"Okay! Magistrate He! I have already sent out everything you want to report to my husband!"
Lantian County, Yong'an Marquis Mansion, main hall.
Han Yuxi, Li Jingmo, Mrs. Li, and Magistrate He were all in the hall, but Han Yuxi was sitting at the table at the top of the hall, and there was a big box in front of her. At this time, Han Yuxi stood up and faced He who was sitting at the bottom. the county magistrate said.
This was the imperial edict issued this morning. When all the officials of the Lantian County government were in a dilemma and had no choice but to do anything, Magistrate He personally visited the Marquis Mansion and asked Han Yuxi to inform the people in the military camp of the current situation of the county government through the telegraph machine. Li Zexuan.
After all, Han Yuxi was from a womanly family. Although the folk customs of the Tang Dynasty were open, they were not open enough for outside men to see the family members alone. Therefore, after learning the intention of Magistrate He, Han Yuxi personally moved the telegraph machine in her room to the main hall. , and at the same time ordered the maid to invite Li Jingmo and Mrs. Li to the main hall of the Hou Mansion, nominally to accompany them, but in fact to avoid suspicion!
"Thank you, madam! I and all the officials in the county government are very grateful!"
Magistrate He stood up and bowed his hands respectfully to Han Yuxi from a distance. But he had no intention of leaving just yet, because he still had to wait here for Li Zexuan's reply!
Han Yuxi pursed her lips and chuckled and said: "He County Magistrate is serious! My husband is not in the county, so I have to help you manage Lantian County for my husband! Moreover, my husband is also a little ill-considered. He should also provide Lantian County County Government with a staff." A telegraph machine!"
When County Magistrate He heard this, he was stunned and said: "Ahem! Madam, you are joking! Even if the Marquis equips the county government with a telegraph machine, no one in the county government knows how to use it!"
He is a scholar and has read the Four Books and Five Classics. After Li Zexuan took control of Lantian County, he worked under Li Zexuan. Although he received a lot of new ideas and knowledge, the telegraph machine, a new thing that requires relatively high professional knowledge, County Magistrate He still consciously refuses to play around!
"He County Magistrate is too humble!"
Han Yuxi smiled faintly, then bowed to Li Jingmo and Mrs. Li and said: "Father, mother, there are some things in the backyard, so Yuxi went to work first. Please stay with County Magistrate He here! What County Magistrate He just reported to you There’s a lot involved, I think my husband will have to think for a while before he can reply. Then you can just send someone to the backyard to call me!”
Han Yuxi's thinking is still relatively conservative, and she doesn't want to get involved too much in official matters. And now she felt that it would be a bit embarrassing for her to continue to stay here, so she left with an excuse.
Li Jingmo nodded and said, "Okay, okay! Go and do your work!"
Magistrate He gave it away.
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The main camp of Xuanjia Army, inside the tent.
After receiving the telegram sent by Han Yuxi on behalf of County Magistrate He, Li Zexuan was caught in a dilemma for a while. As Magistrate He said, if the Lantian County government responded to the imperial court's reward policy, Lantian County's commercial tax revenue this year would be There will be a big discount, and there is a high probability that more than half of the commercial tax revenue will be lost. Lantian County is now in a period of rapid development, and many infrastructures in the city are not yet complete. A large amount of money is needed to invest in infrastructure construction, and commercial tax revenue is If the big head "pulls the hips", it will directly affect the development progress of Lantian County!
However, if the Lantian County government insists on its own policies and does not implement the preferential tax policies stipulated in the imperial decree, the merchants in the county, especially those in Lantian County who participated in the fund-raising meeting yesterday, will definitely feel chilled by this. This is not good for Lantian County. business development!
"Money, money, money, in the final analysis, it's still a question of money..."
Li Zexuan frowned and paced irritably in the tent. In the final analysis, this matter is still a matter of money. If the Lantian County government had a lot of money, there would be no such trouble at this moment. Tax benefits? Is that a discount? What's there to be embarrassed about? But the key is that the county government has no money now!
Before entering the military camp, Li Zexuan had heard from County Magistrate He that a large amount of money would be needed to expand the city and lay electric wires in the city. The county government had borrowed thousands of guan from Yanhuang Bank and planned to return it when taxes were collected later. , but now that Li Er’s imperial edict comes out, if Lantian County implements the imperial edict, the Lantian County government office may very well not be able to pay the debts owed to Yanhuang Bank this year!
Based on Li Zexuan's previous financial situation, he would be able to help the Lantian County government get out of its financial difficulties. Why do you say it was in the past? Because after going through several losses (building the Tang United Medical Center, building a medical school, building the Yunshan Mountain Protection Formation, building armor and equipment for the Xuanjia Army for free, etc.), Li Zexuan had no Not much liquidity left! This may seem unbelievable, but it is true!
