On October 9, 1914, Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall was decorated with lanterns, and the guards and servants were in full swing for the next day's National Day. Patrols at the Gyeonggi Police Agency are also organizing people to sweep the streets and hang lanterns. According to the household registration book, everyone in Yanjing City was given two dimes of silver dollars to shave their heads, so that they could cut their hair and shave their faces and tidy up their personal appearance, and the shops and people's houses along the street also received red envelopes of one dollar, so that they could use this money to decorate the door. The total cost of 1.5 million silver dollars came from Chai Dongliang's personal pocket, and not a single cent of the Ministry of Finance was touched.

In fact, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China is also an empty shell, not only the treasury is empty, but also owes a lot of bad debts. As early as the Xinhai Revolution, the savings of the Manchu court were emptied by Yuan Shikai under various pretexts, and the treasury of the provinces was used up by the revolutionary party and the constitutional governors. After Yuan Shikai came to power, he signed a total of 25 million pounds sterling "big loans for the aftermath" to a banking group of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Belgium, which was equivalent to more than 300 million Chinese silver dollars. After deducting the loan advances made to the Beiyang political axe and the southern provinces in the early stage, Yuan Shikai only received less than 12 million pounds, equivalent to more than 100 million silver dollars, but when it expired, he had to return 67.89 million pounds to the foreigners with interest, which is equivalent to more than 700 million silver dollars!

Foreign devils took advantage of the fire to strike, and the interest rate of ordinary commercial loans was even harsher than Gengzi's compensation!

After Chai Dongliang came to power, the governors of the provinces could only reluctantly hand over the tax revenue to the central government because of the military might of the Jianghuai army, but the money collected was only barely enough to maintain the normal expenditure of the state, and there was no surplus. After the Xinhai Revolution, Chai Dongliang now relies on taxes from the four provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Hubei to support the central government's finances, and almost all the taxes paid by the other provinces have returned to the provinces for much-needed expenses such as relief for disaster victims, judicial reform, and public works. Many poor provinces have seen that they have taken advantage of it, and the tax returned from the central government has actually exceeded their share!

And that's not even the most troublesome, the trickier thing is customs!

The customs are controlled by the foreigners, the import tax is the lowest five percent, and the sub-export tax is not collected, and the salt tax is also bet on the foreigners, both of which are not under the control of the Chinese political axe. But the paradox is that the customs controlled by Hurd, De Xuanlin and others were the most incorruptible departments in the late Qing Dynasty, and in addition to deducting the Gengzi indemnity every year, there was also a large amount of customs balance paid to the Qing political axe, becoming the fattest part of the tax revenue at the end of the Qing Dynasty. If the customs is still in the hands of the Qing political axe, it is not bad if it does not lose money. Thousands of city fox society rats hollowed out the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, including the most famous red-topped businessman Sheng Xuanhuai, most of the government-run enterprises can lose money even if they are in the monopoly industry of making money.

This level makes the two barrels of oil in later generations unreachable!

The control of customs duties and salt taxes in the hands of foreigners is the biggest problem for Chai Dongliang, especially the fact that tariffs cannot be autonomous, which is very fatal for his economic reform.

China is a large country with a large population, and even if land reform is carried out throughout the country, the land that can be evenly distributed to the peasants is extremely limited, and in a good year, it can only barely maintain the food and clothing of a family, and it is impossible to accumulate much. In the twenty-first century, the surplus value of the peasants is very limited. The solution to the problem is nothing more than the formation of agricultural cooperatives, in which the peasants take land as shares, and then the cooperatives borrow money from banks to purchase agricultural machinery and implements to increase the value of the land. However, this creates a large surplus labor force, which, if they have nothing to do, is a factor of social instability.

Most of Chai Dongliang's enterprises are high-tech and high value-added, which is very advantageous from the perspective of making money, but it cannot absorb more labor. Only those labor-intensive enterprises with low added value can accommodate a large number of surplus rural labor.

This is a matter determined by China's national conditions, not to be transferred by the will of the people, no matter who is in power, we must solve the problem of eating the people, otherwise we will wait for the world to be in chaos!

China is a country with relatively poor citizens and relatively poor resources, and an export-oriented export economy is the inevitable way. Once tariffs are controlled by foreigners, imported goods will be relatively cheap, and exported materials will have to face trade barriers from foreigners, resulting in poor sales.

At present, in addition to the traditional porcelain, tea, tung oil, and pig bristles, China's exports are three-core sockets, grinding equipment, bicycles, sulfonamides, artemisinin, and ships from the Guanghua Shipyard in Shanghai. Of course, these industries are very profitable, but there are not many workers who can absorb them, and the labor-intensive industries such as garment processing, cloth dyeing and weaving, cigarettes, toys, and food processing have been unable to open the international market for a long time because of the problem of tariffs.

