Beiyang reactionaries

I just want to stop smoking.

Zhou Zhongyue could only sigh.Tang Jiyao's loss to Duan Xun, or the loss to the Beiyang Army was not wronged.Therefore, he said, "I don't know who General Duan will arrange to be the director of Yunnan Smoking Ban Bureau?"

"Li Youxun."

"Li Youxun?"

Zhou Zhongyue repeated the name.

Zhou Zhongyue really did not expect that Duan Xun would send him to Yunnan again.Regardless of why Li Youxun betrayed Tang Jiyu, everyone in Yunnan hates Li Youxun.Because Tang Jiyu was sorry to everyone, but not to you, Li Youxun.Although Li Youxun is just the commander of the Yunnan Army, he is definitely the most direct person in Tang Jiyu's side, with great power.Many people would retreat three steps in the face of him.

Although Duan Xun mobilized the newspapers to speak highly of Li Youxun, thinking that he was righteous and killed his relatives, and he was a fighter who declared war on opium.But Li Youxun's reputation in Yunnan is not the same.Everyone said that Li Youxun was ungrateful.Unexpectedly, Duan Xun would send Li Youxun back again.

But this trick made Zhou Zhongyue very angry.

Regardless of his reputation, Li Youxun is very capable, and this is obvious to all in Yunnan.When he was under Tang Jiyu, Li Youxun was a good hand no matter whether he was leading troops to fight, or handling government affairs and business.

"Yes. Our general believes that no one understands the opium situation in Yunnan better than Li Youxun. With him as the director of the Yunnan Anti-smoking Bureau, he can cooperate very effectively with the work of the Sichuan and Yunnan Anti-smoking Supervision Office, and can quickly complete the smoking ban in Yunnan."

"Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Office? I don't know if this is..."

Zhou Zhongyue was quite surprised.

Zhou Zhongyue only knew that Duan Xun took over as the Southwest Anti-smoking Supervisor, but he had never heard of such a department as the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Office.Deng Hanxiang said: "This is a department under the Southwest Anti-Smoking Supervision Administration. It is an anti-smoking department jointly established by the Sichuan military and the Yunnan military. It has been confirmed. He will be in charge of the [-]st Brigade of our Sichuan Armed Police Army and Yu Enyang's [-]th Division of the Yunnan Army. Work."

Every word and every word made Zhou Zhongyue sigh incessantly.

Duan Xun stretched his hand too far, but every sentence has a reason.Using the smoking ban as an excuse to reach into the military and political aspects of Yunnan, you can't say anything.This so-called Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Supervision Office is blatantly trying to win over the Yunnan Army troops, and it is also an excuse for their own troops to stay in Yunnan.

"Mr. Shengfu, our suggestion is that in order to strengthen the strength and deterrence of the Yunnan Anti-Smoking Bureau, it is best for Li Youxun to serve as the deputy director of the Yunnan Police Department while serving as the director of the Yunnan Anti-Smoking Bureau."

"can."

Zhou Zhongyue is not an ordinary person.

Originally, he was ready to take over the post of governor of Yunnan, but now that he had heard Deng Hanxiang talk so much, he was even more determined to take over as governor of Yunnan.Now that he decided to accept the post of governor of Yunnan, Zhou Zhongyue was very decisive.

fast.

Zhou Zhongyue didn't want to bargain too much with Deng Hanxiang. Zhou Zhongyue hoped to quickly complete the formation of the current Yunnan Provincial Government.Give Duan Xun a justifiable establishment of the Yunnan Anti-smoking Bureau, so that they can also get busy and don't disturb the formation of their own provincial government.

Anyway, even if he disagrees, Duan Xun has other ways to interfere in Yunnan's military affairs.

"Thank you, Mr. Shengfu."

The effect of Deng Hanxiang's dealings in Kunming is very obvious.

On April 1917, 4, Zhou Zhongyue announced in Kunming that he had accepted the post of governor of Yunnan.At the same time, Zhou Zhongyue appointed Zhang Weihan as Secretary General of the Provincial Government, Yuan Jiapu as Director of Yunnan Finance Department, Wang Jiuling as Director of Yunnan Police Department, Wang Youlan as Mayor of Kunming, and Dong Ze as Director of Education Department.

