The steamer spitting a little soot slowly arrived at Yingkou Port, which was the earliest treaty port in Northeast China and the most important port of export in Northeast China. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Fifteen days ago, more than 300 officers and men stationed in the DPRK who entered the port by ship easily seized the most important port in the northeastern region.

During the armed clashes that night, a number of customs officers were injured and the British Revenue Department fled the camp in the heat of battle. In the protest of the General Taxation Department, the General Taxation Office apologized to the General Taxation Department, but on the other hand, it set up a regional customs office in the name of the "Northeast Political Affairs Council" and sent "customs agents" to the customs offices in Yingkou, Niuzhuang, Yanji, and other places, and announced to the retained customs officers that all customs affairs in the Northeast region were to be discussed with the customs officers, and at the same time demanded that the customs taxes be transferred to the Bank of Korea.

Of course, the General Taxation Department in Beijing naturally expressed strong protest against all this, and even exerted pressure through the British minister, but diplomatic pressure did not seem to prevent the fact that the Customs Administration took over the customs, and the semi-taken customs was controlled in Yingkou for three days, in accordance with the laws of the Qing Dynasty and the treaties, rules, and practices concluded with other countries, the ships entering and leaving Yingkou were taxed and managed, but the military quartermaster ships naturally did not need to be taxed and inspected.

Just like the "Xinwang" that was sailing into the harbor at this time, this merchant ship flying the flag of the Unified Supervision Office was a munitions ship that was exempt from inspection, and the customs officers who boarded the ship only had to see the name of the ship to know that there was no need to inspect it. And this is a foreign ship of no more than 800 tons, which will be crowded with people, all of whom are extremely young without exception, and they are wearing the typical "administrative attire" - that is the standard clothing of the administrative officials of the Unified Supervision Office. This is a casual dress that is an improvement on the basis of Western-style standing clothes.

Although in private, these young officials, who were influenced by the idea of "Chongming and the restoration of the Han Dynasty" in North Korea, were more accustomed to wearing Hanfu, but they still wore this more concise "office attire" at work, when these young people stood on the deck of the ship. Most of them are the best officials sent from the Badao Local Affairs Office for a period of time and are the best officials, but because of the numbers, many of them have just graduated from the administrative school in Seoul.

"Is this the Northeast?"

Xu Kun, who was on the side of the ship, looked at the town getting closer and closer with a complicated expression, as a student who graduated from the medical school of East Asia Tongwen College, his original life plan should have been to become a doctor. And even become a military doctor, as he hoped, at least in this war to recover China. Do your part.

Surprisingly, he and his classmates, who had only received one year of medical training, were not appointed as military doctors, but were appointed health officers. Go to the civil affairs offices of various parts of the Northeast. Assist in the establishment of a health care system. In fact, according to the original plan, they were supposed to build a modern health care system in Bado, North Korea, but now that the Northeast region is almost recovered, the Unified Prison Office has postponed the construction of the health care system that was originally scheduled to be implemented in North Korea in order to use the limited financial and human resources available to North Korea.

"This is the northeast, with a population of less than 7 million, of which there are no less than 700,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han banners. These people are hardcore anti-Chinese, that is. One out of every ten people is against ......"

Speaking is Sun Tianyu, a second lieutenant police officer who has just graduated from the police academy, when mentioning those "in the flag", the words are full of contempt, no one will doubt that after he arrives, he will definitely give some colors to the "in the flag" in the jurisdiction, but Xu Kun and others, who are also deeply touched by the authority of the police, will refute it, not to mention that Xu Kun knows that his future work also needs the cooperation of the police, and the power of health supervision is also in the police department, and he, the health commissioner, needs the cooperation of the health police to implement various health regulations.

"The key is to be non-smoking!"

Smoking!

Sun Tianyu's words made Xu Kun's heart sink slightly, he knew that the other party was telling the truth, and now the civil affairs organs sent to the northeast region have carried out their own unique work according to the local situation in the occupied area. The main administrative content of civil affairs departments and officials at all levels includes the punishment of profiteers who forcibly seize and endanger local areas; Relief for the poor and hungry, while strictly controlling prices and stabilizing the market economy. Census of urban and rural residents; Recruit escaped magistrates or newly elected officials to participate in local administration in order to establish a stable rule.

