"There are three steps to collect Jiangnan, and if you don't finish these three steps, what you eat is sandwich rice."

"The first step is to solve the salt merchants, such as the imperial merchants, the official businessmen, and lead the Jiangnan Shang Dynasty with my Yinghua businessmen to control the Jiangnan business, and this step is completed. Nowadays, the bulk livelihood industries such as salt, iron, grain and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, from the Shang Dynasty to the merchants, all rely on my Yinghua to survive. ”

"The second step is to hit Jiangnan with a large number of cheap commercial goods, promote its industry to move closer to our Yinghua, rather than self-contained, and at the same time promote the integration of Jiangnan capital and our Yinghua. This step requires a premise, which is the steam engine. His Majesty waited for four years, and he was also waiting for the steam engine to spread to all industries, and a large number of cheap goods could be produced, not only in the country, but also in the south of the Yangtze River. Now the weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River has been destroyed, and the weavers are either introduced into Longmen and even the country, or they are converted into silk cotton threads to lay a hand for my weaving industry. And all other industries, like the weaving industry, are being incorporated into the chain of our Yinghua industry. ”

Fan Jin brought the most top-secret "Jiangnan Raiders" of the Yinghua Dynasty together, and the first two steps, whether they were attentive or effective, have been seen now, and the national policy of Yinghua industry and commerce is not a top-secret policy.

But the third step he talked about next is that it is difficult for ordinary people to know, public opinion is rarely talked about, and it is difficult to talk about things in Jiangnan.

"The third step is to wait for the local political system and financial and taxation system in China to be complete. Now the financial context of the central government has been cleared, and the beam frame is being built. Provincial finance has been implemented, and there have been many loopholes in the process. I heard that His Majesty is preparing to open a provincial court in ten years, and the provincial system should be almost complete. The new local political system will be moved to Jiangnan, and the transition will take two or three years, and the financial and taxation system will also be networked in Jiangnan, at least in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the melons will be ripe and implemented. ”

The third step that Fan Jin talked about is the foundation of the national policy of "first the south and then the north" of Yinghua, and it is also the background of the "Jiangnan Raiders".

Why didn't you take Jiangnan for a long time?

Driving away the upper rentiers in Jiangnan and pulling up the lower classes to dock with Yinghua is just a move to devour Jiangnan from the industrial and commercial level. At the government level, Li Xi and his important ministers clearly realized early on that it was difficult to effectively control Jiangnan with the existing local government structure. If it is forcibly laid, it can only be managed by the military. The military management has to bear all the grievances and conflicts of interest in Jiangnan, and at the same time, it is difficult to ensure the smooth transfer of Jiangnan to the Anglo-Chinese internal affairs system.

In the field involved in this matter, the British and Chinese people can still understand a concept, but the Manchu Qing in the north does not understand it at all. Isn't the so-called "local political system" the official offices of prefectures, counties, and provincial governors? China has been like this for thousands of years, this is as comfortable as heaven and earth, how can there be changes, how can you make tricks?

But Yinghua just figured it out, and the essence of this Anglo-Chinese country can be seen from the different names of the countrymen, which is very different from the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north.

In the north, the official government is the imperial court, and the imperial court is the emperor, although there will be differences in the fine sense, but the people are treated as one, at most divided into "dog officials", "traitorous ministers", and "saints". In Yinghua, it is carefully scored, and the object of each title is absolutely unambiguous and clear.

In the Anglo-Chinese country, the "imperial court" now refers to the political affairs hall, the Privy Council, the planning department and the legal department, while the political affairs hall in charge of internal affairs is called the "imperial court". "Guanfu" refers to the county, government and province, and the "emperor" is only limited to the emperor himself, or adds the inner court of the middle court. The "township court", the "county court" and the "provincial court" that are being built are another set of shelves, each of which has nothing to do with each other. The east and west courts should be clearly distinguished, because the "choice" of the two houses is different.

Therefore, when the Anglo-Chinese newspapers talked about the "official government", the officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north who specialized in analyzing the public opinion of the Anglo-Chinese subconsciously confused with the "imperial court" and the "emperor", and naturally looked at the content at a loss. Anyone who quarrels about government affairs will be regarded as Anglo-Chinese civil strife, and the case will be overjoyed. I don't understand it at all, it's just holding local officials accountable and discussing local government affairs.

