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-- The withdrawal of the customs means that China has entered a stage, and the customs are completely in the hands of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, which can build a tariff fortress in China.

Xia Jun announced on June 16: "China Customs will adjust import and export tariffs, and China Customs will refer to the standards of various countries. ”

The great powers did not react much to this, although after the tariff adjustment, their market in China will inevitably be affected, but the countries also see from the strength of the industrial development of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, China's industry has begun to rise, and at the same time, China's market will become more extensive because of industrial development and the coming to power of a clean and low-tax political axe.

As a result, countries are focusing more on investment in China than on exports.

Among other countries, especially the United States, they highly praised the efforts of the East China Autonomous Government in the areas of education and industrial development, supported China's tariff adjustments, and encouraged Chinese businessmen to invest in the United States.

This kind of encouragement from the Yankees is only lip service, and they actually want to invest in the East China Autonomous Provinces, after all, now that the market within the East China Autonomous Provinces has become larger, the benefits in it can be imagined.

Germany has said from the very beginning that China's customs are part of China's sovereignty, that China has the right to adjust tariffs, and that Germany will, as always, support China's efforts to become self-reliant.

Everyone didn't expect that the first thing that the East China Autonomous Political Axe, which had just controlled the customs, was to shoot at the foreigners, and what was even more unexpected was that the foreigners had no reaction, and the attitudes of Germany, the United States, two non-allied powers, on this matter were highly consistent.

With the development of East China's autonomous government, China's international status has risen somewhat.

Especially after the East China Navy defeated the Yuben Navy with submarines, but this is not a fundamental problem, the fundamental problem lies in the administrative efforts made by the East China Autonomous Government after it came to power, so that the three East China Autonomous Provinces have basically achieved industrialization.

What's more, the East China Autonomous Axe has been able to produce a large number of munitions.

The activities of the East China Arms Company in the international arena have also become active, and the number of arms products has been increasing every month, which has also made the great powers see a certain strength of the army of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, especially Germany, they know that the East China Autonomous Political Axe has established a world's most advanced army force, both in terms of equipment and operational thinking, which has surpassed the armies of other countries in this era.

In this era when truth is within the range of cannons, only with strength can we gain respect and the right to speak.

As in the case of Ben, they did not come into much conflict with the European countries in the process of getting rid of the semi-colonies, and they were able to get out of that situation because they had increased in strength.

The rise of the East China Autonomous Axe was much faster than that of the Yue Ben, and at the same time, the struggle was much more intense, because there was a conflict between the East China Navy and the Yue Ben.

However, the hatred between China and Beneaden has been planted at this moment, and the [***] mood of the people in Beneath is rising, and the two sides will inevitably continue to clash in the future.

After the tariff adjustment, imported goods will no longer enjoy preferential treatment, and the tariffs on 63 goods on the tariff adjustment list announced in the first batch have been raised, ranging from 10% to 60%. Only those provinces in East China have not increased import tariffs on raw materials needed for industry.

As soon as tariffs are mentioned, the effect is immediately apparent.

Immediately after the tariff was raised, the national industry felt that the domestic market was much better, and those foreign goods basically lost their competitiveness.

The era of the rise of national industry has arrived!

"After raising the tariff, I think the industrial output value can reach more than 5.5 billion yuan this year." Wu Yanzhang, Minister of Industry, said happily.

However, the growth of industry greatly exceeded Wu Yanzhang's imagination, because Xia Jun issued a large amount of industrial equipment to private capital in early July.

The points in Xia Jun's hand reached 480 million, and because the scale of the machinery factory still couldn't take so many orders, Xia Jun cut half of the orders from the machinery factory, and all of them were exchanged by him from the exchange platform.

The buildings of those factories were all built, just waiting for the equipment to arrive, Xia Jun directly exchanged the equipment to them, and these factories soon entered the state of operation.

At the same time, the machinery manufacturing factory got 200 million points of machine tools, doubling the scale again, and bought 180 million points of advanced equipment for the factories opened by private capital.

As for the remaining 100 million points, they will be used to build pollution control facilities.

Now Xia Jun is crazy to squander his points, basically moonlight. Because the First World War is about to break out next year, Xia Jun naturally wants to pile up industry like crazy.

As for buying technology and more advanced agricultural crops, we can only wait for later.

These factories are generally set up in a relatively concentrated manner, and these are all for pollution control reasons, and the sewage from each factory will be discharged into the sewage treatment plant collectively.

At the same time, most of these factories are built in areas close to the railway, which is conducive to transporting products.

As for the four provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanxi, and Guangdong, which have just been incorporated into the East China Autonomous Political Axe, they can only wait for a while for the time being, because the transportation is not very good.

