Beiyang reactionaries

Fighting is procrastinating, stopping and stopping, and there is no joy in it.It has been four or five months since Sun Yat-sen called to protect the Fa.But apart from the Battle of Hengbao (Battle of Hengyang and Baoqing), the battle of taking Changsha, and a small-scale conflict in Hubei, other places have been quiet, and there has been no war.

Duan Xun has been preparing for this war for a long time, expanding so many troops, mobilizing so many troops, and hoarding so many war materials.But so far no battle has been fought.Moreover, after the battle of Hengbao was over and the French Guardians took control of Changsha, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui had internal strife, so it was quiet for several months.Even Hunan, the main battlefield of the law protection war, has not fought for more than a month, and the frontline generals have ceased fighting privately.

Duan Xun really wanted to send troops to take Baoqing and Changde, but Duan Qirui had ordered Duan Xun not to do it.Duan Qirui needs the situation in Hunan to continue to be confrontational like this, and it is best for the situation in Hunan to continue to deteriorate.In addition, Duan Xun himself didn't want to fight the French Guardian Army alone, so Duan Xun's troops are now lying in the west and northwest of Hunan, fighting against the northwest wind every day.

Since there is no war, Duan Xun can only focus on construction.

Sure enough, the safer the place, the more money it attracts.Since Duan Xun came to power in Sichuan, he not only suppressed bandits, but also eliminated many exorbitant taxes, especially the Lijin Bureau.It is no longer the situation where there are checkpoints everywhere in each county, and as long as you pass through a county, you have to pay the toll for that county.In addition, with the outbreak of the Law Protection War, a lot of funds from war zones have been invested in relatively stable Sichuan.

Of course, there is also Duan Xun's credit here.

Investment promotion.

Duan Xun played a game of attracting investment in Sichuan, and the rich are all uncles.In today's China, anyone with a gun is an old man.They go to a place and do anything who dares to say anything.If you are angry, even if you are a local gentry, I will slap you.And as long as these troops lack military pay, they will engage in apportionment in addition to increasing taxes.Apportionment to the large and small merchants under his hands, and let them pay in various names.

Therefore, it can be said that businessmen in this era, unless they are the kind that reach the sky, unless they are the kind that are themselves warlords, they must accept the oppression of warlords.Those warlords have guns, but if they don’t give you money, they will grab yours.Therefore, many small and medium-sized businessmen are frightened when doing business.In addition to normal operations, it is also necessary to prepare various filial money for the warlord troops.

But Duan Xun's side is completely different. Duan Xun lowered his profile and sent people to invite these businessmen to enter Sichuan.

As long as you have money to invest, I will treat you like an ancestor.

"Do you make money investing in these fields?"

Duan Xun found that there is also a lot of funds invested in the field of infrastructure construction.There are many power plants and water plants investing in Chongqing.Of course, as Duan Xun built roads in the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, a lot of money was invested in this area.And the development of Sichuan's commerce has driven the development of Sichuan's real estate and the development of cement plants.

As well as flour mills, processing plants of Sichuan native products, etc.

Overall, the situation is still very good.In less than a year, more than 400 new factories have been opened in Chongqing.Although most of them are small factories, it can also be seen that Chongqing's business is prosperous.

"It should be to make money, otherwise they would not invest here. Now only one-third of the population in Chongqing can use electricity. And the electricity fee is not cheap, so they should not lose money."

Businessmen are very shrewd.

It is impossible for so many people to look at an industry that does not make money.The current power plant is not the later power plant. There are not many ordinary families who can use electricity now.Because electricity is not cheap at all.

But it's okay.

With the emergence of thermal power plants in Chongqing during this period, it not only digested a lot of coal produced in Chongqing, but also drove the development of light bulb factories in Chongqing.The economy is like this, one industry sets another industry.The development of one industry will lead to the development of other industries.

"Good, good. So much money attracted in a few months."

Duan Xun is poor, and the southwestern provinces are even poorer.

If you want to develop Southwest, you can only rely on Southwest's own strength, Duan Xun's strength, and you can develop it in the Year of the Monkey.Especially now that Duan Xun is fighting a war, half of the fiscal revenue is spent on the army, and there is not much money invested in construction.Therefore, the support of external funds is very much needed at this time.

If only Duan Xunlai was in charge, then Sichuan's infrastructure such as roads, power plants, and water plants would not be able to be built until the year of the monkey.But if the funds are brought in, Duan Xun doesn't need to care about these things.These businessmen have their own set of methods.

"Brother Nugang (Dan Maoxin), you must remember one thing. We must strictly implement the preferential policies we promulgated, and we must not let these people run away. We must let them feel that we are trustworthy. Not only must we stay To live in them, let them introduce more people to invest in our Sichuan. There are many big landlords in China who have a lot of money, but they are more keen on investing in farmland rather than in business. Let them invest , we need to use more methods.”

