Three days later, except for a few seriously injured people, everyone went to the Customs Building after simple treatment to wait for the outcome of the Maritime Court's decision on their property.
After this group of merchants experienced the inexplicable commotion a few days ago, everyone still had some scars on their faces and hands, so it seemed unnatural to reunite again.
Chen Zhonghuan was more careful this time and did not say a single unnecessary word. He just informed everyone that they could go and collect their goods on the ship.
The basic idea of the vest is that for any cargo whose owner can be confirmed, each cargo owner will be charged 20% of the total volume of the rescued cargo as a rescue fee in accordance with the principles of maritime rescue. If the cargo is rescued, but suffers from flooding, fire or other situations
Damage and goods whose value is damaged shall be calculated based on the residual value.
If the ownership of the goods cannot be confirmed or the owner of the goods is clear, but the owner or the person accompanying the goods has died or disappeared at sea, and the goods were entrusted to the ship owner for transportation, the maritime court will temporarily detain the goods for processing until someone can prove it within the prescribed period.
If you are the owner of the goods and no one makes a claim within the expiration date, the goods will be confiscated by the maritime court.
Temporarily detained goods will also be charged 20% of the maritime rescue fee when they are returned to the owner. During the period of temporary detention, the maritime court has the right to dispose of all or part of the goods themselves. If the owner of the goods can be confirmed, the payment will be paid according to its value when returned.
――This article is to make it easier for the Cross-Travel Group to use the seized goods at any time.
A ship rescued from a shipwreck will also be charged a salvage fee based on 20% of its remaining value. In addition, the ship must pay for repairs and losses incurred during the salvage process. At the same time, the ship owner must also pay the sailors on the ship in distress.
Food, accommodation and medical expenses during the stay in Bopu. If the ship owner fails to come to handle the formalities within the time limit, the ship will be confiscated.
As for this period, based on the traffic conditions of this time and space, the vest is set to one year.
During the period of temporary detention of goods, Bopu Maritime Court only assumes the most basic custody obligations and does not assume the obligation to preserve the value of the goods. Basic storage fees will be charged for the goods during the temporary detention period.
The rescued persons will not be charged any rescue fees. However, the rescued persons will be responsible for their own food, accommodation and medical expenses while they are stranded in Bopu. They must pay in full when leaving Bopu, otherwise the court will forcefully detain them until they are released.
Until the expenses are paid in full. If the expenses cannot be paid in full, labor can be used to compensate.
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These various clauses are broken down in detail. Some of them are not under the jurisdiction of the maritime courts in modern time and space. However, the starting point of Majia is to bring all kinds of maritime discretion into the maritime courts, so they are listed one by one in detail.
However, these terms caused an uproar in the Executive Committee. Many people could accept the return of goods to small merchants - how can they win over people's hearts? But they had great objections to handing over large quantities of goods and ships: How can this be the navy?
The soldiers took their lives from the pirates, not to mention that the crossing group also spent a lot of ammunition and fuel in the battle. The cost of building such a large ship is about 2,000 taels of silver, and 20% is only 400 taels of silver. It is basically
It cannot withstand the consumption of a single battle by the navy. Judging from the current situation in the Qiongzhou Strait, if it involves rescue, there will most likely be a fight with pirates.
"If you want to establish order and law in the Qiongzhou Strait, you can't do things with this kind of profit-seeking mentality!" Ma Jia said, "Everything must be calculated with money. We are not here to make countless money in this time and space, but to make countless money."
We are here to be the rule makers of this world.”
Although in the short term, the behavior of the crossing group in the Qiongzhou Strait is a loss, the long-term impact is huge. By formulating rules and maintaining order, the role of the crossing group in the sea is gradually established in the minds of navigators along China's coast.
Authoritativeness. This is the goal of the maritime court.
After three hours of continuous debate, thanks to Ma Jia’s efforts and the ambiguous attitude of the main leaders of the executive committee, Ma Jia’s plan was finally passed in a vote. The Navy was indifferent to returning the goods, but the five-masted sea ship was a cooked duck.
