The rhythm of Nanking returned to calm, and the atmosphere of war drifted away as the implementation of the Eight Articles of the People's Republic of China began. The sound of firecrackers can still be heard from time to time outside the window, although the evacuation of Japanese troops and the exchange and redemption of prisoners of war are still in progress, and Li Yuanhong, as the president, has not announced the end of the war for a long time, but it has not hindered the people who have learned the news to celebrate in advance.

The work of the government of the Republic of China also shifted from the war to the post-war recovery, and although the war did not last long, the damage caused to the north was great. Millions of people who were temporarily relocated, more than 20,000 people who died in the war, cities such as Qingdao and Jinzhou that were almost destroyed, relief for victims in the harsh winter, and the distribution of grain seeds before the resumption of grain production in the coming year, etc.

War is always just a appearance, and even the shortest war damage cannot be healed quickly, Yang Qiu, who was sitting on the sofa Chapter 354 Construction and Sending Money to listen to the report on the gains and losses of this war, was a little distracted. With only a few months of losses so great, one can imagine what decades of civil war can turn into the country.

Since the military summary will not begin until all Japanese troops have withdrawn, the report for the president and prime minister is mainly on the economic situation. Finance Minister Zhang Wenjing has a few pages of documents in front of him that have been counted one after another, and the 42 bidders of that year have reached the highest point of his political career, and he is out of breath due to the financial situation of the past three years, but he can finally breathe a sigh of relief as Europe has entered several sky-high procurement contracts in a row after the start of the war. And the number of seizures in this war made the Ministry of Finance smile even more, and it almost didn't ask the presidential palace to give the soldiers a red huā and award the medal of "Outstanding Contribution".

Numbers are exciting.

Zhang Wenjing, a soldier born and imprinted with a deep Yang Qiu brand, has always been known for his rigorous work, and the minister has rarely smiled: "The Northeast seized about 200 million yuan in the early stage, and now Britain, the United States, Russia and our army are supervising the withdrawal of the Japanese army. In the past ten years, there are statistics that the total investment in Lushun and Dalian is about 400 million yen in the construction and delivery of 400 million yen in Chapter 354, excluding the destruction and taking away, Fang Rui estimates that half of it can be left. Shandong's "Japan" investment is basically none. However, after Germany handed over Qingdao, it got several enterprises, including the Jiaoji Railway and the shipyard, with a total amount of about 100 million. The rest is the "Japanese" concession. After Britain and France intervened, Japan was forced to abandon all its property under pressure. Including 110 tons of gold and silver reserves and a number of factories, there were 57 factories of various types in the Hankow and Shanghai concessions alone.

We estimate that by the time everything is cleaned up, the total amount should be around 700 million! ”

700 million!

This number made many people present rub their hands, and even Yang Qiu laughed. They are all key members of this government. I still have a good understanding of the country's financial situation. In 1911, when the government changed in 1911, the total tax paid in the country was about 520 million yuan. In 12 years, the number was 580 million, and in 13 years, due to a small-scale explosion in the southwest, the growth suddenly exceeded 660 million, and in 14 years, although there are still a few days to end. However, in the first three quarters, the total tax payment of industry, agriculture and commerce in the country was the same as that of last year. This is not counting the 100 million net income directly brought to the government by the soaring price of resources, and it is only a matter of time before it exceeds 900 million for the whole year.

Zhang Taiyan, the minister of acute education, was the first to jump up, his face turned red: "Doesn't it mean that the total annual income of this seizure will exceed 1.3 billion?!" ”

Zhang Wenjing nodded vigorously.

It's incredible! Who would have thought that in just three years, the country's income would more than triple!

Tang Shaoyi was still relatively calm, and said with a smile: "Binglin, don't be happy first. In addition to the significant reduction in the losses of intermediate links due to the promotion of tax reform across the country, the main reason for such a rapid increase is the recent resource orders thrown by Europe. Industrial and commercial taxation is the credit of Chenhua. The total turnover of Chongqing, Hanyang and Shanghai alone in the first nine months exceeded 100 million yuan, and Changsha, which is dominated by chemicals and coal, also reached 80 million! They alone contributed 70 million, and that's not counting the recent orders received from Russia, Britain and France. If Europe does not fight, it is estimated that there will be a sharp decline. ”

"It doesn't matter if he fights or not, the most important thing is to get it!" Zhang Taiyan was crazy, and after finishing speaking, he directly began to calculate how much money the Ministry of Education could get and how many schools it could open this time.

