No matter how the great powers and the northern provinces view the battle between the two major powers and the northern provinces in the city of Nanjing, the second general election of the Republic of China was held as scheduled. In the last general election, it was actually the revolutionary party talking to itself, and the military leaders of the Zhiwan Feng Department were not interested in this kind of literati game except for the battlefield, although Wu Chenxuan's subordinates were like carp crossing the river, but he did not break with the Qing court, but chose a neutral path, so there were few people in the parliament who were his representatives. If it weren't for the killing of the revolutionary party's men, there wouldn't be much left, and the first session of the Congress would have been made into a situation where the Qiao gang leader was in a state of public prosperity, which made the Congress full of many old and young people who still had big pigtails, the constitutional gentry, and the big capitalists who had funded the revolution. It can be said that in addition to not fighting with Japan's friends, Jofu can be called a saint warrior who "has endless fun fighting with the sky, the earth, and people".

But this time, Jof really has no bottom. Song Dunchu was originally a leading general of the revolutionary party and the flag-bearer of the revolutionary party in the National Assembly for many years, and his congressmen's appeal and experience in parliamentary struggles were unmatched by anyone in the party. This is also why constitutionalists such as Li Bodhisattva and Tang Hualong took the initiative to nominate him as the leader of the Civic Party. Compared with the newly established Civic Party's vigorous propaganda and election campaign, the revolutionary party has a lot of people in the Congress, but there is no organizer, Hu Chuanru is also temporarily rushing ducks to the shelves, and in a few days, the original supporters were poached by Song Dunchu, and even the guys within the revolutionary party who signed a letter of allegiance swearing allegiance to Jov have to turn to the trend of the constitutionalists.

After the overlord of the north, Wu Chenxuan, Uncle Wu accompanied his wife and adults to go shopping, and lived a happy married life, and the story ended here? Of course not, in fact, looking at Wu Chenxuan, who was sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, the southern reporter's heart was seven unconvinced and eight were not angry. Wu Chenxuan's statement on "earnestly hoping that all members of the National Assembly will uphold the spirit of unity and fraternity, seek common ground while reserving differences, work together in the same boat, and strive to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, developed, and civilized new China." The two parties should do a good job of cooperation and supervision, and no matter who is in power or who is in opposition, they must remember the supreme purpose of safeguarding national interests as a Chinese political party. Wu Chenxuan's statement that he stood and spoke without backache made the revolutionary party newspapers in the south very angry, why, our punishment of a handful of traitors has been raised to the level of undermining stability and unity and endangering national interests? Don't pretend to be a Confucian saint, your foundation is not innocent, don't talk about the second brother.

A reporter from the "Revolutionary Forum" newspaper asked: Isn't the Wehrmacht defending the motherland to the outside world, and how can it look around the country and turn around the country and retreat from the Japanese and Russian powers that have invaded our territory?

Of course, Wu Chenxuan had been prepared for a long time, and analyzed the harm of bandits one by one, from violating law and discipline and disturbing public order to mutilating the people and splitting the country, but this reporter did not want Wu Chenxuan to make a report on the significance of suppressing bandits, he described the uprooting of several bandits in the Qinling area who had accepted the appointment of the Nanjing Government as a reactionary act of the Wehrmacht to eliminate dissidents and wantonly massacre officials of the revolutionary government.

"Mr. Journalist, how do you tell that these wehrmacht extermination are legitimate magistrates and not bandits?"

"Hmph, Mr. Chief, do you think the bandits have the right to collect local taxes?" The reporter took out the tax stamps of Meng Sanchun and other bandits collecting taxes in the local area, as well as the detailed account of the tax revenue and expenditure of the Shanyang County Ya, and raised it in his hand and turned it over: "Mr. Chief, if a bandit is a bandit, can he collect taxes locally as the government?" And his taxes, in addition to armaments, are also used to renovate facilities in the county, build bridges and pave roads, will the bandits manage local construction? Isn't this a normal revenue and expenditure situation for a government? ”

"Who's to say it wouldn't?" Before Wu Chenxuan could speak, Xu Juren next to him spoke, originally Lao Xu was here to listen, after all, he was not a member of the National Defense Force. However, the nonsense of this revolutionary party made Lao Xu can't help but speak.

"First of all, what is this money levied by bandits, or rather, taxes? The money is made up of two parts. Part of it is public taxes, or the value of public goods, such as the cost of maintaining law and order. The other part is one of the forms of existence of legal remuneration - blood remuneration, that is, the overcharged part that exceeds the value of public goods. It is expressed in a concise formula: all taxes and fees = value of public goods + legal remuneration (blood remuneration). Reversing this formula gives us the definition of legal remuneration: legal remuneration = total taxes and fees - value of public goods. Xu Juren has been listening to the course of the Youth Cadre Academy for several months, and he is very familiar with the concept of this MPA, and he can easily shake those revolutionary parties who can only shout slogans

"Actually, this formula applies not only to the bandit world, but also to the Royal Empire. All the taxes and fees of the empire, after deducting the value of public goods, the remainder is the legal remuneration. ”

