Qiongzhou Prefecture is an island. Although the Qiongzhou Strait is not big, it is still separated by a strait. Moreover, the population on the island is not large, and many of them are civilians. Many of them live on Qiongzhou Island.
I basically don’t interact with people from the coastal areas of Qiongzhou Island.
The total population is not large, and the agricultural development is not very good, so the local economy is naturally not very good, and taxes cannot be collected much. Without taxes, the local finance will have no money!
The total annual tax revenue of several counties in Qiongzhou Prefecture is about one hundred thousand taels of silver, and Qiongzhou Fucheng accounts for most of it, because Fucheng is close to the Qiongzhou Strait and is also the main port on the Qiongzhou Road, where there will be passing traffic
The ships docked, which in turn boosted the economy, so the situation was slightly better.
But the other counties are all very poor!
For such a large Qiongzhou Prefecture, the annual tax revenue is only a few hundred thousand taels of silver, most of which has to be turned over to the national treasury and the provincial finance. What is left for the local finance of Qiongzhou Prefecture is only a few tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Compared with other economically better regions, this figure is simply a huge gap. The tax revenue of any prefecture in Jiangnan can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions, while the tax revenue of Songjiang Prefecture can reach three
More than a million.
One can imagine how excited the Qiongzhou government was when they found out that they could collect taxes from Erjiu Fishing Company!
The tax revenue contributed by a Erjiu fishery company can be comparable to the tax revenue of the entire government in the past!
The way Lingao County Magistrate Feng Kailong looked at Lu Pingfa was no different from looking at the God of Wealth!
This is a tax revenue of hundreds of thousands, not to mention that the Erjiu Fishing Company will directly and indirectly drive local employment and drive the economic development of the entire Lingao County.
If he takes this opportunity to revitalize Lingao's economy and build a few more factories, it will be a huge political achievement for him, Feng Kailong, and he will be promoted in minutes.
Although today's Tang Dynasty has not yet shouted the slogan of economic leadership, for local officials, people's livelihood economy is still very important, and doing it well is a major political achievement.
At present, the Tang Dynasty has very high requirements for local officials, especially the local leaders at the three levels of county magistrate, magistrate, and prefect. The first and most important thing is to maintain local stability!
This is similar to the past dynasties. If the people on someone's territory are unable to make a living and cause trouble, the local officials will be finished.
Thirdly, it is education. What is education? It can be described in four words: loyal education!
Specifically, it is to cultivate the gentry and ordinary people's sense of identification with the imperial court and their loyalty to the eternal sage!
Of course, there are also details such as filial piety and prosperous writing style.
And after stability and education, it will be people’s livelihood!
People's livelihood, to put it bluntly, is to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment. Whether it is developing agriculture or developing industry, it is always to ensure that the people have food, clothing, and housing, so that the people can live a stable life.
If people can continue to live, or even live better, they will naturally not go into the mountains to become bandits and rebel when nothing happens. After all, they can live well, and no one is willing to risk rebellion.
Therefore, developing people's livelihood economy actually also plays a role in maintaining local stability!
In addition, another very important point is that the Tang Dynasty spent money in many places and relied heavily on taxation. In order to collect taxes, the local economy had to improve.
For example, in Lingao County, if there was no Erjiu Fishery Company, it would only collect tens of thousands of taels of silver a year in tax. But now, with Erjiu Fishery Company, Feng Kailong thinks, the tax revenue in a year is expected to exceed 20 taels.
Ten thousand taels of silver.
This is two hundred thousand taels of silver!
Except for those high-end wealthy counties, few can reach this number. Even the traditional agricultural counties in the south of the Yangtze River cannot reach it just because they can.
By then, Lingao County will be able to obtain a large amount of local tax revenue. Even after deductions from the national tax, provincial finance, and government finance, the remaining local tax revenue in Lingao County is estimated to be ten to twenty thousand silver.
With this money, you can do a lot of things.
For example, we can renovate and renovate the roads in the county, or we can subsidize farmers to open up wasteland, and we can provide more support to see if we can build a few more factories.
After sending Lu Pingping away, Feng Kailong gathered all his subordinate officials in the county government office for a meeting!
What we are doing in the meeting is thinking about how to spend money!
According to Feng Kailong's estimate, the local tax revenue left in the county by then is estimated to be fifteen thousand taels if it is less, and maybe twenty thousand taels of silver if it is more.
Although ten thousand or twenty thousand is inconspicuous, for such a poor county, it is a huge sum of money. This money cannot be spent indiscriminately, it must be used wisely!
Well, in fact, they don't dare to spend arbitrarily, let alone embezzle. The people of the Supervisory Yuan keep an eye on these local officials all year round. For the officials of the Supervisory Yuan, they usually provide public prosecutions for ordinary cases, unless it is a major case.
