When he thought that Rong Lu might be a time traveler, Xiao Yungui felt a huge threat and pressure as if he was on his back. Because he was not sure how capable this time traveler was, but from the rumors that the Taiping King killed the king to the early extermination of the Shanghai Xiaodao, to the Lijin strategy, all these told Xiao Yungui that this man was also familiar with this history. The reason why he had not caused any serious damage to the Taiping Army was very likely that this man was controlled by his young and humble official position, and had no power to do something bigger, or was bound by the corrupt system of the Qing Dynasty and could not perform it, but even so, it still made Xiao Yungui feel very uncomfortable.

Xiao Yungui looked solemn, and after walking a few steps behind his hands, he ordered Li Xuanji: "Order people to return to Suzhou to pass an order, so that the Western Princess can come to Shanghai quickly."

Li Xuanji didn't know what the Western King was thinking, but when he saw that the Western King looked solemn and knew that something was a big deal, he immediately turned around and went out to pass the order.

Xiao Yungui turned around and said to Qian Jiang: "I'll ask you to ask you to temporarily build a camp. I will arrange for someone to separate a camp for you to live in and provide you with six guards. In the next few days, we will restore Shanghai trade first and recruit more wealthy merchants and households in Shanghai to discuss major plans. Mr. should give more advice." Qian Jiang stood up and thanked him and followed the West Palace to join the guards and leave the tent.

After Xiao Yungui was left in the tent, he walked and murmured, "Who will this Ronglu be? What does he want to do?"

In the following days, Xiao Yungui was thinking about this question from time to time, but he had too many things to do, so he didn't care about it for the time being. Moreover, except Hong Yun'er, Xiao Yungui could not discuss this matter with others. He could only wait until Hong Yun'er came to Shanghai before discussing it.

On the second day after conquering Shanghai, Chen Yucheng had already cleared the remaining Qing troops inside and outside Shanghai. Xiao Yungui ordered Chen Zhiming to guard Wusongkou, Li Tianxi, Lu Shunde and Zhao Shunping to lead 6,000 troops from land and land to attack Chongming Island. Chongming Island was once an important stronghold for Hechun's troops to go south. After Hechun's defeat, only more than 3,000 Qing troops were left here to guard it. Only by capturing Chongming was the only way to make Shanghai peaceful.

As for Hechun, Lai Zhenhai, Li Xinming and other captured Qing generals and officials, Xiao Yungui was not in the mood to kill them, and he didn't even have the intention to interrogate them. He ordered people to escort them back to Suzhou and Zhang Guoliang and others to be imprisoned, waiting to offer prisoners to Tianjing.

The Shanghai County Government Treasury was empty, and the money and grain were too small. All the money and grain were used by Wu Jianzhang to recruit soldiers and bravely. This guy even used customs duties as collateral to loan foreign soldiers to hire foreign soldiers. The bad debts of all countries would naturally not let go. Fortunately, Xiao Yungui searched the homes of dozens of officials of Shanghai, including Wu Jianzhang, Yuan Zude, etc. from these people. It was surprising that Xiao Yungui was very surprised. Even a mere Shanghai garrison house had 80,000 taels of silver, which showed that Shanghai was really rich, and officials at all levels were so full of their personal pockets.

Wu Jianzhang owed foreigners a loan of more than 700,000 taels of silver, which Xiao Yungui originally planned to ignore. However, the ministers of various countries jointly resisted asking the Western King to resolve the matter on the grounds that they did not pay customs duties on the grounds that they promised to not allow the immediate benefits of the countries to be harmed.

Xiao Yungui wanted to curse his mother. The manchus were messing with bad debts, but he had to bear the burden on himself. But thinking that it would be a big deal to receive customs duties as soon as possible, Xiao Yungui endured this tone.

After the Taiping Army of Xidian captured Shanghai, after Xiao Yungui's efforts, it was not easy for the great powers of various countries to acquiesce the Taiping Army's occupation. If customs tariffs can be inherited, it will be beneficial to the Taiping Army. After all, among the five trading ports, Shanghai has the largest trade share, which is far more than Guangzhou, an old trading port, and its future is limitless. The reason why Xiao Yungui assumes the interests of the great powers in China is the greater factor. If this bag is held in the hands of the Taiping Army of Xidian, Xiao Yungui will be like a tiger in the future.

