Chapter 160: Financial Dilemma
However, since the thing has been done, no matter what the result is, it can't be changed, so Li Han is thinking about how to make the Japanese unhappy next. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Now there are still three and a half years before the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, during this time, there is basically no major war between the Chinese government and the Japanese side, and the Nanjing government began to carry out large-scale military cooperation with Germany in the following time, and Li Han does not plan to make trouble at this time.
The frontal battlefield of resistance against Japan still depends on these elite units of the Central Army to support, and Li Han does not want to affect the big plan of the reorganization of the Central Army because of his small actions in Chahar.
And Chahar also needs a stable time, just like this time the Japanese had an accident in Chahar, the real war has not yet broken out, but it has greatly affected the development of Chahar.
Although Li Hanxin announced that he would fight the Japanese army to the end, in the face of Japan, a great power, even the central government in Nanjing kept backing down, and the merchants instinctively showed their distrust of the Chahar government.
Of course, this does not mean that Li Han intends to wait for the day when the Anti-Japanese War breaks out in peace and inaction, which is also too sorry for his identity as a traverser.
The Japanese government's plan is very vicious, and they themselves are silently digesting the huge interests of encroaching on the three northeastern provinces and Rehe, but they are constantly stirring up trouble in various provinces of the Republic of China.
Not only did he personally act in North China, but he also supported the powerful factions in various provinces to confront the Nanjing government, and did not hesitate to provide them with arms assistance for this purpose, so that the Nanjing government could not develop its military strength with peace of mind.
Li Han decided to go-for-tat, and also started from this aspect, the devil didn't want the national government to develop with peace of mind, and he could not let the Japanese government easily swallow the big cake of the Northeast.
In fact, the resistance of the Northeast Volunteer Army in Northeast China has never stopped, and although by 1934, the large-scale resistance had been wiped out by the Japanese army, there were still many people in Northeast China who were unwilling to be slaves of the country and stood up to resist Japanese rule.
It's just that since the fall of Jinzhou and Rehe, the volunteers have no source of weapons, and the soldiers are injured and have no medical treatment, so everything can only be captured.
However, the combat effectiveness of the Volunteers was originally worse than that of the Japanese Army, and the difficulty of trying to rely on capture to bring the armed forces can be imagined, which is one of the main reasons why the Northeast Volunteers were quickly defeated after the fall of Rehe.
Chahar borders Liaoning Province, which provides considerable conditions for Li Han's plan, he can provide all the conditions they need for the anti-Japanese volunteers in the northeast, and can even directly send troops into the northeast to provide the most direct assistance to the anti-Japanese volunteers.
However, this is a big plan, and it is also a long-term plan, which cannot be achieved overnight, and now Chahar does not have the ability to directly arm the Northeast Volunteers.
Because the security forces have not even unified their own weapons and equipment yet, but as long as the volunteers can provide funds, it should be no problem to help them buy weapons themselves.
Now that the German government has signed a cooperation contract with the Nationalist government, even if Li Han does not have a relationship with Will, it will not be as difficult to purchase weapons from the German government as before, and the key is money.
In this regard, Li Han could only summon all the high-level officials of the Chahar provincial government to discuss how to solve the problem of money.
Originally, Li Han's ability to make money was still possible, but at most it could only deal with small scenes, and before the security army was expanded, Li Han was actually a little stretched.
Because his means of making money was nothing more than suppressing bandits and capturing the spoils of the Japanese army, if he hadn't robbed Zhengjin Bank once, Li Han would not have been able to change clothes for the 145th Brigade at all.
However, now that the army has been expanded to the military level, it is already very difficult to develop the army simply by relying on capture, in fact, it is not difficult to understand that if the more than 30,000 people of the security army rely on capture, how many devils will have to be eliminated. If Li Han had that ability, he would not hesitate to choose to go back to the Northeast now.
Of course, Li Han also has his own advantages, he knows the general trend of the development trend of the Republic of China, and can guide the provincial government to avoid many detours. Just as he knew that in June 1934, the U.S. government would pass the Silver Act, and then he would be able to guide the provincial government to make a fuss about silver.
"Junza, this time the Japanese had an accident in Chahar, which brought a lot of damage to the provincial government, originally I told Junza last time that by the end of the month, I should be able to earn 200,000 oceans, but after this incident, I can only barely maintain the balance of payments."
Knowing that Li Han summoned everyone to ask for money, Yan Zhonghua, the finance director in charge of the money bag of the provincial government, took the lead in saying.
"What? 200,000 oceans have only been exchanged for 500 devils, this loss is too big! ”
He was looking for Yan Zhonghua and these people to ask for money, but he didn't expect that the money hadn't arrived yet, but he lost 200,000 oceans, Li Han almost remembered that he was about to jump to his feet, 200,000 oceans were already worth a month's salary for more than 30,000 people in the whole army, and it was gone without a sound.
