For the sake of money, Chen Jingyun specially convened a meeting of the military and political axes, which was attended by the nine ministers and Lin Chengkun. In the first sentence of the opening sentence, Chen Jingyun said: "Now that the military and political axes are short of money, you can tell me what to do!" ”

Chen Jingyun had also heard about ordering a large number of arms before, but because Chen Jingyun said that the military and the government were separated, they didn't have much to say, Anwarin, the finance minister, had always looked at Chen Jingyun's eyes to do things, and Chen Jingyun asked him to give as much as he wanted, and if others came to take money, they would not give it without Chen Jingyun's rules. In addition, they also expressed their understanding of Chen Jingyun's purchase of a large number of ordnance, after all, Fujian does not produce guns and cannons, and the military and political axes have just been established, and they are facing possible attacks by the Qing army on all sides, so it is necessary to maintain a certain size of army.

In fact, Lin Wenying and others are slightly dissatisfied with Chen Jingyun's current speed of army expansion, thinking that Chen Jingyun's steps are too small, you don't see Li Yuanhong in Hubei, Jiaodafeng in Hunan, they have exploded tens of thousands of troops in a few days, and Fujian, now there are only more than 10,000 full battles.

It costs money to train the army to purchase ordnance, Chen Jingyun asked them to find a way, and these people could only ponder for themselves, Lin Wenying spoke first: "I think you can launch fundraising, there are many rich businessmen in Fuzhou City, a family of 100,000, 200,000, you can get millions by finding a dozen or so, and you should be able to withstand the gap for a while!" ”

As soon as these words fell, everyone present cast their eyes on him, why, because the people present, including Chen Jingyun, Zheng Zuyin, and An Hualin, are all wealthy businessmen in Fuzhou, and this rich businessman is not just looking for them! Besides, this fundraising is good, but listening to Lin Wenying's tone, it was taken for nothing. Even if he serves in the military and political axe, no one wants to be the wrongdoer. After Lin Wenying finished speaking, she seemed to realize that what she said was not suitable for this occasion, and she stopped talking after muttering a sentence in a low voice.

"Hehe, what Lin Wenying said is also a method, but now that Fuzhou has just settled down, I am not a bandit, so it is naturally not good to take it for nothing!" Chen Jingyun quietly degraded Lin Wenying and then turned his attention to An Hualin: "How is the situation in the Ministry of Finance, how is the matter of the remnants of the Qing Dynasty before the raid~"

Anwarin is naturally clear about how much money he has in his hands: "After paying the advance payment for the arms purchase, the Ministry of Finance still has 3.9 million yuan, and among the confiscated property, there are still about 3 million yuan worth of finances left, which are being sold one by one, and it will take about a while!" In terms of taxation, it is still in the process of being rectified and cleaned up according to the orders of the governor, and the income is not much. In terms of expenditure, it is estimated that there will be a lot of expenditure in the near future, not counting ordnance and ammunition, and at present, the four brigades and one regiment will spend 400,000 yuan per month, and the expenditure on military and political axes will also be about 100,000 yuan. In addition, the final payment of 3.3 million yuan in three months will have to be paid! ”

Although everyone knew that the military and political axes were in financial difficulties, they didn't expect it to be so serious, according to Anwarin, not to mention any financial deficits and the like, I'm afraid that they couldn't even get the balance of the ordnance!

Zheng Zuyin sighed and said: "Only now do I know that it is difficult to govern the country!" ”

Chen Jingyun smiled: "What Mr. Zheng said is that if it were so easy to govern the country, there would not be so many dynasty changes!" ”

At this time, Foreign Minister Lin Changming also pondered: "Can the Bank of Fuzhou think of a way!" ”

After hearing this, An Hualin shook his head and said: "The deposits in Fuzhou Bank are all deposited by others, and if we use them, they will not be able to exchange them in the future!" Besides, I'm going to rely on this batch of silver deposits to issue banknotes! ”

"Banknotes!" Others are puzzled: "Now the situation is not stable, and if you rashly issue banknotes, I am afraid that it will cause panic in the market!" ”

"That's what I commanded!" Chen Jingyun interrupted the inquiries of others and took the initiative to say: "This paper money is printed to save money and relieve financial pressure, as long as the exchange rate is maintained well and there is no run, it should be feasible." ”

Everyone is not a clay leg, naturally knows what a bank is, and also understands that the most important thing for this banknote is to maintain the exchange rate, as long as the exchange rate is maintained, it is a tael of silver as two or two spending!

Seeing that talking about the bank, Anwarin also said: "Now the banknotes are almost ready, and they will be printed and distributed after two days, and all political axes will be used for revenue and expenditure at that time." However, the scale is still too small, and it is difficult for outsiders to admit it, and for the sake of market stability and popular support, it will not be forced to promote, so it can only be used near Fuzhou in a short period of time, and if you want to trade with the outside, you have to make real money, so in the short term, this banknote will not impact the market too much! ”

At this time, Hong Zitai, Minister of Industry and Commerce, said loudly: "How do you look at the copper yuan? ”

As soon as these words came out, he immediately got An Hualin's response: "Yes, Tongyuan, why didn't I think of this thing!" ”

Chen Jingyun was puzzled and asked, "What is the method of this copper yuan!" ”

Hong Zitai immediately explained, and after talking for a long time, Chen Jingyun finally understood that this copper dollar is more immoral than printing paper money. According to the original meaning of the household, it is natural to make a sufficient amount of copper dollars, but in order to make profits, the bad coins with insufficient copper content are made in order to make profits, and it is okay in a short time, but after a long time, the ordinary people have to endure higher and higher inflation after the depreciation of the copper dollar. In general, it is the local political axe that circles money on the basis of raising inflation.

