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Chapter 1588 Where Does the Money Come From?

While the war in Central Asia was raging, the South China Central Financial Work Conference was also held at the Xiaonanhai Conference Hall in Xinjing, which was attended by party and government leaders such as An Yi, Xu Ziliang, Gong Qian, Zhou Chongan, Wu Tingyan, Dong Fuchuan, Hu Xuelan, He Jing, Ou Chuer, and Wu Hongqing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At present, Zhou Chongan is summing up his work: "The financial work in the first five months of this year was carried out under the direct leadership and vigorous support of the central government, in line with the general principle of unifying the management of state fiscal revenue and expenditure, striving for a balance between fiscal revenue and expenditure, and stabilizing financial prices. I would now like to systematically summarize the main takeaways and some important lessons learned from the fiscal work.

"First, the management of state fiscal revenue and expenditure has been unified. Since the establishment of the central government, we have promulgated a series of laws, such as stamp duty, value-added tax, business tax, resource tax, deed tax, education surcharge tax, land use tax, real estate tax, urban and rural and road maintenance and construction tax, consumption tax, vehicle purchase tax, vehicle and vessel tax, tobacco tax, customs duties, ship tonnage tax, fixed asset investment direction adjustment tax, enterprise income tax, individual income tax and other tax laws. In terms of institutions, the Treasury Regulations, the 1938 Plans for the Establishment of Governments at All Levels, and the Standards for the Supply of Staff were promulgated; In addition, a number of important laws and regulations, such as the method for setting up financial inspection organs, the procedures for compiling and examining budget and final accounts, and various accounting systems, have been drawn up and promulgated one after another. As a result of this series of measures and the resolute implementation of the government at all levels, our fiscal work has been completely unified since May.

"In terms of the legal system: the vast majority of regions have uniformly implemented the provisions of the central government, so that the whole country is in step with each other, which is conducive to the exchange of materials between urban and rural areas, and gradually makes the people's burden more equitable. For example, since the establishment of the national tax daily reporting system, the national city tax revenue can be reported by municipalities directly under the Central Government, provincial capitals, and provincial municipalities every other day, and the figure accounts for about three-quarters of the total revenue of each tax on a daily basis. Tariffs and tobacco taxes can be reported every other day, accounting for about nine-tenths of the total daily revenue of these two taxes, and the revenues of other small cities, villages, and smaller customs, cards, and salt farms can also be reported every other day. During the season when the state spends money to purchase grain, we can also get reports on the purchase and storage of the whole country every ten years, and most of the grain purchased by various localities can enter our war readiness warehouses on time, so that we can know the actual situation of the whole country at any time.

"In terms of revenue and expenditure management: Except for the reconstruction and construction of rural and urban cities, primary schools in rural towns and cities, middle schools at the county and city levels, and state-run universities, which are earmarked by the state, other expenditures, including the purchase of grain from peasants, the budgets of governments at and above the district level, the armed forces, the armed police, and the public security forces, as well as the organs and organizations provided or subsidized by the state, are all managed by the central finance in a unified manner, and can be paid to the central finance by the financial departments or logistics departments at all levels on a monthly or quarterly basis in accordance with the budgets prepared and distributed.

"In terms of cash management, we are not only able to keep abreast of all the country's revenues, but also to develop checks and disbursement funds on a daily basis based on reports on taxes and treasury disbursements. As a result of this unification of revenue and expenditure management, we have been able to prioritize priorities, manage expenditures, and concentrate our efforts on ensuring the supply of troops. In terms of food supply, basically the grain can be delivered to the army when it goes there, and we have also taken out 1 million tons of grain and handed it over to the Ministry of Commerce to transfer to the urban grain market, and 50,000 tons to the civil affairs department for disaster relief and other emergencies. ”

Zhou Chongan said this, took a sip of water, and saw that all the government compounds, including An Yi, were looking at him intently, and reported again:

Second, after deducting the state's large-scale urban and industrial construction, the central government has basically achieved a balance between revenue and expenditure. In terms of income, due to the integrated tax collection model of southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan and South China, and southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan have developed for many years, with a strong industrial base, developed commerce, frequent logistics, and high levels of public consumption, we have a unique advantage in taxation, and in the first five months, we collected 7 billion Chinese dollars in taxes through various taxes, although the total economic volume is only one percent of the United States, but it is enough to maintain our normal expenses. I believe that with the deepening of the construction of Nanhua, our income will increase significantly.

