At noon on the second ridge, Feng Zhang's entrance arrived as scheduled with three ships.

Their contract brought 30,000 yuan of ransoms and 10,000 yuan of pensions, and 300 sets of full sets of equipment. The incoming general sent by Feng Zhang to take charge of this matter was Feng Lin and the incoming general of the family, Zheng Anmin, and both of them were considered familiar. The last time Li Jing and the others went to Daxie Village to see these two incomings.

Li Jing personally brought Zhang Hong, Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong to exchange. Seeing that he was a familiar, Li Jing smiled and greeted him. Feng Lin was very different from the enthusiasm last time. He just snorted coldly and turned his head to ignore it. On the contrary, the warehouse manager Zheng Anmin was still very polite. Zhang Hong brought several officials to come forward and counted the things that Feng's family had moved off the boat one by one. The 40,000 guan was not a decimal, and because of the serious shortage of money in the late Tang Dynasty, it was impossible for Feng Zhang to have so much money. Pay the copper coins. This time, Feng Lin and his team brought a total of 50,000 pieces of silk, and the folded copper was exactly 40,000 jin. The other 300 sets of equipment were also very complete, including spears, horizontal bows, long bows, armor, etc. However, Li Jing just took a look and found that these weapons were basically used for a few years and were eliminated by the army. Although they could still be used, they were basically broken. The armor did not have iron armor, but 1ri leather armor, and many places had been sewn.

However, Li Jing didn't care too much. Originally, this was just a rabbit to beat the rabbit. It was already a complete accident. After all, it would be of great help to repair and send the logistics soldiers to equipment.

Zhang Hong counted very carefully, and ordered it back and forth three times, making Feng Lin's face look black and extremely impatient. However, after Li Jing handed over the 600 Feng Ming and others to them, his face improved a lot. Finally, Li Jing suggested to Feng Lin that if there were still some extra weapons in Da Xie Village, he would be willing to buy it regardless of the new one. In addition, if he could get food, cattle, horses, farm tools, seeds, etc., even iron, copper materials, ox horns, beef tendons, raw lacquer, fish glue, jujube wood, white wax poles and other materials, he would be willing to buy it at a price of 10% higher than the market price, Feng Lin's gaze lit up and his face became eager again.

Feng Lin patted his chest and said that after he went back, he would go and arrange the same things as he wanted. When he left, Li Jing and Feng Lin almost wanted to be brotherly, and he was quite inseparable. However, the warehouse manager Zheng Anmin was still as kind as before, and was very kind to Li Jing. Before leaving, Li Jing gave him a hundred taels of silver, which was the intention. After accepting Li Jing's gift, Zheng Anmin felt a little embarrassed and smiled and said, "Look at General Li's tone, it seems that he is preparing to make his own weapons. If so, I have some ways to deal with various raw materials. If necessary, I can introduce you to a few."

"That's really polite. Brother Zheng also saw that my island suffered heavy losses this time. Now Da Xie Village is only willing to pull out some ragged weapons for me. If there is another pirate attack, I don't know what to do. Now I have to find a way to make some of them myself. Although there are a few craftsmen, the raw materials are not easy to make. Thank you Brother Zheng for helping me."

After an agreement, Li Jing will acquire all the materials introduced by Zheng Anmin at a price of 10% higher than the market price.

Just after sending Feng Zhang's entry, the military equipment and silk cloth piled on the dock had not yet been transported away, and several boats under the banner of the navy arrived again. Wang Jin finally withdrew in the evening. Before leaving, he asked Li Jing to return the craftsmen to him and be willing to pay for the redeem. This request was rejected by Li Jing in one breath. There was no money to make, but it was difficult for craftsmen to get together like this. After finally having more than 700 craftsmen, Li Jing was reluctant to let him go. Finally, after several bargaining, the two sides agreed.

The Wang family's property on the island that Li Jing confiscated, and the Wang family no longer pursued the Wang family. Moreover, the 700 craftsmen were given to Li Jing, and then sent the craftsmen's family to Shamen Island. Correspondingly, Li Jing had to return the original letters and account books held by the One-Eyed Dragon to Wang Jin, and in addition, the bodies of Wang Fu and the 200 guards had to be returned to the Wang family. In addition, the shopkeepers and shopkeepers and shops on Wang Family Island, except for those who stayed voluntarily and were willing to return to the Wang family. In addition, Li Jing was not allowed to tell the Wang family that there was something between the pirate attack at any time and occasion. As compensation, the Wang family paid Li Jing 50,000 jin of money to reach a peace agreement between the two parties. It also agreed that from then on, the two parties would not violate the river water, be friendly to each other, and would not violate each other.

