Chapter 221 Need to improve

Since the Hindenburg airship accident, the airship has suddenly fallen and all the airships have stopped commercial navigation. The Earl Zeppelin, which had first leaped the Atlantic Ocean and made a global flight, must not be confined to the huge airship bin. Until 40 years, Fatty Ge, under the order, removed its aluminum keel to build the plane, ending its 12-year glorious life.

"If you buy it, the Germans may agree, and the price will not be too high. At that time, buy it and try whether the base will react. If there is no reaction, it will not be too late to sell it. Even if it cannot be sold, according to its 60-ton lift, the center will be sorted out and treated as freight."

Meng Xiang made up his mind and was about to find the Germans to discuss buying the airship that had been silent for more than half a year. But when he saw Shi Er, he came over.

"The battle in Taierzhuang is over!"

At this time, the historical pointer has pointed to April 17, 2018, which is ten days later than the original history.

But the ending seems to have not changed yet, and the Central Army still won.

This time, the Japanese army was a joint attack between the 10th Division and the 108th Division. Although many were knocked out by the Pioneer Army, there were nearly five regiments in total. In addition to other puppet army vassals and *** troops, there were more than 30,000 people in total. The strength of the *** troops seemed to be stronger, but the Central Army, which had continuous weapons and ammunition assistance from the vanguard army, seemed to have widened the gap at once. Especially the support of more than 50 75 mountain cannons and ten 105 howitzers, the accompanying gunners of the Japanese army were all reduced by most of the Japanese artillery advantage. The Japanese air force was also contained, and at least half of the aircraft attacks were blocked by the Pioneer aircraft halfway. Even if the remaining aircraft came, there were more than 20 40mm Bofos anti-aircraft guns that could not make much money.

With the attack of infantry alone, the elite of the Central Army was no worse than the Japanese. Although there were fewer elites, the Central Army invested more than 100,000 people this time. Using the advantage of numbers, the Japanese attacks were directly reduced.

The cloth bag in Taierzhuang has been formed. When Chiang Kai-shek saw the hope of victory, he kept adding direct troops to it. Even the vanguard's request for battle can be ignored.

The increasing reinforcements of the Central Army made Ryosuke Isotani see the danger. After being injured by the Pioneer Army, he became much more alert. Zhang Lingfu's attack to the south made him realize that the Pioneer Army's actions were not good. On the basis of seeing the Central Army's attempts and other reinforcements were not in place, he decisively gave up Taierzhuang and prepared to retreat.

But it seemed a little late. The troops that had been entangled near Taierzhuang were dragged down by the Central Army that was counterattacking. On the 13th, several encircled troops quickly stepped in and began to attack them in full swing.

The fierce battle lasted for 4 days, and Meng Xiang was also paying attention to the battle. However, according to the situation on the scene, the battle situation was decided and the vanguard army could not get much in. Meng Xiang had the heart to see the newly built airship.

Although nearly 100,000 Central Army troops participated in the attack, the red-eyed Isotani Ryosuke and Shimoto Kumaya still broke through the siege of the Central Army. However, they only escaped more than 20,000 people, and more than 9,000 people remained on the land forever.

"Great victory! Great victory! Taierzhuang's victory! Annihilated more than 30,000 enemies!" Such propaganda spread everywhere, spreading all over the country for a while, and it was even more exaggerated than the achievements of the propaganda vanguard army.

"Even if everyone who escaped was injured, they only raised more than 30,000 people?" Meng Xiang was still a little unaware of the propaganda of this era.

"If there are fewer results in the battle, how can we make up our contributions? It is important to boost morale." Tang Yaoshi was also a little helpless about Meng Xiang's real results every time.

"If this descendants look at it, they will naturally reveal their bottom line!" Meng Xiang sighed and thought of various arguments in later generations.

"Tomorrow's things will be said tomorrow, good and bad luck will come at any time. At this time, the Chinese people still don't know what China will be like in the future, so how can they have the energy to consider the considerations of future generations!" Tang Yaoshi was inspired, but Meng Xiang felt aroused when he heard this. The Chinese people's mentality was still unstable at this time. Except for the extremes, most people were in a state of confusion.

