Chapter 446: 446 What a big pit
Chapter 446 446 What a big pit
Roger continued to ask curiously: "The population has dropped sharply. How do they explain it to their superiors?"
"From the books, the population has not dropped sharply! Because there has been no change in taxation!" Tang Mo spread his hands, quite proud of his generosity.
Hearing what Tang Mo said, Roger was even more surprised: "We helped them pay the tax? How much will it cost?"
"It's not much, just more than 1 million gold coins. Compared with bribery, it's just a fraction." At this moment, Tang Mo even liked Zheng Guo's full of loopholes, inefficiency, and very unreasonable. The old tax system is terrible.
Under the operation of this decadent system, the amount of taxation in Zheng is very low, and the officials below have kept the tax accounts at a very low level for a long time.
The taxes evaded by local governments were directly subsidized by Datang Group in the form of project funds. The pitifully small amount of taxes was simply a fraction of the entire benefit chain and not worth mentioning at all.
This man-made, closed-loop, huge system directly tore apart Zheng’s rule and made everyone gain.
The criminals do not need to be exiled, but can directly do labor camps locally. This is equivalent to reducing their sentences, and everyone is very happy.
The civilians were sent to Dongwan Island, where they had good food, drink, and jobs to settle down. Many people were also given land, so they were naturally grateful.
Zheng Guo has carried out large-scale infrastructure construction, created more jobs, and highlighted the "governing ability" of local officials. Naturally, they can respond to inspections from above in a more dignified manner.
Although there is less taxation such as poll tax, local officials have received the funds for infrastructure projects from Datang Group to share profits with them, which has made their pockets even bigger.
Taxes paid to the national treasury have steadily increased, and the whole country is in a state of peace and prosperity. His Majesty the King is happy, and everyone is happy.
"Those officials really dare to ask for..." Roger could only sigh in the end.
Nangong Hong on the side smiled and answered: "Greed is a virtue! If they don't want it, how can we arrange such a big plan in advance?"
“Hahahaha!” Everyone laughed. After laughing, they began to discuss the establishment of an anti-corruption department to put an end to this kind of phenomenon.
After finalizing the anti-corruption department and letting You Lin take over the department temporarily, Roger continued: "Now, all we have to do is wait. Wait for the road over there to be repaired, and wait for chaos to start over there. , we can replace it.”
On the other side, Garza, who was temporarily filling in for the management of education, said: "The Zheng people who were transported to Dongwan Island are already receiving education and training. They will become junior technical workers and then play a role in paving roads and construction."
He is not very old, but he is a representative of the academic school. He is one of the "Three Heroes" on par with You Lin. He is more than enough to temporarily replace the boss of the education department.
However, as Tang Mo's right-hand assistant, his main job is to deal with various instruments and equipment in the laboratory.
"In fact, someone is already working. We have raided almost all the brick-burning workers along the coast of Zheng Guo to Dongwan Island. There is no way, there are too many building materials needed now, and the most difficult thing is That’s it.” You Lin’s recent work was also focused on Dongwan Island and he added.
She pushed the document to Roger: "We have built a total of 3,000 large-scale factory buildings on Dongwan Island. These factory buildings were almost built together. Bricks are used everywhere, and cement is consumed everywhere..."
After finishing speaking, she glanced at Tang Mo: "The reclamation of farmland is going very smoothly. Whether they are people from Zheng or Qi, Chu or Dahua, they are good at farming wherever they go."
"Today's Dongwan Island, the planned railways and highways are basically fields, and there are new factories and workshops near cities and villages. We are working hard to distribute electricity to all villages." Parker is different from what he used to be, and he can also take charge of his own role. official, he introduced the power generation situation of Dongwan Island: "Four large thermal power plants are almost completed, the equipment has been shipped and debugging has begun. The power supply in Dongwan City and Fengshun City will soon be normal." ization, the saved generators can be transported to rural areas for use.”
"We built a large textile factory in the suburbs of Dongwan City and recruited 4,000 female workers. The daily necessities and clothing there are becoming more and more self-sufficient." Industrial matters have something to do with him, so he said Yes, they are all related to the factory.
Dongwan Island is building factories for various civilian products, with a wide variety of products. Parker is very experienced in this field, as are many people working on Dongwan Island.
