Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1961 Port Treasury
Ai Zhixin is still a little excited when he thinks that he will be able to start tax practice work soon - he has been in Guangzhou for a few months, Yu "Cai" has some achievements, and Yu "Tax" can be said to have no practical achievements at all. Make a plan.First, the plague caused delays, and second, there was a real lack of suitable manpower.

Now the Wang family couple not only came, but also brought a group of cadres from the short-term tax training class. Compared with the group of tax cadres under him who don't know what to say, old and new, they are basically "self-taught".There are a lot of jobs, and Ai Zhixin is really worried about them doing it, so he keeps procrastinating.

He saw the arrival date and the number of people traveling with him, so he called Ai Yixin and asked her to arrange corresponding offices and dormitories in the Yamen of the Salt Department—that is, the compound of the Finance and Taxation Bureau according to the number of people in the telegram.

Because there is not much practice, Ai Yuan has spent more time on "fundamental construction" in the past few months.Not only restored many dilapidated houses in the former Yamen of the Salt Department, but also rebuilt a number of old houses, built septic tanks, built public toilets, and installed a modern sewage system in the small yard of his office and bedroom. ——He's had enough of the toilet.

In the end, he demolished some of the dilapidated houses to open up an open space for use as a playground, and practiced with the staff of the Finance and Taxation Bureau every day-tossing the remaining old officials into misery.

Although the Salt Office has a large area and many houses, most of the houses are very old, and the hot and humid environment in Guangzhou makes the internal sanitation poor. Most of the old officials who work in it have various respiratory and joint diseases. Disease, once the seasons turn, there will be a group of people who want to complain.Ai Zhixin had only been in office for half a year, and three of the retained veterans reported "death of illness" or "retired from illness".Mr. Ai Yuan came up with the idea of ​​"exercise", and started a "fitness exercise" in the Finance and Taxation Bureau-this is not only to retain personnel, but also to maintain the exercise exercises developed by the naturalized staff transferred from Hainan habit.

Although the Taxation Department Yamen is not yet "renewed", at least it is much better than when he first came, otherwise the Wang family couple might not be willing to live in the Yamen.

On the day the Wang family and his wife arrived in Guangzhou, Ai Zhixin got up early again—not to greet them, but today was another day for routine port inventory checks.As the director of the Finance and Taxation Bureau, he will go to Dashijie to conduct inventory checks on the treasury of Australia and Song Dynasty, namely the port treasury, and sign for and issue relevant transshipment goods, accompanied by relevant personnel from the monopoly bureau.

The so-called Hong Kong treasury is actually the treasury of the Senate, and it is also the treasury of various Delong banks. Although the policy of taking the Central Reserve Bank as the central bank of the Senate has been established, in fact, the Central Reserve Bank has just started and lacks branches. The work of the central bank is still handled by Delong's branches in various places.

The finances of the Senate are primarily for the war. The Ministry of Finance and Finance will follow the army to set up supply centers on the second or third line of transportation (mainly ports). These supply centers will later become the treasury of various places.Because Australia and Song Dynasty use the sea to control the land, they are not afraid of robbing, and the transportation basically depends on ships, so the national treasury is basically set up in the port, which is called the port treasury-of course, there are also factors that are inconvenient to call "country" when the flag has not been publicly established in the early days. Inside
The earliest origin of the port treasury is the property that was robbed in the raid on Goujiazhuang.The precious metals and other valuables were transported back to Lingao and placed directly in the warehouse of Fengcheng in Bopu Port.At that time, the Fengcheng was the safest place, and it was also convenient to sell these properties to Guangzhou and other places in the port in exchange for other materials urgently needed by the Senate.After the crisis-ridden infancy passed, a special warehouse was built at the port, and the materials in Fengcheng's warehouse were slowly moved to land.

After the Battle of Chengmai, although Qiongzhou Fucheng and Haikou Suocheng were not captured, the actual occupation of Qiongshan County had actually been completed, and Caijinkou set up a supply center for Qiongzhoufu in the local area—specially responsible for collecting and transporting the whole of Hainan. supplies.The military rations collected through reasonable burdens around Fucheng were directly handed over to the supply center of Qiongshan County, and the port was directly counted and cataloged to ship supplies to the expeditionary force in Guangzhou. This made the local seizures come in handy immediately, improving the efficiency guarantee resource utilization.After the war, these supply centers were quickly transformed into port warehouses. With the expansion of the financial and commercial departments of the Senate, the collection and storage of materials from various departments such as taxation, industry, commerce, monopoly, customs, agriculture, etc. must pass through these port warehouses. Ai Zhixin was also sent to other places to set up port depots because he was in charge of the operation of the port depot in Qiongzhou. This also established the most basic treasury system in Australia and Song Dynasty. Establish a basic accounting system.

