Among them, Zhu Baosan represented the Ningbo Business Gang and donated 8 million yuan, ranking third. Now it's time for the top three big businesses in terms of donation amount to give their testimonials.

The reason why this event was held at the Spring Festival Gala was because these tapes would be broadcast in various places, so they could be shown while raising donations on the spot.

And the top three testimonials of the donation are the content of the call for donations.

Liu Jinshan was the first to take the stage, Liu Jinshan came to the stage and said: "For today's donation of the first title, I am really ashamed, looking at all the businesses in the three provinces of East China, it is the chairman of the East China Group who donated the most, the script is known, last year the East China Group has provided 200 million yuan to the Ministry of Finance, and the chairman of the committee has supported our businesses and enterprises, has always spared no effort, we and other Chinese capital can have such a prosperous scene, thanks to the political axe and the support of the chairman. ”

"So today, I Huasheng Group is willing to donate the 30 million, one is the support of the political axe and the chairman, and the other is that the political axe can be honest administration and sincerely serve the people. Huadong Autonomous Political Axe is the first political axe in China that truly treats the people as human beings. Third, I hope that there will be sufficient funds for education, medical care, relief, and construction in the three provinces of East China, so that everyone will not go hungry or be frozen, and that the children of the three provinces will be able to go to school, and that the cities and towns will be able to build better infrastructure......"

Liu Jinshan's speech was interrupted by warm applause several times, and then Li Shilin and Zhu Baosan both went up one by one to give their speeches.

This time, it is directly like a political axe to donate money, rather than engaging in charity activities, because there are no charities yet, and these donations will be donated to charities in the future.

Like those Western countries in later generations, charity accounts for 120% of GDP, and it is still such a rich country, the scale of charity is very terrifying.

Xia Jun naturally wants to advocate this kind of atmosphere.

Of course, if you want people to donate money, you must first understand education, health care, and housing, so that people will not leave money to their children and grandchildren.

After all, when children and grandchildren can live a good life smoothly without money, what is the point of leaving money to children and grandchildren?

…… After the Spring Festival Gala ended, the tapes were copied into thousands of copies, and then projectionists from all over the country took them to the towns and villages to show them. The video was released one by one, and donations from all over the country skyrocketed.

The biggest winner this year is the Ministry of Education, which not only has 300 million yuan allocated by the Ministry of Finance, but also can issue auxiliary coins and lottery tickets.

At the same time, when the school is being built, it may also be used to collect donations locally.

Therefore, the Ministry of Education has the most abundant funds, and the Ministry of Education, which has received a lot of money, has begun to build schools of uniform specifications in various places, and the design of these schools is divided into multiple levels, and these grades are determined by the number of students.

The Ministry of Education's teacher training began in the third year of junior high school, and it can be said that I am working overtime to conduct training, and I don't want to waste a day.

Now the pace of the three autonomous provinces in East China is very fast, especially those industries that are in urgent need of development, the pace is even faster and frightening, and such a high pace can be achieved thanks to the efficient administrative system.

This year, Xia Jun has come up with this fundraising trick, which has obtained a lot of additional funds for various departments, and the people of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province are also willing to donate money because they trust the political axe.

Especially now you can't eat and dress the political axe to give you food and clothing, generally food and clothing do not worry, children do not need to spend money to go to school, do not need money to see a serious illness, although to see a minor illness to charge money, but it is also relatively low, housing has more low-cost affordable housing can be bought, many people who have solved the problem in these aspects, are happy to donate money.

The videotape of the Spring Festival Gala in the three provinces of East China was quickly transmitted to Yanjing, and I don't know which projectionist ran away with the projection equipment, and it is estimated that he was hired by Yuan Shikai for money.

Yuan Shikai was furious after watching the Spring Festival Gala held by the three provinces of East China.

"A Spring Festival Gala raised more than 60 million yuan, more than the central political axe!" Yuan Shikai's red eyes continued to look at it, and he didn't find that the businessmen who donated money had a trace of being forced.

Yuan Shikai quickly found his British adviser Morrison and asked him to watch this Spring Festival Gala again, Morrison has been in China for a long time, and he can also understand some official dialects, and with the cooperation of the translator, he understands this Spring Festival Gala.

"Sir, do you see that the East China Autonomous Political Axe asked for so much money for the Spring Festival Gala, is it a drama or is it really donated? Is there a rich businessman in the West who is so generous? Yuan Shikai asked Morrison.

"Mr. President, there are absolutely no so many generous businessmen in the West, they are all black-hearted businessmen who engage in monopoly industries." Morrison replied, only to see that his expression was a little complicated and said, "As for whether they are acting or not, I think it may be." ”

What Morrison said is that it is possible that after watching this Spring Festival party, he did not see any fraud, and as far as he knows, the East China Autonomous Government has vigorously developed commerce, and the British Empire's market in China has shrunk by 80% at the end of the year, and the markets outside China, such as Southeast Asia and Australia, have also been impacted, and it is certain that East China businessmen have made a lot of money.