Moreover, Li Han has already placed an order for 10,000 rifles with Will, and the order for rifles alone exceeds 1 million oceans, and Li Han originally planned to pay this military expenditure in three months, but now he can't even pay the first month's arms order fee.
"Junza, this loss is already small, if it weren't for the devil pointing the finger at the central government in Nanjing, our loss would have been even greater."
Wang Wei interjected that although he is not the chairman of the Chahar provincial government, he has now basically taken over all the work of the Chahar provincial government. It turned out that Qin Dechun, chairman of the provincial government, had been transferred back to the 29th Army by Song Zheyuan as deputy commander.
Although the Chahar incident made Twenty-Nine pick up a big bargain, Song Zheyuan didn't want to have a relationship with Li Han.
In his opinion, Li Han has no scruples in his actions, and sooner or later he will break into a catastrophe, this time he is lucky, there is the Nanjing government behind the black pot, if he continues to let Qin Dechun be the governor of Chahar, next time Li Han is making some moths, it should be the 29th Army that is unlucky.
"Is it true that the provincial government can't give a penny?"
Li Han said with some embarrassment, he has also contacted a lot of the Northeast Volunteers, and it is unrealistic to want them to provide a large amount of money to buy weapons, so Li Han himself will pay for the volunteers first.
Li Han knew that it was not easy to support the Volunteers against the Japanese, and if he wanted to cause trouble for the Japanese, how could he do it without paying some price. Moreover, when the Volunteers were able to capture a few cities in the Northeast, they would soon be able to recoup their investment.
Under the leadership of the veteran commander Zhang Zuolin, the three northeastern provinces actually developed quite well, just looking at the equipment of the Northeast Army, before the September 18 incident, the equipment of the Northeast Army was definitely the most luxurious among the national army troops.
In addition, the largest military factory in Asia at that time -- the arsenal of the three eastern provinces -- was built. These are inseparable from the efforts of the top brass of the Northeast Army when the old commander was in power.
These were originally the capital that China could use to deal with the Japanese, but now they have become a sharp weapon used by the Japanese to invade China, and whenever he thinks of this, Li Han will be very heartbroken.
"If the military seat is in dire need of money, it is not impossible, we can issue bonds and borrow money from big businessmen."
Hearing Li Han say this, he knew that Li Han must be in urgent need of money, although the Chahar Provincial Government has no money, but the businessmen of Chahar have money, not only businessmen, but also a lot of surplus money in the hands of ordinary people.
In fact, the reason why the Chahar provincial government has not been able to come up with the money is not that they have not made money, and the security forces have been living in Chahar for more than four months.
During these four months, a large number of businessmen came to Chahar every day to invest, not to mention the taxes paid by the businessmen and the government from the sale of land, which amounted to millions of oceans.
However, the reason why Chahar was able to attract so many businessmen to invest was because the government increased the development of Chahar.
As the saying goes, "If you want to get rich, build roads first!" ”
In order to better allow businessmen to invest, the provincial government has allocated a large amount of funds for the construction of main roads in cities and counties across the province. This alone accounts for 70 percent of the fiscal revenue.
In addition, the immigration of Dachahar from outside the province also cost a lot of money, and at the same time, the rectification of local officials, the banning of landlords and militia groups, in the process of implementation, these policies can easily cause local backlash, in the case of ensuring that the bloodshed is as low as possible, it is necessary to use money to solve the problem.
Under the escort of the security forces, these policies were implemented in an orderly manner, and the direct result was that although the provincial government was poor, the hands of the common people and businessmen became rich.
"Yan Lao is right, if the businessmen are not enough, we can also issue bonds to the people, now the total population of Chaha Province is close to three million, and it is conservatively estimated that it is no problem to borrow two or three million oceans.
But we have to make sure that we can repay it on time, otherwise the issuance of bonds will not only become a one-off business, but will also cause huge damage to the credibility of the government. ”
Wang Wei actually prefers to issue bonds to the people, which not only enhances the prestige of the government among the people, but also benefits the people, who buy government bonds at a much higher interest rate than if they kept their money in the bank.
If all businessmen come to buy government bonds, this may have an impact on the government's new policies in the future, and it can easily lead to the phenomenon of collusion between government and business, which is very detrimental to the development of even the provincial government in the long run.
However, in the provincial government, which is already poor, even he, the vice chairman of the provincial government, has to think about whether he has the economic strength before doing everything, and it would be good if someone could lend money to the government, and the rest can not be considered for the time being.
However, Wang Wei also understands that this is the first time that the provincial government has sold bonds, and the credibility is not high, and ordinary people may not buy it.
Bonds can solve the current fiscal crisis, and the greater the purchasing power of bonds, the higher the people's trust in the government.
So in fact, this is not buying bonds but the credibility of the government, if this money cannot be repaid on time, there is no need for Wang Wei to say, Li Han also knows that the government's efforts in the past few months may be in vain.