On April 1917, 4, Duan Xun and Gu Pinzhen jointly announced the establishment of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Supervision Department.The First Brigade of the Sichuan Armed Police Army led by Guo Songling was expanded into the First Division of the Sichuan Armed Police Army, and the Fourth Division of the Dian Army led by Yu Enyang was reorganized into the First Division of the Yunnan Armed Police Army.Deng Hanxiang served as the secretary-general of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Administration, Yu Enyang served as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Force, and Guo Songling served as the chief of staff of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Force.

On the afternoon of the same day when the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-Smoking Supervision Department was announced, Zhou Zhongyue announced that the Yunnan Anti-Smoking Bureau would be incorporated into the Yunnan Police Department.Li Youxun served as the deputy director of the Yunnan Police Department and also served as the director of the Yunnan Anti-smoking Bureau.The Yunnan Smoking Ban Bureau accepts the dual leadership of the Yunnan Police Department and the Yunnan Smoking Ban Supervision Department.

Of course, Gu Pinzhen has just taken over Kunming, so her actions are not small at all.

Yunnan Army.

Although Gu Pinzhen saw Duan Xun's small actions, but now Gu Pinzhen can't care so much.Because Gu Pinzhen's most important thing now is to reorganize the Yunnan Army.Gu Pinzhen knew that only by mastering the Yunnan Army, would he have the opportunity to bargain with Duan Xun and become the real Yunnan Warlord.

He did accept Deng Hanxiang's suggestion.

Some changes have been made to the Dian army.Gu Pinzhen personally served as the commander of the first division of the Yunnan Army.Luo Peijin continued to serve as the commander of the Second Division of the Yunnan Army. Huang Yucheng's unit was reorganized into the Third Division of the Yunnan Army. Commander of the Fifth Division of the Army.

Luo Peijin served as the Office of the Yunnan Military Council, Ye Quan served as the chief of staff of the Yunnan Governor's Mansion, and Zhang Zhijiang served as the commander of the Kunming Garrison.Of course, although five divisions of the Yunnan Army were reorganized here, their strength is much worse than when Tang Jiyao was there.Just like Huang Yucheng's Third Division of the Dian Army, there were only five thousand people.Zhang Zhijiang's Fourth Division of the Dian Army only had [-] men.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Pinzhen appointed Ye Quan to concurrently serve as the southern Yunnan conquest envoy to lead Huang Yucheng's Third Division of the Yunnan Army, Zhao Youxin's Fifth Division of the Yunnan Army, and the First Brigade of the First Division of the Yunnan Army to form the Southern Yunnan Expedition Force. Tang Jiyao's troops.

108 Storm

"Revocation of checkpoints in various places?"

Duan Xun's layout of Yunnan is carried out in an orderly manner, but at the same time Duan Xun does not relax his construction in Sichuan.For Duan Xun, Yunnan is very important, but not as important as Sichuan, which is where his foundation lies.Only when one's own rule in Sichuan is stable can it radiate to several provinces in the southwest, and can also threaten the northwest provinces.Therefore, most of Duan Xun's energy is still focused on the Sichuan issue.On this day, Duan Xun was talking about the construction of Sichuan with Wang Yongjiang, the vice governor of Sichuan and the director of the Department of Finance.

"Yes, Governor."

In the current Duan Xun Provincial Government, Yang Wei and Wang Yongjiang are Duan Xun's right-hand men, and are Duan Xun's main helpers in handling government affairs.And Zhang Lan and Song Yuren are responsible for specific matters, and they are also a means for Duan Xun to win over celebrities in Sichuan.

At present, apart from serving as the director of the Sichuan Police Department, Yang Wei is mainly focusing on building the People's Party.Although Wang Yongjiang is only the vice governor and director of the Finance Department, he is in charge of Sichuan's economic issues.

Wang Yongjiang is in charge of Sichuan's economic construction.

"The emergence of checkpoints, the emergence of lijin, or the great development was mainly during the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept across half of the country, the imperial treasury was empty, and it was unable to pay the military pay. In addition, the Eight Banners and the Green Camp had been completely corrupted and could not fight. Therefore, the imperial court could only let The local government organizes regiment training. The military expenses for the regiment training can only be raised by the local government itself. Therefore, the lijin system has been rapidly promoted, and it is also very effective. It is precisely because of the promotion of the lijin system that both the imperial court and the local government have the money to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. .But times have changed, and now he has seriously affected the development of business."