And if you think about it, you can understand the mood of those businessmen, after all, they are supported by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, how can they develop without the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and another intention of their donation of money is to hope that their political axe can go on in the long run and become stronger.

It's just that Morrison doesn't want to tell Yuan Shikai the truth, after all, he is a political adviser, and if he wants to sit for a long time, sometimes he has to come up with good ideas like the boss, and sometimes he has to say something that the boss likes to hear without violating professional ethics.

"I think it maybe...... Also. Yuan Shikai touched his beard and said in a deep voice, after all, the amount of this donation is also a little scary.

30 million yuan!

Whoever can have 30 million yuan is about to become the richest businessman in the world, how can someone donate 30 million as soon as he donates! It's just too fake.

Yuan Shikai was obviously unaware of the sheer scale of Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group in the fields of papermaking, textiles, sugar extraction, farming, farming, and other commodities.

These areas have occupied the entire Chinese market, and also export in large quantities, factories are under construction everywhere, and the factories are working in three shifts.

How did the tens of millions of capital of the richest businessmen in the world accumulate? They all make money by buying and selling, and there are very few who run factories and become wealthy businessmen, but factories are much more profitable than selling, opening pawnshops, hotels, and the like.

…… However, it is true that Yuan Shikai has no money, and Yuan Shikai thought of rectifying the salt tax after a few years, the salt tax has always been an important financial revenue of the central government for thousands of years, and now there are 400 million people in China, and the amount of salt eaten is even more. If a person is charged a dime a year for salt, then it is more than 40 million yuan a year.

In fact, people buy salt for more than a year, such a small tax, salt taxes of hundreds of millions of dollars are possible.

With hundreds of millions of yuan in taxes, Yuan Shikai naturally can't let go.

However, as soon as Yuan Shikai rectified the salt tax, he immediately found that the market was full of iodized refined salt with the suffix 'iodized 'East China refined salt'. East China refined salt is not only of excellent quality, but also added iodine can prevent people from getting big neck disease, the most important thing is that the price of this iodized salt is very low, you can buy a pack of eight copper plates in Yanjing, and a pack is half a catty of salt.

"Why is it all East China salt?" Yuan Shikai was surprised that he now uses East China salt for cooking at home, but what Yuan Shikai didn't expect was that the other salt merchants had disappeared?

"President, now that refined salt in East China is sold so cheaply, basically no one is drying salt along the coast, and those salt merchants have changed their careers to other businesses." Zhao Bingjun said to Yuan Shikai, "Now all provinces in China are produced in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, and only green salt and Sichuan salt are still supported. ”

"Hmmm! In this way, it will be much easier to rectify the salt tax. Yuan Shikai said happily.

Since the Qing Dynasty, most of the salt merchants can operate independently, but they still have to collect money when salt enters the market.

Now that East China Salt occupies most of China's salt market, it would be good to directly let East China Salt increase its price, so that Yuan Shikai would not have to be too troublesome in rectifying the salt tax.

Yuan Shikai soon promulgated a decree to rectify the salt tax, requiring an additional tax of eight cents per catty of salt, Yuan Shikai's abacus was fine, eight cents per catty of salt, a person probably eats four catties to five catties of salt a year, the average is old and weak, and there must be three and a half catties to eat, right?

That is to say, everyone who eats salt with salt tax has to pay two dimes and eight cents a year, and if all the people in China eat salt with tax payment, even if it is 400 million people, then there will be 112 million yuan a year, that is, 112 million yuan.

In this way, the central government's finances will also be guaranteed.

As for whether it will offend the East China Autonomous Political Axe, Yuan Shikai should not offend from the perspective of the market, after all, everyone who buys salt pays the same tax, and East China refined salt will not lose the market, so it will definitely not harm the interests of East China Well Salt.

Yuan Shikai, who considered this issue from the perspective of the market, did not regard this issue as a problem, so he did not think much about it, and directly issued a decree to rectify and cover up.

Unexpectedly, this promulgation stabbed the hornet's nest, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe was fiercely worded, demanding that the president withdraw the decree.

…… Xia Jun had a good year this year, but suddenly Yuan Shikai wanted to rectify the salt tax, and it was eight cents per catty, and Xia Jun basically didn't make money in terms of salt, basically selling it at the original cost of transportation costs.

His intention is to let Chinese people eat cheap and high-quality salt, Yuan Shikai this salt tax, this is not forcing people to eat nitrate?

