the benefits, and the ability to bring military pay and supplies to the soldiers who killed the enemy, this is really killing multiple birds. Brother, just wait, I will release this news, and your dock will be Qiangfan immediately.

Lin Li, when the time comes, you should not worry that there are no ships docking here, but that your horse's head is too small." Then he solemnly asked: "Reclamation and building a dock is a huge expense, brother, can you bear it?

Otherwise, if we all join together, it can be considered as a financial contribution."

Mao Wenlong was full of confidence and laughed: "Of course I welcome my brother's idea with both hands, but I have a sharp tool that will make the reclamation work more effective with half the effort."

"What kind of weapon is it?"

"Scottish windmill." Mao Wenlong threw out the windmill he had long wanted to build.

When Zheng Hongda heard this, he couldn't help but clapped his hands: "This is indeed a sharp tool for pumping water. As far as I know, Scotland used this windmill to carve out 1/ of their country's area in the sea. Brother, can you think of this?

, It is indeed extraordinary. My brother really admires you. In this way, we all have more confidence in investing and investing. I have seen that fur will be a prosperous place in the future."

All the businessmen toasted to each other excitedly, because it was originally a trial and loss-making voyage, but this time they gained countless business opportunities. Passing such news back to the family would bring unimaginable profits to the family.
Chapter completed!