In order to solve the Fengtian financial expenditure in 1906, Zhao Dongping can be said to have racked his brains in the past six months, and while carrying out tax reform, he also vigorously developed the Fengtian official silver number, and at the same time made profits by minting silver dollars and copper dollars.

For example, seeing the surging development of Huludao Industrial Zone, but unable to collect business tax on local major enterprises, Zhao Dongyun was very red-eyed, and then quietly played a side ball and prepared to charge the so-called 'patrol fee' to various enterprises in Huludao Industrial Zone, but it has not yet been promulgated It has been collectively opposed by a group of senior officials such as Huludao Industrial Zone, claiming that this move will violate the tax exemption policy formulated last year, make major businesses fearful, and hinder the further development of the industrial zone.

Later, Zhao Dongyun went to Zhao Dongyun's side, Zhao Dongyun set the tone of 'adhere to the tax exemption policy for ten years', Zhao Dongping was forced to give up the plan to levy commercial taxes on major enterprises, and then set his sights on other tertiary industries that depend on the industrial zone to survive, that is, finance, trade and life service industries, etc., Zhao Dongping did not have any mercy on these tertiary industries, and imposed heavy taxes, and in just over half a year, he actually made more than 2 million taxes from the Huludao Industrial Zone and the old areas in the surrounding areas.

In addition, Zhao Dongping has adopted a general tax increase policy in other industries and localities, and the merchants in Yingkou are even worse, and those merchants who used to pay only a little tax to do business are crying one by one: This year's tax is several times that of previous years!

Therefore, in today's Fengtian industrial and commercial industry, if Zhao E and Xiong Xiling are the objects of compliment, admiration and support of businessmen, then Zhao Dongping is undoubtedly the object they want to swallow alive.

Zhao Dongping doesn't care what ordinary businessmen think of him, as an official in charge of taxation, he is not a good tax official who is loved by the businessmen and the people under his rule, and being hated by businessmen is a sign of career success!

If he hadn't been hated by so many people, how could Zhao Dongping have solved Fengtian's financial predicament?

"Last year, our tax per mu was 1.5 million taels, including the Huludao Industrial Zone, the business tax of shops and enterprises in various places was 4.6 million taels, of which the commercial tax in the Huludao Industrial Zone accounted for half, reaching 2.1 million yuan." When Zhao Dongping said this, the corners of his mouth showed a smile, in order to collect the 4.6 million taels of silver, he was scolded by countless businessmen pointing at his backbone!

But Zhao Dongyun at the top was slightly dissatisfied with this figure after hearing it, the tax per mu is okay, although 1.5 million is slightly lower, but considering that the Liaodong region is still conservative and devastated by war, it is acceptable to be lower than in previous years, but this business tax is too low.

During the tax reform last year, Zhao Dongyun instructed the State Administration of Finance to merge all kinds of messy commercial taxes into business business taxes, which simply means collecting taxes and fees according to the turnover of enterprises, and at the same time abolishing all kinds of messy and bad rules. Originally, Zhao Dongyun expected to be able to get more than five million taels of silver from this business tax, but he didn't expect it to be slightly lower, only more than four million.

However, he didn't interject, but continued to listen to Zhao Dongping: "Collect 680,000 taels of gold from the centigold checkpoints from all over the country!" ”

Lijin has always been one of the main sources of finance for local governors, but in Zhao Dongyun's tax reform, a large number of provincial gold checkpoints were abolished, and at the same time, new lijin checkpoints were set up on the transportation arteries inside and outside the province, and centijin was charged for goods entering and leaving the province.

However, the tariffs at the end of the Qing Dynasty are somewhat special, because the Chinese customs is a self-proclaimed system, and hire foreigners to manage, and the customs tariff silver shoulders the compensation of Gengzi indemnity, so the implementation is relatively strict, and the Qing court itself does not have much ability to intervene, such as Yingkou Customs Zhao Dongyun can not intervene, after the local customs collects taxes, after taking out a certain percentage of the tax to pay Gengzi indemnity, the excess part is directly handed over to the imperial court by the customs, so the local governor even if it is a strongman like Yuan Shikai, he has to use various excuses to meddle in the customs, you can't just take away the customs tariff silver.

When Zhao Dongyun first asked for the establishment of the Huludao Industrial Zone, he said that the Huludao Industrial Zone was an unusual commercial port, and it was specially designed to run an industrial site, and the initial preparation cost was very large, and in order to reimburse the construction costs, the Huludao Customs Tariff could be withheld as appropriate for construction funds.

The imperial court considered that the construction cost of the Huludao Industrial Zone was one million taels, and Zhao Dongyun did not ask the imperial court for a penny, so it allowed the Huludao Industrial Zone to withhold the remaining customs tax for five years, and then return it to the imperial court after five years.

In other words, in the past five years, the customs surplus tax of Huludao can be intercepted by the local government and used for the construction costs of Huludao, in order to better collect taxes, Zhao Dongping even took back the power to prepare for the customs to the Huludao Industrial Zone on the grounds of 'integrated operation of port and customs'.

