I can't say anything.

The discipline of the discipline is indeed similar to the lessons.

There are inevitably other cabinet ministers who want to sympathize with Tang Shaoyi, but Tang Shaoyi wants to sympathize with other cabinet ministers. The first Congress is about to be imminent, and the temporary cabinet is generally a member of the New Deal Power Congress. There are not many members of the Restoration Council and the Chinese Revolutionary Party.

The Democratic Party, the Constitutional Council, and the reform and progress will be noisy. It is inevitable that several people will enter the cabinet to maintain domestic political stability. In the end, I don’t know who was kicked out first.

Tang Shaoyi knew that although he was not a direct imperial party, he would not leave the position of prime minister. At least at this stage he still had the trust of His Majesty the Emperor. Foreign Minister Ouyang Geng obviously would not have a crisis, Zhang Kangren, Ouyang Xi, Shu Fang

Germany is a real imperial party, and it controls the three major positions in the cabinet, finance, taxation and army, and is equally worry-free, so it is hard to say anything else.

Yuan Shikai was very special. After accepting the appointment of the Minister of Transportation, he had been checking the railways everywhere and had almost never officially returned to the capital. Tang Shaoyi was also thinking about what this person was thinking quietly. He always felt that Yuan Shikai was very likely.

He was staring at his position. Although he was always Yuan Shikai's direct subordinate, now he is no longer the same as before, so he naturally will not surrender. In terms of ability and knowledge, he does not think he is worse than Yuan Shikai, and even

It's just going to do better.

After the tutoring meeting ended, Song Biao returned to his general office to continue to meet Zhang Kangren and Ouyang Xi, and listened to them to report the tax sharing system of the central government and provincial governments separately.

This work is now being completed and will be officially implemented only after approval by Congress.

Song Biao carefully looked through the report. According to Ouyang Xi's current calculations and considerations, in terms of agricultural tax, the proportion of the central government, provincial, government and county local governments is 3:2:2:3, industrial and commercial tax,

The overall mining tax is shared by the central government and the provincial government at 5:5, with land value-added tax, stamp tax, personal income tax, inheritance tax, donation tax, property tax, etc. being 7:3, and the tariffs are unified to the central government.

In addition to these basic tax sharing, there is also a hierarchical system for local agricultural taxes. The agricultural tax rates in the three northeastern provinces remain at 10%, the southern part of Jiangsu and Zhejiang remain at 7.5%, and the northwest and other regions remain at 5%. At this stage, the fixed tax method is unified according to the

Fixed taxes per mu are collected, and each province has the right to float another 10% based on the unified central standards.

In addition, in principle, localities restrict land concentration. Each household holds more than a certain amount of arable land, and additional value-added tax on farmland will continue to be levied. The provinces have different restrictions on this, so a relatively relaxed policy will be adopted at this stage.

, the dividing line within the Guandong is based on 300 acres of land, while the Guandong is adjusted to 450 acres of land.

After reading this report, Song Biao was generally satisfied. Although he lacked professionalism in many aspects, he did not understand the specific tax sharing principles and motivations very well."

After a little thought, Song Biao and Zhang Kangren and Ouyang Xi ordered: "Don't be anxious about restricting land within the pass, do not tie up the matters, and do it separately. When the matter with Japan is resolved before dealing with the problem of land annexation.

”

Ouyang Xi said: "In fact, I have also considered this, but the land annexation within the pass is really too ruthless. Taking Shanxi as an example, more than 70% of the land is concentrated in less than 1% of the families, and most of these families are Shanxi merchants in the traditional sense.

Class. More than half of the land in Sichuan is concentrated in the hands of 1% of the landlords. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and East China are better due to the war in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, over the years, land annexation has also been expanding on a large scale, and the poor are getting poorer.

The trend of the rich getting richer has worsened. For a country, if taxes are to increase, the best way is never to support the development of big landlords and big capitalists, but to support the increase of small and medium-sized enterprises.

The increase in middle-class farmers supports the popularization of the middle class. On the surface, as far as agricultural tax is concerned, the total amount is the same, but in terms of the entire market, the consumption power of a landlord is definitely not as good as that of ten wealthy farmers.

…, The most heartbreaking thing is that the land in Shanxi and Sichuan is too concentrated, resulting in a large amount of land being used for opium cultivation. Although the tax on opium is very high, accounting for almost 10% of the Qing government's first year of Xuantong, this is for the entire

The harm of the country is immeasurable. It is better to cut off these taxes than to allow the country and nation to develop normally. These things should be cut off to limit land concentration, so that farmers can grow food more out of their own needs.

.”

Song Biao nodded slightly and still looked at Zhang Kangren, who remained silent.

Song Biao is quite clear about Ouyang Xi. If you want to talk about Ouyang Xi's level, especially his attainments in the two fields of tax policy and scientific management, he is basically the first in China, but this person has a huge problem.

, that is too ideal.

This is probably because Ouyang Xi failed to train from grassroots officials, but Zhang Kangren also became an official directly from high school. It is much more realistic than Ouyang Xi, so this is more likely to be a person's personality problem.

Seeing that Zhang Kangren didn't speak, Song Biao said directly to Ouyang Xi: "Don't rush to do the opium matter for the time being. Everything must be organized and not cause chaos within. The empire has just been established and is facing the destruction of the country and the family.

At this time, foreign enemies were eager to carry out various reforms in the country at once, which would lead to civil chaos and would be more costly."

"this……!"

Ouyang Xi didn't know how to answer for a while, but after a while, nodded and agreed: "Your Majesty's wise."

