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    The rhythm of Nanjing returned to calm, and the war atmosphere drifted away as the eight-article contract began to be implemented.  The sound of firecrackers can still be heard from time to time outside the window. Although the evacuation of Japanese troops and the exchange and redemption of prisoners of war are still in progress, and President Li Yuanhong has not announced the end of the war, it has not hindered the people who have learned the news.  Celebrate in advance.

    The work of the Republic of China government also shifted from war to post-war recovery. Although the war did not last long, it caused great damage to the north.  Millions of people were temporarily relocated, more than 20,000 citizens died in the war, almost destroyed cities such as Qingdao and Jinzhou, relief for victims in the severe winter, and distribution of grain seeds before resuming food production in the coming year, etc.

    War is always just an appearance. No matter how short the war is, the damage cannot be healed quickly. Yang Qiu, who was sitting on the sofa and listening to the report on the gains and losses of the war, was a little distracted.  With such huge losses in just a few months, one can only imagine what decades of civil war can do to the country.

    Since the military summary will not begin until all Japanese troops have withdrawn, the main report to the President and Prime Minister this time is the economic situation.  The several pages of documents in front of Finance Minister Zhang Wenjing are figures that have been calculated one after another. This 42-year-old secretary has reached the highest point of his political career. The financial situation of less income and more output in the past three years has made him breathless, but as time goes by,  After the war in Europe, we received several sky-high purchase contracts in succession, and we were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.  The number of seizures in this war made the Ministry of Finance smile even more. It almost made the Presidential Palace wear red flowers on the soldiers and award them with "Outstanding Contribution" medals.

    Numbers are exciting.

    Zhang Wenjing, a soldier who was born as a soldier and has been deeply imprinted with Yang Qiu, a minister who has always been known for his rigorous work, rarely showed a smile: "The seizures in Northeast China in the early stage were about 200 million yuan. Now the British, American, Russian and our troops are supervising the withdrawal of Japanese troops.  , although the riots occurred, gold and silver losses were relatively large, but the fixed assets basically remained. According to statistics, the total Japanese investment in Lushun and Dalian in the past ten years was about 400 million yen. Excluding the damage and taking away Fang Rui, it is estimated that it can still be  The remaining half. There was basically no Japanese investment in Shandong, but after Germany handed over Qingdao, it acquired several enterprises including the Jiaoji Railway and the shipyard, with a total amount of about 100 million. The remaining part was the Japanese concession. After the intervention of Britain and France, Japan was forced to  Due to the pressure, he had to abandon all his property, including 110 tons of gold and silver reserves and many factories. There were 57 factories of various types in the concessions of Hankou and Shanghai alone.

    We estimate that the total amount will be around 700 million after all the cleanup is completed!  "

    700 million!

    This number made many people here rub their hands.  Even Yang Qiu laughed.  We are all key members of this government and have a relatively good understanding of the country's financial situation.  Calculated in current RMB yuan, the total national tax revenue in 1911, the year of the change of power, was about 520 million yuan. In 2012, the figure was 580 million yuan.  In 2013, due to a small-scale explosion in the southwest, the growth suddenly exceeded 660 million. Although there are still a few days to end in 2014, the total national industrial, agricultural and commercial taxes in the first three quarters were the same as last year. This does not include resource prices.  The sharp increase in net income directly brought to the government is 100 million, and it is only a matter of time before it exceeds 900 million for the whole year.

    Zhang Taiyan, the impatient Minister of Education, was the first to jump up.  His face turned red: "Doesn't it mean that with this seizure, the total annual income will exceed 1.3 billion?!"

    Zhang Wenjing nodded vigorously.

    It¡¯s incredible!  Who would have thought that the country¡¯s income would more than triple in just three years!

    Tang Shaoyi was still relatively calm and said with a smile: "Don't be happy, Binglin. The rapid promotion of tax reform across the country has greatly reduced the losses in intermediate links. The main reason is the recent resource orders from Europe. The industrial and commercial taxation is Chenhua's credit, only  The total turnover of Chongqing, Hanyang and Shanghai in the first nine months each exceeded 100 million yuan, and the chemical and coal-based Changsha also reached 80 million yuan! They alone contributed 70 million yuan. This does not include the recent reception  Orders from Russia, Britain and France. If Europe stops fighting, it is estimated that there will be a sharp decline."