So why is it difficult for the Yinghua government, that is, the local government, to control Jiangnan?

Because the local government of Yinghua smashed the Confucian bureaucratic system of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and reorganized it in order to serve and lead the modern society, it is still in the development stage. In the fifth year of the Word, there are still too many problems that have not been resolved.

This is a very large article, from the founding of the Anglo-Chinese country to the present, it took ten years of evolution to take shape, which shows the twists and turns and hardships in between. The core of the reorganization and new construction of local governments is the hierarchical division of local fiscal and taxation powers. After Yinghua implemented the government to the countryside, the first thing to establish was the county-level finance, and the agricultural tax, urban housing tax, and small and medium-sized industrial and commercial tax were given to the county-level localities. However, with the successive victories of Yinghua and Fujian, coupled with the prosperity of industry and commerce, the local finances led by counties are too trivial and difficult to manage as a whole, and there have been many regulatory problems.

The situation of today's checkpoints in Jiangnan was also seen in Anglo-Chinese Middle School five years ago. Although it is different from the commercial customs clearance in the Manchu liquidation area, the main purpose is to check whether the foreign commercial goods have been taxed, and the number of checkpoints is not so large, but it also causes the inconvenience of the circulation of small and medium-sized industries and the situation of corruption by the checkpoint servants.

When financial power is condensed at the county level, local protectionism rises proudly, and within a prefecture, each county has different tax rates and inspection methods, and what is sought anyway is the benefit of a county. During that time, the prefect's most important job was to be a Tang monk, teaching the magistrates below every day to "work together in harmony" and coordinate the interests of the counties, but they often pressed the gourd and got up again, and the prefects fought for profit became the daily routine of the newspaper. If you don't fight, you can't do it, if you don't do it, the old men of the township and county courts will do it. What will the county officials who do not seek profit for a county do? They have the power of impeachment.

The fault of this matter is not in the local financial power, but in the lack of grading and the difficulty of overall planning. The people and the court quickly discovered the problem, and the response was very fast, which was expected.

The daily life of the county only lasted less than a year, under the pressure of the torrent of industrial and commercial prosperity and the demand for unhindered passage of commercial goods, the court revised the company law, greatly reducing the threshold for the establishment of a company, as long as more than five people registered, opened an account in a designated bank, and deposited a principal of 500 taels, they could be formed into a company, and the property tax was no longer collected by the local government, but collected by the Ministry of Commerce to the central government.

This means that most of the industrial and commercial tax sources left for the local government have been cut off, and only small local workshops and bazaars remain. The local government was extremely angry at the central government's act of scraping money, and Li Zhushou, the head of the political affairs hall who issued this decree, was called "Li Daaxe" by the local government.

Anger is anger, the central government has set aside enough finance and taxes for the county level to support people, and education, medical care, and other matters are mainly funded by the central government, and the county needs to consider building roads and bridges, providing compensation for orphans, public security, arresting thefts, fire prevention and disaster relief, and other affairs, and there is not too much financial pressure.

But it's easy to do things with a lot of money, who doesn't want to have a lot of money in their pockets? Therefore, the counties have made great efforts to provide convenience for small workshops and bazaars, to develop small businesses and industries, and to overhaul cities and towns. That's right, Yinghua still collects house taxes as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but for the sake of fairness, they all began to collect according to the area, not according to the façade and windows. This is collected by the county, and the imperial court sets a maximum limit, and the county flexibly disposes of it under this high limit.

Amending the Company Law alone will not solve all the problems, especially since there are huge differences between counties and rich and poor. The county in the ravine couldn't eat enough to eat, and the county's "film police" still stepped on straw sandals and carried shuttle darts, relying on two legs to patrol around. The counties of Nanhai, Guangzhou, Foshan, and Dongguan are very rich, and the "film police" are wearing satin, leather boots under their feet, short guns around their waists, wearing sunglasses, and standing tall on horses, which is more majestic than the guards and pro-army.

After all, Yingtianfu (Guangzhou), Chengtianfu (Yingde), Zhaoqing, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Changsha and other prefectures are the hubs of one province, and each county is rich, while the other prefectures are too different.