Xia Jun picked up the phone at home that day and called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and ordered Zhu Xiaocheng: "Call Yuan Shikai immediately and ask him to recover the salt tax, and let him take care of it himself." ”

…… In the rectification of the salt tax, the voice of the Yanjing press, the Yanjing press sang an ode to Yuan Shikai on the salt tax, saying that Yuan Shikai reduced the salt tax and worked for the benefit of the people.

It is the birth of a saint!

The Hangzhou press was criticized, all because when Xia Jun was interviewed by the media, the reporter asked Xia Jun: "Why does the chairman oppose the salt tax?" ”

"Look at how much water there is in the sea and how much brine there is underground, if the salt mined in Huai'an alone is fully processed into table salt, it is enough for all Chinese to eat for decades." A salt tax is a tyranny, and there should be no salt tax in China today. Could it be that the president wants us Chinese to become a soil eating nation again? Won't you be able to eat that nitrate? The three provinces of East China Autonomous Region will refuse to accept the salt tax, and the people of the three provinces will all eat free salt in the future! ”

Xia Jun's answer raised the banner for the Hangzhou press, and the Hangzhou press was suddenly full of voices opposing the salt tax.

Yuan Shikai wanted to increase the salt tax, but Xia Jun instead engaged in the policy of eating salt for free, which made it clear that Yuan Shikai was in opposition, and even publicly published remarks criticizing the salt tax in the newspaper, which made Yuan Shikai so angry that he tore up the newspaper on the spot and scolded: "This bastard boy, he wants to go for free, he will go for free, and the salt tax of this president is set!" ”

…… In February 1913, for the first time, China held parliamentary elections in accordance with the provisions of the Provisional Constitution. The Kuomintang, which was composed of the League as the backbone, won the largest number of seats, and was preparing to have Soong Jiao-jen as the premier of the cabinet.

For this congressional election, the Baath Party did not send a single person to run for the election, because the Baath Party does not look down on any parliament at all, and the East China Autonomous Regime, which stands out in China, does not need to participate in any central politics.

However, Song Jiaoren's appointment as prime minister brought threats to Zhao Bingjun and Yuan Shikai, and on March 20, Song Jiaoren was assassinated when he was about to take office in Yanjing at Shanghai's Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Station.

Two days later, Song Jiaoren died, and the murderer was captured in the Shanghai Public Concession, and at the same time, correspondence with Premier Zhao Bingjun was discovered. After receiving the evidence handed over by the Concession Trial Court.

Xia Jun looked at the evidence in his hand and sneered, called You Zhengbin, handed him the information and said: "Send these evidence and the main content of the letter to the domestic and foreign authorities, and then let the procuratorate summon Zhao Bingjun to Hangzhou for investigation." ”

"Chairman, shall we publish these?" You Zhengbin asked in wonder.

"That's right, isn't Yuan Shikai going to raise the salt tax? If he dares to accept me, he will dare to fix him. Xia Jun snorted coldly.

After a while, Xia Jun made a phone call to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and asked Zhu Xiaocheng: "How are the things of the united provinces doing?" ”

"Report to the principal, five provinces have already signed their names."

"Okay."

…… Soon, the East China Autonomous Government announced the main points of the secret telegrams and letters exchanged between the convict Ying Guixin, the state premier and minister of internal affairs, Zhao Bingjun, and the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hong Shuzu, in the form of a "telegram."

Afterwards, Zhao Bingjun had to send a public telegram to defend himself, claiming that he was framed and blamed, and at the same time Zhao Bingjun refused to go to Shanghai to answer the interrogation, but under the strong pressure of public opinion, Yuan Shikai approved his resignation as prime minister, and Duan Qirui acted as his deputy.

As for whether Zhao Bingjun assassinated Song Jiaoren, Xia Jun did not dare to make a conclusion easily, after all, the revolutionary party was more enthusiastic about assassination activities than the Beiyang warlords.

What's more, now that Sun Dacang has been squeezed out of the revolutionary party, Song Jiaoren has become a leading figure in the revolutionary party in China.

It is not ruled out that Sun Cannon hired someone to kill Song Jiaoren, and then framed Zhao Bingjun.

In this way, it was a good thing for Sun Dacang to kill two birds with one stone, as soon as he killed Song Jiaoren, he regained the position of leader.

Second, you can use Song Jiaoren's assassination to start a civil war, Sun Cannon has always been pushed behind by Sun Cannon, and this time Sun Cannon happened to be in Yueben at this time, he didn't want to repair the railway and run to Yueben, he is not a wanted criminal now, what is he going to do in Yueben? What's the scheme?

Xia Jun didn't care about the assassination of Song Jiaoren, he only cared about the salt tax.

Soon, a copy of the "Joint Declaration of the Nine Provinces" signed by the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region and the six provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, and Yunnan was placed on Xia Jun's desk.

(To be continued)