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In the 1914 budget, the Ministry of Finance expected more than $180 million in traditional revenues, as well as special taxes on opium, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals, which were very high, adding up to $35 million. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ.. In addition, last year, due to the support of a large number of loans from the United States, there was still a balance of 30 million yuan left in 1914. To put it simply, in 1914 Chen Jingyun was expected to have at his disposal about $245 million.

Of course, this expected amount is not a fixed value, but may change at any time with the expansion or contraction of the territory of the national army, and this part of the amount does not include the income from the issuance of the 'unified bond roll', and this part may also have at least tens of millions, or even two or three hundred million yuan of income, which depends on the performance of the national army on the battlefield.

On the whole, the financial situation of the Nanjing Republican Axe in 1914 was much better than that of 1913, mainly because of the expansion of the territory by more than half, and the increase in the income of Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, and other provinces, although these provinces could not provide a larger income because of the war, but they were able to provide a part of it. In addition, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong provinces, as well as Shanghai, a municipality directly under the central government, are gradually stabilizing, especially the economic recovery of Zhejiang and Shanghai is extremely fast, after two years of stability, Zhejiang's financial situation is expected to return to the level of the former Qing Dynasty in the second year of Xuantong, and Shanghai's economic development has surpassed the former Qing Dynasty, and Shanghai alone has provided more than 15 million yuan in tax revenue, and the Ministry of Finance is only expected to have 20 million yuan in Anhui's fiscal revenue. But there's no denying how much economic dynamism Shanghai's status as China's largest city is.

Relatively speaking, Hangzhou, Fuzhou and even Nanjing, which is the temporary capital, are far inferior, if you have to compare, it is also possible to get hands on Guangzhou, Guangdong's fiscal revenue has always been very high, and the main part of Guangdong's fiscal revenue is concentrated in Guangzhou and the surrounding areas, and most of the other areas of Guangdong can not provide much help for Guangdong's finances, which is why Lu Rongting is still poor although he occupies the western part of Guangdong. Because the wealthy Guangzhou and the surrounding areas were in the hands of the Nationalist Army. It's just that Guangzhou is not as good as Shanghai, but it won't be as big as other cities.

Guangzhou, the surrounding Pearl River Delta region, and the Yangtze River Delta region around Shanghai have become China's economic leading regions since the pre-Qing Dynasty, among which Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou, Changzhou and other cities in the southern part of the Yangtze River Delta concentrate more than 80 percent of China's light industry, more than 50 percent of heavy industry.

As a relatively special position in the national army system, Fujian, limited to factors such as transportation and the resources of the province, its development potential is far inferior to that of other regions, although at the beginning as the starting place of Chen Jingyun and the development of part of the light industry and heavy industry, but now the share is not large, light industry is fine, but heavy industry has begun to shift to the Yangtze River basin.

The heavy industry system of the national army established at the source of the Fuzhou Arsenal has long been not limited to Fuzhou, and the Southeast Iron and Steel Company, which is the most representative surname, has put the future development direction in the Ma'anshan area, and now there is also a steel plant in Shanghai that has begun mass production, and now the scale of the steel plant in Fuzhou has begun to shrink, and a large number of technicians and equipment have begun to move to Shanghai and Ma'anshan.

Several other important heavy industry enterprises have long moved out of Fuzhou, such as Shanghai Power Company has been set up in Shanghai from the beginning, Fule Electric Company has set up its headquarters in Shanghai, and several of its main factories are also set up in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and other regions, there is no main factory in Fuzhou.

As for others, such as the Pacific Shipping Company and the Hardman Tobacco Company, most of them also moved their headquarters to Shanghai, while Huaxia Bank and Southeast Iron and Steel Company moved their headquarters to Nanjing.

In addition to the explosive growth in the first year, Fujian's industrial and commercial development has not developed much in the following two years, and even the headquarters of major enterprises have been relocated to Shanghai or Nanjing.

The most important of these is the Fuzhou Arsenal, which has not been relocated due to the tight military production tasks, but the importance of the Fuzhou Arsenal has been declining rapidly, and in order to further improve the quality and quantity of military production, Chen Jingyun has long begun to plan to set up a new arsenal in the Yangtze River valley.

Because it is a military production, it is not included in the initial outline of industrial development, but into the development scale of Huaxia Bank itself.

Huaxia Bank has prepared to build two large-scale comprehensive arsenals in Nanjing and Ma'anshan, one to produce rifles, bullets, light and heavy machine guns and other light weapons, and the other to focus on the production and research and development of artillery and other heavy weapons. The estimated investment in the Nanjing Light Weapons Arsenal is 3 million yuan, while the investment in the Maanshan Heavy Weapons Arsenal will reach 4 million yuan.

