"Lord Yuan Ding, Dai Yingcai was promoted to Secretary for the Interior, so who will be handed over to the original political intelligence department?" Xin Changjun asked.

Li Fushou smiled slightly and said: "You should have heard of this person, Tan Zheng, a son of overseas Chinese born on the island of Java, the former deputy director of the Political Intelligence Division, and the main deputy in charge of the South Pacific regional intelligence network. ”

"This person has indeed heard of it, but there are not many intersections, and it must not be a thing in the pool to be appreciated by Lord Yuanding." Xin Changjun's words are quite meaningful.

If it's an ordinary compliment, there's nothing wrong with that.

But what is the Intelligence Division?

This is the Jinyi Guard and Foreign Intelligence Bureau under the command of the Red Fort, Li Fushou used to supervise hundreds of officials, as the eyes and ears and thugs of the intelligence department, the main internal security department, and the main external political intelligence department, these two powerful departments are the two vicious dogs under Li Fushou's door, such an identity, it is not a good thing to praise the sentence "It is definitely not a thing in the pool".

Since ancient times, the ministers and traitors have not been able to pee in the same pot, as for close cooperation, it is only in the late Ming Dynasty to join forces to deceive the weak emperor, under the rule of the wise lord, mutual attack is the norm.

In the eyes of high-level administrative officials, although these two departments are not eunuchs, they do roughly similar things, and the difference is that they keep ***.

Li Fushou naturally knew that the senior officials of the administrative departments such as the Secretary for Administration and the Secretariat were very uninterested in these two departments, and the beauty of the superior was the balance of power, so he smiled indifferently and said with a slight smile;

"Brother Changjun, today's Australian undercurrent is undercurrent, and the war is about to break out, I mean to take the lead in setting up a wartime committee to oversee all logistics affairs during the war, including internal and external propaganda, national mobilization, material coordination, suppression and pacification countermeasures and post-war aftermath work in the south, because of the many affairs involved, the points are multifaceted, so I mean that the Secretary for Administration will take the lead, you will be the director, and the General Staff of the Army and the Navy, the Secretariat and the Ninth Division will send deputy senior officials into this committee, which will be authoritative in wartime, Try to make sure that the government orders are as good as possible, to ensure that wherever the army fights, the logistical support work will be carried out, and the united front work will be followed up at any time, so that the war will not cause too much damage to the southern region, and then it will be more difficult to recover. ”

"Lord Yuanding, this burden is very heavy!" Xin Changjun felt the heavy responsibility on his shoulders and the trust of the Earl, and replied with a deep breath; "By the grace of the king, the elder monarch can only be repaid by breaking his bones, I have taken this burden, but I want to ask you for some manpower."

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Then I'm not welcome, Brother Shoudao has always acted steadily and decently, I want to be my deputy, and Lord He Shoutian has just stepped down from the post of Secretary for Internal Affairs, I also want to invite him to sit in the wartime committee, Lord He's prestige is high enough, even if I am not there, I can calm the scene, so that people will not recite the scriptures."

"Hehehe...... Really picky, okay...... Pan Shoudao I asked him to put aside the matter of the mayor of the Red River Valley for the time being and concentrate on the work of the wartime committee, He Shoutian was originally going to use it in Lan Fangguo to replace Fan Asheng, since you have spoken, then use it for you first, and the matter of Lan Fangguo will be delayed, is there anything else? ”

"Lord Yuan Ding, I also want to transfer at least 300 capable personnel from the secretariat, after all, our administrative secretary has too few manpower, and there is no way to transfer them, and the wartime committee is too wide to cover and have too many affairs, so I can only fight the idea of the secretariat."

"Okay, here you go."

Li Fushou only hesitated slightly, and then waved his hand in agreement.

The war is fought by logistics, and the duties of this wartime committee are extremely broad, and it is directly accountable to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, and the necessary support must be given.

Xin Changjun is now the role of the prime minister of the wartime cabinet, with him in the front, a large number of cumbersome daily government and military affairs do not need to be done personally, and proper letting go is the king's way!

"Lord Yuanding, I have a reluctant request......"

"Say, though."

"I have been thinking about this crisis for a long time, considering that the war is very costly, and it is impossible to spend all of it from the public treasury and the treasury, and the amount is huge, so once the war breaks out, the War Commission will consider imposing a special war tax to meet the huge need for war funds."

"Uh...... Let me think about it. ”

Li Fushou's face became solemn, the imposition of a special war tax is not a trivial matter, although this is a common practice among European powers, but if it is not handled well, it will lead to boiling public resentment and become a great opportunity for corrupt officials to reach out.

