"Whether you believe it or not, our People's Party is unwilling to meddle in Jiangsu's tax revenue." Qin Wuan said to Li Yaoguang, the secret representative of Jiangsu. Chen Ke handed over the negotiating power to Qin Wu'an, and there were two bottom lines for the negotiations: the People's Party would never directly participate in Jiangsu's political struggle, and the People's Party would never engage in losing money.

After listening to Qin Wuan's words, Li Yaoguang, a representative of Jiangsu, was a little surprised. He Sui believed that the People's Party would definitely take this opportunity to intervene in Jiangsu's affairs, and since it had sought the door of the People's Party, this kind of consciousness would always have to be there. Qin Wuan's clear statement made Li Yaoguang feel very puzzled. He said tentatively: "If you want to reach tax incentives, you will definitely have to negotiate with Zhang Dudu." This is not a meddling in Jiangsu's taxation, but a tax problem that silk companies will inevitably face. ”

"We support you because there is money to be made. If we interfere too much, we will make the royal governor think that we are not here to cooperate and make money, but to shake the position of the royal governor. That's not what we intended, and we don't want to see that happen. ”

Li Yaoguang looked at Qin Wu'an and expounded his views calmly, and he was already scolding his mother in his heart. If you can make money if you do it step by step and honestly, what will Jiangsu do when you come to the People's Party? Jiangsu just wants to borrow the People's Party to oppress Wang Youhong. Since Qin Wu'an refused to fall into the trap, Li Yaoguang simply made his words clear, "If you uphold such an attitude, even if you form a joint company, the tax incentives are only for you, I want to know now, do you want to cooperate with Wang Dudu, or do you want to cooperate with our Civic Party?" ”

Qin Wuan likes this clear attitude, and the key now is who the People's Party wants to cooperate with. To put it more bluntly, it is whether the BJP supports Wang's existing rules or the new rules that the Civic Party is trying to establish. Qin Wuan said with a smile: "Even if we are willing to cooperate with the Civic Party in the silk industry, this cannot be the conditions of asking Wang Dudu to accept us on both sides." I don't think he would agree with the personality of the king. ”

Li Yaoguang laughed a few times after Hehe. If the People's Party and the Civic Party really "went hand in hand to Wang Youhong and directly made demands," Mo said that Wang Youhong would not agree, and if the Civic Party was in power, the Civic Party would not agree. This is not just a matter of face, this is the fundamental question of who has the final say in Jiangsu. If Wang Youhong adopts military means for the sake of his power, the People's Party, which also has a gun, will naturally not be afraid, but the Civic Party without the support of a gun will suffer.

The sorrow of not having a gun is here, everyone can say the truth, but without a gun, many times it is in vain. Qin Wu'an's attitude was like this, and Li Yaoguang could only say directly, "We hope to get your support, not military support, and we don't want you to express open cooperation with us." We hope that the official position of political envoy can be restored in Jiangsu. And the official position of this political envoy must be elected by the parliament. The authority of the envoy is also to be determined by the parliament. As long as you can do your best to push forward in this regard, we can't thank you enough. ”

For example, Feng Xu, who is now leading the "Cultural and History Office" to revise Chen Ke's book "The Inheritance of Chinese Culture and the Rise of Materialism", was once a political envoy in Anhui. Qin Wu'an was quite familiar with the powers of the political envoys. Hearing Li Yaoguang say this, he really became interested in the planning of the Jiangsu Civic Party. "Do you want to restore the official name of the political envoy, or do you want to restore the official position of the political envoy? There's a big difference between the two. ”

The Manchu envoys were quite powerful, and the authority of this official position was threefold:

Undertaking the proclamation of government decrees: The political envoys undertake the government affairs assigned by the superiors, and the decrees are promulgated to all provinces, departments, prefectures, and counties. Supervise its implementation.

Management subordinate officials: The political envoys manage officials at all levels such as the government and the prefecture, and pay their salaries on schedule, evaluate their political performance, and receive reports to the governor.

Control of finances: The political envoy is responsible for collecting taxes from all parts of the province and is responsible for fiscal revenue and expenditure. Statistics of the province's household registration, tax service, number of people, number of fields and other civil content.

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If the Jiangsu Civic Party wants to put these three functions and powers in the hands of the parliament, the political structure of Jiangsu as a whole will change dramatically. Qin Wuan knew that Wang Youhong had managed to take the power of Jiangsu in his hands with great difficulty, and he would not easily transfer this part of the power to the parliament. In fact, don't say that Wang Youhong, the People's Party will not do this. The BJP itself has gradually established a functioning system through the improvement of its organization, and one of the core of this system is that power is directly vested in the BJP. These powers are not even vested in the bureaucracy under the BJP system. If anyone has access to these powers, it is only the broad masses of working people. And not other political forces.

