At the same time as rectifying the financial sector, Wang Maoru ordered Finance Minister Pan Fu and Vice Minister Fang Hongxin to carry out tariff reforms, and dispatched Finance Vice Minister Fang Hongxin as the head of the tariff negotiation team to propose to the banks of the four countries to raise the tariff quota, withdraw the right to tariffs on some commodities, and change the annual payment of tariffs to monthly payments, with the minimum line of being paid in half a year, and the tariffs should not be postponed to Zhongyāng under any pretext. Welcome to Reading //

The change in the time of delivery of customs duties, which was naturally rejected by American and British banks such as Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank. However, Fang Hongxin, as the financial representative of Zhongyāng and familiar with foreign laws, actually filed a complaint with the Hague National Court against Citibank and other banks of the four countries for embezzlement of Chinese customs duties, and requested the Hague International Court of Justice to send investigators to investigate the accounts of the four banks

If the investigation is really carried out, all the affairs of the four banks will be exposed, and it is not only the problem of money that will be lost, but if the scandal is exposed, the credibility of the four banks will be ruined, and it will even lead to the collapse of the four banks from now on.

At this time, the giants of the Four Nations Bank panicked, and on the one hand, they sued China for help, and on the other hand, they relented and took the initiative to invite Fang Hongxin to ask for another talk.

Fang Hongxin caught their weakness, and after many negotiations, the banks of the four countries finally agreed to pay the tariffs for half a year and no longer stay. On top of that, China can send officials to check the records, and although it does not interfere with the flow of funds from the tariffs, there is no doubt that it puts a shackle on the banks of the four countries. This trick is the Ming Dynasty eunuch supervision system, the Chinese are familiar with the road, but when they use it in modern times, they always think that they are inferior and dare not monitor the foreign masters

In the end, some progress was made in the negotiations. Fang Hongxin also knew that it was impossible to recover the tariffs all at once, so he also collected them as soon as he saw it, and immediately recovered the six million ocean tariffs in the first half of the ninth year of the Republic of China. This move set many firsts in the Republic of China. For the first time, he gained an advantage in tariff negotiations, for the first time he applied international law to settle disputes, and for the first time, he felt the power of a unified country.

Yes, the victory in the struggle to recover tariffs was ostensibly the unyielding struggle of Fang Hongxin and others, but in fact it was due to the gradual unification of the country that made the banks of the four countries feel the pressure, and the unification of the military was not terrible, fiscal and financial. Tax uniformity is what they fear. The settlement and promotion of the renminbi has greatly affected the loan business of the banks of the four countries, once the renminbi depreciates. The banks of the four countries will suffer great losses.

After learning that Zhongyāngzhèngfu had withdrawn the six million ocean tariffs, the first person to ask for money was not the army, but the royal family, which originally came from the Manchu royal family's preferential terms formulated by Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen in the early years of the Republic of China. It was only in the first few years that the benefits remained the same. When Yuan Shikai died. Whether Li Yuanhong is the president, or Feng Guozhang, or even Xu Shichang, no one has scraped together enough money. The promised four million oceans are actually less than half in the hands of the royal family, but in fact, two million oceans are enough to pay for the royal family's expenses, but the Internal Affairs Office is still greedy for ink, and those palace maids and eunuchs also stretched out their hands to ask for cards, so that the little emperor always felt that he was not full of food and clothing. However, this time, Wang Maoru verbally refused the royal family's request. He also ordered the arrest of a large number of eunuchs and palace maids who resold the cultural relics of the Forbidden City, and sent them to the Western Regions for theft. These eunuchs who agitated the royal family to ask for money were terrified. And the clan has become honest. Subsequently, Wang Mao ordered a battalion of troops to closely monitor the Forbidden City, demanding that no cultural relics should be taken out of the palace, and that these cultural relics would be national assets in the future and would never be allowed to be taken out of the palace.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru and Jin Yunpeng discussed that it was better to rescue the victims of the disaster in the north with six million oceans, especially the aftermath work, and the victims could not be given a bowl of rice to eat and survive today, but the important thing was how to settle their lives in the future. And even if it is to migrate to the north, Mongolia, and the Western Regions, it takes a lot of money to resettle the migrants, and it just so happens that these six million oceans solve the urgent need.

Soon after, Vice Minister of Finance Fang Hongxin announced that all the 6 million tariffs would be used for the relief of the great drought in the north, and at the same time, Wang Maoru, the commander of the National Defense Forces and the new army chief, would hold a charity donation event in Běijing, taking the initiative to donate 200,000 oceans. Other sectors also donated generously, raising $1.2 million in silver dollars.

What is unexpected is that the main force of this donation is not the landlords and gentry, but the famous Peking opera artists from all over the country, among which Shanghai Peking Opera artist Zhou Xinfang specially rushed to Běijing from Shanghai, donated 50,000 oceans, and did not have a penny on him after the donation, and laughed at himself to perform three times in Běijing to raise money to return to Shanghai.

After Wang Maoru learned that Peking Opera masters from all walks of life donated money for disaster relief, he immediately ordered them to perform at the Běijing Temple of Heaven, and Zhou Xinfang appeared in the finale, which caused a sensation throughout the country for a while, and people from all walks of life went to the Běijing Temple of Heaven to listen to the play, and even the little emperor of the previous dynasty couldn't help but run over to listen to the play. And Zhou Xinfang became the first actor in Chinese Peking Opera at the age of 35. When Zhou Xinfang performed three finale plays in the Temple of Heaven in a row, he became famous all over the world and established the title of the first artist in one fell swoop.