The advantages of imposing a special war tax are obvious, but there are also many disadvantages.

Although Australia has implemented the law of procurement bidding, this cannot plug all the corruption loopholes, and there is no good solution to this kind of thing after more than 100 years, let alone the current feudal era?

In Li Fushou's plan, the war expenses consisted of three major parts: public financial expenditures, treasury and bank loans, and roughly estimated that about 50 million pounds could be raised, which was roughly enough to deal with the Civil War.

But if you can save a little, isn't he fragrant?

What Li Fushou is worried about is that the crooked mouth monk recites the scriptures, and the good reputation he has worked hard to accumulate will be completely ruined, which is not cost-effective.

"Lord Yuanding, I have drafted a charter, please take a look at it." A bureaucrat like Xin Changjun, who has been up and down all the year round, can of course understand what his master is thinking and is worried about, and he presents it with his hands with a respectful expression.

"Oh......"

Li Fushou took it casually and unfolded it to look at it carefully.

It was a complete package for the collection of the special war tax, which envisaged a cash levy of 12 shillings for every resident of Australia, which was to be paid by the employer and then deducted from the employment income.

Homeless farmers or private ranches pay on a per-household basis, with a limit of three months to pay in full, and the overdue time is divided by a fine, and the personal bad credit is indicated, which will affect the loan and personal credit in the future.

Since Australians are wealthy, they should have more than enough money to bear this amount.

About 10 to 1 10 of the residents at the bottom of the society have difficulty paying, and they can take measures to delay payment in the collection, and the time limit can be relaxed to one year. Free labour may also be used to pay the special war tax for four months of voluntary servitude.

Those who fail to submit within the time limit will be severely punished.

Based on the current population of Queensland (including the Southern Earldom) of 10.87 million, the estimated levy is 6.49 million pounds, and a total of 5.5165 million pounds can be increased according to the ratio of 80 to 5.

In addition to most of the people who can raise the taxes they should pay, those who have difficulty paying can also recruit no less than 300,000 laborers to support the development of the south.

For overseas territories such as Shangri-La and Borneo, in view of the low income of the people in these areas, the special war tax was halved, and each inhabitant paid 6 silver shillings.

Residents of overseas provinces are allowed to use crops to spend, which is limited to four categories, such as grain, corn, spices and tobacco, plus 10% of the loss.

You can choose one of the two in cash and in kind, and you can choose freely.

With more than 7 million people in the above-mentioned areas, it is estimated that more than 1.7 million pounds in cash, more than 300,000 tons of grain, and a number of other crops can be collected.

Among the African colonies, the Somali province implemented a policy of 12 shillings per inhabitant (half the levy in Mogadishu) and a half-rate levy policy in Mozambique, allowing food to be used for offset.

More than 1.3 million people in these areas are expected to be levied more than £300,000 in cash, crops, and labour.

Residents of African descent in the area were also obliged to pay the special war tax, and those who refused to pay were punished with hard labour for varying years, depending on the circumstances.

Follow this plan

If all of them are implemented, more than 8.5 million pounds of special war taxes can be levied, which makes Li Fushou can't help but be moved and pondered.

This is a one-time special tax for war, rather than an endless levy like the Liao Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, which caused the people to complain and the family was ruined, which directly shook the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

If you have this money, you can take advantage of the situation to promote several major projects after pacifying the south, such as extending the coastal railway south to Melbourne and then west to Adelaide in South Australia, which can include the population of the entire nine cities in Australia, which is a major livelihood project, but also a major stabilization and military readiness project.

First of all, it can solve the problem of a large number of jobs, stimulate the production of coal and steel industries, and create more national income, and secondly, it can lay out Chinese immigrant towns along the railway line, which is the ultimate move to stabilize the situation in Australia.

meanwhile

The Sydney Bay Bridge, the East Coast Highway of Australia, the proposed reservoirs, and thermal power plants can be built to reduce the number of displaced people and stabilize the society through large-scale backbone projects, and gradually disintegrate the vigilance and precautionary psychology of the conquered white people in the south and integrate them into the overall Australian society.

There are many benefits of having money, but this alone can't impress Li Fushou.

He continued to scroll down, his eyes lit up.

It turned out that Xin Changjun elaborated on the implementation plan for the collection of the special war tax at the end of the charter, with experienced tax officials and supervision groups to do the work in sections, and selected young, simple and energetic students from the Eagle School to participate in social practice, and implemented the method of special personnel to do the work in sections, collect special funds, keep them in special bank accounts, and supervise the whole process.

