Fengtian Shenyang Gold and Silver Treasury Hutong, patrol the conference room in the embassy, Zhao Dongyun and many people sat together, this long financial meeting has been going on for more than three hours, the participants in the meeting from the beginning of Zhao Dongyun, Xiong Xiling, Zhao Dongping, but as the meeting progressed, the topic deepened, more department heads were called into the conference room, unconsciously, this was originally just a small-scale interview has become the largest financial meeting in months.

Zhao Dongyun looked at the report in his hand, looked at the many numbers in it, and then frowned again and again: "Why is there so little land confiscated?" As far as I know, there are a lot of imperial villages, paddocks, aristocratic granges, and flag fields in our three eastern provinces, how can it be that less than three million acres have been confiscated! ”

Chen Zhenxian of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau immediately explained: "Although there are many imperial villages, enclosures and aristocratic granges in the pre-Qing Dynasty, most of them have been taken out in the past few decades in successive developments, and although the rest have not been developed, most of them have also been classified into the ranks of official fields in the pre-Qing era. So the main object of the confiscation this time is still some of the guilty magnates who were raided in the former Qing Dynasty! ”

Although the three eastern provinces, especially the first province of Fengtian, have a large number of imperial villages, paddocks, flag fields, etc., these lands cannot be confiscated in one go, and the royal granges and paddocks among them do not have zài 'confiscation', because these lands only belong to the royal family in name, and in fact they have always been handled as official fields, which were originally in the hands of the government, so why confiscate?

And the so-called Qitian, in the contemporary three eastern provinces, can be roughly understood in this way: Qitian is the land of the Manchus, and Mintian is the land of the Han people is the same concept, there is actually no essential difference between the two, even if Zhao Dongyun liquidates the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty, he cannot directly take away the land on which ordinary Qiren live.

So the only ones who can really confiscate are the lands of the Manchu nobility!

Wang Yingkai is playing copying in Beijing, and Zhao Dongyun is not idle in the three eastern provinces, and he is also playing this kind of thing!

The assets of the hundreds of Manchu nobles who were publicly convicted of crimes in the three eastern provinces were confiscated, such as the shares of the famous Yixuan family in the Fuyuan Jiqì factory, an oil mill invested in Huludao, well, 200,000 taels of silver deposited in Fengtian Guanyinhao, and a large amount of land in the three eastern provinces.

And there are not too many so-called Manchu nobles in the three eastern provinces, only a few Manchu officials can barely be called nobles, and Zhao Dongyun has no sympathy for these people.

In the confiscation action, real estate and floating wealth will naturally be managed by the Finance Bureau, while land will be managed by the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau according to the management, and these newly confiscated land will be turned into official land, and then used for reclamation together with other official land.

The fiscal meeting, which was originally started to settle military spending, has completely changed its flavor now!

Chen Zhenxian from the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau continued: "According to the plan of our Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, since this batch of confiscated land is all cooked land, and it was originally cultivated by small households, our opinion is to let the existing small households buy these lands first, and in order to reduce their pressure, they can take the form of crop installment payment!" It is expected that the first batch can get about two million taels! ”

These confiscated ripe fields are different from the officially reclaimed wasteland, which is used for official reclamation, and the land sold to immigrants is extremely cheap, ranging from a few dollars of silver to one or two dollars per acre of land. However, in the case of cooked land, that is, the price of cooked land after reclamation is higher.

These officials and men of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau are not all good people, so naturally they will not give these newly confiscated land to those farmers in vain, but set a price slightly lower than the market price for the original small households to give priority to purchase, but in order to reduce the pressure on the farmers, they are allowed to pay in installments, and they can directly pay the harvested crops as the land price.

Of course, looking at the overall environment of the whole country, the price of these lands is still extremely low!

From last year to the present, although the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau is in charge of many affairs related to land, forestry and even fishery, in fact the focus of its work has always been on recruitment, and the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau alone has dispatched more than 30 resettlement stations to Zhili, Shandong, and Henan provinces, and almost every month a large number of landless peasants in the Guannei are organized to drag their families and even entire families and entire villages to the northeast.

However, at today's meeting, Zhao Dongyun has no mind to pay attention to the reclamation work, and he has been concerned about one word in the past two days: money!

As for the future development, we can talk about it later, but now we have to get out a lot of military and administrative expenses at the beginning of next year and in the summer, otherwise the army's small treasury will be spent in two months, and then there will be no talk of fighting for hegemony, and the army below will mutiny if it is not done well.

If you don't even pay the soldiers, how do you let them support their families? If you don't let them support your family, do you still expect him to help you carry a gun and fight? There is nothing so good in the world!