"People's hearts are available!" Meng Xiang muttered, but then he thought of taking half a bottle of soy sauce this time, and he felt a little unhappy.

If Meng Xiang's plan was to attack Taierzhuang together, the two divisions of the Japanese would not run away. But at this time, they retreated to Zaozhuang. The Central Army of Linyi also gained a foothold. After being bombarded by the vanguard, the Fifth Division and the 114th Division lost most of their artillery and their offensive was sharply reduced. In addition, Li Zongren sent reinforcements, so there was no problem to protect Linyi for the time being.

Meng Xiang felt a sense of breath when he thought of Shi Yousan who blocked the vanguard army. The Japanese on both sides could already pick fruits, but they couldn't move. If Shi Yousan had no other instructions behind him, Meng Xiang wouldn't believe it.

"You can't wait until the Central Army retreats. If the Central Army retreats, the pressure on the Pioneer Army will be greater." Meng Xiang thought about it and told Shu Er directly: "Tell the General Staff to formulate an attack plan first, targeting Zaozhuang and Linyi."

"You can wait a moment. After the Taierzhuang victory, I am afraid that the central government will increase its confidence and will not give up Xuzhou easily. The central government has been increasing its troops recently, but I am afraid that it will be a confrontation for a while and can find a better opportunity. At this time, the *** people are focusing on the Central Army. We can accumulate more strength first." Tang Pharmacist hurriedly said.

Meng Xiang lowered his head and thought for a while. The current situation seemed to have become more complicated. He really needed to wait and see. The more the army of the Central Army gathered, the more it had become the target of the top people.

He waved his hand to Shi Er gently and said, "Then let the staff first slow down! Let the staff of the staff set a few more plans for the target first to deal with it at any time."

After the Shi Er left, only Meng Xiang and Tang Pharmacist were left in the room.

"With the issue of railway funds, the general can try to borrow money!" After many reminders from Meng Xiang, Tang Pharmacist also began to call him the general when he called Meng Xiang.

"Borrow?" Meng Xiang suddenly thought of unequal treaties. This loan is different from his loan to Citigroup and HSBC. Most of the loans related to road construction have other conditions.

"The central government just borrowed 30 million yuan from the French for the construction of railways in the southwest! We can borrow money from the Germans!" The Germans now seem to have a good relationship with the Pioneer Army. They are definitely willing to borrow money, just mortgage the railway. However, there are many aspects involved. Zhou Bai did not expect it, but did not dare to touch this high-voltage line. It is very sensitive to the right of road. If this matter is not approved by the central government, it will be even more troublesome. I am afraid that I can't pass the central government's procedures.

"I'll think about this!" Meng Xiang pondered for a moment.

Tang Yaoshi didn't say much about this, but instead talked about other things: "In the special zone, other forces are operating more and more frequently. Even some in the army are instigating soldiers to buy and sell arms in private!"

The Pioneer Army is famous for its advanced and excellent weapons. People from all forces have their own ideas, some rely on relatives and friends, and a little money, and they all want to dig out the Pioneer Army.

Meng Xiang's eyes turned sharply and said directly: "Whenever anyone who resells arms privately, one person will be dealt with seriously!"

Many such examples have been discovered, and those involved in reselling firearms have been dealt with directly by military law. However, some of them are difficult to deal with. For example, many veterans are greedy for good luck and dare not buy guns, but the bullets are rich, which makes them choose the way to resell bullets. The one hundred training bullets I sent out can be exchanged for pocket money by selling ten or eight of them.

"This situation is also easy to deal with. Tell the soldiers that the number of bullets will be certain for each training. As long as the training meets the standards, the remaining bullets can be retained and converted into corresponding money as a reward. It is strictly prohibited to be sold privately to the outside world. The converted amount is compared according to the price of bullets sold to the outside world, and the training standards are raised a little higher." Many situations cannot be stopped, so it is better to guide. Although there are clones in the vanguard army, the problem of veterans' oil students cannot be changed by saying that they can be changed. The army has an advantage, that is, they can speak with data. If they fail to meet the standards, they can only force themselves to practice. This reward method is definitely more effective than the instructor's forced, but the seriousness of the army may be affected and leave some hidden dangers.

