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This stumbling history of mechanical computer research and development lasted for almost ten months, and it was difficult for Vonn to describe the difficulties involved. However, the person accompanying him to Guangzhou now is the "Zu Chongzhi" who has been officially finalized. Zu Chongzhi is an ancient mathematician who is also deeply involved in mechanics, and he also has the word "zu" in his name. , used to name this type of mechanical computer can be said to complement each other.
"Zuchong No. 1" was further improved on the basis of the prototype. Thanks to the technological upgrades and material advances of the machinery factory, the relay workshop was able to produce better relays than Feng Nuo's original hand-made ones, and some mechanical mechanisms were also optimized. Therefore, the first batch of machines are not only much smaller in size than the trial machines, but their functions and computing speed have also been greatly improved. It is no longer as clumsy as the prototype.
A total of six sets of machines were manufactured in the first batch. Except for two sets given to the Ministry of Justice's Labor Reform Administration and the Archives Office of the Political Security Bureau for experimental use, all were given to the newly established "South China Data Center" in Guangzhou.
In addition to two allocated desktop servers, this data center relies entirely on these four sets of mechanical computers.
Although this equipment is stupid, thick, and slow to operate, for Ai Zhixin, the Finance and Taxation Commissioner of the Guangdong Region and Director of the Guangzhou Finance and Taxation Bureau, it has solved his urgent need.
He manages finance and taxation, and the formulation of fiscal and taxation policies is inseparable from detailed statistics on various aspects such as economic aggregate and total currency circulation. The problem is that until now, these are still a mystery to him. The data surveyed by various departments have not been summarized, classified and counted, and are no different from waste paper. However, the archives accumulated by the yamen at all levels in the Ming Dynasty lacked enough professionals to organize them: let alone now, even in the old time and space, it was not easy to clean up the massive archives that had been preserved for hundreds of years. Therefore, apart from the "old rules" known to some old clerks in the book office, there is basically no reference value.
So as soon as Feng Nuo and Xu Laowu arrived, he was the happiest and most enthusiastic person. From picking them up at the pier to helping them get settled in the in-house guest house in the big world, they were greeted and greeted all the way, which made the two of them very embarrassed. He had no choice but to say that he would "do his best" to do a good job in the South China data center.
Although the civil construction work of the South China Data Center has come to an end, the subsequent internal decoration, equipment installation and debugging, personnel training... it is impossible to put it into actual use within three or four months. However, Xu Laowu has promised that he, Feng Nuo, and the naturalized operators they brought will first build a set of equipment in the big world and put it into actual operation.
"You guys have a good rest first. I will take you to the data center construction site in Henan Island tomorrow."
Ai Zhixin arranged for them and went out to get into the sedan chair - Liu Xiang's "digging all over the ground" had been delayed for several months due to the plague, and now it has started again. The official carriage is still out of the question, so he can only continue to use the uncomfortable sedan chair.
The Dadongmen of Guangzhou City is only 2 kilometers from the Great World. It takes more than 40 minutes to get there by sedan and only a few minutes by train.
Because of the witchcraft case, Liu Xiang and Wu Mu jointly issued a memorandum asking the elders in Guangzhou not to walk on the streets of the city or take public transportation unless there were adequate guards. Ai Zhixin originally wanted to take the small train from Big World to Dadongmen, but because of this notice he could only continue taking the sedan. However, riding in a sedan also has its advantages. It shields the streets of Guangzhou from all kinds of stench and mosquitoes and flies. Although the sedan is not bulletproof, it is invisible and the safety line is more or less guaranteed.
The group of people walked quickly along the small train track outside Dadongmen and arrived at Dadongmen. The national army squad leader in charge of guarding the Dadongmen was a Japanese mercenary-turned-corporal named Hyuga Naruto. He approached and asked, "Please provide transportation documents or identification for registration."
The accompanying guard took out the relevant documents. Hinata Naruto read the documents and asked, "Who is in the sedan?"
"It's the director of the Municipal Finance and Taxation Bureau," the guard said.
"Please show his face." Hinata Naruto said, "This is a rule."
Since it is a rule, it goes without saying. The guard immediately raised the curtain, and someone from the curtain suddenly said:
"Hinata Naruto? Shishi is loyal!" (Hyuga Naruto? Is he very loyal to his job!)
When Hyuga Naruto heard such a sentence in Japanese, he immediately knew that this was an elder. The Japanese the elders speak is very different from the Japanese. There is a peculiar Edo accent, and the words and sentences are also different.
He immediately stood at attention and replied: "The kindness of the Senate." (In order to repay the kindness of the Senate.) Then he handed over his certificate, saluted and let him go, and the National Army soldiers on both sides raised their guns together.
Ai Zhixin looked at these soldiers from the window of Shaluo's sedan chair with mixed feelings in his heart.
Although a man is proud and satisfied with his success, he is also full of worries about the future.
