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Seeing the excited expression on Yang Xingguo's face, Huang Xing continued to report. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"The three northeastern provinces have a total population of more than 5.48 million in addition to Liaodong, and there are more than 11 million mu of land on the register.

Yang Xingguo stood up directly from his seat and said, "In other words, we have an income of 26 million taels of silver from the tax on the field alone this year. ”

Huang Xing replied very affirmatively: "There will only be more, not less!" ”

"Okay, the Liaodong Army has been established for so long, and now there is finally no shortage of silver. Lao Huang, the decision to let you be in charge of government affairs is so correct, my town is glad that I chose you in the first place! Yang Xingguo said with a sigh of relief.

But Yang Xingguo's good mood didn't last long, and was interrupted by Huang Xing's next words.

"Commander, the land tax revenue is good, but the government's expenses are also high, and there are one or two hundred county towns in the three northeastern provinces, large and small, even if there are three hundred magistrates in one county, all of them add up to fifty or sixty thousand people, and it will cost them five or six million taels of silver every year to pay them salaries."

"This is not counting the money invested in the people's livelihood and continuity, according to your intentions, commander, in the future, the education in the three northeastern provinces should imitate Western learning, and strive to have a primary school for every 5,000 people, a middle school in each county, and a university in each province."

"According to this standard, the initial investment in education alone will cost tens of millions of taels of silver."

"This is not counting the salaries of tens of thousands of teachers in thousands of schools, if you count them all, it will cost at least three million taels of silver more every year!"

"Finally, in terms of people's livelihood, the three northeastern provinces are sparsely populated and the environment is poor, and the first thing to solve is the main official road between the counties and between the counties and towns. The three northeastern provinces are so big, and they will definitely not be able to do it without investing millions of taels of silver every year. ”

"Coupled with other scattered expenses, 26 million taels of silver, the government alone will use at least 16 million."

Zhou Zhongju next to him also said at this time: "The monthly expenses of the army are also astronomical. ”

"Commander, now the Liaodong Army has expanded to 120,000 people, and the salary of the army alone is nearly one million taels of silver every month."

"Coupled with the food of the officers and men of the whole army, and the large amount of materials and ammunition consumed in the training, it is impossible to take it without two million taels."

"In addition, the intelligence bureau also needs at least 100,000 taels of silver every month, and the arsenal will not be able to get it without 400,000 taels of silver every month before selling weapons and ammunition to the outside world, and purchasing raw materials and paying wages to workers."

"The last big head is heavy weapons, and all the heavy weapons and supporting ammunition equipped by the whole army need to be imported from abroad, and this alone costs nearly 200,000 taels of silver every month."

"In addition to these big heads, there are also nearly 300,000 taels of silver for weapons research, field hospitals, and so on."

"I'm calculating these according to the minimum, and the army will consume at least three million taels of silver every month."

"So the 10 million taels of silver that the government can hand over can only be described as a drop in the bucket for the cost of the entire Liaodong Army."

Yang Xingguo, who was frowning, sat helplessly and sighed to himself: "The army is really a gold-swallowing beast. It seems that we must be very cautious when we want to expand the army in the future, and we must not expand the army with a hot head, and even if we expand the size of the army, we will not be able to support so many troops. ”

"The commander is right, now I have found out that part-time jobs in the army are made of silver. You don't know how many army commanders outside, although they are all desperately training the troops, and improving the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible. But they didn't think that the hundreds of thousands of bullets they fired every day were all made of silver. Zhou Zhongju couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Yang Xingguo had to stand up and explain at this time: "Several army commanders can't do anything, the troops have just been expanded, and if the amount of training is not increased, the troops don't know when they will be able to form combat effectiveness." However, the daily consumption of hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition is a bit much, and after I went down, I sent a telegram to them that each army should not train more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition per day. ”

Zhou Zhongju's face looked a lot better, but the problem was still not solved.

After some hesitation, he couldn't help but ask: "How to solve the military spending gap!" ”

"In addition, I forgot a big head just now, the navy and local garrison troops, they also need nearly a million taels of silver every month for military expenses."

"Except for the 10 million that Lao Huang can hand over, there is still a gap of nearly 40 million taels?"

Yang Xingguo's brows have been wrinkled into a big dress, and the good mood that Huang Xing brought to himself has also disappeared because of this analysis.

At this time, Yang Xingguo suddenly thought of the several factories he handed over to Zheng Tao, and immediately asked Huang Xing with a hint of expectation: "I heard Bing'er say that the scale of the processing plant directly under the Ministry of Economic Affairs is getting bigger and bigger, how much can it make up for the gap on the side of the headquarters." ”

"Brewing and oil extraction are the main ones, and the profits of these two factories are about 400,000 taels per month. The canneries and fur factories were only about 200,000 taels, and they could hand over 1,200,000 taels of silver to the headquarters every month. Huang Xing replied after thinking about it.

Zhou Zhongju frowned and said: "Then there is still a gap of nearly 25 million taels, and this is still in the case of no war next year, if there is a war, the gap will be even bigger." ”

Huang Xing's eyes suddenly lit up and replied: "I still have an income here, after the harvest of the three northeastern provinces, it will definitely attract a large number of businessmen to the northeast, and next year's commercial tax will definitely exceed five million taels of silver." ”

"That's only a gap of two million taels." Yang Xingguo said with a satisfied face.

Zhou Zhongju also thought of a solution at this time, and his eyes lit up and said: "I can solve 10 million taels here." Military rations and a lot of supplies can be self-sufficient, and here it can be about 500,000 taels a month. Some of the old equipment and ammunition produced by the arsenal that were eliminated by the main sales force earned about three or four million taels. ”

Yang Xingguo's frowning brows finally relaxed, and he was very satisfied and affirmed: "I'll find a way to solve the remaining 10 million taels of silver, that's enough!" ”

"In addition, Lao Huang will be under a lot of pressure next year, and in addition to Liaodong, there is still a lot of potential for improving the land tax in other places. Next year, the field tax will exceed 40 million taels of silver, and the commercial tax will exceed 10 million taels of silver. ”

Thinking about Liaodong's land tax revenue, Huang Xing has to admit that several other provinces in Northeast China really have great potential for development.

If we vigorously develop these places as Liaodong did, there will certainly be great hope for the goal given by the commander of the breakthrough in land tax and commercial tax.

So, Huang Xing was very confident and gave Yang Xingguo an affirmative answer.