"It seems that all soldiers need to enter the training camp and re-smelt it! It needs to be adjusted." The recovery of a large number of veterans has not only brought in the battlefield experience, but also brought many bad habits. No matter how strict the military rules are, there are omissions.

But at this time, during the war, many problems cannot be solved directly, so they can only slowly weaken and change.

Even if there are strict law enforcement officers of cloned soldiers, as the number of troops increases, the leading role of the backbone becomes much weaker as the number of cloned soldiers increases.

"200,000 troops are already the limit. No matter how many, control will be troublesome! And ideological strengthening is needed!" At this time, the ideological education strengthened in the vanguard army is the responsibility of patriotism and modern soldiers, but in the face of many ideas in society, such general education cannot tightly win over soldiers.

The soldiers' military pay is stable now, and not too little, which is the cornerstone of the stability of the vanguard army now. But sometimes, the military pay alone cannot hold the soldiers. If one side of the balance is placed on the land and relatives and friends, I am afraid that the soldiers' muzzles will turn immediately. The solution to social problems is the cornerstone of the stability of the army. The activities of other forces in the base area are obviously shaking the stability of this cornerstone.

If you want to avoid being pulled from the cornerstone, you can only take the initiative to change.

"But it is difficult to improve society!" Meng Xiang sighed in his heart.

...

"Commander!" Although Yang Yi no longer held a military post, he still gave Meng Xiangjing a standard military salute.

"Has the tax revenue in the first quarter been sorted out?" Meng Xiang asked directly without any politeness to Yangyi.

The sheep is accompanied by a thick stack of information, which is a general introduction.

"Only more than two million? That's so small?" Meng Xiang was a little disappointed. This number was far from what he imagined. You know, Shandong has always been a big fat piece. From Yuan Shikai to Han Fuju who raised more than 100,000 soldiers, he never called for a shortage of money. Naturally, there was no shortage of oil and water in it.

"This is not a small amount!" Zhou Bai, who followed closely, explained with a smile:

"The central taxes are divided into two parts: central and local taxes. Central taxes include unified taxes, customs taxes, salt taxes, stamp taxes, mining taxes, tobacco and alcohol taxes, income taxes, etc. Shandong mainly relies on land taxes, deed taxes, business taxes, slaughter taxes, oil taxes, tooth taxes, cattle taxes, etc.."

Meng Xiang couldn't help but smile when he heard that the cows were taxed. Nowadays, oxen are the main force in plowing fields. According to the law of omnipresence of tax revenue, all of these cows have been licensed.

Zhou Bai didn't care and continued:

"According to the agreement between us and the Central Committee, the taxes in the Special Administrative Region can be temporarily withheld for the purpose of the War of Resistance, but three million taxes must be paid every year, and handed over to the central tax agencies in the Special Administrative Region for handling, and 50,000 yuan of military pay per month will be deducted." Speaking of this, the central government had no choice. At that time, Han Fuju took over the Lu Taxation Agency. At this time, the Japanese invaded and controlled the Pioneer Army even weaker. Since the Pioneer Army proposed the annual guaranteed tax, the superiors agreed. However, for the authority of the central government, the central tax authorities could not evacuate, and the tax was just a hand and supervised.

"Due to the invasion of the Japanese invaders, tariffs have been in name only. But in the past, the tariffs accounted for the most important tax. The tax revenue of Qingdao Port alone last year was more than 20 million yuan. Not to mention Yantai, Longkou, Weihai and other places had to be added. This was the premise that the *** people were crazy about smuggling, and the private goods from Dalian only came from more than 2 million yuan every month, which caused a huge loss in this area.

Of course, now the ports have fallen into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese invaders have completely blocked us. The central government does not expect us to collect tariffs.

Previously, the three major tax types were the salt tax, besides tariffs.