In fact, everyone here was excited. A single war brought more revenue to the government than it had for all of last year. Although the vast majority of these are fixed assets, railways and mines that have a bearing on the national economy and people's livelihood must be temporarily nationalized. But even if these are discarded, after auctioning other things to the market, there will be at least 400 million yuan of net income.

Zhang Wenjing, of course, was even happier, and continued: "Except for one-third of the captured weapons and ammunition to be supplied to the Korean guerrillas in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of National Defense, we have contacted Russia for the rest. The Russian minister was also very interested in the weapons, and had sent a telegram back to China to discuss the purchase of all of them for $20 million. In addition, France has recently learned from nowhere that we have stockpiled millions of artillery shells for several years, and asked if there is a surplus to sell to them. ”

Cai Yi, who coincided with his meeting, squinted at Yang Qiu. The figures on the military's reserves are highly secret, and even the chiefs of staff are often unclear, not to mention the military secrecy regulations that this man has single-handedly established. France can get such accurate information, either there are traitors among their chiefs of staff, or he deliberately told the French.

Li Yuanhong's eyes were slitted with laughter, not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars that can be obtained in Japan, just a few large resource orders thrown by Europe in a row have generated 100 million in revenue, not to mention Russia, which is the unjust leader! It didn't take long to exchange the weapons that should have been returned in a few years for 50 million, and they had to pay another 20 million to buy the seizure, and directly returned 70 million cash to the state. If the $420 million order is completed, the direct tax revenue of the state will exceed 150 million.

Reconquista, abolition of treaties, and financial inflation. This pen is enough to make him, the third interim president of the Republic of China, famous in history! Seeing that it was uncertain whether he would be able to continue to sit in his seat, he asked about tariff negotiations with the United Kingdom.

Tang Shaoyi understands his thoughts, and a formal national election will be held in March next year, and no one knows whether Yang Qiu, who is currently the most vocal, will come to power on his own. Glancing at Yang Qiu, who was silent, he said: "Britain has no intention of getting entangled in the matter of tariffs and recognition of China's legal status, and the most important thing at present is that they want us to reaffirm the status of the concession." Guarantees that there will be no similar bill last time. In addition, they also hope to get several patents such as new drugs and submachine guns in Chenhua's hands. ”

His gaze suddenly turned to Yang Qiu, and there was no big problem with the new medicine and submachine gun technology. Since it can be sold to Germany and Russia, it can naturally be sold to Britain and France. But the reiteration of the Anglo-French concession issue made everyone a little confused. Because the whole country knew that the young vice president was very unhappy with such a deformed colony as the concession, they all watched him wait.

Yang Qiu is unhappy with the concession, and if he does not get back all the concessions in one day, it means that China is still a semi-colonial country. Even with international recognition, it is semi-colonial! But he is not a fool who does not understand changes, and it is better to put down what he knows he can't get back. smiled: "I will let Cai Gongshi talk about the patent of the new drug and the submachine gun." It is all right to reaffirm the status of the concession, but they must also ensure that there will be no acts in the concession that endanger the security of our territory, government and economy. ”

Now that he has opened the conversation, Yang Qiu also expressed his opinion: "Baofen coal and iron is the backbone of the country's industry and economy. Production must resume immediately. The cultivation (Shenshu Kaizi) Fengtian Manufacturing Bureau expansion into Fengtian Industrial Group should be done as soon as possible. I know that you have been in trouble recently, European and American steel and machinery and equipment have stopped exporting, and most of the goods produced by yourself and returned from Russia are for civilian use. But you can't be suffocated by urine, and if you can't go through regular channels, you can take other ways, Lu Zhengxiang and Wang Zhengting wrote that Russia is in chaos now. Many officials take advantage of the war to enrich themselves, and as long as they give money, they dare to sell anything! You contact them. With more money, we must first build the skeleton of Mukden, and we will not be able to build until Europe keeps fighting.