Then Xiao Yungui sent Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin to negotiate this bad debt on behalf of the Taiping Army in the West Palace and the foreigners. Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin came from Shanghai. As early as the day when they defeated Hechunmen, Xiao Yungui ordered people to come to Shanghai. He knew that in Shanghai, there were two people who were indispensable for many foreign-related trade negotiations.

After a fierce quarrel, the two sides finally decided to pay 570,000 taels of silver to foreign companies, and obtained the guarantee from the consuls of various countries to hand over the customs tariff rights to the Taiping Army. In order to successfully start the collection of customs tariffs, Xiao Yungui gritted his teeth and paid the loan from the seized silver, which was considered to have cleared the old accounts.

But after only half a day, the notes from various countries were sent to the base camp of the King of the Western King. The notes were initiated by British Consul Aliguo. The above elaborated on the requirements of chambers of commerce and foreign companies in various countries, requiring the Taiping Army to clarify the customs tariff rules and regulations. Since the war in Shanghai and the Taiping Army siege, the Qing Dynasty's customs operations in Shanghai have come to a halt. No one has collected customs duties for two months. The evasion of taxes by merchant ships of all sizes is extremely serious, and no one has taken care of them anyway.

However, after the Taiping Army captured Shanghai, Xiao Yungui wanted to restore customs operations and collect customs duties. The consuls of the great powers would not submit easily. Although the consuls of various countries promised to pay customs duties to the Taiping Army in the future, they would come after half a day. The consuls of various countries and merchants understood the meaning of the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army wanted to collect customs duties. Please clarify the details of customs duties, how to declare customs customs, how to pay taxes, etc. What are the regulations for handling? At the same time, since the tax on foreign trade merchant ships is restored, please ask the Taiping Army to set up an anti-smuggling fleet and crack down on smuggling ships. If there are too many smuggling ships, it will harm the interests of those merchants who legally pay taxes. Or you don’t collect customs duties, and if you want to collect, you must collect them all. This is the same.

Xiao Yungui was also angry. His mother was a group of ungrateful wolves. They wanted to do business on my territory without paying taxes? This is definitely not possible! Do you want customs tariff details? I will re-program! Do you want customs tariff regulations? I will re-program!

Speaking of the customs duties of the Qing Dynasty, before the Opium War, foreign merchant ships arrived in Guangzhou, and investment banks required insurance guarantees. All import and export cargo taxes were collected by the insurers (i.e., traders). After the war, the business system was abolished. In the 23rd year of Daoguang, the "Five-port Trade Charter" stipulated that "the insured merchants shall be abolished, and the imported cargo ships shall be guaranteed by the British (consul) official"; and stipulated the specific constitutional measures for the consular customs declaration system: after the British merchant ship imports, the ship licence, hatch slip, and report each item to the British consul. The consul will notify the customs according to these documents of the size of the ship, the type of cargo ships should also be notified to the consul in advance when unloading and loading goods, "by the British (consul)

Officials hired the official to report to the customs for public inspection"; after the British merchant ship paid the tax bill, the customs issued a red note to the tax payment. The merchant immediately submitted the red note to the consular inspection before the ship was issued and the ship licence was ordered to be exported. The Chinese-UK "Five-Port Trade Constitution" also stipulates that if foreign businessmen fail to comply with the consular customs declaration system, or have cheating such as submitting fake manifests and opening the cabin without obtaining a license, the consul shall be fined on behalf of China. Paragraph 12 of the Chinese-UK "Humen Treaty" also stipulates that consular cases should also be informed by the consular officials to "so that local officials can arrest them." In the 24th year of Daoguang, the Sino-US "Wangxia Treaty" and the Sino-French "Huangpu Treaty" both made similar provisions on the consular customs declaration and anti-smuggling issues.

According to the above provisions, not only did the Qing government's right to approve foreign ships into and out of Chinese ports was deprived of the consular authority. In addition, the right to handle foreign ships' port entry procedures and the right to anti-smuggling customs were also stolen by foreign consuls. The result of the implementation of the consular customs declaration system has led to the smuggling trade, especially opium smuggling, "prosper like a green laurel." The illegal foreign businessmen "grasp every opportunity without hesitation. They either evade the tariffs completely, or use false statements or reconciliation methods. The amounts less than the amount stipulated in the agreed tax rules are paid in millions.

