"Looks like we'll be able to stock up on enough steel this year?" The above report was frustrated by Xu Juren's recitation, and Wu Chenxuan was extremely bored and exchanged ears with Zhu Zhiyao next to him.

"Of course, but what are you going to do with these more than 800,000 tons of steel? Anyway, don't tell me that it's for laying rails, and no one's track steel will use these special steels and electroslag remelted steel, which are obviously materials for making guns. Zhu Zhiyao's new factory is now Jiangnan Heavy Industry Group, but the general manager is his eldest son who came back from Germany, he will hang the name of a chairman, when the hands of the shopkeeper, the formation of the Machinery Industry Committee, Wu Chenxuan made a special trip from Nanjing to Shanghai to hire face-to-face, the face is very big, Lao Zhu is not polite, he took office and began to preside over the national industrial census and planning, Wu Chenxuan took advantage of the fall in steel prices a few years ago, and introduced billet ingots from Germany, the United States and France under the pretext of balancing trade. The external propaganda is the construction of a 100,000-kilometer railway, and it has been strongly praised by Qiaofu, but the tricks of the Mongolian layman are a bit off the table in front of Zhu Zhiyao, a mechanical expert.

"Lao Zhu, what do you say is the most profitable in the machinery industry?"

"Cars, your standard cars are cheaper, but the cost is lower, and the frames, universal joints, and all kinds of standard parts that our family worked so hard to build have been squeezed by you without water, and I have been laid off. The eldest son of our family is still planning to build ships, so we can see two profits. ”

"Shipbuilding? Okay, build a river boat first, clean up the Grand Canal, and the Yangtze River waterway is one vertical and one horizontal, and the two railways will be called. Sea ships are also available, anyway, there are also equipment for shipbuilding in Kure Port, Japan, and we can also enter the shipyard equipment from Hamburg. Do you want ICBC to also invest in it? ”

"Okay, you can do the technology and equipment, and you can borrow two million first." Zhu Zhiyao had long planned to build a ship, but unfortunately he didn't know how big it was until the stall was spread.

"Loans? We don't have to, how about the standard group invest 1 million, I am responsible for the equipment and technology, and the investment can be converted. ”

"Oh, can I say no?" Zhu Zhiyao looks at the general trend of the world, this China is almost surnamed Wu, what else is he fighting for? "Let's talk about it first, not to be smaller than the Shijiusuo shipyard and Longkou shipyard. I heard that you have sent warships there? ”

"A light cruiser of 5,000 tons only, with a caliber of only 220 mm. It's not the main warship, or Japan won't do it. "It's bitter, but the original promise to the Combined Fleet didn't come true, the other side's spies looked at several shipyards to death, and even Kawashima didn't dare to do anything, but they didn't plan to follow them under the battleship dumplings, and Japan would never care about destroying China's own capital ships on the slipway. It's not impossible to order overseas, but Britain and Germany compete for dumplings, and even if the battleship is built, it will end up with the Chilean battleship, either with the St. George flag or the Black Eagle flag in the North Sea lined up to be shot, anyway, they can't leave a single hair, so why spend money in vain.

Now the people of the Satsuma Domain also think that Wu Sang's words are counting, and he is generous in hand, and he gives away proper overseas assets and shares, even if the horse dung of the Satsuma Domain is red, there is no way, and the commercial assets of the British Empire are not coveted by a second-rate thug country, even if it is a colony. Now more than half of the generals of the United Fleet have relatives in Yuantai Co., Ltd., as for the entrustment of trading stock futures or something, it is not a matter, seeing the flag of Yuantai, as long as it is not a warship, the United Fleet can be convenient, such as a standard sedan compared to the Yankee Model T, like the difference between Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and FAW-Volkswagen Jetta, or the super simplified version of the taxi type. Do you need to say which one to buy at the same price of $300? What China's industrial products are not in the customs import list, easy to do, Wu Port is not much else, there are many berths and warehouses, the battle patrol of the combined fleet escorts a Shandong ro-ro ship back and forth twice, the captains of the navy have a standard Sa Lu purple business car, as for the army division commanders are still riding Arab horses to get off work, the naval officers think that the horse manure should be treated like this, and the generals of the three headquarters have a few T-type cars enough, is this standard car also worthy of horse manure?

Zhu Zhiyao and Wu Chenxuan's chatter is just a few words, but Jiangnan Heavy Industry will start to build a shipping ship when it turns around, a liberation ship with a deadweight of 30,000 tons, and although the modular construction cannot build a battleship with rough skin and thick flesh, it is still very suitable for a general cargo ship with thin skin and big stuffing. Coupled with the hoarding of steel, Jiangnan Heavy Industry's family foundation has been hollowed out, and even the factory buildings have been mortgaged to Jiangsu and Zhejiang Commercial Banks, no one knows which Zhu Zhiyao is crazy, but the Rong family hoards flour, the Lu family hoards silk, and even some peripheral merchants of the Chamber of Commerce are hoarding matches, bristles, and tung oil. There are bold loans to hoard goods, to lose the capital of the big people, anyway, there are chambers of commerce of the big traders to take orders, banks also dare to lend, the republic of six years of the country a peaceful scene, is the ebb and flow of the merchants in the north and south of the river so that many small households have no bones, the power of the chamber of commerce is more powerful, even the southwest warlords have to borrow a loan with the local chamber of commerce as military expenses, if there is no chamber of commerce loan, it means that it is not favored, most small warlords know that they can't beat each other, or hurry up to be a turtle with a shrunken head, Or simply roll up the gold and silver and go to the concession to be a duke, but it is very harmonious.