In the future, this arsenal will only focus on the production and research and development of weapons themselves, and will not include many subsidiary departments, and will not be built in the first place when the Hanyang Arsenal or Fuzhou Arsenal was built, and it will be built to include almost all heavy industry sectors such as mining, steelmaking, explosives, and machinery.

Huaxia Bank has already separated these subsidiary departments and performed their own duties, and the future arsenal will focus on the research and development and production of weapons themselves, and will not make a complete set of heavy industry system, so in this way, although the investment amount of these two professional arsenals is not as much as the original Hanyang Arsenal, and even less than the money that Chen Jingyun has invested in the Fuzhou Arsenal over the years, the effect is not small, at least the output of these two arsenals will far exceed the output of the Fuzhou Arsenal after the completion of these two arsenals. When the time comes, we will be able to basically meet the weapons and ammunition needs of the domestic army.

As a result, the role of the Fuzhou Arsenal has been declining, and other heavy industries have been moved away one after another, and Fujian's industrial development has come to a standstill, so that the financial revenue that can be contributed is not much different from that of previous years, only about 15 million yuan, which is only equivalent to a city of Shanghai.

In addition, the customs, which is regarded as the bulk of fiscal revenue among various countries, cannot contribute too much revenue to the Nanjing Republican political axe, although a certain amount of surplus has been recovered through the negotiation of customs remains, but in the eyes of various countries, this part of the customs surplus can only be used for education, people's livelihood and other matters during the current Chinese civil war, and cannot be counted as ordinary fiscal revenue, let alone used as military spending. In addition to these restrictions, the banking group did not hand over all the surplus to Chen Jingyun, but only a part.

In the 1914 budget, the army took 100 million yuan, the navy took 6.5 million yuan, and the air force also shared 3.5 million yuan in military spending, which added up to 110 million yuan in military spending. In fact, these are only superficial military expenditures, and they are only military expenditures distributed from traditional finances, and Chen Jingyun still has more than 3,000 watts of special tobacco tax and more than 30 million yuan of loans from the United States, and these funds are not included in the traditional finances, but Chen Jingyun is ready to use them as emergency war expenses. Among them, the navy's special funds for building ships in 1914 and 1915 were allocated from here, and most of the remaining money will also be used as war expenses.

If all the totals are added up, then Chen Jingyun will be able to invest more than 160 million yuan in military spending on the army, navy, and air force this year, and if necessary, Chen Jingyun can continue to issue a large number of unified bonds, and it should be possible to get 20 or 30 million yuan at that time, so that he can further increase military spending.

Of course, this is only talking about the maximum amount, not that the national army will necessarily be able to spend so much money, this is not a few dollars a few dollars, but more than 100 million yuan, you must know that last year's war was so fierce, the national army only spent a total of more than 80 million yuan in military spending, and this year's budget of 100 million yuan in military spending is also estimated according to last year's amount.

In fact, what can be expected this year is that it is unlikely that the Nationalist Army will encounter the same opponent as the Beiyang Army in China as last year, and the Beiyang Army this year has completely lost its combat effectiveness, except for Hubei, the General Staff has already judged that the Beiyang Army in other regions cannot organize large-scale resistance and a decisive battle with the Nationalist Army, even in the Yanjing direction.

After this year, the national army will face the final battle with the Beiyang Army on the domestic battlefield, including Hubei, and then Shandong, Zhili, Northeast and other regions, and some wars will break out when it enters these places, but there will never be a scale of more than 100,000 people at every turn like the Jiangbei Campaign, the Bengbu Campaign, and even the Xuzhou Campaign. As for starting a war against other warlords in a short period of time, this has not yet been included in Chen Jingyun's consideration, even if everything goes well, if you want to clean up other warlords, you have to use political means first, and then slowly clean up one after another, he is not like Yuan Shikai who has not stood firm on his heels and started a war with all the local warlords.

But in addition to the civil war, Chen Jingyun also worries about another place, if history does not change much, then this year there will be a war in Europe, and at that time, as a member of the British Alliance, Ben will also enter the war and launch an attack on all the German colonies in the Far East, and the most important of them is naturally Qingdao in Shandong, China.

If Chen Jingyun does not react to this, then he will attack Qingdao on Chinese soil without scrupulousness, and then inherit Qingdao's interests from the Germans, which is unbearable for many Chinese, and when ordinary people cannot bear it, Chen Jingyun, as a superficial Chinese family, will have a bad time. Therefore, although Chen Jingyun is still uncertain about what method to use to solve this future trouble, it is still necessary to make early preparations, and this preparation is the army, and only by maintaining a strong army in his hands can he gain a firm foothold in the future developments, and then compete for his own interests and China's interests.

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