The reason why Li Yongji was able to rise so quickly took a year or two to conquer the world, and his identity as a traverser actually only accounted for a small proportion. + Title Novel, x.

After all, even if he is a traverser, his identity after crossing is not very prominent, and he is a middle-class at most. In addition, he was too young and was not an adult at all, with his situation at the time, if he wanted to start the world from scratch, it was not impossible, but it would take five or six years to become it.

But the fact is that not long after Li Yongji crossed over, in less than half a year, he fought his own forces, and then it didn't take two years to defeat the Taiping Army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty one after another, and swept the whole country with an unstoppable momentum to unify China, which is already incredibly fast.

Although Li Yongji's reunification still left a lot of tails, such as retaining a large number of so-called autonomous provinces and relinquishing a lot of power, it was not that Li Yongji could not defeat those places, but purely because Li Yongji rose too fast, and there were too few administrative talents available at hand, plus he had to play the trick of scissors to develop industry and commerce, so he came up with an autonomous province plan.

In short, Li Yongji's rapid rise is a legend, and the fundamental reason for this legend is the golden finger attached to Li Yongji's crossing, that is, the space-time trading system.

It is precisely because of the space-time trading system that Li Yongji was able to buy and sell in two planes, quickly accumulated the wealth of his start-up, and most importantly, he was able to obtain the advanced technology of the 21st century, including weapons, industrial and agricultural supplies, etc., so that he had a technological advantage that others did not have from the beginning.

From the original elite army to the later Praetorian Guard and the National Defense Army, a closer look reveals that Li Yongji's descendants all have a common characteristic, that is, strong firepower and strict discipline.

Because they have more advanced weapons, their firepower is stronger than others. Because of better treatment, officers and men can endure strict training and be disciplined.

Strong firepower, good discipline, and better reconnaissance methods, so every time there is a battle, it is Li Yongji's army that beats others, and it is not too much to say that bullying people is not too much.

It is precisely because the space-time trading system is so important to Li Yongji that Li Yongji strictly guards this secret of himself, and has never said it to anyone in this time and space. Even in order to confuse the public, a secret organization or something like that was created.

Of course, it is precisely because Li Yongji rose too fast that he had the power to protect himself in time, so that others did not have the strength to covet his secrets, and the pretext of that secret organization, except for fooling others at the beginning, came later, especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Li Yongji didn't even bother to fool, as long as he added a secret.

But it is precisely because of this that Li Yongji, who has too many secrets, made two internal and external ledgers at the beginning. One is internal and one is external.

The internal ledger, so far, only Li Yongji has it in this time and space. Only he knows the details; The external ledger can be involved by other people in the plane, but it is only a few scratches.

So to speak. Li Yongji is responsible for getting things from modern society, and the real price and source of these things, he never tells outsiders, is the top secret.

The most outsiders can meddle in is in the field of circulation, that is, trading companies responsible for shipping and purchasing goods for Li Yongji, or some banks and other financial companies that involve money.

To put it bluntly, what outsiders can do is to ship for Li Yongji, and by the way, purchase according to Li Yongji's requirements, Li Yongji himself is a cargo handling center, but how to throughput and how to get the in-demand goods that everyone in the world wants, but only he knows.

It is precisely because of these internal and external systems that before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Yongji was rotten in the pot, and anyway, he was his own private business and private soldier, so there was nothing to say. But after the world was conquered and the country was established, the situation was different, because there was also a treasury issue involved.

Li Yongji would never tell outsiders the secret of the space-time trading system, so he built three sets of financial systems.

The core system is Li Yongji's personal property, known as the private treasury, which is completely controlled by him alone, and others, including the queen, do not know the details at all.

In addition to this private treasury, those enterprises that are responsible for selling modern materials for Li Yongji, buying materials in time and space, and opening financial firms such as banks in the middle, plus a series of assets such as the 110 Special Economic Zone and the Praetorian Guard, these are Li Yongji's family industries. These are all taken the original way, and because of the secrecy, most of them do not need to report income and expenditure statements, nor do they need to pay taxes, because of this characteristic, so it is also called the inner treasury, or the imperial property.

