Jagged Warlord

The so-called emperor and courtiers in one dynasty, often when a new warlord comes to power, he will clean up the team of the previous warlord, and replace those who are in charge of key departments with his cronies.Then from the head of the department to the county head will be replaced, so the county heads are often replaced with the replacement of warlords.Bureaucrats and politicians are well versed in this, and they are quite knowledgeable. After their masters fall and are transferred, some of them often follow their masters and move to other places; It is often not the cronies of the old master, or some departments that are more technical and difficult to take over. The key is that it does not matter if the department has little money.

Wang Shihua, the county magistrate of Shangqiu County, was no exception. He was also an old man in the officialdom.However, after waiting for nearly a month, there was no movement from the guarding envoy.On the contrary, Wang Shihua had more doubts in his heart, and couldn't help but take the initiative to visit Li Mohan.

Li Mohan entertained Wang Shihua very politely and asked him to have lunch with him.Wang Shihua was also calm when he arrived, and ate at the same table with Li Mohan openly.

Different from Wang Shihua's imagination, Li Mohan's lunch is very simple, two meat, two vegetables and one soup.Li Mohan himself didn't find it strange, but Wang Shihua found it very novel.

After dinner, Li Mohan said unceremoniously: "County Chief Wang, I am new here, and I need your help with many things." After finishing speaking, Li Mohan asked someone to bring a folder, and took out three pieces of paper from it and handed it to Wang Shihua.

"This is the decree I intend to promulgate, please help me read it in detail." Li Mohan said

Wang Shihua didn't answer, just smiled and said, "Master Liu should be here to participate in the training for such a big event. I'm an outsider, how can I make irresponsible remarks?"

Li Mohan smiled and said: "I am doing great things, and it is not enough for Mr. Liu to be a staff member alone. County Magistrate Wang has heard that I am recruiting talents everywhere? There is a great sage in front of me, how can I let him go?" How about it?"

"Cough!" Wang Shihua coughed and replied with a smile, "Ashamed, ashamed." In fact, Wang Shihua studied at Nanyang Public School in his early years and later studied in the United States.It's just that he has always regarded himself very highly, so he was squeezed out everywhere. He has been an official for many years, and he has been spinning around in the position of county magistrate.

Only then did Wang Shihua take it over and take a closer look.The first piece of paper reads "Eastern Henan Abolishes Lijin Tax and Powers Up Electricity", to the effect that all provinces in China have set up cards to collect likin, blocking traffic and preventing goods from being circulated, exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, and corrupt officials like blood-sucking locusts. It makes business unprofitable; foreigners rely on strong ships and powerful guns to dominate our customs, and set a 5.00% tariff on goods arriving at the port, while the tariff on my country's exports reaches more than [-]% of the value of the goods. The tax burden on foreign goods is far lower than that of domestic products. In addition, the exemption of lijin across provinces makes foreign goods unimpeded in China, while domestic products are dying!

Li is blunt, but he is also willing to make the country stronger and the industry more prosperous. From today onwards, in the eastern border of Henan, the bad government of lijin will be abolished forever, and all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes that exploit merchants, such as carriage and horse tax and bed board tax, will also be abolished. Li is also willing to communicate with the governors in the north and the south to jointly depose Lijin and benefit the development of Huaxia's industry and commerce.

The second government decree is aimed at land tax. The government decree stipulates that self-cultivating farmers in the eastern part of Henan will be exempted from agricultural tax on money, grain and land; After the new deed is verified and confirmed by the handover officer, the agricultural tax on money, grain and land will also be suspended forever; otherwise, the progressive method will be implemented for all land, and land tax will be exempted for every land less than ten mu. Five cents of land tax silver is collected, and for [-] to [-] mu of land, the tax silver is two yuan per mu of land. Industry and commerce are the largest sources of wealth for the country.

At the same time, the living people can breathe a little bit, and the national vitality can be cultivated a little bit.After the peasant households, which account for the vast majority of our country, earn a little income, the industry and commerce will prosper, and domestic products will sell well, which will benefit both the country and the people.

The third government decree is that Shangqiu County plans to build a new power plant and plans to raise 100 million silver dollars in business shares. The town guard Li Mohan called on landlords with a lot of land to exchange their land for shares.

After Wang Shihua read the three decrees, he didn't speak for a while.

"What? Is my idea bad?" Li Mohan asked

Wang Shihua shook his head and said: "No, no, these are good things that benefit the country and the people, but it seems that they are only detrimental to you personally!"

Li Mohan smiled and said: "Major Wang, let me ask you, the silkworm farmer planted mulberry and raised silkworms, and he worked hard to do a lot of things that are beneficial to mulberry trees and silkworms. In the end, who are the silkworms who benefit?" Or a silkworm farmer?"

