The biggest trouble of the British Empire today is undoubtedly the Boers, and the strong attacks of the Boer coalition forces in the past month and a half, even these young commanders of the Beijing Military and Political Department who have been in battle for a long time are also greatly surprised, and the current situation in South Africa, from the constant news of various news, at least in terms of military strength, the British have an advantage. ⌒，←★om

A month ago, the British army in South Africa was inferior to the Boers with nearly 10,000 men in the regular army and militias, but just one month later, with the arrival of Admiral Buller under the escort of the battleship "Terror", the British 6th Army, which arrived from the mainland and the surrounding colonies, has quickly assembled an army of 80,000 men in Cape Town!

twice as much as the Boers...... But it's getting back! This undoubtedly made the officers who were idle in the Beijing Military and Political Department very interested, and Zhou Ruidong and Zhang Kui, who appeared in the Prime Minister's Office, also came for this reason.

Listening to the mention of his two proud students, Qin Kai was also a little surprised, for the result of the Boer War, he naturally knew better than anyone else, the outcome actually didn't need to be reminded by himself, these guys who ate war meals in the Ministry of Military Affairs were very clear, the Chinese generals who emphasized sea power and logistics supply had experienced so many coordinated operations in Siberia and South Asia, and it could be said that they had long understood the essence of war...... However, it is undoubtedly a good opportunity to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, especially for good officers to gain the most important field experience!

However, even if you say it yourself, it is estimated that these guys will be shocked by their big teeth. The Transvaal and Orange Autonomous Regions cannot be said to be the land of projectiles. But. With a total number of only a few hundred thousand and a lack of the strength of heavy industry, there was obviously no possibility of victory over the British Empire, the only problem was the patience of the British and the pressure they could withstand!

Of course, Qin Kai was still very satisfied with the military affairs department and the soldiers who came out of these young soldiers, "You want to send the officer corps to the Transvaal front...... The plan is good! I basically agree with you, but the shape of war may be changing. Investigating the difficulties faced by the British is just as important as investigating the tactics of the Boers, and in addition, it is advisable to send a few more batches, the Anglo-Boer war may not be a war that can be ended soon, which will give us a great lesson! ”

Originally, Qin Kai's participation in the Boer War was limited to diplomacy and doing some business with the British and Boers, and he had no intention of intervening in the biggest problem facing China. It is no longer a matter of security at the national level, but an economic issue for all citizens. While it looks like he's making good progress at the moment, it's clear that he's still far from where he wants to be.

Seven days later, on September 2o, the first batch of 12o members of the Zhongguan Teaching Regiment boarded the supply fleet bound for Africa under the escort of the battleship "Luoyang", in fact, on September 13, the day after receiving Qin Kai's approval, Zhou Ruidong had already sent a telegram to the 1st African Regiment of the 6th Army in Maputo, instructing them to immediately use the tribal relations established in the local area to carry out a peripheral investigation of the Transvaal.

The list of the 12o officer training corps was put on Qin Kai's desk on the 14th, but the prime minister obviously didn't care about this matter, otherwise, he would have been surprised to see a few names that interested him in it...... Duan Qirui, Wu Peifu...... However, he was studying the proposals of the provinces on economic zones that day, and this is a big matter related to the fortunes of the country, and everything else is obviously put aside.

Since Qin Kai proposed the national tax reform 9 years ago, it took more than 5 years to complete the construction of the entire national tax system in 1894 4 years ago, and with the establishment of the national tax system, the local tax system has also been established simultaneously.

The top-down government system is the body that refines the country's major affairs, and because Qin Kai has almost completely abolished the land tax without hesitation, this has made the new government gain the broadest public support, but also means that the local government is facing huge financial and tax pressure, after all, for thousands of years, the local agricultural tax is almost the most important source of local support.