With great power comes great responsibility. Guangzhou’s financial and taxation burden is really difficult to handle. Thinking that these soldiers actually had to rely on taxes to support them, Ai Zhixin felt even more stressed.
Returning to the Finance and Taxation Bureau office in the Salt Division, he took off his coat and handed it to Ai Yixin. This coat is an unmarked Fubojun northern winter short windbreaker. It was bought from the Lianqin Quilt Warehouse. It is warm and moisture-proof - it was very useful in Guangzhou during the Little Ice Age.
What he wore underneath was his work clothes: several sets of Fubo Army officer uniforms without ranks or logos ordered from Hong Huangnan's No. 82 Special Supply Shop.
When Ai Zhixin first entered Guangzhou, he almost wore the suit he often wore when working at the Ministry of Finance in Lingao, giving him a "yuppie" look. However, he found that the staff at the tax bureau were not impressed by his demeanor, and some The old officials who were retained still thought that he was wearing strange clothes, and secretly said that he was wearing the clothes of the barbarians from Xiangshan'ao, and that the Australians wanted to change barbarians into summer. Ai Zhixin feels that these natives don't know what a gold-collared model is, what a suit and leather shoes are, they are just a bunch of bumpkins.
Since country bumpkins don’t know how to appreciate, they also want to cherish their old-world clothes and wear them on the right occasion. As a tall man of 193cm, Ai Zhixin has to pay special attention to the maintenance of his clothes, otherwise he will have to wear open pants or shabby ones. Suit - he just changed to a military uniform. But what he didn't expect was that the custom-made military uniform not only fit well and was comfortable, but also gave him more intimidation and weight when speaking to the tax bureau. In addition, what he didn't know was that because he was wearing a military uniform, his safety when going out was improved.
Ai Yixin put the visitor registration book in front of him, which recorded who came to see him when he left and what the specific reason was. He looked around and saw that most of them were subordinates coming to ask for instructions on various issues. No senator came to him. However, Liu Gang, an old partner of the Senate, came here and sent a letter of complaint.
Since Liu Gang started selling private salt for the Senate, his business has grown bigger and bigger over the years, and his relationship with the Senate has become closer. After the liberation of Guangzhou, Ai Zhixin planned to "recruit" the private salt transportation and sales network he controlled to become the sales network of the Monopoly Bureau.
The notice was placed in the official document basket of "Incoming Documents". It was not yet nine o'clock in the morning, and there were already more than a dozen documents sent from last night to this morning.
It has been a few months since he arrived in Guangzhou, and he has a general understanding of Guangzhou's industrial, commercial and tax situation. Although he lacks specific data to support it, he already has a good grasp of the general situation. In the past few months, due to the witchcraft case and the epidemic of plague, the fiscal and taxation work was at a standstill. He had to focus on basic work: establishing the basic structure of the fiscal and taxation system, training tax cadres... Now it is barely beginning to take shape.
Although he proposed the "self-reported actual payment, light taxes and heavy penalties" model for collection before coming to Guangzhou, the actual collection was not ideal due to the lack of qualified inspection cadres and the confusion of the accounts of each merchant. Some more complex taxes are not dared to be started easily - if there is a mistake in the collection, there will be a huge backlash if there is a change in the future.
What he faces is the core issue that all tax officials face: how to tax more while controlling the cost of taxation.
It is not difficult to tax more. Taxes have reflected the government's achievements in imagination and creativity since ancient times. The key is collection.
In theory, it can be done as long as sufficient personnel are provided, a sound organization is established, and a strict accounting system is implemented. However, these inputs all consume tax costs. The more taxes there are, the broader the tax base, and the collection costs will also increase exponentially. At least it will consume tax revenue, but at worst it will cause serious damage to the tax base.
Moreover, his current situation does not meet these conditions at all. Therefore, his taxation idea is first of all "low cost" and "easy to collect".
Under this premise, he recently formulated a Guangdong collection plan focusing on three major types of taxes: property tax, circulation tax and stamp duty.
He has already made relevant plans for the specific collection of these three major taxes. Now further refinement is made.
The property tax shall be levied annually in an amount not exceeding one percent of the total property subject to collection.
Because of the lack of accounting books, we plan to rely on tax collectors to estimate the total property of the other party on a household basis, and reassess it every five years. The estimate can be higher. If the taxed party can provide complete evidence to prove that their property is overestimated, The overtaxed portion can be refunded. After the refund, the next tax will be levied according to the actual property of the other party.
Encouraging this administrative reconsideration system for the purpose of tax refund is to encourage each tax recipient to clarify their own accounting information and help to promote the modern accounting system. While taxpayers have a thorough understanding of their own property, the Senate can also clearly grasp the status of social wealth, making it easier to control a few wealthy people. At the same time, the popularization of good accounting information in society can better facilitate social management and business management.
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