It was a huge blow to them. Chen Haiyang had gone to the ship several times to observe and consider how to make changes. Especially Mond, who was lying in the hospital recovering from his injuries, was so angry that he wanted to open the vest's head. The planning committee members
He also gave him a cold look. As for Ma Qianzhu, he didn't say anything. He just glanced at the vest a few times.
Ma Jia served the legal documents to these people one by one at the Maritime Court Arbitration Tribunal in the customs building, and explained some legal provisions. Although everyone did not understand it, most of the goods could be returned to them because they understood
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Seeing this group of merchants who were holding the verdict documents as carefully as they were holding silver, Ma Jia couldn't help but sigh that he and his colleagues in the Law Club had spent a lot of time on this, and those exquisite wordings - they couldn't even see it.
You know, it feels like a bright pearl casting a shadow on you.
None of these people originally expected to recover the cargo they carried on the ship - it would be a good thing if they could survive and return home safely. Now the Australians not only agree to let them go home, but also pay 20% of the rescue.
Everyone was overjoyed that even the goods would be returned after paying the fee. They all expressed their willingness to accept this ruling.
Everyone received the award and went to the warehouse at the dock to pick up their own goods. It was only 20% of the value of the goods but the salvage fee was not easy to settle. Although every week Guangzhou Station has the "Guangzhou Main Export Commodities FOB Price List" and
After sending two reports of "Guangzhou's Main Commodity Market", you can easily check the market prices of various commodities in Guangzhou. However, these goods have no market price in Lingao and cannot be realized at all. Majia and the Planning Commission, Finance and Finance Committee, and Foreign Trade Committee
After discussion, it was decided to use physical offsets. As for which goods to offset, the planning committee would designate.
In addition to offset the rescue fee, all the goods that the Planning Commission was interested in were purchased according to the market price in Guangzhou. Although the merchants did not make excess profits from trafficking to the bar city, they saved the freight back to Guangzhou and Qiongshan.
By coming down, we save the trouble of carrying goods, and if we can make a little more money, we can even make up for the losses. So everyone is very enthusiastic and sell their goods to the planning committee people one after another.
The Planning Commission is most interested in things that are useful in production and life, and only chooses various metal utensils, tung oil, medicinal materials, cloth and the like as supplies. As for silk and porcelain, which are the most popular items in maritime trade, they are not interested at all.
When all the merchants saw that they only wanted cold goods and had no interest in fine goods, they couldn't help but be surprised.
On behalf of the Planning Committee, Sun Xiao was on site to receive and register the in-kind "rescue fees" paid by various merchants. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: He was really unwilling to let go of so many good things. Ma Qianzhu was calm - he originally planned to
The goods of these small accounts were returned to them in full, but now that Ma Jia has made such a fuss, he has also deducted one-fifth. What he is resentful about is the Hai family, which accounts for two-thirds of the five-masted ship's cargo capacity.
The goods, and the big ship - although they can be requisitioned now, the other party still has to pay for the value of the goods after they come.
However, the steward of the ship from the Haijia family has died, and the surviving people are only crew members, not the owners of the goods. According to the so-called "Maritime Law" of the Majia, the Haijia family has to come in person to retrieve the goods and the ship -
Ma Qianzhu very much hoped that the other party would be too frightened to come to Gao, and that as soon as the time passed, everything would be theirs for free.
In addition to the Planning Commission, various ministries and commissions have also sent people to the site to check the goods to see if there is anything that the department needs. If they like it, they will immediately fill in the form for on-site review and purchase it by the Planning Commission. The front of the warehouse suddenly becomes noisy and free.
The market is up.
"Your red dates are pretty good. Sell the rest to us and save you the cost of shipping them back." The speaker was Wu Yunhua, the wife of Liu San from the Ministry of Health. Wu Yunhua studied physical education and competed in field training.
She was born and tall. She originally got on the ship because of her sneaky husband who was following her whereabouts. After arriving in this time and space, she had nowhere to go for a while, and her temper was not good enough to work in secretarial administration, so she had to help cook in the cafeteria.
Wu Yunhua got to know a lot of the natives in the cafeteria, and she learned Cantonese in this time and space, and she also spoke a little Lingao dialect. She became a non-staff member of the Foreign Commercial Committee, and she was often called on to be a translator when procurement and negotiations were needed.
