Yang Rui said that those landlords were desperate, and suddenly laughed happily. He liked to see the gentry with little black caps, dressed in satin, and full of benevolence and morality. If the governance of the country is smooth sailing, it will be too boring, and if there are no riots and uprisings, it will be very unfulfilling. He couldn't help but smile: "The salt tax of 100 million is calculated according to the national average salt price of three taels and one quintal, if this price is the terminal price, then it is about twenty-five to thirty wen per catty, which is fifty to seventy percent lower than the current retail price on average." In addition to the salt barons, there are also the original official salt dealers who should be dealt with on the salt tax, and these two groups of people are not easy to deal with.

However, grain, salt, tea, sugar, hibiscus paste, and tobacco will all be sold in a monopoly system, and each household will be given a copy of the purchase book, and the number of people in each household will be fixed, and the monthly purchase amount will also be determined. Once they don't buy official salt, they must have bought private salt. At that time, the supply and marketing cooperatives will not only not sell them salt, but also grain, tea, and sugar, and let them buy smuggled goods. No matter how cheap the salt with the salt tax is, there will always be people who are greedy for small and cheap salt, so it is necessary to make an example of each village committee or neighborhood committee, and then other people will know that private salt cannot be bought.

Village committees, neighborhood committees, township governments, and town governments, and these grassroots organizations have a very important role in assisting the State Taxation Bureau in collecting taxes, and the State Taxation Bureau does not need breech guns and mountain guns in the first place, but mortars and machine guns still need to be equipped. The landlords all have courtyards, and most of the salt lords and merchants also have guys, so the combat power of the tax troops must reach the level of the Manchurian New Army before they can be used. In today's China, there is no way to develop without money. Within the scope of the law, if you don't blow up every penny, then you can't turn over. ”

Yang Rui's meaning has been revealed before. At present, such a policy is practiced in the base areas of Yanzhou and Yizhou, and in these two places, there are no salt merchants and no grain merchants, and the rationing system is practiced. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is the proper meaning to exercise control over grain, salt, sugar, hibiscus paste, and tobacco, especially since the price of grain fluctuates greatly throughout the year, and it is really necessary to increase the income of the people. Then it is necessary to keep grain prices and borrowing interest rates within a certain range.

"Then there will be a lot of officials?" Wang Jitong listened to Yang Rui's plan and sighed.

Yang Rui said, "Yes, there will be a lot." Together with 300,000 teachers, it is estimated that it will be more than one million. After he finished speaking, he did not care about the differences between the people, and then said: "In a county, there are about 150 township cadres, tax police, patrol police, and teachers, a total of 600 people. plus county governments, courts, and inspectorates. About six hundred and forty people. 1,358 counties, that's more than 800,000 people. There are also state capitals, provinces, and the central government, all of which add up to more than one million people. Compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although there were only a few thousand of their officials, there were 300,000 to 400,000 people, including those who were staff, subordinates, errand workers, and tax collectors.

I've done the math on my side, not including teachers. The annual salary to be paid should not exceed 70 million taels, and the administrative expenses should be kept within 100 million taels. There is a reward for the money spent. The burden on the people has been lightened, and the tax revenue of the state has increased. Moreover, people in society who have studied books but are idle can become officials, and scientific examinations can also be reopened. ”

More than one million civil servants are nothing in later generations, but it is still very shocking to put forward it now, Zhong Guanguan said: "Actually, more than one million officials are too many." And you have more than a million people, but the salary is only 70 million, doesn't that mean that the annual salary of each person is only more than 60 taels, such a low salary, will anyone do it? ”

"There are 600 people in a county, but there are 300 patrol police and tax police, if you really count the officials, plus the porter, there will not be more than 200 people, so it is only 340,000, which is not much. As for salary, the highest monthly salary after the founding of the People's Republic of China did not exceed 100 taels, and 1,300 taels a year for 13 months. The lowest patrol officers and township cadres get five taels of silver a month, which is 65 taels a year. This standard is low for high-ranking officials, but it is not too low for low-level officials. Yang Rui had to talk about the salary standard when asked, and he originally continued to talk about government spending.