On the other hand, in accordance with the laws and regulations that were or are planned to be implemented in Korea, the rules for the entry and exit of city gates, the rules for the prohibition of roads, the rules for the entry and exit of ships, and the rules for the prohibition of markets, and at the same time, the laws and regulations on the cleaning of cities, livestock farms, the prevention of infectious diseases, the rules for the collection of taxes, and the rules for the prohibition of weapons were introduced in Seoul and other places, and they were implemented under the supervision of the military gendarmerie, and with the help of the authority of wartime, all of which were successfully implemented.

The judicial police, on the other hand, carry out their official duties in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure; In order to help the local hungry people, they gave the people seized rice, salt and other goods; Buying the grain stored by the rich and distributing it to the people, and treating the local people in terms of hygiene. At the same time, it is planned to investigate the collection of cultivated land tax on occupied land so as to facilitate the implementation of a new tax system in Northeast China.

Among the many policies, even the "land tax reform" that is generally considered to be the most resistant is the smoking ban.

"Indeed!"

An Jingzhi, who was standing on the side, was an expert in "land tax" who took "land tax" as his graduation thesis when he graduated from the Seoul School of Administration.

"In the new policy planned to be implemented in the northeast region, the most resistance is no land tax reform, although there is resistance, but the northeast land price is cheaper, and there is more land per household, even according to the plan of the government to 2% of the land price plus 0.5% of the village tax, the land tax, with the current land price per mu of the tax is only 25 to 50 copper yuan, although the tax is slightly heavier than in the past, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not only the field tax, all kinds of harsh taxes, plus the flag land is also added to the flag donation, land rent, half of the income per mu is calculated into the official flag, after the land tax reform, What we levy is only 5 percent at most, and in comparison, the burden on the people can be said to be greatly reduced. ”

It's just a rent reduction to a certain extent, and like other officials in the prefecture, An Jingzhi did not blindly reduce the burden on the countryside, after all, for the prefecture. At least in the next two or three years, land tax will be the heaviest source of revenue for Fuzhong to rule the northeast, and without sufficient funds, Fuzhong's work will naturally be dragged down. As a clerk, you need to do everything possible to ensure the stability of tax revenue.

As for the burden of the peasants, the government did not really take it into account for the time being, and as the tax commissioner of the Mukden province, he had in fact already drawn up a corresponding plan, and after the reform of the land tax, compared with the excesses of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the taxes were reduced by about half a percent, and on the other hand, the flag tax originally paid to the infantry yamen and the land rent of the flag camp. Change the rate to the government rent, which is equivalent to about 40% of the output, so that the government can get a land tax equivalent to about 60% of the land output.

Of course. None of this has been implemented yet, but nominal "tax cuts" can naturally reduce the pressure to implement tax reform, but on the other hand, the ban on smoking is not so easy. After all, the Northeast has a broad smoking base.

"Many coolies and tenant farmers in the Northeast have the habit of working after a tiring day. Lying on the bed and smoking two big puffs of cigarettes, hundreds of thousands of smokers, millions of dollars in tobacco profits every year, and taking wealth from people is like killing parents, if it is banned like North Korea, and smoking is completely banned, I am afraid it will be ......."

An Jingzhi's expression was a little helpless, North Korea is different from China. There is no tradition and habit of smoking big cigarettes there, and China ...... Tobacco poisons have long been rampant. Blatant prohibition will only lead to chaos.

As for the current unstable rule of the Unified Prison Government in the northeast, it is by no means the best choice, perhaps because of this......

"Commissioner An, what is the attitude of Fuzhong now?"

As the urban health commissioner, Xu Kun is only a level 10 official, while An Jingzhi, as a Fengtian tax commissioner, is a level 7 official, which is far higher than Xu Kun in terms of level, so he can naturally get more information.

"There is no attitude for the time being!"

An Jingzhi shrugged his shoulders, as a tax official, he had proposed to Fuchu to implement a monopoly, but for the time being, Fuzhong seemed to have no intention of carrying out this work, and it seemed that the most important thing for Fuzhong now was to consolidate the rule of the Northeast as soon as possible.

"I think it's going to be a monopoly in the end!"

Sun Tianyu sighed, tobacco and drugs and North Korea have caused hundreds of policemen to be punished, and more than a dozen of them have even been sentenced to death, and in the future in the Northeast, they may also need to escort the "monopoly", this may be politics!