"First of all, the tax rates are different in different places. Since the establishment of the Lijin system, the imperial court has not promulgated a unified tax rate, which is completely left to the local governments. Therefore, the tax rate of Lijin has a local standard. After the founding of the Republic of China, because Lijin is still a local As an important fiscal revenue, all localities followed the policy of the Qing Dynasty and continued to collect lijin, and the Beijing government did not rectify lijin. Therefore, not to mention that the current lijin tax rates are different in different provinces across the country, even in the same province. The same is true for us in Sichuan, each place has its own tax rate, and even our provincial government itself has a hard time telling what the tax rate is in each place. This has led to the local Lijin bureaus being able to do their best to enrich their own pockets, but we can't tell at all. What. Because the tax rates are different in different places, we can’t say that they are wrong. Therefore, the current corruption problem in the Lijin Bureau is very serious.”

For today's topic, Wang Yongjiang has made a lot of preparations, so he talked freely and blurted out various data.As the current vice-governor in charge of the Sichuan province's economy, Wang Yongjiang has very detailed information in his hands.

Duan Xun flipped through the information Wang Yongjiang handed over, while listening to Wang Yongjiang's words.

Lijin Bureau?

The local status is not low.Because for a period of time, one-third, or even more than half, of the local government's fiscal revenue came from Lijin.Especially for Sichuan, because of Sichuan salt, Sichuan tea, shipping and the existence of Chongqing Customs, there are many caravans, and therefore the income in likin is very high.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was even a saying that "the shortage of prefectures and counties in one year is not as good as that in one year."The Lijin Bureau earns a lot of money, but it is not a salary, but by deducting the income of the Lijin Bureau.

Therefore, as an independent department, the Lijin Bureau has a lot of power.

Even after Duan Xun entered Sichuan, there was no reform of the Lijin Bureau.Because Duan Xun needs to stabilize Sichuan as soon as possible.Duan Xun will not touch such a big money maker like the Lijin Bureau in a short time.Fear that it will affect the financial stability of Sichuan.

In addition to being afraid of affecting Sichuan's finances, it is also worried about being resisted by the local government.The finances of many counties and cities below Sichuan depend heavily on likin.Counties and cities in many places don't have much other income, and most of the tax revenue depends on setting up checkpoints along the way and collecting likin from caravans to live on.If Duan Xun reforms the Lijin Bureau, it is likely to be resisted by these local governments.

The problem with the Lijin Bureau is that it affects the whole body, so Duan Xun didn't touch this big cake until his rule was stabilized.But it doesn't mean that Duan Xun will never touch the lijin game.Because the money involved in the Alikin Bureau is too huge.It was written in Wang Yongjiang's report that Sichuan's current lijin income adds up to tens of millions.Moreover, the corruption inside is too serious. It is impossible for Duan Xun to keep the Lijin Bureau in a semi-independent state forever.

Now Wang Yongjiang has begun to consider how to reform the Lijin Bureau.

"There is also the existence of the Lijin Bureau, which only collects taxes from our own merchants, but does not collect taxes from foreign merchants. This seriously affects the development of Chinese merchants. As a result, many of our merchants can only choose to cooperate with foreigners in order to avoid Lijin. Tax."

"Abolish the checkpoint, so what about the Lijin Bureau? Lijin Bureau is not one or two people? How will the business tax be collected? How can the local government appease it?"

Of course Duan Xun knew about the issue of the Lijin Bureau.However, the Lijin Bureau has existed for more than half a century and has made great contributions to local finances.Moreover, almost every county has a Lijin Bureau, and the Lijin Bureau has a large number of Liding people.Not to mention other places, there are thousands of centimeters in Sichuan alone.

If this is not handled properly, it will not only affect stability, but also affect finances.

"Governor, for the sake of stability, it can be solved from the establishment. The Lijin Bureau should be incorporated into the tax bureau, and he cannot be left outside. As long as there is a establishment, then as long as some high-level officials of the Lijin Bureau are well controlled, there will be no problems. Then unify the whole province. tax rate, and then slowly adjust personnel issues.”

"Will the lack of income from the Lijin Bureau affect the finances?"

Reform of the Lijin Bureau is necessary.