Song Biao sighed. He didn't want to solve these old problems immediately. It was just that the country was already in chaos. Japan took the opportunity to launch the Second Sino-Japanese War in order to defeat China's revival revolutionary force in one war and interrupt China's unification.

and the pace of development, and even strive to force China to retreat to a state of separatist forces as much as possible, so as to facilitate Japan's development and achieve long-term aggression goals.

The thief's ambitions are not enough to expose the anger in the heart of Emperor Song.

At this moment, it is obvious that we cannot be self-disturbing in everything, to stabilize the domestic and unify the domestic forces together to jointly take the lead in foreign affairs.

Song Biao could only sigh, avoid Ouyang Xi's topic and asked Zhang Kangren: "Rong Xingqiao and Rong Kui arrived in the capital yesterday, did you meet them?"

Zhang Kangren nodded and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I met last night and talked about the Far East for two hours. They also talked with me, which should be said to be very smooth.

Even if the bank loan only with Far East Bank is enough to support domestic fiscal expenditures, even military expenditures. However, Rong Xingqiao and I are also more worried. If the liquid capital in the hands of the consortium is lended to the government for military use and

For fiscal expenditure, it will be difficult to recover capital for domestic construction and industrial and commercial investment in the future. Especially for investment in railways and industrial and mining, at this stage, it still has to rely on the Far East to support it."

Speaking of money issue, Song Biao is not very worried yet.

Last month, the US Far East Trust and Investment Company sold all shares of Petroleum Corporation, with a total transaction amount of 173.4 million pounds. Because the transaction amount is too large, more than half of the transactions are exchanged for stocks and bonds with other companies.

Complete the transaction, such as buying Gulf Oil from the Mellons, including its Texas Refining Company and Oil Pipeline, and buying the company through a share exchange agreement before Standard Oil is divided in Dirk

All oil industries in SAS are merged into Gulf Oil Company.

Far East does not own the Texas oil company, but continues to cooperate with the Vanderbilt family to hold shares. Other transactions are also part of J.P. Morgan\John.A. Rockefeller\

\Andrew.w. Mellon's three giants traded, and some traded with European consortiums... During this period, European consortiums had much stronger trading capabilities than American consortiums, and more than half of the cash transactions were provided by British and French merchants.

Through this series of transactions, the US Far East not only embezzled 83.3 million pounds of cash flow, but also held shares in giant companies such as the US Steel Company, increased its equity in Bank of America, and its total assets in the United States also increased.

Holding a scale of 100 million pounds, the Vanderbilt family continues to maintain its closest cooperative relationship, and joins the United States in addition to holding Bethlehem Steel, General Motors and other companies, banks, machine tools, electrical, chemical, shipping, and aircraft.

,Aviation, ships, military industry and other fields have been integrated on a large scale.

In addition to the previously transferred £14.7 million for military expenditure and the 40 million taels of silver that will be lent to the Imperial Provisional Cabinet Government, Far East still holds £68.7 million in cash. If there is no additional expense, the cash will continue.

Gold was exchanged in the UK and flowed back to the Far East Bank headquarters to issue Northeast silver and gold round coupons, as well as to transfer back to China for large-scale industrial investment.

During the international rubber turmoil, Far East Commercial Bank made a cumulative profit of more than 27 million pounds. Only a small part of this money was dismantled into military expenses. Most of it continued to be used to purchase rubber plantations at a low price, and purchase the Dutch Indonesian Rubber Company and the British Colonial Rubber Planting Company with wholly owned by the Dutch Indonesian Rubber Company and the British Colonial Rubber Planting Company

and merge into the new English-Korean Rubber Company.

As a large number of rubber plantations around the world were eradicated, the British-Korean Rubber Company continued to take the opportunity to purchase rubber plantations in Southeast Asia at low prices, and its proportion in international rubber production increased sharply from the initial 24% to more than 85%. The investment in rubber planting

It will take at least 7 years to produce, which means that in the next seven years, the company will completely monopolize the international rubber market, but for now, the European and American powers have not realized how much gold they will pay for it.

This is a long-term investment for the First World War. I am not in a hurry to cash out for the time being, and the return on investment will be extremely generous.

Even if this part of the money cannot be collected for the time being, the Far East company still has a lot of cash in hand. With the loan of 20 million US dollars from Bank of America promised by Conns Vanderbilt, Song Biao can fully afford to spend more on military expenses.

The war was fought under the premise.

Of course, Song Biao really needs to consider the problem Zhang Kangren said. If all this money is really used to purchase treasury bonds to offset military expenses, it will be difficult for the Far East Consortium to raise enough capital to invest in China on a large scale in the next five years.

industry, especially heavy industry.

In Song Biao's initial plan, this cash will be used in a large amount of investment in the new empire's banking, mining, steel, machinery, chemicals, electrical, shipping, railways, and textiles, allowing the Far East Consortium to invest in five years

, take advantage of the valuable opportunities of World War I to quickly lead China to rise into an emerging industrial country.

Anyway, this is a very troublesome thing. If the central government can solve as much military expenditure problem as possible from other channels, it is obviously a very good thing, but is this possible?

Borrowing is always the poorer you are, the more difficult it is, the more difficult it is to borrow money, the more stringent the conditions are, the more unequal it is.

I remember that Yuan Shikai paid so much money to raise 20 million pounds of aftermath loans, and in order to suppress the revolution, he took the opportunity to blackmail twenty-one items by Japan. In short, it was difficult to borrow money.

At this moment, Song Biao had no more good ideas, so he could only say that he had to take one step at a time. (To be continued.!~!
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