I have already said hello to Hanyang, Chongqing and Jiangnan, and they will successively contract out some parts and low-tech work, which can be undertaken by all capable factories and businessmen in China. If one factory can't eat the orders thrown out by Europe, they will join forces to take it. Take the initiative with industry associations and chambers of commerce as the leader. In addition, you also have to be prepared, the orders of various factories in the United States are gradually crowded, they will definitely look for OEM processing all over the world to help, Minister Wu and Gu Weijun will visit the United States after the New Year to find a way to get some business back, and domestic industry and commerce must prepare early! Worker training should also be expanded, not only by technical schools, but also by factories, and the machinery and equipment needed can be drawn from all over the country.

Europe has at least three years to play! So the next three years are very critical. Not only to let businessmen take this opportunity to make more money, but also to support a number of powerful enterprises to become bigger and stronger! In order to allow the workers to benefit from this, it is all the more necessary to select as many high-quality enterprises as possible to enter the stock market, so that more people can enjoy the benefits of war wealth and the improvement of the country. ”

Although everyone didn't understand why he was so sure that Europe would have to fight for three more years, Shen Shukai, who had already been dead set on it, still nodded emphatically. After explaining the completion business, his eyes turned to Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi: "As for the distribution of the remaining money this time. ”

The two of them also wanted to hear his thoughts on the distribution of dividends after the war, Li Yuanhong smiled: "Shaochuan and I mean that at least 100 million will be given to the Ministry of Education, and we have no clue about the rest." Chenhua, you are familiar with industry and commerce, you don't need to give us two old men face, just say it. His words caused everyone to laugh, and the eyes that looked at Yang Qiu suddenly became hot. Even if the Ministry of Education takes out 100 million, there are still three or four hundred million left to distribute, not to mention the departments of road industry and commerce, even Zhang Ji of agriculture and forestry picked up the teacup and stared at Yang Qiu.

Yang Qiu was also not polite, and said the case that he had already thought about: "Qingdao, Jinzhou and other places need to be rebuilt immediately, and the relief of the bereavement and disaster relief is also urgently needed, so it will be allocated to the Ministry of Civil Affairs according to 100 million." The army will also be divided into 100 million, and all the rest will be given to the navy except for the maintenance of the army. The crowd nodded in agreement. Sooner or later, Taiwan's heart disease will be troublesome, and if the navy had not had a submarine to support the scene this time, it is estimated that it would have been scolded to death by the whole country. It is a joke that Taiwan is isolated in the open sea and has no navy to take it back, so it urgently needs to strengthen its strength.

There are only 200 million left in one of the three families, and the remaining few are short of breath.

"Judging from this war, our country is seriously deficient in the construction of railways and highways. The total investment is less than 300,000 troops, but 2 million people are used to maintain logistics, most of which are spent on transportation! Because the regulations and standards of the recovered South Manchurian Line are different, the renovation work should be put on the agenda as soon as possible. Mr. Zhan Tianyou came to see me a few days ago, and he said that except for the southwest railway network, which was considered at the beginning of the design and made preparations in advance for the construction of the double line after the financial approval in the future, almost no double line was carried out on the rest of the domestic railways, and the five main arteries of Jinghan, Jingfeng, Jinpu, Nanmanchu and Jiaoji performed very badly in this war, and they were completely unable to bear the need for rapid assembly and mobilization of troops in an emergency.

The Longhai West Line and the Baotou-Kulun Railway are related to the safety of Xinjiang and Mongolia. There can be no deduction in the appropriation! The same is true for provincial roads, and Xu Xiujun's experience in using Sanhe soil to reduce the amount of cement should be promoted as soon as possible.

