The choice between the national monarchy and the people's constitution, the election of the cabinet between the cabinet of government and the president, the election of the cabinet between the integration of the government structure and the separation of the government, the election of one party between the two parties and the multi-party of the political party system, and the election of the right of election between the democratic and centralized power of the party. In this way, the power of the entire country is in the hands of Yang Rui, although there is a parliament, but it is just a decoration, although there is a court governor's office, but it is only the supervision of the party, who to arrest and who not to arrest, in the end it depends on Yang Rui's opinion. This is not an imperial state, but it is better than an imperial country, not an emperor, better than an emperor.

Wang Jitong wanted to choose the monarchy and constitution in the national system, so that no matter how powerful the revival is, as long as the opportunity is right, the change of the ruling party is just a holy decree, because the root of the legitimacy of power lies in the imperial power. However, in the choice of the Constitution, the root of state power lies in the National Assembly, and the National Assembly is controlled by the Congress of the Renaissance Society, so the ultimate power is still in the centralized Renaissance Society. He opposes the one-party dictatorship of the Renaissance Society, but does not oppose Yang Rui's lifelong rule, which seems to solve the problem very well, but in fact it is just a pie.

"Xiao Xu, you said that I will not be a person at that time, but a group of people, if my decision does not represent the interests of most of the people below, then they will not support it; And what about your side? Are you just a human being? Do you agree that I will hold military power for the rest of my life, and he agrees? And in the future, those who fantasize about being in power and being an official like the two of you will agree? "Yang Rui uses the spear of the son and the shield of the attacker, "Now that the country is building, what we want is to work together, not the time to engage in political party and government, especially now that the upper and lower levels of the country are completely separated, Liang Qichao and Sun Wen are those cowhide kings." How do they know the suffering of the people below, and what the people know about the one-party system and two-party system, and who they care about can feed themselves. The three rules of politics and economy and culture complement each other. Only when the economy develops to a certain level and the culture accumulates to a certain level, will the political system change. Now we are thinking about changing the political system, which is to panic when we are full. ”

"Now everyone can't eat, but it's done, you say, how many years will it take for everyone to be full?" Wang Ji is the same way. "That is, you and I will be able to solve these problems while we are alive. If we feed them, then they will naturally choose us to govern, and wait until the economy and culture you are talking about have developed. Then the one-party system will no longer be the help of the state, but the shackles of the state. Indeed, revival will arise from you, and the country will rise from you. Zhu Yuanzhang of the former Ming Dynasty only expelled the Tartars. Now you not only expelled the Tartars, but also led the entire nation to rise from the lowest point, so that the whole country from the destruction of the country to the revival of the species, such a feat is simply to recreate China. What else do you have to be afraid of? What exactly are you worried about? ”

An honest person is not afraid of sycophants, but an honest man's sycophants make Yang Rui's whole body indescribably comfortable with tens of thousands of pores, he really couldn't help it, and suddenly laughed. The-for-tat atmosphere in the room became soothing for a while.

Seeing Yang Rui smile. Wang Jitong said again: "It's done, as long as you don't have a one-party system." I can not participate in politics, and I will also convince Zixun to support you. ”

"Then what are you going to do if you don't participate in politics?" The two people in the room sat down, and the tea that they hadn't drunk before was already warm, Yang Rui took a sip and asked curiously, "Also, what does Zixun think, he wants that position?" ”

"I, when Xianfeng persuaded me to make a revolution, I had the idea of retiring. Now that the revolution is finally going to succeed, as long as you don't engage in any one-party system, after a few decades, there will not be so much trouble in the future, and whether the revival will be corrupt or not, I have nothing to worry about, I just want to go abroad to study abroad, learn mathematics, and then ...... Wait until you're old before becoming a monk. Wang Jitong also drank tea. Talking to Yang Rui. As for Zixun, he studied abroad while revolutionizing, and now he can be regarded as a graduate. He wanted to go to the Tingwei Mansion, but he was afraid that he was too young, so he wanted to go to the Inspectorate, and he had no interest in administration anyway. ”

Many members of the Revival Society are planning to retire successfully, especially the older members in the early days, and Liu Boyuan estimates that more than one-tenth of its members are preparing to leave politics or the military after the success of the revolution. Wang Jitong said this, Yang Rui was not surprised, and Yu Zixun's plan was also within his guess, young people always believe that there is justice in the world and believe that human nature is good, so they will believe in the supremacy of the rule of law.