"For example, although we don't know how much the Chinese people are willing to spend to hire an emperor, we know that the American people hired President Wilson for an annual salary of 50,000 US dollars, and the people of the British Empire hired British Prime Minister Alquith for an annual salary of 35,000 pounds, and the Chinese emperors, such as Chongzhen and his empress of the former Ming Dynasty, who were quite thrifty, had 16,872 taels of silver a year for just two people, or more than 520,000 US dollars at the price of grain. China's wages and prices were relatively close to those in Britain at the time, and even though the Alquiss family spent 30% of their total income on food and ate US$10,000 (83,000 yuan) a year, the Chongzhen couple (not counting their children and concubines) ate 52 times as much. According to this, the $10,000 eaten by Prime Minister Alques's family can be regarded as the first family food expenses that the people are willing to pay and is regarded as a reasonable public expenditure, while the extra $510,000 eaten by the Chongzhen couple should be regarded as legal remuneration. ”

"The value of so-called public goods, in the bandit world and in the age of empires, can only be estimated in terms of "shadow prices" - public spending under democratic fiscal systems. Maintaining public safety and building water conservancy roads and bridges always costs money, and it is also needed by the people. As providers of public services, officials also deserve their salaries. The work of an emperor or president is complex, the responsibilities are great, and of course he should enjoy a high income. However, the emperor eats 51 times more than the president, and this expenditure cannot be explained in terms of the value of public goods. Even if you don't talk about democratic finance, as a big boss, the Ming emperor's salary for his most senior employee, Yipin Civil Official, is only 1,044 stone of rice per year, which is about 22,000 US dollars. Taking into account the factors of tax exemption and price changes, it is not far from the annual salary of the British Prime Minister, which is equivalent to half a month's food expenses of Chongzhen and his wife. ”

"The so-called legal remuneration in the imperial system consists of two parts: one is the "non-salary" income of the royal and aristocracy, that is, Chongzhen's income more than Putin or Clinton; The second is the income that officials grab through unspoken rules. The "non-salary" income of the royal family and nobility is similar to shareholder income, which they or their ancestors have earned by the blood and sacrifice of the world. The unspoken income of the officials is similar to the additional income of the agent, which is privately traded in the exercise of the power of agency, and although this gray income is not so legitimate, it cannot be counted on the emperor's head. ”

Let's take a look at the late Ming Dynasty giant Li Zicheng in the "Liukouism" period, burning and looting all the way. "Ming History Chronicle" said: "At the beginning, Zicheng robbed Qin, Jin, Chu, and Henan, attacked and plundered half the world, and then Zhile dog thieves, so he burned and slaughtered. Later, after several big victories, Li Zicheng "swept Henan, there were millions, and he thought that the world was incompatible," and he felt that he might win the world, so he regarded the country as his own territory. So the behavior changed dramatically. "Under the city, the thief Qiu has not committed any crimes. Zicheng decreed: Whoever kills one person is like killing my father, and whoever commits adultery with one person is like adultering my mother. ”

"So do you think Li Zicheng is the leader of the thieves or the leader of the division of benevolence and righteousness? It's not a good question. In fact, Li Zicheng has always been a good leader of the violent group. As the leader of a violent group, Li Zicheng has always pursued the maximization of blood rewards. Thieves burn, kill and loot, and pursue the maximization of one-time blood rewards; After entering the city, he did not commit any crimes, and pursued the maximization of the long-term legal reward for fighting the world. ”

The reporter of the revolutionary party who said something was dumbfounded, and even Wu Chenxuan was impressed, but he did not expect this old bureaucrat to think so deeply about the relationship between the government and society, the ruler and the state, and he could clearly realize that the ruling class's excessive seizure of social interests is inevitable, but it must also be restrained, which makes Wu Chenxuan feel that it is right for him to put most of the government affairs on this old courtier.

Therefore, the autonomous government of the northern provinces is soberly aware that public goods are the inevitable responsibility of the government, and in order to safeguard the interests of the vast majority of the people in the country, the collection of taxes must be legal, reasonably designed, collected and used in a lawful manner. Only then can we truly achieve the purpose of collecting taxes from the people and using them for the people. Here, I would like to disclose to you in advance that the autonomous government of the northern provinces has decided to implement tax hearings and a public supervision mechanism for the use of tax revenues in the northern provinces starting from the fifth year of the Republic. Thank you all here! After saying a circle, all the reporters were impressed.

People in the north dare to pat their chests and say that taxes are "taken from the people and used for the people", is your great and upright central revolutionary government still embarrassed to expropriate and extort and operate in the dark? Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, just afraid of comparing goods, now the anti-donation and anti-tax movement in various places is surging, hating the Qiao Fu Qiao gang leader who is competing for internal strength and the new Song Dunchu Song Da Zhang's front teeth are itching, your industrial and commercial development is no less than Mi Ying's ghost animal, Ao, co-authored you have transferred most of the government revenue to the profits of state-owned units, and the dependence on taxes has naturally declined. Most of the industrial and commercial cities in the south have close ties with the two major chambers of commerce in the north, and it is impossible for them to come up with money to support a gang of mouth cannon party leaders.

Nanjing's second-quarter congressional battle started in a haze, and in the first round of the primary, the Civic Party undoubtedly became the largest party in the parliament, and then Song Dunchu found himself facing a quagmire, but a greater danger crept in, and Song Dunchu was not aware of it.