Wang Shihua is an old Jianghu, so he immediately heard the implication. He rubbed his nose without losing his voice, and said, "Your Excellency really has great ambitions. If you don't give up, I, Wang Shihua, am willing to saddle up for Your Excellency for encouragement."

Li Mohan smiled and said: "There is no need to be so exaggerated, as long as you implement these decrees of mine one by one, it will be a great achievement. I will never treat you badly~!"

Wang Shihua stood up and said solemnly: "The humble official must do his best."

A few days later, hundreds of copies of these three decrees were copied and posted on the streets of Shangqiu and its subordinate counties and towns.At the same time, it was disseminated in the form of nationwide electrification.

As soon as the call came out, it immediately became a big topic of conversation.After the announcement was posted, there were those who praised it and those who scolded it. The ones who pointed their thumbs up were those whose families had two acres of Susukida and could not starve to death.The merchants talked about it with great interest, but the warlords from all over the place scoffed at it. If they don't charge gold and tax, what do they need to raise soldiers?What do you use to buy guns and grab land?Lijin was originally a big piece of fat on the lips of governors of various provinces, but he didn't eat it!And I also want the governors of other provinces not to charge lijin!Is this young guardian envoy courageous or brainless?

When the outside world was talking about it, Li Mohan made another major event. He established a new bank—Chinese Commercial Bank.The headquarters of Chinese Commercial Bank is in Shangqiu, and it immediately set up branches and sub-branches in its subordinate counties.

At the same time, Huashang Bank began to issue a banknote with the head of Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, printed on it, called Huashang note, with three units: yuan, jiao, and decimal.The denominations are divided into [-] yuan, [-] yuan, [-] yuan, [-] yuan, [-] jiao, [-] jiao, [-] jiao, [-] fen, [-] fen, and [-] fen.Immediately afterwards, the Guardian Envoy's Office issued a decree to force the use of this currency, and also ordered common people and merchants to exchange their silver dollars for this banknote as soon as possible.

Wang Jiang, general manager of Chinese Commercial Bank and former Bank of Communications, showed reporters the gold piled from the floor to the ceiling at the press conference.Then he announced with a smile: "The Huashang notes issued by the bank are all backed by gold, and every dollar of Huashang notes is exchanged for 0.0321 ounces of gold."

Then, Wang Jiang led the reporters to visit the vault. Before entering the gate of the vault, each of them distributed a piece of black cloth.The reporters asked why?The answer is: protect the eyes.

Sure enough, as soon as they entered the vault, the piles of gold shone dazzlingly under the light, which dazzled the eyes of the reporters.

The reporters asked questions enthusiastically, wanting to know where the Huashang Bank got so much gold, but General Manager Wang Jiang just laughed and didn't answer.In fact, he also asked Li Mohan the same question, and Li Mohan's answer was "I can turn stone into gold, do you believe it?"

Of course Wang Jiang didn't believe it. The origin of the money in the hands of these warlords is usually a secret. It's better not to know this kind of secret.

As soon as it was published in the newspaper, Huashang ticket quickly became famous.The first batch of Chinese merchant tickets were put into the market in the form of military pay, and soon flowed into the civilian population through the hands of soldiers.There are wars everywhere recently, and the finances of the provinces are tight. Military tickets without a security deposit are being issued indiscriminately, and the value of banknotes is about to depreciate.

The common people were still wary of the newly released Huashang notes, so Wang Jiang came up with an idea and asked a few people from other provinces to take a thick stack of Huashang notes to the head office of Shangqiu Huashang Bank to exchange for gold.As a result, they went home contentedly holding a gold bar branded with the words "Supervised by the Finance Department of the Eastern Henan Township Commissioner's Office".

As a result, Huashang Bank and Huashang Tickets became an instant hit, and their influence quickly spread around Shangqiu.At the beginning, it was limited to the Chinese people, and later various foreign firms and foreign merchants in eastern Henan, northern Jiangsu, and western Shandong began to accept Chinese merchant tickets.

Strong Huashang tickets have become the target of everyone's scrambling to collect, but this also brings a problem, that is, bad money drives out good money, and everyone is reluctant to use it. On the contrary, Chinese merchants' tickets on the market are becoming scarcer.At this time, the banknote printing machine of the Chinese Mercantile Bank quietly started to print banknotes at five times the amount of the reserve, and purchased raw materials, machinery and equipment from other provinces, and began to build the eastern Henan region according to the grand blueprint.

In fact, Li Mohan, who has a copycat artifact in his hand, is not short of money at all. The gold piled up in a room was copied by him with the copycat artifact.The purpose of doing this is just to expand your own influence and tie more people to your chariot.