"Zixun's temperament is too jumpy, I don't feel at ease." Yang Rui put down the teacup and said, "Did you make the matter of Zhu Kuanji, or did he make it?" Hehe, you do this, but you also find a way to make money for the country. ”

"I guess I got it with Zixun." Wang Ji is the same way. "He is not very calm, but his mind is good. If you are reasonable, then he will definitely defend you regardless of your position, and if you are unreasonable, then even if you have the same position, he will oppose you. He often said that he was not suitable for forming a gang or sitting in a room to work, and what he wanted most was to be a lone ranger and go around to eliminate harm for the people. ”

"He's a legend of the American West, so I've heard too many stories." Yang Rui said with a smile. He understood that these people at the top of the Fuxing Association still have private virtues, and they will ask their conscience when doing things, and this is a political party that has not experienced a lot of ups and downs, which is not good for the revolution, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to Sun Wen, or even Kang Youwei, but it is beneficial to governing the country. At least they will not ignore the people's livelihood and only seek political achievements, no matter what they do or do, they will not do too much.

"Perhaps, he didn't understand the cruelty of the revolution yet." Yang Rui sighed, and then said, "There is no problem for him to go to the Inspectorate, but he must abide by the discipline within the association, some corrupt officials can be arrested, and some corrupt officials cannot be arrested." There is no distinction between right and wrong, if he still uses black and white to see the world, then something will happen sooner or later. ”

"It's not good to have too many corrupt officials, and if you don't catch them, you won't be angry." Wang Jitong added.

"That's the truth. In fact, I think there is only one purpose in governing the country and arresting corrupt officials, that is, new officials take office to vent the anger of the people, and other than that, it has no effect. Yang Rui said, "The real most terrible thing is that there are two kinds of officials, one is not greedy and only eats, does nothing, does not offend up and down, and lives in a muddy way. The other is that it seems to be for the country and the people, and it is doing special things. In fact, the things that come out are not practical and good-looking, and they cost people and money. It is a disaster for a hundred years, but in the end, because such a person is not greedy, he will say that he is a clean official, which is really angry! ”

"You're talking about Zhang Zhidong." Wang Jitong doesn't mind Yang Rui pulling the topic away, he has been getting along for many years, and he knows that it is better to talk about things with Yang Rui than to be soft. It is better to be soft than hard and then soft, so the effect is the best. So he is now happy to chat with Yang Rui, and go back to the room to sleep at the end. Didn't talk about business anymore.

Wang Jitong's persuasion seems to have some effect, and in the meeting in the next few days, Yang Rui has loosened the one-party system a little, and he has been thinking about this issue in the past few days. Is it really necessary to define one-party dictatorship in plain language? For him. The one-party system seems to be ineffective.

As for everyone's opinions, Zhang Taiyan believes that it cannot be written, and if it is written, it will damage the justice of the Revival Society, and with the current advantages of the Revival Association, it can completely crush other participating political parties, as long as the agriculture and industry are in their hands, no matter how much the leading power of the Congress is tossed, it will be the Renaissance Society;

Chung Kwun also thinks that there is no need to write because no one else can shake the foundation of the Revival Society. The only thing they can question is nothing more than the appointment of the prime minister. Like Sun Wen and the like, he will definitely require that the prime minister's term of office should not exceed two terms. These can be ignored, the public is really against it, Yang Rui has done it in the previous two terms, and he can change it to other people sitting here. When Zhong Guanguan said this, he strongly pushed Xu Huafeng, Zhang Taiyan and Xie Jintai to take over, but he said that he was not in good health and wanted to retire successfully.