After the tax is transferred to the bank account, no department or person is allowed to make a disbursement, and it is handed over to the wartime committee for overall arrangement, and the special fund is used exclusively and cannot be borrowed.

"Brother Changjun, it seems that you are prepared!" Li Fushou closed the charter in his hand and said with a deep smile.

The powers of the wartime committee are indeed very large, and the only constraint is that there is no money, whether it is underpants funds, public funds or bank loans, all of which must be reviewed by the Secretariat, and then reported to the Earl by the Budget Committee, and then approved by the Earl, and then disbursed from the Financial Secretary.

As a wartime committee that directly provided a full set of logistical services for the war, how could it do without some living money on hand?

The war on the front line waits for no one, and if you can't keep up with the supply, it's really deadly.

Commander Xin shook himself to the ground and replied with a sincere face;

"Lord Yuan Ding, I also have to do it as a last resort, you mentioned at the briefing earlier that you want to set up such a coordinating organization, and I have also made some preparations for this, after all, the responsibility on my shoulders is heavy, and it is not a trivial matter to affect hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

The so-called clever woman is difficult to cook without rice.

Xin Changjun is a cheap life, and it is not a pity to die, but if the front-line war is delayed, I will become a national sinner for 10,000 years, and the family will be disgraced. ”

"Brother Changjun is serious." Li Fushou waved his hand, still groaning in his heart.

Xin Changjun paused again and said; "My lord, all the Chinese who came to Australia are all subject to the grace of adults, or the division of land or preferential loans to help can not be excepted, Changjun thinks that the promotion of rice and hatred, this matter will not last long, we just take the opportunity of the special tax on the war to widely publicize, so that the Chinese immigrants to Australia are aware of the sense of responsibility on their bodies, condensed into a rope, in order to unify the north and south of Australia have rich money, powerful contributions, through propaganda to fully stimulate the sense of honor and responsibility of citizens, this is the right way!"

These words finally made Li Fushou shrug his face, and after thinking about it for a while, it made sense, so he nodded heavily and said; "Zhengchen has good words, Yuan Ding has been taught, then I will allow you to ask, please take the lead in this matter, and dispatch personnel in advance to prepare for the investigation work, and after the outbreak of the war, a special tax will be levied immediately to supplement the military funds."

Xin Changjun was overjoyed when he heard this, and he threw himself to the ground again; "Your Excellency is wise, and you have no regrets!"

"Hahahaha......" Li Fushou also laughed.

You've agreed to all your requests, so what's the regret?

Seeing off Xin Changjun, who was full of joy, Li Siyuan, deputy director of the secretariat, led Dai Yingcai and Dan Zheng to the east study, and immediately stepped forward to salute the earl when he saw him.

"Master, I'll come at the invitation and give you a salute."

"Excuse me!"

Li Fushou looked at Dai Yingcai, who was tall and thin, and then looked at the elegant demeanor of a literati, and said with a look of approval; "It's not a big deal, it's just that the two of you have just taken up your new positions, and you have been summoned to talk, right...... In the future, if you leave the Political Intelligence Department and go to the Department of Internal Affairs, you should be regarded as a member of the Ninth Division, so you don't need to shout this lord anymore, just call the earl like everyone else, and be as good as a stream! ”

"Do as the master commands." Dai Yingcai hurriedly stepped forward and replied.

"Wrong." Li Fushou deliberately sank his face.

Dai Yingcai hurriedly changed his words; "Oh...... Do as the Earl commands. ”

"Well, that's right, it's good to keep your loyalty in your heart, don't act differently from others, the so-called harmony with the light and dust."

"Talents have been taught, and they should remember what the Earl said, and practice them."

"Hmm." Li Fushou nodded and looked at the new director of political affairs, seeing that his eyebrows were filled with a hint of joy, but he was still able to maintain a calm attitude, and he was quite satisfied;

This summoning was just a simple formality, asking about his plans to take up his new position, and the answer was clear and clear, which made Li Fushou quite satisfied, and at the end of the meeting, he instructed; "In this time of turmoil, your first task is to get accurate information about the conspiracies of the Southern states to form the Confederation, and that is the number one priority, remember."

"Please give me half a month, I am willing to make a military order, and I can't get accurate information to come to me."

"Okay, if you have the courage, then I'll give you half a month." Li Fushou was overjoyed.

I'm not sure he dares to say this big thing, Dan Zheng seems to be a very capable and courageous person, and it seems that he has picked the right person.