Outside the private treasury and the inner treasury is the so-called treasury, which is the state treasury, and it is also the largest treasury that the Prime Minister's Office can control, and all the administrative expenditures of the empire are taken from this treasury.

Although it is said that there are three systems, outsiders do not know about the private treasury, so it is generally said that the empire has two sets of financial systems, which is the so-called imperial treasury and the national treasury.

The Imperial Treasury has the largest amount of wealth because it has mastered all the scarce materials that make money, such as medicines, weapons, modern factories, research institutes, etc., and has mastered the main areas of financial circulation, such as the CITIC Bank, which can issue paper money. Although outsiders do not know how much money this imperial treasury has, it is not enough to describe the scale of this imperial treasury, and in terms of development potential, it far exceeds that of any super family or super group in the world.

On the contrary, the imperial treasury, which has no clear assets but is obviously rich, is a little pitiful, so that since the founding of the country, except for the beginning, it has been in a state of deficit where expenditure is much greater than revenue and expenditure, and it has not changed until now, and it is even worsening, and the deficit figure can be said to be increasing year by year, and by 1864, there was a huge financial gap.

The reason for this is because the empire was newly established, China has been a backward country for a long time, not wealthy, and has experienced wars and turmoil, and after Li Yongji became emperor, he removed a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which led to the fact that the treasury has not had much revenue, but the expenditure is very large.

When the People's Republic of China was first founded, because of his simplicity, the soldiers under Li Yongji were mainly supported by his own private treasury, and there were few administrative officials, plus the treasury could also collect items such as customs duties and luxury taxes. It can still break even, or even if the income exceeds the expenditure, which is a relatively good financial situation.

Later, however, Li Yongji came up with a plan for a million-dollar national defense force and launched a campaign to popularize primary education, that is, to eradicate illiteracy, the situation began to change.

Let's talk about the million-dollar national defense force plan first, this plan is mainly to cooperate with the new military service system of the Chinese Empire, but also to maintain the stability of the empire, after all, the Chinese Empire has a vast territory and many ethnic groups. However, the infrastructure was very poor, and there were many autonomous provinces, and it was impossible to stabilize the new regime without sufficient military strength, especially if Li Yongji intended to intervene in the American Civil War.

Therefore, Li Yongji got a million national defense troops at that time, but in order to save money, more than half of them were conscripts, that is, they took very little money. Mobilized soldiers who have not been in service for a long time either.

In order to save money, in addition to reducing the salaries and benefits of conscripts, Li Yongji also sent these soldiers to various autonomous provinces and autonomous regions in groups, and these expatriate national defense forces. Orders are to be ordered by the central government, but the central government only pays half of the salary, and the other half has to be paid by the local government.

Such an approach has the effect of deterring localities. There is also a purpose to weaken the place, which can be said to be a kind of yang conspiracy, that is, everyone knows that this army is a vampire. But I still had to tighten my belt and pay the money on time.

Of course, many local governments are also reluctant, but these local garrisons never play with you to delay, if you don't give money, they will immediately bring troops over, and the local governor's private soldiers will not dare to confront these Wehrmacht forces at all, and in the end they will obediently pay the money.

Well, this calculation was originally very good, after doing so, the empire could not only maintain a large army, but also not give too much financial burden to the central government, but after a long time, things will be different, Shen Shiming suddenly found that these armies need more and more funds.

It's not that this thing is **, although this thing exists, but it is not so blatant as it is in such a short period of time, the fundamental reason for the expansion of funds is that the daily consumption of the army is too large, and the other is the problem of inflation.

When Li Yongji first calculated, he mainly calculated the salaries of officers and soldiers, and as for the maintenance expenses such as daily training and equipment wear and tear, they were basically calculated according to the time when the elite army was trained, and the result was that there was a deviation here.

When the elite army was first trained, all modern weapons were used, and due to problems such as material workmanship, the loss of these things was actually relatively small, that is, it was not easy to be damaged. However, most of the weapons used by the later Wehrmacht were self-produced weapons later, that is, localized weapons produced by using equipment imported by Li Yongji from modern times and then using domestically produced steel.