    "It doesn't matter whether he fights or not, the most important thing is to get it!" Zhang Taiyan said something crazy. After saying this, he immediately started to calculate how much funding the Ministry of Education could get this time and how many schools it could open.

    In fact, everyone here is excited.  One war brought more revenue to the government than all of last year.  Although most of them are fixed assets.  Railways, mines, etc. that are related to the national economy and people's livelihood must be temporarily nationalized.  But even if you leave these out, wait until other things are auctioned off to the market.  It can also have a net income of at least 400 million yuan.

    Zhang Wenjing was of course happier and continued: "Except for keeping one-third of the seized weapons and ammunition for the Korean guerrillas in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of National Defense, we have contacted Russia for the rest. The Russian minister is also very interested in these weapons and has already sent electricity  We have reported back to our country to discuss and prepare to buy them all for 20 million US dollars. In addition, France recently found out from somewhere that we have stockpiled millions of artillery shells over the past few years and asked if there are any excess that can be sold to them.Cai E, who happened to be meeting, glanced sideways at Yang Qiu.  The military reserve figures are highly confidential, and even the chiefs of staff often don't know them. What's more, the military confidentiality regulations established by this man are even more watertight.  France was able to obtain such accurate information, either because there was a traitor among the chief of staff, or because he deliberately told the French.

    Li Yuanhong¡¯s eyes turned into slits from laughter. Not to mention the hundreds of millions that Japan can acquire, the several large-scale resource orders from Europe alone generated a revenue of 100 million, not to mention Russia¡¯s taken advantage of!  Not long after exchanging the weapons that were supposed to be refurbished in a few years for 50 million, another 20 million was invested to buy the seizure, which directly gave the country 70 million in cash.  If the order worth 420 million US dollars is completed, the state's direct tax revenue will exceed 150 million.

    Lost territory was recovered, treaties were abrogated, and finances soared.  Each of these strokes is enough for him, the third interim president of the Republic of China, to leave his name in history!  Seeing that it was still unclear whether he would be able to maintain his position under the next term, he asked about the tariff negotiations with the United Kingdom.

    Tang Shaoyi understood what he was thinking. There will be a formal national election in March next year. No one knows whether Yang Qiu, who is currently the most vocal, will come to power on his own. Li Yuanhong is anxious to complete the tariff issue during his term. Naturally, it is even more urgent.  Glancing at Yang Qiu, who was silent, he said: "The UK has no intention of getting entangled in tariffs and recognition of our country's legal status. The most important thing now is that they want us to reaffirm our concession status and ensure that there will be no similar bill like last time.  In addition, they also hope to obtain Chen Hua¡¯s new drugs and several patents such as submachine guns.¡±

    The eyes suddenly turned to Yang Qiu. The technical problems of new drugs and submachine guns were not big. Since they could be sold to Germany and Russia, they could be sold to Britain and France. However, the reiterated issue of the British and French concessions left everyone at a loss.  Because the whole country knows it.  The young vice president was very dissatisfied with the deformed colony like the concession, so everyone watched him wait eagerly.

    Yang Qiu is unhappy with the concession.  Failure to take back all the concessions means that China is still a semi-colonial country. Even if it is internationally recognized, it will still be a semi-colonial country!  But he is not a fool who can't understand changes. He knows that it is better to put down things that cannot be taken back. He smiled and said: "I will let Cai Gongshi talk about the new drugs and submachine gun patents. There is no problem in reaffirming the concession status. But they must also ensure that within the concession  Do not engage in behavior that endangers our territory, government and economic security."

    Now that he has opened up the conversation, Yang Qiu also expressed his opinion: "Baofen Coal and Iron is the backbone of the country's industry and economy, and production must be resumed immediately. The expansion of Fengtian Manufacturing Bureau into Fengtian Industrial Group must be accelerated  Yes, I know that your side has been having difficulties recently. European and American steel and machinery and equipment have stopped exporting. Most of the self-produced goods and those coming back from Russia are for civilian use. But you can't be choked to death. If formal channels don't work, then use other ways.  , Lu Zhengxiang and Wang Zhengting wrote a letter saying that Russia is in chaos now, and many officials are taking advantage of the war to enrich themselves. They dare to sell anything as long as they give money! You contact them, and if you spend more money, you must first build the skeleton of Fengtian.  We cannot continue to be unable to carry out construction because Europe keeps attacking us.

