In the following days, the two agendas of the National Defense Forces planning meeting were also completed, and the General Staff Headquarters recorded the report in a book and bound it into a book as the "White Paper on the National Defense Plan for the 11th Year of the Republic of China" or the "White Paper on the National Defense Plan for the Year of the People's Republic of China." He handed over the "White Paper" to President Sun Liwen, who was very emotional after reading it, saying that the Wehrmacht was really meticulous in its work, but on the contrary, some of the decrees of the government under his leadership were not implemented, and local officials despised the central government.

Now Sun Liwen is embarrassed that the area where the Kuomintang Party originally supported Sun Liwen has begun to be hostile to the president, and those who voted for him openly oppose him, which makes the face of the Kuomintang unbearable, and Sun Liwen has a big headache. He does not have Wang Maoru to concentrate military and political power, he has no military power, and if he only has administrative power, it will be difficult for him to severely punish local governments that support his presidency but do not support his presidential decrees.

One of the most important reasons for the opposition to Sun Liwen in many places in the south is the land policy proposed by Sun Liwen, whose original intention was to liberate the productive forces and labor, distribute land according to work, and do a good deed for the people. He proposed that the state pay for the purchase of landlords' land, then lease it to peasants, and then collect low rent to increase grain production. It is a pity that Sun Liwen was once again defeated by reality, and one of the reasons for the failure of Sun Liwen's land policy was that the state would not have come up with such a sum of money to pay for the New Deal.

Having said that, this time it is really not that the Ministry of Finance is deliberately embarrassing the president, but that the president's land policy requires too much money, and it involves the issue of land assessment, and more importantly. Many landlords were reluctant to sell their land to the state. They are not short of money, and now that the world is peaceful and prosperous, the land is more precious. In the future, the population will grow, land is a scarce resource, and the landlords are not stupid, for Mao to sell to the state now? I can sell it to you, one hundred silver dollars per acre of land, and I have three thousand acres of land, and you give me three hundred thousand silver dollars. The state can't come up with the money. Then don't blame me, business is about buying and selling voluntarily, isn't it? You can't force me, you're not the evil Bolshevik Empire.

The southern gentry were not satisfied. The northern gentry were not satisfied, but the northern gentry had reason to refuse the presidential decree, and you were elected by the south, and your presidential decree was resisted in your constituency. We certainly followed the southern provinces. When did you level out the South. We, in the northern provinces, will not stand in the way.

Sun Liwen made a bad move, and the land reform plan he made was aborted before it began, and of course he was so confused that his beard turned white. Sun Liwen hopes that the country can be ruled by power on the one hand, and on the other hand, he hopes to realize the democratic type, and his heart is full of contradictions. He envied Wang Maoru because Wang Maoru had always been a powerful figure, his army and territory had only one voice, and if the officers did not carry out the orders he issued, the next officer could directly shoot and kill the boss who did not carry out the orders. The army itself needs to rule with an iron fist. Imperative, not democratic. Sun Liwen himself advocated democracy. Now I am stumbling on democracy again.

What made him even more depressed was that the Ministry of People's Livelihood, which he valued, had set up a people's livelihood guarantee system, which was considered a place for disaster relief, and people from all over the country ran to ask for help. In the past, people had to wait for people to send relief from above, food, money, and so on, but now that China has established the Ministry of People's Livelihood, the victims have a place to seek help. Didn't you, Sun Liwen, advocate "nation, civil rights, and people's livelihood"?

This made Sun Liwen a head and three big, and the treatment of the victims was not effective, so the people scolded the KMT officials of the Ministry of People's Livelihood, and many people suspected that the KMT itself was greedy for the relief funds for the victims and demanded that the Ministry of People's Livelihood be severely punished.

First of all, it is different from Sun Liwen's imagination, in his imagination, the Ministry of People's Livelihood should be the maintenance department that manages and guarantees the people's most basic land funds, and the people want to see a savior when they mention the Ministry of People's Livelihood. But now, when it comes to the Ministry of People's Livelihood, people say, "Those KMT embezzlers have taken the food of the victims." Therefore, when the Kuomintang and the northern factions stopped fighting and commanding, and the Kuomintang represented by Sun Liwen really handled internal affairs, it encountered various and insurmountable difficulties, which also made the Kuomintang people realize for the first time that it was easy to fight for power and profit, but it was difficult to govern the country.

Wang Maoru made the "National Defense White Paper for the Year of Renxu" into two parts, the same one true and one false, and really kept it in his own hands, and sealed the file with a fake. Sun Liwen didn't read anything, just looked at the last page of the National Defense Force's budget of 200 million Wu Bai Yin Yuan (the National Defense Force system solves 70 million Wu Bai Yuan, and the State Ministry of Finance only needs to provide 180 million) and then made a bitter face and discussed with Wang Maoru to reduce military spending, Wang Maoru smiled bitterly: "National defense is heavier than Mount Tai, how can it be reduced, the soldiers can't eat enough and there are no bullets in the guns, how to fight and how to defend the country?" ”

Sun Liwen said: "Is there too much money in the national defense budget for the resettlement of integrated soldiers? ”

Wang Maoru said: "These people have to drag their families and immigrants to the Western Regions, I only think there is less, not more." ”

Sun Liwen knew that if Wang Mao handed over this white paper to the Ministry of Finance, then Finance Minister Fang Hongxin would definitely not hesitate to invest all the central funds into the national defense forces, and then he, the president, would really not be able to accomplish anything this year except for receiving a salary in the office. Therefore, Sun Liwen and Wang Maoru discussed carefully and refuted them one by one, and finally succeeded in reducing the national defense budget to 400 million yuan.