Since Qin Wu'an was very clear about the role of the political envoy, Li Yaoguang also felt that it was much easier to communicate, and he said seriously: "Of course, we want to restore this official position, not under the false name of a political envoy." ”

"We can't directly ask Wang Dudu to do this, this is tantamount to interfering in Jiangsu's internal affairs." Qin Wu'an shook his head again and again.

"But if you must ask for it, the Governor will agree." Li Yaoguang said very simply, "Jiangsu has extremely heavy taxes, and if the tax can be reduced through this tax change, the livelihood of the people in Jiangsu will definitely be improved." This is a good thing for the benefit of one party. I hope you can help. If this can be done, you only need to pay 50% of the shares in the new silk company, and you can get 20% of the shares, and we will not break our promise. ”

did such a big thing, and only fell to 5% of the shares. Qin Wuan had to admit that this gang of profiteers in Jiangsu was quite interesting. And this 5% is not in vain, the People's Party actually got 15% of the funds. This is simply wishful thinking.

"There is absolutely no way we can make the Governor of the Kingdom willingly hand over such great power to the Parliament." Qin Wuan believes that this cooperation cannot be carried out.

"The Governor will certainly not be willing, and we do not expect you to be able to force the Governor to be willing. We just ask you to make this decision on the surface, and we will do the rest for the Civic Party. Whether we can do this or not is our business. Li Yaoguang also threw the last hole card.

Qin Wuan thinks this suggestion is very interesting, the last thing Wang Youhong wants now is to be publicly cut by the People's Party, if it is a private agreement, it is known to everyone, this can be tried.

After deliberation, the two finally reached a consensus in principle. Li Yaoguang immediately carried a small package, "This is three hundred taels of gold, this is the service fee for your party." On the day this is done, another nine hundred taels will be given. ”

Such a blatant bribery is really undignified, but Jiangsu is so close to the People's Party's base that Jiangsu also knows the news that the People's Party kills corrupt officials almost every month. Li Yaoguang simply sent the money directly. As for whether Qin Wu'an detained him privately or what to do, that was Qin Wu'an's business.

Sure enough, Qin Wuan didn't refuse, he called in the accountant to check the fineness and weight of the gold, and asked Li Yaoguang if he wanted a receipt. Li Yaoguang felt that this was really funny, but after thinking about it carefully, if he had this receipt in his hand, Li Yaoguang would be able to explain it when he returned to Jiangsu. asked Qin Wuan to give him a receipt.

The receipt is a printed standard receipt slip, "I received three hundred and four cents of gold from Li Yaoguang today." Beneficiary: Kong Jun. February 1, 1912 in the Western calendar. In addition to Kong Jun's signature and seal, there is also a receipt seal from the Ministry of Finance of the People's Party. The documents were in quadruplicate, and Li Yaoguang signed and sealed them respectively. The closing procedure is completed. Li Yaoguang got the invoice copy, and the other three blamed the People's Party accountant for taking it away.

"You really have a strict system." Li Yaoguang himself is also in business, and he couldn't help but praise.

Qin Wuan said with a smile: "Three hundred taels of gold, if there is no system for this, if it is investigated, it will cost several heads." ”

Li Yaoguang felt that Qin Wuan seemed to be boasting, and it was also like warning himself not to use any crooked brains. In fact, three hundred taels of gold was really not a particularly large amount in the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty. Qin Wuan has a prominent official position in the People's Party, and this is even less important for a person of his status. But Qin Wuan was obviously not joking. Li Yaoguang couldn't wait to ignore it, he simply continued to ask: "Minister Qin, where will this money be sent in the end?" ”

This is a bit of a wordless meaning, and the flow of money is not clear in Chinese officialdom. Unexpectedly, Qin Wuan really replied, "This money will be handed over to the treasury after acceptance." The Ministry of Finance itself does not leave money for itself. ”

"Since the Ministry of Finance is in charge of finance, won't you keep the money yourself?" Li Yaoguang was really interested.

"We don't have a parliament in our base area, but we have a people's congress, and the budget of the Ministry of Finance has to be approved by the people's congress before it can be drawn. It's not because we're in charge of money, we can do whatever we want. Qin Wuan replied.

"Our Jiangsu parliament meets at any time, why haven't we heard that your people's congress often meets?" Li Yaoguang was very curious.

This question really made Qin Wuan a little difficult to answer. From the People's Party's base areas to the present, the people's congresses at all levels are basically in a formalistic existence. The BJP itself has all the power in the base areas. Although theoretically the power of the People's Party comes from the People's Congress, in practice, no one really takes the People's Congress seriously.

Seeing that Qin Wuan's face was not very good-looking, Li Yaoguang immediately changed the topic, "The remaining nine hundred taels, when the matter is completed, we will send someone to deliver it." When the time comes, just ask him to come back with a receipt. ”

Since Li Yaoguang was so clever, Qin Wuan also changed the topic, "It's really troublesome to run back and forth with gold." I would suggest that you put your money into our People's Party branch in Jiangsu. That's extremely convenient. ”