Chapter 244 Step 1

The midsummer of Yanhuang 4602 seems to be an eventful summer.

In just 83 days, the provinces of the country have been restored one after another. Except for the northeast and Mongolia, the rivers and mountains have recovered, and the prestige of the Han family seems to have recovered in an instant. Anyone who is a little rational in the jubilation of the people knows that for the ruling axe, the real challenge is just the beginning.

The miraculously restoration has brought too many negative problems. On the one hand, in order to maintain the stability of the country and achieve a steady transition from colonial regime to national regime, almost all the local officials of the Qing Dynasty of the "insurrection", except for the flag people, remained in their old positions, and the judiciary and taxation followed the old law. On the other hand, the implementation of the new policy and the implementation of new learning are also the top priorities of the ruling axe. Although the ruling axe has sent tens of thousands of officials to take office in various places, compared with China, tens of thousands of officials are far from meeting the needs of the whole country, and new education also faces various problems.

"A castle on the beach!"

Despite the fact that the restoration army has entered the provinces, Western observers still use this sentence to describe the construction of the Nanjing regime. The nationalized central government, local officials of the old dynasties, young and good and bad grassroots officials, perhaps as they described, the foundation of the ruling axe is not solid, and some people even doubt that without the role of the restoration army, perhaps China would have fallen into civil strife after the restoration.

But even the situation in the restoration army is not optimistic. Since the appearance of this army in front of the world, the internal rectification has never stopped. A large number of non-party officers and members have been tried by military courts for touching the military law, expelled from the military or sent to prison, or sentenced to death.

The army is the root of the power of the ruling axe. But for the ruling axe, power comes from the army, but the stability and future of power come from outside the army - taxes, and the officials sent by the ruling axe to various places focus on finance and taxation, education, education, and justice. Controlling the tax source controls everything. This is the most powerful measure to build a castle on this scattered sand. Sometimes money is more powerful than guns.

After entering August, the Advisory Office of the ruling axe successively held a consultation council of national concern - the 4602 National Finance and Tax Conference of the Advisory Council. The whole meeting was full of twists and turns, and it was not so smooth, but in the end, it basically completed the predetermined agenda, imitating European and American countries, especially for reference. This tax system establishes a new tax system.

A series of new institutions such as the IRS and the tax police have been established one after another. Despite the ups and turns, although there is a lot of ups and turns, the new tax is still expected by the outside world. As a precursor to the implementation of the new tax, the numerous harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the autumn of rural areas have been banned, and then the harsh taxes on industrial and commercial people have also been banned, leaving only The regular tax stipulated in the Provisional Order of Income Tax and the Interim Order of Legal Person Tax.

After the ruling axe bears a loss of more than 30 million yuan a year and bans excessive taxes, the world's attention to the new tax system has turned to another focus - the gold system, which is the focus of the outside world's attention. At the fiscal and taxation meeting, it is discussed and formulated various new tax laws and regulations, which can be the final implementation of tax orders. However, it is necessary to rely on the ruling axe to sign the ruling axe as the basis.

When the ruling axe signed a number of new tax laws one after another, the ambiguity in the gold made the outside world curious and made the business people a little anxious. After all, for them, compared with harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, although the new tax system is simple, the tax amount and strength are far greater than the old system. In the past, tax evasion was just tax collection. After the fine, and now tax evasion, in addition to the recovery of taxes and the high fine of 20 times, there is also a strict personal penalty.

This is also the reason for the twists and turns in the tax system. After all, a considerable number of the advisory councilors in the consultation office are either themselves gentry or have a close contact with the business gentry. It is thanks to the fact that these people have not yet understood the duties of the advisory councilor, they were exone with Zhang Zhidong and others. Under the ** of gold, the new tax system was only passed.

The new tax system has been passed, and the ruling orders have been signed one by one, but there is no sign of banning. This really makes some people anxious. Only a few people know that the reason why it has not been banned is because of another reason.

"... Since the restoration of light, all local gold bureaus have sent officials to the affairs. At the same time, they have unified the gold tax rate and the business tax. Taking June as an example, only the seven provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian and Guangxi have paid more than 2460,000 taels! This month, there are as many as 4,915 million taels of classes nationwide!"

Chen Moran, who was smoking, listened to the number said by Guan Mingtang and couldn't help but be shocked.

"I remember that last year, all provinces received less than 12 million taels of gold in a year. According to this calculation, we have to charge 60 million taels a year! Why is this tax heavier than that of the full Qing Dynasty!"

At this time, Chen Moran was really scared. Looking at Guan Mingtang's eyes also changed slightly, the national finance and taxation were in charge. Although the tax increase was his own intention, he was too black-hearted!

