In terms of raising agricultural taxes, Zhu Chengjia meant that after the sweetness of the summer harvest, those landlords would not make trouble after the tax increase.

So Xia Jun raised the agricultural tax, the agricultural tax in the mechanized farming area to 20%, plus the money for seeds, the collection of agricultural tax on the political axe has increased to about 35%.

As for the mountainous areas, although the agricultural tax has been raised, it is precisely this way that the landlords in the mountainous areas are forced to transform and let them grow crops with better economic returns.

…… Xia Jun's answer to reporters when he went to work was soon reported in the newspaper.

Anyone can hear that Xia Jun is angry.

As soon as the chairman of the committee became angry, the major newspapers were much calmer.

At present, East China's autonomous political axe really needs money, it needs money to build education, medical care, and infrastructure, and at the same time, it also needs to build the army.

Someone asked, isn't it a loan?

But the loan also has to be repaid!

Judging from the current administrative method of the East China Autonomous Government, there is no problem in repaying this loan.

After all, now that agriculture is taking off, there is also good development in industry.

However, the issue of agricultural taxes was hotly discussed in the major newspapers. Some of the major newspapers support the tax increase, while others think that the tax increase will not be too fast.

Soon the newspaper published a set of data, and the newspaper found that the landlords were very profitable during the summer harvest.

Especially in the plain areas, after paying 10% of the tax, they can still have a profit of nearly 5 yuan per mu of land, while the landlords in the mountainous areas also have a profit of nearly 3 yuan per mu of land after paying 5% of the tax.

Yang Mingliu said in an interview, "the agricultural tax will not affect agricultural production, the Ministry of Taxation in the collection of taxes in the area of machine farming also consider the interests of landlords, we will increase the investment in agricultural mechanization, in order to reduce production costs for land operators, and accelerate the process of urbanization." ”

"Minister Yang, what about the non-mechanized farming area?" The journalist asked.

"Non-mechanized areas are not suitable for growing food, but they are suitable for growing other cash crops, and the purpose of our tax increase is also to transform agriculture in non-mechanized areas. In terms of agricultural transformation, we will provide agricultural technical support to land operators in non-mechanized areas. ”

"In addition, while we raise taxes, we will pay attention to market and disaster problems, and if there is a disaster or the market is not good, we will exempt land operators from taxes so that they can survive." Yang Mingliu continued, but this sentence is more.

Most of those landlords will likely be eliminated in the future, and then replaced by various agricultural reclamation companies. You must know that the profitability of these landlords is far less than that of the agricultural reclamation company, and if the tax is raised in the future, they will not survive, and they will have to sell their land in the end.

However, under the current situation that the scale of this agricultural reclamation company is not large, it is true that a large number of landlords cannot be allowed to operate, otherwise agricultural production will be destroyed.

The intention of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is very clear, and the policy for mechanized and non-mechanized farming areas is completely different.

Plain areas that can be mechanically cultivated will be used to grow food crops, while non-mechanized areas will be used to grow cash crops that are more economical but require greater labor input.

After the tax increase policy was revealed, although those landlords had some voices, the voice of protest was not loud, and everyone knew that protesting in this regard was useless, because the mainstream public opinion did not support them too much, and they lacked the support of the people. If they try to protest in other ways than in public opinion, it will end badly.

This year, the landlords who planted soybeans, cotton, and sugarcane are not worried at all, because the crops in the fields are growing very well, and even if the taxes are raised, they can still make a lot of money.

Among them, cotton and sugarcane are guaranteed to earn, and the profits will be the largest among the various major crops, as for whether soybeans can make money, the market is not very clear, but there is no doubt that soybean production is very high.

…… The bumper agricultural harvest in the three provinces of East China has made other countries very greedy, and the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and Russia have all come to the door one after another.

They want to negotiate with the East China Autonomous Axe to obtain the agricultural technology of the East China Autonomous Axe, and most of these countries are willing to give something in exchange for these technologies.

However, the negotiations of these countries were rejected, and the agricultural technology will be unique to China and will not be shared with any other country.

Of course, the East China Autonomous Political Axe can guide them to mechanized production.