Everything in the world is always so absurd, and it is always subject to change from time to time and from place to place. When Sun Tianyu sighed that the world was unpredictable, the ship had slowly approached the dock.

In the bustling dock, coolies can be seen unloading all kinds of military supplies from cargo ships, and the military police are maintaining order at the dock, except that there seems to be little difference between this dock and the past, if there is a difference, it is probably the red flag fluttering.

At the same time as the merchant ship docked at the port, these young affairs officers on the ship could feel that the unprecedented sense of mission was almost coming to their faces, almost everyone was secretly cheering for themselves in the bottom of their hearts, they were not soldiers, but now everyone knew that they were about to set foot on a battlefield without gunpowder, and even this battlefield without gunpowder smoke was far more cruel and sinister than the battlefield, and their work would be directly related to the future of the entire Northeast.

"Okay, you remember, from today onwards, you will be the health commissioner of Tieling!"

Taking a deep breath, at the moment when he stepped on the gangway with his suitcase, Xu Kun whispered silently in his heart, and then stepped on Yingkou Port with everyone, and set foot on this strange land......

Riding a low Mongolian horse, with a six-gun revolver made by the Seoul Manufacturing Bureau pinned to the cowhide holster at his waist, if he was put aside, he would definitely be thought to be a beard or an officer, but now when Xu Kungang, who was dressed in Western style, appeared in the town restaurant, he just stopped Mahler, and the guy in the shop who got off the horse hurriedly greeted him and knelt down.

"The minion has seen the adult!"

The Manchurian title made Xu Kun's face suddenly show dissatisfaction, and the well-informed shopkeeper saw it and hurriedly greeted the guy's ass is feet.

"You kid, what kind of slave is not a slave, we Han people should not be slaves of the Manchurians, nor should we be our own slaves, my lord, let you see it!"

I have to say that the shopkeeper's words instantly made Xu Kun have a good impression of him, although when he was in North Korea, he was used to the title of position, but in the northeast, he was generally called an adult, just like the people called those policemen, but also used "adult", from Yingkou to Tieling on the way, he has been accustomed to this title. Even to a certain extent, he likes this title, although everyone is equal, but the idea of the official standard for thousands of years has always affected him, not to mention that for Xu Kun, who once regarded himself as a scholar, unpaid is not a kind of psychological satisfaction. While satisfied, he seemed a little curious, curious about why the other party could see his identity at a glance.

"Oh? Shopkeeper, how do you tell I'm a clerk? ”

While admitting it in disguise, Xu Kun was extremely curious about why the other party recognized himself as an "adult" rather than an ordinary person.

"My lord, look at you, you are wearing an official uniform and a foreign gun pinned to your waist, isn't it obvious!"

Official uniform...... The shopkeeper's words made Xu Kun hurriedly glance at the gray "business suit" on his body, this dress is nothing more than a clothing made of imitation Western-style military uniforms, the reason why Fuzhong chose this kind of clothing is just because the clothing factory has been providing military uniforms for the army, and in the face of the needs of Fuzhong, it is nothing more than changing the color of the military uniform, compared with suits and horse coats, this kind of military uniform style clothing is undoubtedly more acceptable.

"Official clothes? How did this become an official garment? ”

Xu Kun's surprise was exchanged for a flattering smile from the shopkeeper.

"Look at what you said, sir, nowadays, don't all the adults in our northeast wear the same as you, the policemen in the city wear black, and those who serve as soldiers are also wearing black official uniforms, but they wear collar plates, as for the civil affairs chief of Tieling, he is wearing the same as you, and when he comes down, he also carries a ......gun in his waist."

The shopkeeper's words made Xu Kun couldn't help but glance at the shopkeeper, and when he listened to the shopkeeper say something "once and for a while", he looked at the shopkeeper and asked rhetorically.

"The shopkeeper, you look at it quite carefully, so in the shopkeeper's opinion, how is the civil affairs hall in this place now compared to the government in the past?"

Faced with this problem, the shopkeeper did not hesitate, but said bluntly.

"Hey, to be honest, although this Civil Affairs Department is better than the government in the past, not to mention that the people are exempted from this year's summer tax, even the tax for doing business is also clearer than in the past, but ......"

At first, he praised two sentences, but the shopkeeper hesitated, and finally looked at the adult in front of him, or asked for a name.

"This, will these adults stay in the Northeast in the future?"

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