Between the white emperor and the clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day.

Going down the Yangtze River is still very fast, unlike when you go against the river, you often need to be towed by a slender man. In just a few days, Zhou Hexuan came to Zhang's house in Jiujiang, and Zhang Yuanxi took the whole family to the dock to greet him.

"Brother-in-law, you've had a hard journey!" Zhang Yuanxi's attitude towards Zhou Hexuan is extremely enthusiastic, enthusiastic to the point of respect, and he is almost like two people before. Although he became the mayor of Jiujiang, he knew the reason very well, everything was Chang Kaishen giving Zhou Hexuan face.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Second brother is too polite, you are busy with official business, why do you have to pick me up in person." Zhou Hexuan turned his head to greet his mother-in-law again, "Mom, how are you doing lately?" ”

"Okay, all right." Zhang Mule laughed.

Zhang Leyi hugged the child and smiled at her husband, and there were five brothers Zhang Yuanmo, six brothers Zhang Yuanfan, and five sisters Zhang Manyi standing next to her, as for the other brothers and sisters are not in Jiujiang.

Everyone took the car home, and on the way Zhang Yuanxi asked, "Brother-in-law, is the business in Chongqing going well?" ”

"It's going well, I've already caught Liu Xiang's line." Zhou Hexuan said.

"That's good," Zhang Yuanxi said with a smile, "Now that the Nanjing government has canceled the centijin, business will get better and better, and Commander-in-Chief Chiang is really good at governing the country!" ”

This thing was in the Qianlong period, such as the "Battle of Jinchuan and the Great and Small Jinchuan", and the two lakes area was taxed to raise military expenses. Speaking of Qianlong, Lord Qianlong is really the best, Daddy Yongzheng left such a rich treasury, he can be defeated by him, and he still needs to levy more money to open the war.

As for the overflow of gold, it began from the period of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom and remained until the Republic of China, and the situation became more and more serious.

What is Centigold?

It is the local government or the military that sets up centicards in the jurisdiction to collect excise taxes from passing merchants. If you order a batch of goods from Shanghai to ship to Sichuan, you will be taxed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, and even landing.

These taxes belong to the centi, which can be levied on you to doubt your life.

The most disgusting thing is that more than 6 to 70 percent of the money collected in various localities is used to feed tax collectors and officials for corruption, and only 3 to 40 percent goes to local governments and warlords.

Not only that, but the high tax was only levied on domestic Chinese businessmen, and only on foreigners. This will lead to more serious consequences, foreign goods only need to pay low tariffs and low cents, and the transportation cost is far lower than that of domestic goods, so as to dump in China to seize the market.

On New Year's Day this year, the Nanjing Nationalist Government not only restored tariff autonomy, but also ordered the abolition of the national centiary and the imposition of a unified tax on commodities instead.

This is not just talk, not only was the centigold abolished soon in the "national control areas", but many local warlords were also forced to abolish the centijin system.

There are two reasons why the Nanjing government's tax reform policy has been implemented so smoothly:

First, foreigners actively urged. Although foreign goods only need to pay a low tax, it is still disgusting enough, and foreign merchants have long hated it. Even when countries returned China's tariff autonomy, they demanded the abolition of the centigold system;

Second, the promotion of domestic businessmen. Both big capitalists and ordinary small businessmen have long been looking forward to the government's abolition of the centi. Together, these businessmen were extremely influential, and even the local warlords did not dare to openly disobey them, even by the express decrees of the central government.

Of course, in areas that the Nanjing government could not take care of, the centigold still existed. It's just that since the central government has asked for it, then let's abolish it and change the name to levy it separately - although this is illegal.

Although the "golden decade" of the Republic of China is a joke, it is undeniable that the national industry has developed very rapidly in this decade. One of the most important points is the abolition of the centigold system and the withdrawal of China's tariff autonomy.

In order to encourage exports and increase foreign exchange, the Nanjing government has gone into a particularly frantic manner: except for flour, which can be refunded half of the tax, all other domestic goods, including cigarettes, cotton yarn, matches, and cement, are exempt from duty.

As for foreign imports, tariffs on all categories of goods, except for some scarce goods, have been doubled. This back and forth has greatly improved the competitiveness of domestic products, which is a hundred times brighter than the bad Beiyang government.

Therefore, the Kuomintang is the spokesperson of bureaucratic capital, and most of the domestic products have shares in the government, so why not support it?

Chang Kaishen's abolition of the centigold system also has political considerations. That is, to cut off the financial resources of local forces at the root, weaken the strength of local warlords, and strengthen the central government's supervision over the local economy and increase the central government's fiscal revenue.

Alas, this forced local warlords to raise anti-smoking fines (opium taxes), and some simply took the lead in growing opium themselves.

Take Liu Xiang's uncle Liu Wenhui as an example, this classic quote is: The government's house is better than the school, and the county magistrate corrects the law on the spot!

As for the actual situation, Liu Wenhui's territory was full of opium, and his troops were raised by selling opium, and by the way, they also fed tens of thousands of smokers in Sichuan.

What is Smoker? The people who grow, make, and sell opium, and even the dart masters who specialize in protecting the opium trade, can all be called smokers, and there are at least a million people working in the country.

This is a smoky miasma, and bizarre and strange world.

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Gossip aside, Zhang Yuanxi directly asked the driver to drive to Lushan Guling.

Everyone came to a garden villa, and Zhang Yuanxi asked with a smile: "Brother-in-law, are you satisfied here?" ”

"Here?" Zhou Hexuan wondered.

Zhang Yuanxi explained: "The summer villa specially built for you, in the summer, you can bring Le Yi and Wei Lie over." The climate is pleasant, and the summers are very cool, making it a great place to relax. ”

"Thank you very much." Zhou Hexuan accepted it generously.

Walking into the villa and walking around, Zhou Hexuan found that it was very big. It covers an area of at least 10,000 square meters, and there are two century-old trees standing in the courtyard, which were directly enclosed when the villa was built, so it is extremely natural and quiet.

The main body of the small western-style building is only three floors, and the construction area is about 1,500 square meters, which is really ...... What a waste!

Not far in front of the villa, there is also a Changchong River, with clear water and beautiful scenery. When you live here to escape the heat, you can go fishing by the river or go boating to see the scenery of the mountains.

In the vicinity of Zhou Hexuan's villa, there is another garden villa, and I heard that there is a foreign doctor couple living there. Well, in a few years, the villa will change owners, and it will be renamed "Meilu" by a bald guy surnamed Jiang.

Zhou Hexuan was very satisfied with his new home, and couldn't help but live in Lushan for half a month longer, and it was quite comfortable to accompany his wife to fish and row.

Zhang Leyi seemed to be in a particularly happy mood, only she and her husband and son were here, and she didn't have to pay attention to any worries, she even hoped to live in Lushan for the rest of her life.

Fortunately, the translation of "Titanic" was sent to Jiujiang in Shanghai, and Zhou Hexuan read the manuscript while accompanying his wife and children, until the manuscript was reviewed, and then he left with the reluctant Zhang Leyi.