Chapter 169 Agricultural Tax Reform

Twenty million taxes, this is not such an easy task!

Zhao Dongyun's 20 million tax revenue task for the financial system does not refer to all this year's revenue, but only refers to taxes, that is to say, it does not include the profits of various government-run enterprises, nor does it include the government's land sales or all kinds of messy value-added income, but only refers to conventional taxes such as agricultural taxes, commercial taxes, and customs duties.

And to reach 20 million in taxes, then many administrative departments under the General's Mansion need to continue to work together! After all, in addition to the administrative and tax reforms of the fiscal system itself, the development of agriculture and industry and commerce itself is the core of increasing taxation.

So after leaving Zhao Dongyun's temporary residence, Zhao Dongping, who was pressed down on the task of 20 million taxes, looked at a few people around him, and then said: "In the future, I will have to help my colleagues a lot, this time next year, it will depend on you whether I am dead or alive!" ”

Deng Jiazhen on the side said: "Brother Zhao's words are too polite, everyone eats in the same pot, and when the time comes, Brother Zhao won't be able to pay the errand, and we won't be any better!" ”

Zhao Dongping waved his hand, to be honest, he is under too much pressure now, and all he thinks about is the 20 million, so his tone is also a little flat: "To complete the task of 20 million taxes, the bulk of the tax has to rely on commercial taxes, and this year's commercial taxes will be collected more than 10 million to say the least, and there will be no way to make up 20 million if you don't let it go!" ”

Deng Jiazhen is still smiling, why, because Fengtian's industry and commerce are developing rapidly, not to mention the Huludao Industrial Zone, the industry and commerce in other parts of Fengtian are also developing rapidly, and last year it just started to receive more than 4 million commercial taxes, and this year it is on the right track and then doubled to 10 million!

Zhao Dongping then looked at Chen Zhenxian: "Brother Chen, we have more than 50 million mu of land on the face of Fengtianming, plus the hidden field and the barren land that has been reclaimed in the past two years, not to mention 60 million, so many days and earth only collect 1 million acres of land, isn't this a slap in the face of me Zhao, after the year, I will ask for the reform of the land tax system, abolish the bad rules of miscellaneous donations on all fields, and pay the agricultural tax in a unified manner. However, I am afraid that there will be some chaos at that time, and although it is impossible to have any major incidents with the support of the military at that time, I still have to cooperate with Brother Chen! ”

Chen Zhenxian was shocked when he heard that Zhao Dongping was going to play with the reform of the land and mu tax, Rao is that he boasted of his extraordinary determination, and last year's tax reform on commercial tax and all kinds of miscellaneous donations had caused an uproar, but although the amount of commercial tax was large, the popularization was small, and it was only concentrated in the merchant class, but this land and mu tax reform was very popular, and it would affect at least 99% of the lives of more than 99% of the people in Fengtian.

The slightest mistake will cause turmoil in Mukden!

Chen Zhenxian immediately said: "Although the reform of the land tax is also needed, I still hope that Brother Zhao will act prudently, after all, this is related to the livelihood of millions of people in Fengtian!" ”

Zhao Dongping said: "If Mr. Chen is worried about the livelihood of ordinary people, then don't worry, although I, Zhao Dongping, like money, but I won't rob the rations of the haha!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Dongping's face suddenly became gloomy: "If this tax reform is successful, not only will our tax revenue increase, but also the burden of the people will be reduced, the only disadvantage is the low-level officials and unscrupulous landlords who suck the flesh and blood of the people all year round!" ”

The reform of land in any dynasty, whether it is agricultural tax or trading and other reforms, will inevitably implicate the grassroots with vested interests, that is, the landlord class of ordinary people in later generations, so although these dynasties of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties have tried various reforms, but most of them ended in failure, the only successful example is the Qing Dynasty's apportionment into the mu and the gentry pay taxes as a whole, the reason why it succeeded is because the cornerstone of the early Qing Dynasty government was not the landlord class, but the Eight Banners Army.

In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, however, there were changes, and the landlord class, especially the Han landlord class, had in fact become the cornerstone of the feudal dynasty's rule, and all kinds of reforms in this period were met with strong opposition......

However, in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, the situation is different now, although people often say that landlords also say, but with the industrialization of the world as a whole, and China has also experienced the Westernization Movement, after the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty, industry and commerce have developed rapidly for decades, and the industrial and commercial class has become an important group in the Chinese class.

For example, the current uproar about constitutional monarchy and even the democratic revolution is the awakening of the consciousness of the nation and the people, and it is better to say that China's industrial and commercial class is fighting for its own political rights.

It is precisely because of the support and promotion of the industrial and commercial class that the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty was able to develop rapidly!

Today, although China's industrial and commercial class as a whole is still inferior to the traditional landlord class, it has also become a major interest class in contemporary China, and it is capable of confronting the traditional landlord class.

Of course, since contemporary China is in an era of alternating between the old and the new, many entrepreneurs of the industrial and commercial class are generally large landowners everywhere.