What does Zhao Dongping's hand represent, which means that in addition to the need to take out a part of the customs tariff to pay Gengzi indemnity, the rest can be kept by himself, and in order to prevent tariff corruption, he also collects taxes on his own, of course, the tax rate still has to be formulated in accordance with the treaties signed between China and the powers, and the overall ratio is one hundred taxes and five.

"Last year, our Huludao Customs withheld a total of 1.5 million taels of the balance, and another 500,000 taels of tax silver from the east!" Zhao Dongping continued: "Although it is not as good as the tariffs of several major provinces in the south, for me Fengtian, who has just started the new policy, this number is already very impressive! ”

During the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the customs tariff at the end of the Qing Dynasty was growing at an astonishing rate, and several large provinces in the south, such as Jiangsu, had reached tens of millions, compared with the more than one million in Fengtian, which was relatively inferior, but this was the result of the reform of the New Deal in Fengtian for less than a year, so it could be regarded as witnessing the surging development of Fengtian's import and export trade.

Then Zhao Dongping said: "The tax on tobacco and alcohol is 600,000; tea tax of 150,000 yuan; The patrol police donated 200,000 taels; Yingkou, Liaohe and other places ship tax about 300,000 taels; forestry and animal husbandry taxes are about 100,000 taels; All kinds of miscellaneous donations of 200,000 yuan. ”

"Since last year, our General Finance Bureau has collected a total of 10.3 million taels of silver!" Zhao Dongping said that after saying this figure, he looked proud, looking at the people in China who can directly increase the tax revenue by five times in a short period of time, it is estimated that there is no one else except himself!

After Zhao Dongyun finished talking about his own affairs, as the big boss of the State Administration of Finance, the income of other departments also needs to be handed over to him in the end, so he continued: "Last year, the State Administration of Agriculture and Forestry handed over 2.9 million taels of land money; Huludao Industrial Zone paid a total of 2.1 million taels of land sales fees, factory rent, port operation profits, and railway operation profits; Tianjin Guanyin handed over 500,000 taels of profits; The Mint handed over 800,000 taels of profits; The Fengtian Supervision and Training Office handed over the 300,000 taels obtained by the bandits! ”

The above are all the value-added income created by the various departments of Zhao Dongyun's subordinates belonging to the Shengjing General's Mansion, with a total of about 6.5 million taels, but in addition to the net profit of the General Administration of Agriculture and Forestry, the income of other departments is just an account, and it goes back to various departments in a circle, for example, the profits of Tianjin Guanyin cannot be taken away, because Tianjin Guanyin needs these profits to continue to expand its scale, add branches in various places and expand its loan business. The Mint can take a part, but half of it is also reserved for the purchase of equipment to expand the mint production.

The proceeds of the suppression of bandits in the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office were actually the trophies of the army under Zhao Dongyun last year when they carried out the anti-bandit operation, and these so-called revenues handed over to the General Administration of Finance did not even see the silver slag, and they were used by the military to purchase weapons and equipment and use them as military expenses as soon as they were seized.

The income from the Huludao Industrial Zone cannot be taken away, because it not only needs to repay a staggering amount of construction debts, but also has to use this amount of money to continue the construction of infrastructure, and the investment required by the Huludao Industrial Zone is almost a bottomless pit, the construction of the port and railway branch lines alone requires at least three million taels of silver, and the infrastructure construction of such a large area of the industrial zone is also astronomical.

You must know that Zhao Dongyun's Huludao Industrial Zone is different from the industrial zone known by later generations, and the authorities of the industrial zone not only have to undertake infrastructure such as leveling land, railways, and ports, but also need to build a large number of factories and even ordinary commercial streets, residential houses, and the like.

Because many small and medium-sized enterprises cannot afford to buy expensive land and pay expensive construction costs, they can only rent factories from the industrial zone authorities, and ordinary businesses are even less likely to invest in the construction of commercial streets and residential areas.

Therefore, this Huludao Industrial Park is not only a local administrative agency, but also a super real estate developer in the Huludao Industrial Park, with all the land ownership of the entire industrial zone and its surroundings......

You must know that in order to expropriate these lands, the authorities of the industrial zone have paid millions of taels of silver, and if they don't rely on real estate to earn back, Zhao E will jump off the building!

Whether it is infrastructure construction or real estate development, in this era when there is no 'pre-sale', it is necessary for the industrial zone authorities to invest countless funds in the early stage.

Therefore, although the value-added income of his various departments seems to be a lot, in fact, Zhao Dongyun can only get his hands on it and incorporate it into the provincial fiscal revenue and expenditure system about three million taels.

Well, in addition, there is a salt administration independent of the financial system, last year the General Administration of Salt collected a total of 1.3 million taels of silver salt tax, this part of the salt tax also needs to be handed over to the treasury of the Ministry of Household according to the formal channels, but Zhao Dongyun followed Zengqi's example on the Taoist chapter, saying that Fengtian was short of money, so it was intercepted.

Taxes, miscellaneous donations, land payments, operating profits, and salt taxes all add up to a total revenue of about 14 million taels in 1905 and 1906.

