"... The Marquis ordered us to implement corresponding preferential commercial tax policies in Lantian County in full accordance with the Holy Will. As for the fiscal gap of the county government this year, we will use the name and credit of the Marquis and the Lantian County government as a guarantee to Yanhuang Bank Initiate a long-term loan application to borrow 50,000 yuan, with a loan period of two years... "
After receiving Li Zexuan's reply and instructions from the telegraph machine, Magistrate He did not dare to delay at all. He immediately left the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion and returned to the county government office. He summoned Meng Xian Cheng, Zhang Chief Secretary, Wang Xian Wei and others again. Li Zexuan's decision was read out on the spot.
As soon as he finished speaking, all the officials in the room were shocked. Mengxian Cheng even exclaimed: "A loan of 50,000 yuan!? When will our county government be able to pay back such a large amount of money?"
Chief Zhang couldn't help but said: "Isn't borrowing fifty thousand guan a bit too much? Our county government has already borrowed seven or eight thousand guan from Yanhuang Bank. The official thinks that borrowing at most 30,000 guan will be enough to help. The county government has been able to survive several major projects in front of us, and if we borrow so much at once and for such a long time, Yanhuang Bank may not be willing to borrow!"
County Lieutenant Wang was also convinced, and he continued what Master Zhang said: "Even if Yanhuang Bank is willing to lend, the interest rate will definitely not be low! If you borrow 50,000 yuan for two years, plus interest, our county government will have to pay it back How much does Yanhuang Bank cost?"
If it weren't for Li Zexuan's character being "hard" enough, Wang County Lieutenant would have doubted whether Li Zexuan was deliberately helping Yanhuang Bank to gain "business" by making this decision, because although Yanhuang Bank was already under the control of the Tang Dynasty, there were still many people inside. Li Zexuan, the "founder", also has a lot of shares!
Faced with Li Zexuan's decision, all the county government officials, except Magistrate He, had almost unanimous reactions. It has to be said that as people in the "official government", the ideological consciousness of Meng County Prime Minister and others is really "low" exploded!
If this were left in modern times, who would worry about borrowing too much money from a bank and not being able to repay it? What they worry about is that the borrowed money is not enough to complete the infrastructure projects in the city! As for not being able to pay, that’s simply impossible! It has the endorsement of "official credibility"!
"Everyone, please be patient!"
Seeing that everyone was unanimously opposed as expected, although Wang Liaoyuan had the same view as them at first, he still opened his mouth to persuade:
"Actually, when I learned about the Marquis's decision, my thoughts were almost the same as everyone else's! But on the way back to the county office, I thought about what the Marquis said seriously, and I still think that the Marquis's decision makes sense!
Fifty thousand yuan may seem like a lot to our county government, but please think back to how much commercial tax the county government collected last month? More than nine thousand seven hundred strings, nearly ten thousand strings!
It can be said that after the restructuring at the strong request of the Marquis, Lantian County is completely different from the past, and it is changing with each passing day. Please stop judging the current problems from the perspective of the past!
In the past, 50,000 yuan was indeed a lot for our county government, but as long as our Lantian County maintains its current development trend, the county government's monthly commercial tax revenue will definitely be more than it is now, not less!
A loan of 50,000 guan may have been an unimaginable figure for the previous county government, but for the current county government, it is not difficult to pay it off within two years! "
Magistrate He remained calm when it came to important decisions. Perhaps this was the result of his thinking on the way back to the county office.
After hearing what he said, everyone in the room became quiet and looked thoughtful. It was obvious that everyone was moved by Magistrate He's "enlightenment".
Magistrate He smiled slightly and continued: "And just imagine, after our city in Lantian County is expanded and powered on, we will become the most perfect, beautiful and charming city in Guanzhong except Chang'an. In addition, With the unique business policies of our county, both the number of merchants and the number of people in the city will increase dramatically, and a great commercial prosperity will be just around the corner! At that time, are you still worried that the county government will not be able to repay the bank's loan? "
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but yearn for the grand blueprint drawn by County Magistrate He. After a moment, Meng County Cheng sighed:
"When the county magistrate said this, I was really enlightened. It seems that I didn't see through it!"
"That's right, our horizons are really not as broad as the Marquis's, and we are not as far-sighted as the Marquis!"
The rest of the people couldn't help but sigh.
Seeing this scene, County Magistrate He felt reassured. He smiled and said, "Okay! Since everyone agrees with Lord Marquis's decision, I will go to Yanhuang Bank to meet His Highness the King of Shu in person. His Highness the King of Shu." If you study under the Marquis, you will definitely take into account the friendship between teachers and students and will not deliberately make things difficult for me on this matter!"
Prime Minister Meng County nodded and said with cupped hands: "Then thank you, Lord County Magistrate! The county government will immediately post notices that Lantian County will implement commercial tax concessions in accordance with the decree of the Lord. I believe that the merchants in the county I will be very happy when I hear the news!”
Magistrate He nodded and said, "Okay! Then let's split up!"
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Xuanjia Army Camp.
After Li Zexuan made the decision and sent the telegram, he immediately returned to the school grounds.
Tomorrow is the all-army fighting competition. In fact, according to the previous plan, only the A-shaped battalion, D-shaped battalion, and E-shaped battalion will participate in this combat competition, because only these three battalions have implemented the new training drills from the beginning. But later, the B-ziying camp also came under Li Zexuan's "command" and joined the new training camp, while Qiu Xinggong's "command" left only the Y-zi camp.
Seeing that the competition period agreed with Li Zexuan in the W-Zi Camp is coming soon, Qiu Xinggong has been asking Sun Tao to lead the soldiers of the B-Zi Camp to imitate their new training methods in the A-Zi Camp, including combat training, long-distance running and other events. It has been included in the daily training of Yiziying soldiers. Moreover, Sun Tao has also signed up to participate in tomorrow's fighting competition on behalf of Yiziying!
Needless to say, this must have come from Qiu Xinggong’s secret instruction! Qiu Xinggong wanted to teach Li Zexuan a lesson in advance before the competition between Yiziying and Wuziying, and at the same time show off the strength of Yiziying and the majesty of killing Wuziying!
So the fighting competition that originally only involved soldiers from three battalions suddenly increased to five battalions and turned into a full-army fighting competition!
However, Qiu Xinggong never thought that if the soldiers of Yiziying did not perform well in tomorrow's fighting competition, wouldn't it be self-defeating
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