In 1907, the question of how much fiscal revenue was collected by the Soviet system in the territory under its control was a relatively complicated issue, because at that time the territory of the Soviet system was in the midst of rapid expansion, and in addition to the relatively stable tax situation in the three eastern provinces, there were many problems in the tax collection in other newly controlled districts.

Moreover, there are many problems in tax collection, especially in Xinkong District, Shandong and Henan, where there are many situations such as over-collection, under-collection, duplicate collection and omission, and many taxes are not solved into the Ministry of Finance at all, but are directly requisitioned in the provincial finance and even in the local government and county finances.

Therefore, the overall financial revenue and expenditure of the Soviet Department in 1907 was a confused account, and even Xiong Xiling could not figure out the detailed account books, and the revenue and expenditure of the Central Ministry of Finance was fine, but it was difficult to figure out the revenue and expenditure of the local finances, and the only number that Xiong Xiling, Zhou Xuexi and others could submit to Zhao Dongyun was: how much money the Ministry of Finance still had, how much money was owed outside, and as for the total amount of revenue and expenditure in 1907, it is not clear, and there is not even an approximate number.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to judge the fiscal revenue and expenditure of the Soviet Union in 1908 from the fiscal revenue and expenditure of the Soviet Union in 1907.

In order to sort out the financial revenue and expenditure of the Soviet Union in 1908, the most important task was to implement the tax reform system in Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and other provinces, which had been implemented in Mukden for several years.

The purpose of the tax reform system implemented by the Soviet system in Mukden and the entire three eastern provinces is basically twofold, the first is that the financial power is transferred to the central government, that is, the local government no longer has the power to directly collect taxes, but the Ministry of Finance will collect all taxes in a unified manner. One portion of this tax is then set aside as a local tax for local government use, and the other part is paid to the treasury of the Ministry of Finance as a national tax.

The second is to integrate the types of taxes, simplify the tax model, abolish a large number of disorderly and disorderly harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and reintegrate them into agricultural tax, business tax, value-added tax, tobacco and alcohol tax, and other taxes.

After the trial implementation of the tax reform, it was not a big reduction in the proportion of taxes paid by the peasants, but in fact, in terms of the amount of regular taxes alone, it was slightly higher than in the pre-Qing era, which led to the fact that the fiscal revenue not only did not decrease, but increased a lot because of the unified taxation.

However, why is this tax reform, which actually increases the amount of taxes, welcomed by farmers and the business community? It is because from now on, the people only need to pay regular taxes, and do not need to pay all kinds of messy taxes and miscellaneous taxes!

For the people, what they are afraid of is never the positive tax collected by the state, but the local governments and counties and even individual officials privately extort under the banner of the state, including the middle and late dynasties of the former Qing Dynasty, the taxes directly levied by the state on the peasants are actually not high, but why are they still complaining, it is because the officials carry out wanton expropriation under the banner of the state.

On the one hand, the new tax reform implemented by the Soviet Union can unify the central finances and increase tax revenue. On the other hand, it can also allow the Soviet faction to gain the support of the people and reduce the occurrence of wanton expropriation and extortion.

The tax reform carried out by the Soviet system can rectify the tax situation and increase some of the central tax revenue in a certain way, but the tax reform only makes the tax collection more smooth and allows the tax that originally fell into the pockets of officials to return to the state treasury, but it will not allow the tax revenue to increase by a large margin in vain.

And how much tax it can collect in the territory controlled by the Soviet system actually has a roughly predictable amount.

According to the speculation of many officials of the Ministry of Finance, the taxes that the Soviet Union was able to collect in the provinces in 1908 were roughly as follows!

Among them, the first place is Fengtian Province, after Zhao Dongyun's vigorous support in recent years, Fengtian Province's resettlement has achieved great results, not only increasing the income of agricultural taxes, but also greatly increasing the output of agricultural products has also led to the rapid development of agricultural product processing industry, the most representative of which is the soybean industry.

Since the successful landing of soybeans in the European market, the rise of soybean exports in Northeast China can almost be described as a rocket, in 1905, soybean exports were only 780,000 tons, when the main market of soybeans in Northeast China was still in China.

However, in 1906, due to the successful opening of the European market, the Northeast soybean exports to Europe and Japan totaled 300,000 yuan, and in 1907, the export of its Northeast industry doubled to 600,000 tons, and next year, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce expects that the export of the Northeast soybean industry is expected to exceed 800,000 tons.

Although the price of soybeans in the international market has fallen slightly in the past two years, but the export of soybeans in the northeast has doubled year after year, and the price of soybeans has decreased in recent years, but the price of soybean oil after processing has risen further, so it has not pulled down the total export volume of the soybean industry in the northeast, in 1907, the soybean industry in the three eastern provinces, including direct export of soybeans, soybean oil after preliminary processing, soybean cake, etc., the total export volume reached 42 million yuan, and next year, it is expected to break through to 60 million yuan.