Since Xia Jun expanded the scale of the machinery factory, the machinery factory has begun to develop and produce machinery and equipment for large agricultural machinery.

It is expected that by next year, the East China Machinery Factory will be able to manufacture large-scale agricultural machinery.

At the same time, because of the machine tool manufacturing plant, within the next year, East China Group will be able to produce trucks.

Xia Jun used the 260 million points received in July to invest in the manufacture of agricultural machinery and trucks, but this time it was a larger component of independent research and development.

It will take time, but Xia Jun still has time to wait.

In contrast, in aircraft manufacturing, aircraft factories are much faster.

In response to the request of the military department, the East China Aircraft Factory created a very large bomber.

The bomber had a 400-horsepower twin engine, a maximum speed of 125 km / h, a range of 1,200 km and a bomb load of 1,100 kg.

It was a large biplane bomber with a wingspan of 30.11 meters, and it was one of the first strategic bombers to appear.

With such a range, this plane can bomb the mainland, but it can't fly back, from Shanghai to Nagasaki is 800 kilometers, if it can increase the range of 400 kilometers, then this is a really useful strategic bomber, at least it can bomb Nagasaki.

It is a pity that this aircraft did not meet the requirements of the military department.

This bomber was named the 'Kunpeng 1 Bomber', and the Air Force only ordered 20 'Kunpeng 1', but the production line of the Kunpeng 1 bomber has already begun to be built, which will be a very good export bomber. At the same time, the aircraft factory will convert it into a passenger aircraft.

The Hammer 2 Bomber has been converted into an agricultural machine for spreading fertilisers and pesticides, and with a 1,300kg load, the aircraft is very efficient.

The Eagle 2 reconnaissance aircraft was also built, which has an extremely high flight speed of 310 km/h, because the Eagle 2 reconnaissance aircraft has a monoplane design and is equipped with two 300 hp engines, and has a maximum range of 600 kilometers.

With a speed of 310 kilometers per hour, the aircraft is the fastest reconnaissance aircraft in the world, for which the Army ordered 200 aircraft from the aircraft factory.

At the same time, the 'Eagle 2 reconnaissance aircraft' is equipped with a machine gun in front, which uses the design of the Fokker fighter, which also makes this reconnaissance aircraft capable of fighter missions.

However, just when Xia Jun triumphantly thought that he had independently developed a design, he deducted 3 million points from the exchange platform.

The weapon design drawings on the Fokker fighter are 6 million points, that is, if you copy it yourself, you only need to spend half of the points.

Counterfeiting is also a way to save points, but obviously you can't take advantage of this loophole.

Since you can't take advantage of the loophole, let's imitate it!

In terms of tank research and development, Xia Jun first imitated the Soviet T34 tank, the T-34 tank was a medium tank produced by the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1950s, which has an important position in the history of tank development, and a total of more than 80,000 tanks were produced.

The T-34 tank is twice as expensive as the American M4 Sherman tank, and you can buy one for 1 million points, while its drawings cost up to 200 million points.

The T-34 has inclined armor, which greatly increases its ballistic resistance.

The T-34 is powered by a 12-cylinder, 39-liter V2 diesel engine with 500 horsepower, allowing it to reach a top speed of 55 kilometers per hour on the road. Another advantage of the V2 diesel engine was fuel economy, the T-34 tank had a fuel tank capacity of 60 liters, and a reserve fuel tank with a capacity of 39 liters hung on each side of the body, which allowed it to travel up to 540 km.

For comparison, the German Type 4 tank is only 160 km, while the Tiger tank has to refuel for 100 km. But the disadvantage of diesel engines is that exhaust emissions are thick smoke, and the tank cannot be hidden. Moreover, the T-34 on the other hand has a lubricating oil reserve of 145 kilometers and is also subject to the breakdown rate, so it is still impossible to travel hundreds of kilometers at a time. Like the BT-7 before it, the T-34 uses the U.S.-patented Christie chassis, which has a load-bearing axle with giant shock-absorbing springs to withstand severe up-and-down bumps. The T-34's tracks were almost 50 centimeters wide, while the tracks of German tanks were usually only 30 centimeters wide. The above advantages give the T-34 superior cross-country maneuverability, which is the hardware basis for the large-depth attack tactics of the Soviet armored forces. On the icy Eastern Front, the T-34 could freely gallop on the ice fields with a depth of one meter, and was called the "king of the snow" by the German army.