On the surface, Wang Jin was abnormal and compromised and gave in to Li Jing. Originally, Li Jing thought that if the 700 craftsmen of the Wang family were deducted, the 50,000 yuan extortion money would definitely not be completed. However, the Wang family did not hesitate much and agreed to it all, and even did not bargain in the end. Although this result made Zhang Hong and others very happy and made another large amount of investment, Li Jing's heart was raised.

Wang Jin's unusual behavior is likely to indicate that Wang Jin is not giving in and compromising, but temporarily taking retreat as advance, and he must be brewing some bigger tricks. However, Li Jing is not afraid. All he needs is time. If Wang Jin really wants to retreat as advance, then he will not be able to taste the bitter fruits planted at this time. When the opportunity is to fight for time, it depends on who can fight for whom.

The Wang family's 50,000 jin of money was a portion of money, grain and silk. Just unloading goods at the wharf, it was unloaded. As soon as the goods were unloaded, the Wang family fleet took over the hundred Wang family's incomings and left directly.

It happened to be the Chinese New Year Festival. Li Jing ordered the town to take three vacations yesterday. Zhang Hongchao also sent Zhang Hongchao to buy a large number of pig and sheep wine from Dengzhou and bought a lot of materials. The women in the town took action together and laid countless lanterns of different sizes. As soon as Yao was dark, Shamen Town was full of lanterns of different sizes and shapes. There were dragon lanterns, tiger lanterns, fish lanterns, sheep lanterns, rabbit lanterns, etc. There were also activities to guess riddles and give gifts on both sides of the streets in the city.

All the soldiers also received a huge reward of ten jin for every incoming given by Li Jing, and the people also received a reward of one jin for every incoming, a dou of rice for the Shangyuan Festival. Although it was a large amount of money, when they saw the whole city happy and swept away the post-war shadow of the pirates, even Zhang Hong, the steward of the wealth-guarding slave, was very pleased.

Although Shamen Town suffered heavy losses in this battle, it quickly recovered. Now, four brand new temporary camps have been built outside the city, with tents standing in front of it, even better than the past.

During the Chinese New Year, Li Jing did not accompany the crowd to enjoy the lanterns.

Tonight, he summoned hundreds of representatives from all the merchants on the island to the town general's mansion and formally dealt with these merchants for the first time.

The wide town general's mansion was brightly lit, and a team of servants outside the mansion were fully armed guarding both sides. In the mansion, Li Jing sat at the first seat of the lobby, Lin Wei, Zhang Hong and other civil and military officials were on the left, while hundreds of merchant representatives were on the right.

At this time, the long scroll was placed in front of all the merchant representatives. There were countless terms written on the long scroll, and the merchants were carefully reading the terms above. However, almost every merchant's face became increasingly ugly, and even breathless.

The hall was very quiet, with only the breathing sounds of the merchants.

After a long time, an old man with white hair and extremely clean and tidy hair stood up.

"General Li, you just took over the dock that was built by us merchants themselves and raised funds. Now you have immediately created these Shamen Town business administration regulations. What does it mean?"

Li Jing chuckled, "What does it mean? Isn't this written clearly? This is a management regulation aimed at managing the industrial and commercial order on the island and safeguarding everyone's interests. The four docks were reclaimed because of the reasonable arrangements made in view of the last time the pirates attacked. This is a measure to protect Shamen Town and also a measure to protect you."

"You are simply trying to plunder our wealth and protect our legitimate interests. Look at what is written on it. In the future, all merchants will have to register and file with Shamen Town and obtain a business license issued by Shamen Town. In addition, all shops will have to pay the security management fee, street sanitation fee, town construction surcharge, and comprehensive management service fee to Shamen Town on time every month. What are these? They are all disguised plunders with clever names."

Zhang Hong explained with a smile: "The public security management fee means that in the future, we will send patrol teams to various villages, streets, wharfs, etc. to patrol public security and protect safety. The street sanitation fee will be set up in the future, all villages, streets and wharfs, public toilets, public bathhouses, and garbage and waste items. We will send special cleaning and cleaning every time. As for the surcharges for town construction and comprehensive management service fees, these are not difficult to understand. Everything is aimed at making Shaman Island better."