Although there were no people and things like Hurd, the General Taxation Department of the Qing Dynasty, who harmed the interests of China's customs. But Xiao Yungui also knew what kind of confusing regulations were implemented by the Shanghai Customs of the Qing Dynasty. In the fourth year of Jiaqing, the Qing court's Ministry of Revenue stipulated that the customs tax amount was 855,000 taels for Guangdong Customs, 113,000 taels for Fujian Customs, 39,000 taels for Zhejiang Customs, and 42,000 taels for Jiang Customs (i.e. Shanghai Customs). This amount was based on the declaration of each customs official.

Formulation. It is only equivalent to four-tenths of the total amount of the levy, and it is very good that the Qing government can receive one-tenth, and most of them are corrupted by local officials of the Qing Dynasty. This group, from patrol service, customs officials, supervisors, prefectures, governors and relatives, friends, staff, and even officials in the court, took advantage of the institutional flaws of the Qing Dynasty's customs declaration and colluded with various countries to falsely report ship orders, evade taxes, and open up profits for themselves.

Now that this largest group was empty by the Taiping Army, Xiao Yungui could reorganize the customs and establish the Taiping Army's own customs agency. The customs declaration rights must be recovered. How could it be strange if the country collects tariffs and let other countries go to the consulates of other countries to declare customs?

Xiao Yungui convened Qian Jiang, Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and more than ten Chinese compradors recommended by Shanghai Wang Libin to jointly discuss the formulation of two institutional manuscripts "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Shanghai Customs Tariff Rules" and "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Shanghai Customs Processing Regulations".

For two days, everyone discussed and discussed endlessly, and made provisions one by one. Xiao Yungui completed this detailed rules and regulations based on some experiences in his later generations in doing business tax evasion.

On this day, Hong Yuner brought Wang Libin back to Shanghai. She met Xiao Yungui in the camp. This guy was shirtless and a group of literati and a group of literati. The Chinese compradors of foreign companies were buried behind piles of thick copywriting. Hong Yuner was a little funny and went up to pick up a copy to read it. It was the detailed record document, tax payment records, inspection records, etc. of the Qing court’s Shanghai Customs registered last year. Seeing this, Hong Yuner understood that Xiao Yungui wanted to formulate her own tariff rules, and she couldn’t help laughing.

Xiao Yungui heard the familiar laughter and looked up. Sure enough, he saw Hong Yuner standing pretty at the door of the camp. He was overjoyed and walked forward a few steps and said, "Xuan Jiao, I'm so busy that I'm so busy that I'm so busy."

Hong Yuner smiled and walked over and picked up Xiao Yungui's outer shirt and put it on him, whispering: "You fool, why do you need to do this kind of thing yourself? If you have to do this kind of thing yourself, even if you have three heads and six arms, you will not be enough."

Xiao Yungui widened his eyes and said, "I am taking everyone to formulate customs tariff rules and regulations. If it is done, we will negotiate with foreigners. If it is not done rigorously, those foreigners will find faults."

Hong Yuner covered her mouth and smiled and said, "Even if there is any rigorous thing, I can still find fault with it. You don't understand the key. Look at the people you found, Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin, etc. are all domestic businessmen. Are they familiar with the foreigners' tricks?"

Xiao Yungui frowned and said, "I also found more than a dozen Chinese who worked as compradors in foreign companies to help according to the list recommended by Wang Libin."

Hong Yuner smiled faintly and said, "They are compradors in foreign companies. To put it bluntly, they are just doing errands. Customs tariffs are related to national taxes. They are a comprehensive and systematic thing. How can they tinker with it?"

Xiao Yungui scratched his head. No wonder he felt dizzy after the past two days, and he seemed to be confused and unable to find a clue.

Hong Yuner pulled Xiao Yungui to the side and whispered: "You are the King of the West. You just need to do the right things with the right people. You don't have to do everything yourself. One person's strength is limited, and the strength of the team is the greatest. You and I are not good at this customs duty matter. There are almost no people in our army. I suggest that we should hire foreigners to do it more appropriate."

Xiao Yungui said with a sigh and said, "This is not OK. Do foreigners actually decide the tariff details of his country?"

Hong Yuner smiled softly and said, "You think it's bad. After we ask foreigners to apply for customs tariff rules, we have the final say. If they have hundreds of years of experience in customs tariffs, the things that are determined must be complete. Please ask foreigners to apply for it. After we delete the unfavorable terms or add favorable terms, how convenient will it be issued? I recommend someone to you and look for it. If you can find this person, the customs tariff rules he formulated will be very comprehensive."

Xiao Yungui asked, "Who is it?"

Hong Yuner said slowly: "His name is Li Taiguo, he is a British man." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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