"Of course it's me...", pointing to himself, Yan Shao replied with a smile.

Of course, Yan Shao paid this money, even if you let the Ministry of Finance pay him, he can't afford it...

No one knows better than Yan Shao how clean the treasury is now, because he just went to the treasury yesterday, and the result was ......... That's a miserable one...

Let's put it this way, don't we often say that cockroaches are very survivable? If you throw cockroaches into the treasury, I'm afraid that even cockroaches can starve to death...

There is really nothing, and the tax collected by the Ministry of Finance every month does not even go to the state treasury, and basically changes hands and goes somewhere else.

At this time, it is simply whimsical to think that the national government will pay for it itself.

And this time the plan is indeed too big, not to mention anything else, just an iron factory needs to consume at least tens of millions, and this is just the beginning. If you want to get on the same level as the Xiangshan Iron Factory in Anhui, it is almost impossible to add 20 or 30 million, 350 million...

You must know that when the Hanyang Iron Works was completed in the history of Ludao, more than 5 million taels of silver were used...

Although according to the habits of this group of officials in the late Qing Dynasty, the amount of water in it is afraid that it will be very large, and we are also very clear about how 'high' the efficiency of these officials is. Give them the project, the cost is definitely much higher than the actual one.

But even so, Hanyang Iron Works is not a large-scale steel plant after all, and such an iron plant needs more than 5 million taels...

If 75 projects are started together, three or five billion yuan will not be able to stop...

And that's just the project itself. Not counting the cost of the railway...

Thankfully, the railroad is another expense that doesn't need to be counted here...

And the railroad is not something that can be done right away, such a big project. I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it in a few years, more than ten years, or even decades, so I don't have to be anxious...

But even so, even if the lowest cost (20,000 kilometers) is calculated, 1,000 kilometers will cost more than 20 million yuan.

At this time, after counting Fujian and other provinces, the annual fiscal revenue of the government was more than 100 million. After removing various expenses, it is obviously impossible to come up with so much money to start the plan, so in order for the plan to start smoothly. The government of the state and society can only look for foreign aid...

And the best foreign aid at the moment is undoubtedly Yan Shao...

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"But..."Na Na said, Zhan Tianyou was originally a bit of a muna. Seeing Yan Shao pointing at himself with a smile on his face, he was a little speechless for a while...

In fact, what Zhan Tianyou wants to ask most is, does Yan Shao have so much money?

In the past, Zhan Tianyou had deliberately understood that Yan Shao had invested hundreds of millions of dollars for the development of Anhui. Especially one of the big ones. More than 50 million were spent on arms alone...

In addition, there are Wuhu New Town, Xiangshan Iron Works, Anhui Arsenal and various public facilities. Like this, even if Yan Shao is recognized as the richest man in China, he should spend almost the same amount of money, right?

"Don't worry...", as if he saw Zhan Tianyou's thoughts, Yan Shao smiled slightly. I have a lot of income, not to mention that the oil fields in Mexico alone now have more than 95 million dollars a year, including other incomes......... Huh..."

Of course, Yan Shao couldn't tell Zhan Tianyou that the revenue of his automobile company had already exceeded 100 million, and it was still in US dollars. And it's not just 100 million...

It can only be said that in terms of income, Yan Shao is really scary now, and even makes people feel unreal.

But that's not surprising. Who said that after mastering the 'assembly line', Yan Shao's automobile company was simply profitable. And with the increasing number of factories providing parts in China, the cost of producing cars is getting lower and lower—————— daily wage of factory workers in China is only a dime, while the United States is at least 5 yuan a day, and the cost gap between them is too large.

As for the oil field...

Originally, there weren't so many, but this year the Rockefellers discovered the historically famous Cerro in Tampico? Well No. 4 in Sultan. This well can spew 37,000 tons of crude oil per day, equivalent to more than 260,000 barrels, and is the highest production well in the world...

According to the agreement signed between Yan Shao and Rockefeller Jr., Yan Shao can get 30% of the income from the oilfield every year, and in addition to several oilfields exploited in the past, Yan Shao's income in the oilfield has reached nearly 100 million yuan—————— this is still because the emergence of new oil wells has depressed oil prices, otherwise Yan Shao would have already earned more than 100 million yuan in the oilfield...

On the other hand, after learning the news, Rockefik Jr. regretted that he didn't lower the price of the agreement for nothing, even if it was only 1%, it was a lot of money...

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"More than ninety million?" Hearing this number, Zhan Tianyou suddenly exclaimed, and then pondered carefully. "If that's the case, it's ........." After pondering for a long time, Zhan Tianyou looked at Huang Hao with some envy. Congratulations, Minister Huang, it seems that there is no problem with the funds..."

The corners of Huang Hao's mouth twitched, and instead of smiling as Zhan Tianyou thought, he ......... In short, it's a complicated expression, but it's definitely not a smile...

Not only him, but even Li Liang and the others next to him were the same, showing expressions that they didn't know whether to say they were crying or laughing...

