Chapter 188: To Beiping

Not only Wang Wei, but also Shi Dingzhong, as the director of the Department of Civil Affairs, also stood in Wang Wei's opinion, this is not that the two of them are incomprehensible, if Chahar can produce fertilizer by himself, they would like to use fertilizer for every acre of land, but they do not have this technology. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

In addition, there is no shortage of land in Chahar, and this time more than 10 million mu of land has been reclaimed, and the population of Chahar is only 3.2 million people, and everyone can get an average of five acres of land. Moreover, this arable land accounts for only about 3 percent of the total area of Chahar Province.

In Chahar, there are more grasslands, and most of the Mongolian compatriots are active in the grasslands.

Although the land on these grasslands is not suitable for growing crops such as rice and wheat due to water, their animal husbandry is quite developed and can provide a large amount of meat for the Han people, who mainly farm.

In addition, not all crops cannot be grown on these lands, and drought-tolerant crops such as potatoes can still be grown.

It's just a centralized planting, and you have to send people to guard it, otherwise the cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland, which are often hundreds, if not thousands, can eat all the roots for you.

In a word, in Chahar, there will be no shortage of land for the common people, and the amount of land is enough to make up for the lack of production.

Li Han also understood their thoughts, in this case, they could only exchange a quantity for production. In addition, once the war between North China and the Japanese began, even if the great powers were willing to sell the fertilizer to themselves at a low price, Li Han would not be able to transport the fertilizer to Chahar.

Besides, he couldn't be clearer about the faces of the great powers, they would not offend the Japanese for the sake of China at all, and not only that, but they also provided enough help to Japan's banditry.

After the July 7 Incident, at the most critical juncture of the national army's resistance against Japan, the Soviet Union and Japan signed a peace agreement, the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty. The Americans also continued to provide the Japanese with the necessary steel for military production, not to mention the British, the first batch of expeditionary forces to go abroad were basically buried by them, and tens of thousands of expeditionary officers and soldiers were buried in the Savage Mountain.

"In more than a month, the harvest season will come, and when the time comes, your provincial government will be able to relax a little more." Li Han asked.

Chahar's finances are directly related to the development of the security forces, although the robbery of the Japanese will be faster, but this will not only attract the Japanese to retaliate frantically, but also will not be a lasting way after all.

Only the wealth that you can create is the most reliable. Just like the army, once you are able to produce weapons yourself, you don't have to worry about being controlled by others.

You must know that the national army did not know how much loss it suffered in this regard in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in order to reduce the loss of weapons and ammunition as much as possible, many times they had no choice but to fight with their lives.

It is because the soldiers lose that they can replenish it, but if it is a machine gun or artillery, they have no way to replenish it. The lesser of two evils is the only choice for the former.

"Now a load of grain can be sold for about one silver dollar, that is, one acre of land can earn about two silver dollars, but although we have reclaimed more than 15 million acres of land.

However, more than 4 million mu were newly cultivated in the next two months, and the planting season has already been missed, so we can only wait until the second half of the year to plant wheat. Therefore, what is really harvested is the 11 million mu, and the provincial government's investment in the early stage will be deducted, and the rest will be the provincial government's income. ”

Still, Wang Wei was pleased, and in any case, this was the first time that the provincial government had received a reward from the people, who had been spending money all the time.

In addition to what Chairman Wang just said, the provincial government also promised the people that only 20% of the tax would be levied in the first three years, so that the provincial government could really get 2 million silver dollars.

In addition, there will be another 4 million acres of land in the next quarter, and the total income from the land endowment in a year will be about 5 million silver dollars. Shi Dingzhong added with a smile.

This development is already very good, although the cost of the provincial government's early investment is very high, but the cost is only one-time after all, and it is impossible to spend such a big cost every year in the future. But the harvest of the people will only get better and better, so that a virtuous circle can be formed.

"No matter what, it has finally turned a loss into a profit, and after having food, both the original people and the new immigrants will be able to solve the problem of eating, and they will be completely at home to Chahar at that time."

The income of five million silver dollars a year is really nothing, and the cost of Li Han and their investment is already close to two million.

It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just to buy tractors from the great powers, and more than a million dollars to the provincial government for emigration, not counting the money for peasant loans from government workers.

However, Li Han is still happy, because he does not value agricultural taxes, but commercial taxes, which are the backbone of government revenue.

Due to the limited conditions during the Republic of China, many children were prone to die halfway, so basically every family had at least three or four children, and it was not uncommon for there to be seven or eight children.