"Governance, the tax of gold is not unified throughout the country, and the provinces set their own gold standards. All the rich and poor people from birth to death, saying that they use what they need are all in the list. Five miles, one card, ten miles one bureau, the income is divided into a certain amount of income to the central government, and a large part of it is freely disposed of by the local authorities. , showing that the feudal place divided the surname. The local income tax is not listed as official income, and a large part of it is full of local officials in disguise. In the officialdom of the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, it is said that "the state and county are absent for one year, which is not as good as the one year's difference". The salary is not much, and it is mainly due to erosion to get this huge amount of money. Now the ruling axe is unified. Although it is aggravated, it has saved the local confiscation. Officials fake public, and the bureau was exploited. Last year, the Qing Dynasty received more than 1 1.7 million taels of gold. It refers to the central government's collection, and the local interception is more than 20 million, and the corruption of officials is not lower than this number. The bureau exploitation is also far more than this number. Today, the four In addition, it is still less than 60 million, but it is actually an increase and decrease.

Guan Mingtang talked about it. Although he was not willing to ask for money, it was only the only way when the financial resources were tight.

"Although the gold is the largest tax source of the ruling axe at present, the disadvantages of the gold are far greater than its benefits, not to mention that it increases the economic burden on the people, and it seriously hinders the circulation of goods and inhibits the development of production. And it also affects our country's foreign trade,..."

Before Guan Mingtang finished speaking, Chen Moran waved his hand.

"It's not the time to ban gold. I'm not heartbroken. I'm not so short-sighted. I can't understand the drawbacks of gold. Didn't we include tax in the industry in the past? It affects the flow of goods, raises prices, and affects the competition of goods. Moreover, this amount of money only receives domestic merchants and foreigners. In fact, it is to help foreigners suppress domestic products. How can I not know?

Sip the tea, Chen Moran continued.

"This gold is full of grievances, but those foreign merchants and even consuls of various countries are also complaining. Although they can't collect their gold, it affects their commercial interests. Where did the foreign bank go? In the end, it is still the Chinese businessmen who sell foreign goods. Chinese businessmen naturally have to pay the gold. I have the disadvantages of the gold, and the merchants of various countries also have the disadvantages. After the new tax, the British consul has repeatedly tested the meaning of the ruling axe to the gold. For countries, they also need a healthy market environment. When he tested us, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should also test their attitude towards the agreed tariffs. The British answer is that if you want to raise taxes, you must first cut it, otherwise there is no way to talk about it.

"Governing, do you mean to use gold as a tool to force countries to agree to raise taxes?"

"It's tariff autonomy. Next year, if we want to renew the new contract with other countries and recover our rights and interests, we must start independently with tariffs. Without tariff protection, there can be no Chinese industry. It's time to completely abolish these five tariffs!"

"But countries may not agree!"

"The answer is to say that our railway negotiations are thrilling this time, but what about now? Isn't the right of the road still taken back?

At this time, Chen Moran showed some pride. With the harshness of resisting foreign goods and the harshness of the new road standards, the ruling axe successfully recovered the right of way without spending a s of a tael of silver. As for that standard, it was naturally temporarily put on hold. He had no intention of implementing the railway standard ahead of the world.

"Legion, for the great powers, the interests of the great powers in China are rigid, and they are not willing to give up the interests they get. From the perspective of the treaty system as a whole, the agreed tariff can be said to be the most important clause and the foundation of the economic policy of the great powers towards China. Moreover, the one-sided most-favored-nation treatment involves the interests of the great powers in China, and they can't lose both. Even if we are likely to break the barriers to the agreed tariffs, I'm afraid there is little hope to recover the tariffs in one fell swoop. Two years ago, Zhang and Liu also tried to negotiate and raise taxes with various countries, but the result was... "

Before Guan Mingtang finished his words, Chen Moran interrupted him.

"There is little hope, and we should do it. We should do everything possible to create conditions. For the Qing Dynasty, the implementation of the New Deal is a reform. For us, it is also a reform. Any reform must start with the economy and solve the problem of people's livelihood first. If we want to set a road map, we should first develop the economy and political reform. Without economic development, other political demands are fantasy, and human rights and social justice should come first in political reform. Compared with others, cooking for a certain period of time is a luxury, and for economic reform, tariffs can be said to be the top priority of economic development. Tariffs are involuntary, and everything is empty talk.

He shrugged his shoulders helplessly. Only in front of his old class can he express what he thought in his heart. Guan Mingtang is a person who does things. After staying in the United States for so many years, he has no slipperyness of the Chinese people on his body. He just has a mind to do things, and this is exactly where Chen Moran values him. There are too many people around him. Always spend time on how to be a person, not on doing things.

(to be continued)