Chapter 169 Eyes
On hot days, Jin Batian in Nanjing has always maintained a good habit of going to bed early and getting up late, but this habit has been destroyed by the loudspeaker outside. It was the woman who spoke slowly in Mandarin (it is difficult to speak Mandarin now that it is hard to say, and people will not understand it). Without emotion, the government will start to waive the land tax this year.
Of course, it should be noted that the government made a painful decision for the War of Resistance and Qianqiu. By the way, it would be quite painful to make these people castrate themselves by wielding their swords, but what many people don’t know is that these taxes are transferred into the government’s money bag in another form.
The citizens of Nanjing are not much. Most of the people here are workers, small businessmen, students, teachers, etc. Their relatives may have farmers, but they have no direct contact with the land when they live in this city.
With the circulation of newspapers and radio in various places, including word of mouth between people, people on this land began to panic. Is the exemption of land tax true or false? Can the affordable grain purchase be implemented in the future? The most important thing is that whether it can be implemented in their own homes has become the focus of people's concern. People from all walks of life have all sought to verify with Nanjing.
The principal had to send a power to the whole country again to spread the news completely. What he was really worried about was the warlords who were separatist in various places. If he had a little understanding, he would understand that this exemption of land tax was a virtue that had never been seen in thousands of years since Yao and Shun. This immediately pulled people away. Who would not want to have more money and food in their hands? When farmers live a wealthy life, they would naturally pursue more, such as sending their children to school or private schools for their children to read.
Although the front line is still fighting, the focus is no longer on Shanxi or Shaanxi. The autumn harvest is approaching, and everyone is about to see if this policy can be implemented. At least the central district mentioned in the broadcast is fine. That is, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhili, Chahar, Rehe, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Shandong, Henan, and Shaanxi (part of the Kuomintang-controlled District) are about the central and eastern regions of the entire country. No matter how far away it is, I’m sorry, the central government there can’t get involved, so there are only these thirteen or fourteen provinces in the first period.
However, these thirteen or fourteen provinces are also the essence of the national government. Most of the country's population, fields, factories, enterprises, industry, mining and finance are all found in these provinces.
The autumn harvest is approaching, countless pairs of eyes are staring at the tax collectors, and the tax collectors leave their hometown with tears in their eyes to report to form the Second General Tax Police Corps. Those who fail to make the deadline will be punished as a crime of deserter. In other words, as long as people are alive, you have to come and be trained otherwise 7.92 peanuts will be served.
The above were also staring at who dared to blow up the thorns at this time. According to the experience of thousands of years in the Twenty-Four Historians, each new policy must have several or even more heads to be implemented smoothly.
The busiest people are the people arranged by the Central Commission for Discipline and the Military Control Commission. In addition to monitoring the subordinates, they also have to monitor each other. If there are three Military Control Commissions in each county, there must be three Central Commission for Discipline. The functions of the two intelligence departments overlap and there are many grudges, but they don’t mind using the other party’s head to change their future for a better future.
In this legendary central country in the world, autumn harvest began from south to north under the sky of the central country in the world. The farmers carefully took the grain back home and then began to wait. The timid landlord collected 20% of the grain from tenants as rent under repeated orders. Local governments purchased this year's grain from Nanjing's grants. The people from the Central Commission for Administration and the Military Control Commission stared at each other to see who took the first case of the land tax this year first. Fortunately, they were always lucky.
For seven consecutive days, more than 400 cases were sentenced to the land tax in various places. One of the local rich men who tried to bribe the military commander was sentenced to death and ate peanuts after the case was closed in Guangzhou City. Most of the remaining ones paid fines, and some were unwilling to lose money and were sent to prisons in various places for hard labor.
After the autumn harvest began in each province, some cases were more or less. The real resistance came from Shandong. The large family in Shandong did not seem to be so buy-in from the government order. Qufu had several consecutive cases of forced high rent collections. The local county magistrate was named Kong. All of these cases were reported to the Military Control Commission, but one was not sentenced and the other was not arrested. Instead, the tenants who went to the Military Control Commission to file a lawsuit were beaten, and the impact was very bad.
Since the Shandong Lu State emerged as a saint Confucius, the Confucius, Meng and Yan families in Shandong have been doing well for thousands of years. Every generation of family heads bought land home while saying "Zi Shi Zhi Yun". Over the past two thousand years, the Kong family, Meng and Yan families have become the largest landlords and merchants in Shandong. Han Fuju, the governor of Shandong Province who was transferred to the Military Commission for retirement some time ago, offended people during his reign in Shandong and was criticized in a mess, and he fell on Zhang Zongchang's bad deeds on him. The reputation of Han Fuju was not so good.
Fortunately, the principal had already understood the problem of Shandong and had prepared the hand cards, which was to transfer Kong Xiangxi to Shandong to be the governor of Shandong Province. Kong Xiangxi was the 75th generation grandson of Confucius, but was not a descendant of the Kong family who grew up in Shandong. As the saying goes, the Kong family and others always had to give a little face to this 75th generation grandson of Confucius. If they really didn't give face, the principal had to let peanuts solve the problem of face.
Kong Xiangxi understood his mission. After taking office, the first thing he did was to visit the head of the Kong family.
The head of the Kong family was naturally happy that Kong Xiangxi could rule the Shandong province. In their opinion, Shandong has been their Kong family since ancient times. It should have been replaced by a Kong family as the governor of Shandong. Not only that, it is best for county magistrates in various places to change to the Kong family, Meng family, Yan family, and the chief officers of the army stationed in Shandong. The Kong family and Yan family all have their own country protection groups and weapons. If you have money these days, you will not lack weapons.
Kong Xiangxi wanted to explain to the head of the Kong family the general trend of the world and the significance of exempting the land tax, and advised the head of the family to lower the rent of the Kong family.
The head of the Kong family expressed his meaning to Kong Xiangxi to use Kong Xiangxi's current status and cooperate with the Kong family and the Meng family to control the entire Shandong.
Erkong was not speculative, and he never talked about it together. Kong Xiangxi saw such powerful warships, giant cannons, planes and tanks in Nanjing, Shanghai, and believed that this warlord that occupied one side would not have any good ending. Sooner or later, they would be destroyed one by one when Nanjing recovered. What's more, the navy can also exert strong firepower on the coast of Shandong. Just like this power of the Kong family, it would be a task that would be more difficult to complete than Yan Xishan and the new Guangxi clique.
It is better to do more arms business if you have this intention. Now the arms business is getting more and more popular. As long as you can find sales overseas, the commission is huge. Now Kong Xiangxi, including the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Consortium, is also doing this business. Even if this arms business is made by connecting bridges, it will be much faster than building a factory. If you know where to have the money, you will earn more money.
This is Qufu, the head of the Kong family, who had never even been out of Qufu in his life, so how could he listen? In his opinion, who dared to move the family business of this saint? He was surrounded by a saint and was invincible. As early as the era when Han Fuju was in power, everyone began to evade taxes and conceal and report their income. Now that their family members have become the chairman of this province, they have inevitably lost the taxes of the Confucius, Mencius and Yan families. This is simply unfair.
So Kong Xiangxi's Shandong Governor resigned after three days. When Kong Xiangxi came, he knew that this governor was not easy to be. But he didn't expect that the head of the family was so stubborn that he could not get into the country. Kong Xiangxi had no choice. Besides, he was still the president of the Bank of China. Although the capital of Bank of China is not as good as that of Bank of Communications and Bank of China, it is also the bank with the most outlets in the south, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In comparison, what is the head of a province?
Chapter completed!