Chapter 136: The Three New Deals

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What is Yuan Shikai going to do?

Except for the Forbidden City, which was blinded by fake newspapers, the whole world knows the meaning behind the Battle of Xuzhou (). Hubei is sinking into the sand, the presidency is hanging, and he was assassinated on the street, if he can hold it back, it is estimated that it will not be the famous Beiyang Army, so he urgently needs to tell the whole country that Beiyang is still Beiyang! The Jinghan line suffered a loss, which does not mean that the Jinpu line also depends on the face of the party.

But what about Yang Qiu? What does this crazy young man want to do?

Transfer, transfer or transfer!

Although there was an assassination incident, the patrol envoy of the three provinces did not ask about political affairs and did not think about the Northern Expedition for a few days after taking office, and threw himself on the barrel of the gun wholeheartedly, and at the same time transferred the five divisions and two brigades in his hands, he also made the National Guard of the three provinces expand again, this kind of behavior made many people secretly ridicule, has this country been afraid of martial arts for thousands of years?

However, on the morning of the 20th, an administrative telegram sent by the embassy of Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan provinces not only shocked the whole country, but also made these people who were ridiculing and preparing to see jokes shut their mouths ().

"The levy is harsh and harms the people. Collect when you see the goods, regardless of the details. All the things that the rich and poor need, from birth to death, are included in the curriculum. All the merchants sit in Jia, draw them in the place of delivery, draw them in the place where they sell, when they barter for money, when they exchange money for silver, and draw them when they exchange money for silver. In addition to public taxation and layer upon layer of exploitation, there are more than 10 kinds of extortion. Bureau card officials, fraud, erosion of taxes, such as overreporting less, expensive to cheap, concealment of fines. Of the money collected, three cents were spent on the servants and three points on the gentry, and the four cents were not much for the state except for the regular and miscellaneous expenses.

Since Yang was taught, he has seen the tyranny of various places, cumbersome and harsh, and full of drawbacks, and deeply felt the suffering of the people, so he has taken advantage of the new establishment of the Republic of China to make a special announcement to the world. From now on, all centigold in the three provinces will be abolished and changed to commercial tax, and the fixed amount will be paid in the three provinces, and the government at all levels in the three provinces shall not be repeatedly levied. Anyone who discovers the act of imposing taxes or setting up cards to collect money without permission can report it to the patrol offices of the three provinces and the garrisons in various places, and those who report it is true will receive a reward of 100 yuan. Once the reported person is verified, he will be dismissed and investigated, and if it is serious, he will be killed!

In addition to the money, there are still local tyrants and bullies in various places who ravage the countryside and bring disaster to the people. At the beginning of the revolution, the local government supervision was not effective, resulting in the proliferation of guns, countless regimental training private troops, assassination brawls were common, in order to ensure the peace of hundreds of millions of national homes in the three provinces, and at the same time announced! Within 10 days, those who surrender their guns and disband the private army will not be held accountable, and those who fail to do so within the time limit will resist the new policy, and once they are confiscated, their family property will be confiscated and they will be expelled from the province. Those who report the truth will also be rewarded with 100 yuan, and if there is violent resistance, the garrisons around the country do not need to report and kill!

Merchants and farmers are the foundation of the country, and paying guns is for the peace of the people! The above two orders must be strictly implemented, and all fraud, concealment, concealment, and failure to report will be investigated and dealt with, and national law will not tolerate it! All taxes and confiscation of family property are used as education funds in addition to the government, the army, and the people's livelihood, and all provinces must ensure that all school-age children are required to go to school in accordance with the law. Anyone who obstructs a student from going to school will be fined 100 yuan lightly, and punished by national law! The teachers of the school building are organized by the local government, and if the required funds are insufficient, they can be declared to the patrol embassy for allocation, and the funds are earmarked!

In the first year of the Republic of China, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan provinces toured, and the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces, Yang Qiu! ”

"All are exempt! Anyone who interferes with the law of the law of the Upper Class! Good, good, good! In the temporary office of the Hankou National Defense Command, Zhang Taiyan's eyes were red when he read it, and he slapped his thigh vigorously and applauded: "Education to rejuvenate the country, this is education to rejuvenate the country!" ”

The atmosphere in the office was harmonious, and the tension and anxiety of the previous few days had long gone, so Zhang Taiyan's words also attracted laughter from everyone. Only Yang Qiu kept scratching his head, glanced at Shen Shukai, who was appointed as the financial secretary of the three provinces, and sighed: "Mr. Binglin, don't make a mess, after the commercial tax is reformed, the income of the three provinces will be directly reduced by half, and so many students will be subsidized. ”

Zhang Taiyan is notoriously open-mouthed, in the original donation gate incident, he believed that Sun Wen's acceptance of donations from the Japanese government was a traitorous act of collusion with Japan, so he and Liu Shipei and others launched a "reverse Sun movement" aimed at revoking the title of prime minister of the Sun Wen Alliance, and even tore down the photo of Sun Wen in the newspaper and sent it to Sun Wen to show ridicule. So he didn't care about Yang Qiu's difficulties at all, and laughed and said, "If drinking the northwest wind can accomplish this big thing, Lao Zhang, I'd rather sleep in the open for the rest of my life." ”