The premise of the soldiers shouting 'Long live the handsome' is that Zhao Dongyun pays them to support their families!

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun didn't pay attention to Chen Zhen's words in succession, and directly interjected: "When will the first batch of two million arrive?" ”

Chen Zhen first calculated the time slightly, and then said, "It's probably late January!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded after hearing this, well, it's been a few hours since the meeting, and there is finally good news, it's the end of December now, and if there are two million emergency payments in more than half a month, at least the army salary in the past few months can barely cope with it! ”

Then, he turned his head to look at Xiong Xiling: "Among the many assets of the former Qing elites, can the Finance Bureau sort them out now?" How many can there be? ”

Xiong Xiling's expression was not as relaxed as Chen Zhenxian, in the past three hours of this meeting, his expression did not relax, hearing Zhao Dongyun ask, he replied: "Copying has started since October, in the past two months we have confiscated a number of fixed assets and part of the cash and houses, antiques, calligraphy and painting and other property, because some of these properties are difficult to estimate the value, so at present we only count fixed assets and cash!" ”

"In the past two months, the Finance Bureau has collected a total of 6.5 million taels of cash, company shares, bonds and other negotiable notes. Of the cash that can be immediately embezzled, 3.2 million taels of silver, of which 2 million have already been allocated to the Ordnance Department of the Headquarters for the purchase of ordnance, and of the remaining 1.2 million taels of silver, 300,000 taels of silver have been allocated to Tangshan, Chengde, and other places in the Guannei area, 400,000 taels of silver have been allocated to the newly established Fengtian Vocational Normal School, 400,000 taels of silver have been allocated to the newly established Fengtian Vocational Normal School, and 400,000 taels of silver have been allocated to the education funds for the establishment of six new primary schools and the selection of international students to study in Japan, Germany, and the United States, 200,000 yuan will be used to increase shares in the Fengtian Bank, and the remaining 300,000 yuan will be used to distribute the salaries of officials of the three provinces last month. ”

Xiong Xiling's mouth is millions of taels of silver, and everyone began to listen and wonder, this Finance Bureau is rich, why do you cry poor every day, but when he heard Xiong Xiling's mouth again, the expenses of several places added up to more than three million flowers and there was not a dime left, and everyone was secretly scolded: Loser, you spend so much money. More than three million, and you spent it all in just two months......"

Zhao Dongyun listened to Xiong Xiling talking about these figures, and his face was also painful, but he knew that Xiong Xiling was only talking about these additional expenses, in fact, the Finance Bureau spent more than three million dollars this year.

This year, Xiong Xiling's financial revenue of about 20 million taels of Fengtian Province was basically spent by Xiong Xiling, and the situation was fine before the outbreak of the war, and Xiong Xiling's money was enough to spend, but after the outbreak of the war, the military spending rose sharply, and the extra military expenditure of more than 8 million yuan outside the budget crushed Fengtian's finances at once.

Fortunately, Xiong Xiling's financial management ability is not weak, this left and right, through guò demolition of the east wall to make up the west wall and many other methods, stunned by various means to resist the gap of 8 million, barely supported until now is not completely bankrupt!

But Xiong Xiling is not an immortal, but he can't conjure up money out of thin air, he has so much money on hand, but the expenses are far more than the income, and he has no good way, so he can only rely on the entire Soviet military and political team to open up sources and reduce expenditure.

As for the reduction of military spending, it can be pressed out of a large piece, but the reduction of military spending means disarmament, not to mention that the military generals do not agree, and Zhao Dongyun will not agree to it.

If this military spending is not compressed, but continues to increase, then the only way is to continue to open source!

"What about fixed assets and other bonds? How long does it take to sell them one by one, and how much can be freed up? Zhao Dongyun continued to ask.

Xiong Xiling said: "The majority of these fixed assets are shares and bonds in some companies, with a total value of about two million!" Among them, the shares of Fuyuan Machinery Qì Factory have been inquired by a number of companies and ticket numbers and banks, but the shares of the factory are high-quality shares, and many colleagues in the Finance Bureau believe that it is better to continue to hold these shares in order to obtain considerable dividends!

Most of the other companies are also in a better situation, and they are afraid of losing a lot if they are sold directly! ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "If these shares can be sold, sell them, and leave them in your hands to do something!" ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Xiong Xiling again, and then looked at Zhou Ziqi, Zhao E, Deng Jiazhen and others, and said seriously: "In the past year or so, I have seen the work of all the gentlemen, but I have also found some problems. ”

Speaking of which, he once again emphasized: "You are officials, not businessmen!" ”