Chapter 147: The Old Trick Repeated

Since the energy of this community of interests with the aristocracy as the core is not strong enough, Han Deshang's idea is: to add more members to it and renew more lives for it, so that it can make bigger news......

"Anyway, death comes and goes, and if it makes a big fuss, it's just the Elta people." Han Deshang patted his companion's stiff shoulder, and while shaking some pepper noodles into the bowl without forgetting to feel comfortable, "They don't dare to do anything to our Chinese, but make some protests, it's not enough to be a moth like a book, hehehe......"

The reason for "not doing it to the Chinese" is simple. If it weren't for the passengers of that bus, the Chinese side would still want to do business directly and conveniently, and make a fortune without seeing the muffled voice of the sword soldiers.

However, as soon as it moves the people and touches the lives of the people, as long as a modern country inevitably rolls up its sleeves and smashes the stalls on the opposite side -- even if the country does not want to do it, the boiling public opinion will act on its behalf, and the result is that the Chinese side has sent all the "Elta war criminals" who are still alive and can hang street lamps to the top of the street lamp pole and sway with the wind.

Hardly anyone dares to doubt the ability of these otherworldly people to "hold accountable". The Elta people may probably forget something else, but they will not forget the bright red blood of all those who dare to attack the "old friends of the Elta people......

But "not to do anything to the Chinese" does not mean "not to do anything to the Eltas". This meaning was finally received by Wang Liqun in its entirety......

The current Elta people are clearly divided into two factions in the face of the survival of the nobility and the royal family, and the distribution of interests - the one who respects the weakening of his own rights from the dual monarchy of the Doniva Emperor and rebuilds the hypocritical monarchy with the Elta Congress as the largest organ of power in the country is the more powerful faction, which can be called the "Restoration" here. On the other hand, there is the "Emperor-respecting faction" that believes that the Minzhi Elta will inevitably lead to self-destruction, so it is necessary to improve the power and status of the emperor to "follow the ancient way" in order to avoid tragedy.

And between these two factions are a large number of "peoples" who are aware of the current political and economic changes in Elta. On the eve of the arrival of a truly great change, they were inevitably drawn into the two major political forces and became pawns of the two factions to attract them.

"The Central Committee has issued such a statement, to the effect that 'the army after the Elta Liberation War will carry out a new round of reform in the direction of specialization, simplification, and fine division of labor'. Does Elta now need these literate and well-versed people to serve the government? Regardless of whether it is a powerful department or not, we can expect that a significant number of military personnel will come to work in these places, right? ”

If there are Chinese who have access to the current documents on the treatment of officials at all levels in Elta, who have nothing to do and have enough to eat, compare it with the similar and statistical records of the treatment of officials at the same level published in the National Archives of Elta, and you will find that the names are different, and in fact, the treatment of officials with roughly the same jurisdiction seems to have more content such as social security and medical security, but in fact, it is too much less privilege than in the past - whether it is reasonable and legal "bad rules" or unreasonable and illegal extortion and corruption, Chinese who have all been enacted are listed in the "illegal" column.

Along with the strict regulations, there is also a further subdivision of powers. In the old Elta Empire, officials who managed a place of commerce and commerce could collect taxes on merchants, as could official cards on passing; The former, with a big stick, was able to collect taxes in kind, royalties, accounts, and even the domain taxes of the nobility on behalf of the merchants. The latter, on the other hand, holds a stick and sets up cards on the road for the safety of pedestrians, and then treats the taxes of the passing vendors as wages.

A boatload of salted fish sent inland from South Erta must first be pumped by the tax agent at the port of Kamla before it can be loaded and released; The reason why it is necessary to dry salted fish and load it on ships is because the fresh fish has to pay an inexplicable but long-standing fresh fish tax when the fresh fish is landed; After that, not to mention the toll tax and even the money to buy the salted fish to cross the various passes, the entrance fee to enter the market on the outskirts of the capital alone can shrink the carload by one-twentieth.

At this point, no one will remember who Elta's tax department is and what it is doing - they just keep granting new tax permits to other departments, "authorizing" them to "collect" more, higher rates of taxes.