When Xia Jun exchanged for the M4 Sherman, he was only thinking about dealing with the infantry in the future, because the M4-Sherman was not a tank used to deal with tanks, and the engine was relatively easy to catch fire, but the M4-Sherman exchanged by Xia Jun was a late stage, and the problem of fire had been greatly solved.

In fact, the M4 Sherman was the result of the US Army's rhetoric on paper, and they did not have the same real combat experience of tanks as Germany and France, so they designed such a tank specifically for fighting infantry.

In these years, Xiao said that there was no tank, so the M4-Sherman was still more suitable for the East China Army, and Xia Jun valued it more than the special surname that it did not need to enter the factory for overhaul.

The T-34 medium tank provided by Xia Jun was quickly analyzed over and over again by the tank factory, especially the chassis design of the T-34 tank.

This chassis design allowed the tank to run at breakneck speeds, compared to the tracked chassis of World War I, which was no faster than 20 km/h.

The tank factory absorbed a lot of technology for this, but the points in Xia Jun's hand were deducted into a negative number.

Fortunately, since the summer harvest, the popular sentiment index of the three autonomous provinces in East China has increased to 5.2, and the total population under Xia Jun's rule has exceeded 56 million.

Within six months, nearly two million people moved into the three autonomous provinces of East China.

After these people entered the three provinces of East China, their main job was to work as coolies, and now the three provinces of East China are under construction everywhere, requiring a large amount of labor.

Many of the coolies in the three provinces of East China have been turned into technicians in technical schools. The number of skilled workers will be further expanded in the future, thus forming a promotion model.

Next month, Xia Jun's income from the hearts of the people can reach nearly 300 million. After perfecting machine tools and machinery manufacturing, Xia Jun's investment in the military industry has increased significantly.

While copying the T34 medium tank, the tank factory began to develop the most rudimentary tank.

Tracked technology has already been introduced from Germany, and there are no technical difficulties in creating tanks.

To this end, the tank factory has submitted a design proposal to Xia Jun.

Xia Jun looked at the design plan and shook his head: "How can such a square tank have the ability to climb slopes?" And the armor is only 12 mm, and it is not hardened armor, and machine gun fire can't stop it, so redesign it! You don't have to build this tank. ”

The tank factory had to design again.

In this design, the tank factory absorbed some of the technology of the T34, such as the design of the turret, and began to draw up the second design scheme.

…… The summer harvest in the three provinces of East China soon came to an end, and the paper mills got enough raw materials to start increasing their horsepower for production.

Since most of the farms are owned by the East China Group, there is a lack of funds in the process of purchasing corn and silage corn.

However, the funding gap is not very large, because the farms have made profits before, and these profits are enough to buy most of the feed.

But there is a gap after all.

For this reason, Li Shengguo suggested that Xia Jun issue banknotes to make up for this shortfall.

"We will issue 100 million yuan first, and there should be no problem." Li Shengguo said to Xia Jun, "And in the past two months, the trade balance between the United States and us has risen to 20 million yuan. ”

"100 million yuan! It's not fun to start inflation. "Xia Jun doesn't know much about finance, so he is very cautious, and he is even more cautious when it comes to issuing more banknotes.

"It shouldn't cause inflation, and there is an output value of nearly 300 million yuan in industry recently." Li Shengguo said, "Besides, we have a relatively sufficient supply of agricultural products, and the supply of industrial products is also sufficient, and even if it is inflation, it is conducive to industrial development." ”

Li Shengguo said for a long time, and then Xia Jun agreed to issue 100 million yuan, which was first lent to the East China Group, mainly for the purchase of feed and the expansion of breeding scale.

This is tantamount to raising taxes to the people by 100 million.

However, now education does not require money, medical treatment only requires money for minor illnesses, and you can also owe debts, and affordable housing is also being built in terms of housing.

In terms of taxation, personal income tax has not yet been collected.