"Of course, for the time being, fiscal revenues can only meet our normal expenditures for the purchase of grain and the maintenance of the government and the army, and other inputs, such as science and technology and weapons research and development, education expenditures, transportation and urban infrastructure construction, the hoarding and introduction of strategic materials such as crude oil and grain, and the construction of industrial bases, are mainly maintained through profits earned from overseas investment and trade. Public is public, private is private, many people know that we Nanhua is very rich, but it is not clear how to have a rich law, now I will give you an explanation of this asset, so that everyone has a general understanding of our financial situation.

"Overseas investment and trade belong to the private property of the military and political groups with Chairman An as the core, mainly the Jiangnan Group, the South Sichuan Group, the Yunnan Group and the steel, machinery, electrical appliances, engines, food, military industry, medicine and other group enterprises invested in the name of these three groups, of which the core product is medicine. We have patents for sulfonamides, special cold medicines, penicillin and simoxicillin and other drugs, in Europe and the United States has a wide range of markets, every year drug sales are rising, to this year, with the tension between Europe and Asia, the procurement of various things intensified, and the outbreak of terrible infectious diseases in Australia, our drug sales have seen an explosive development, only the first five months, through open channels and underground black market, our drug sales have reached 1.8 billion US dollars, net profit of up to 1 billion US dollars, The Australians, who are the main buyers, have accumulated decades of gold, silver and other wealth, which has been flowing into South China, so everyone sees that our various investments are in an orderly manner, and the money seems to be inexhaustible, but they don't understand that the money is actually a subsidy for Chairman An.

"In addition to medicines, Chairman An also has other aspects of income, but this involves our military and intelligence departments, which is a confidential object, I will not describe them one by one here, you just need to know that our real financial revenue can only maintain the basic operation of the government and the army, but it is impossible to develop greatly, and this is still in the case of getting taxes from southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan can only reach the level, if you only rely on Nanhua, it is estimated that even everyone here will not receive salaries."

There was a burst of chuckles in the conference room, and Ou Chu'er, who was already a little bloated in her lower abdomen, smiled slightly, and took the initiative to take over the conversation: "The third point of financial work involves our financial sector, so let me explain it."

"After entering June, financial prices in South China have stabilized. As fiscal revenues and expenditures are close to equilibrium, there has been a marked change in financial prices throughout the country. According to the statistics of the head office of the central bank, in the first month of the issuance of the Chinese yuan and during the period of the restructuring of private banks, there was a period of sharp rise in prices, but with the introduction of the central regulation and control policies, especially after we intensified our crackdown on speculators, prices fell abruptly and became more and more stable, and the prices of people's daily necessities, such as grain, cloth, fuel, and so on, fell steadily and steadily.

"In addition to issuing Chinese dollars, our central bank also has the function of issuing public bonds to raise funds for national construction. As a result of our high interest rates, the sale of our bonds is extremely hot, and almost every batch of bonds sent to the bank savings bank is basically sold within half a day, which fully shows that the people are full of trust in our government. At present, China and the United States are in the final negotiations before the establishment of diplomatic relations, and once formal diplomatic relations are established, we are very likely to issue a batch of public bonds in the United States, the first tranche is expected to be 500 million US dollars, and the funds raised will be used to build transportation and urban facilities in the western and central parts of South China to lay the foundation for the next step of development. ”

After listening to Ou Chuer's report, Xu Ziliang, who presided over the meeting, let everyone discuss freely for half an hour, and finally An Yi made a summary:

"On the whole, our financial work has been very successful, and the pace of our economic construction has not been slowed down by huge military spending. Now that the international situation is very clear to everyone, almost all countries are expanding their armaments and warfare, and it is impossible for us to reduce military spending, and with the outbreak of war in Europe, there will be a relatively large increase in military spending in the future.