Although these localized weapons also use a lot of modern technology, as well as a lot of modern machine tools, but first, the level of workers is too poor, and secondly, the materials are not up to standard, they are all locally produced steel, and all indicators are far from being compared with the steel pipes for guns or guns in modern society.

In addition, the ammunition used by the Wehrmacht today is an upgraded version, that is, bullets that use no/smoke/fire/powder as propellants, although this kind of thing increases the power of ammunition, but also increases the wear and tear of the barrel.

In other words, the purchase price of localized weapons is not only far inferior to that of buying from modern times, but also greatly inferior to the durability of Cheng dù, and the loss of Cheng dù is at least five times that of modern products!

In addition, the localized military uniforms are also not wear-resistant, easy to fade, etc., which is a large expense, as well as the cost of building new barracks, so that in less than a year, the cost of military training has increased tenfold!

Military spending has risen, but the amount of money paid by the local governments is fixed, so the excess expenses can only be paid by the central government, and this part must be counted in the state treasury, after all, the national defense forces listen to the State Council.

In addition to the increase in military spending, administrative costs are also increasing, and the fundamental reason is that the number of administrative officials is increasing.

It is said that Li Yongji's original intention was to streamline the administration of the army, so after he conquered the world, in addition to taking out the army alone and not participating in local politics, he also adopted a policy similar to selling official positions to obtain local elections for local administrative organs.

That is to say, the big officials above the provincial level are all born through appointment or strict assessment, to be precise, it is a recruitment system, as for the local officials below the provincial level, it is to play the system of local elections, that is, let the local rich and powerful squires carry out elections, and if they are elected, they will become officials, and at most the central government will give you an appointment procedure, which can be regarded as a legalization process.

This kind of system in the current China can never be said to be good. But it can't be said to be bad, after all, compared with the old bureaucrats, although many of these local squires also have a lot of bad deeds, but in the end, most of them are still relatively good, and they can benefit the township, otherwise they can't be selected.

You must know that the central government will send people to supervise the process of local elections, and these special supervisors do not go by themselves, but bring soldiers to supervise them. The rule is to lure and don't care, but once there is any coercion, it is directly arrested, and it may not be possible to exterminate the family, but it is absolutely possible to raid the family.

The most bizarre thing is that once it is found that there are bad gentry who coerce and cheat in the election, not only can the supervisor get a good evaluation, but if he searches the house, he can also get the corresponding commission!

So. All supervisors are extremely harsh, and if you do something wrong, such as someone complaining, it will be a strict interrogation immediately. And there is a presumption of guilt, you have to prove that you didn't cheat, you didn't coerce.

Of course, it's not unprincipled. If an unjust, false and wrongful case is made, the supervisor will also be responsible, and may even go to prison and suffer a lawsuit. If I am involved in bribery and other incidents, I may be shot.

Therefore, those supervisors will not deliberately engage in unjust, false and wrongful cases, at most they are just a little picky.

Although this kind of supervision system is simple and crude, and extremely harsh, it has won the favor of the local people, and everyone seems to be unimpressed by this kind of harshness, and even attracted more people to compete for that series of official positions.

Of course, although the electoral system is based on the Western system, it also adds some localized colors, such as the word election, which is called election in many places, after all, in ancient times, many local officials in China were indeed elected by the local government, and compared with the election of this word, the word push has a more sense of glory and a sense of official master.

After all, the election of this word shows that the officials are weak, the voters are strong, and if you push, it means that you are the best, and everyone recognizes that you are capable and have more face.

In any case, after a year or two, the local election system, or the local election system, has become more and more perfect, and many localities have formed a systematic government team, and almost all of them are full, and almost no local government is lacking.

After all, isn't the role of local officials to implement the orders of the central government, to take care of the local governments for the central government, and to collect money and taxes at the same time?

But here's the problem, the biggest tax, the land tax, to subsidize education, a lot of it is withheld by the local government, so it can't be collected, and other taxes, such as commercial tax, industrial tax and the like, most local governments simply don't have that environment. In other words, most places were still dominated by agriculture, with almost no industry, and commerce was sluggish, and according to the imperial tax standards, there was no money.