Investment promotion, how can it attract people without some preferential conditions.

In order to introduce these funds, Duan Xun gave them a lot of preferential conditions.For example, they are given free land grants, tax exemption for the first three years of investment, and half of the tax for the next five years.Not only are their factories granted free land, but they also grant free land to build houses for their workers.Of course, other benefits are not to mention.

Came to Chongqing from Wanxian to serve as mayor, but Maoxin also began to enter the top political circles in Sichuan.After all, Chongqing is a large province in the southwest, and if Chengdu is not the capital of Sichuan, it may not be able to compare with the current importance of Chongqing in the southwest.

Being able to come here to serve as the mayor has greatly improved his status.

"I know."

But Mao Xin nodded.

"No matter how busy I am now, I will find time to meet them, and I just call them grandpa."

Listening to Dan Maoxin's joke, Duan Xun laughed out loud.In China, a country that has been dominated by officials for thousands of years, and has always been a scholar, farmer, businessman, and Duan Xun is really the only case like now.Many people dismissed Duan Xun's approach.He even laughed at Duan Xun behind his back, but Duan Xun didn't care.

Duan Xun sighed: "Brother Nugang, our place is not as good as Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. They have money there, and their annual financial income is several times that of ours. Their economy is developed and their taxes are high. But We are poor in the southwest, we can only bring in other people’s funds, we can only ask those big businessmen to invest in us. Since we are asking for help from others, of course they should be masters. It’s better than us having no money and taking loans from Japan. .”

Duan Xun is not a cheapskate.

And at present, as the overlord of the Southwest, how could he like to give smiles to those businessmen.Not to mention those businessmen, even a big shot like Duan Qirui now needs to discuss a lot of things with Duan Xun.But there is really no way, Duan Xun needs money, and needs more funds to pour into Sichuan.Only in this way can Sichuan be developed.

Duan Xun is a Southwest warlord, of which Sichuan is the foundation of Duan Xun.

"General, I understand."

But Mao Xin sighed and said: "During the year of [-], when we organized troops, what we lacked most was funds. During the War to Protect the Nation, the National Defense Army had no money, so they could only use Yunnan soil (opium) as military pay Money is such an important thing sometimes. General, don’t worry. As long as I am in Chongqing, I will not let people disturb our normal business activities in Chongqing. I will definitely protect the interests of those businessmen and promote the economic development of Chongqing. .”

"it is good."

Duan Xun likes Dan Maoxin very much.

Although this person is from the army, he is very smooth and knows how to communicate with people from top to bottom, so there will not be too many conflicts.Of course, if it was just tact, Duan Xun would not appreciate him so much, let alone let him be the top leader.

He is not only smooth, but also very capable.

His smoothness will not affect his decisiveness.He can deal with many ordinary conflicts smoothly, but when it comes to his bottom line, he will never give in casually.

"However, regular businessmen need to be protected, and some businessmen who walk in the gray area need to be reminded. But businessmen who dare to violate our prohibition should be caught or killed, and they must not be soft. It doesn't matter who his backer is. Do you understand what I mean? ?”

"Yes."

As long as there is profit, there are those who dare to defy the law.

Duan Xun banned arms dealers, opium dealers, private salt dealers, and private tung oil dealers in Sichuan, but because these things were too profitable, some people would still do them.Especially some people rely on foreigners to do this kind of business.

Duan Xun would not give face to them.

"Also, continue to expand the scope of attracting investment. In the whole of China, we even focus on overseas Chinese. As long as they are willing to invest in Sichuan, we welcome them. Only more money enters Sichuan. Only then can Chongqing’s development be accelerated.”

"Yes."

If you want to develop a place like Sichuan, if you only have a few million or 2000 to [-] million funds, you can't even hear the sound.If you want some development, you need to invest at least tens of millions, and only a few hundred million can develop.

But with so much money, Duan Xun didn't know how long it would take to get it out.Regardless of Sichuan's current annual income of more than 3000 million, the annual military expenditure alone is 600 million.If it is a war like this year, the annual military salary will need more than 2000 million, or even more.There is also the salaries of government employees. If all the salaries are taken out, there will not be much money left in a year.

So if Sichuan wants to develop, Duan Xun really doesn't have much money in his hands.

"Report."

"Come in."

Duan Xun was born in the army, so he doesn't know much about economics, and he doesn't even know much about other aspects such as agriculture and industry.Therefore, when assigning tasks, just tell the general direction.As for how to do it, it is all handed over to the people below.

"teacher."

Dong Songyan walked in.

"whats the matter?"