In terms of fiscal taxation, the Union Parliament established a unified tax agency during this period. Financial measures should be taken to comprehensively rectify the malaise of overlapping tax organs, numerous tax customs, excessive collection of tax administration, and unauthorized retention of tax revenues, reform tax administration, and unify the collection organs, so that all taxes will be collected by the unified taxation authorities. Now the industrial and commercial tax has become the mainstream, as for the agricultural tax if it is not a large farm or a cooperatives and other economies of scale, the tax bureau is too lazy to urge, now individual farmers and even some small landlords do not care about their agricultural tax, anyway, even if there is no tax, their cost can not be reduced to the level of factory farms and cooperatives, agriculture that has not used pesticides and fertilizers is not a good farmer, so the agricultural tax and industrial and commercial tax are almost the same, and the tax rate is of course in accordance with the regulations of the Nanjing government. Although they themselves have never complied with this tax rate.

However, there has not been much progress in tariff autonomy, after all, John Bull is still a heifer making rockets, and Niu Bi coaxed and brought lightning, and it was not provoked by Wu Chenxuan. However, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Tianjin have negotiated with foreign governments on many occasions and passed a tariff reform, which has greatly increased customs tariffs, significantly increased the government's fiscal revenue, and also improved the disadvantages of the local government's low tax rate brought about by the financial constraint. However, the increase in income has been accompanied by an increase in expenditure, mainly due to the improvement in the remuneration of civil servants and the sharp increase in expenditure on public utilities. There is no way, I owe too much debt in public utilities, and I can't let city residents live in the dung heap anymore, so according to the standards of Jinan, conscience sewers, schools, hospitals, municipal roads, and sanitation agencies have begun to be equipped in various cities, plus the construction of provincial roads and several railways, there is no deficit before there is a ghost.

Land reform was originally one of the founding programs of the revolutionary party, and as early as the anti-Qing revolution, Qiao Gang Leader included the content of "equal land rights" in the program of the revolutionary party. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the revolutionary party announced its rural policy: "to improve the organization of the countryside, to organize the cultivated land, to establish a law on the maximum rent, and to improve the living standards of the peasants." Its city policy is to "enact labor laws and protect child and female workers in factories." Before Jove's death, the revolutionary party convened a joint meeting of representatives of the Central Committee and the provinces and autonomous regions in Nanjing, which adopted the "Recent Political Program," which stipulated that "the rent of tenant farmland should be reduced by 25 percent" and the burden on the peasants should be reduced, collectively referred to as the "Second Five-Year Rent Reduction." However, only Jiangxi Province, where Huang Kedi was in charge, was really implemented, and the "Rent Reduction in the Second Five-Year Plan" in this province was relatively large, and the actual income of the tenant farmers was much greater than that of the landlords, so it was strongly opposed by the urban and rural landlord classes from the very beginning, and finally the Jiangxi Provincial Government was forced to cancel the rent reduction method under pressure, and most of the provinces did not even have a pretended rent reduction clause.

The Law on the Protection of Tenant Farmers was promulgated in the Northern United Parliament, stipulating that "tenant farmers shall not pay more than 35 per cent of the harvest of the leased land", "all additional harsh rules for tenant farmers to landlords except for the payment of rent" and "tenant farmers have the right of permanent tenants over the land they cultivate". The most fatal thing is actually the article that "tenant farmers and landlords will forever sever their personal vassal relationship, and all previous vassal agreements will not be recognized by the government." In other words, the landlord's family no longer has semi-slaves such as long-term labor, coupled with the rapid development of industry and commerce, and the rapid expansion of urbanization, so that the peasants have more ways to survive in addition to digging in the soil.

All in all, the Nanjing government immediately stopped implementing the measures of equalizing land tenure due to great resistance and inherent incompetence, and did little to achieve. However, although the progress of the alliance of the 14 northern provinces has been fast and slow, the general trend has left the landlords with no choice. In addition, the big industrial and commercial capitalists of the Chamber of Commerce have also factory operated their land in the countryside, chemical fertilizers and pesticides plus improved seed transformation, and also used simple agricultural machinery, which has suppressed the price of agricultural products at once, and now the landlords except for a few small landlords who are self-sufficient, and other people who do not want to be driven crazy have joined the cooperatives, and several dozens of families have also used chemical fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery and improved seeds, and in the autumn harvest, the big grain merchants of the Chamber of Commerce have openly purchased grain, which is higher than their own income for two years, facing the ocean of white flowers, Wu Chenxuan, who is still carrying the opposition, has never seen it anyway.

Now the revival of agriculture has become a loud slogan in the United Parliament. In addition to developing the national economy, the aim was to eliminate the influence of the revolutionary party's agrarian reform campaign. The government provides relief to rural finance, exempts and exempts some agricultural taxes, and provides inspection and quarantine for imported grain and increases fees; Agricultural laboratories have been set up to guide agricultural production and agricultural extension areas have been set up. Water conservancy committees for the control of the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River, and the Taihu Lake have also been set up to build water conservancy projects. Although the Nanking government also intended to do work for the development of agriculture, for various reasons, the practical effect of these measures to save the rural economy was limited and almost empty, and the policies of the revolutionary party could basically be regarded as bankrupt.

Now the total grain output in the hands of the joint councils of the 14 provinces is already 1.8 billion tons, and the flour and rice alone are enough for the whole of China to eat for more than a year, and there is no panic in the heart of the family, not to mention that the white skins in Europe will have the effort to grow grain, and they will not have to rely on American flour and Chinese rice to feed, as for the southwest region and Guangdong and Fujian, it is good to be able to eat by themselves, and the idea of exporting grain to make money is very good, but judging from the ability of the revolutionary party, Wu Chenxuan feels that it is more reliable to study the genetically modified technology.