When Chen Jingyun heard this, although he felt that this method was a little damaged, but now there is a great shortage of money, and printing copper dollars is always better than those warlords in later generations who used it as silver when they printed military tickets, and besides, there are more inferior copper dollars all over the country, and they are not worse than themselves. Immediately the decision was made, let Hong Zitai manage, ordered Fuzhou Fubao Bureau to officially print copper dollars, in order to seek benefits is naturally to do something in the copper content, than the market copper dollar content is less, although the less is not much, but can not stand the accumulation of a lot! With the output of the machine printed by the Fubao Bureau, it was a month to go out in piles of copper dollars and exchange them for piles of silver dollars to come back!

According to Hong Zitai's estimate, he can earn at least 300,000 silver dollars this month!

Chen Jingyun was also slightly amazed when he heard this, no wonder he heard that so many local political axes issued copper dollars, it turned out to be such a profitable business.

For the sake of the reputation of the military and political axes and personal reputation, Hong Zitai suggested that the old coins of the former Qing Dynasty should be printed in the early stage, and the republican copper dollars issued in Hubei would be printed later.

With this copper yuan method of making money, although it is said that you can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, but this time and a half will not be able to solve the current financial crisis, after all, the current gap is not hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions, to really solve the financial crisis, you have to start from the root of taxes.

Now although the name of the Fujian military and political axe hangs the word Fujian, but in fact, the most controlled is Fuzhou, the area near Changle, with these days the three brigades of the army are marching to the northeast coast, the north, and the south coast, all the way to the states and counties are either surrendered or broken, so that many states and counties have gradually joined the jurisdiction of the military and political axe, but these Xinnazhou counties will not be able to completely control for a while and a half, and the contribution to tax revenue is almost zero in a short period of time, according to Zheng Zuyin's prediction, even if the military operation is smooth, Fujian Province will be controlled within one to three months, but it will take two months to concentrate the province's tax revenue.

In a word, in the next three to five months, don't expect to use the financial resources of Fujian Province to support the military and run factories.

In order to increase revenue as much as possible in the controlled area, the ministers of various ministries have made suggestions, at this time, as the chief of civil affairs, Zheng Zuyin said: "At present, our tax revenue is mainly concentrated in the centigold, but most of this centigold is collected by the local government, if this part of the local centigold can also be concentrated in the provincial finance, I think it will not be a problem to double!" ”

After saying that, Lin Changming said: "Money is also needed in this place, if it is collected, the local political axe below is estimated to be in trouble!" ”

Chen Jingyun was a little moved when he heard Zheng Zuyin's suggestion! Anyway, there are so many taxes, the provincial political axe collects more, and the local political axe below naturally collects less, and the corrupt officials and corrupt officials below the province are greedy for ink by concentrating the tax themselves. However, this tax is unusual, and it is not the people but the subordinate officials who are facing it, and if one is not handled well, it will be chaotic!

After pondering, he immediately said: "The current tax system has lagged behind the revolutionary situation, and the tax system of the Manchu feudal dynasty cannot be blindly inherited, for example, there are too many types of items in the former Qing Dynasty, and they are too miscellaneous. There is also the issue of the entire tax system, I mean that the tax system is separated from the county government, and the Ministry of Finance will uniformly dispatch officials and tax officials to preside over the tax collection work, which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the local county government, and at the same time, for the sake of corruption, the Ministry of Supervision should also play its due role and strictly supervise! Of course, how to change it depends on the Ministry of Finance, Chief An, I have implemented this in recent days, and I want to see the effect within a month! ”

For Chen Jingyun's words with revolution and other righteous words, everyone has also heard a lot, and the current tax system is really chaotic, and the people's burden is very heavy, but in fact, most of the taxes paid have been touched into their pockets by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, Chen Jingyun does not expect this tax reform to completely reverse this trend, but hopes to take advantage of the momentum of the revolution to rectify and raise taxes.

After hearing this, An Hualin knew that he had another burden on his head, but he didn't shirk at all, but said with joy on his face: "Hualin knows!" ”

In Anwarin's view, Chen Jingyun arranges tasks for himself and puts a burden on himself, which is to look up to himself, take a closer look, the paper money plan in his hand, and the tax reform are all important tasks. The fact that the Governor was able to do such an urgent matter to himself clearly trusted him.

Having joined the military and political axe for nearly half a month, Anwarin felt for the first time that he had truly gained Chen Jingyun's trust.

After deciding on the tax reform, Chen Jingyun continued: "Both the copper dollar printing and the tax reform are long-term plans, but they can't solve our huge financial gap in the near future, so I decided to issue recovery bonds. ”

After Chen Jingyun said the word bond, everyone present understood and knew that Chen Jingyun was planning to borrow money, although there were many wealthy businessmen in Fuzhou, but this money was probably not so easy to borrow!