Although the planning institute is mainly responsible for the allocation of materials, the specific cashier is still in charge of the port warehouse of the financial department.

The port warehouse in Guangzhou is located inside the big world. In the "in the world" near the pier, there are rows of warehouses. The office outside the warehouse is the office of the port warehouse.

The work of the port warehouse is always busy. Correspondents from various local agencies come in and out with communication briefcases, bringing letters of material flow from various places; every hour, the correspondents of the communication center will send The latest data changes of Delong's branches in various places are sent here.

On the wooden counters one by one, the cashiers collect the material receipt or material storage form of the relevant departments, and instruct the relevant warehouses or ships to leave the warehouse or pay the relevant materials, and then register the relevant time, order number, and material name in the rolling stock. On the blackboard, blackboard announcements are made. The scribe sees the announcement on the blackboard and transcribes the account books. The telegrapher also sends important parts of the relevant account books to Lingao's Ministry of Finance and Planning Institute, and they are responsible for keeping the accounts.When some inventory materials are close to the set red line, or a warehouse will be out of stock before the nearest regular transshipment period of the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry, or other nearby transshipment warehouses will be notified to send ships to replenish the goods.

Ai Zhixin did not go directly to the office of the warehouse, but went straight to the warehouse area next to the pier of "Inner World".

Because today is the warehouse, there is no business in and out of the warehouse area at this moment. The bustling carriages, trolleys, and porters on weekdays are all gone. The footsteps of patrolling national army soldiers broke the silence here from time to time.In fact, there are people in each warehouse who are counting the inventory.

Ai Zhixin looked at the watch on his wrist, and it was still early before the end of time—he would not go to the warehouse to check the inventory in person, but he would be there every time the inventory was taken, and sometimes he would make a surprise attack on a certain warehouse. Items are checked.Any job will have a "tired" day, and the signs of falsely responding to stories and perfunctory work have already faintly appeared before the Guangdong and Guangxi Raiders.Because of the ability and quantity of cadres, the administrative system of the Senate is actually very weak. If the elders themselves cannot be on the front line or at least pretend to be on the front line at any time, the execution of many things will be out of order.

"Old Liu!"

He yelled, and Liu Gang, who had been following him all this time, immediately rushed a few steps and moved closer to him.

"Chief..."

"You go to the salt storehouse first and see how the inventory of the salt storehouse is going." Ai Zhixin said, "A new batch of salt arrived yesterday. Go and see if the salt and the ticket are correct."

As the Senate took control of Hainan and Guangdong, the saltworks of Daming in Guangdong and Hainan were already under the control of the Senate.However, for a while, they were unable to effectively control the production of the salt farms, nor were they able to deploy enough qualified naturalized civilian cadres to manage the salt farms, so they could only strictly control the distribution field to ensure the implementation of the salt monopoly system.

There are many tricks of selfishness and fraud in salt affairs, and salt people are not good little white rabbits, and private salt merchants from all walks of life will not hand over ready-made benefits to others—whether it is the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, or the Ming Dynasty. Or Australians, since ancient times, those who dare to come out to sell private salt are prepared to lick blood with their knives.

Liu Gang was a private salt merchant and knew a lot about these routines.Ai Zhixin's willingness to recruit him to the Salt Company of the Monopoly Bureau is precisely because of this.

"Yes, Chief!"

Liu Gang took people there.Because of the need to support the issuance of new currency, it has been mentioned many times at the economic work conference to stabilize prices and ensure the supply of important people's livelihood materials.Therefore, Ai Zhixin's salt monopoly policy is to stabilize the market price and fully supply the market with low-priced salt. First, to ensure the supply of salt in the market, and at the same time drive out illegal salt, stabilize the market and then gradually increase the price.

However, this matter is easier said than done. Liu Gang's past partners were not honest, and took advantage of the low-priced salt thrown out by the Senate to hoard a large amount of money.Therefore, in addition to the drop in the price of salt in the areas where the Senate's commercial circulation can directly touch, the price of salt in the vast rural areas is still relatively high.

Ai Zhixin lit a cigar—it seems that effective regulation cannot be achieved without state-owned commercial networks.The materials sold were hoarded by profiteers.

The busy time always passed quickly. Ai Zhixin not only randomly inspected several warehouses on the spot throughout the morning, but also randomly inspected several entry and exit books and original vouchers.A lot of documents were signed and a number of naturalized people were summoned.When he finally stopped to eat the bento delivered by Ai Yixin, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon.He was sitting and eating lunch when he suddenly saw through the window that the signal flag "arrival of the liner ship" was raised from the monitoring tower at the port.

The arrival time of most of the steam-sail hybrid transport ships in the Senate cannot be accurate to what time, but only roughly know whether they will arrive in the morning, afternoon or evening of a certain day.

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