In the past, the income of the anti-smoking department from opium reached more than 15 million yuan per year, but now with the expansion of the control area of the national army, especially after Shanghai, the main opium market was taken over, the anti-smoking department did not care about the many strength in Shanghai and the opium dealers' resistance, and even before the tax reform of the fund-raising department, it had already carried out the rectification of the opium industry, severely cracked down on opium smuggling, and imposed high taxes on foreign opium, especially opium from other parts of the country. At the same time, the opium cultivation company under the Anti-Smoking Division was expanded, trying to occupy most of the market with Fujian tobacco

The reason why the Nationalist Army's crackdown on opium smuggling and the high taxes levied on foreign opium is so efficient is inseparable from the military strength of the Nationalist Army; with the support of more than 100,000 troops of the Nationalist Army, no one can oppose it, and there are only two opponents, either they are arrested or shot; since the Nationalist Army implemented the opium monopoly, countless opium dealers have died at the guns of the anti-smuggling squad of the Anti-Smoking Division, and the foreign opium dealers who have the ability to meddle in the behavior of the Nationalist Army have long since ceased to be during the Opium War decades ago. Foreign cigarettes from India have been squeezed out of the market by the national tobacco for more than ten years ago, and not many people have paid attention to such a small benefit, and even now many foreigners have begun to call for China to implement a smoking ban.

The combination of these factors has led to a sharp increase in the opium income of the Anti-Smoking Division, and the Salary Collection has estimated that the opium income of the Anti-Smoking Division will be about 22 million yuan next year.

If the cigarette tax is added, then the revenue budget of the anti-smoking department next year can probably contribute about 30 million.

Such a large sum of money is not counted in the traditional financial income, but is stored as Chen Jingyun's small gold, and Chen Jingyun uses it there when he is in a hurry to use the money. For example, in today's war in southern Jiangsu, a lot of military funds are diverted from it.

With a traditional income of 83 million plus a special tobacco income of 30 million, the annual income of the national army has exceeded 110 million yuan, and even if the special income of tobacco is not counted, the 83 million of the traditional income of the national army alone is already the first in China, and this data has even exceeded the annual income of the Beiyang Central Political Axe.

In addition, the Nationalist Army has also obtained a lot of loans in the past year, but most of these loans have exclusive purposes, such as the 10,000 yuan in the naval cooperation plan can only be used in the navy, and most of them have to be used to purchase US [***] ships. Even the army aid plan is only 15 million yuan for Chen Jingyun to use freely, and this part of the money is not included in the budget.

If you just look at the list of the budget of the national army's fiscal revenue, you may be excited, but in fact, compared to the national army's fiscal revenue, the list of the national army's financial expenditure is shocking.

First of all, in terms of administrative expenditure, the total cost of various localities is more than 30 million yuan, which is still the cost of maintaining the operation of local government and maintaining necessary civil affairs, and it is not the time to make large-scale investment in infrastructure. This alone accounts for more than 40 percent of traditional fiscal revenues.

In addition to administrative expenditures, more is military expenditures, which are calculated at present with 10 regular divisions, one guard division, one aviation wing, and more than 10 local garrison regiments of the Nationalist Army, which will cost almost 45 million yuan in maintenance expenses. In addition, the navy has also proposed a maintenance fee of 3 million yuan a year.

This adds up to $48 million in maintenance costs. It should be noted, however, that the $48 million is only peacetime maintenance costs. The expenses required in wartime, such as the treatment of casualties, pensions, the consumption and replenishment of equipment, and the consumption and replenishment of various military supplies, especially ammunition, are astronomical figures, and the number of battles fought by a division for a month is not enough to be hundreds of thousands, or more than one million, so the war expenses cannot be included in the conventional calculation, but can only be counted in the special wartime funds.

The bulk of the expenditure in these two areas is nearly 88 million, and even the traditional income of the national army in a year is not enough to make up for it.

In addition, if the national army needs to purchase new equipment or other expenses, it needs to find another way, and this way to think of where, that is, the small treasury of the anti-smoking department.

To some extent, the revenue of the Anti-Smoking Division was earmarked for war purposes. It is precisely because the income of the Anti-Smoking Division is so important that Chen Jingyun spares no effort to support the Anti-Smoking Division in carrying out various tasks, and even approved the establishment of an armed anti-smuggling team under the Anti-Smoking Division, which is equipped with light machine guns and rifles, with more than 1,000 people, divided into more than a dozen detachments and stationed in various places to crack down on opium and tobacco smuggling. Of course, Chen Jingyun will not let any armed force out of his control, so although the anti-smuggling team of this anti-smoking department is nominally in charge of the anti-smoking department, it is directly drawn from the regular army, and the officers in it are also in-service officers of the national army, and the transfer of power is still in the general staff, and if the anti-smoking department wants to be transferred, it must first report to the general staff, and then the staff department will issue an order for the anti-smuggling team to carry out combat operations.