As a result, there are more officials and more people ask for money, but there is very little money to collect from the local government, and it does not increase because there are more local officials, but the expenditure is getting bigger and bigger.

In the second half of the second year, that is, in the second half of 1863, the deficit gap soared to 10 million Chinese dollars, which can be said to be a deficit, and the government completely became a deficit, and the money was not enough to spend.

In fact, in modern society, deficit finances are nothing, and many countries do this, even when the economy is doing well.

However, modern society is different from this era, at that time, everyone was playing credit money, all issued paper money, there was no money, you could play with the printing of money, the issuance of treasury bonds, etc., anyway, you can cope with the past, and the printing of money and the issuance of treasury bonds are also the fundamental reason why the deficit finance can continue, otherwise, you want to run the deficit without playing.

However, in the Chinese Empire during this period, although paper money was also issued, the most trusted by the people was still precious metal currencies such as silver dollars and gold coins, and the total amount of these things was a certain amount, so it was impossible to play a large-scale deficit by indiscriminately issuing paper money.

Earlier, Li Yongji himself could subsidize the treasury by buying treasury bills, but when Li Yongji left China, the biggest financier was lost, and the issuance of new treasury bonds was not ideal.

As for the local tyrants who can buy treasury bonds, there are now more projects that can make money in China, and they can make a lot of money by engaging in overseas trade or opening a factory or farm at will, and the treasury bonds are long and the interest is small, so why bother to buy that thing?

Of course, for the time being, the treasury can still support it, and Li Yongji has made a lot of money in the United States recently, and he also ordered the domestic internal affairs government to transfer a sum of money from the treasury to buy treasury bonds, which has somewhat alleviated the domestic treasury deficit crisis, but this kind of situation where expenditures are getting bigger and bigger, and income is growing slowly, makes Shen Shiming unable to bear it.

Although Shen Shiming was also a businessman, he had long emphasized the theory that income should be greater than expenditure, and now he began to try his best to increase the revenue of the treasury when he saw that the treasury was running in deficit every day.

He proposed many measures like Li Yongji, such as suspending literacy education and basic medical services first, but Li Yongji overturned them.

In the end, seeing that Shen Shiming was worried, Li Yongji gave Shen Shiming an idea, that is, in addition to the several core enterprises designated by Li Yongji, such as CITIC Bank, Dai Mengde Jewelry, Bayer Pharmaceutical, Changlu Salt Industry Group, Xinnong Group, Ma'anshan Heavy Industry Consortium and other ten imperial enterprises, other royal enterprises that operate service industries, or traditional commercial businesses such as grain trading and salt trading, also have to pay taxes, and the tax payment intensity can be higher than that of ordinary private enterprises.

In addition, these businessmen under the banner of the royal family, no matter who they are, including him, the emperor, must pay personal income tax, and the standard of personal income tax is based on the public income.

Since it was the emperor's order, and this method could indeed greatly increase income, Shen Shiming also complied with it, and as a result, many vested interests who were pro-party complained and began to oppose Shen Shiming.

In order to implement these policies, Shen Shiming had to forcibly implement them with a black face, and everyone did not dare to find trouble with the emperor, but only trouble with Shen Shiming.

Shen Shiming is also smart, and he feels that he is under too much pressure alone, so he consults the queen on everything, after all, the queen is in charge of the internal affairs government, and many things, especially the collection of taxes by royal enterprises, cannot be separated from the help of the internal affairs department.

The queen is young, and she likes to be quiet, and she doesn't have any political mind, so she doesn't care about anything else, since the emperor called and said that she should do this, so she did it, basically whatever Shen Shiming said, she approved anything.

Over time, everyone regarded Shen Shiming as a post-party, especially Li Yongji's father Li Zhengxiang, probably because he had been idle recently, and he actually listened to other people's conspiracy theories, and actually regarded the queen and Shen Shiming as a threat to the Li family, and made a vote for the imperial relatives who didn't know where they came from, and fought against Li Yongji's daughter-in-law, that is, the imperial queen Yin Susu, at every turn. (To be continued......)

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