Master Yuan, start!

6So, although it may seem that the tax collected is less after the abolition of the customs duty system and the change to the commercial duty system, in fact, merchants do not have to pay taxes to the customs at various places. Even if the commercial duty silver is only collected in four parts, it is still better than the previous two parts.

"Yes, and don't forget." Kuang Chunhua took out a Northeast Border Industry Bank note from his trouser pocket and waved it while saying, "When we collect taxes, we only accept Northeast Longyang and Northeast banknotes.

1 In order to promote paper money, the chief instructor established branches of the Border Industry Bank in Shanghai, Tianjin and Incheon.

4 If these merchants wanted to come to the Northeast to trade, they would definitely have to deposit some silver in the bank, exchange it for paper money, and then rush to the Northeast.

3 With all this inflow and outflow, the amount of money deposited in the Border Industry Bank alone is not a small amount."

6 Mingye also expressed his opinion: "There is a lot of silver in the Border Industry Bank, but it is only kept so much to deal with bank runs. As long as the currency circulating in the market is paper money, then the silver in the bank can be spent however it wants.

Besides, the head instructor has promised that the Border Industry Bank can exchange paper money for grain, so there is no need to worry about the silver deposit issue."

Mingye's idea was quite simple. He simply didn't plan to keep any reserves in the Border Industry Bank.

This idea is of course wrong.

However, his words gave Han Bei inspiration. He suddenly realized that he was only thinking about the current financial situation and had not considered the external environment.

Although what these three people said may not be entirely correct, Han Bei feels that it is very valuable for reference.

Several people on the dock were discussing the issue of abolishing customs duties and switching to commercial trading. Yuan Shikai and Yan Fu on the warship also talked about this matter.

"Weiting, everyone applauds this good policy of reforming commercial taxes." Yan Fu looked out at the Yellow Sea and said with some concern:

"But this is, after all, a move that robs people of their wealth. It's inevitable that there will be people who pretend to obey but actually disobey. Even though you are the Governor-General of the Three Northeastern Provinces, how can you fully implement this policy in a region thousands of miles wide?"

"Brother Ji, don't forget that I still have tens of thousands of national defense troops under my command." Yuan Xiangcheng did not take Yan Fu's concerns seriously at all:

"It's written in black and white. If they won't listen, then let the shining Hanyang bayonets do the talking."

Yuan Xiangcheng looked gloomy as he looked towards the northwest sky.

There are no large Han Chinese families in the three northeastern provinces today. The people who have come to Guandong are still the first generation and have not yet formed the complex social relations that existed in the early years of the Republic of China.

He also dispersed the Manchus in Shengjing and relocated them to the eastern part of Korea. As for the Eight Banners soldiers who fought against the National Defense Army in the Battle of the Pass, they were sent to various mines to work as coolies.

However, outside the Great Wall, there was a force that was not under the control of Yuan Shikai.

That's the Mongolian people.

When entering the Pass, the Eight Banners of Manchuria outside the Pass were clamoring that the Manchu and Mongolian princes would cut off Yuan Shikai's retreat, but until they attacked Beijing, Yuan Shikai did not see any sign of the Mongols.

O They were very timid and did not dare to get involved in the imperial power dispute at the core of the Qing court, but this also made Yuan Shikai lose the excuse to deal with them.

After Yuan Shikai became the governor-general of the three northeastern provinces, the farmers' associations affiliated with the Red Confucian Society gradually spread across the northeast, and the rural areas in the Liaodong region were incorporated into a unified management system.

The Sha Nong Society encountered obstacles when it expanded to western Liaoning.

The local Mongolian princes in Wu were both big landlords and big merchants. They controlled the trade routes inside and outside the Great Wall. Merchants traveling from the south to the north had to pay several lijin fees before they were allowed to pass.

The farmers' association tried to enter several times but was rejected by the Mongolian princes and nobles, and even several fights broke out.

Si Yuanxiangcheng had long been dissatisfied with these princes who sucked the blood of the lower-class people. Now was a good opportunity. They would certainly not easily agree to abolish the customs duties and change to a commercial system.

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Just wait until the commotion starts and then deal with it all at once.

"When" "When" "When"

: The tranquility of Benxi, shrouded in mist, was broken by the loud sounds of gongs.

"Hurry up and get to work!"

When several miners heard the gong, they hurriedly climbed up from the haystack, picked up someone's belt, tied it around their bodies, and ran out.

Some people, after holding it in all night, would run to the door of the thatched hut to solve their personal problems, but when they came back to relieve themselves, they found that their belt was missing.

"Where's my belt?"

Unable to find anything to tie his pants with, the young miner could only temporarily grab a piece of straw and tie it around his waist, then ran out in a hurry.

In the mine, the first gong strike is a reminder, and the second gong strike is the start of roll call.

If you are not there when roll call is called, you will lose half a day's wages.

The job of coal miner was notoriously popular in the three northeastern provinces at that time, and only a few people had the opportunity to enter the mines.

Because, in today's Northeast China, agriculture occupies an absolute dominant position. It would be fine if the people who come to the Northeast can rent the cultivated land that has been cultivated by others.

If you go to open up new land yourself, you will face harsh conditions such as water shortage, saline-alkali land, and bitter cold.