Salt tax can account for 20% of the total central budget, second only to tariffs. Shandong has long coastlines and many salt-producing land. It has been the first in the country for many years. It has been the key levy for salt tax since ancient times.

In recent years, the salt tax has been increasing. But after the *** people occupied the coastline, the central government transferred this fee to us. However, the Laizhou Bay area is indeed a good place to produce salt. Based on the output in the past month, if this year goes well, our salt industry income will definitely exceed 10 million."

Zhou Bai said as he looked at Meng Xiang.

Meng Xiang also saw that most of Shouguang and other places still used the local method to dry salt, so he specially sorted out some of the methods he remembered in his memory. He visited the large salt farm there in later generations, and still remembered the general process. Some of the processes were very simple, but they were explored over decades. The output of the Salt Fields of the Pioneer Army increased greatly, and the ratio of refined salt production was greatly increased.

With the financial resources of the Pioneer Army, four large salt fields were built directly around Laizhou Bay. The output of these four salt fields alone may be as high as half of Shandong's previous output, plus some scattered salt fields. One year of production can make the financial pockets of the Pioneer Army bulge.

You should know that Lao Han can collect 2/5 of the central tax and donate salt tax in a year. With the positive tax brought out by the central tax, the salt tax alone is a surprising number. Shandong once set an astonishing number of nearly 30 million in salt tax during the Chinese New Year.

"Since the central government abolished the central government's central government's central government tax in 1928, all the goods were simplified to the unified tax. For cigarettes, matches, beer, flour, cotton yarn, cement, smoke tobacco and other mechanisms with large production volumes, factory tax will be levied at one time for the origin, and no other tax will be levied in the future. After tax payment, they will be stamped, or issued a "tax payment license".

In the first quarter, cigarettes collected 100,000 yuan this quarter, which is not a small amount.

Because we have a lot of relief and consumption, we only collected less than 60,000 yuan in this area.

Due to the war, there were not many cotton yarn mills, and the 80,000 spindles transported from Qingdao and other places have not yet been put into production. This one is negligible.

The matches tax collected 300,000.”

"The match tax is so high?" Meng Xiang was also surprised. The little match actually had such a high tax. What he didn't know was that China imports a large amount of matches from Sweden and *** every year, and the money for importing matches is calculated at tens of millions every year. The older generation knows what this thing means when talking about foreign fire. Although the match factories such as Zhenye and others were affected by the relocation, they soon resumed work with the support of the Pioneer Army, and the output was stable, and the tax of 500,000 was not much. You should know that last year, Shandong Match collected more than three million.

"The more people use it, the more taxes you will collect!" Zhou Bai said the truth.

"The amount of cement and beer is too small. Let's not talk about it. It will not be the time to smoke. But by then, the production of tobacco leaves is within our special zone, and you can earn at least one million yuan this year. Because Han Fuju is very strict in managing stamp duty, we have a lot of easier tax collection. Although there is a war impact, the transaction has also increased significantly, and more than 50,000 yuan will be collected."

"This year, the mining tax has increased by more than 60,000 due to the increase in mining volume. Other business taxes, deeds, dental taxes, slaughter taxes, etc. are calculated as more than 400,000. More than 2 million in this quarter is not a small amount."

"It's less than ten million in a year?"

"General, you ordered that the land tax be exempted from the past six months, and a large amount of income was also reduced." Meng Xiang saw the hardships of the people on the base area, so he waved his pen to exempt this year's agricultural tax. At that time, Tang Pharmacist stopped him and only exempted him for half a year. After Tang Pharmacist's explanation, Meng Xiang realized that the local finances below relied on land tax to live. Once they were completely exempted, they would touch the honeycomb. Moreover, this area of ​​pressure was also very large. Under the name of anti-Japanese, it was almost the same for half a year to be exempted.

"But the burden on the people has not been reduced at all, and the land rent has not been reduced at all." Meng Xiang whispered, "The internal foundation is unstable, and it is easy to be shaken by people. It seems that these rules will not be possible if they do not change!"
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