Datang Group built Longdao from scratch and turned it into a new industrial base. If we asked them to do a similar job again, they would be familiar with it.
Even, it is much easier to build a city on Dongwan Island, which has a population and slaves, than to build a city on the deserted Dragon Island. "It's not without good news, because the life of the aborigines on Dongwan Island has not been very good, so their dependence on salt and oil is much less than we estimated." He added, with the bitterness of having been poor. : "Therefore, we saved some transportation capacity, transported more equipment, and accelerated the production speed on the island."
Most of the people sitting here have experienced poverty, so they naturally know what kind of living conditions those poor people live.
They may not eat oil once a year, they may not see a piece of meat for several months, and they may not put a spoonful of salt in their seven or eight meals.
This is the life of the poor, this is the naked reality. Because of this, when these poor people see new clothes, enough food, and luxuries that they dare not expect, they will feel grateful from the bottom of their hearts.
"Now the people there are accustomed to calling themselves Tang people, and their lives have really improved. We are trying to find ways to let everyone learn cultural courses, especially local women who marry officers and soldiers." Loew added One sentence.
These are all real changes, and every change is inspiring.
"In addition, the local nobles, squires and businessmen have completely compromised. Their productivity is too primitive and their economic competitiveness is too low, so they have been completely defeated by us." So Loew was talking about the local upper-class people. was full of disdain and sneer: "Without economic support and no force, their power now is lower than during the Mirage occupation."
"Their influence is also declining. In the past, they would use small favors to incite public opinion, but now few people are willing to follow their arrangements. In fact, after killing some typical examples with evil intentions, the remaining people are willing to follow us Cooperate." After he finished speaking, he looked at You Lin.
Youlin took up the topic and continued: "According to Dino's report, the local population has recovered to about 300,000, of which about 50,000 are immigrants from the Zheng Kingdom, and some are our support staff. Of course, slaves are not counted. These goblins are among us. In the plan, there is no need to continue to supplement... In addition, we have not calculated the number of troops. "
“Although the progress is very gratifying, the money is indeed flowing down the drain.” Tang Mo nodded, which was regarded as an affirmation of all the work.
"We began to import metals and grains from all over the world. It cost a lot because this further increased the trade price of these commodities." Then he continued: "To put it simply, we spent almost all the income from the war against the mirage , all spent, nothing left.”
“I even spent some money to subsidize it.” After he finished speaking, he smiled to himself and spread his hands: “After calculation, Dongwan Island is now more expensive than many kingdoms.”
"It is indeed valuable! It should be valuable! In the near future, it will become another production base to support our next move!" After finishing speaking, he continued without waiting for others to speak.
He looked at the shipyard design drawings he had just brought back from Dongwan Island spread out on the table, and said to someone: "Think about it, there are more and bigger shipyards there, and more ships can be built. Our production capacity will be further increased, and soon we will be able to make back all the money we spend on shipping.”
After finishing what he wanted to say, Tang Mo leaned back on his chair and looked at his right-hand men: "Doesn't it sound good?"
“Hope everything goes well.” Roger laughed, and the others nodded.
“How is the delivery of the airship going? We are selling ships too slowly, which makes everyone complain about our production speed. We can’t have any more problems with the airship.” Tang Mo looked at Lev.
Loew immediately reported the delivery progress of the airship: "All the Kirov airships that have flown to Dongwan Island have been sold. Mirage has purchased 10 of them, and the remaining 20 will fly to the island after the preparations are completed. Deliver the dwarves to Everwinter."
Because airships, as secret weapons, have always been managed by the military, Tang Mo could only ask Loew for the delivery of the airships.
Loew also knew his job very well, so he opened his mouth and continued: "The airships stationed in Bunas will be delivered to Susas, and the airships on Dragon Island are sold directly to Dorne and Nanla..."
"Then, according to your instructions, we threw all the relevant technologies to Cyric. Sophia is very interested in the technology of airships." After saying that, he saw everyone present, and they all showed vague expressions. evil smile expression.
Well, who cares about airships now that everyone knows they exist? Throwing this kind of thing to Cyric... is another big "pit".
I don’t know how long it will take Cyric to fill this hole before stepping into the next big hole?
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Let’s take a rest today and continue to update tomorrow depending on the situation.
(End of this chapter)