Zhong Guanguan's suggestion made the topic crooked, from discussing the one-party system to the position arrangement. Xu Huafeng doesn't want to be a prime minister, he just wants to be in charge of the Ministry of Industry, and he only wants to be in the Ministry of Industry all his life, so that everyone doesn't push themselves up the fire pit; Zhang Taiyan wants the Ministry of Rites, because Cai Yuanpei wants to come out, and the Ministry of Rites will give him a division, and this department will be in charge of him, and the Ministry of Rites will become the nature of the Ministry of Culture. Wang Jitong also wants to retire successfully, while Yu Zixun only wants to deal with the law for the rest of his life, first in the Inspectorate, and finally in charge of the Tingwei Mansion; The last is Xie Zhangtai, he is considered to have joined the club halfway, and everyone wants to compare with each other, but he only said that he can go to Honglu Temple now, and then look at the arrangements in the meeting, he meant to be euphemistic, but Yang Rui still felt that he wanted to win the championship.

In addition to the three issues of foreign strategy, the one-party system, and the arrangement of posts, there is also the National Taxation Bureau, which has also focused on the three issues of dealing with Manchurians, corrupt officials, and gentry, and rewarding martyrs and meritorious personnel.

Taxation was the foundation of the state's functioning, and corruption in the Manchu Qing Dynasty made the entire tax system inefficient. For example, in Taiwan, before the defeat and cession of the First Sino-Japanese War, the tax paid by the whole of Taiwan was only 80,000 taels, but after the Japanese occupied Taiwan, they did not change the tax system and tax rate, and the tax collected was actually 2.9 million taels, an increase of more than 300 times. When Yang Rui first read the report, he thought that the people below had made a mistake, but the result of the questioning was indeed the case, and there was even a more strict fact that because the Manchu Qing Dynasty generally had a tax system for gentry and officials, before the Japanese came, the tax burden paid by the people below exceeded three million taels. Except for a small part of the more than 3 million taels that were embezzled by Manchu officials in Taiwan, the rest was all in the pockets of the tax gentry. This is really the collusion of officials and gentry, entrapping the country and harming the people!

Therefore, Yang Rui hopes that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he will completely draw on the US tax system, have a special tax force, a special tax court, and a tax collection organization that is particularly capable of fighting, collecting, intimidating, and digging into the ground. At this day's meeting, Yang Rui said these four specials, and everyone laughed. Yu Zixun added a joke after the effect, "There was a strong man who squeezed a lemon dry, and after he finished squeezing it, he said to the crowd: Whoever can squeeze out another drop, I will give him a dollar, and then a dry old man came out of the crowd, and stretched out his hand to squeeze out a small half cup." The strong man couldn't help but admire, and asked the old man what he did, and the dry old man smiled and said: I worked in the IRS before retirement. ”

After Yu Zixun finished the joke, the meeting was even more chaotic, and it was only after a cup of tea that the room calmed down. Zhong Guanshang asked breathlessly: "Actually, who are you going to hand over to the IRS?" This is simply a yamen that offends the dead, and who are the people in it? If you say that, who wants to go on an errand with the IRS? ”

Yang Rui also just finished laughing, and said when he heard this: "Director of the National Taxation Bureau, I am going to let Tao Huanqing go, he is a person who worries about the country and the people, and he will definitely be able to do things well." As for the staff, there should be two kinds of people, one is the corrupt Manchu officials and tax collectors who have been punished, they are originally tax collectors and know how to collect taxes, and the other is the members of the Revival Association who have lofty ideals and can be strict with themselves for the future of the country and the nation. Ignore the face and ignore the selfish interests to raise taxes. ”

Hearing Yang Rui's name of Tao Chengzhang, everyone present was happy. This person can endure hardships and has ideals. It's even more intense. One of the things that impressed everyone the most was that when he went to Japan to study, he took the fourth class instead of the third class. What is 4th class? It is the dark coal bunker at the bottom of the shipyard, the place is black and dirty, and as long as the stingy Japan will sell this kind of ticket, Tao Chengzhang not only did not dislike it, but returned the third-class ticket in his hand, and entered the coal bunker with a cover. All the way to Japan. I had a good relationship with the boiler workers in those boiler rooms, and I had nothing to do to help them shovel coal, and in the end, I even saved money for food. The boilermakers also brought him one when they were cooking.