"It's too low, but it's good! Otherwise, how can we break the minds of those who seek to make a fortune by being officials?! Zhang Taiyan fanned the white paper fan. As long as the price of food does not rise indiscriminately, four taels of silver for a family of five is enough, that is, there are more people, and ten taels is enough, and there is no need to pay rent when you are an official, there is a box lunch at noon, and you can pay an extra month's salary at the end of the year, as long as you are a person living at home, it is not unbeautiful. ”

Zhang Taiyan is a people-oriented, the lower the salary, the better. However, Yang Ruiti's salary is indeed too low, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty often has 10,000 or 20,000 yuan of incorruptible silver, even the Japanese prime minister's annual salary is 10,000 yen, which is seven or eight times that of the Chinese prime minister. Yu Zixun didn't care how much money the officials paid, but only asked: "What about the army, I mean, is the navy also going to take a salary cut?" ”

Government officials can be reluctantly filled by students from the Hosei School, and the Army Revival Association has its own, but the navy has no development forces, and there are a minority, and there are many low-ranking officers, so Yu Zixun is very worried that the navy will not be able to accept such a salary. However, if the standard of the navy is changed, then the army will naturally have opinions, and a rear admiral in the army will only be paid a few dozen taels a month, and the navy will have an opinion.

"Because of the different types of troops and the places of duty, the salary of the army will increase, but it is mainly for officers, and the soldiers are still maintained at the previous standard, that is, they are covered with food and accommodation for one to two or two months. Zixun said that the navy side is going to be overhauled. Yang Rui looked at him, unexpectedly paused for a while, and then suppressed his anger and said: "Actually, the navy is a bunch of garbage, don't do it." However, those boats are still valuable, so for the sake of those boats, it is better to leave some people to wipe the boats. ”

Yang Rui's words didn't taste good, but he was obviously very disdainful of the navy. It wasn't because of the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, but because of his naval blindness, he couldn't tell anything, and his disdain and contempt for the navy was because of the report of the Military Intelligence Bureau and Wen Shude. He doesn't know the combat capability and training level because it is not the navy, but just look at the four points of smuggling, corruption, xenophobia, and hibiscus paste in the fleet. He can conclude that this is an army that is worse than the new army of the six towns of Beiyang, and these styles are already a state of grandeur. As long as the people who enter this system, they have to take money, they have to embezzle, they have to be xenophobic, although those officers with integrity only take a little bit for the sake of unity, but those old people, the more the merrier.

Wen Shude, the pipe band of the Jinou ship, also surrendered because he was squeezed out by the Fujian Gang. And the Military Intelligence Bureau went to the Navy to verify the situation according to what he said, and the report finally came to Yang Rui, which only made him feel cold. Such an ethos. Can there still be a war? Now the pipe belt inside, there is actually Wu Jingrong who escaped in the First Sino-Japanese War, and people like him can re-do the pipe band, which shows that the navy only has favors and silver. There is no sense of honor at all.

Xu Huafeng is different from everyone else. was originally in the system, and he could probably guess the reason for Yang Rui's anger, so he said: "Actually, this water division has been having problems since the establishment of the army, but the most critical problem in it is to form a gang." Because the officers and crew members are all from the Mawei ship, eighty or ninety percent of the people on board are Fujianese, not to mention the British Lang Weili, even Admiral Ding Ruchang has nothing to do with them. Rectification is wanted. But you can't get it right without a lot of determination. It's better to keep these people and form a new fleet. If the people of the old fleet can use it, then transfer to the new fleet, and if it is not useful, then let them stay in the old fleet. ”

Xu Huafeng's method was mild, but Yang Rui said: "The navy spends more than three million taels a year, and it is really cheap to raise them like this, so let's wait for us to accept the assessment later, and then assess it according to the navy drill code, and all those who fail to pass will get out." Let Wen Shude, who took refuge in the Golden Ou Ship earlier, do it, and it can just let him take revenge. ”

Yang Rui obviously didn't want to settle things, Wen Shude was from Shandong, and he was rejected by the Fujian Gang, so he went to the assessment, and if he didn't meet the requirements, he would be dismissed immediately, and he would immediately mutiny. However, no one else knew what was going on, and just let this matter go if it was a normal procedure like the Army.