Soon, this year's summer harvest arrived.

The first to enter the summer harvest is the wheat of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanxi provinces, which are planted with winter wheat and sown in winter, so they do not plant high-yield wheat, and the yield per mu is only a pitiful 200 kilograms, and some can reach 300 kilograms, but compared with the 700 kilograms of high-yield wheat, it is less than half or more.

However, about 20 million mu of the land contracted by the agricultural reclamation company is planted with wheat, and 14 million tons of winter wheat are produced after the harvest of 20 million mu of wheat, plus about 80 million mu of other wheat planting area, a total of nearly 30 million tons of wheat is produced.

Wheat can be exported, and Westerners eat more wheat. Therefore, it is not a question of how much to plant, and the market risk can be passed on to other countries.

As soon as the wheat was harvested in June, the price of flour in the market began to fall, and because 20 million mu of land was planted with high-yield wheat, the wheat output increased a lot, and it was a bumper harvest year, and the price of flour in Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces returned to a normal state.

However, in terms of output value, these wheat still created an output value of 800 million yuan, although this is the output value created by using hundreds of millions of acres of land, which is a bit low.

In July, the rice was also harvested.

This year, the area of rice cultivation has reached 60 million mu, mainly concentrated in Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, of which Anhui accounts for 35 million mu.

The planning has been completely disrupted, because of the rush of time, the occupation of Anhui has already been sown, and the Ministry of Agriculture has to sow again.

As a result, the yield is somewhat out of control, the rice output has reached 42 million tons, because the areas where rice is planted are almost all high-yield fields and medium-yield fields, so the average yield per mu has reached 700 kilograms, of which half of the extensive planting is carried out, and the yield per mu is mostly only 650 kilograms, and the Anhui region still adopts intensive farming, and the individual yield per mu has reached the peak of 900 kilograms.

With the addition of the 30 million tons of wheat, the output of the main grain has reached 72 million tons, while the seven provinces under the jurisdiction of the East China Autonomous Government have a population of only 160 million.

"This grain is enough for the people of the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region to eat for a year, and the grain output is indeed a bit high." Yang Mingliu wiped his sweat and made a report to Xia Jun.

"You guys give me a way to get out! Summer sowing will be coming soon. Xia Jun said to Yang Mingliu helplessly, there are few people in this year, but he took out the grain production capacity of later generations, and sure enough, with one negligence, there was too much grain.

"Chairman of the Committee, my subordinates believe that the population in the remote mountainous areas should be moved out immediately, which can reduce the grain planting area by about 9 million mu, and the same is not suitable for growing cash crops in the remote mountainous areas, and there is no benefit in keeping the population there." Yang Mingliu said.

"And the subordinates think that the time is ripe for relocation, first of all, our demand for workers is growing again, there are about 10 million people in the mountains, and after these 10 million people move out, the demand for workers can be greatly reduced." Yang Mingliu continued.

"I'm against it, chairman, if you forcibly move people out, it will cause a lot of trouble." Zhao Chensheng, Minister of Civil Affairs, immediately objected, "And this is 10 million people, and it will cause a big problem if it comes out all at once." ”

Xia Jun turned to the Minister of Industry Wu Yanzhang and asked, "How much do we need for workers in the coming months?" ”

"According to statistics, in the next quarter, we need about three million workers, and these 10 million people can almost be digested, excluding the old and weak, but now there are about two million people in the provincial capital every month, so once all of them are relocated, I am afraid that there will not be enough jobs." Wu Yanzhang said.

After listening to the opinions of various departments, Xia Jun thought for a while and said, "That's it! In addition, the land and houses in the mountainous areas still belong to the original owners, and we need to provide them with housing and education guarantees. What do you guys think? ”

"The chairman of the committee is a good method, the economy itself in the mountainous areas is relatively closed, as long as these policies are in place, the population in the remote mountainous areas will move out in a few years, and there will be no employment pressure." Wu Yanzhang agreed.

"This method will not cause any contradictions, and it should be fine." Zhao Chensheng also agreed.

"Let's talk about agricultural regulation! Our problem is still here, if we grow so much grain in the second half of the year, I am afraid that the price of food will plummet! Xia Jun said, "What other regulation methods does the Ministry of Agriculture have?" ”

"The subordinates believe that the current grain price must fall a little bit to eliminate the intensive cultivation method, but not to the extent that the grain falls to the extent that even the agricultural reclamation company cannot survive. In this way, the production capacity will be normalized in the form of market regulation, and the grain will be exported abroad to solve the problem of temporary oversupply. Furthermore, it is necessary to expand the area of cash crops and reduce the area of grain cultivation to 80 million mu. Yang Mingliu said, "And all the mechanization of grain production ......"