There are many people who can endure hardship in the Revival Society, but there are very few people who can endure it in this way before joining the Society. They are all talented and high-profile figures, and everything they do is to talk about dignity and face. Everyone in the third-class warehouse did not dare to sit. Not to mention the fourth-class cabin.

As soon as Yang Rui mentioned Tao Chengzhang, everyone stopped, and Wang Jitong said: "Huan Qing is capable of doing this, but his temperament is too intense, and it is still appropriate to have a milder match." Otherwise, I am afraid that he will be too soft in collecting taxes on the people, and I am afraid that he will be too hard in collecting taxes on the gentry and rich households. If he really encounters a gentry who evades taxes for the sake of the rich, he has a tax court in hand. Maybe he'll kill those people. ”

"Then you can add a rule, no matter how strict tax evasion is. Don't sentence you to death, if you really want to evade taxes and evade a lot, you can be fined. Yang Rui said, "Don't get me wrong, think that the IRS is like the cool officials in the past, but in fact, the IRS is not as terrible as we imagined." Poor people who don't have money or don't meet the minimum tax threshold will like the IRS and don't hate it, because the IRS does what it does. The poor love it, the rich fear it, but no matter how much the rich are afraid, they are just a pain in the flesh, and they don't really work hard. What we really have to worry about is whether the tax will be implemented after it is collected? Did it work? ”

Speaking of this, Yang Rui looked at Yu Zixun and said, "Isn't Zixun going to the Inspectorate, this is your future business." One collects money, the other uses money, and both places are the focus of the state. If you want to make the country strong, then you must have money, now sell bonds overseas, and then rectify the Manchurians, corrupt officials, and salt politics at home, all for money. In addition to using the law to ensure civil rights, the more important thing is to supervise officials not to use money indiscriminately, corruption is not terrible, money is still there, abuse is the most terrible, money only becomes a pile of useless dead things, and it takes a lot of money to clean up the aftermath. ”

"That's what you said, if you really want to set up such an IRS as you said, how much tax can you collect in a year?" Yu Zixun said.

"The major items of taxation are agricultural tax, salt tax, customs duties and fees, and official income. Agricultural taxation was originally the most important item, but last year, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's tax revenue exceeded 300 million taels, and the agricultural tax was only 50 million taels, accounting for only 17 percent. In the past, when the agricultural tax was only more than 20 million taels, Hurd of the customs said that India's annual agricultural tax was 100 million taels, but its cultivated land area was less than half of China's. He wasn't exactly right, but he meant it. According to our survey, the cultivated land in the country is about between 1.1 billion mu and 1.2 billion mu. The average yield per mu is 220 catties, the price of grain per 100 catties is 1.5 taels, the output value per mu is 3 taels, and the output value of the entire agriculture is between 3.3 billion taels and 3.6 billion taels.

Then there is the tax rate, in the past, all the agriculture-related land silver, grain, etc., added up, 200 wen per mu, at that time the price of silver was high, and the copper dollar did not depreciate, one tael to 1,600 wen, but at that time the price of grain was only one tael, and the output of one mu of land was only two taels, 200 wen divided by 3,600 wen, and the tax burden was 1 1 tax of 16 yuan, 5.5 percent; Now, although the output per mu is three taels, the silver and copper dollars have depreciated, and the copper has increased in value, one or two is 800 to 900 yuan, and the tax rate is about 12 taxes and 8.3 percent. In addition to these, there are also messy taxes, routine straw sandal money, etc., which add a lot of burden.

