After Wang Bin entered Mukden, everything in the city was stable, and the suppression of bandits outside the city was also going on, and the Japanese and Russian sides on one side also began to gradually withdraw from the Mukden area after receiving the domestic armistice order.

Just after both Japan and Russia left, Wang Bin also held his own staff meeting for the first time to discuss some issues about the reform of Mukden, the first of which was the financial problem, although Wang Bin had received more than three million taels of silver before, but who would be too little for money?

In addition, the current financial situation in the Fengtian region is indeed very large, and there are many places that need money just after entering Fengtian, which is the bulk of the restoration of people's livelihood, and a large part of the money Wang Bin has invested in this, and it is difficult to allocate some funds to supply the army, so Wang Bin has to gather his staff together to brainstorm to solve this problem.

"What are you doing, can you talk about how you can solve the current problem?"

The group of people below, some of them are old subordinates, some of them were recruited by themselves, and some of them were recommended by others, no matter how these people came here can be regarded as Wang Bin's staff team so far.

Needless to say, Xiong Xiling is the general office of the General Administration of Trade Unions, as well as Liang Zilong, who is in charge of internal affairs.

In addition to these two people, there is also Cui Yun of the General Administration of Agriculture and Forestry, Cui Yun's major is related to agricultural technology, and he graduated from a foreign university, so he is extremely needed for such agricultural talents in Fengtian, which is now vast and sparsely populated, so Wang Bin did not hesitate to ask Cui Yun from the hands of the household department.

There is also the newly established General Administration of Education, full authority to manage the school in Fengtian Province, for the person who holds this position must have a certain degree of fame and a certain understanding of the new way of thinking, such a person is still relatively difficult to find, but although it is difficult to find, but there is still such a person in Fengtian, this person named Feng Yongming is a local person, but the vision is extremely open, quite able to absorb useful knowledge from outside, this person at home to support the education of schoolchildren in the township, He is also constantly learning new concepts, so although such a person with little qualifications is the general office of the General Administration of Education, Wang Bin is extremely relieved.

In addition, there is another familiar face among all of you here, and that is Li Rong.

After Li Rong completed the training of heavy machine gunners for Wang Bin, Wang Bin pondered left and right that this Li Rong could not do anything except be able to operate machine guns, but no matter how to say that Li Rong belonged to the old man who had followed him for a long time, or belonged to the first batch of teams that he had just come to this era, no matter how he said it, he couldn't treat others badly.

So Wang Bin appointed Li Rong as his head of eye protection, specifically responsible for his personal safety.

"If you want to talk about this financial problem, this tax is extremely important, so far this salt tax is one of the big heads, and there are adults who can appropriately increase some commercial taxes."

The first to speak was Liang Zilong, who was recommended by Wang Yingkai, after this Liang Zilong arrived under Wang Bin, Wang Bin also saw Liang Zilong's ability to do everything he handed over to Liang Zilong in an orderly manner, and Liang Zilong was also able to put forward some of his own opinions.

Hearing Liang Zilong say that he could work taxes, Wang Bin immediately looked at Xiong Xiling.

Xiong Xiling has been working hard to reform the dilapidated financial situation in Fengtian since he became Wang Bin's staff, first of all, he wants to improve the financial situation, and this tax is the big one, so Xiong Xiling responded after listening to Wang Bin's question: "My lord, this tax subordinate has also studied it carefully, and the proportion of commercial tax collection before is really low. The subordinates thought that it was okay to double the proportion of commercial tax collected, so that the annual tax revenue could be increased by one million taels. ”

Xiong Xiling's words do have some truth, this Zengqi has not paid much attention to commercial taxes since he took office, which is mainly related to Zengqi's personal thoughts, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, so that even if Zengqi's business has developed during his tenure, how can Zengqi's brain think of raising taxes on merchants, which leads to these merchants only need to pay a little bit of commercial tax every year.

After Xiong Xiling finished talking about the commercial tax, he continued to speak: "My lord, according to the organization of his subordinates these days, in addition to the commercial tax, there are some miscellaneous taxes that should also be reduced, especially the agricultural tax. ”

Xiong Xiling's words told him all his thoughts about taxation these days, and Xiong Xiling's ideas were also approved by Wang Bin, and then Wang Bin said to Xiong Xiling: "This matter of increasing commercial tax will be called to you, and after the tax increase plan comes out, you can directly call the merchants to notify you." ”

After saying this to Xiong Xiling, Wang Bin looked at Liang Zilong on the side and asked, "How is the matter of salt affairs sorted out?" ”

Salt affairs in all dynasties can be regarded as the bulk of the tax, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the salt tax tariffs were handled by the provinces independently, so although the income of the salt tax had to be handed over to the Qing government every year, in fact, the annual salt tax was privately intercepted by each province.

Taking Fengtian as an example, when Zengqi was the general of Shengjing, he did not pay salt taxes to the imperial court, and all of them were intercepted by Zengqi privately as his own treasury.

After Wang Bin asked about the sorting out of the salt affairs, Liang Zilong also said: "Lord Hui's current salt pragmatism in Fengtian is a little corrupt, when the war between Japan and Russia took office, General Shengjing did not manage the salt affairs in Fengtian, so now the subordinates have to sort out the situation of the salt affairs first, but according to the previous salt tax situation, it is not a problem to collect one million taels a year, if the situation of salt affairs can be sorted out clearly this year, the subordinates estimate that at the end of the year, The revenue from the salt tax can also be raised in part. ”

Wang Bin had already predicted the situation of the salt affairs, how could Yi Zengqi's greedy character of being afraid of life and fear of death send people to manage the affairs of the salt affairs when the war between Japan and Russia began?

So when Liang Zilong proposed to reorganize the salt business, he was not too surprised, after all, he had just taken over, but for Liang Zilong to say that this salt tax can be charged more Wang Bin is a little afraid to agree, and now Wang Bin also knows the situation in Fengtian, where is there a salt tax for you?