According to the calculation of five acres of land for one person, the total income of a family with at least thirty acres of land, that is, the total income of a peasant family in this season can be sixty silver dollars, and in addition to the twelve silver dollars in the field, the remaining forty-eight silver dollars are their own.

Farmers have money and they also have to consume, usually oil, salt, sauce and vinegar or something, not to mention that parents have money to buy new clothes for their children, not to build new houses so that the family has a warm home, every other time they have to eat a good meal, let the children make up for their bodies, before they had no money to ask for a wife for their sons, now they can marry a daughter-in-law, and so on.

In short, only when everyone has money in their hands, Chahar's business will be more prosperous, and the business tax provided to the government will be more.

"I'm going to go to Peking in a few days, and when I come back, I'm going to build a power plant and a steel plant right away, so that our factory can produce weapons completely autonomously, and before that, you have to make good preparations."

Li Han said that the "Silver Act" will be promulgated in the next few days, and the land of North China is about to usher in the climax of silver smuggling.

Especially after Nanjing issued an order prohibiting merchants from buying and selling silver, North China became a paradise for smugglers.

After a few months of acquisitions, the Japanese had already purchased 30 million silver dollars worth of silver from North China, of which 22 million were concentrated in Tianjin, and they would sell all this silver to the Yankees when the time came.

However, it was necessary to ship the silver back to Japan or directly to the United States, because the American merchants were also very treacherous, because China had no international status, and the price of silver they bought in China was forty-five cents per ounce, while the world price of silver was sixty-five cents per ounce.

If the Japanese bought the silver they bought in China, they would have to make 20 percent less money, and they would have to earn more than 3 million silver dollars less than 30 million silver dollars for 30 million silver dollars, and the freight required to transport the silver back to the Japanese or to the United States would not exceed 10,000 silver dollars, and the Japanese would certainly not be willing to suffer this loss.

The people sent by Li Han to Tianjin also came with the news, and after months of investigation and tracking, they had locked on several American and Japanese merchant ships, and as soon as the Japanese in Tianjin made a move, they would know immediately.

Silver worth 22 million silver dollars, this number is enough to make people crazy, if this silver can be snatched back, even if Li Han expands the security army to 100,000 people, there will be no problem.

Not only that, but he can also form an anti-aircraft artillery regiment directly under the military headquarters, equip each regiment below with a 75 mountain artillery battalion, and equip each division with a 105 howitzer regiment.

However, Li Han knew that it was impossible to do this, the weight of this silver alone was nearly 600 tons, and the load of a Dodge truck was only a little more than two tons, which meant that even if Li Han used a car to fit nearly 300 cars, it would be able to hold this silver.

Not to mention where Li Han went to find so many trucks, even if he got them together, it would be impossible for such a vast convoy to drive from Tianjin to Chahar smoothly.

Therefore, Li Han did not plan to leave the silver at the beginning, and when the Japanese sailed the ship out of Tianjin Port, he would blow up the ship, and if the Japanese had the ability, they would let them go to the Sea Dragon King to get the silver back.

Tens of millions of silver sank to the bottom of the sea together, and even the Japanese government estimated that it would take several months to recover.

"Junzao, why did Chairman Song suddenly remember to let you visit the military exercises of the 29th Army, our relationship with the 29th Army looks good, but everyone knows that it is for the Japanese to see, we don't have much real contact, and even there were a few unpleasant quarrels between the two sides."

Wang Wei asked.

"I heard that the Japanese Fengtai garrison has recently held frequent exercises, and the scale of the exercises has become larger and larger each time, at this time, Commander Song Zheyuan invited us over, isn't the purpose obvious."

And Li Han was worried about finding some reason for Beiping, but he didn't expect that as soon as he wanted to doze off, Song Zheyuan sent him a pillow.

This is the best, and then he will be able to do more unaware, and no one will suspect him, who would have thought that when the "Silver Act" was still draft, he would start to prepare for the sacking of Japan.

"The military seat means that the actions of the Japanese made Chairman Song feel pressure, so he competed to let the 29th Army also hold military exercises.

The purpose of letting the military seat visit their military exercises is to let the Japanese know that the relations between the two provinces are the same and that if the Japanese want to take action against the 29th Army, they must also take our security forces into account. ”

Li Han said this, Wang Wei also quickly reacted, under the persecution of the Japanese, Song Zheyuan will definitely want to unite more forces to resist the pressure of the Japanese, the security army is an army with more than 30,000 people, in Song Zheyuan's opinion, it should be a worthy object of cooperation.