Our current strategy is to get rid of the excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and then to remove the tenants' rents, and set the tax rate at 12 taxes and 1 tax at 15 if the tax rate is higher, and at the lower tax rate is 15 taxes and 1 tax. According to the agricultural output value of 3.4 billion yuan, then the agricultural tax can theoretically receive 283 million taels, but in fact, it is more than 220 million taels at a discount of 20 million; If the tax is lighter, fifteen taxes one, then it is 180 million taels. From this point of view, the problem of setting the agricultural tax at 200 million taels is not a big problem. However, there are two prerequisites, one is land reform, and the other is the increase in officials. ”

Yang Rui didn't want to discuss the two prerequisites for realizing the agricultural tax, so after talking about the agricultural tax, he quickly cut into the salt tax. "The National Assembly did not list the annual salt tax separately, but only combined the salt and tea statistics, and last year the two items collected 46,310,000 taels, but according to our verification, the salt tax handed over to the household department last year was 20 million taels, the local government withheld 23 million taels, and the salt tax of the whole country was about 43 million taels. As for the amount of salt used, the sales volume of official salt recorded by figures is 27.26 million quintals, but the number of private salt is only more than that of official salt, that is, the annual sales of edible salt are about 60 million quintals.

The tax rate of salt tax, before the price increase of two wen per catty, only eight dollars of silver per citation, and now the repeated price increase has increased more than ten times, the tax rate of each citation is high in twelve or three taels, and the low is seven or eight taels, plus the exploitation of officials, the profits of salt merchants, and freight, inland provinces that do not produce salt, such as Yunnan, each load of salt should be sold for 16 taels to 20 taels, and the low ones such as Wuchang are also 78 taels and 1 taels, which is still not sold at a fraction of a price, and the price of selling is higher.

The most desirable thing for us to do now is to completely abolish the salt diversion system and implement a salt monopoly system. In this way, the annual sales of 200 million taels of salt, in addition to the production cost of 30 million taels, and about 30 million taels of freight, the other 140 million are taxes. This amount should also be discounted, and the amount that can be received should be more than 100 million taels.

Tariffs and centiths are in the hands of foreigners, and the tariff rate and sub-export tax are fixed at 5 percent and 2.5 percent, which is more than 30 million taels per year; But the centigold is in our possession, and now there are 440,000 taels of centigold a year. The tax rate is said to be 4 percent, but if it falls together, it is 8 percent, and if it exceeds a few checkpoints, some are even more than 20 percent. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, excluding imported goods, the annual long-distance domestic trade amount is about 1.8 billion taels, plus the 470 million taels of imports, at 5 percent, more than 110 million taels can be received, but the actual amount that can be collected is also about 100 million.

Last year, the income of the government-run railways was 46 million taels, 10 million taels for telecommunications, 10 million taels for the postal service, 18 million taels for banks and mines, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's internal affairs government.

All of the above adds up to 510 million taels, and according to the tax revenue of the Manchu Qing Dynasty last year, there are also 20 million taels of tea tax, 26 million taels of miscellaneous taxes, 35 million taels of miscellaneous revenue, more than 5 million taels of donations, and more than 3 million taels of public debt, making a total of 600 million taels. This is because it is necessary to reduce the excesses and miscellaneous taxes, that is, all kinds of chaotic donations, which will be reduced by about 20 million taels, and the final fiscal revenue will be more than 580 million yuan. ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's tax revenue last year was in the early 300 million taels, but when it came to Yang Rui, it doubled to 600 million taels, and the figures all had a reason, not an estimate out of thin air. 600 million taels, according to the previous budget of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the removal of the eight banners of the imperial family and other institutional expenses, the surplus money should be about 350 million taels.

Wang Jitong asked: "Will collecting so many agricultural taxes, salt taxes and centimen increase the burden on the people?" Can it be achieved? ”

Yang Rui said with a smile, "Although the Tian Fu handed over to the imperial court is only 50 million taels, the money handed over by the people below is two or three times that of this, and there are also related landlords and wealthy households who do not pay or pay less taxes at all." What the people paid, plus what they didn't pay, should be more than 200 million taels. If you really want to pay 200 million taels of taxes, the tenant farmers must be better off than before because they don't want so much land rent; Homesteaders are also better off than before because of the abolition of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes; In addition, the rural credit cooperatives stabilized the interest rate, the rural supply and marketing cooperatives stabilized the grain price, and the tenant farmers and yeoman farmers were completely benefited. The real sufferers are those landlords and gentry, these bastards do not pay taxes and still eat taxes, and now they have divided their fields and cut off their financial routes, and they must fight with us when the time comes. (To be continued......)