Yang Rui didn't want to talk more about the navy, since he talked about taxes, he followed the information in the notebook to talk about the government's expenditure. "The expenditure is mainly administrative, military, foreign debt, customs bureau, foreign affairs, river engineering, education, and official business, and the administrative is set at 100 million taels; According to the salary of the Renaissance Army, although 50 field divisions will be organized and trained, the 29 million taels of the old army should not be paid in full, and the 6 million taels of flag salaries can be abolished, and with the addition of the original 5,680,000 taels of the navy and 10 million taels of submarine troops, the annual military expenditure will be set at 98 million taels, which is 10 million taels more than the military expenditure of the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty. The external debt, which will be paid next year, is 51,170,000 ......."

When he said this, everyone sighed, if the fiscal revenue did not increase, then the foreign debt of more than 50 million would actually account for one-sixth of the entire fiscal revenue, and according to the previous figures, everyone also knows that this is not a matter of one year or two years, but something that happens every year, for example, the Gengzi indemnity will be repaid until 1939. However, their sigh did not make Yang Rui pause at all, he has seen a lot of compensation figures in the past few years, and he has long been numb.

“…… The customs bureau is also the customs permanent customs, at 5.83 million taels; Because diplomacy did not have a detailed calculation, it was set at 5 million taels with reference to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's more than 3.1 million taels; The budget of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was four million taels, and now we have not done a comprehensive survey of the rivers in the country, so we can only set it at ten million taels first; Education, because the current number of teachers has not yet reached the scale of 300,000 we want, so we can only refer to the 12 million taels set by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, plus the 6 million taels of the Education Association, and throw it up to 20 million taels; Together, this amount is more than 228.8 million. There is still Zhu Kuanji's money here that has not been counted, except for these, 580 million taels can be left, and the remaining 300 million taels are all industrial investments, except for a small part used for technology research and development. ”

Yang Rui finally finished reading a lot of numbers, and then said: "The tax of 580 million yuan, even if there is a peasant association, it will take three years to achieve, this year because of the turmoil caused by the revolution, and it is in July, it is estimated that only one to two hundred million taxes can be collected, to meet the expenses of this year and next year, we can only rely on our own funds, the interception of corrupt officials, and the bonds of overseas Chinese, but it is certain that even if foreigners do not borrow, we ourselves can survive until next year's tax time."

It is now estimated that it will take three years to complete the inventory of the acres of land, the consolidation of all the salt fields into the China Salt Industry Corporation, the establishment of rural supply and marketing cooperatives, and the monopoly system, and it is judged that the tax revenue in 12 years will be about 400 million yuan. It can reach 500 million in 13 years, and it will take 14 years to get on the right track. In this way, it is necessary to have a good industrial foundation before the war in Europe. We're still going to borrow from outside, preferably one to two hundred million dollars next year, and then invest it in industry. In 13 years, the tax revenue is 500 million, then we can invest 200 million yuan in industry, in addition to industry, there are some raw materials, such as special steel, nickel for making guns...... These strategic resources to be imported must be hoarded now. ”

Yang Rui was thinking about how to improve and strengthen China's industrial system before World War I. If history hadn't changed. Then China has only five years to prepare, and it will take 16 or 17 years when Europe has no dead people and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat, and the price increase caused by the war can be the highest. In addition to the 500 million war expenses for the war against Japan. With the addition of borrowing, it is estimated that the funds that can be invested in industry before 14 years are only about 400 million to 500 million taels, and at most will not exceed 600 million. But if you can't borrow foreign debt, it will only be 300 million taels at most.