The labor-intensive industries of Mukden and Mongolia developed to a certain extent, thanks to the fact that the Russians, whose preparations for war were infinitely close to zero. Mukden and Mongolia were already vast and sparsely populated, and there was a shortage of labor. The mainland, which has a large surplus of real labor, is struggling.

Urbanization is a necessary path for national development, especially for China, which has a large population, and there can be no modernization without large-scale urbanization. If we want to attract peasants to the city, the first thing is to let them have jobs in the city and earn more money than farming, otherwise the peasants will run away from the city and starve and freeze?

The Qing Dynasty and Beiyang, what was left to Chai Dongliang was such a mess.

"The resumption of tariff autonomy is a thousand times more significant than the resumption of concessions!" Chai Dongliang muttered to himself.

The resumption of the concession only requires the reform of the legal system, the abolition of the cruel laws of the Middle World of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the introduction of a modern legal system. The matter of recovering the concessions seems to have greatly increased the prestige of the country, but it is of little practical significance, and what is really difficult to deal with is the issue of tariff autonomy.

With the privilege of 5 percent of the low tariff, the British monopolized 60 percent of China's foreign trade and 80 percent of the shipping industry before the Gengzi Revolution, while the United States also accounted for 20 percent of the foreign trade volume, turning China into a de facto economic colony of Britain and the United States. It is precisely for this reason that Britain and the United States resolutely opposed the attempts of France, Germany, Ben, and Russia to carve up China at the time of the Gengzi State Change.

Think about it, if any country wants to get a piece of the pie in India or South America, Britain and the United States are not fighting with them?

Chai Dongliang doesn't care about the little surplus sent by the customs every year, what he really cares about is the stability and strength of this country, as long as the tariffs cannot be independent for one day, the situation of cheap imports and expensive export materials cannot be completely reversed, and only with the export of a small number of high value-added products, how can it provide tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of jobs?

If all the peasants are tied to the land, the pitiful land area of each of their families is not as large as the backyard of the people of the United States and Canada, not to mention the tax from them, even a penny of agricultural tax will not be collected.

You must know that in China today, more than 90 percent of the 450 million people are agricultural!

Governing such a huge country is far more difficult than defeating Xiao Yueben! In the Jianghuai land that Chai Dongliang originally controlled, the land area was about the same as that of Yueben, and the population was basically the same as that of Yueben. As long as China has three or more developed provinces, its comprehensive national strength will not be lower than that of the state, and if it has five developed areas, its national strength will be close to that of Britain and France.

However, there are 18 provinces in the interior of China alone! Together with the border provinces of Xinjiang, Chahar, Suiyuan, Rehe, Xikang, East and West Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, and Altai, the whole of China includes 35 provinces and five special administrative regions of Tibet, East and West Mongolia, Hainan, and Gyeonggi.

There are 40 provincial-level units in the whole country, including Shanghai, which is as prosperous as New York, and Daliangshan in western Sichuan, which is poorer than Africa.

The vast territory naturally has advantages, but it is also easy for various places to develop very unevenly, such a country is pressed on Chai Dongliang's shoulders, and he can't help but feel that his shoulders will always be heavy.

"Are Wu Jintang and Yu Qiaqing here?" Chai Dongliang suddenly remembered something and asked outside.

The captain of the guard, Suopan, said in a rough voice: "Report to the president, the call has already been made, and they will be here soon!" ”

Chai Dongliang nodded: "When they arrive, let them come to my office immediately!" ”

Wu Jintang now serves as the chairman of the "Wartime Materials Management Committee", which is fully responsible for foreign trade during the war in Europe, and Yu Qiaqing himself is an Orthodox Christian, and is the imam of the Shanghai Orthodox Diocese, and also has a Christian name, Paparovich. However, this guy is just for the convenience of Russian trade, and the old Russian Maozi naturally has a good impression when he sees that he is wearing a cross and is also an Orthodox Christian, but if he knows that this old guy has several rooms with a little wife, will he faint at that time?

Where are the Christians in the Western countries who beg their aunts?

However, Chai Dongliang has no bad opinion on this point, his wife Wu Meiqi and Mo Xiaolian are still Catholics, graduates of church middle schools, aren't they happily married? At the wedding ceremony, the school's foreigner grandmother refused to attend the wedding.