It is still a turnover tax that is levied, and if some inflation comes out, the people can still bear it. Under such circumstances, the central bank soon issued an additional 100 million renaissance coins.

At the same time, during these two months, the trade balance between East China and the United States began to increase.

At the beginning of the implementation of zero tariffs, American goods seemed to have the upper hand, but with the gradual increase in the awareness of supporting national capital, more American goods could not be sold in the three autonomous provinces of East China.

On the other hand, China's exports to the United States have exploded.

In particular, in the chemical industry, the soda ash and caustic soda produced by the East China Chemical Company have been rampant in the United States, and the US soda industry has been hit so hard that it is impossible to raise its head.

In the international market, the UK's alkali market share is simply declining like a dive.

Under the same tariff, the British soda industry could not compete with the soda industry of the East China Chemical Company, and with the increase of the production capacity of well salt mined in Huai'an, the soda industry of the East China Chemical Company has gradually controlled the entire world soda market.

In terms of other commodities, various factories in the three provinces of East China have been put into operation quickly and gradually, and the market of the United States in the three provinces of East China has gradually shrunk.

The three industries of building materials, chemicals, and papermaking are the strongest in the competition in the US market, and these three industries in the United States have been hit under the zero-tariff policy of the East China Autonomous Government.

Not only the United States has been hit, but the markets of the United Kingdom and Japan have also been hit by the export goods of the East China Autonomous Government.

Britain's main export commodities are textiles, coal, steel, in the textile industry, the cotton of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province is mainly dependent on imports, so it did not cause much blow to the British textile industry, but the British market in China has lost most of it, and at the same time, part of the textile industry of the East China Autonomous Government has flowed into the international market.

It is also the main country that operates the textile industry, and their industry has a relatively low technical level before World War I, and the most developed is the shipbuilding industry.

However, because the textile mills in the three provinces of East China have higher technology content, the cost of the textile products produced is lower, and the quality is better, the textile market in China has even lost more than 90%.

In terms of steel, the British steel market in China has also been defeated by the steel of the three autonomous provinces of East China, and with the expansion of the production capacity of the East China Iron and Steel Company, there is already steel flowing into the international market to compete with the UK.

There is also an agricultural pillar in Benben, which is the raw silk industry.

However, the raw silk factory opened by the East China Group has been put into operation and planted 1.5 million acres of mulberry trees.

Although the mulberry trees planted by East China Group have not yet reached the time when they can be used, with the advanced equipment of the raw silk factory, the price of raw silk can still be faintly suppressed.

In the last quarter, Huadong Group has made a profit of nearly $80 million on exports, and nearly $50 million in the Chinese market.

The profits of the East China Group greatly eased the finances of the East China Political Axe, and although the East China Political Axe asked Germany for a political aid loan, it was too quick to spend the money.

In fact, the most money-hungry thing is not education, but the construction of infrastructure.

For example, in the construction of water conservancy, in addition to the East China Electric Power Company's repair of hydropower stations supplemented by the repair of water conservancy, those flood control dikes that do not have the power generation capacity are repaired at the expense of the East China Autonomous Government, because these infrastructure facilities have no possibility of profit, and it is impossible for the East China Bank to invest in flood control dikes.

In addition to water conservancy, there is also the construction of transportation, and the roads between towns and villages need to be funded by the Ministry of Finance of the East China Autonomous Government, as well as water pipelines, telephone lines, etc., which also need to be laid by the political axe.

In addition, the enterprises in the three provinces of East China are also very profitable, and the taxes they paid reached 50 million yuan last quarter.

In addition, another 100 million yuan was issued this time, and the financial situation of the East China Autonomous Political Axe has initially improved.

I don't know whose 100 million yuan was issued this time, after all, the previous profits of the East China Group were basically misappropriated by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, so that the breeding company had to ask the political axe for money to buy feed.

But there is no doubt that the East China Breeding Company will soon generate huge profits, and the money will soon flow back to the central bank of the East China Autonomous Government.

When the Ministry of Education saw that the central bank had issued 100 million yuan, they also issued 10 million yuan of small denomination coins.

Financially, although there is some confusion between the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the East China Group, this does not hinder development, and every fund is now being used efficiently.

(To be continued)