"It did. How much does Zhu Kuanfu cost? "Nobody asks about industrial investment. Zhong Guanguan asked about Zhu Kuanji's cost, is this important?

"Give him 400,000 taels a year, and spend 3,600,000 taels in his name, adding up to 4,000,000 taels." Yang Rui said very indifferently, what he wanted to discuss with everyone now was industrial construction, not Zhu Kuanji.

400,000 taels is not much, after all, the Forbidden City is so big, and there are so many people of all kinds of sects. The entire four million taels of Yang Rui is based on the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the future. Zhong Guan said: "What does it mean to spend three million and six thousand taels in his name?" ”

"That's it...... For example, students in the school are given three sets of clothes a year. In the name of Zhu Kuanji, a set was issued, so that these students would know that they were favored by the emperor and that they would be loyal to the country when they grew up. Yang Rui was incoherent, and denied: "I don't play well in this analogy, in fact, those who still believe in the emperor always have to give them a little benefit, such as setting up a memorial arch in their hometown after being knighted." We have two kinds of control against the people: those who are literate and rational and understand what the country is, and they preach patriotism; If you are illiterate and only know the emperor, then preach loyalty to the monarch, this can be regarded as one country, two systems. Zhu Kuansu's right to speak is also in our hands, so the two are not contradictory. ”

Yang Rui said it so bluntly that everyone nodded and let go of this question. Since this was something that had been agreed on before, there was no need to discuss it further. Diverging from Zhu Kuanji's annuity, Xu Huafeng finally said: "Actually, what are you going to do with these 400 million taels?" ”

Taking out the text that had been prepared a long time ago, Yang Rui said: "I am ready to launch 56 projects, including five coal, one oil, two electric power, one cement, two steel, six non-ferrous metals, eight chemicals, nine machinery, two medicine, one aviation, four light industry, two medicine, two electronics, six military industry, two ships, and three railways, a total of 56 projects." ”

"So much?" Xu Huafeng was also taken aback when he heard that there were fifty-six items, but he was thinking about where there were 400 million taels, that is, he began to twist his beard, and after a while, he said: "Now you can still buy a machine abroad, but in addition to the machine, there must be people, technology, and the most important thing is the place, it will be successful, do you plan to build these projects in Tonghua or Shanghai?" ”

"Ships and light industries are located in Shanghai or coastal areas near the river, and non-ferrous metal mines can only be placed in various mining areas, but most of the other projects will be located in Shanxi." Yang Rui closed his notebook and said.

"Shanxi?" Everyone thought that Yang Rui would be placed in Tonghua, but they didn't expect it to be in Shanxi.

"Hmm. Shanxi is better than Shenyang. Yang Rui doesn't want to be called Fengtian anymore, "Shanxi has more coal and more iron, in short, there are more mines, and after the Shanxi ticket number has been hit by us, it will be very honest and will not come out to make trouble, and then there are two railways in Jinghan and Zhengtai that are ready-made - but we had better take back these two roads." In the past two or three years, the Education Association has already focused its investment on Shanxi, and there are already 30,000 or 40,000 high school students, as well as many college students and international students, and these are the technical talents in the future. And when we build the factory, we will invite foreigners to come with high salaries, sign five-year contracts, and when our college students and high school students are qualified, they can leave. ”

"I'm afraid that the foreigners invited are not good." Xu Hua sealed. Yang Rui's approach Xu Huafeng couldn't find anything wrong, he was also thinking about where to put the industrial base, there is only transportation and talent in Shanghai, but it is not appropriate to have no resources, and Tonghua, which is too close to Japan and Russia, is now worried about the tractor factory and steel factory there, but he didn't expect Yang Rui to choose the industrial base in Shanxi.