To this end, in the past four years, the country has dealt with nearly 3o cases of local governments violating national taxes, some bold officials have been investigated for their disguised collection of agricultural taxes, and almost without exception have been impeached by local councils and stepped down, and now those who support local finance and taxation are the first industrial parks from Fuzhou and Guangzhou, and even Qin Kai has not promoted this measure, and the newspaper and media have completed the national distribution of this experience.

The government has given the local government the greatest autonomy and directly stimulated the fierce regional economic competition in the next ten years.

Five or six years ago, almost all local governments used the resources at hand of the government, whether it was from the people, or from the local taxes to get money to build local industries, which naturally inevitably had failures and successes, and even from the number of Qin Kai currently obtained, it seems that the number of failures is better than the successes, but the provinces have successfully built a number of public-private joint venture light and heavy industries, and these are state-owned industries, which have become the first important revenue of local finance and taxation.

However, the production capacity of these local industries, almost in just two or three years, has been replaced by the industrial park industries that have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and this year, in the provincial financial and tax reports obtained by Qin Kai, the textile, silk reeling, processing, wood processing, glass, and agricultural product processing industries from the private sector have quickly replaced the local public-private joint venture industries.

In the past 10 years, the average annual growth rate of the entire national tax has exceeded 14%, and in the past three years, the competition between local industrial parks has entered an almost white-hot state.

To put it bluntly, the local industry still has great similarities, which Qin Kai knows even better, you let two adjacent counties that are only a few dozen miles away to build a completely different industrial zone, which is almost an unsolvable problem...... The direct impact of the rapid expansion of local industries is the rise and fall of local industries and regional industrial competition.

Qin Kai is carefully considering in his hands, that is, the Ministry of Commerce is preparing a new batch of industrial promotion plans after the collection of provincial documents, he naturally understands that the establishment of a national local business promotion system, as well as his own advocacy, with laws and strict law enforcement to build market rules, has caused local protectionism to suffer a catastrophe, and finally created a good situation of local industry blowout.

The regional industrial competition, which is almost entirely dominated by local governments, has become the most powerful driving force behind the rise of the domestic economy, and this kind of industrial competition, which gathers almost all the power of official and private capital, is completely all-out into extremely fierce commercial competition, and quickly created the first batch of industrial classes in China in this era.

Correspondingly, the industrial parks led by various places, in the cruel market struggle, have different fates, some people ascend to heaven, some fall into the abyss, the Ministry of Commerce is now coming up with the industrial promotion plan, in fact, a greater degree of local support from the top, hoping to give more opportunities for new industries to the local government, in order to maintain the sustainable growth of local finance.

However, after thinking about it again, Qin Kai still vetoed this plan very decisively at the cabinet meeting on September 25, and the competition for the construction of the park led by the local government, at least for now, is obviously an effective economic growth plan, but the result of the government's excessive involvement in the economy, he knows very well, breeding and inefficiency, which is undoubtedly the final result.

At the beginning of January, the Beijing government issued a new industry promotion plan to the provinces, and the original local government-led industrial promotion was changed to a way in which local commercial investment was the mainstay, and local governments invested in land and policies.

In just one month, the information gathered from the reports from various provinces has made the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry rejoice, and the new investment in industries including new agricultural product processing, tobacco, liquor, metal processing, and standard parts production has almost effortlessly obtained at least nearly 1,000 industrial investments in 45 provinces, including 17 overseas provinces, and the heat is still unabated!

Among them, some of Qin Kai's expectations are the competition in the tobacco industry, the technology transfer led by Nanyang Heavy Industries, but did not set off their expected explosion, the country only prepared less than 3o tobacco industry, for the huge profits of this industry, as the top level of the Nanyang system all understand, the only thing that may cause this strange phenomenon may be to reach nearly 7o% of the tobacco consumption tax, of course, he has not changed this idea, the future of this industry, he has no doubts.

The flood of national economic information made Qin Kai satisfied, but he was more interested in what kind of amazing exhibition the new round of industrial competition would bring to the country, and he was waiting to see with great interest! (To be continued!)

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