Chinese have always had no piety to foreign religions, including local religions, and the first thing the people did was to move the dragon king in the temple to the sun, so that it could not taste the rain.

Confucius's attitude towards ghosts and gods is to exist and ignore them, and even he doesn't believe in them, let alone expect Chinese people to have true faith. In the final analysis, Chinese culture is the most secular culture, and because of this, Chinese culture is also the most inclusive. The three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism can converge, and the most typical example is Emperor Guan, who is a saint in the three religions. All over the world, the Jews who have been slaughtered by the political axes of various countries for 2,000 years still maintain their cultural characteristics, whether they are white-skinned or yellow-skinned and the dark-skinned Jews of Ethiopia, they are all strong to maintain their own culture and customs, but only in Kaifeng, China, even the Jews have been assimilated, most of them have integrated into the vast sea of the Han nation, and a small number have become Hui people with a deep degree of sinicization.

In the 21st century in Asia, only a few countries and regions in the Confucian cultural circle have become developed countries, and these countries and regions have well preserved their traditional culture. In other parts of Asia, whether it is Nepal and Thailand, where Buddhism is prevalent, or India, the birthplace of Hinduism, and the Islamic cultural circle, which is rich in oil resources underground, there is not a truly developed country, and even the richest Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have still been in the obscurantist stage of the Middle World.

Aren't these positive and negative examples just confirming the unique advantages of Confucian culture?

However, for various bizarre reasons, China in later generations closed itself outside the mainstream culture of the world, and at the same time cut off traditional culture, and the Chinese themselves did not know where their roots were, and they believed in nothing but power and money, and it is not surprising that they lost their morality. What's even more terrifying is that there is no enterprise with a world-class brand and world-class competitiveness in the huge China, and can only pick up the leftovers of foreigners at the lowest end of the industrial chain, and the 1.3 billion people have become the world's migrant workers, but they are complacent that they have risen as a great power!

Chai Dongliang's father was a senior engineer in a large state-owned factory, which was one of the 157 large enterprises aided by the former Soviet Union, and some parts of the Shen VI and Shen VII spacecraft were made by this factory, so Chai Dongliang had a good understanding of the level of China's manufacturing industry, and said that the quality of the 100,000 times of compression of the springs produced in this book would not be affected, and the 5,000 times produced in China would be finished. The wear-resistant bearings produced by the three largest bearing enterprises in China, Harbin Luoyang Wafangdian, are only equivalent to the level of the former Soviet Union in the seventies, and about the same level as the German fifties.

When Chai Dongliang was a child, he naively believed that if there was an invasion by a foreign enemy, the People's Liberation Army would take out the secret weapon that had been hidden from the ravine and wipe out the invading enemy completely, completely and cleanly.

When I grew up and found that China could not even produce durable high-quality springs and bearings on its own, I sadly admitted that the so-called secret weapon really could not be there!

After the 21st century, China's steel output has been the world's first, but basically all of them are crude steel for construction, in terms of surface electromagnetic steel, special alloy steel, Sumitomo Trading Co., Ltd. is the world's bull ear, and its added value is dozens of times that of Chinese products. In particular, Sumitomo Steel's deep-well seamless steel pipe, known as the Rolls-Royce of steel pipes, is fifteen times the price of other products of the same type, but even so, it is still in short supply, monopolizing more than eighty percent of the market for deep-well seamless steel pipes in the world.

It is no exaggeration to say that once Sumitomo stops exporting to China, it will not be long before all oil fields in China will be completely shut down, and the losses will be extremely staggering!

In the 21st century, the indignant youths clamored to sever diplomatic relations with the economy, thinking that as long as they did not buy the cars, they could collapse the economy, and this kind of irresponsible remarks were undoubtedly fools' dreams; in the 21st century of global integration, if China dares to do this, it will certainly not be the first to collapse, but China, which has a very serious gap between the rich and the poor!

As a writer of history, Chai Dongliang knows very well that after the defeat in World War II, it is almost a ruin, and the per capita income is far from catching up with poor China, and they are on this basis to lay the road of industrial statehood, with the spirit of conscientiousness and the tradition of hard-working in the Confucian cultural circle, in one fell swoop reversed the impression of poor quality of the goods. At the same time, it has also created one of the greatest miracles in the history of the world, that is, the "100 million total middle class" that has attracted the attention of the world, and the general public has basically reached the level of the middle class across the country, except for a few people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.