"That's no problem. From now on, the MIA and the commercial intelligence agencies will be looking for relevant talent. Our people are recruiting abroad, and we can verify the real situation of this person according to the information provided by the applicant, and we will test it personally. Anyway, it won't be the same as before, because the information is not smooth, the steward doesn't understand, and in the end the money is spent, and the people invited will only eat together. Yang Rui was very sure. There is also some technical accumulation that has been done in the real yàn room, and there is no foreigner to teach, we estimate that we can also touch it, but it will take more time and silver, and the foreigner is just a block. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui had thought about it, Xu Huafeng glanced at everyone who was listening, and said with a smile: "Chengdu has planned it, then I will go as planned." I'm just worried about whether my old man will be able to do a good job in the next fifty-six projects, and if he delays things, it will be a misguided country and a misguided person. ”

"Mr. Huafeng, 56 projects sound like a lot, but the most urgent ones are chemical, steel, pharmaceutical, military, shipbuilding, railway, and then there are bearing, boiler, textile machinery, these factories are more important, and the others must not be built within five years. The most important thing is the twenty-seven, and many of these are technical reserves, and what we have to do is nothing more than industrialization or expansion. Yang Rui handed the details of the fifty-six projects to Xu Huafeng, Wang Jitong, Zhong Guanguan and others, so that they could have a number in their hearts, and they could give feedback in time if they had any problems.

Taking advantage of everyone's efforts to watch the article, Yang Rui drank tea, and the problem of the IRS led to the problem of fiscal revenue and expenditure, which was talked about for a long time. In addition, there are two issues: dealing with the Manchu corrupt officials and gentry, and commending the martyrs and meritorious personnel, not to mention the latter, but to say that the previous one is very troublesome to deal with the Manchu corrupt officials and gentry, especially the land reform plan for the gentry is estimated to be discussed for several days. Yang Rui wanted to forcibly expropriate it, and then give some symbolic compensation, while Yu Zixun estimated that he would choose to redeem it, and let the tenants spend twenty or thirty years to buy the cultivated land back.

Their methods are okay in normal times, but under the urgency of time, Yang Rui must let the tenants get the benefits in a short time. Only then can the members of the peasant association be motivated, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they will help the government to check the acres of land and assist in tax collection; If they were to be redeemed, their burden would be increased in a short time, so how could the superiority of the revolution be manifested?

When Yang Rui was thinking about the land reform plan, several people were reading the text. Yu Zixun is not an expert, he only saw the aircraft factory in the military industry, and was surprised: "We can also run an aircraft factory?" ”

Before Yang Rui could answer, Zhong Guanguan said: "In addition to the diesel engine room in Germany, there is also a gasoline engine room, and now the gasoline engine technology is very mature, and it is ......" He glanced at Yang Rui and smiled: "There is actually a reality, nothing is done." ”

Zhong Guan was talking about the gasoline engine, and seeing him pull the topic to himself, Yang Rui said, "What's wrong?" Is the star engine made? ”

In the early days, the engine horsepower was small, so the aircraft chose the liquid-cooled V-engine, because the windward area was small and the drag was small, but the V-star engine had a bulky cooling system and a very low thrust-to-weight ratio, and now the power is only less than 50 horsepower. Yang Rui, who has read World War II novels, has been brainwashed into only liking air-cooled star engines and not liquid-cooled V-engines. Therefore, Yang Rui asked the real yàn room to register the star engine patent in various countries, and also required it to successfully research the star air-cooled engine within ten years.

Yang Rui forgot how many planes participated in World War I, but remembered that it was calculated in 10,000. In addition to the production of automobiles, gasoline engines can also produce airplanes, but the price of the aircraft is nearly 10,000 dollars, and the car Ford's Model T can be under 500 dollars according to history. Yang Rui thought so, but the designers in the real room were even more bold, holding an engine with only fifty horsepower, and actually wanted to build a twin-engine aircraft, if they really let them be, it would not only increase the power, but also install a machine gun in the nose, so that the shooting co-organizer would be completely invalid, and the most important thing was that the demand for aircraft engines doubled, and the market was nearly doubled. This...... What a profiteer! (To be continued......)