But having said that, even if Li Zexuan now has the ability and capital to help the Lantian County government out of its financial difficulties, he will not directly use his own personal money to make up for the county government's financial deficit! Because as early as a few months ago, Li Zexuan had made Lantian County's county government financially independent. The taxes collected by the county government did not have to be handed over to him. In the same way, the county government was carrying out infrastructure construction (building roads and bridges, building schools, and building hospitals). (library, etc.), when you need a lot of money, you can't ask him to help!
"Money, money, money! That's right! Isn't this just about money? If you don't have money, you can ask someone to borrow it!"
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Li Zexuan's mind, and he thought of a strategy to get the best of both worlds, that is...
"Didi~didi~didi~didi~!"
As soon as he thought of it, Li Zexuan immediately returned to the table and began to control the telegraph machine to send a telegram. After a short wait, someone on the other end of the telegraph machine finally responded. Li Zexuan quickly sent his thoughts in the form of a coded message:
"Order, the Lantian County Government will fully implement the corresponding commercial tax preferential policies in the city in accordance with the Holy Spirit's decree. As for the county government's financial gap this year, we will use the name and credit of this Marquis and the Lantian County Government as a guarantee to initiate a long-term move to Yanhuang Bank. Apply for a loan, borrow 50,000 guan, and the loan period is two years. As for the loan interest rate, you can discuss it with the King of Shu separately!
These 50,000 guan will all be used for infrastructure renovation, city wall expansion, and wire laying in Lantian County. The funds are earmarked for special use. Every expenditure must be recorded in detail, and no one is allowed to embezzle or misappropriate it!
When the reconstruction of the city is completed and the business environment is greatly improved, I believe that the business in Lantian County will become more prosperous. By then, all the 50,000 yuan will be paid off in less than two years! "
This last paragraph is mainly to dispel County Magistrate He's concerns. Otherwise, Magistrate He would not dare to borrow such a large sum of money from Yanhuang Bank because of his cautious character. He's afraid that he won't be able to get there!
As for Yanhuang Bank, since the preferential policy of providing interest on deposits was launched a few months ago, most of the people, businessmen, and gentry have deposited money that their families cannot use temporarily into the bank. Therefore, Yanhuang Bank in Lantian County , is currently fully capable of lending 50,000 yuan, but according to past practice, no one will borrow so much money at once and for such a long time!
Li Zexuan has set a precedent!
That's right, Li Zexuan is planning to follow the path of rapid development in most modern cities, which is for the government to borrow heavily and carry out infrastructure construction. On the one hand, it will expand domestic demand (because large infrastructure construction requires the support of many upstream and downstream industrial chains and many workers), and on the other hand, On the one hand, it can improve the city's infrastructure, which is actually mainly transportation facilities, thus driving the development of various industries in the city!
In modern society, in fact, the method of using large-scale infrastructure construction to promote economic development and even escape economic crises has been proven to be an effective development path as early as the Great Depression before World War II.
For a continental country, infrastructure construction is the basis for the stability of industrial society. Without modern roads, railways, electricity and communication systems, modern industry cannot operate.
Therefore, if Li Zexuan wanted to develop engineering, develop industry, and ultimately realize industrialization in Datang, he must use the credibility of the county government (government) to borrow heavily for infrastructure construction. This is the path he must take!
As for why they borrowed money, it was mainly because governments everywhere in this era had little money. Even in wealthy states and counties, most of the taxes they collected were handed over to the court! If we wait for the local government to save enough money before embarking on infrastructure construction, it will be too slow!
When a city's infrastructure is not saturated, or even has zero foundation, borrowing money to build infrastructure is undoubtedly the fastest way to develop and prosper the city, because it will form a virtuous cycle. The better the city's infrastructure, the better the people's lives. Convenient, it can attract more people to move in and interact with each other, and business will inevitably become more prosperous. Correspondingly, the city's government will collect more and more taxes every year, and can pay off its loans faster, thus Let’s start the next round of borrowing and carry out the next round of infrastructure construction!
If you honestly wait until you have saved enough money to start infrastructure construction, it is very likely that when you first start, another city has already carried out several rounds of debt-funded infrastructure construction, and the development gap between cities will become wider and wider!
Of course, if a city continues to use this crazy borrowing model when its infrastructure is approaching saturation, it is likely to completely collapse!
In addition, in modern times, large-scale infrastructure construction in a city is often accompanied by a crazy rise in housing prices in the city. However, Li Zexuan does not intend to move this model to the Tang Dynasty. He does not want to develop the real estate industry in this era. In modern times, he And young people of the same generation as him have been deeply poisoned by high housing prices. He does not want the young people of this era to suffer the same poison!
Moreover, Li Zexuan, who paid great attention to world political news in his previous life, knew very well that technology is the primary productive force and the cornerstone of a country's prosperity. Without developed technology and core technology, you will definitely be oppressed and restricted by others!
Therefore, in this life, money and power are not the goals that Li Zexuan pursues. In this life, he only aims to bring modern scientific knowledge to this era and to the descendants of Yan and Huang in this era. He will not only make the Tang Dynasty dominate the world in terms of force, but also bring modern scientific knowledge to this era. What’s more, we need to be thousands of years ahead of the world in terms of technology!
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