This is also extremely advantageous for various reforms, because these landlord-born industrial and commercial classes will not give up more profitable reforms because of a small land gain, but on the contrary, they will further promote the transformation of the landlord class into the industrial and commercial class.

Take Zhao Dongyun's Zhao family as an example, the Zhao family used to be a landlord in the traditional sense of China, with land as a symbol of wealth, but after the New Deal reform in the late Qing Dynasty, the Zhao family quickly changed from a traditional landlord to an industrial and commercial family, although the Zhao family now has a large amount of land in their hometown in Xuzhou, but the main wealth of the Zhao family's four houses has been exchanged for shares of Fuyuan Company, and the value of these shares has far exceeded the wealth brought by traditional land.

After years of preparation, at the end of last year, Fuyuan Yarn Factory and many subsidiaries under its name were rectified and merged, and 'Fuyuan Company' was established to manage many factories and industries owned by the Zhao family.

In addition to wholly-owning Fuyuan Yarn Factory, the largest and best-performing textile enterprise in contemporary China, Fuyuan Company also owns a large number of shares of subsidiaries, such as 70% of the shares of Fuyuan Ash Company, 80% of the shares of Fuyuan Chemical Company, and Fuyuan Construction Company, etc., which occupy a controlling stake in more than 10 subsidiaries, and also have many joint shares with other enterprises or officials.

For example, Fuyuan Company also owns 35% of the shares of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, which is the largest enterprise in contemporary China, not only owning the business of the arsenal itself, but also involved in the two major industries of steel and chemical industry, and its wholly-owned investment in the construction of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory's affiliated steel plant has become the second largest steel enterprise in China after Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant.

The total assets of Fuyuanji Qì Factory have already exceeded 10 million yuan, and of course, its liabilities are also the first in China, and the total amount of various loans exceeds 6 million taels. Although the annual profit is very considerable, but the investment at this stage is more, anyway, including the parent company Fuyuan Company, has not taken a dime of dividends in recent years, on the contrary, a lot of money has been invested in the follow-up.

Just from this aspect, this Fuyuan machine is a pit goods, only lose money and do not make money, but the broad profit prospects are still attractive to countless people to throw money into it, Fuyuan company itself does not say, every time the shares are issued is a huge amount of money to buy additional shares, otherwise the shares in the hands of so many years have long been diluted.

Several other major shareholders are no exception, such as the second largest shareholder, Dingsheng Bank, Hong Xuwei gritted his teeth and invested a lot of money to acquire shares every time he issued additional shares.

According to the construction plan of the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, the production of major ordnance such as rifles, heavy machine guns, mortars, and artillery has been completed, and the equipment has been purchased and saved to make money by producing munitions, and the other major investment is the affiliated iron and steel plant, which has also been purchased. To put it simply, after the more than 10 million yuan is smashed, there is no need to continue to throw money in the future.

In the future, the plant will be able to form its own hematopoiesis for development, and at the same time distribute considerable dividends to shareholders, and the future dividend figures are extremely considerable. Otherwise, businessmen from the outside world would not have tried their best to acquire the shares of the factory, but unfortunately after the establishment of several additional shares, most of the additional shares were purchased by the original shareholders using their preferential rights, and relatively few of them were left out.

At the same time, Fuyuan Company also owns 40 percent of the shares of the Huludao Textile Company, and then also owns about 20 percent of the shares of the Luanzhou Coal Mine, and even in the Dasheng Yarn Factory, the biggest competitor of the Fuyuan Textile Company, the Fuyuan Company also obtained 13 percent of the shares through guò acquisition and other means.

All the sum up, the Zhao family's Fuyuan company holds a total of 16 enterprises, and then also has shares in more than 10 enterprises, the market value of the shares of many enterprises under the name of Fuyuan company combined, reaching nearly 20 million, of course, if you exclude the loans in many subsidiaries and some inflated water, then the net assets of Fuyuan company are estimated to be only about 10 million.

However, just these tens of millions of sub-industries are also unimaginable to the Zhao family in the past, when the Zhao family first started to invest in industry under the leadership of Zhao Dongyun, the capital that could be taken out was less than 500,000 taels, even if the family's land, shops and other industries were all sold, it would not be able to make up 1 million.

However, after a few years, the Zhao family has assets of more than 10 million, and many times Zhao Chenliang, the chairman of Fuyuan Company, can't figure out where the money comes from, anyway, the asset figures reported by the financial personnel under him are getting more and more day by day!

Although few families have been able to complete a gorgeous transformation and gather so much wealth like the Zhao family, the situation of the Zhao family can be seen as a microcosm of society, and there are more traditional landlords who are transforming into entrepreneurs.

And Zhao Dongyun in a series of New Deal reforms in the Northeast, they are the main hosts, and who are they against? The stubborn landlord who only knows how to dig in the soil and the powerful who own a large number of granges!

In other words, the old-fashioned landlords who owned a lot of land, and the Manchu magnates were an important obstacle to Zhao Dongyun's land and acre tax reform.