Others hated why they were so stingy in the first place, if it was Zhou Xinfang, wouldn't it be fame and fortune? In fact, Zhou Xinfang really didn't sell his reputation, he really donated everything, and he really thought about the victims, which can be regarded as a good person with a good reward.

Amid the fundraising for disaster relief, President Xu Shichang announced the appointment of Wang Maoru as the chief of the army, officially announcing the letter of appointment. Wang Maoru and the War Department briefly announced his inauguration, and held a small-scale inauguration ceremony. Just after the inauguration ceremony returned home, Wang Maoru turned on the radio and heard the radio say that the Chinese football team defeated the RI team and won the official army of the Far Eastern Games. He hurriedly called Tian Wenlie, the chief of internal affairs, and asked him about the Chinese football team, but Tian Wenlie didn't know about it, and said that Yue Mingri would give you an answer.

It turned out that the Chinese football team representing China was not a football team sent by the Chinese government, but a football team organized by non-governmental organizations, and the main people were from Shanghai and Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong was occupied by the British at that time, and Shanghai was divided among the countries, Shanghainese and Hong Kong people always thought that they represented China. At that time, the Chinese Sports Promotion Association (non-governmental organization) selected a group of Chinese football players to raise funds to compete in the Far Eastern Games. Since the first year of the Republic of China, it has been held four times, and the Chinese team has won three consecutive championships except for the first one because it has just been formed and won the runner-up. However, Tian Wenlie obviously does not care about Lao Shizi football, he cares about whether Wang Maoru's reform of the whole world will continue after he becomes the chief of the army, and if so, where should the warlords of the whole country go.

Wang Maoru didn't listen to a word, and ordered: "Chief Lao Futian, if the Chinese football team returns to China, I want to meet them." ”

A month later, Tian Wenlie told Wang Maoru that the Chinese football team had learned that Wang Maoru wanted to meet them, so they had taken a boat from Manila in the Philippines to Hong Kong, and then traveled north to Běijing. Wang Maoru was so excited that he took his men to visit the football players, but saw that the football players lived in a big car shop outside the city of Běijing in order to save money, which was the kind of car shop where a dozen or twenty people slept on a big kang at a glance. When Wang Maoru arrived, the owner of the big car shop was frightened, and the leader of the football team was the team captain Chen Yan, vice captain Xu Minhui, and Qiu Jixiang also did not expect to see Wang Maoru in this situation. Seeing the simple life of the Chinese football team, Wang Maoru sighed and said: "Chinese sports are respected in Asia only because of people like you who are willing to endure hardships and win glory for the country." He gave a military salute to the eighteen team members. Subsequently, he ordered that each football player be rewarded with 5,000 silver yuan, and officially declared this football team an official football team, and took them to the State Council for official appointment. Premier Jin Yunpeng couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart What's going on, you, a dignified army chief, have nothing to care about football, so he issued a formal letter of appointment to these 18 people and appointed them to officially serve as members of the Chinese football team.

There are ten departments under the State Council, namely the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Army, the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Wang Maoru said that now that the Admiralty has been merged into the National Defense Force and has become the Coastal Guard of the National Defense Force, the ten departments of Zhongyāng are already nine, so it is better to add a sports department. Jin Yunpeng said that the increase in the sports department must be drawn up by the parliament, and Wang Maoru said that there is no parliament now, so the increase will be increased, and in the future, the sports will be managed, and the money will be paid by the national defense force. Jin Yunpeng saw that Wang Maoru was so stubborn and did not argue with him, so he ordered the Republic of China to add a new sports department, and Wang Maoru served as the first sports minister. There is no one competing with Wang Maoru for the position of the head of the sports department, this is all the Shenma department, and the power in his hands will not increase at all.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru paid out of his own pocket to build a stadium with a capacity of 20,000 people outside the southern city of Běijing, and built eight training venues and a large hollow-shaped office building integrating fitness, dormitory, canteen and medical care outside the stadium, saying that it was the home stadium for the Chinese football team. For a long time, Chen Yan and others have been looking for a random place for both competition and training, most of the home stadiums are school stadiums, how can there be a special stadium as the home stadium, when the stadium was completed, Chen Yan and others even cried excitedly.

After the stadium was completed, the naming power Chen Yan and others unanimously handed over to Wang Maoru, Wang Maoru thought that the Chinese nation has been leading the world for 5,000 years, but it has lagged behind the world in the past 100 years, that is because the Chinese dragon is tired of resting and resting, but now the Chinese dragon is about to rise again and lead the world again, so the stadium is named Tenglong Stadium. Some people said that it was better to establish a professional football club, but Chen Yan and others immediately said that professional teams were prohibited from participating in the world's games, and if a professional football club was established, I was afraid that it would not be able to represent the Chinese team in the future, so it was abolished.

(ps: The Far Eastern Games were held in 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921 in odd-numbered years, because the plot needs to be changed, in addition, when the content of this chapter was written, the Chinese team lost 1:5 to the Thai youth team, and I knew that the Chinese football team also had a glorious past, and I don't know when it will be brilliant again) (To be continued.) )