"Here I will tell you a top-secret piece of information, just yesterday German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov secretly concluded the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact in Moscow. The treaty stipulates that the Contracting Parties undertake not to use force, aggression or aggression against each other, either alone or in association with other States, that one of the Contracting Parties shall not give any support to a third State if it is at war with a third State, that the other State Party shall not participate in any group of States that directly or indirectly opposes the other State Party, and that the Contracting Parties shall settle all disputes between the States Parties by peaceful means.

"In addition to the non-aggression pact, the Soviets and Germans signed a secret additional agreement, which stated that in the event of territorial and political changes in the Baltic states of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the northern borders of Lithuania would become the limits of the spheres of influence of Germany and the Soviet Union; In the event of territorial and political changes in Poland, the Soviets and Germans would be roughly divided by the Narev, Vistula and San rivers; On the part of South-Eastern Europe, the USSR was concerned about the interests of Bessarabia in Romania, and Germany declared that it had no political stake at all in the region. ”

Seeing that the participants were a little indifferent, An Yi accentuated his tone: "Don't think that the Soviet-German treaty has nothing to do with us, don't pay attention to it, but in fact, the impact is far greater than we imagined. First, after the Soviet-German treaty was signed, the Soviet army could transfer the troops deployed in Poland and the surrounding areas of the Balkan Peninsula back to the Eastern Front and join the attack on the Far Eastern Army. We are closely related to the Far Eastern Army, both glory and loss, once the Far Eastern Army loses the war, we will face a dilemma under the joint attack of the Soviet Union and the Japanese army;

Second, the open discussion between the Soviet Union and Germany about the partition of sovereign states shows that Germany's determination to fight has been decided, and the next target is Poland, and the time is in the next few months. Poland is not a soft persimmon, with 40 infantry divisions and 10 cavalry divisions, a country that waged a large-scale war against the nascent Soviet Russia in the early twenties, captured the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, and pushed Poland's borders 150 miles east of the ethnic Curzon Line, and has a certain strength of its own.

Internationally, Poland and France signed a treaty of military alliance, and after Germany flagrantly violated its commitment to annex Czechoslovakia, Britain became extremely resolute. As early as early May, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons a unilateral British guarantee to Poland, claiming that Britain would give it its full support if Poland was attacked. In mid-May, Britain and France issued official declarations that they would intervene militarily in the event of aggression against Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, or Switzerland. Earlier this month, Britain and Turkey concluded a mutual assistance agreement, and a week earlier, France had abandoned the disputed territory in the Alexandreda region, transferred it to Turkey, and signed a mutual assistance agreement. All these diplomatic efforts have given Poland great confidence that the future war will be very cruel.

"What we need to do now is how to use this war to our advantage. In order to gain an advantage in the competition with Germany, the French could give up even the territories of Europe and the Mediterranean, not to mention South China in the Far East! Once we sign a diplomatic agreement with France, South China will quickly reverse its unfavorable position in international exchanges, be widely recognized by Britain and France, and we can also benefit from the war through international trade in a fair and bright way.

"It is conservatively estimated that France needs at least 3,000 warplanes to secure its airspace, a business of up to 7.5 billion francs, or 1.5 billion dollars. The U.S. Government is actively mediating to get orders from the French, and what we have to do is to sell our foreign trade fighter planes and get a piece of the pie. ”

Hearing An Yi say solemnly, everyone's expressions became serious at first, but after hearing that they could make a fortune through the war, the officials' eyes lit up, and everyone knew very well that if they could get this military purchase order, it would be self-evident to stimulate the economy of South China.

An Yi continued: "It's not just airplanes, France needs a lot of tanks. By now, Germany had ten armored divisions, four mechanized divisions, while France had only two mechanized divisions, which were currently being equipped with a third, and they needed a large number of tanks, and now the factories in France are clearly not able to meet this need.

"Whether it is an airplane or a tank, the only thing in the world that has really undergone combat testing is our Nanhua products. With the introduction of a large number of tank specialists from the Far East, we have further deepened our research on tanks, and earlier this month a new generation of tanks was newly launched, and we are currently doing final tests. This new type of tank, named T34 in the Far East, and named Leopard II in South China, the previous Wolf and Leopard I tanks, after reducing the configuration of armor and firepower, have been included in foreign trade orders, I think whether it is the British, or the French, or even the Germans and Italians will be willing to buy our products. ”

An Yi had a confident smile on his face, which greatly encouraged the participants.