"Based on the current judgment, if nothing else, our financial situation next year will be good." If there is no accident in Zhuang Nan's mouth, it is natural that there will be no war.

But Zhuang Nan can think like this, but Chen Jingyun can't think like this, now the domestic situation is chaotic, the national army is still fighting against the southern Jiangsu and Beiyang armies, and no one can guarantee that the national army will not break out a large-scale war with other forces next year, so it is very necessary to properly prepare war expenses in advance.

"This financial matter has to be dealt with with Anwarin, I can rest assured! However, although the situation seems to be optimistic now, no one can say what will happen next year, and the fund-raising department still needs to pay more attention to reducing expenditure and open source, and the proportion of administrative expenses is still too high, so it can be appropriately streamlined. It's important to set aside some money for emergencies! Chen Jingyun commanded cautiously.

Speaking of this, Zhuang Nan nodded, but then said: "Also, people from the navy have contacted me before!" ”

"Oh?" Chen Jingyun raised his head and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"It's for next year's shipbuilding!" Zhuang Nan said: "Sa Lao has come to me several times, saying that let's raise money in next year's budget plan, and no matter what, we must squeeze out a part of the navy's shipbuilding plan!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun said: "I will tell him about this matter in person!" ”

At present, in the budget made by the Funding Department, the Navy's military expenditure of 3 million only includes personnel expenses and ship maintenance costs, and even includes the budget for the overhaul of the Haiqi, but if the Navy wants to build a new warship, this fund will have to be applied for separately. The funds for the gunboat at the Mawei Shipyard were specially allocated by Chen Jingyun, while the two gunboats of the same class at the Jiangnan Shipyard were transferred from the US Navy program by the Navy Department itself. As for the funds for the warships ordered in the United States and even the Feihong, they all came from the naval cooperation plan, and Chen Jingyun did not have to worry about the money in this regard.

And if the navy plans to build new warships in China next year, then it will have to apply for special funds, and for this point, Chen Jingyun has to think again, after all, even a low-end gunboat will cost nearly one million, and if you want to build a better ship, it will basically be one million to go up, such a large amount of money makes Chen Jingyun have to be cautious.

Moreover, in Chen Jingyun's naval plan, after the current three gunboats are built, there will be no similar gunboats, there are enough gunboats in China at present, and they have no role except for inland rivers and coastal areas, and even if they want to build warships, they will have to be other ships. As for what kind of ship to build and what kind of ship can be built, Chen Jingyun will not have this mind for a while.

In fact, it's not that I don't want to, but I don't dare to think that building ships is so expensive, and it is not realistic for the current national army to allocate funds to build ships on a large scale. Now for the National Army is more important for the Army.

In the final analysis, the foundation of the national army lies in the army, although the navy has contributed a lot in the war in southern Jiangsu, but it is the army units of both sides that dominate the war in southern Jiangsu, as long as the national army and the army win, it will be able to keep the foundation of the national army, on the contrary, what can the army do if it loses the empty fleet, and can it still let those warships go ashore to fight with the enemy's army units.

It's one thing for the Americans to pay for their own fleet expansion, it's another thing to expand the fleet at their own expense. At present, Chen Jingyun is preparing to squeeze all the money tightly, run the Nationalist Army under his command well, improve the Eighth and Ninth Divisions, and then completely replenish the equipment of various units. You must know that not every subordinate division of the Nationalist Army is now fully staffed, especially the mortars and light and heavy machine guns of the various units are particularly lacking, and only the first division and the guard division are really fully staffed before the war in southern Jiangsu, and the others are more or less lacking.

After the war in southern Jiangsu, the heavy weapons and equipment of the first division suffered heavy losses, and it had to be replenished from other units, and this part had to be replenished. If you want to achieve full strength of all the units of the Nationalist Army, it is impossible to do it without investing a lot of money, after all, even if it is produced from the Fuzhou Arsenal, it still costs money.

Zhuang Nan went back after giving Chen Jingyun a return, this time Zhuang Nan came to simply report the preliminary budget planned by the Salary Raising Office, the real financial budget plan will take a while to determine, and then it will have to be discussed with other high-level military and political dignitaries within the National Army, after all, although he Chen Jingyun is the commander-in-chief of the National Army, he can be regarded as a standard warlord, but such a major matter is not easy for one person to arbitrary, and always refer to the opinions of others.