Roger continued to ask curiously: "The population has dropped sharply. How do they explain it to their superiors?"
"Judging 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 tax system is old and broken.
Under the operation of this decadent system, Zheng's tax revenue was very low, and the officials below had kept the tax accounts at a very low level for a long time.
The taxes evaded by the local governments were directly subsidized by the Datang Group in the form of project funds. Those pitiful taxes were simply a fraction of the entire profit chain and not worth mentioning at all.
This artificially formed and closed-loop huge system directly tore apart Zheng's rule and made everyone a profit-maker.
The criminals do not need to be exiled, but can directly go to labor camps locally. This is equivalent to reducing their sentences, and everyone is happy.
The civilians were sent to Dongwan Island, where they had good food, drink, and jobs, and many people were also given land. This was naturally a sign of gratitude.
Zheng Guo carried out large-scale infrastructure construction, created more jobs, and highlighted the "governing ability" of local officials. Naturally, they were able to respond to inspections from above in a more dignified manner.
Although there is less taxation such as the head tax, local officials have received funds for infrastructure projects from Datang Group to share profits with them, which has enriched their pockets.
The taxes paid to the national treasury increased steadily, and the whole country looked like a state of peace and prosperity. His Majesty the King was very happy, and everyone was happy.
"Those officials really dare to ask..." 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 together. 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 temporarily take charge of this department, 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 skilled 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 and one of the "Three Heroes" on par with You Lin. He is more than enough to temporarily serve as the boss of the education department.
However, as Tang Mo's right-hand man, his main job is to deal with various instruments and equipment in the laboratory.
"In fact, someone is already working. We have almost directly raided 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 factories were almost built together. Bricks are used everywhere, and cement is consumed everywhere..."
After speaking, she glanced at Tang Mo: "The reclamation of farmland is going very smoothly. Whether they are people from Zheng or Qi, Chu or Great Chinese, they are good farmers 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 not what he used to be, and he is also able to 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.
In fact, 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 that there is no 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 have.
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. It is precisely because of this that when these poor people see new clothes, enough food, and luxuries that they dare not expect, they will become excited.
Gratitude from the heart.
"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.
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"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.
At the time, they were 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 obey 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 towards 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 included. These goblins are in our
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 like water." 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: "Does it sound good?"
"Hope everything goes well." Roger laughed, and the others nodded.
"How is the delivery going on the airship side? We are selling ships too slowly, causing everyone to complain about our production speed. We can't have any more problems with the airship side." Tang Mo looked at Loew.
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 they are completed.
Delivered to the dwarves in Everwinter Harbor."
Because airships, as secret weapons, have always been managed by the military, Tang Mo could only ask Loew for the delivery of 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 gave 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 a vague expression of concern.
The evil smile expression.
Well, after everyone knows the existence of airplanes, who will care about airships? Throwing such a thing to Cyric... is another big "pit".
I wonder how long it will take Cyric to fill this hole before stepping into the next big hole?
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