Sun Liwen said bitterly: "180 trillion silver dollars, last year's central fiscal revenue was only 410 million. ”

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Beiyang government's annual income was the largest in the first ten years of the Republic of China, but it was only 70 million, and the national financial expenditure was as high as 200 million. However, in the early years of the Republic of China, the state was only nominally unified, and the actual income was only the railways of the Ministry of Communications, the salt tax of the whole country, the loans of the State Bank of Communications, the expenses of posts and telecommunications, the stamp duty of joint-stock companies, and the wear and tear fees of the unified distribution of currency. The financial expenditure of the Yuan Shikai government has eight places, one is the indemnity of the Gengzi Treaty, the second is the indemnity of the Maguan Treaty, the third is the military expenditure, the fourth is the cost of dismantling the army, the fifth is the disaster relief, the sixth is the government expenditure, the seventh is the national construction expenditure, and the eighth is the preferential treatment of the royal family. So much so that in the end, Yuan Shikai only left two million silver dollars for the salaries of government officials.

The financial situation in the early years of the Republic of China was still the best year in the entire 10 years of the Republic of China, and this embarrassing financial system did not improve until the National Defense Army moved in to take charge of the Ministry of Finance, and the economic planning of the National Defense Force, to put it bluntly, was the integration of the dictatorial economy and the planned economic system, and this system had advantages and disadvantages, but this kind of tough economic system also brought great benefits to the government at the time of reunification.

In fact, starting from this year (the 11th year of the Republic of China), the finances of the central government of the Republic of China began to improve, and last year Tongguo had a series of tax reform bills, and there were many economists in the Kuomintang Party, among which the most important economic stimulus bills were six, all of which were tongguo. They are the Salt Tax Reform Law, the Customs Reform Law, the Land Levy Reform Law, the Individual Income Tax Collection Measures, the Business License Tax Law, and the Stamp Duty Reform Law. The tongguo of these six bills will quadruple the central government's fiscal revenue in the 11th year of the Republic of China. However, it is still not possible to achieve a balance between revenue and expenditure, and the financial expenditure of the Ministry of Defense alone will account for more than half of the central finance. At the same time, the large-scale circulation of the renminbi silver dollar has brought about a disadvantage, that is, the currency has begun to depreciate internally and appreciate externally. The domestic silver dollar has depreciated by almost one-third, but has appreciated by one-third to the outside world, on the one hand, because China's domestic economy has flourished after the war and needs a lot of monetary support. On the other hand, the international environment has weakened the national strength of other countries, and factories have closed down one after another, so they have to rely on currency depreciation to increase exports. As far as the common people are concerned, they find that they have less money to sell grain in their hands, but they buy foreign products more than half cheaper, which has had a certain impact on China's industry. In fact, this year's inflation has already had an impact, but the people are grateful for a unified country and a stable life, but they don't feel so strict about inflation.

Inflation began to spread around the world, and China was not immune, but China was just catching up with a good time when the great powers were busy reviving their own economies without caring about China.

In fact, a unified China, the gross national product and national productive forces are definitely among the highest in the world, and when Japan attacked the Qing Empire, it was with a gambling mentality, because at that time, Japan's national strength was even one-third of that of the Qing Dynasty. For an Eastern giant, he takes one step, and those gnomes need to take ten steps to catch up. After the reunification of the Republic of China, it was very important to avoid China from going into war and destroying itself. And the Japanese also realized the strength of China's reunification, and they were no longer arrogant around the South Manchurian Railway, and began to become cautious.

It is believed that at the end of the 11th year of the Republic of China, China's comprehensive national strength ranking will return to the forefront of the world, and the premise must be that China cannot have civil strife and civil war. Last year's fiscal revenue was already several times that of the early years of the Republic of China, and as long as China is not chaotic, even if inflation occurs, a self-sufficient country like China will not have much impact. On the other hand, countries with a high degree of industrialization, such as Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, have been greatly affected by the economic crisis.

So Wang Maoru began to build confidence in Sun Liwen again, and gave rise to China's development advantages, so as not to let Sun Liwen be too pessimistic and magnify the difficulties in front of him. Sun Liwen only pretended to be sad on the surface, but in fact, he saw that China's economy, which at that time far exceeded the income of the Guangdong revolutionary government by 100 times, and his heart had already blossomed. No wonder the Northern Expedition was always unwinnable, look at the government income at this time, hundreds of millions, it would be good if the Guangdong revolutionary government could have millions of income a year. (To be continued......)

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