Yang Mingliu then gave a more mature regulation plan, the meeting lasted for half a day, and the Ministry of Agriculture reached an agreement with other departments on the regulation and control issues.

The agricultural regulation and control policies of the East China Autonomous Political Axe were soon introduced, and the first one was to lower the price of rice and no longer interfere too much in the development of rice prices.

Secondly, the harvested wheat is processed into flour and exported abroad to relieve internal pressure.

In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has stepped up relief to other provinces, planning to provide 5 million tons of grain every year to help poor groups in various provinces.

Under such regulation, the price of rice soon fell.

The drop in rice prices from 2 yuan per quintal to 1.5 yuan per quintal soon reduced the income of grain peasants in the non-mechanized farming areas of Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces, and the landlords could no longer continue to operate.

For those yeoman farmers and Anhui landlords who did not have a minimum wage system, there was no risk of bankruptcy if the price of grain fell to 1.5 yuan.

First of all, grain production has nearly doubled, so even if the price of food is lowered, the income will still increase compared to before the East China Autonomous Axe came to power, and there is no tax, the children in the family are basically raised by schools, and there is no need to spend too much money to see a doctor, so there is no risk of bankruptcy. For those landowners who are losing money, they urgently need to make the transition and therefore choose to grow cash crops.

As for the agricultural reclamation companies, they were not affected by this, but their profits were reduced.

These farming companies are not allowed to change the type of crops planted in the mechanized farming area, and everything is planned in the mechanized farming area, and although the profits have been compressed, the profits are still high enough.

Moreover, after the summer harvest, part of the grain collected by the political axe was stored, and part of it was used to relieve the poor in other provinces.

After the announcement of the increase in relief to other provinces, the other provinces were very happy, but the East China Autonomous Axe warned local officials that the grain was used to help the poor, and that the Joint Supervision Yuan would not be relentless if anyone dared to embezzle.

When he was busy with the summer harvest, Ni Sichong also withdrew from northern Anhui, and this political chameleon obviously had no intention of staying in northern Anhui.

Just when he was about to get a vote in northern Anhui and leave, the joint gendarmerie of the provinces sent people to warn Ni Sichong that if he dared to collect taxes in northern Anhui, he would be allowed to go to the East China Military Court.

Hearing the East China Military Tribunal, Ni Sichong's face was very ugly, the East China Military Tribunal even tried Feng Guozhang, so it was naturally no problem to try him.

The president can't even keep Feng Guozhang now, in case the East China Autonomous Political Axe goes crazy, it will definitely not be able to keep him, and even Yuan Shikai will take the initiative to hand him over in order to compromise.

Ni Sichong, who was no longer interesting in northern Anhui, also withdrew from northern Anhui.

…… The summer sowing soon began in the joy of a good harvest, and the Ministry of Agriculture had prepared enough beforehand, so there was no confusion.

One of the main problems posed by high crop yields is that there is currently too much grain planting, so the area under rice and wheat cultivation is reduced during summer planting.

The Ministry of Agriculture grows a large number of soybeans, forage corn and pasture grass in the plains for the development of aquaculture.

The land needed to feed a population on meat is seven to eight times as much land as it needs to feed a population with grain.

The contradiction is not that there is too much population and too little land, but that the population is too small, the output is too high, the agricultural population is too large, and the industrial population is too small.

This is the imbalance created by the rapid development of agriculture.

At present, the axe of East China's autonomous government is only partially adjusted, and the whole of China has not yet entered a state of adjustment.

At present, the East China Autonomous Government has begun to provide high-yield crops to other provinces, but these high-yield crops are cash crops, and those high-yield grains are absolutely not given to other provinces.

This is so because other provinces are not regulated, and if the whole of China were to grow high-yielding crops, the consequences would be terrifying.

At that time, food prices will fall again and again, plummeting to the point of falling into the river.

As for exports, it doesn't mean that exports are exported, but there will be time to slowly increase the volume of exports, and slowly compress the agriculture of other countries, and if there is a sudden surge, then there will be a very violent collision.

The imbalance in agriculture is also the reason why Xia Jun is eager to develop industry.

Because Xia Jun exchanged a large number of industrial equipment, the number of factories increased rapidly, which led to the demand for labor in industry and absorbed too much of the agricultural population into the cities.

…… After the pattern of China was basically determined, Yuan Shikai began his second step plan, which was to separate the military from the government.

The Yanjing political axe launched a preliminary policy on the issue of the separation of the military and the government, and Yuan Shikai was very concerned about the separation of the military and the government, but the Beiyang political axe obviously encountered great resistance to the separation of the military and the government.