I immediately thought about it and said dissatisfiedly: "Then all the shopkeepers, guys, workshop craftsmen in the island shops must be registered regularly and get their ID cards. Those who stay within a short period of one year must also apply for temporary residence cards. Once the inspection has not been processed after the inspection, they will be arrested immediately? What's wrong?"

Wang Chong couldn't help but get up, glared at him, glanced at the audience, shouted: "Distribute ID cards, temporary residence cards, and all the craftsmen, guys, etc. are registered in order to strictly prevent any thieves from sneaking into my Shaman Island, stealing information and inquire about secrets. These are also for the sake of being here. If the pirates come to attack Shaman Town again, can you guarantee that the pirates will not rob your shop first?"

"What about the charges for this terminal? Those four terminals originally belonged to our merchants, but now you have been forced to take over, you still have to charge? Look at the above charging items, such as ship port fees, pilotage fees, mooring fees, parking fees, cable unloading fees, loading and unloading work fees, miscellaneous operations fees, cargo storage fees, and stranding fees. They all charge money. There are also doubling all the fees for wharf construction fees, dock management fees, and holidays. The nighttime fees are charged 50%. You took our terminals and now you have to charge these many fees. You are too shameless!" Another merchant representative squirted his saliva angrily.

"That's right, it also says that in the future, all loading and unloading goods on the docks can only use the foot strength of your designated civilians. What is this? There were never these rules before, but now you are doing things randomly!"

Zhang Hong smiled kindly and said, "Although there are more charging items, it is actually just refining the charging items, which is open and fair. More than 90% of the charging items are planned according to the load capacity of the ship. For example, a cargo ship with a hundred stone docking at a dock, we charge a fee of one cent per stone each time. A 100 stone ship docking at a dock is only 100 cent per cent, which is not much."

A merchant immediately shouted, "It's not too much. One charges one hundred yuan, but you can see how many items there are, at least ten items of charge. You have to pay at least one consistent amount of money after one time. This does not include the power to pay the loading and unloading porters, and the holidays must double the price, and the holidays must be three times the price during the night."

"Donating heavy taxes is more powerful than a tiger!" Youren shouted loudly below.

Li Jing sat there, watching the reactions of these merchant representatives coldly. As early as the first time to land on the island, Li Jing had decided that his territory would never tolerate existences like the concession that were beyond his control. He had no time before and had not found a suitable opportunity. Now, taking advantage of the power of annihilation of invading pirates and Song Wen's power, in the gap between the confrontation between the two major forces, Li Jing finally seized the opportunity to attack the merchant.

The most important thing is to take back the four wharfs first. With four wharfs in hand, all the merchants on the island will not be able to jump up. After mastering this key, Li Jing then proposes merchant registration, shopkeepers, guys, craftsmen registration, identity cards, and temporary residence cards, which are all monitoring of merchants on the island. The charges on the many names on the dock are Li Jing's powerful tools for sucking blood from these merchants. The merchants on the island do not pay taxes or pay various fees, which is a thing of the past.

Now, although Li Jing does not charge their taxes, he lists various fees, and each of them has to pay money to Shamen Town in the future.

The merchants below became more and more noisy, and in the end, they became simply a vegetable market. At the beginning, Zhang Hong and others still explained it to them, but in the end, Qian Qiang let them clamor there.

Li Jing watched coldly for a long time, until these people became more and more arrogant, he suddenly grew up and suddenly pulled out the long sword from his waist, cutting down a corner of the front of his body with one sword.

With a clang, the corner of the table fell in response to the sound. The fully armed servants guarding outside the door immediately rushed in. The shaking spear tip in their hands swayed, and the sharp spearhead reflected the pale faces of merchant representatives.

Li Jing looked at his sword on his own and smiled, "My sword is still so sharp. Yesterday, I used this sword to cut off the head of the thief's one-eyed dragon on the sea, without any damage. It's such a good sword, a good sword! I just don't know whose neck the next sword is on at this moment!"

After saying this, Li Jing looked up at the merchants in the hall and asked with a smile: "Just I heard that everyone has any opinions on the Shaman Island Business Administration Regulations I formulated? Whoever has any opinions? Come up!"

Wherever Li Jing's eyes swept, the merchant representatives from all over the place became pale again and shook their heads in a hurry.
Chapter completed!