Beiyang reactionaries

Britain waived all reparations.

Second, the UK promises to give up all rights and interests in China's customs and recognizes that China's customs is part of China's sovereignty.Respect the Chinese government's control over China's customs, and respect the Chinese government's autonomy over China's tariffs.

The third one is that the UK understands and supports China's taxation of British goods.The Chinese government guarantees that British goods will be treated equally without any discrimination.

Moreover, China is willing to continue to discuss the "Sino-British Commercial Treaty" with the United Kingdom, and provide preferential tariffs and taxes for British products.

Fourth, the UK is willing to give up the right to navigate in China's inland waters. British warships have decided to withdraw from China's inland waters and hand over all British military docks in China's inland waters to China.And China is willing to give British merchant ships the right to navigate freely in the inland sea and the right to dock at Chinese ports.

"President Yan (Yan Shichao), this time I will give you a credit for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

The signing of the "Sino-British Beijing Treaty" finally gave Duan Xun a long sigh of relief.Although this is the beginning of the negotiations between the two countries, it has already solved a big problem.

Of course, China has also made a lot of concessions.

But compared to what you get, such a concession is acceptable.But Duan Xun also understood one thing at the same time, that is, in the eyes of the British, American and French powers, China is still a weak country.

This time the negotiations can be seen.

Even though Britain was greatly affected in World War I, it was still unwilling to make casual concessions.Maintain the face of the old British imperialism and world hegemony.

"But this is the beginning. You have to speed up the rest of the negotiations."

"Yes."

The rest are tough nuts to crack.

Including the issue of the concession, the issue of consular jurisdiction, and the issue of Hong Kong, etc.But now that the negotiation has started well, Duan Xun believes that the remaining issues can also be discussed.

Of course, the issue of Hong Kong is not in this negotiation.Because Hong Kong is an important foothold for Britain in the Far East, it is impossible for them to give up Hong Kong easily.

So Duan Xun never thought about solving the Hong Kong issue at once.

The rest is mainly a matter of concessions.

As long as the settlement issue is resolved, then most of the issues between China and Britain will be resolved.

"Premier Wang (Wang Yongjiang), President Zhang (Zhang Shouyong), now the customs problem has also been resolved. Regarding the promotion of banknotes, what plans do you have now?"

"Prime Minister, let me make four points."

Wang Yongjiang interface.

After signing the "Sino-British Beijing Treaty" with the United Kingdom, Duan Xun will speed up his plan for China's currency reform.In the country, it is necessary to accelerate the popularization of the issuance of banknotes.

Some obstacles to the currency reform that were to be implemented before have been removed.

As for the customs issue, the negotiation with the UK is over, so there is basically no problem.Then at the beginning of the year, Zhang Jiaao took action, and he has regained control of China's financial order in the hands of the Chinese government.

So it's time for currency reform.

"The first point is that from now on, rice, wheat, and salt are the main daily necessities in the country, as well as items such as salt, tea, tobacco, and wine, which must be priced and purchased with banknotes. Gold and silver are not allowed Purchase. In this regard, we have been doing relatively smoothly in the past few years, but there is no nationwide compulsory promotion. I think it is time for the compulsory sale of paper currency for these materials.”

"kindness."

What is the most different between China and the great powers.

It is to master the sales rights of these important materials.For these daily necessities, their monopoly rights are either directly controlled by the government, or the government sells the monopoly rights to some businessmen.

It is equivalent to saying that the monopoly rights of these items are in the hands of the government.

The government said that paper money must be used to purchase these materials, so it must be purchased with paper money.Linking banknotes with these materials is the greatest support for banknotes.

"Second point, except for the land tax in rural areas, which mainly uses grain, all other taxes must be paid in paper money."

tax.

At present, among China's annual taxation, land tax, that is, agricultural tax, still occupies a very high position, accounting for almost 40.00% of China's current taxation.Although the proportion of the industrial and commercial tax has increased in recent years, it is still not as large as the agricultural tax.

However, it is more difficult to collect money from the agricultural tax.

Therefore, the agricultural tax is mainly to collect grain at present.Some grains are stored, and some grains are put on the market.However, the industrial and commercial tax needs to be paid.

If paper money is used to pay taxes, it is also forcing these industrial and commercial companies to use paper money.

"The third point is that the salaries of government employees, including government-controlled companies, factories, hospitals, and schools, are all issued in banknotes."

"this is okay."

If the government really wants to promote banknotes, there are plenty of ways to do so.

Just like Wang Yongjiang's proposal.

All government staff will issue banknotes, and it is mandatory for government staff to use banknotes.Of course, in this process, the number of banknotes issued must be mastered.

Cannot be distributed indiscriminately.

It still depends on how much gold and silver the government can recover.

At present, banknotes are still issued according to the amount of gold and silver.After the government's statistics on China's economy become more and more accurate, it will start to control the amount of currency issued.

"Fourth, in the future, banks will accept gold and silver, but they can only issue banknotes. No matter what kind of currency the other party has in the bank, the bank can only issue banknotes officially issued by the government. All banks must use Gold and silver, go to the Bank of China to exchange for banknotes.”

Duan Xun immediately became serious.

This is one of the biggest moves.

Banks accept gold and silver, but issue paper money.At present, all banks, banks, money houses and other financial institutions in the country have a combined deposit of more than 20 billion silver dollars, all of which are converted into banknotes, which will be very beneficial to the promotion of banknotes.

In fact, we can also see the wealth of a big country like China.

The region is large, the population is large, and the resources are abundant. Although the whole country is still poor, the wealth of the whole country is still a lot.

A deposit of 20 billion silver dollars?

Compared with the wealth of the whole of China, it is actually nothing.Because this is the deposit of several important cities.The biggest problem in China since the end of Qing Dynasty is that China does not have a strong government that can develop China's economy and mobilize China's wealth.As long as a big country like China has enough execution power, the power it will explode is very powerful.

"Row."

Duan Xun still nodded in agreement.

Although there may be some people who are not convinced and want to make trouble.After all, what I deposited was gold and silver, and it suddenly turned into banknotes, and some people would definitely be dissatisfied.

With the strong promotion of banknotes, there must be some people who will not believe in the credibility of banknotes.

But so what if you are not satisfied.

The promotion of banknotes is imperative.