The first thing Yuan Shikai had to rectify was the Northeast, the Northeast was Yanjing's back garden, once the Northeast was unstable, Yanjing would be attacked on its back.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai thought that Zhang Zuolin was a simple-minded character, and once tamed, he would be extremely obedient to his master, so he summoned Zhang Zuolin to Beijing.

In order to envelop Zhang Zuolin, Yuan Shikai summoned Zhang Zuolin to Yanjing for an audience.

Zhang Zuolin received an order to go, but he was a little scared, so he brought a battalion of troops to escort him into Beijing. Zhang Zuolin went to Yanjing to see Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai took out a gold pocket watch, Zhang Zuolin saw that this thing was shiny, and couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

As a result, when Zhang Zuolin went out, Yuan Shikai sent the gold pocket watch and the antique calligraphy and paintings that Zhang Zuolin was looking at there just now.

Yuan Shikai launched a money offensive again, and this method was naturally very useful in the Manchu era.

However, Yuan Shikai forgot that this was in the era of the republican president, and the Beiyang Army was staring at Yuan Shikai's position, after all, it was impossible for the president to be a lifetime.

And Yuan Shikai also saw the wrong person, Zhang Zuolin was born as a bandit, not a simple-minded person, Zhang Zuolin has the strongest ambition, and he can be said to be the most undisguised one among many warlords.

Zhang Zuolin accepted the things, and of course he was grateful.

Then Yuan Shikai sent his brother Zhang Xiluan as the governor of Fengtian and was in charge of local administration, thinking that he would cooperate well with Zhang Zuolin, because Zhang Xiluan was Zhang Zuolin's godfather.

However, Zhang Zuolin is already full-fledged, holding an integrated division of the Beiyang Army, and he has long wanted to dominate the Northeast, so he often embarrasses Zhang Xiluan.

Zhang Zuolin has a gambling game at home, and those rich people who want to be promoted take the initiative to lose money at the gambling table, and the more money they lose, the greater the official position Zhang Zuolin gives.

But these official positions need to be approved and appointed by the Governor's Office, Zhang Xiluan approves that everything is fine, if Zhang Xiluan does not approve it after a few days, then Zhang Zuolin will take the guards to make trouble in the Governor's Mansion, and smash things when he enters, Zhang Xiluan does not dare to be angry, and often pulls Zhang Zuolin to his secret room, while saying to others: "He is drunk again, this kid likes to mess around when he is drunk." ”

Zhang Xiluan is seventy-one years old, and he is often sick by this godson, Yuan Shikai saw that Zhang Xiluan could not suppress Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang Zuolin's ambition has been fully exposed.

So Yuan Shikai wanted to transfer Zhang Zuolin, so he gave an order to let Zhang Zuolin go to garrison Chahar (Inner Mongolia region), Zhang Zuolin was anxious after receiving the appointment, and directly sent a telegram to Yanjing, to the effect that "the Xinhai Revolution and the Second Revolution of the Kuomintang, you will transfer all the northern troops, if it weren't for my old Zhang sitting in the northeast, can the Yanjing regime be consolidated?" ”

Yuan Shikai was very angry when he heard this, but Yuan Shikai soon learned the news that Zhang Zuolin was drafting the 'Fengtian Security Association Charter' in the Northeast.

This so-called 'Fengtian Security Council Charter', that is, a disguised autonomy implemented in the Northeast during the Xinhai Revolution, made Yuan Shikai so angry that he slapped the table and scolded: "What a good Zhang Zuolin, it is really a wolf ambition." ”

Yuan Shikai was angry, but this time the central government wants to separate the military and the government, and the local governors below already have opinions, if they are sent to recruit Zhang Zuolin, then the consequences will not be very ideal, and there may even be some worse situations.

…… In Hangzhou, Bai Wensheng reported to Xia Jun about the situation in Yanjing.

Military intelligence agency personnel found in Yanjing and the northeast region that Zhang Zuolin was drafting the constitution of the security committee and was working against Yuan Shikai.

Xia Jun was very interested after reading this information, obviously Yuan Shikai compromised Zhang Zuolin in history, and Zhang Zuolin was the most active in fighting a civil war in Chinese history, and he had launched two Zhifeng wars, and the cause of the war was that Zhang Zuolin wanted to expand into the Guannai.

This person is also a pawn used to incite the Chinese civil war, and as soon as Zhang Zuolin died, his son Zhang Xueliang directly left the three eastern provinces and ran away.

"Since Yuan Shikai intends to rectify the place and separate the military and the government, he naturally needs to give some help." Xia Jun laughed after reading the report.