On the other hand, Yan Shaozhi didn't care much about talking about the income from oil, because Cerro? The incident of the No. 4 well in Sultanan has caused a sensation around the world, and it is believed that it will soon reach China. It is no secret that Yan Shao is the owner of the Tampico oil field, and people will naturally know about it at that time, and Yan Shao will have no need to hide it...

As for Huang Hao and Li Liang, would they show this expression for what they are doing...

"I've promised to borrow money, but it's not interest-free, so ......... What you see is their expression now..."The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and Yan Shao pointed at Li Liang and them.

Since it is borrowing money, it always has to charge interest. Otherwise, what would Yan Shao do to open the bank, not to mention the attitude of the banks in those countries should also be considered, at most it would be to give Li Liang and them a more fair interest. But that being said. But if Yan Shao borrowed a large amount, he would have to repay a lot of money in a year, which is also the relationship between Li Liang and their expressions...

It's just that it's very troublesome to borrow this money, but it's absolutely impossible not to borrow it...

In addition to the existing 'Five-Year Plan' or '75 Project', the Communist Government also needs a large amount of money to straighten out its finances. In addition, the Nationalist government had promised the Great Powers to withdraw the centigold in exchange for the goodwill of the Powers in garrisoning troops and customs duties, but the problem was that the centigold accounted for a significant share of the government's revenue, and if it were to be withdrawn in this way, there would be no revenue to support it. I am afraid that the future of the national government will be very difficult.

So from any point of view, the government has to borrow this money...

It's just that...

"Can't it really be interest-free..."Li Liang, Zong Wu, and Liang Shiyi came up and said with a shy face, hoping that Yan Shao could change the loan to interest-free. In this way, there will be a lot less pressure on the government.

They have already confirmed the news about the Mexican oil fields, so they absolutely do not doubt the authenticity of this news, let alone whether Yan Shao can come up with this money. Now they have only one task, and that is to find a way to get Yan Shao to change the loan to interest-free...

Between words. Li Liang and the others also gave Zhan Tianyou a few looks. After all, the money he will pay for the next construction of the railway will also come from this money, and he has a lot to do with it in this matter. And everyone knows that Yan Shao attaches great importance to Zhan Tianyou's opinions, and Yan Shao has never discounted Zhan Tianyou's request for funds in the past.

Reacting, Zhan Tianyou opened his mouth and wanted to persuade Yan Shao, but it seemed that he knew what he wanted to say, and Yan Shao had already raised his hand and said. "Don't say it, state affairs belong to state affairs, and business belongs to business. If this country were my own, I would have taken out the money without saying a word. And I promise not to even have a book, but this is not after all, I can't make a distinction between public and private..."

Yan Shao was also a little relieved when he said this, after all, in the past, Li Liang and they had always guarded Yan Shao from playing the world, and always tried every means to remind Yan Shao, and now Yan Shao simply gave them a business...

Hearing Yan Shao say this, Li Liang and the others cried again.

It's just that Yan Shao waved his hand and didn't continue the topic, but talked to them about the '75 Project'.

Just like the name, since there are 75 projects, it is called 75 projects or 75 plans.

In fact, the current 75 projects are only preliminary, and how they actually need to be discussed in detail. And Yan Shao also has some doubts about this matter, for example, the aviation industry, Yan Shao doesn't know if this should be counted as heavy industry?

In later generations, this is definitely high-tech, even just ordinary jetliners need to be made by the whole country, as for fighter jets, the third generation aircraft in the world is less than 10 countries to get out.

But in this era, the entry conditions for aircraft are relatively low, not to mention any enterprises, even ordinary individuals can make an aircraft with good performance.

Therefore, Yan Shao does not know whether it should be included in this plan, if it is, then there will be a few more aircraft companies in the plan. If not, Yan Shao can include it in the private loan project along with the cotton textile industry, and ask the bank to find some private individuals who are interested in aircraft, fund them to carry out aircraft research and development, and help them set up related enterprises...

Even Yan Shao can get a family out himself...

These two make it somewhat difficult for Yan Shao to choose, compared to them, the problem of the shipyard is much simpler. Because the investment in the shipyard is too large, ordinary people will not be interested at all, and they can only solve it themselves at the expense of the state ...

In the 75 plans, there are a total of 5 shipyards related to shipyards, namely Tianjin Shipyard, Shanghai Shipyard, Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, Guangdong Shipyard and Wuchang Shipyard...

Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangdong and Wuchang belong to the new construction, Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau because of the old foundation so it is on the original basis for renovation and expansion, although the overall cost is not a specific amount, but I am afraid that it will also be counted in tens of millions...

In the past such a large sum, it is impossible to make private capital, and it can only be done by the government itself...

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Leaving aside Li Liang for the time being, they were crying and mournful while discussing whether there was anything that needed to be revised in the 75 plan. As a promise, Yan Shao announced that he would completely abolish the gold by March 1914.

This was appreciated by both the people and the great powers. After all, few people have a good impression of this one of the three major taxes—————— except for those who include taxes...

And Yan Shao's statement also promoted the negotiations on the garrison and tariffs...