Coupled with other export commodities of the three eastern provinces, the total export volume of the three eastern provinces is expected to exceed 90 million yuan next year, and the export of 100 million yuan will not be far away.

The decline in soybean prices and the rise in soybean oil prices also directly led the soybean industry operators in Northeast China to gradually transform from direct soybean exports to soybean processing industry, and in 1907 alone, there were as many as 38 new large and small oil mills opened in Huludao Industrial Zone and Yingkou Industrial Zone.

In addition to the leading pillar soybean industry, Fengtian's emerging textile industry in recent years has also developed quite rapidly, since the Russo-Japanese War, foreign foreign cloth almost fully launched the market of the three eastern provinces, and these market blanks are almost occupied by Fuyuan Yarn Factory, Huludao Textile Company and other private textile enterprises represented by the northern capital.

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, when Yangbu wanted to re-enter the Northeast market, he found that the Northeast market had been firmly controlled by local private enterprises with northern capital such as Fuyuan Yarn Factory and Huludao Textile Company.

The soybean industry, the textile industry, and the traditional brewing industry, the above are the main economic pillars of Fengtian at present, as for iron ore and coal mines, so there is already Fushun Coal Mine, but the Northeast in this era is far from being a heavy industry base, and the proportion of heavy industry in Fengtian's economy is not worth mentioning.

The rapid development of the soybean industry and the textile industry has naturally led to the development of other industries, such as transportation, finance, and even machinery and coal.

Before the Russo-Japanese War, Mukden was still a well-known poor province, but in just three or four years, Fengtian developed into one of the country's economic powerhouses.

According to the preliminary statistics of the Ministry of Finance, in 1907, Fengtian ranked third in China with an annual fiscal revenue of 37 million yuan, second only to Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces, but already surpassed Sichuan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Zhili (excluding the Tangshan Administrative Office).

And what about next year?

The Ministry of Finance predicts that the fiscal revenue of Fengtian Province will be 50 million yuan next year, and with the addition of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, the fiscal revenue of the three eastern provinces is expected to exceed 70 million yuan.

There is no doubt that the three eastern provinces, or Mukden Province, are the foundation of the Soviet Union's struggle for dominance!

And it is also worth mentioning that although the rapid development of Fengtian is related to Zhao Dongyun's support, Zhao Dongyun's support is not the decisive factor, Zhao Dongyun is just pushing the boat along the river, and to put it mildly, he is just lying on the pile of money to pick up money.

Because there was no Zhao Dongyun in the original time and space, Fengtian Province still developed rapidly, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, it has become the third largest economic province in China, and after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, it surpassed Guangdong and Jiangsu to become the first economic power province in China.

In addition to Fengtian, which is the foundation of the Soviet system, the Tangshan Administrative Office, which is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Zhili Province, but has been directly under the jurisdiction of the central government, is also irreplaceable in its importance to the Soviet system.

Tangshan Administrative Office, including Zhili Yongping Mansion, Chengde Prefecture, and some parts of Mongolia, has a jurisdiction area that is not small, although it has not yet been formally established as a province, but the current administrative and financial system has little to do with Zhili.

Tangshan is famous in China, and it is naturally its leading heavy industry, or simply Fuyuan Machinery Factory!

The importance of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to the Soviet Union is no longer emphasized, and the importance of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to the local government of the Tangshan Administrative Office should not be underestimated, and it is not an exaggeration to say that a Fuyuan Factory has supported the economic development of the entire Tangshan area.

In addition to the inherent arsenal, Fuyuan Machinery Factory also wholly owns more than ten subsidiaries such as Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, Tangshan Match Factory, Tangshan Chemical Industry, etc., most of which were affiliated departments of Fuyuan Machinery Factory in the past, such as the match factory was separated from the gunpowder factory, in addition to Tangshan University of Technology, Fuyuan Affiliated Hospital, and Tangshan Power Plant.

Among them, the Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant has developed particularly rapidly, which originally contracted the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, the Middle East Railway and many other domestic railway construction rails, and with the signing of the contract of the Jinpu Railway and the Longhai Railway, according to the contract, the materials required for the construction of the railway must be preferentially purchased from China, and China can not produce to be imported, and Tangshan Iron and Steel Company, as one of the only two iron and steel enterprises in China, is also the only steel company controlled by the Soviet Union, and naturally has undoubtedly received huge orders.

The timber mill under the Fuyuan Machinery Qì factory also shared a lot of sleeper orders, and the subordinate machinery factory also obtained many mechanical orders.

If there is anyone who benefits the most from the Jinpu Railway and the Longhai Railway except for foreigners, there is no doubt that it is the Fuyuan Machinery Factory.