The main building, the Conference Hall, is a two-story building with a brick and wood structure. Since the entire building complex is made of red bricks and red tiles and is red in color, the term "Red Building" also refers to the entire building complex. Red Building

The middle of the first and second floors is opened as a foyer. The space is high and spacious. There is a flat and bright glass viewing panel on the top of the hall. The upper level of the viewing panel is a towering church-style watchtower. There are stairs on both sides of the foyer.

The corridors on the second floor are connected and extend in all directions. There is a protruding porch in front of the foyer, and the oval cement return lanes go down the porch on the left and right, extending to the courtyard gate in front of the building. Horse-drawn carriages, cars, etc. can walk leisurely through the courtyard and take a detour.

Walking into the foyer from the porch, you can reach the meeting hall directly.

At this time, the square meeting hall of the Red Mansion was packed with representatives of the Hubei Provincial Congress and the Hubei Provincial business community. The reason why they came here was to listen to Li Zicheng’s speech. In the past hour, applause has continued here.

There was a sound in the Red Chamber. For the members of the Hubei Parliament or the celebrities in the industrial and commercial circles of Hubei Province, this speech was far different from any speech they had come across in the past. It was by no means the kind of empty or even unclear speech.

It's a speech, but actually it's better to say it's to clear up doubts.

Li Zicheng, who was standing on the podium, looked at the congressmen and celebrities from the business community in the audience. Those celebrities from the business community spent 500 yuan to listen to his speech.

This is the first time in China!

"Now, everyone is talking about how China can revitalize its industry and how to use the European War to achieve national economic development and industrial independence, but everyone must realize one thing, that is, before we take advantage of the market and huge profits brought by the European War

At the same time, the industrial and commercial sectors have indeed developed, but what if the war ends?"

After asking a rhetorical question, Li Zicheng took a sip of tea. This speech was not only for the work of the provincial councilors, but also for the business community. At least 60% of those councilors had direct connections with the business community.

Or they are people in the industrial and commercial field. For them, they are concerned about the national economy and people's livelihood, and they are also concerned about their personal interests.

Although the industrial and commercial community is a group that it relies on, it is only one of them. For the National Socialist Party, it must have a more and broader mass base.

"Once the war is over, we will have to face the influx of European and American products into the Chinese market. What's even more serious is that by then, various countries will dump a large number of excess goods produced during the war into China!"

While sounding the alarm to them, Li Zicheng emphasized again.

"What the National Socialist Party is committed to is to provide the most powerful protection to China's industrial sector. For the National Socialist Party, in the next two years, we will first complete the first thing is to abolish the lijin, and the second is to achieve tariff autonomy.

If it is abolished, industry and commerce will not prosper, if tariffs are not implemented, industry will perish!"

Applause, almost before Li Zicheng finished speaking, thunderous applause rang out again, including many industrial and commercial experts who applauded desperately. Most of them already knew who was on the stage.

He will soon become Prime Minister. When he said this, he was undoubtedly describing his policy agenda after becoming Prime Minister.

For these people in the industrial and commercial circles, they all hate the Lijin system. Not only because Lijin squeezes vendors and goods to the extreme, but also because the Lijin business tax is entirely from Chinese businessmen and not as much as foreign businessmen, so this system hinders the development of local goods market.

The circulation of foreign goods is conducive to the dumping of foreign goods, thereby increasing the competitiveness of foreign goods against local goods.

Moreover, at this time, the number of domestic Lijin Bureau cards has reached the point of "one card for five miles, one Bureau for ten miles." Coupled with the heavy exploitation by bureaucrats at all levels, this undoubtedly increases the number of links in commodity circulation, limits the speed of commodity circulation, and improves the efficiency of commodity circulation.

The cost and price of goods have been reduced, and the circulation and purchase volume of goods have been greatly reduced. Since even the basic conditions for market development and the smooth flow of goods cannot be met, Lijin has accelerated the economic segmentation among various regions across the country, seriously hindering China's domestic unification.

The formation of the market.

Coupled with the fact that there are no fixed rules for Lijin, and it has been exploited by officials at all levels, Lijin has the reputation of being the leader of evil taxes. Although as early as the late Qing Dynasty, domestic insightful people and people in the industrial and commercial circles were calling for the abolition of Lijin.

After the Republic of China, Lijin was criticized for stifling domestic industry and commerce, which led to increasingly louder voices. However, in the face of annual income of tens of millions of taels, especially in local areas, Lijin was a local tax. Until now, the abolition of Lijin has only been called for.

, who would have dared to make such a promise.

But at this time, Li Zicheng publicly stated that he was abolishing Lijin. There was no reason for them to be unhappy.

As for tariff independence, it only made them yearn for it. Especially after the previous warning, these industrialists are no longer the closed-door masters in the past. They have opened their eyes and naturally know that for a country's actual situation,

As far as the industry is concerned, the most powerful protection is tariff protection.

Just like Japan, it imposes zero tariff on cotton imports, imposes a 100% tariff on cotton yarn imports, and provides a 10% subsidy on cotton yarn exports. Tariffs are the most powerful industrial guarantee, especially for backward countries like China.

This is especially true for the country. However, China's tariffs have always been controlled by outsiders. Foreigners control the customs and set tariffs. Naturally, there is no tariff autonomy. Without tariff autonomy, there is no tariff protection.

Although tariff independence or the abolition of tariffs are only promises in a certain sense, they are enough to make these entrepreneurs cheer enthusiastically, shout loudly in support of the National Socialist Party, and clap hard.

They knew clearly that this kind of promise would spread throughout the country tomorrow. Not to mention that Li Zicheng "treats people with sincerity", just because his words spread throughout the country through newspapers, Li Zicheng would have to think twice if he wanted to go back on his word.

Facing the applause and shouts of support, Li Zicheng proudly put his hands on his hips and paused for a while, letting the waves below reverberate in the chamber like a tide. For the outside world, whether it is to make tariff autonomy

Or the promise to abolish the Likin is really a bit bold, but what they don’t know is that now, for China, the time is ripe for either implementing tariff autonomy or abolishing the Likin. It can even be said that even in history

Above, fifteen years later, the time for the Nanjing government to implement tariff autonomy and abolish the tariff is far from as mature as it is now.

The current implementation of tariff autonomy and the abolition of tariffs is just a ripe fruit for China. It depends on who dares to reach out and pick it boldly!

They don't dare, but they dare to be the first to eat crabs!

What's more, this is the will of the people!

When I go to the capital again, I will leave with my intention, and at that time, the door of the entire country will be open to me!
Chapter completed!