Chapter 224 Liquidation of the remnants

In the conference room of Fengtian Shenyang Jinyinku Hutong, Zhao Dongyun and many people sat together. This long financial meeting has been held for more than three hours. The participants of the meeting were from Zhao Dongyun, Xiong Xiling and Zhao Dongping at the beginning. However, as the meeting progressed and the topic deepened, more departments The person in charge was called into the conference room, and unconsciously, this small-scale interview has become the largest financial meeting in months.

Zhao Dongyun looked at the report in his hand, looked at the many data in it, and then frowned again and again: "Why is there so little land missing? As far as I know, there are a lot of imperial villas, paddocks, nobles and flag fields in our three eastern provinces. How can we have lost less than 3 million mu?"

Chen Zhenxian of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau immediately explained: "Although there are many imperial estates, paddocks and aristocratic fields in the pre-Qing Dynasty, most of them have been taken out in the development of the past decades. Although the rest have not been developed, most of them were also included in the official fields in the pre-Qing Dynasty. As for the flag field, most of the land that ordinary flag people rely on to support their families, which was also allocated one by one in the early years, and it is impossible to confiscate too much, so the main object of this time is still some of the guilty dignitaries who were raided by Qianqing!"

Although there are a large number of imperial lands, paddocks, flag fields and so on in the three eastern provinces, especially Fengtian Province, these lands cannot be completely confiscated. Among them, there is no ' confiscation' of royal fields, paddocks and so on, because these lands only nominally belong to the royal family, and in fact they have always been Guan Tian is dealing with it. This is originally in the hands of the government. How can it be confiscated?

And the so-called Qitian can be generally understood in the three contemporary eastern provinces: Qitian is the land of the Manchu people, and the land of the people is the Han people. In fact, there is no essential difference between the two. Even if Zhao Dongyun liquidates the remnants of the Qing Dynasty, he cannot directly take away the land on which ordinary flag people rely for their survival. Land.

So only those lands that can really be confiscated are those of the nobles of the Qing Dynasty!

Wang Yingkai is playing house raiding in Beijing, and Zhao Dongyun is not idle in the three eastern provinces. He also plays house raiding!

The assets of hundreds of Manchu nobles who were publicly convicted in the three provinces were confiscated, such as the shares of the famous Yiqi family in Fuyuan Machinery Factory, an oil factory invested in Huludao, um, and 200,000 taels of silver deposit in Fengtianguan Silver and a large amount of land in the three eastern provinces. All of them were confiscated.

There are not many so-called Manqin nobles in the three eastern provinces. Only some Manchu officials can barely be called nobles. They also have no sympathy for Zhao Dongyun. Basically, they can liquidate and liquidate as much as they can!

In the confiscation action, real estate, floating wealth, etc. are naturally managed by the Finance Bureau, while the land is managed by the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau. These newly confiscated land will be turned into official fields and then used for reclamation together with other official fields.

The financial meeting that originally started to solve military spending has completely changed!

Chen Zhenxian of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau continued: "According to the plan of our Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, this batch of land is all cooked land, and it was originally cultivated by small households, so our opinion is to let the existing small households buy these lands first in order to reduce their pressure. , you can take the method of crop installment payment! It is expected that the first batch can get about 2 million taels!"

These confiscated mature fields are different from the official reclamation. The official reclamation is all wasteland. The land ceded to immigrants is extremely cheap. A mu of land is less than a few cents of silver, and more than one, two or five cents. However, in the case of ripe land, that is, the price of ripe land after reclamation is higher.

These officials of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau are not all good people. Naturally, they will not give these newly copied land to those farmers for nothing. Instead, they have formulated a slightly lower price than the market price for the original small households to buy first, just to relieve the pressure of farmers and allow installments in installments, and they can be directly. Pay the harvested crops as land prices.

Of course, the price of these lands is still extremely low in the national environment!

The three eastern provinces are now sparsely populated, but there are not enough people to open up wasteland and cultivate. From last year to now, although the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau has been in charge of many affairs related to land, forestry and even fisheries, in fact, the focus of its work has always been on reclamation, only sent by the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau to Zhili and Shandong. As well as more than 30 immigration reclamation stations in Henan Province, almost every month, a large number of landless farmers in the customs are organized to drag their families, and even the whole family and the whole village migrate to the northeast.

However, Zhao Dongyun has no intention to pay attention to the reclamation work at today's meeting. In the past two days, he has paid attention to one word: money!

As for future development and so on, we can talk about it later. Now we have to get out a lot of military and administrative expenses at the beginning of next year and summer. Otherwise, if we wait for the army's small treasury to be spent in two months, then don't talk about hegemony. The army below may change.