Shen Shukai was unexpectedly nominated as financial secretary this time, in addition to his ability, his performance some time ago also won some trust, saying: "The governor doesn't have to worry too much, after the tax change, it seems that the amount has been halved and the income has dropped sharply, but in fact it is not that serious." As the telegram said, the disadvantages of centigold are too great, and three of the ten yuan are used to support the servants who collect taxes, and three thirds are privately withheld by the local gentry, and the rest is less than 20% of the state income after deducting the cost. Although it has now become five dollars, it is all collected into the treasury, and in addition to consumption, you can get as much as four dollars, which should actually be an increase. And now you have a good reputation, the Southwestern Bank has sufficient reserves to issue 40 million notes, and when the loan with Germany is signed, at least 60 million more, which will meet the needs of these two years. ”

Zhang Wenjing said calmly: "Don't be too optimistic about cultivation, after the tax reform, we can be regarded as offending a large group of people, and most of these people are gentry officials from all over the country, if they unite, I'm afraid it will be a big obstruction." So now we should not rush to calculate how much money can be recovered, but how to implement it. ”

"No words!" Xiao Anguo was born with mud legs, and he knew best how painful the people were caused by the excesses of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so he stood up excitedly and said: "The people are not stupid, the commander's order is really for everyone's sake, who dares to stop our national defense army is a vegetarian!" ”

Song Ziqing also looked coldly: "The third division has all entered Hunan, the fourth division and the second brigade have also arrived in Chongqing, and the remaining two brigades can also enter Sichuan before the deadline for surrendering their guns. ”

Although Zhang Taiyan is known as a madman, he is still very organized, thinking about it and saying: "Patrol, is this movement too big?" Why don't you send a commissioner to appease you first, if not, you are using force? His worries are not unreasonable, if there is turmoil today, there are tens of thousands of people who are flooded with guns and have private possessions! There are even local tyrants and bullies who privately build their own armies and establish themselves as kings, which brings trouble to the political government, so he is in favor of surrendering the guns, but will the use of the army make the three provinces that have just stabilized fall into turmoil again? Hubei's problem is not big, the large-scale armed forces in the northern advance have been completely wiped out, plus the national defense force is very strict in the management of arms, and the main troops are concentrated here, the problem is not so serious, but Hunan and Sichuan are the hardest hit areas, especially Sichuan! At the beginning, the Baolu Movement led to the scattering of more than 100,000 large and small robes and comrades' associations in Sichuan, and there were many bandits, bullies, and forcible troops, will the army fall into civil war?

said: "Patrol, the world is not peaceful at this moment, and the people's hearts have not been completely pacified, is it too hasty to send troops easily?" ”

Yang Qiu shook his head, it is only the first year of the Republic of China, and these armed forces are still scattered, if they can't get rid of these vested interests as soon as possible to appease them, it will be more troublesome in the future, and it will also affect the promotion of various policies. What's more, he urgently needed a blank piece of paper that could be painted now, instead of tinkering with the old drawing, so he said resolutely: "Mr. Binglin, this matter is definitely not Yang's selfishness!" Do you know that the proliferation of guns will cause social unrest, local tyrants and bullies parasitize the people, suck blood and extract marrow, and how much taxes in the three provinces will be coveted by them every year? The abolition of the levy and the promotion of the new deal are all major events that benefit the people, but the interests of these people will lose most of them! Therefore, it is useless for us to just shout verbally, and it must be thoroughly implemented in the countryside to be effective ()! If you don't establish authority, those who can only serve the yang and the yin will go against the yin! Sir, rest assured, Yang will not joke about the well-being of the people of the three provinces! ”

Zhang Taiyan saw him talking eloquently, without the slightest whim, knowing that he was afraid that he had been planning this matter for a long time, and this assassination just gave him the reason to do it.

Yang Qiu was already determined to take the opportunity to sweep the three provinces, and continued to say to Song Ziqing and other officers: "I will give you three months, and I will bear the fall of the sky within three months!" In three months, I want to see that people's livelihood is peaceful and government decrees are unimpeded. After finishing speaking, he turned his gaze to Zhang Taiyan again: "Mr. Binglin, I asked you to be a staff member before, but now I am afraid that the Education Department will trouble you in this matter." ”

Zhang Taiyan had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, and laughed: "Don't worry, the patrol envoy, Zhang Madman trembled when he heard the gunshot, but he still dared to scold a few words when he picked up the pen." Yang Qiu was very happy to get his assurance, and with his fame, he would definitely be able to recruit many teachers and young people who were willing to come to the three provinces. I put my mind at ease, picked up the telegram, looked at it twice, and said: "I will go to see President Li in a while, and in three days I will leave for Hunan and Sichuan to supervise the suppression of bandits and political reform." ”

It was not surprising that Yang Qiu wanted to inspect the two provinces, after all, he was not a Hubei patrol envoy, but Zhang Wenjing thought of a question and asked, "Commander, Sun Wu." ”

Zhang Taiyan immediately jumped up, he was also shocked on the day Yang Qiu was assassinated, if it weren't for the desperate protection of the guards, how could there be such a thing as the implementation of free education now, gritted his teeth and said: "The patrol envoy can travel with peace of mind, others want to give Sun Wen and Huang Keqiang face, I, Zhang Maniac, am not afraid of them!" Tomorrow, I will escort these people to Nanjing, but I want to see what he Huang Keqiang has to say this time. ”

It was naturally best to go to Nanjing with Zhang Taiyan's big mouth, so Yang Qiu immediately agreed to him. As for what kind of changes will occur in Nanjing's political circle because of the arrival of these people, he has no time to think about it, and after cutting taxes, cracking down on the powerful, and implementing a new policy of free education, he has set his sights on the next important goal.

Political program!