.However, the Foreign Trade Commission refused to include Wu Yunhua in the establishment of the department - this woman has a straightforward personality, but a very bad temper, which is too much for most people. Although Wu Yunhua threatened Liu San several times, asking him to help change her to a "more decent one"
Liu San just pretended to be deaf and dumb - he knew his wife very well.
At this time, Wu Yunhua said to a small vendor, "Pack these five hundred kilograms into a pile, and let's give them a price."
The goods this vendor brought were all kinds of dried fruits, among which the red dates were of particularly good quality, with thin skin, thick flesh, and bright red color. They were genuine red dates from Lingbao, Shaanxi Province. Cao Shunhua, who was in charge of the canteen, took a liking to them at a glance and put them on the demand list.
"If the chiefs want it, just take it and don't worry about the price. If you are considerate of the younger ones, just give them thirty taels as a package." This vendor is very good at talking, and his words are very pleasant.
"What are you talking about? We in the Time Travel Group have always been upright, and we pay as much as we deserve, and there are those who take advantage of others in vain! How much is it exactly?"
The little dealer looked very embarrassed: "The little one has received the kindness of the chiefs for saving his life, so he should be treated with full filial piety. The masters are so considerate of the little ones. Five hundred kilograms will be counted as thirty-five taels. Okay, five taels."
It’s a small amount of freight on this trip.”
"It's only thirty-five taels. I can't let you suffer any loss. It's not easy for you either."
"Then thank you, chief. The chiefs really show pity to the old and the poor, and they will surely be princes for generations to come." The hawker smiled brightly, and sent cart after cart of flattery.
Wu Yunhua wrote him a payment note in a hurry, but Sun Xiao who was standing aside quickly stopped her:
“The price is wrong.”
"Why, the payment is less?"
Sun Xiao couldn't laugh or cry: "It's just too much."
Although red dates were not included in this week's commodity market, Sun Xiao still remembered the market price two weeks ago: every 100 kilograms of high-quality red dates cost 2 taels and 5 cents of silver. This is still the retail price on the market.
"If it's too much, the little one will be extra self-conscious. Twenty-five taels is the going price, and the little one will get it for the same price." Seeing that something was not going well, the hawker hurriedly took advantage of the situation.
"The price in Guangzhou is only twenty-five taels per hundred kilograms. Where did you get the twenty-five taels of red dates?"
The five hundred kilograms of red dates here only cost twelve and a half taels even according to the market price. The vendor said that thirty taels was already a bargain. Even in the bar city, they couldn't sell them at this price. Later, he added another six taels.
The lion even opened his mouth.
The hawker was speechless immediately. He didn't expect that the Australian in this corner knew the market situation in Guangzhou so clearly - the price of two to five yuan was exactly the market retail price when he purchased the goods a month ago. His face suddenly changed.
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Wu Yunhua suddenly became so angry that she rushed forward and kicked her. The little profiteer who had expected to make a lot of money from this "short-haired woman" was kicked to the ground and was thrown on his back. For a moment, he couldn't get up.
Wu Yunhua was still not satisfied, so she jumped over and tried to punch her again. The staff around her quickly stopped her.
With Wu Yunhua's physique, he would have to beat this skinny little guy half to death. Although the hawker was a bit deceitful, beating him just because of this would be like bullying and dominating the market, and his reputation would be ruined if word spread.
Sun Xiao was stunned. This was the first time he saw such a tough woman. He quickly stepped forward and said, "Don't do anything. This is a business dispute, not a conflict between ourselves and the enemy..."
"If you dare to lie to me, I will beat you till you pee and pee so much that your mother won't even recognize you!" Wu Yunhua shouted.
"You go to the house first to calm down, sit for a while, sit for a while." A group of people dragged Wuyunhua away.
I originally thought that this incident would affect the atmosphere, but I didn't expect that other people turned a blind eye to the beating of this person, and some people even showed a smile that "should" be on their lips. No one sympathized with the person who was trying to get benefits by being clever. This happened
The hawker who was kicked down groaned for a long time and no one came to help him. Finally he reluctantly got up and limped to Sun Xiao. He bowed and bowed, begging Sun Xiao to buy his dates.
