Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Compared with Milician's dissatisfaction, in addition to making a lot of money in Daxia, the empire also made a lot of money in terms of territory.

As mentioned before, after the peace talks between Daxia and the Rakshasa Empire, Bactria acquired the territories of the Far East and Southern Siberia.

This brings the actual control range of the northern territory of Bactria to the Bering Strait, across the sea from Alaska in the United States.

This made the Milicians feel even more pressured, and they were deeply afraid that one day, Daxia's army would directly land in Alaska. After all, the narrowest part of the Bering Strait is only 80 kilometers.

In the southern part of Daxia, that is, the South China Sea, the empire guarded the Strait of Malacca, turning the entire Sumatra Islands into the empire's first line of maritime defense.

Any enemy who wants to attack from the sea will have no way to attack the mainland of Bactria if he cannot occupy the entire Sumatra Islands.

What's more, behind this first line of defense, there is a second island chain as the second line of defense.

At the same time, Daxia, which has vast colonies in South Asia, has almost caught up with the John Empire in terms of the territory it can control, becoming the second largest in the world.

The Gallic Empire, which was originally ranked second, has been left behind by Daxia.

Unlike John's Empire, which appears to have a vast territory but lacks materials in many areas, the areas that Daxia can control are relatively rich in products.

The Far East and Southern Siberia are rich in water resources, mineral resources, rare earth resources and forest resources.

Of course, there are also a lot of natural gas and oil resources, although it seems now that Daxia cannot use up these resources at all, or it can be said that it is seriously rich.

But Lin Yi knows very well how important energy sources such as oil and natural gas will be in the future.

Even if it is not used now, it should be considered for future generations.

The same is true in Southeast Asia.

Oil, rubber, and various spices are the wealth of the empire.

With so much energy, the empire won't have to worry about running out of energy for at least a hundred years.

A large number of abundant resources are continuously flowing into the empire and sent to the factory. The most intuitive feeling is that the factory can operate at full capacity.

As factories worked overtime, large quantities of firearms, ammunition, artillery and other military equipment were produced and sold to members of the Allies.

The empire not only produces military supplies, but also produces large quantities of civilian goods.

According to later statistics from the Imperial Ministry of Industry, imperial steel production soared from 600 million tons per year before the war to 1800 million tons.

Coal mine production soared from 3000 million tons before the war to 6400 million tons.

The gross national product exceeds the Hans Empire and is on par with the John Empire. But it's still not as good as Millikin.

The average annual national salary increased from 1173 imperial silver dollars in the photo to 1834 imperial silver dollars.

This salary level is among the best in the world.

High wages bring high taxes, and high taxes mean that the empire has more money and can use this money to improve the living standards of its citizens.

For example, improving people's social welfare benefits and improving people's happiness index.

Among them, Lin Yi referred to the measures of later generations and moved out some social welfare benefits.

For example, agricultural taxes are exempted, and medical insurance, maternity insurance, student funds and pension insurance are provided.

As soon as these major measures were proposed by Lin Yi, they were initially strongly opposed by Qian Yi, the imperial moneybag and the Minister of Household Affairs.

In Qian Yi's view, it is only natural that the empire collects agricultural taxes. It has been collected for thousands of years. Why is it suddenly stopped?

If agricultural taxes were not collected, where would the imperial finances come from?

But Lin Yi opposed Qian Yi's idea.

In Lin Yi's view, agricultural taxes are now useless. For example, in 1913, the entire Daxia Empire collected a total of 3567 million imperial silver dollars from agricultural taxes.

Although agricultural taxes in Daxia are already relatively low, farmers are not under much pressure.

But in Lin Yi's opinion, no matter how low the agricultural tax is, it is still a burden on farmers.

If the empire has more than thirty million, it will not make a fortune; if it lacks more than thirty million, the empire will not starve to death.

You must know that as of the autumn of 1914, after excluding agricultural taxes, other taxes in the empire had exceeded one billion imperial silver dollars, of which commercial taxes and customs duties accounted for the majority.

There is no need to compete with farmers for food in the fields just for these three melons and two dates.

As for the benefits of exempting agricultural taxes, Lin Yi also listed them one by one in the court.

The biggest benefit is that the empire exempts farmers from agricultural taxes, which is equivalent to the empire doing something that no dynasty has dared to do for thousands of years.

After breaking the shackles that have weighed on the peasants for thousands of years, it is conceivable how high the peasants' favor for the empire will increase?

A mere tens of millions can be exchanged for the overwhelming majority of people in the empire to have a favorable impression of the empire. Where can I find this kind of business?

In addition, don’t think that since the empire does not collect agricultural taxes, there is no way to collect taxes from farmers. You must know that only when the people have money in their hands, they will consume.

And as long as it is consumed, the empire can get tax revenue from it.

In addition to these, will some farmers with knowledge base think about starting some small businesses after they have extra money?

Then after doing business, the empire can also obtain tax revenue from them.

To put it simply, in one sentence, what the empire has to do now is to find a way to make the money in the hands of the people flow. Only when it flows, can it be considered money.

Without liquidity, money is just a pile of waste paper.

As for whether the empire will stop collecting agricultural taxes and everyone will go farming.

Lin Yi could only say that he was overthinking this, not to mention that in later generations of China, after the agricultural tax was exempted, everyone went to farm.

Some wealthy businessmen look down upon this tax exemption.

In fact, Lin Yi has not yet used some more ruthless tricks, such as simple agricultural subsidies.

However, Lin Yi did not choose to implement the decree on agricultural subsidies, because the empire now has no shortage of people to farm the land.

The empire holds large tracts of colonies, or vassal states, in Southeast Asia.

This area is more suitable for the development of agriculture than within the empire.

The tax-free policy established by the empire only applies to citizens of the empire, and does not include those in dependent countries. These people implemented the empire's previous low-tax policy for imperial farmers, which was the so-called capitation tax.

One imperial silver dollar per family per person per year. You must know that this tax is much lower than the tax previously set.

The people in Southeast Asia also support the empire's tax policy.

After all, they all know their identities, so how can they expect them to be treated the same as the people of the empire.

As far as the current treatment is concerned, they are already satisfied.

In addition to agricultural taxes, Lin Yi also proposed medical insurance, maternity insurance, student funds and pension insurance.

Lin Yi also explained this to all the adults one by one. To put it simply, these measures are all to improve the happiness index of the people and win over the people.

It is worth mentioning that the empire also opens policies such as insurance to the following subordinate countries.

After all, these expenditures only account for 30% of the empire's overall tax revenue, and the rest is paid by individual people.

To put it simply, the empire used very little money to increase the happiness of the people in the entire empire and the subordinate countries, making everyone more supportive of the empire's local rule.