The excavation and construction of coal mines is proceeding in an orderly manner, the power plant has been put into use and is in normal operation, and the renovation and upgrading of some equipment in the arsenal has also progressed. Everything is moving in the direction of goodness.

But with all this progress comes a massive drain on money. The small amount of income from power plants alone will not be able to fill such a gap. Moreover, the steel mill will be ready for construction soon, and it will be a large amount of capital investment. Relying only on the few dozen gold bars left on your own will not be able to support such a large project!

Looks like we'll have to find a way to make money! If you can have someone who is familiar with finances in your hands to help, then it is possible to solve your urgent needs!

Tian Zheng was frowning and thinking, when Sun Yunfei, the head of the government, walked in with a stack of ledgers.

"Head Tian Zheng, this is the tax income of Liaocheng last month, please take a look." Sun Yunfei put the ledger on the table next to Tian Zheng.

This Sun Yunfei is an official appointed by the Nanjing government, originally thinking that the military and political affairs could not be controlled by Han Fuqu, so as to prevent the whole of Shandong from being beaten into a monolith by him, and he also had the intention of monitoring Han Fuqu. Therefore, the government officials in Shandong are basically appointed by the Nanjing government. However, it is clear that the Nanjing government's ideas are good, but the reality is cruel. In this era, with a gun in hand, there is power. Those officials who have been appointed are also deeply aware of this. So they either wisely chose to surrender, or they were stripped of power by the armies everywhere.

Sun Yunfei is obviously the wise kind of person. He saw the situation clearly not long after he arrived, so he was able to accompany Han Fuqu when he inspected Liaocheng. And the young man in front of him, although he is a newly appointed head of the security regiment, whether it is in Han Fuqu's heart or the military power in the hands of others, he has enough weight to respect himself. Judging from his many years of experience in politics and countless acquaintances, the young man in front of him must not be a thing in the pool!

But also, how can a person who can ask Han Fuqu to appoint him to manage Liaocheng with a word, and dare to release a bold statement that he will send Han Fuqu a power plant and a steel smelter, and make certain achievements in a short period of time, how can he be mediocre?

Tian Zheng opened the stack of ledgers in turn, and the cover was separated

There are 18 ledgers with "customs duties", "tobacco and alcohol taxes", "livestock taxes", "slaughter taxes", "pawn taxes", "tooth taxes", "field taxes", "deed taxes", "shop donations", "car donations", "prostitute donations", "happy household donations", "play donations", "poor donations", "charitable donations", "bullet donations", "autonomous public welfare donations", and "police donations". The first eight of them are used as central taxes, and the last ten are local taxes.

Tian Zheng looked through the past one by one, and this month's tax revenue, together there were more than 1,000 oceans. Among them, the central tax revenue has 600 oceans!

This small Liaocheng has so many taxes! No wonder the people are living in poverty! And those who are rich live in abundance!

Tian Zheng carefully inquired about this tax issue. Sun Yunfei spoke roughly. Tian Zheng learned that the central tax was collected by the Nanjing government, and the local tax was their fiscal revenue!

Tian Zheng thought for a while, and said to Sun Yunfei, "In this way, you intercept two-thirds of the central tax and hand over one-third, and the local tax will only be levied from this month, and only three kinds of taxes will be levied, first, if the monthly income exceeds two oceans, 20 percent of the personal income tax will be levied." Second, all factories, enterprises, and shops engaged in business and engaged in production, manufacturing, and processing shall be subject to 7 percent industrial and commercial tax. Third, a 20 percent foreign trade tariff will be imposed on the commercial activities of foreign-funded foreign businessmen. ”

After listening to what Tian Zheng said, Sun Yunfei's heart was shocked! Such a tax reform is to exempt individuals from tax collection and change to a special attack on the rich and foreigners! Especially foreigners!

"Head Tian, there are still many places where our country needs to rely on foreigners, especially Japanese businessmen, we can't arouse their anger, otherwise it will lead to war! Does Head Tian want to think about it more? Sun Yunfei asked cautiously.

Tian Zheng smiled and said, "What is there to consider?" Those foreigners who do business in China have never had any taxes, and they are still here to make a fortune, which fuels their arrogance! Harvest! Collect it fiercely! When enforcing the law, you take a squad of the security regiment to collect it, so as not to threaten the foreigners' guards with force! I turned around and said hello to Adjutant Wang Qi. If anyone dares to resist law enforcement by force, I will take the security team to collect it! ”

Sun Yunfei opened his mouth wide and looked at the head of the regiment in front of him, and after a long time, he hurriedly nodded, "Yes!" I'll do it! ”

After sending Sun Yunfei away, Tian Zheng's heart finally opened up a little. These foreigners run some enterprises related to people's livelihood, such as weaving, sugar factories, salt farms, paper cigarettes, and many big cigarettes, which are basically monopolized by foreigners. Even the match factory was founded by foreigners!

On the territory of Liaocheng, there are more than 40 factories founded by these foreigners, especially the Japanese, who account for nearly half. Most of the big smoke houses are Japanese!

"Adjutant!" Tian Zheng shouted loudly, and after a while, adjutant Wang Qi was brought in by the guards.

"Captain!" When Wang Qi saw Tian Zheng, he first stood upright, saluted, and then shouted loudly.

Tian Zheng returned the salute. He is very satisfied with this period of training.

"When the training is over, you take the soldiers who have been excellent in intelligence gathering training recently, change into civilian clothes, and go to investigate the background of all the foreigner factories and trading houses in the entire Liaocheng area. We can check as much as we can, but the premise is to ensure the safety of the lives of the people we go to investigate! Tian Zheng ordered.

"Yes!" Wang Qi saluted, and then went out to get ready.

"This move may cause a lot of change! However, if you don't, the collection of funds will be slower. The pace of development will also be slower! By the time I actually went to war, I was even less prepared! These foreigners, it's time for you to shed some blood! As for your anger, that's really not a cause for concern! Tian Zheng thought secretly in his heart.

Tian Zheng continued to raise his head to make a drawing, and took out some of the designs of iron-making blast furnaces in the later generations that he knew. He was able to understand these designs and parameters, thanks to the great steelmaking of the DA leap forward era in later generations. Because the whole country was making steel at that time, it is very common to know about the technical information of this blast furnace. The design is also simple, so Tian Zheng once read it as an extracurricular book. However, the blast furnace he designed at this time was based on that, and his research results in the institute were added, which was to further increase the temperature of the blast furnace and train higher purity steel! Moreover, he also wrote a list of the performance parameters and characteristics of several representative steel models, and wanted to wait until the finished products were compared one by one, and then without precision measuring instruments, the production and manufacturing of special steel could be realized!

For example, the steel used as a Type 95 assault rifle in later generations is carbon-59 steel! This carbon content of steel has found a perfect balance between hardness and ductility! This is the ideal material for bayonets!