You don't even pay soldiers. How can you let them support their families? If you don't let them support your family, do you still expect him to help you carry guns and fight? There is nothing so good in the world!

The premise for the soldiers to shout 'Hurray the General' is that Zhao Dongyun will feed them to support their family!

So Zhao Dongyun didn't pay attention to Chen Zhenxian's later words and directly said, "When will the first two million will arrive?"

Chen Zhen first calculated the time before saying, "It won't be until late January!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded after hearing this. Well, it has been several hours of meeting, and there is finally good news. Now it is the end of December. If there are two million yuan for emergency money in more than half a month, at least the army's money in the past few months can barely cope with it!"

Then, he turned his head and looked at Xiling: "Among the many former powerful assets that have been copied, can the Finance Bureau now sort them out? How much can there be?"

Xiong Xiling's expression is not as relaxed as Chen Zhenxian. In the past three hours of this meeting, his expression has not come down. Hearing Zhao Dongyun's question, he replied, "The copying has begun since October. In the past two months, we have confiscated a batch of fixed assets and some cash, as well as houses and ancient Play, calligraphy, painting and other property, because it is difficult to estimate the value of some of these property, so we only count fixed assets and cash at present!"

"In the past two months, the Finance Bureau has collected a total of cash, company shares, bonds, etc., with a total value of 5.5 million taels. Among them, the cash that can be immediately misappropriated is 3.2 million taels of silver. This part of the cash has been allocated to the Ordnance Department of the headquarters for the purchase of ordnance. The remaining 1.2 million taels of silver has been allocated 300,000 taels of silver to Tangshan, Chengde and other Guannei places, allocated to the newly established Fengtian Vocational Normal University, and the new six 400,000 taels of education funds for primary schools and selected international students to study in Japan, Germany and the United States, 200,000 yuan was used to increase shares in Fengtian Bank, and the remaining 300,000 yuan was used to pay the salaries of officials from three provinces last month.

Xiong Xiling's mouth was millions of silver. Everyone began to wonder why the financial bureau was rich. Why did he cry poor every day? However, when he heard Xiong Xiling's mouthful that the cost of several places would add up to a dime of more than 3 million yuan, they all scolded: prodigal son, Do you spend so much money? More than 3 million, only two months have been spent by you..."

Zhao Dongyun listened to Xiong Xiling's words about these numbers, which was also a painful face. He knew that Xiong Xiling was only talking about these extra expenses. In fact, the Finance Bureau spent more than three million yuan this year.

This year, the fiscal revenue of about 20 million taels in Fengtian Province was basically spent by Xiling. Before the outbreak of the war, the situation was good. Xiong Xiling had enough money to spend, but after the outbreak of the war, the military expenditure rose sharply, and the more than 8 million military expenditure outside the budget crushed Fengtian's finances. .

Fortunately, Xiling's financial management ability is not weak. Through many methods such as tearing down the east wall and making up for the west wall, he has resisted the gap of 8 million through various means, and it has barely supported it until now that it will not be completely bankrupt!

However, Xiling is not a fairy, but he can't generate money out of thin air. He has so much money on hand, but his expenses are far more than his income. He has no good way. He can only rely on the entire Soviet military and political team to open source and save money together.

This cost-saving is unlikely. There are not many funds such as administration and education, and no matter how much they are compressed. As for the compression of military expenditure, it can be pressed out a large part, but the reduction of military expenditure represents disarmament. Not to mention that the military generals do not agree with this matter, Zhao Dongyun will not agree.

If this military expenditure is not compressed, but continues to increase, then the only way is to continue to open source!

What about those fixed assets and other bonds? How long will it take to sell one by one and how much can be freed up? Zhao Dongyun continued to ask.

Xiong Xiling said: "The majority of these fixed assets are shares and bonds in some companies, with a total value of about two million! Among them, the shares of Fuyuan Machinery Factory have been inquired by many enterprises, ticket numbers and banks, but the shares of the factory are high-quality shares. Many colleagues of the Finance Bureau think it is better to continue to hold these shares in order to obtain considerable dividends!

Most of the other enterprises are also in a good situation, and I'm afraid it will be a lot of losses to sell directly!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "If these shares can be sold, they will be sold. What should I do in my hand!"

Speaking of this, he looked at Xiling again, then looked at Zhou Ziqi, Zhao E, Deng Jiazhen and others, and said earnestly, "For more than a year, I have seen your work, but I have also found some problems. You have regarded governance as a job. Business, you should know that you are in charge of the finance, industry and commerce, agriculture and forestry of the whole eastern three provinces. What you need to pay attention to is the welfare of tens of millions of people. Don't worry about the trifles of owning some shares in some enterprises and how much dividends you will get.

At this point, he stressed again: "You are officials, not businessmen!"