Anyone who reads this number will be extremely surprised, but if you look at the financial expenditure of Mukden Province, then you will be even more surprised!

Not to mention the rest, just to maintain the two Fengtian standing military towns, part of the defense expenses of the third town and the patrol police cost more than five million taels per year, and the expansion of the two towns also needs to purchase a large amount of equipment, although this is a one-time investment, but this one-time investment is more than three million taels!

In other words, Zhao Dongyun has to come up with eight million taels of silver for military spending alone!

Then the second place is the administrative expenses, in order to maintain the normal operation of many administrative institutions in Mukden, this administrative expenses alone need 3.5 million taels of silver.

The third is education funds, which require Zhao Dongyun to pay about one million taels for the opening of many official schools and the funding of official international students.

In addition, the relief of war refugees and the restoration of local people's livelihood need more, last year Fengtian invested a total of more than 2 million taels of silver in this item, and this is still a drop in the bucket, once the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the scope of relief and restoration of people's livelihood will be expanded to the entire Liaodong and Liaodong Peninsula region, if all the free relief is estimated to be tens of millions of is not enough, even if it is an ordinary face-saving project, it will have to be smashed down with millions of taels of silver.

Unless Zhao Dongyun is willing to see the people of Fengtian displaced and hungry!

Therefore, although the income has increased many times, the expenses in the past six months, especially in the next year, will be more!

After listening to Zhao Dongping's series of reports, Zhao Dongyun estimated in his heart how much money he could use to expand the army this year, and then looked at everyone present and said: "Your work last year was relatively successful!" ”

These people here are the core officials of the financial system, Zhao Dongping, Xiang Rui, Zhou Ziqi, Zhao E, Deng Jiazhen and others, so Zhao Dongyun did not have too much politeness, and immediately said: "Although the income is less than I expected, but I see your efforts, but although it has been effective, but our financial pressure is greater, last year's things have passed, but this year there are many places to use money, I will mention the expansion of the two towns, and the supervision and training office has already prepared the charter, Now I can't delay any longer, and at the beginning of the year I will officially expand the association into a town.

Mr. Xu Hongbao has come to me many times, saying that there is a lack of teachers in primary schools in various prefectures and counties, and I asked him to run a few more normal schools, and said that now primary schools around the country have begun to take shape, but the corresponding middle schools are still only one government-run and one private, and this year, the General Administration of Education is planning to run three more middle schools, and Fengtian University Hall has also begun to recruit students on a large scale, and the funds required are a lot!

In addition, the government also has a family to support, so the salary of this official is also indispensable, and the above costs a lot, how to solve it is necessary for all the monarchs to work together! ”

After saying that, Zhao Dongyun looked around again, and then said: "By January next year, I hope to hear good news from you!" ”

After the end of this long financial report, including Zhao Dongping, everyone was surprised and delighted, and the joy was that Zhao Dongyun announced the issuance of year-end bonuses to senior military and political leaders at all levels, ranging from thousands of taels to tens of thousands, for example, Xiong Xiling, who had worked hard, received a bonus of 12,000 taels, plus his monthly salary and various business trip subsidies, which combined his annual income reached more than 25,000 taels, if only the legal regular income is calculated, then his income has exceeded Zhao Dongyun himself......

Zhao Dongyun has more than a dozen positions, but the position of receiving a salary is only about 10,000 per year in the third town, and then General Sheng Jing also has about 10,000, and the two add up to about 22,000, and Zhao Dongyun can't give himself a year-end bonus, so it's not as much as Xiong Xiling's income!

The biggest role of this year-end bonus is naturally to attract talents to serve him, after all, now Zhao Dongyun is not playing revolution, and his prestige is far inferior to Yuan Shikai and them, so how to retain talents and attract external talents to work? In addition to giving them a future, we must also give them ideals, and of course, more importantly, let them earn a lot of money.

Compared with these military and political dignitaries who followed Zhao Dongyun, they can be regarded as high-ranking officials, and most of them have a large family to eat and live behind them, which is really not enough to rely on the little bit of money set by the imperial court to be honest.

After Zhao Dongyun reformed the political system, the tax system, the tax revenue was directly collected by the State Administration of Finance to the provincial finance, and all kinds of bad rules in the past were almost swept away.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun on the one hand implemented the subsidy system, that is, subsidies for officials in various names, and the total amount of money issued was slightly less than the previous pension bank. In addition, the implementation of the year-end bonus system, according to the official performance of the year, the number of year-end bonuses is not equal, if the performance is passable, then the total amount of various subsidies and year-end bonuses will exceed the previous pension, if it is poor, it is naturally not as good as the previous pension income.

To tell the truth, the legal income of local officials in these years is actually very high, there is a way to be an official for thousands of miles just for money, people come to Fengtian to do things for you, you can't let the whole family drink the northwest wind, and the ideal can't be eaten!

What makes Zhao Dongping, Zhou Ziqi and others happy is that this year's income is high, and what worries them is that Zhao Dongyun said that at tomorrow's financial meeting, he hopes that all aspects of work can be raised to a higher level, and that taxes can break through the 20 million mark!