The time is ripe for the construction of provincial-level finances, and the main responsibility of the provincial-level administrative system is to balance the differences between provinces and regions and adjust the rich and poor within a province. In the future, it will be like a county-level system, taking on the core of the Anglo-Chinese local structure, so the introduction of the eastern and western bicameral system into the provincial courts, that is, what Fan Jin said, the sign that the provincial system has taken shape.

The court hung the foundation of provincial finances on the ground. Establish a provincial-level land management bureau to manage all land deeds in the province, and the deed tax is at the disposal of a province as office expenses.

In addition, a province also shares land rights with the central government and counties, and from a legal point of view, the whole world is not the king's land, and the terra nullius belongs to the emperor. However, Li Shi from the "Emperor Ying Jun Xian", turned a country into a country of all people, and this landless land became the land of all people, and he, the emperor, was just in charge.

Whether it is the emperor's or the people's, it is controlled by the imperial court, that is, the central government, anyway. The central government has set aside important military land and vacant land for long-term development in long-term planning, and then left urban land and land that is expected to expand in the future to the county level, and the rest is in the hands of the province. ..., the "property rights" of these lands have been handed over to the counties and provinces, in fact, the counties and provinces have their own development tracks. The county will focus on ensuring people's livelihood and expanding cities and towns. At the provincial level, if they want to increase their income, they have to find ways to produce their "wasteland". In this regard, the governors of each province crossed the sea, each showing his magical powers, and also had his own use.

Originally, the governors of all provinces wanted to sell the land directly, but now Yinghua is not as good as in the past, and it is not uncommon for everyone to have land. There is a lot of land, there are a lot of Nanyang, and there is no end to Nanzhou, which is not useful, and there is output of land, what do you buy to do?

The governors had no choice but to focus on industry, and the Hunan governor's house and letter subcontracted the peasants on the land suitable for reclamation, and collected rent with Sanqi, on the one hand, there was a stable rent to collect, and on the other hand, it was also to stabilize the Hunan rice warehouse and stabilize the livelihood of the people in Hunan. Ba Xuqi, the governor of Guangdong, called for an investment company to make detailed plans, focusing on supporting the development of poor and remote areas such as Gaozhou and Lianzhou.

The division of land between provinces and counties, because the Department of Justice and the Department of Planning have not kept up with the pace of land control, and there are deficiencies in laws and regulations and fiscal and taxation planning, and it is still a semi-finished product that needs to be further improved. However, the basic situation of the provincial finance and the provincial structure has been clearly figured out, and now we have begun to take precautions and start planning to upgrade the county-level finance to the prefecture-level finance.

In the future, Yinghua's mature local financial system will be at the three levels of government, province and central government, and it will be initially placed at the county level, which is to first fill in the division of financial power to the grassroots level. Originally, the modern local financial system was spelled from the bottom to the top, but Yinghua went one step further, first from the top to the bottom to the county, and then roughly spelled into a province, and then from the county to form a government, so as to complete the process of docking up and down.

In short, the third step of the "Jiangnan Raiders" mentioned by Fan Jin is very understandable, and the third step is roughly formed, plus the structure of the Yinghua Political Hall and the two courts has been in operation for four years, and at this time, if you eat Jiangnan, there will be a ready-made local structure and fiscal and taxation system.

Although Fan Jin's tone was calm, the title of "Your Majesty" showed his inner turmoil and even dissatisfaction.

"The three steps have been completed, it is a good time to take over Jiangnan, why did Your Majesty transfer me back to China at this juncture? The minister is a one-eyed, he can only see one side of things, and the second assistant is a position, and the minister is really incompetent. ”

With his narration, Li Shi's thoughts also drifted through the scenes of planning the local structure with the imperial court in the past four years, and even Xiangdao Zheng Banqiao, who has been promoted from the prefect of Nanhai County to the prefect of Chaozhou, that guy has a high appearance rate in the "daily life of the county", and he hugged his waist and pressed all the surrounding counties with a move, and the officialdom called Zheng Tizhi......

Pulled back to his heart by Fan Jin's yin and yang weird tone, Li Xian sighed: "Heavy moment, Jiangnan is the heart of China, the wings of a country in the future, you haven't thought about it, is there anything else that hasn't been done?" What cards didn't come out? ”

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