Otherwise, it will be of limited help to their career, because that is their essential job, and if they do it well, they should be done. If they don't do it well, they will be finished.
Want to get promoted quickly?
According to the internal experience of the Inspectorate, there are three shortcuts to take:
The first one is that there are people above. Needless to say, this is an unspoken rule whether it is in the Inspectorate or in other institutions. It is always easier to get promoted if you have a big boss behind you, regardless of the big boss behind you.
Whether you are appreciated because you are a talented person, or because of the relationship between relatives and friends, the effect of special care is almost the same. However, there are always a few people behind you, and most of them still have to climb up on their own.
The second point is to handle major and important cases. Such major and important cases are usually very influential. Sometimes they can even be published in the Tang Dynasty Newspaper, so it is not in the national edition, but as long as it can be in the provincial edition, then
You can also gain a lot of prestige, and your promotion is a sure thing, but how can such a big and important case be encountered so easily!
The third one, and the easiest one to implement, is to catch corrupt officials. The favorite thing of the censors within the Supervisory Yuan is to catch corrupt officials, regardless of whether it is the Supervisory Yuan in the capital or the county in Lingao County.
The Inspectorate, regardless of whether they are the Imperial Censor or a small ordinary Censor, what they like to do most is to catch corrupt officials. As long as they can be caught and successfully convicted, then promotion and title are 100% guaranteed.
Therefore, the censors in the Supervisory Office stare at the officials of other agencies every day when they have nothing to do. In Lingao County, several censors in the County Supervisory Office keep an eye on Feng Kailong and the others every day. If they dare to mess up this financial situation,
Hua, tomorrow the censors of the Inspectorate will dare to accuse them of dereliction of duty.
If Feng Kailong and the others were bold enough to put the money directly into their own pockets, they would dare to go directly to the Provincial Inspectorate and apply for house arrest for investigation. Generally speaking, if there is relatively obvious evidence, the superior Inspectorate will usually not
The application will be rejected, but on the contrary, it will be supported!
Once a corrupt official is found out, there is no hope of losing his office. The lightest one will be sentenced to exile, the more serious one will be beheading and confiscation of assets, and the more serious one will implicate his family. That is not confiscating the family, but genocide.
Got it!
When corrupt officials were exiled, had their homes confiscated, and their families exterminated, the censors were promoted!
Therefore, whether it is in Jinling City or at a local level, regardless of whether it is at the provincial, prefectural or county level, the Supervisory Office and local officials are inherently antagonistic.
As a member of the civil servants of the cabinet, Feng Kailong naturally knows how difficult those guys in the Inspectorate are. Not to mention corruption, even dereliction of duty must be absolutely avoided.
So you have to think carefully about how to spend this money and spend it well!
During the meeting, everyone expressed their opinions. Some said they would subsidize farmers and open up wasteland, while others said they would renovate the county school building and then provide certain subsidies to enrolled students in an effort to cultivate more talents.
Others talk about repairing official roads, building water conservancy facilities, and so on.
One of the proposals that interests Feng Kailong is to imitate those big commercial cities and build an industrial zone in Lingao?
Building an industrial zone? I have to say that this idea is very bold!
Everyone knows that industrial zones are good, but there are not many cities that really dare to develop them, or can actually develop them!
At present, the best industrial zones are naturally the five major trading ports, and then there are other sub-level cities with various advantages such as industrial and commercial foundations.
There are actually not many relatively large industrial zones, only a dozen or so, and they are all in big cities.
There are more small and medium-sized ones, because the Tang Dynasty basically maintains an encouraging attitude towards things like industrial zones. If you have strength and confidence on the ground, you can do it yourself without even having to declare it.
Of course, if you want to get financial subsidies from higher authorities, don’t expect it.
However, there is never a single county that develops industrial zones on its own. Basically, it is led by prefectural-level yamen, or even provincial/provincial-level yamen.
Even for the trading port of Shanghai County, although the Shanghai Industrial Zone is on the outskirts of Shanghai County, this industrial zone was not created by the county magistrate of Shanghai County and a group of local officials from Shanghai County. It was not even Songjiang Prefecture or Jiangnan Road.
The yamen responsible for this were established under the direct leadership of the cabinet.
More than half of the huge investment was funded by the central government. Jiangnan Province's finance was responsible for the remaining part, Songjiang government's finance was responsible for another part, and Shanghai County's finance was only responsible for a small part.
If Lingao also builds an industrial zone, can it get financial support from higher authorities? The Qiongzhou government's finance can support one or two, but don't count on the provincial finance, let alone the central government.
At this time, it would be amazing to be able to squeeze out two to thirty thousand taels of silver. This money will not only be used to level the terrain, build roads, expand ports, and build basic factories, but also squeeze out money for tax subsidies.