Chapter 40: Recovery of Tariffs

The second one was written on a hungry stomach. Now every day, brothers, are you still watching piracy?

-- Yuan Shikai formally forced the Qing dynasty to abdicate, which means that the Republic of China is about to enter the stage of history, and at the same time, it also means that the three eastern provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, as well as Shanghai, will enter a state of autonomy. On February 1, the East China Provisional Political Axe was officially renamed the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

Of course, it is not so easy to get Sun Dacang to relinquish the presidency.

At this time, Sun Cannon thought of discipline and government, the so-called discipline and government is also a form of his [***], similar to the autonomy of the East China Provisional Political Axe.

The approximate meaning is that various localities have formed an autonomous political axe, of course, this kind of autonomy does not have as many autonomy rights as the autonomous political axe in East China, but local autonomy, who is to listen to? Naturally, he listened to his grandson's cannon.

In other words, Sun Cannon wanted to accumulate strength, and then slowly deal with Yuan Shikai.

There is no objection to the abdication of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, but the premise is that Yuan Shikai must take up his post in Nanjing, which is the territory of the revolutionaries, and when Yuan Shikai arrives in Nanjing, his power will be greatly reduced, and he will be restrained by the revolutionaries.

In addition, Sun Dacang drafted the "Provisional Covenant Law" and compiled a grass cage for Yuan Shikai, a fierce beast. If Yuan Shikai really came to Nanjing to become the president, then this grass cage is very likely to be able to lock up this beast.

However, Sun Dacang and Yuan Shikai are obviously too low-level to play tricks, Yuan Shikai immediately wrote a letter to Sun Dacang, saying that he was going to go to the hermit to live in the countryside, he was not the president, let Mr. Sun Wen fight forever!

Yuan Shikai is not the president, this matter will be done, and Sun Dacang had to send someone to Yanjing by train to welcome Yuan Datou to the south as president.

Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin, Song Jiaoren and others arrived in Yanjing, they were warmly welcomed, and what they didn't expect was that Yuan Shikai was very refreshing, saying let's go, and when the old man packed up and saluted, he went south to become president.

So the greeting group sent by the Nanjing Temporary Political Axe stayed in the Liuguo Hotel, the most upscale hotel in Yanjing, and just as they were enjoying themselves in the hotel, suddenly Yanjing City was in chaos.

I saw a sudden mutiny in the Beiyang Army, and many soldiers openly robbed on the streets.

The mutiny occurred by Cao Kun's 3rd Division (formerly 3rd Town), and the 3rd Division fired guns and looted everywhere in the capital, and the whole capital suddenly fell into a kind of 'orderly chaos', which was obviously planned by Yuan Shikai.

In the Liuguo Hotel, the people of Nanjing Political Axe received the news, and Wang Jingwei immediately said: "It seems that Yuan Gong can't leave, let's report to Nanjing quickly." ”

So he immediately sent a telegram to report to the Nanjing political axe.

This is the 'Yanjing Mutiny' incident, Yuan Shikai relied on planning this mutiny, so that Nanjing Political Axe had to agree to Yuan Shikai to be the president in Yanjing.

The East China Autonomous Political Axe did not say anything about this, but it does not mean that the East China Autonomous Political Axe did not pay attention to this matter, and Xia Jun discussed future countermeasures with several leaders of the Baath Party.

Those present were You Zhengbin, Tao Chengzhang, Liu Yazi, Zhang Taiyan, as well as Bai Wensheng, Zhang Jiyu, Lin Chenggui, Wu Feng, Yang Lie, Liu Wenhong and others.

"Now that the Republic of China has been established, our two main opponents in the country are the Alliance headed by Sun Yat-sen, and the second is the Beiyang forces headed by Yuan Shikai. If we want to survive for a long time, neither of these two forces will be able to shake us in terms of force, and the only thing that can shake us is internally. Xia Jun said to them, "Most of the strong fortresses are breached from the inside. ”

"What the chairman said is extremely that if we want the Baath Party to survive, we must be united, so that we can not be assimilated by the alliance and not divide the Beiyang forces." Tao Chengzhang said loudly that the Restoration Society and the Alliance have a long-standing grudge, so the members of the Liberation Association within the Baath Party all have opinions on the Alliance, and as for the Beiyang forces, they have even more opinions.

"So you should do your duty and stick to the bottom line. Especially you guys. Xia Jun turned his head to Zhang Jiyu and his group of officers and said: "As soldiers, you must remember one thing, the duty of a soldier is obedience, under any circumstances, you cannot participate in politics, your use is not in politics, but in war, do you understand?" ”

"Understood."

"Understood."

"It's good to understand." Xia Jun nodded and said to them: "We and Yue Ben will have a battle in the next three years, you must step up the training of the troops, and when the time comes, we will fight a beautiful victory, and we will be ashamed of China." ”

"Yes."

Several officers listened enthusiastically, and this was their goal in the near future.

"Bai Wensheng."

"Yes, Headmaster."

"In the future, you must strictly guard against the activities of Beiyang spies within us, especially Yuan Shikai, who is the best at buying people's hearts with money." Xia Jun said to Bai Wensheng, "In addition, we must do a good job in the counter-investigation of the three provinces, especially the spy of Yueben." ”

"Understood." Bai Wensheng replied.