    I have already said hello to Hanyang, Chongqing and Jiangnan.  They will gradually contract out some parts and low-tech work.  All domestic capable factories and businessmen can undertake it.  If one factory cannot handle the orders placed by Europe, they will join forces to take them.  Take the initiative with industry associations and chambers of commerce as leaders.  In addition, you must be prepared. Every factory in the United States is gradually filled with orders, and they will definitely look for OEMs from all over the world to help.  Minister Wu and Gu Weijun will visit the United States after the New Year to find ways to win back some business. Domestic industry and commerce must prepare early!  Worker training needs to be expanded.  Not only technical schools must be trained, but also factories must be involved, and the required machinery and equipment can be drawn from across the country.

    Europe still has at least three years to fight!  So the next three years are very critical.  Not only should businessmen take advantage of this opportunity to make more money, but we should also support a group of powerful companies to become bigger and stronger!  In order to allow workers to benefit from this, it is also necessary to select a number of high-quality enterprises to enter the stock market as much as possible, so that more people can enjoy the benefits of war wealth and the improvement of the country.  "

    Although everyone didn¡¯t understand why he was so sure that the war in Europe would take another three years with his fiery words, Shen Shukai, who had already given up his mind, still nodded solemnly.  After handing over the completion contractor, he turned his attention to Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi: "As for the distribution of the remaining money this time."

    The two of them had long wanted to hear his thoughts on the distribution of dividends after the war. Li Yuanhong chuckled: "Shaochuan and I want to give at least 100 million to the Ministry of Education. As for the rest, we have no idea.  Yeah. Chen Hua, you know a lot about industry and commerce, so you don¡¯t have to give us two old men face, just tell us." His words caused everyone to burst into laughter, and the eyes looking at Yang Qiu suddenly became hot.  Even if the Ministry of Education takes away 100 million, there will still be 300-400 million left to distribute, not to mention roads, industry and commerce departments. Zhang Jizhi of Lian Agriculture and Forestry picked up his tea cup and stared at Yang Qiu.

    Yang Qiu was not polite and said:?Has already thought about the plan: "Qingdao, Jinzhou and other places need to be reconstructed immediately, and pensions and disaster relief are also urgently needed, so 100 million will be allocated to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The army will also be allocated 100 million, and except for maintaining the army, the rest will be given to the navy.  "Everyone nodded in agreement.  Taiwan will be troubled sooner or later. If the navy had not had submarines to support the situation this time, it would have been scolded by the whole country.  It would be a joke to take Taiwan back off the coast without a navy, so it urgently needs to increase its strength.

    There were only 200 million left for each of the three families, and the remaining few were breathing rapidly.

    "Judging from this war, our country is seriously deficient in railway and highway construction. The total investment is less than 300,000 troops, but a full 2 ??million civilians are used to maintain logistics, most of which are spent on transportation! The recovered South Manchuria Line is because  Regulations and standards are different, and the renovation work must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. Mr. Huancheng (Zhan Tianyou) came to see me a few days ago. He said that in addition to the southwest railway network, it should be considered at the beginning of the design and prepared in advance to start construction when finances permit.  In addition to preparations for double-tracking, almost all other domestic railways have not double-tracked. In this war, the five main arteries of Jinghan, Jingfeng, Jinpu, Nanman and Jiaoji performed very poorly and were completely unable to bear the need for rapid military assembly and mobilization in emergencies.

    The Longhai West Line and the Baotou-Kulun Railway are related to the safety of Xinjiang, Mongolia and other places, and there cannot be any deduction in funding!  The same is true for highways in various provinces. Xu Xiujun¡¯s road construction experience of using Sanhe soil to reduce the amount of cement must be promoted as soon as possible.