On the side of the garrison. Basically, except for Japan, all other countries have made concessions, and even the most greedy old Maozi has found that he can't take advantage of it.

After the Nationalist government announced that it would completely eliminate the gold by March next year, the Great Powers also expressed their willingness to reduce the number of troops stationed in China to a symbolic figure. What is symbolism? It means that there are only three or five people, or ten or twenty people...

Of course, Japan is excepted, so if an agreement is reached. Then Japan will become the country with the largest number of troops stationed in China—————— although this is the case itself.

Compared with the smooth issue of garrisoning, the issue of tariffs is more troublesome.

But on the whole, it was relatively smooth, at least more smoothly than in history. In Lu Zhengxiang and Gu Weijun and others argued with reason. After trying their best to make use of the limited chips in their hands, the powers finally reached a more preliminary agreement, that is, to add a 5% surtax on top of the existing 5% tariff. As for luxury goods, the top tax rate has been raised to 20%. This is 10% worse than the 30% that Liang Shiyi proposed for them, but it is also within the acceptable range...

In addition, it will be revised every three years, and at the same time, 'return tariff autonomy to China when the time comes'...

As for when the time is ripe, only God knows...

Although the agreement has been preliminarily reached, it is impossible to reach it here, and the other side will start withdrawing troops and returning tariffs...

As for the garrison, Jurdian and others meant that the withdrawal would begin by December, so that 'the soldiers could return home and reunite with their families before Christmas'—————— even though no one invited them to...

And tariffs are not so easy. Not to mention that no agreement has been reached, and even if it does, it will definitely not be implemented in a short period of time. At least wait for Yan Shao to indeed revoke the centigold.

Historically, in 1925, when the Beiyang government demanded the immediate lifting of the tariff shackles in treaties with other countries, China began to abolish the centigold in return on January 1, 1929. The Great Powers responded that tariff autonomy would be returned on January 1, 1929...

Why the 25-year agreement is to be set to 29 years, it is for this...

It can be seen that they are also the lords who do not see rabbits and do not scatter eagles...

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The time has entered October, and after more than a month of talks, the Socialist Government has finally reached some results with Britain and the United States. The garrison will be withdrawn from China by December, after which all but Japan will keep a symbolic number around Beijing.

The tariffs will also be gradually implemented after the Chinese government completely abolishes the centigold...

It's a slow process, and no one knows exactly how long it will take, but it does represent a very good step...

Naturally, seeing that the negotiations are going well, many Chinese people have opened their mouths and demanded that the government fully withdraw the tariffs, instead of taking them back little by little as they are now. However, basically Yan Shao and Duan Qirui didn't hear this kind of words, after all, Britain and the United States and other countries are not good men and women, with cents of gold as bargaining chips, little by little, they are barely within the tolerance range of these countries.

If you really want the lion to open your mouth, I'm afraid no one will give it to you...

There's no way, who calls the strength inferior to others...

While everyone's attention was drawn to these two talks, the Communist government announced a project of great magnitude.

'Project 75'

The existing 75 project was obtained after some review, and coincidentally, after some increase and decrease, the total number of projects in the last round was actually 75, so the name of the 75 project was completely determined...

The entire 75 project includes projects required by heavy industries such as steel, chemicals, munitions, shipbuilding, etc., and if the plan can be achieved, China will undoubtedly become one of the world's largest industrial powers, which anyone who has read the list of plans will think...

It's just that as soon as this plan was announced, it was met with countless ridicule...

Public opinion at home and abroad is almost laughing at Yan Shao's whimsy, thinking that he was carried away by the high position he just got...

"The youngest ruler of China may have written too many novels, so he confused ideals with reality, completely ignoring the fact that the real world and the fictional world are completely different..."

"If the whole project is realized, I am afraid that it will take hundreds of millions of yuan, and this youngest ruler of China wants to complete all this in five years, and he has no idea that his Ministry of Finance only has a pitiful annual income of more than 100 million yuan..."

This one is foreign ...

Domestically, it's lamenting, 'How did we get such an unrealistic person to be president...' 'There is probably no hope for this country', 'Who is going to make that guy sober up'...

Even in Anhui, where Yan Shao has the most supporters, there are many people wondering if something is wrong.

You must know that at this time, the financial revenue of the national government in one year is only more than 100 million, if it takes 10 years or 20 years to realize this plan, it will be counted, 5 years? Isn't Yan Shao going to do anything else?

But just when they were lamenting or ridiculing at home and abroad, a loud slap came to the face and hit these people in the face...

Because on the third day of the first five-year plan announced by the national government, and it was also the day when the ridicule was loudest, Rainstone Bank announced that it had reached an agreement with the national government to lend 100 million pounds to the national government at an annual interest rate of 5%, as a sign of Yushi Group's support for the national government...

This news was like a slap in the face, and those who were still laughing at Yan Shao just now suddenly had their faces numb.

And the next moment when the news broke, the government announced that it would convene a political consultative conference in November, inviting the provincial military governments to send representatives to Beijing to seriously discuss the future direction of China... (To be continued......)