Although the agriculture and forestry sector has been smooth in recent years, it has maintained a bumper harvest trend. But God is not under our command. The construction of Lihe irrigation should also be strengthened. It is necessary to build a number of reservoirs that play a major role, which can meet the needs of agriculture in addition to generating electricity. Mulberry, silkworm, hemp, sugarcane, cotton, tea and tobacco these cash crops in addition to expansion should also focus on the road of quality win, we can not always be a lifetime of cheap raw material exporters, the combination of industry and agriculture is the direction of agricultural development. Forestry should also focus on conservation. Most of the flooding of the Yellow River is caused by the lack of forest protection, which leads to the silting up of the river channel due to the sediment flowing down the river. Don't be soft-hearted. This is a matter for future generations! ”

Although he didn't say the specific allocation figure, Zhang Wenjing's newly turned face suddenly collapsed again. Not to mention anything else, just a few railway renovations and double lines should all be started. The first batch of investment alone will not be less than 100 million yuan! If you calculate it like this, don't say that the four or five billion that just arrived is gone all of a sudden. I have to paste hundreds of millions of dollars into it.

Yang Qiu looked at him and suddenly laughed: "Wenjing's thinking still needs to be changed, the tradition of our Chinese people is more than every year, so we all like to hide some pressure box money at the bottom." But this is for the people, and the fiscal surplus is a good thing for the country, but now is a good opportunity for construction, and an appropriate fiscal deficit can promote construction. So you and Xu Xiujun have to be bolder! Now we have ended the war with the Sino-Japanese war. The biggest concern of the United States is gone, and it can be made up for by borrowing a few more loans. The South Manchurian and Jiaoji lines can also be renovated by issuing bonds and stocks to the private sector. In a word. Don't be afraid to throw money at it! Industry, industry, agriculture, and education cannot be done without blood. Money can be made slowly, but Europe and the United States do not have time to take care of the Far East. If it still doesn't work, I'll discuss it with the president and the general manager, and you can directly mortgage Jinghan, Jinpu and Jingfeng. ”

"Huh."

Everyone knows that he is joking, these arteries and the Hanchuan and Hangui under construction, as well as the planned Yuehan, Minpu (Fujian to Nanjing Pukou) are the main roads that run through the whole country and must be completely controlled by the state in any case.

But his words still opened everyone's minds. National construction, especially a country as big as China, requires astronomical funds, and the construction progress must be lengthened, and only by throwing money into it can the gap with the world's major countries be shortened. Now Europe has only been fighting for less than half a year, and it is not impossible to earn more than two or three billion yuan if it is fought for another three years, so this is nothing more than a choice of first and first saving. What's more, all the previous statistics did not include tariffs, and the export profits will increase by a large margin after the tariffs are resolved, and the same is true for industry and commerce, so Tang Shaoyi and Li Yuanhong both agree with the idea of first huā money.

Since these three people all agreed, several major departments no longer concealed and directly began to plan to be repaired there and built there, and they couldn't wait to overdraft overnight and smash out a better future in the next three years. Fortunately, Yang Qiu, who put forward the plan, was more calm, and under the figure of more than one million or hundreds of millions of dollars, it was still a low-energy and inefficient administrative agency, and the country was only stable to engage in such a large-scale construction, and there were only a lot more people up and down, so he once again proposed the concept of "building a clean government supervision office" operated by the Ministry of Justice.

This organization, which was originally only used to supervise the construction projects funded by the central government in various localities, and was all set up by enthusiastic young soldiers who cared for the country, gradually evolved into another major authority of the future Republic of China, the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

That's an afterword.

At present, most of the people in this conference room are deeply influenced by the ideas of Western capital, and they are not poor cloth clothes, and money is no longer important in their status. What's more, most of the politicians in the early years of the Republic of China were in the spirit of dedication to the country, and they didn't realize that the power of this institution would change so much in the future, so they only hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

This meeting, which was supposed to be only to distribute the dividends of the war, laid a good foundation for the first five-year development plan of the Republic of China, which was officially put forward after the 1915 general election.

But while everyone was discussing the various construction plans in detail, the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office knocked on the door with Song Ziqing, who saluted Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi, and then stuffed a telegram to Yang Qiu and whispered. Cai Yi, who was paying attention to him, only to see the corners of Yang Qiu's eyebrows suddenly raised, and then waved his hand: "Wenjing." You guys come out first, I have something to discuss with the president and the prime minister. ”

This accident made everyone realize that something was wrong. But looking at Song Ziqing's face, it doesn't look like a bad thing. He muttered in his heart and walked out of the conference room. Yang Qiu left Song Ziqing and Cai Yi, and waited for everyone to leave before he took out a telegram and handed it to Li Yuanhong: "There is a big incident in the day." ”

Oh? Li Yuanhong was surprised, and hurriedly opened the telegram and read it with Tang Shaoyi, but after reading it, he couldn't tell whether he was excited or uneasy. Foreign Minister Takaaki Kato, who had just returned home, was assassinated! The economy is the pioneer of Japan. The previous Foreign Minister Takahashi was assassinated!