    Although agriculture and forestry have had good weather and good harvests in recent years, God is not under our control.  Conservancy and irrigation construction must be strengthened, and a number of reservoirs with important functions must be built.  In addition to generating electricity, it can also satisfy agricultural needs.  In addition to expanding the expansion of cash crops such as mulberry, silkworm, hemp, sugar cane, cotton, tea and tobacco, we must also focus on the path of winning by quality. We cannot always be an exporter of cheap raw materials all our lives.  The integration of industry and agriculture is the development direction of agriculture.  Forestry should also focus on protection. Most of the causes of the flooding of the Yellow River are the lack of forest protection, which causes sediment to flow down the river and block the river channels. If any indiscriminate deforestation is found, they will be arrested immediately!  Don't be soft-hearted, this is a matter of great importance to future generations!  "

    Although the specific allocation figure was not stated.  But Zhang Wenjing's calm complexion suddenly fell down again.  Not to mention anything else, if all the reconstruction and double-tracking of several railways were started, the first batch of investment alone would not be less than 100 million yuan!  If you calculate it this way, let alone the four to five billion you just received are gone at once, you will have to put in hundreds of millions more.

    Yang Qiu looked at him and suddenly laughed: "Wen Jing's ideas need to be changed. We Chinese have a tradition of having more than enough every year. So we all like to hide some money in the box as a bottom line. But these are ordinary people, and for the country's finances  A surplus is a good thing, but now is a good opportunity for construction, and an appropriate fiscal deficit can actually promote construction. So you and Xu Xiujun should be bolder! Now that the war between us and Japan is over, the United States' biggest worry is gone. It is absolutely possible to borrow more  A few sums of money can be used to make up for it. The Nanman-Manchuria and Jiaoji Lines can also be raised for renovation by issuing bonds and stocks to the private sector. In short, don¡¯t be afraid of spending money! Industrial, commercial and agricultural education cannot be achieved without spending money.  Money can be earned slowly, but there are not many opportunities for Europe and the United States to take care of the Far East. Otherwise, it will not work. I will discuss it with the president and prime minister later. You can just mortgage the Jinghan, Jinpu and Jingfeng.  .¡±

    "hehe."

    Everyone knew he was joking. These major arteries, the Hanchuan River, Hangui River, and the planned Yuehan River and Minpu (from Fujian to Nanjing Pukou) are the foundations that run through the country. They must be controlled by the state no matter what.  Main road.

    But his words still opened up ideas for everyone.  National construction, especially for a country as big as China, requires astronomical amounts of funds.  Careful calculations will definitely lengthen the progress of construction. Only by spending money on it can we shorten the gap with major countries in the world.  It¡¯s only been less than half a year since Europe started fighting.  It is not impossible to earn an extra two to three billion by working for another three years, so this is nothing more than a choice between spending first and saving first.  What's more, all previous statistics do not include tariffs. After the tariffs are resolved, export profits will increase significantly, and the same is true for industry and commerce, so both Tang Shaoyi and Li Yuanhong agree with the idea of ??spending money first.

    Since these three people all agreed, several major departments stopped being secretive and started planning where to build and what to build. They wished they could overdraw the next three years overnight and build a bright future.  Fortunately, Yang Qiu, who proposed the plan, was more calm. With figures ranging from millions to hundreds of millions, the administrative agency is still inefficient and inefficient. Moreover, the country is only stable when it engages in such a large-scale construction, and there are only a few people who can handle it.  There are few, so he once again proposed the concept of "Building an Independent Commission Against Corruption" run by the Ministry of Justice.

    This organization, which was initially used only to supervise construction projects allocated by the central government in various places and was formed entirely by passionate young soldiers who cared about the country, gradually evolved over time into another major power agency of the Republic of China in the future, the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

    This is something.

    At present, most of the people in this conference room are well-lovedThe people who think of Western capital are not poor commoners. When they reach their status, money is no longer important.  What's more, most of the politicians in the early years of the Republic of China had a spirit of dedication to the country. In addition, they did not realize that the power of this institution would change so much in the future, so they only hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

    This meeting, which was originally just to distribute war dividends, laid a good foundation for the first five-year development plan of the Republic of China, which was formally proposed after the 1915 election.

    But while everyone was discussing various construction plans in detail, the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office knocked on the door with Song Ziqing. After the latter saluted Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi, he handed a telegram to Yang Qiu and whispered it into his ear.  Cai E, who was paying attention to him, only saw Yang Qiu's eyebrows suddenly raised, and then waved his hand: "Wen Jing, you can go out first, I have something to discuss with the President and Prime Minister."