This is a process that every dynasty goes through. If it is not possible to change the integration of power and supervision, it is inevitable that a person or a department will become a referee and an athlete at the same time - the emperor will occasionally ask some unknown newcomer to investigate and report the real tax situation, which is already considered an emperor who has worked hard to govern the country, but what can this change? The imperfect legal system gave people the opportunity to exploit the loopholes, and in the end, a whole country within a state that was "substantively independent" with the use of poor institutional rules was even born......

Although the government source of the new Elta is still tax, it has shrunk from "the privileges of all government departments" to "the privileges of the tax authorities of the country and the locality". The number of people who can handle the financial resources has been greatly reduced, and it is completely impossible to enrich themselves in taxes.

In contrast to tax officials and even tax contractors who have the final say, modern tax clerks will simply pull out a tax form and mechanically tell you how much to pay. It is true that whether it is the declaration of income or the customs tax, it is very tiring for modern people, but whether it is a one-size-fits-all tax rate or a progressive tax rate, this tax rate is at least clearly verifiable - most of the people who dare to say that they still have the final right to interpret are now in prison.

But in the old Elta, this is a very common phenomenon - the officials protect each other, no matter how you sue, the lord in the hall has a mocking face of "which people will sue the official" - this is why there is a tradition of people in the territory stopping cars to redress grievances.

However, there are now internal supervision departments within the tax authorities, and there are departments (similar to the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Independent Commission Against Corruption) that specialize in supervising government departments. In addition to these two, there is also the public security archives to keep an eye on political and economic crimes, and a group of veteran drivers who are good at airborne double regulation interviews are always ready to crack down on emerging kindergarten criminals.

Under such constraints, it is very difficult for commercial banks, whether they collect taxes or transfer coins, to enrich themselves even the slightest, and this is the advanced nature of the system. The public intellectuals talk about "system problems" every day, but this is different from this point -- the advanced nature of the system is measured by the degree to which the laws and regulations of centralized managers are implemented, not by the standard of "one person, one vote" or "brick wisdom and poisonous vegetables."

"That's the problem. As the gravediggers of the old Elta, the decaying dynasty, they must have despised the dirty, inferior set of the ruling machine of the old Elta Empire. Han Deshang sandwiched a piece of beef shutter into the bowl and intriguingly pierced the hole in it with chopsticks, "But when they sit in these positions that they couldn't think of before, even at the grassroots level, they will find that they are getting much less now than before." ”

"Well, some people will 'stick to the revolution', and some people won't." Wang Liqun finally tasted the taste of the sharp knife spit out of Han Deshang's mouth, "The 'revolutionary' of Elta, who was originally like a monolith, is now inevitably facing the ...... of splitting"

"Yes. We are happy to see the Elta fighting each other, and I can foresee that it will be a long and dangerous struggle that may make our compatriots, the naΓ―ve idealists, abandon the idea of 'Elta rule Elta'. ”

In Handchamp's expectation, the royalists and the retreating royalists would eventually fail, and the Emperor Elta would certainly not regain his rights in the end, because one of the three parties in the game was a cheating player who ignored the rules. The cheater usually uses the other two sides of the hand to achieve the desired result, but only if the other two sides maintain the balance of power.

Once the situation gets out of hand, the cheater jumps out and beats someone to the head with a full joker, and then the situation goes back to the way it was - but that's what Ham wants.

This situation may not be "better and better", because at this time, the enemy is no longer the "tangible" Twin Moon Church, but the Elta Empire itself - it may be easy for a strong man to knock down the enemy on the other side, but he is not allowed to use other tools to scratch the worm in the back...... That's a lot of fun.

"So I can guess the final result...... Wang Liqun is also a person who has read the documents before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he understands the problem relatively quickly, "The 'feudal remnants' among the Erta people are not so easy to eliminate, once such a fire burns, it will have to be completely extinguish......ed in five years and ten years."

"That's right, wahahahaha-" Han Deshang let out a rare hearty laugh after that incident, "If we can fan this up and light the fire more vigorously, then there is really no guarantee that Elta will not become a copy of a series of events after the founding of the People's Republic of China - hehe, you must know that this Elta step from feudal society to capitalist society is no smaller than our motherland." ”

Wang Liqun's face was covered in a cold sweat -- it was because he couldn't have been unaware of that period of history: China had wasted twenty or thirty years on those repeated events, but did Elta have twenty or thirty years to waste? Would impatient investors really allow Elta to do the same?

The answer is also clear: obviously not.