It is true that the Northeast was the granary of the north in the original time and space, but that was also the result of many years of transformation after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In today's Northeast China, the places with complete water conservancy facilities are near cities such as Shengjing and Liaoyang, which have been cultivated for hundreds of years.

The second is the farmers' association under the Red Confucian Society, which is distributed on both sides of the Yalu River, northern Korea, the mountainous basin in central Jilin, and the eastern coast of Fengtian.

The traditional people who went to Guandong entered the Northeast from Shanhaiguan and gathered in the Liaoxi Corridor and near the Liaohe River. These places have large areas of saline-alkali land and seasonal permafrost zones, and rivers often flood.

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During the Ming Dynasty, this place was once called "Liaohetao"

The "Liaodong Regional Command" set up by the Ming court outside the Great Wall has a large depression facing south.

This is because there are a large number of swamps left over from the degradation of seasonal permafrost.

To be honest, Liaodong's production conditions cannot be considered superior without improvement.

Only when compared with the Yellow River Basin, Liaodong is free from the flood and drought disasters that have occurred every year, which makes it appear to be a fertile land today.

Reclaiming new land is very hard work, but paying rent to others on their familiar land is not a long-term solution. The best way is to find a business to make a living on your own.

But this is easier said than done.

Everyone wants to open a store and collect money, but the people who came to Guandong were poor and did not have the money to do these things.

Therefore, the five major types of jobs, namely factory workers, railway workers, miners, dock workers, bodyguards, and soldiers, became the preferred choices for the vast majority of people who did not have the means of production.

In this world, the casualty rate of bodyguards and soldiers is too high, so most people stay away from them. There are no docks in the inland area of ​​Fengtian Province.

As for wanting to become a railway worker, there are also limitations.

The craze for building railways in Fengtian Province has passed. Now the main railways in the province have been basically laid and have begun to connect to Shanhaiguan in the west and extend to Jilin in the north.

If you want to build a railway again, you will have to leave your hometown.

Therefore, recruitment opportunities in local iron and coal mines are particularly valuable.

The mine provides food and accommodation, and there is one day of vacation every ten days. If you don’t want to take a day off, you can save up your vacation time and use it together.

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The salary is 2 taels of silver, and food and accommodation are provided, and you don’t have to travel far and wide to get into trouble.

In the late Qing Dynasty, if an ordinary tenant farmer earned 12 taels of silver a year, it was considered a year of good weather and good harvest.

Miners earn 2 taels per month. Such jobs are naturally highly sought after in the Northeast, and the jobs in mines across the country have become well-known "fat jobs"

Lin and his group hurriedly stopped and listened to the manager announcing the new news in front.

"Master Yuan said that our mine exceeded its targets in the first half of the year!"

"index?"

5 The miners present were not well educated and did not understand what the manager had just said about the indicators. Some of them were confused and began to discuss among themselves.

"Xiao Fazi, do you know what indicators are?" a middle-aged miner asked the young miner next to him.

4 This man was none other than the young man who had just lost his belt while peeing. His name was Wang Jinfa.

"Indicators, how do I put it?" Wang Jinfa scratched his head. He had heard about it from those with red bands on their arms, but he didn't know how to explain it for a moment.

"I got it!" Wang Jinfa thought of an explanation that he thought was reasonable: "The quota is the standard fee paid to the masters in the past. Every year, a standard fee must be paid. Once it is paid, the quota is met.

: If you don’t pay enough or don’t pay at all, you’re not meeting the target.”

"That's fine, that's fine." The middle-aged miner sighed and patted his chest, saying, "We have paid the rent in full to Master Yuan. He can't beat or scold us anymore."

Obviously, the middle-aged miner recalled the painful experience of not paying the land rent on time when he was farming.

However, the next words caught the middle-aged miner off guard.

"Because we have fully met the target, Master Yuan is giving everyone a reward!

Anyone who worked at the mine before the New Year will receive an extra month's wages; anyone who arrived after the New Year will receive an extra half month's wages. You can collect them after work!"

"Good! Great!"

The young miner was the first to react, kneeling on the ground and shouting, "Thank you, Master Yuan!"

No matter how slow the others were, they also reacted at this time and knelt down and kowtowed. Some shouted "The great judge of heaven has appeared", some said "Master Yuan is the reincarnation of Bodhisattva", and some even shouted "Long live Master Yuan".

"Alright, stop saying these flattering words. Master Yuan can't hear them." The supervisor jumped down from the platform and said as he walked away, "If you have this spare time, you might as well make the most of it and dig some more coal!"

"If I don't dig out 50 kilograms of stone today, I will be sorry to Lord Yuan!" Wang Jinfa stood up suddenly and made some bold remarks.

However, he forgot that his belt was made of a straw rope and was not strong. After kneeling and standing up several times, it broke.

It is summer now, and once the outer pants are taken off, two bare white legs are exposed.

"Hahahaha!" A group of miners pointed at Wang Jinfa and laughed.

He could only hurriedly pull up his pants, hold them tightly, and walk towards his thatched hut.

"When" "When" "When"

Another ninety-second gong sounded, signaling the start of work. The miners stopped laughing and rushed into the mining area with great excitement.

Suddenly, there were loud sounds of shouts, explosives, and breaking stones.

With an extra salary, these proletarian workers decided to sell their labor more efficiently!

...

"Work quickly!"

"Snapped!"

Tamingan stood on a wooden platform, brandishing a whip and scanning the group of miners in front of him.