——The cost of transporting it back was not a small amount. Sun Xiao saw that he was pitiful, so he bought it according to the market price of two to five yuan.
On behalf of the Foreign Trade Committee, Xiong Buyou selected a few small businessmen to discuss the matter. The Planning Committee saw that the goods they were trafficking were all commodities that had great demand in the Future Travel Group: raw lacquer, tung oil, metal utensils... so they talked with them.
Transactions require them to directly traffic these goods to high sales.
"We cannot always rely on procurement from Guangzhou Station." Ma Qianzhu once instructed at the Planning Committee meeting, "Guangzhou Station has too many things, and it is very dangerous to have a single supply channel. From now on, we must try to attract
Small and medium-sized merchants from the coast came directly to Lingao to trade with us.
Xiong Buyou's persuasion work finally had a certain effect. The small businessman who was just nodding his head without saying a word finally spoke:
"I heard that people in Lingao use a kind of paper when buying and selling things," he said cautiously, "I can't help this..."
"Lingao grain circulation coupons are not mandatory," Xiong Buyou explained patiently. "When paying for goods, if you are willing to accept cash, we will give you cash. If you are willing to exchange it for goods, it is fine. There is no force."
In order to strengthen his persuasion, he pointed at the small businessmen nearby who were bargaining with people from the Planning Commission: "You have all seen that when we purchase goods, we pay in silver."
“Chief——” Another small businessman interjected, “When the goods are shipped here, do they have to be handed over to Yaxing for sale?”
Yahang is the middleman. In the commercial society of the Ming Dynasty, Yaren who received official toothpaste had a strong monopoly in the local area. The merchants worked hard to transport the goods to the local area and could not sell and purchase freely. Once bought.
Every sale is subject to the restriction of the tooth shop. Without going through the tooth shop, you cannot purchase or sell goods. The owner of the tooth shop relies on his official reputation to earn huge profits, and he is not enthusiastic about selling goods.
It was often the case that merchants' goods could not be sold for a year or two, and it was even more difficult to make payments. This was also a big commercial drawback at that time.
"No need." Xiong Buyou knew the disadvantages here - when he was having peace negotiations with the county government, he mentioned the matter of getting dental posts in Dongmen City, so he asked an old official in the county government to find out more.
We are fully aware that the toothpaste system is harmful and unprofitable, and is even worse than the monopoly enterprises of later generations.
"Laigao trade does not need to go through Ya people. No matter who you sell the goods to, there is no need to hand it over to Ya people for sales. As for the things we buy ourselves, we will all pay in cash."
"Paying taxes."
Xiong Buyou thought it was interesting now. He asked all the key questions:
"Currently, when shipments arrive and sales are high, all we have to do is pay import duties."
Businessmen along the coast naturally understand the concept of tariffs. Xiong Buyou continued: "If you ship the goods we designate, you can also enjoy import duty-free treatment. If the goods are not within the designated range, you will pay taxes according to the customs rate."
The so-called designated goods are a catalog drawn up by the Planning Commission. They are thirty-one materials that are not produced locally in Lingao and are in great demand. They mainly include coal, metals, various grains, chemical raw materials, wood, oils, etc.
When these products are transported and sold to Lingao, not only do they not need to pay import duties, but all the products are purchased by the Planning Commission - buy as much as you want.
"Do I have to transport the goods you specified before I can import..."
"No. As long as you are willing to pay import duties, you can ship whatever you want to sell." Xiong Buyou said, "But we are not responsible for buying it."
All export tariffs are currently exempted. However, the Planning Commission has formulated a list of prohibited exports, which mainly involves materials that are currently in short supply, such as copper, iron, wood, etc. Sewing needles, small hardware, food products, etc.
, although it can be exported, merchants must hold an export license issued by the Planning Commission before they can sell it.
Then, the businessmen asked many questions, and Xiong Buyou answered them one by one. His sincerity impressed everyone, and finally someone nodded and said: "In this case, I will ship a batch of tung oil over next month."