    This accident made everyone realize that something was wrong, but looking at Song Ziqing's face, it didn't look like something bad happened, so they secretly walked out of the meeting room muttering to themselves.  Yang Qiu left behind Song Ziqing and Cai E.  After everyone left, he took out the telegram and handed it to Li Yuanhong: "A big thing happened in Japan."

    oh?  Li Yuanhong was slightly surprised and quickly opened the telegram and read it with Tang Shaoyi.  After reading it, I couldn¡¯t tell whether I was excited or uneasy.  Foreign Minister Takaaki Kato who just returned home was assassinated!  Japanese economic pioneer and former Foreign Minister Korekiyo Takahashi was assassinated!

    What¡¯s even more coincidental is that the two assassinations were only three hours apart!

    Who did it?  The radical right-wing forces in Japan quickly turned their attention to Yang Qiu.  He also glanced at Song Ziqing twice, and even Cai E's eyes were burning.  Yang Qiu did not explain. In fact, Hou Yi's plan was drawn up by him himself.  He asked Song Ziqing for a cigarette, walked to the window and looked outside with bright eyes.

    Hou Yi¡¯s plan was not to rely on assassination to solve Japan. In fact, looking through history, there is no example of a hostile country being completely defeated by assassination.  The core of this plan was to take advantage of Japan's defeat.  The expansion of right-wing extremist forces in the country will ignite the volcano!  There is a profound imprint of Yang Qiu in this, because he knows better than anyone else how terrible the forbearance and tenacity of Japan is.

    If you want to make people die, first make them crazy.

    As an island country lacking resources, if Japan wants to continue to be among the great powers, it can only expand!  This determines that Japan must take the path of outward aggression.  Unfortunately, due to naval strength and other reasons, this war can only be regarded as damage and cannot completely solve the problem.  If it were placed in peacetime, Japan would probably need ten or even twenty years to recover, but the European War gave it the opportunity to accelerate recovery.

    Unless the Anglo-Japanese alliance is disbanded, Britain will need Japan to balance itself.  In this way, even if there is no support during the war, some orders will be provided to restore it.  Although Japan lacks resources.  But after all, the workers and industrial base still exist, and work such as processing of supplied materials can still be done well.  In addition, people will be needed to help process the overflow of orders from the United States, so if Japan is stable, it can also make a lot of money at this time.

    Another reason why he decided to implement Hou Yi¡¯s plan was that he was afraid of Japan sending troops to Europe!

    Historically, Japan has never sent troops to Europe.  Because they are busy digesting Qingdao and Manchuria.  But now that it failed, North Korea is the only one the military has to protect.  Taiwan is still under public administration.  For a government that can even sell its own women to earn money for subsidies, it has no problem sending tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers as long as there is enough profit.  The Japanese politicians of the Taisho era were not the idiots of the Showa era. They could naturally see the great benefits of sending troops. Not only could they bridge the previous rift with Britain and France and regain trust, they could even participate in the distribution of benefits after the war.  Moreover, once the First World War ends and Britain and France return to the Far East, they will inevitably increase their exploitation of the colonies due to the consumption of space. Facing an increasingly powerful China, God knows whether they will directly use massive weapons to create a Japan that is several times more powerful than the current one!  !

    These are what he worries about.

    So he needs to ignite this volcano and plunge Japan into civil unrest for the next three years.

    The choice of these two people is also very particular.  Kato Takaaki Needless to say, the Zaibatsu and the feudal clans are the black hands behind the left and right factions.  Takahashi Korekiyo is one of the biggest invisible contributors to Japan's victory in the Russo-Japanese War.  One of him and Akashi Genjiro raised much-needed loans for Japan and facilitated the issuance of war bonds in Britain and the United States, raising most of Japan's military expenditures. The other directly caused Nicholas II to almost step down.

    Now that the crater has been opened, all that¡¯s left is to give them some power!

    Yang Qiu threw away the cigarette butt that he had not taken two puffs on, turned to Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi and smiled: "President, Prime Minister. I heard that many people in North Korea have starved to death this winter. I think we should send someone to visit North Korea immediately to reiterate the friendship and support between China and North Korea.  Some money.¡±

    "SupportNorth Korean money?  this is not.  "Cai E was about to exclaim, isn't this sending money to Japan, but when he reached his mouth, he stopped suddenly and completely understood what he meant.

    Because tens of thousands of defeated soldiers are stationed in the country, North Korea can now be regarded as the stronghold of the Japanese right wing. Right wing forces without money cannot stage a coup!  .

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