What is even more coincidental is that the difference between the two assassinations is only three hours!

Whose hand did it? Radical right-wing forces in Japan. The two of them quickly cast their eyes on Yang Qiu, and they also glanced at Song Ziqing twice, and even Cai Ye was scorching. Yang Qiu didn't explain. In fact, Houyi's plan was drawn up by him personally. He asked Song Ziqing for a cigarette. Walked to the window and looked out, his eyes were bright.

The Houyi plan did not rely on assassination to solve the problem of Japan, and in fact, there is no example in history that the enemy country can be completely defeated by assassination. The core of this plan is to ignite the volcano by taking advantage of the defeat of Japan and the expansion of the right-wing extremist forces in the country! There is a deep imprint of Yang Qiu in this, because he knows better than anyone how terrible the forbearance and tenacity of this country are.

If you want to destroy people, first make them crazy.

As an island country lacking resources, Japan wanted to continue to be among the great powers, but expansion can only be expansion! This has determined that Japan must take the road of outward-looking aggression. Unfortunately, due to naval strength, etc. This war can only be regarded as an injury, but it cannot completely solve the problem, and if it is placed in peacetime, it is likely that it will take 10 or even 20 years to recover. But the European war has given a chance to speed up the recovery.

Unless the Anglo-Japanese alliance is dissolved, Britain will need to balance itself with Japan, so that even if it is unable to support in the war, it will provide some orders for it to recover. Although there is a lack of resources, the workers and industrial base still exist after all, and the work of processing with supplied materials can still be done well. In addition, after the overflow of orders in the United States, someone is also needed to help with processing, so if the country is stable, it can also make a lot of money at this time.

Another reason for deciding to implement Hou Yi's plan was that he was afraid that Japan would send troops to Europe!

Historically, Japan had never sent troops to Europe, because they were busy digesting Qingdao and Manchuria. But now after the defeat, the army will only have to protect North Korea, and Taiwan will still be under public control. For a government that can sell even the women of its own country to earn money to subsidize it, as long as there is enough interest, there is no problem in sending tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The politicians of the Taisho era were not fools of the Showa era, and they could naturally see how much benefit they would bring from sending troops, not only to bridge the rift with Britain and France and regain trust, but also to participate in the distribution of benefits after the war. And once the First World War is over and Britain and France return to the Far East, they will inevitably increase the exploitation of the colonies because of the consumption of the sky, and in the face of the increasingly powerful "China", God knows if they will directly use a large number of weapons to smash a "Japan" that is several times stronger than the current one!!

These were all things he was worried about.

So he needs to ignite the volcano and plunge Nippon into domestic turmoil for the next three years.

It was also very particular about choosing these two people. Needless to say, Kato Takaaki, the chaebol and the feudal lord are the black hands behind the left and the right. Takahashi was one of the biggest invisible contributors to the victory of the Russo-Japanese War in the Qing Dynasty. He and Akashi Motojiro raised much-needed loans for the Japanese and facilitated the issuance of war bonds in Britain and the United States, raising most of the military expenses for the Japanese capital, and the other directly caused Nicholas II to almost step down.

Now that the crater has opened, all that's left is to give them some power!

Yang Qiu threw away the cigarette butt that he hadn't taken two puffs of, turned his head and smiled at Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi: "President, Prime Minister." I heard that many people in North Korea died of starvation this winter, and I thought that I should immediately send someone to visit North Korea to reaffirm the friendship between China and North Korea and provide some money. ”

"Support North Korean money? It's not. Cai Yi just wanted to exclaim that this was not to send money to the day, but when he came to his mouth, he suddenly stopped it and completely understood what he meant.

Because tens of thousands of remnants of the army will be stationed in defeat, the current DPRK can be regarded as the base camp of the concentration of the right-wing in Japan, and the right-wing forces without money cannot carry out a coup d'état。!!!