Before 1906, while carrying out financial and personal reforms, in order to keep up with Wang Bin's tax reform, Wang Bin also opened this Fengtian Guanyin account at the suggestion of his staff, and like the state-owned banks of later generations, he used lending and coinage to make money.

There is also in this period of time in this industrial zone and commercial area is booming, seeing that these businesses and enterprises are making a lot of money every day, Wang Bin is also extremely red when he looks at it on the side, but it hinders his previous one-year tax holiday agreement, so he can only play a dozen side balls, Wang Bin let this patrol police maintain the industrial zone and the commercial area is not in vain, it is necessary for various businesses and enterprises to pay money.

This so-called "patrol fee" is actually not much for protection fees, and it can only collect 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver a year, which is simply a drizzle for the money earned by these capitalists, so these merchants can only pay it, although some merchants oppose it, but it is only a minority.

There is also a reform of tax increases for businesses in other countries, and suddenly all of a dozen businesses are beginning to cry poor, especially for those who only need to pay a little bit of commercial tax every year, this year's tax is many times higher than last year.

Moreover, such a tax policy was advocated by Wang Bin, so it is useless for these businessmen to oppose it, and what is the use of opposing it! Now this place in Fengtian can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, but I am afraid that it is about to start developing, and do you want to open a store in Fengtian after looking for trouble at this juncture? So the businessmen only verbally objected for a while, and then they all fell silent.

"My lord, last year's tax statistics are out." Liang Zilong, who is in charge of internal affairs, brought over after making a simple count of this year's taxes.

Wang Bin, who was sitting on it, heard that the results of last year's tax statistics came out, and immediately had some expectations, Wang Bin knew that this tax reform would take time to see, although he said that he had put forward some reform directions last year, but who could know how much more tax could be collected?

So Wang Bin immediately asked Liang Zilong: "Oh, the results came out so quickly, but I don't know how much more tax is than in previous years?" ”

After Wang Bin asked this sentence, Liang Zilong also hurriedly replied: "Back to my lord, last year's commercial tax has increased a lot compared with previous years, first of all, this commercial area and industrial zone, just the land lease of this commercial area and industrial zone, we earned 2.6 million taels, accounting for half of the entire Fengtian commercial tax this year, plus other commercial taxes, my lord, this year's commercial tax alone has collected a full 5.3 million taels of silver." ”

Liang Zilong's words carried some smiles, this money will naturally mean that the development of Fengtian will get better and better, this adult needs a lot of silver to raise troops and win people's hearts, so the more money the better, only in this way will the status and strength of his own adult be more stable, he will naturally be happy, no one will want his backer to fall, Liang Zilong is like this.

After listening to Liang Zilong's report, Wang Bin was also a little excited in his heart, this year's commercial tax alone exceeded the taxes that Zengqi said to collect in previous years, and in previous years, all the taxes of Zengqi added up to more than seven million taels every year, not to mention when the war between Japan and Russia began, and Zengqi only collected more than four million taels of silver in a year.

Although Wang Bin knew that there would be a lot of commercial taxes this year, he didn't expect that even after the war in Mukden, the annual commercial tax would still reach more than five million taels.

After talking about the commercial tax, Liang Zilong talked about the top of the centigold, as early as the reform, Wang Bin proposed that the levy of centijin was heavy, and it was levied when it saw the goods, regardless of the details. The levy is unusually extensive, and "all the things that are needed for the daily use of the rich and poor from birth to death are included in the levy." ”

Therefore, when reforming the centijin, Wang Bin proposed to eliminate a large number of centijin checkpoints and scope, and only establish centijin checkpoints on important traffic arteries and passages in and out of the customs, as for all other miscellaneous centigold, all the other miscellaneous centijin were abolished, so the reform of the centijin system is a great good thing for the people outside the customs.

"My lord, due to last year's centigold reform, this year's centigold income is not too much, and I only received 450,000 taels."

"Well, this is okay, as early as the reform of the centigold, the official expected that the income of the centigold would be greatly reduced, although the centigold was reduced, but it would be very helpful for the development of business." Wang Bin opened his mouth and said to Liang Zilong.

"In addition to the income of the industrial zone and the commercial area, this reclaimed land is also one of the largest incomes this year, and in the year that the adults asked their subordinates to use the land to attract displaced people from outside the customs, they have absorbed a lot of displaced people."

Liang Zilong paused and then continued: "Although my lord said that this land was cultivated by these displaced people at an extremely low price, the income from this aspect of this land has also reached more than two million taels this year. ”

You must know that although the price of this land sold to the displaced people is very low, but this deserted land is too much, even some large households are also moved by the mind of this land, but for this Wang Bin has long expected, you can want the land but not more than 100 acres, and this land can only be planted after you buy it, and can not be used for other purposes, even so, there are not a few large households who come to reclaim.

"In addition to these, my lord also has some other taxes, such as 500,000 taxes on tobacco and alcohol, 200,000 yuan in forestry taxes, 50,000 patrol taxes and other miscellaneous taxes, a total of 1 million income."

"Well, yes, in addition to these taxes, how much tax has been collected this year?"

"The salt tax of the past year is roughly about one million taels, and this year, after some rectification, this year's salt tax has collected a total of two million taels, and the income of the bandits in this year is also 260,000 taels, so the total tax revenue of this year is 1,100,000 taels of silver."

Liang Zilong was also a little happy when he reported this achievement, and it was the first time that he had doubled Fengtian's tax revenue in just one year.

However, although Wang Bin looked happy with so many taxes, the more than 10 million taels of silver were spent very quickly, and the annual expenditure of 50,000 or 60,000 yuan of the army was not a small number, not to mention that the development of the people's livelihood and education and the operation of his own administrative system all consumed a lot of money and silver, so although this tax is a lot, it is not enough, and it can only be said that there is a little surplus to barely maintain the development of Fengtian. (To be continued.) )