Immediately, a phone call was made to Yanjing.

Since the last meeting in Xuzhou, there has been a new development in communication between Beiyang and East China, that is, Xia Jun and Yuan Shikai have installed radio telephones on both sides, so the communication is very convenient.

…… This made Yuan Shikai have nothing to do, and when he was about to compromise with Zhang Zuolin, Xia Jun's call came.

"Yuan Gong is worried about Zhang Zuolin?" Xia Jun asked on the other end of the phone, Yuan Shikai was shocked, secretly guarded, and said: "It's not a big deal, it's just that there is a small situation in the northeast." ”

"Really? However, I heard that Zhang Zuolin was drafting the constitution of the security association, I don't know how Yuan Gong should deal with it? You must know that when we signed the "East China Provisional Treaty Law", it was stipulated that this area in the northeast belongs to the territory of the central government, and if this territory is occupied by others, how can the central government collect taxes? How can I pay off my loan? ”

When Yuan Shikai heard this, it was not right!

What tricks does this kid do? It seems that he is very supportive of the central government's separation of military and political affairs.

"Xia boy, what are your plans?" Yuan Shikai couldn't understand and simply asked directly, Xia Jun laughed and said: "If the central government can't control the three eastern provinces, how can I invest in the three eastern provinces in East China, that Zhang Zuolin was born as a bandit, and he said that he was dancing in the back, and Yuan Gongdang immediately banned it." ”

"The central army has not yet been trained, and it is really ...... at this time" Yuan Shikai was saying, Xia Jun interrupted him and said: "If the central government is unable to send troops, I am willing to send a division in East China to assist the central government, and we can all pay for the military expenses, and after Zhang Zuolin is banned, the three eastern provinces will also be under the jurisdiction of the central government." ”

"Is that true?" Yuan Shikai asked with some disbelief.

"Naturally, we fully support the central government's implementation of the separation of military and political affairs, and military personnel should not interfere in local administration, if they interfere in local administration, the local area will definitely be a mess by them." Xia Jun fully expressed his attitude.

What he can't tolerate the most about the current Beiyang political axe is this state of inseparability between military and government, so that his joint gendarmerie and the joint supervision yuan are not going to become a two-in-one version.

"You don't have any conditions?" Yuan Shikai said very openly, and asked Xia Jun directly.

Xia Jun and Yuan Shikai have already spoken very openly in Xuzhou, and the two have been in contact before the Xinhai Revolution, so it is not bad for the two to have a personal relationship! At the very least, no matter how much the fight takes, there will be plenty of room for maneuver politically, and if one side fails, at least life and property will not be threatened.

Xia Jun smiled: "There are some conditions!" That is, Shanxi and Guangdong were merged into our East China Autonomous Political Axe. ”

"Okay, that's it." Yuan Shikai agreed, he had an understanding of the situation in Shanxi and Guangdong provinces, and as far as he knew, Yan Xishan in Shanxi and Chen Jiongming in Guangdong had already taken refuge in the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and although the two provinces were nominally not incorporated into the East China Autonomous Political Axe, in fact they were already so.

This condition is basically nothing.

"If Yuan Gong has any specific actions, call me when the time comes, if he Zhang Zuolin dares to resist the central government, we will definitely send troops in East China." Xia Jun said.

"Okay." Yuan Shikai hung up the phone in a big joy.

Yuan Shikai was very happy when he had dinner in the evening, and Yuan Keding couldn't help but be surprised, wasn't he still angry with Zhang Zuolin just now?

"Dad, what makes you so happy?" Yuan Keding asked puzzled.

"Keding, there is a good thing today, a great thing!" Yuan Shikai said with a red face: "Zhang Zuolin, that kid, wait to be shot!" ”

"Huh?"

"That kid Xia Jun told me that if Zhang Zuolin rebelled against the central government, he would definitely send troops in East China to help the central government sanction Zhang Zuolin." Yuan Shikai said.

Yuan Keding couldn't understand it and asked, "Will there be fraud in it?" It seems to be very abnormal. ”

"Nothing out of the ordinary." Yuan Shikai said with a smile: "That kid has great ability, but he doesn't have great ambitions for the territory. However, he cares about national affairs, and he can't see the people being oppressed, and then he loves money. ”

"If our central government can separate the military and the government, then the people will naturally be much better, and it will be conducive to local stability, and this kid can also invest in the provinces, which is in line with his surname. Besides, Zhang Zuolin was agitating behind him, and Xia Jun's kid was the most defensive of himself, so he couldn't help it. Yuan Shikai said with a smile: "He is even willing to pay for military expenses." ”

(To be continued)