The people shared the benefits of the country's development, which brought about a truly harmonious society, and the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the serious social conflicts that had plagued him for decades from the Meiji Restoration onwards disappeared. Even underworld organizations such as the Yamaguchi-gumi have become large corporations, and the "Yakuza people" are no different from the company's white-collar workers in other respects, except that their hairstyles and tattoos are different from ordinary people. Once the service is not good, ordinary people point their noses and scold them, and the members of the Yamaguchi-gumi still have to bow and apologize as if they have a spring on their backs, otherwise they will go back and wait to be slapped by the boss!

It is also regarded by Western countries as the only successful "socialist power". Of course, there is an element of drama in this statement, but it is indeed one of the countries that have maintained a better welfare system among the latecomer powers, even surpassing the British Empire, an old welfare state.

Chai Dongliang profoundly realized that Yueben only embarked on the right path after World War II, and Yueben's economic success also confirmed how the Confucian cultural power in the East should be in line with modernization. Those automobile manufacturers rooted in Confucianism, which once ridiculed Toyota's "annual merit" and "corporate family", fell at the feet of Toyota, and were ruthlessly defeated by the united Toyota people, becoming a stepping stone to the rise of Toyota.

Fortunately, Chai Dongliang now lives in the world, the manufacture of this is still synonymous with counterfeit and inferior, the Oriental flower cloth looks brightly colored, shrunk and faded when washed, the people buy it back and scold, the hardware products of the book are thin like paper, touch it and break, in the eyes of the Chinese, the original goods are not as good as the British, German, American goods, that is, the quality of the domestic products is far worse, and it is not the opponent of the domestic products at all.

They tried to use the army's bayonets to escort inferior goods, and forcefully dumped those low-quality garbage goods with inferior quality through violent means.

Objectively, this kind of thinking also restricts the motive force for the development of science and technology and curbs the spirit of innovation in the country.

The mob mentality deliberately instigated by the politicians has also become a dead end. Including the arrogant Shan County Youpeng, who is not afraid of the mob? These ronins under the banner of extreme patriotism, storming the Diet, the political axe, assassinating the minister, and even the judges of the court are helpless against them, and if they dare to sentence them severely, I am afraid that their heads will be moved the next day, and they will have a bad reputation of "annihilation".

In order to publicize the so-called invincibility of the imperial army, he deliberately exaggerated the role of spiritual strength, despised military stations, supplies, and fire support, and by the middle of the 20 th century, he was still propagating the invincibility of the "sword technique" in the world. Trying to launch a surprise attack within 200 meters and solve the enemy's so-called real kung fu with bayonets against the American troops armed to the teeth.

History has proved that it is precisely this kind of opportunistic ideas and exaggerated propaganda that has dragged Yuben into a dead end step by step!

Armed with lackluster weapons, no matter how crazy they are, they will no match for the US troops armed with flamethrowers and submachine guns.

The rigid way of thinking, the myth that the power of the spirit triumphs over everything, is just a boring joke in front of the massive steel of the US military. Under the leadership of MacArthur, the timid American GIs defeated the Japanese army, and the "whole jade shattered" division in the Pacific theater was as numerous as the sand of the Ganges.

In order to avenge the one-shot expulsion from the Philippines, the cautious MacArthur showed no mercy to the Yue army, and did not even give Yue himself a chance to surrender.

The history of another time and space made Chai Dongliang very familiar with the surname of the Yueben nation and the way of thinking of the political and military circles, which made him have greater confidence in the complete destruction of the Yueben??? Let Yue himself be immersed in this kind of violent thinking that lags behind the world, and at the same time incite Yu himself's narrow-minded national thinking, so that Yu Ben will be chaotic without a fight! This kind of blow will be even more lethal than a direct victory over Yuben!

War, not just on the battlefield!

Chai Dongliang is even more deeply aware that the Chinese must not be allowed to embark on this evil road, otherwise, even if China dominates the world, it will still collapse like a hollowed-out anthill on a sunny afternoon, without any foreign enemies and natural disasters, and it is definitely not only the ruling class that will be stoned to death, but 450 million people will become the funeral objects of this ruin!

Before World War II, the book brought great harm to the whole of Asia, and the native people were also poor and sold their daughters, and nearly half of the bankrupt farmers chose to sell their daughters to the Jiyuan, creating an extremely shameful "Taisho era raised by a bitch". After World War II, it only took 25 years to become a developed country, and it was a rich country dominated by an olive-shaped middle class.

There is no reason why China, the birthplace of Confucianism, cannot do what it can do with lack of resources, narrow land area, and extremely high population density!

A turning point in the way of thinking can produce such a great effect, and can make such a great change in the destiny of a nation!

The car in front of you is a lesson for the car behind!

This small and violent island country has too many experiences and lessons to learn and reflect on in China!

(To be continued)