Then Xia Jun said to everyone: "We will be able to recover the tariffs soon, but in addition to the sea tariffs, we must also have tax cards on land, mainly for foreign goods entering the three provinces by land, which is a disguised tariff." The checkpoints are also responsible for intercepting narcotics entering the three provinces, and for those who do not come to our three eastern provinces to make a living, we must restrict their entry and exit, and we must not let them enter and leave too often, and we must make good arrangements for the people who come to our three eastern provinces to make a living. ”

"Chairman, what should I do if there are too many people?" You Zhengbin said: "Just last month, nearly 100,000 people from other provinces have heard the news and entered Zhejiang. ”

"Therefore, the three most important points in the next step are: first, to work hard to run industries and provide more jobs for the people, second, to work hard to run education so that we can catch up with the pace of the world as soon as possible, and third, to strive to strengthen the military. On the basis of these three points, we must ensure the supremacy of agriculture. ”

Xia Jun talked about the future policy outline, in which the absorption of the population from other provinces is a more important part, and the more the population, Xia Jun will be able to have more points income.

He explained these programs in detail, mainly because he was letting go of the administration, he established a system, and let the people below do things, so that there would be nothing to do with Xia Jun, he usually only needed to supervise the normal operation of this system, so that he could have a lot of free time.

The current administrative machine is not perfect, so Xia Jun has a lot of things to do, and he strives to build a perfect administrative machine.

…… On February 5, Yuan Shikai was inaugurated as the president of the Republic of China in Yanjing, and the provinces canceled reading power one after another, and the situation in China quickly stabilized.

At this time, Xia Jun asked all countries to fulfill the "Tariff Agreement" signed earlier, and Britain and the United States and other countries did not have much friction, and returned the tariffs to the East China Autonomous Government on February 8.

Xia Jun took control of the tariffs and immediately lowered the import prices of various raw materials, including coal, iron ore and oil, to less than 10%.

And Xia Jun promised the powers not to raise tariffs before, and the preferential policies for imported goods were created, so Xia Jun did not mention tariffs for the time being, but it does not mean that he will never mention them, at most three months, Xia Jun will mention them slowly, one by one, anyway, the tariffs are in hand, how to mention it is still his business, when the time comes, boil the frog in warm water, take your time.

Of course, the Yankees were still worried about the zero tariff thing, so as soon as Mo Doma accepted the customs yamen in the East China Autonomous Axe, he went to Hangzhou to discuss the tariff with Xia Jun.

At this time, Xia Jun was far from being ready for zero tariffs, so he said to Modoma: "Our East China Autonomous Government has not yet stabilized, and we lack experience in tariffs, so we must give us some time to adjust, and after three months at the latest, we can implement a zero-tariff policy with the United States." ”

"That's great, it's okay for three months." Mo Doma happily said to Xia Jun, "Then let's sign an agreement!" ”

"Okay!" Xia Jun agreed, called Zhu Xiaocheng, and discussed the matter of zero tariff with Mo Doma specifically, and Zhu Xiaocheng made up for the natural evil of zero tariff.

Once zero tariffs are implemented, some of the advantageous goods of the East China Autonomous Political Axe can be directly imported into the United States. But equally, China will be bombarded with American goods, which will have a violent impact on some industries.

Therefore, Xia Jun will need at least three months to adjust.

In the evening, Li Shijing gave Xia Jun a form filled with the names of many goods, which are industries that may be hit after the implementation of zero tariffs with the United States.

Most of these industries are currently in the production gap, and these are the places that are most vulnerable.

For this reason, Xia Jun was not worried, and he said to Li Shijing: "We just need to ensure the advantageous industry." ”

"What about these disadvantaged industries?" Li Shijing asked.

"Slowly regain the market position." Xia Jun replied, he naturally has absolute self-confidence, and he has an exchange platform in his hand, which industry is too disadvantaged, and he can use technology to make up for it.

On the same day, Xia Jun included in the notepad that he wanted to ensure the advantages of the industry, the first one is the textile industry, which must start from the raw materials, Jiangsu is a cotton-producing land, you can go to Jiangsu to set up a farming company, and you can also go to Hebei and Shandong to buy land to grow cotton.

At the same time, he also had to exchange high-yield cotton, as well as professional agricultural technicians.

The second is raw silk, Huzhou is the place with the largest output of raw silk in China, and the raw silk in Jiangsu and other places, a county is not as good as a town in Huzhou Prefecture, Xia Jun also has to exchange high-quality silkworm seeds, as well as buy advanced raw silk processing equipment.

In this era, a large number of silkworms were raised, and they used raw silk to create foreign exchange, which was an important income in agriculture, and Xia Jun only needed to develop the silk industry on a large scale, and he could suppress the income of this part of the book.

The third is papermaking, not only ordinary paper, special paper should also be involved, in order to make ordinary paper occupy the market, first of all, there must be an advantage in quality and price, and advanced production equipment must be used.

The fourth is steel products, in this industry, Xia Jun can at least compete for China's production and squeeze out American steel products.

The fifth is transportation, everything is inseparable from transportation, only by reducing the cost of transportation, can these goods be competitive, so you must use your own ship to transport.

Xia Jun was busy next, and he had three months to prepare.

(To be continued)